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Vikings United, Arena Football Insights, and Kyler Murray Speculations · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  This is Vikings United, your ultimate destination for everything Minnesota Vikings.
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  Bringing together the most passionate fans, insightful analysts, and dynamic creators from
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  across Skull Nation.
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  Get ready for deep dives, spirited debates, and exclusive insights from coach Cody.
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  Now holler school.
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  Purple and cold.
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  It's how it goes.
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  Purple and cold.
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  We holler skull.
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  Purple and cold.
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  That's how you know.
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  You know purple and cold.
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  Now holler.
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  I'm going to sit in school again.
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  You know the name.
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  It's a Minnesota thing.
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  Put that on the purple blood that's running through these golden veins.
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  Hail, sleet, snow, rain regardless.
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  Billion dollar stadium on Sundays.
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  I'm like Aaron Jones.
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  I see the fail clearly gain a 150 yards off the 12 carries.
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  In two tugs, I see you crack a can of ice cold.
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  Bass on the Packers fan?
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  Downtown Minneapolis.
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  Welcome into the scene, Project Sports Network.
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  You are here tonight for Vikings United.
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  I am your host, Bubba Starts, joined as always by my cohost, Big B.
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  What's happening, B?
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  How are doing today?
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  I'm doing okay.
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  I'm glad the snow hopefully is gone here in Minnesota, and we can get into spring and start
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  getting some warmer weather, get some golfing weather, baseball weather, all that fun stuff.
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  So
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  Yeah.
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  You you know we're all about that, all about that golfing weather, ready to change seasons
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  and get in.
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  Coach Cody will be with us shortly.
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  He dipped in, and then he dipped out, but I'm sure he'll be back.
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  Anyway, we got plenty to cover.
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  You probably got a call.
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  You know?
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  Yeah.
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  Somebody's agent was probably calling him.
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  They need more playing time.
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  He took last week off, had some technical difficulties.
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  My Internet completely crashed, and that will keep you from having a show on the Internet,
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  turns out.
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  So we're happy to be here tonight live on our YouTube channel, shared it out into the groups
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  on Facebook.
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  There's coach now.
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  Welcome in coach Cody, our expert analyst.
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  Let's go.
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  Let's go.
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  How we doing?
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  The owner of a four and o record, may I say.
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  Congratulations there, coach.
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  Thank you, buddy.
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  Hi.
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  Welcome in, brother.
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  Glad to have
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  you here.
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  Congratulations.
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  Four and o
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  record this four and o record this year.
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  Four and o overall throughout my career coaching arena football, so I'm extremely
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  blessed.
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  I'm telling you.
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  I tried telling Bubba when we first met.
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  Was like, we got some dogs, with the Saint Paul Bears, and, you know, most of them guys
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  followed me with the Wildman cavalry.
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  And now I'm proud to say that, at least, well, I I I about 90% of the players that are brought
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  to camp, made the team, for Wildman cavalry and now are moving on and, leveling up to higher
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  leagues.
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  So it's, it's a blessing all the way around.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, and since the last time that I've seen you, we've spoken, off the show about that, but
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  you've been named the head coach of the Wyoming Cavalry.
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  We're we're so proud of you, Cody.
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  You you just continue to excel at everything that you do, and and nothing but winners, are
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  are what you coach, man.
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  Really proud of you.
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  How did that situation kind of develop?
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  And what's you know, what can we look forward to with you now taking the reins as the head
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  coach of the team?
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  I
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  mean, without getting too far into it because, last time I spoke about that brawl that
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  happened, I got a little reprimanded.
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  However, we're not in that league no more, so fuck it.
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  Hey.
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  I it is what it is.
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  I'm gonna I'm not gonna sugarcoat nothing.
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  Basically, we had oh, man.
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  Sorry.
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  I all
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  these are big new some big news have happened with the, east side engine team that I was on.
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  I'll get to that here quick because
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  Yeah.
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  I'll I to got a bunch of credits.
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  Already too.
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  So we're gonna cover that, but let's Yeah.
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  You saw
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  that?
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  You saw that?
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  Then yeah.
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  We'll we'll
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  get into that.
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  Alright.
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  Sure.
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  But there was no sense in texting you when I knew Yep.
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  You were gonna be chatting later tonight anyway.
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  But continue on.
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  Yeah.
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  You guys are in
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  a new league.
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  Well, I'm about to miss something, coach.
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  Yep.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Big b, you missed something real quick, and I'm not gonna lie.
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  Like, how to work some mysterious ways because I needed a break from some.
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  Okay.
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  But, literally, so our first game we played cavalry, we played against these CNY Central
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  New York, Blue Devils.
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  We had boards, but we didn't have padding around them.
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  And with the the boards, in arena football, it's supposed to be kind of like a hockey
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  arena, so there's boards all the way around for the people that don't know.
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  And we had boards around just the sides and maybe around the curves a little bit, but the,
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  center of both end zones are completely open, and then we had metal grates making up the
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  difference also with no padding.
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  So it created a safety safety concern.
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  We fixed all that, added boards, added paddings.
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  You know, ownership group has been taking a lot of backlash, but they have been doing a lot of
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  work behind the scenes, and, people are starting to come around and see it.
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  But it was just too late.
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  Our turf was kinda makeshift coming from a different leagues, and so it did it had
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  different league logos on it that we had to, cover up.
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  We thought we had that covered and good to go, but it didn't satisfy league standards, which
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  it is what it is.
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  You know?
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  There's just there's standards, you gotta, you know, live by them.
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  And since then, we've been working hard to, make sure that everything's in order.
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  That way, we finish out the rest of this season on par.
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  Because of all that stuff happening, some of the coaching no worries.
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  Some of the coaches over in Wyoming quit.
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  Just straight quit.
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  And I heard that, and I was like, well, I mean, I'm not gonna do that.
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  When I commit to something, I'm a 100% in.
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  I see it through.
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  You know?
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  And I I knew going into this season, it was gonna be a character building season with
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  offense living in Wyoming, defense living in Minnesota, and I was traveling there.
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  But, yeah, just having the other coaches quit, you know, that kinda pissed me off if I'm being
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  completely honest.
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  I'm not some of these players moved across country to come and play for the Wildman
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  Cavalry, and now they're without a coach over there.
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  It's like, no.
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  That that's not gonna happen.
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  So I decided to step up and take the reins.
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  I've been head coach of an arena team before, head coach and GM.
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  So this was kinda the same, you know, just working with half the players over in a
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  different state.
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  But we got great chemistry, and, you know, everybody everybody everybody sees the work
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  that I'm putting in and the work that I'm having to do from afar.
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  And so, I mean, I've I've been blessed to have players just step up even even more than that
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  captain status or, you know, in general.
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  So, yeah, after that, I was just like, you know what?
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  I'm I'm taking it.
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  Yeah.
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  Well and that really just speaks to the the relationships that that you've built with these
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  players.
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  Obviously, this season, making, you know, fifteen hour trips across South Dakota to get
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  to the game.
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  Let wait.
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  Right.
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  Yeah.
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  Exactly.
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  It's a it's a long haul.
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  That builds a lot of, builds a lot of deep bonds with these guys.
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  And I know a lot of your defense has been with you, for for a couple years now.
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  Some of these guys, you know, you you have really you care for them.
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  And I know how much you communicate with them, and that shows up in moments like this where
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  everybody else could quit too.
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  Right?
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  All the players could say, hey, man.
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  I don't I don't need the drama.
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  I don't need all the BS, and I can walk away from this.
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  It's not like anybody's making a bunch of money to do this.
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  You're probably barely covering expenses or mistime at work if that.
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  Right?
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  So it's a it it really speaks to the caliber of men that you're working with, both on the
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  field.
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  And it feels like behind the scenes with the ownership group doing everything in their power
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  to make things right and to get this up, and it's not an easy thing, to do in any level.
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  Right?
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  The the amount of money that goes into these teams in travel, in the field preparations, in
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  everything else that's going into it, there's stuff that we'll never know as fans and even
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  people who are, you know, ad hoc kinda covering the team like b and I that there's there's
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  things that we're not even thinking of and could never imagine.
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  So really happy to see, and I'm so I'm so glad that you are who you are and realize that early
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  on that, hey.
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  This season's gonna have its trials and tribulations and committed to that regardless
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  of what those were going to be.
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  Unforeseen circumstances like the brawl being what they are, nobody could have forecasted
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  that into it.
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  But it's now you see who's here for the long haul.
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  The season isn't long to begin with.
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  So you you guys are four and o.
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  You're how many games are left?
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  Right?
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  You're already gonna finish with an above 500 record regardless.
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  Right?
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  Yeah.
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  We so, we're we're good.
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  We got two games left.
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  One against the Albert Lee grizzlies.
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  Fun fact.
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  Three fourths of the Wyoming cavalry live in Minnesota.
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  Albert Lee is from Minnesota.
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  And since it's a home game for Wyoming cavalry, both teams have to travel ten and a half hours
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  to play this game.
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  But that's, you know, just shows the level of commitment and passion that, these players
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  have.
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  I mean, like you said, the game checks, they you know, if we were living in Wyoming, yeah,
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  it'd be worth it.
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  But, honestly, you know, with with the game checks, are you know, we're right there right
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  there between, like, cutting even and stuff.
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  So but it's just the fact that, like, you can get that game check and have it be, you know,
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  Wyoming cavalry from the Wyoming cavalry or something like that.
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  And that's a game check, and that's being paid to play that's professional.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  Mhmm.
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  And that's not that's something that none of the nobody can take from these players.
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  Yeah.
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  I'm just every essence, they are now professional athletes.
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  Right?
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  And it may not be to the level where they are doing nothing else besides playing ball, but
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  they are professionals.
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  And I look at it the same way as anyone who's, you know, a a musician.
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  Right?
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  When we go and play on the weekends, just because you have another job doesn't mean you
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  are any less of a professional in your field when you're being paid to do this.
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  And you need to act accordingly and and nothing but respect to all your players.
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  They have been nothing but professional to us even with the brawl.
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  Your guys were were the ones kind of trying to mediate the situation, obviously, coming to the
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  aid of, you know, a a downed owner and players that, you know, were were involved, but they
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  weren't the ones out there throwing haymakers and jumping over the wall in aggression.
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  Right?
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  It was all defensive moves.
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  Really proud of what
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  you built.
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  I was just gonna say, I mean, like, you know how, you you know, you we've been saying, you
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  know, I knew that it was gonna be a character building season.
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  Last season actually prepared me more for this season than anything else because I was going
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  from a defensive backs coach semi pro to a head coach and GM of a professional team.
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  So, I mean, it's just, I I believe that I I'm a man of faith, and I believe that I can ask for
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  anything, and I'm a get it.
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  But I'm a get challenged along the way to just be like, hey.
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  Do you really want this type shit?
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  And I'm always down for a challenge, Bubba.
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  You already know.
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  I'm always down for a challenge.
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  Yeah.
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  I had I had my moment while I was out on a eighteen day 5,500 mile tour where you're like,
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  do you really wanna do this?
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  Is this really what you wanna do?
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  And then you get in the moments.
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  And for me, maybe it's not, you know, care getting carried off the field by any means or
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  raising a trophy over my head.
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  But to do what I've always set out to do, which is support young men and women who are artists.
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  And the same for you.
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  I feel like in that capacity that you're not in this for personal glory.
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  You're in this to build up young men on the football field.
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  And I see so many similarities between the two of us in that.
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  I I maybe don't have a a title of coach, in what we do, but a lot of what we're doing is
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  mentoring younger artists and in our field and and taking them out there to be the best
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  versions of themselves and really putting them out on a pedestal and putting them in the best
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  light possible.
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  So a lot of, a lot of similarities and, very parallel career arcs, I feel like, we're on,
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  coach.
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  Well, one one thing I wanna I wanna touch on is, you know, the fact that people you know,
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  most people, they get they get somewhere or a certain stage, and they're they're almost
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  content.
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  You know?
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  And then, you know, the neck there's once you get to the top of one pyramid, there's another
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  one.
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  You're at the bottom of one starting to the next.
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  And a lot of players might seem like, I don't know if I can get there.
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  You know?
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  I I don't know.
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  But if you just if you just stick to it, you'd stick to your craft, like, things are gonna
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  come along and, you know, you you're gonna get your shot and get that chance.
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  So, everybody, just keep on keep on, you know, pursuing your goals because that's that's
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  exactly what I'm doing right here.
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  That's exactly what we're doing.
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  Any questions from you before we move on to Cody's other team and news in that realm?
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  No.
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  Coach, when when the everything started breaking down and the coaches stepped away for,
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  you know, whatever their reasons were.
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  When you reached out to the team that's in Wyoming that you don't have day to day
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  connections with with your boys here, what was that like?
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  What what did you tell them?
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  What did did you give them an option to stay or go?
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  Or what what was that conversation like?
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  Well, actually, I had been working overnights.
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  I've been on a string of overnights, which has been absolute hell.
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  Been there.
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  It it well, I mean, I'm talking, like, last Wednesday, 11PM to 7AM, Wednesday morning.
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  11PM, Thursday to 3PM, Friday.
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  Laundry pack, be for Wyoming.
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  We didn't leave Minnesota till 2AM, and and
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  just Correct.
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  I got I got I was up all day Saturday, up all day Sunday, got back at, like, 01:50.
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  I had to work 3PM to eleven, so I'm just like, you might as well clock me in right now.
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  I'm good to go.
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  Like, So You're a
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  different breed, coach.
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  A different breed.
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  Hey.
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  I'm telling you.
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  But to answer your question, baby, because of my overnight working, I woke up, and I got a
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  message from the owners explaining what happened.
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  I'm reading you know, I got a group chat on Facebook with just some Minnesota players.
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  That was blowing up.
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  I have a group me app with a bunch with all the team players and stuff.
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  That was blowing up.
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  So I had to spend the first literally hour and a half just trying to read these messages, be
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  strategic.
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  Because as soon as I respond and people know that I'm awake, people are like, oh, Cody's got
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  time to talk.
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  No.
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  I'm trying to read up everything real quick.
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  But, you know, I had one player.
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  Shout out to him, Anthony Ellison.
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  He's gonna be, moving up and playing with the Wheeling Miners.
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  And he reached out.
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  He's like, hey, coach.
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  Are you gonna be here this next weekend?
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  And I looked at it.
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  I was like, what?
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  And then I read another messages from KJ Williams, our running back.
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  He'd say, hey.
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  You know, I know you are able to, you know, help players move to the next level.
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  Are you able to help me take this film and send it to other coaches?
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  I was like, hold on a minute.
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  Finally, like, responded to everybody.
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  I'm like, hey.
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  First of all, Anthony, yeah, I'm gonna be there because I'm not gonna leave you guys without a
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  coach.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  It's just I'm not it's not happening.
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  KJ, yes.
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  I do have a knack for getting players moved up for the next level, and I'll do the same for
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  you.
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  Any player that plays for me, I literally tell them, send me your film.
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  I'll cut it up, and I'll send it for you.
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  Alright.
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  Alright.
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  Well, that's good that they got a coach.
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  So alright.
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  Let's move on to the breaking news I missed.
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  So, Cody, what do we got?
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  Oh,
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  I have officially stepped down from head coach of the east side engine, 11 man semi pro team.
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  I just too many too much politics, I I guess you would say.
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  Too much politics.
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  Bubba, you and I can get into this later on, but, it's too too many too, two faced people,
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  backdoor stuff, politics.
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  You know you know how it how it goes.
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  Plus, honestly, I should probably, concentrate on my professional career.
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  So it it's no shade to them, no shade to the semi pro, but, you know, god works in
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  mysterious ways, and I'm just gonna take advantage of it and, you know, go at it with a
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  positive attitude.
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  No.
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  That's Alright.
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  Having to remove my cat from the
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  That's probably a good choice.
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  I mean, I know you're a busy guy, and I know you want to give it a 100% whatever you do and,
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  you know, and whatever the differences were.
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  I mean, it it probably was a good decision.
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  So but, you know, you got the cavalry.
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  Let's focus on them.
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  Let's focus don't have plenty of shit to do, Cody.
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  You know?
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  And then that's that's that's what I was thought about.
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  I was like, you know what?
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  Like, I thought about it.
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  At first, I was like, oh, shit.
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  Like, trying to fight for it.
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  Then I'm like, you know, I kind of I'm already feeling that weight lifted off my shoulders
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  type shit.
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  And I I saw it I kinda saw it coming.
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  And so it's just it is what it is.
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  You gotta deal with that.
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  It's semi pro football.
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  Every league is semi pro football, and that comes with certain standards, which are at a
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  certain level, bring a shovel.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  But it it is what it is.
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  Been what you've been building with the cavalry and now as the head coach of the cavalry, and I
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  know this ownership group, you know, that your owner with the cav has visions of what this
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  team can do.
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  And they've already invested so much into this, and and we hope that, you know, that continues
• 24:10
  to grow in that arena for you too.
• 24:13
  So
• 24:14
  I'm just gonna say it.
• 24:16
  The Minneapolis warriors were one of the most dominant teams in semi pro, football in The
• 24:23
  United States, period.
• 24:25
  Point blank.
• 24:27
  And so most teams didn't wanna travel to us and play us.
• 24:33
  And then we were left out of a league last year.
• 24:36
  That's why I was with the bears and promoted up to a league.
• 24:41
  Now a different league has popped up within Minnesota with four teams, one being the
• 24:48
  warhawks rebranded from the Minneapolis warriors.
• 24:52
  And I believe that the warriors were so stacked.
• 24:58
  They wanted to try to disband the team, and so they made this other league, created a draft to
• 25:06
  try to, you know, even out the league.
• 25:10
  I came out with my players.
• 25:12
  I don't I don't like to brag.
• 25:13
  I don't like to boast, but tonight, I'm doing both.
• 25:16
  I'm like a Deion Sanders.
• 25:18
  If I leave, my players leave.
• 25:20
  You know?
• 25:21
  So now this league, is damn near down to three teams, but it is what it is.
• 25:32
  Yeah.
• 25:32
  Well and you're not responsible for everything.
• 25:35
  Right?
• 25:36
  Nope.
• 25:36
  Nope.
• 25:36
  Need to be responsible for you.
• 25:39
  I I think you, definitely feel that you owe a debt of gratitude to your players and guys that
• 25:44
  have been with you and vice versa, and why exactly that you guys are, at this point, kind
• 25:48
  of a package deal.
• 25:50
  And and I'm sure now that, you know, some of these guys have been, you know, albeit the size
• 25:55
  of the checks not being anything that's life changing right now.
• 25:58
  But once you're kinda being paid, to a level and you become a pro, you need to start
• 26:04
  treating your career differently and realizing that moving up in these, in these divisions
• 26:10
  will all you know, any of these guys have a shot at the NFL.
• 26:13
  Those are long odds.
• 26:15
  But a chance of moving up to a different level of arena football or or another league in there
• 26:21
  where you're making a little bit more money possibly, still probably not life changing
• 26:26
  money, but you're still getting paid to play the game, that there are possibilities in that
• 26:31
  world.
• 26:32
  And players need to take ownership of their own careers in that fashion as well.
• 26:38
  And and I think that the way your guys are are committed to you and see that vision of what
• 26:46
  their what their career could be like with Cody or without.
• 26:50
  What up, Token?
• 26:51
  Good to see you, man.
• 26:54
  That it speaks volumes about you, Cody.
• 26:56
  It speaks volumes about who you are as a man and as a coach.
• 27:00
  Think it says a lot more off the field, you know, that that people are willing to kind of
• 27:06
  buy in and to put their eggs in your basket for an Easter round.
• 27:10
  Hell yeah.
• 27:12
  You know, shout out to my boy Butler.
• 27:15
  He makes a point almost every week.
• 27:17
  He's like, man, I've never had a coach like you.
• 27:19
  Like, you open up, and, like, you're down to actually, you know, like, bring down that
• 27:27
  coaching wall, that wall, and then just be a person.
• 27:31
  And, you know, that shout out to my players in general because they they help me do that.
• 27:37
  You know?
• 27:38
  They, I'm 35.
• 27:40
  I I get just got a compliment last week saying I was 25.
• 27:44
  I was like, damn.
• 27:45
  But these guys are making me feel young.
• 27:47
  You know what I'm saying?
• 27:48
  And, I've always I've always been a player's coach.
• 27:53
  I've always wanted to know these guys, what they do for work, how their families are and
• 27:59
  stuff, outside of the outside of the field.
• 28:02
  And I've always said, if I can trust you, outside the field, I'll trust you with my life,
• 28:08
  on the field.
• 28:09
  You know?
• 28:10
  But, it's it's a you know, and it's like you said, it's not life changing money, but, like,
• 28:18
  we went from the bears not being paid, professional, but not being paid, to the
• 28:23
  Wyoming cavalry, now being paid, getting a little taste of that.
• 28:27
  Like, I'm I'm hungry for more.
• 28:30
  Now the next step is our pay double, and then I'm telling people, it's like, you don't have
• 28:37
  to make it to the NFL if if if that's not what you want or if that's not what you
• 28:42
  realistically see.
• 28:45
  But, damn, if you can do a practice squad, that's $200,000 a year.
• 28:50
  Mine is 10 good money.
• 28:51
  That's 4 That's life changing money.
• 28:54
  Working my ass off for it.
• 28:56
  So
• 28:57
  You feel me?
• 28:58
  You feel me?
• 28:58
  So I'm like, you ain't even gotta see the you you're getting $200,000 a year, and you ain't
• 29:05
  gotta see the field and get hurt.
• 29:07
  You're just practicing.
• 29:09
  Babe, you can still get hurt.
• 29:11
  That that comment you
• 29:12
  okay.
• 29:13
  Okay.
• 29:13
  You could still get hurt, but you're not getting you're not running the sland over the
• 29:17
  middle with Ray Lewis just lurking.
• 29:20
  No.
• 29:20
  But that comment that I think it was Tucker that just made that we posted.
• 29:25
  That's the exact same thing I do at work.
• 29:27
  People tell me that I I'm underpaid and blah blah blah and all that.
• 29:30
  It's just like but if I can provide for my family, put a roof over their head and still do
• 29:36
  stuff that I wanna do with my son and wife, I'm gonna pay just fine as long as I can take care
• 29:40
  of that part.
• 29:42
  And that was a great that was a great comment by talking there.
• 29:45
  Absolutely.
• 29:46
  Absolutely.
• 29:47
  We appreciate it.
• 29:47
  Well, that's the goal.
• 29:48
  Don't
• 29:49
  wrong. Get
• 29:49
  Get I do want more money, but, again, I'm happy.
• 29:53
  You know?
• 29:53
  And if time permits, I wanna go on those road trip to Cody down to Wyoming or wherever just
• 29:58
  to get with the guys and, you know, have some fun.
• 30:01
  But right now, the schedule just ain't permitting that.
• 30:06
  Well and and, honestly, I think you guys would have had a blast this past weekend.
• 30:11
  I mean, you know, we played the east side Venom.
• 30:15
  It was that was an experience for me.
• 30:18
  Game?
• 30:19
  It it it was a it was a clean game.
• 30:22
  I I All four quarters?
• 30:26
  All four quarters.
• 30:27
  Some people when I announced that I was head coach, some people were like, hey.
• 30:32
  Stay away from the beer.
• 30:34
  I stayed away from the beer mainly just because I was on the field.
• 30:39
  Coaches, for those who don't know, in arena football, coaches are on the field with the
• 30:44
  players inside the boards.
• 30:47
  And since I was honestly, the only coach for Wyoming, I was on the field the whole time.
• 30:56
  But, I mean, it was it was a it was a blast.
• 30:58
  Scary, to be out there on the field.
• 31:02
  Obviously, you have field awareness from your time playing to be and you're still very
• 31:07
  physically able to, but not every coach has that ability.
• 31:11
  You know, me trying to shuffle around out there and avoiding some of these premier athletes
• 31:16
  that you're putting out on the field, I would be scared shitless, to be perfectly honest.
• 31:21
  Yeah.
• 31:21
  But you're behind the play.
• 31:23
  Right?
• 31:23
  I mean, you're behind the offense when you're on defense.
• 31:26
  Right?
• 31:27
  So when so when the defense say offense said in this way, defense facing this way, I'm gonna be
• 31:36
  over here.
• 31:39
  You feel me?
• 31:40
  Yep.
• 31:40
  And so I can so I can look at the middle linebacker, give my little things.
• 31:45
  You know what I'm saying?
• 31:47
  And then and then we're good to go.
• 31:51
  But if there I like to stand on the left side, so offensive left side.
• 31:57
  So if the quarterback's chilling there, right hand quarterback, he's throwing a pass left
• 32:02
  side of the field, More, 97% of it yeah.
• 32:06
  90% of the time, they're gonna pick it off.
• 32:09
  That's when I gotta start dipping because I tell my players all the time, and I'm putting
• 32:15
  on the post.
• 32:16
  I'm like, when you guys get a pick or a forced fumble, look for me down the sideline, beat me
• 32:23
  to the end zone, don't meet me there.
• 32:25
  You know?
• 32:25
  Beat me, don't meet me there type shit.
• 32:28
  And there was one time no.
• 32:30
  Two times.
• 32:31
  But one time in this past game where that pick came towards me, and I looked over, and I had
• 32:38
  to hop over that that, that wall, but it ain't no thing.
• 32:42
  I mean, Cannonball's Bubba or no.
• 32:45
  Bubba's big b.
• 32:47
  Cannon Falls got some PD, but they can't catch up like this.
• 32:50
  You know what I'm saying?
• 32:51
  I I'd be hopping over them.
• 32:52
  I like that.
• 32:54
  I like that.
• 32:56
  He can't
• 32:56
  He hurried.
• 32:58
  Man.
• 32:59
  Was leaving it back.
• 33:00
  No way I'd be able
• 33:01
  to hop over that fence.
• 33:02
  I'd probably just, like, fall to the ground and just let them run over me.
• 33:06
  But
• 33:07
  Yeah.
• 33:08
  Yeah.
• 33:09
  No.
• 33:09
  It's a it's a fun time, but I just wanna I wanna give a quick shout out to the city or
• 33:15
  shit.
• 33:17
  The town of Gillette, Wyoming.
• 33:22
  I I thought I was gonna say city, but they got, like, 5,000 people.
• 33:26
  The town of Gillette, Wyoming, that that community, they've been absolutely amazing to
• 33:33
  us, the players, just being bringing the team back to, Gillette for the first time.
• 33:42
  Some people are you know, might say it's our first year.
• 33:46
  But, I mean, just to come back, show the community what we're all about, come out.
• 33:54
  We're a four and o right now.
• 33:55
  We got two games left.
• 33:57
  I guarantee you right now, we're gonna go six and o.
• 33:59
  Let's go.
• 34:00
  I look good.
• 34:01
  I love it.
• 34:02
  Call it a shot.
• 34:03
  Token, me and me are both with you on that.
• 34:06
  Bubba
• 34:06
  What did he say?
• 34:07
  What'd Token say?
• 34:08
  He said we'd be put on the bar.
• 34:13
  Hey.
• 34:15
  Let's go.
• 34:16
  Let's go.
• 34:17
  I'll bring you with.
• 34:17
  So so before we move on, what what Wyoming.
• 34:22
  So what is your goal for next year to get into a league or stay where you're at and just keep
• 34:29
  playing like this?
• 34:30
  Or or what is your goal that you hope to accomplish with the ownership and stuff like
• 34:35
  that?
• 34:36
  I'm not gonna lie.
• 34:39
  It it kinda kinda makes me feel like a like a like a a football hoe, actually, just because
• 34:46
  I've been going from team to team to team to team to team to team every year.
• 34:54
  I'm I'm fine like, mini oh, mid sea freeze, two years.
• 34:58
  Minneapolis warriors, Saint Paul bears, one.
• 35:01
  The cavalry, one.
• 35:03
  But I'm on a two year contract.
• 35:05
  We'll see how it goes.
• 35:07
  I definitely wanna see how the where the ownership is thinking of taking this team, what
• 35:13
  kind of league they're gonna be in.
• 35:15
  I told myself that I was never going to make a lateral move or move down.
• 35:22
  So, I mean, I just put it out there right now.
• 35:27
  Cavalry, you better figure it out and let me know what's going on and communicate with me
• 35:33
  because I if not, I'm going straight to the NAL, and that is what it is.
• 35:38
  Omaha beef.
• 35:41
  Be a little
• 35:42
  be a little closer
• 35:43
  to me if you did that.
• 35:45
  Hey.
• 35:45
  Well, I mean, even even head teams reach out, the Nebraska siege, I just gotta have time to
• 35:53
  update my coaching resume.
• 35:56
  I literally haven't had time for that yet.
• 35:58
  Yeah.
• 35:59
  That's okay.
• 35:59
  Coach, I know enough of your accolades.
• 36:01
  I'll plug it into chat GPT tonight.
• 36:03
  We'll get you We could.
• 36:05
  Could probably just ask it, like, who who is coach Cody Homadol?
• 36:10
  And it'll it'll give us a nice little You
• 36:12
  You can bring the guy around.
• 36:13
  I mean, just ask
• 36:14
  him.
• 36:15
  Save you a lot.
• 36:16
  And you're out here.
• 36:17
  You're a cohost of some awesome programs and, you know, you
• 36:21
  Hi, man.
• 36:21
  You got a big footprint, man.
• 36:23
  Man, well, what?
• 36:25
  I mean, just ask them.
• 36:28
  Yeah.
• 36:28
  If you ask me, I'm the best dude around.
• 36:30
  I'm the next guy too.
• 36:31
  You are you are a great guy, Cody.
• 36:33
  I mean, I wish I wish we had more time to hang out around here in Cannonball, but I know
• 36:37
  you're a busy guy.
• 36:38
  I'm a busy guy.
• 36:39
  But, no, the time we cross paths, I mean, you you you are a great guy.
• 36:43
  Well and and that's something that we have we needed to change.
• 36:47
  Absolutely crucial.
• 36:49
  Us three need to get together.
• 36:52
  It's crazy that you and me, big, you and I, big b, we live in a town of 4,500 people, and we
• 36:58
  can't get together.
• 36:59
  That's crazy.
• 37:01
  We have one stoplight.
• 37:02
  You're the one that 90% of your schedule is already booked for the next forty years.
• 37:07
  So, I mean, that's Hey.
• 37:08
  It just opened up for the next, after these two weeks, it just opened up.
• 37:13
  Oh, man.
• 37:13
  I'm gonna be fishing.
• 37:15
  Let's go.
• 37:16
  Yeah.
• 37:17
  Hey.
• 37:17
  We know how coach is.
• 37:18
  He's busy.
• 37:19
  He's he's too busy to be down, and he never celebrates those wins for too long either.
• 37:25
  It's always right back to work.
• 37:26
  So and we don't, just show up here.
• 37:29
  We're we're always talking to each other if it's in the group chat.
• 37:32
  Oh, yeah.
• 37:33
  We we we
• 37:33
  con we conquer the group chat, so we know we know how Cody is.
• 37:37
  Yeah.
• 37:38
  We know that when we don't hear from him, he's either sleeping or working.
• 37:43
  So
• 37:44
  You know?
• 37:45
  Facts.
• 37:46
  Awesome.
• 37:46
  Well, before we dip in here, we got some new sponsors we gotta talk about.
• 37:51
  I'd love to take a few minutes, talk about Operation Combating Veteran Suicide as well.
• 37:56
  And we gotta talk about our new sponsor and partner of the show, Odyssey Exteriors too.
• 38:01
  So a little break zone action here, then we're gonna come back.
• 38:05
  We're obviously gonna get into some Vikings football.
• 38:08
  Draft is coming up quick now.
• 38:10
  Make some announcements after the break here.
• 38:13
  Yeah.
• 38:13
  Yeah.
• 38:14
  Yeah.
• 38:14
  Which means we need to get our mock draft in order and figure out who we're gonna be
• 38:18
  picking.
• 38:19
  So I just see, I did like the the bear.
• 38:22
  Look at all them teams.
• 38:23
  That's that's one season.
• 38:24
  That's one year.
• 38:25
  Twelve months.
• 38:26
  I just met Cody in February.
• 38:28
  Hey.
• 38:29
  I hey.
• 38:30
  But that's the thing, though.
• 38:31
  Like, when you I'm gonna tell these tell this little secret to, you know, give you a little
• 38:36
  tidbit.
• 38:37
  When you catch momentum, you gotta ride that bitch.
• 38:41
  You gotta ride that bitch because, I mean, you know, you feel me?
• 38:45
  This happened literally, Bubba.
• 38:48
  Oh, I've known you for what?
• 38:49
  Literally a year?
• 38:51
  A year?
• 38:51
  Yeah.
• 38:52
  Two years?
• 38:53
  A year?
• 38:54
  And this is all I mean, hold on a minute.
• 38:57
  Hold on
• 38:57
  a minute.
• 38:58
  Yeah.
• 38:58
  And the thing is is, you know, D.
• 39:00
  I.
• 39:01
  Saying is there's no one
• 39:02
  that's bad.
• 39:03
  We got the bears.
• 39:05
  We got that bears helmet.
• 39:06
  Right?
• 39:07
  Nope.
• 39:07
  That's bad.
• 39:08
  But we know Dion's played world or a baseball game and a football game in the same day.
• 39:13
  What's the
• 39:13
  team He's filming?
• 39:14
  Coaching the two two teams in one day.
• 39:17
  I mean
• 39:18
  I heard he's gonna be playing too.
• 39:20
  It's I just I don't
• 39:21
  know if that's off the table now with the other team changing and oh, that's your busking ice
• 39:26
  ice.
• 39:28
  Tell me, hey.
• 39:29
  This is not a lot of people know, but I'm number 21 when it comes down to it.
• 39:34
  I'm not locked down quarter.
• 39:36
  I'm
• 39:38
  He is Dion.
• 39:40
  He is.
• 39:40
  He's
• 39:44
  Awesome.
• 39:44
  Surprise when we get a message saying, hey.
• 39:46
  I'm coaching two games in one day.
• 39:48
  Guys come out and see me.
• 39:49
  Yeah.
• 39:49
  I feel like that's already happened.
• 39:51
  But
• 39:52
  Well, that was about to be a thing.
• 39:54
  I was about to be coaching down in Texas, And then the very next day, I was gonna have to
• 40:01
  make my way, break off from my semi pro team to go to, Missouri and coach another game.
• 40:09
  I said at least they're kind of routed.
• 40:11
  Okay.
• 40:12
  I mean, now I ain't gotta do nothing.
• 40:14
  I've been chilling.
• 40:16
  Oh, man.
• 40:17
  I'm still I'm but I'm still working on my real estate.
• 40:21
  I'm about to get that done.
• 40:22
  Like,
• 40:23
  thank you.
• 40:24
  Go.
• 40:25
  You're feeling
• 40:25
  me?
• 40:25
  Alright.
• 40:26
  We're gonna hit the break zone, and we're gonna come back.
• 40:28
  We're gonna talk some Minnesota Vikings football.
• 40:31
  Thank you all for tuning in here at Scene Project Sports Network Vikings United.
• 40:38
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• 40:43
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• 40:44
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• 41:03
  Token, we shout out you as a vet.
• 41:06
  You mean the world to us.
• 41:07
  We know a lot of our fans out there are veterans as well.
• 41:10
  We got some really great stuff coming up as we move through the season and into the football
• 41:15
  season.
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  I can't share a lot of details yet, but we're always looking to support our veterans.
• 41:20
  We have some new segments that we'll be rolling out throughout the football season as well, our
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  hero of the week, and lots of great stuff, and, trying to put together some other off season
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  events as well for y'all.
• 41:31
  So, a huge shout out to Operation Combating Veteran Suicide, all of our veterans active
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  duty, and our first responders as well, we will include in that too.
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  mock draft and get there and talk more about it.
• 44:08
  So I definitely have some homework and figuring out who I want the Vikings to pick.
• 44:14
  We've covered we've covered a bit of the players that I think they're gonna take in
• 44:18
  those first couple of rounds, at least though that target pool that's in there.
• 44:23
  But, hey, man.
• 44:24
  We still got two weeks.
• 44:25
  A lot can happen between now and then.
• 44:27
  A lot of talk, obviously, about a possible grenade trade still being on the board, and
• 44:33
  that could be as late as a you know, right before the pick gets made, that something like
• 44:38
  that goes down.
• 44:39
  You you never know what can happen in that.
• 44:42
  I've seen some wild mock drafts that Cody has sent me, some trade up scenarios.
• 44:48
  B, you've thrown some wild shit in the group chat too that you found online.
• 44:53
  This is just the what do they call it?
• 44:56
  No.
• 44:56
  I guess lying season is the free agent period, but this is this is the insanity.
• 45:02
  The the absolute insanity that takes place during this time of year with as many media
• 45:08
  outlets as we have and obviously lots of fans who like to throw their 2¢ in as well.
• 45:14
  And we're no different here.
• 45:16
  I just think that we are a lot closer to realist and looking at what is actually
• 45:21
  possible rather than just, you know, what we want to happen.
• 45:27
  Right?
• 45:28
  And and dedicating time to that.
• 45:30
  So
• 45:31
  Well, yeah.
• 45:32
  I mean, we know everybody.
• 45:33
  I mean, you search around.
• 45:34
  I mean, I bet you we could all pull up a different media page that has a different mock
• 45:39
  draft out there than, you know, favoring every team possible.
• 45:43
  And I mean, yeah.
• 45:44
  Would we like to go 18 to one and and get us the best guy out there?
• 45:49
  Of course.
• 45:49
  Do we got the assets to do it?
• 45:51
  No way.
• 45:52
  You know?
• 45:54
  It's it's stuff like that.
• 45:55
  So, I mean, yeah, we always wanna get the best players we can.
• 45:59
  Is it a is it true truly, can we do it?
• 46:04
  No.
• 46:04
  I mean, there's no way.
• 46:06
  And the draft is so hit or miss depending on where this guy goes and stuff like that.
• 46:10
  You know, they they say so and so is a can't miss player, a generational player, but he gets
• 46:15
  in the league and something happens.
• 46:17
  I mean, heck, let's take, you know, Brock Purdy for San Fran, last pick of the draft.
• 46:24
  You know, he's looking pretty good for being that last pick of mister irrelevant.
• 46:28
  So
• 46:31
  Oh, but oh, man.
• 46:34
  I didn't know where you were going with that with that Brock party.
• 46:37
  I thought you were going south, but you went north, so I'm glad you went north.
• 46:43
  Because I was like I'm
• 46:44
  just I'm just saying.
• 46:45
  I mean, when's the last time you talked about I mean, the last thing of the draft getting this
• 46:50
  much playtime, getting this big contract.
• 46:52
  I mean, the closest guy I could think of would be Tom Brady back when he got drafted.
• 46:57
  You know, he got drafted, what, fifth or sixth round?
• 47:00
  Sixth round.
• 47:01
  And I'm not
• 47:01
  saying that that they got the same career, but, I mean, the last pick of the draft never gets
• 47:07
  talked about never normally doesn't make the team after the first year, so, you know, props
• 47:12
  to him.
• 47:13
  You know?
• 47:14
  Well and I'm just gonna say it right now.
• 47:16
  I mean, I will compare it to careers because back then, you could actually hit the
• 47:21
  quarterback.
• 47:22
  You feel me?
• 47:23
  Tom Brady in the foot.
• 47:26
  You know what I'm saying?
• 47:28
  So he he he had plenty of opportunities to get to absolutely just wreck, and he did
• 47:34
  respect on Tom Brady's name.
• 47:36
  Did you see him playing flag football?
• 47:39
  Oh my god.
• 47:42
  Oh my
• 47:43
  all he had to do is do one of
• 47:44
  these shimmy shakes to the left, and he was good to go.
• 47:48
  He had that so okay.
• 47:51
  For for those who don't know, Tom Brady was in a flag football tournament, a big one actually
• 48:00
  against team USA to go represent us in the Olympics.
• 48:05
  Correct?
• 48:07
  Yeah.
• 48:08
  I think so.
• 48:09
  Either either way, if I get but, I mean, shit.
• 48:15
  You you try to go for flags, it it's it's a lot more.
• 48:21
  There's a lot more skill in trying to go for one no.
• 48:25
  Shit.
• 48:26
  I can't say that.
• 48:27
  There's not a lot more skill in going for a flag than tackling a person.
• 48:32
  It's different skills.
• 48:34
  Right?
• 48:34
  You got a much bigger Yes.
• 48:35
  Target when when you're throwing in there.
• 48:38
  The the fine motor skills to adjust to a flag that is literally flapping in the wind.
• 48:44
  Right?
• 48:44
  And any a simple spin move can kinda change that trajectory, and you're just trying to
• 48:49
  grasp at it with your hand.
• 48:50
  It's just different different motor skills than a tackle football game is for sure.
• 48:56
  Good.
• 48:56
  More or less, we're we're not gonna cover that today, but different for certain.
• 49:04
  Coach, what are your thoughts moving in now?
• 49:08
  Obviously, last time we were on a few weeks ago, we kinda talked at length about the Kyler
• 49:13
  Murray signing.
• 49:15
  It it seems in all likelihood, although they haven't named him, that the team is essentially
• 49:20
  looking at Kyler as being the starter.
• 49:22
  Now whether I agree with that or not, they it kinda regardless.
• 49:27
  I know they haven't officially named that yet, but there's been a few, you know, a few slips
• 49:33
  of the tongue in interviews that KOC has done, and he's definitely looking at Kyler as that
• 49:37
  number one option.
• 49:39
  I guess I wanna kinda start there.
• 49:40
  How do you feel about, you know, Kyler kinda being given that QB one spot on our Minnesota
• 49:49
  Vikings?
• 49:51
  Well, I mean, let's just start with the facts.
• 49:57
  You know, Kyler Murray Kyler Murray is the only person, the only player to be drafted top 10 in
• 50:09
  the NFL draft and in the n MLB draft, the baseball one.
• 50:16
  MLB.
• 50:18
  So it's kinda just I mean, you gotta a lot of a lot of people wanna say generational type
• 50:26
  players in the NFL when it's just strictly NFL, but this dude did it in two different sports.
• 50:32
  Now that doesn't take anything away from his on the field presence.
• 50:38
  I mean, this dude's been in the league for I mean, what?
• 50:43
  Big b, you're gonna have to help me, but I I wanna say, like, six, seven years, eight tops.
• 50:53
  Other than 2019.
• 50:55
  So, yeah, we're going on seven years.
• 50:58
  You're seven.
• 50:59
  Seven years.
• 50:59
  Yep.
• 50:59
  Seven years.
• 51:01
  Seven years.
• 51:02
  He's got over 20,000 passing yards, over a 120 passing touchdowns.
• 51:09
  Mhmm.
• 51:10
  This dude's seeing a lot of defenses.
• 51:12
  So, I mean, I don't even care that these six, no.
• 51:17
  Six foot.
• 51:17
  No.
• 51:18
  Five foot eleven.
• 51:19
  No.
• 51:20
  Probably, like, five foot eight.
• 51:22
  You know what I'm saying?
• 51:23
  Just so Who's caller?
• 51:25
  Coach Cody
• 51:26
  or Kyler Murray?
• 51:28
  Honestly, I'm not even gonna lie.
• 51:30
  Kyler, I'm sorry, but you shorty.
• 51:33
  You feel me?
• 51:34
  Well, they're for pro pro football record has a listed at five ten, and that might be with
• 51:40
  heels on.
• 51:41
  Well, they they get paid to add two inches.
• 51:45
  The memes when he first signed were ridiculous.
• 51:49
  Oh, they were they were hilarious.
• 51:50
  But
• 51:52
  the but that's what I'm saying is, like, okay.
• 51:54
  You're you're an athlete.
• 51:56
  Like, a lot of players in football wanna put like, instead of position, they wanna put ATH
• 52:03
  athlete.
• 52:05
  I'm an athlete, not him.
• 52:07
  You ain't him.
• 52:08
  You know what I'm saying?
• 52:10
  Like, Tyler, you're you're a hawkham.
• 52:13
  Hope he catches him.
• 52:14
  You feel me?
• 52:16
  Well and the fact that Oakland still reached out to him and said, hey.
• 52:19
  If he doesn't Oh,
• 52:20
  Oh, yeah.
• 52:21
  Don't play football, he's gonna come play for us.
• 52:23
  I mean so that's a lot for him.
• 52:25
  Yeah.
• 52:26
  Well, okay.
• 52:27
  Okay.
• 52:29
  Are they in Vegas now?
• 52:30
  Are they the Las Vegas athletic show?
• 52:32
  Stop it.
• 52:33
  Get out of here.
• 52:34
  Hold on.
• 52:34
  Get out
• 52:34
  of like, you can take that with a grain of salt too because Vegas sucks or the Yeah.
• 52:42
  You're I mean, you are right, but but for a guy that I mean, okay.
• 52:46
  Yeah.
• 52:46
  He's probably
• 52:47
  You gotta tell the baseball himself,
• 52:49
  but for them to come out and say that that, hey.
• 52:52
  He's still our prospect.
• 52:54
  He's still part of our league and, you know, our team and franchise, and he's welcome to
• 52:59
  come here.
• 53:00
  I mean, that still says a lot to his ability to play both sports in their mind.
• 53:06
  Yeah.
• 53:06
  But here's the here's the thing is he might have the ability for this, but it's his
• 53:13
  character.
• 53:14
  Like
• 53:14
  Oh, yeah.
• 53:15
  Who you were blessed.
• 53:17
  You were born and blessed with this god given ability to be that dude in order to be drafted
• 53:25
  top 10 in the NFL and in the MLB.
• 53:30
  And you're just like, fuck it.
• 53:33
  That dude There were
• 53:34
  other teams There were other teams out there that needed a quarterback.
• 53:41
  I would say more than the Minnesota Vikings.
• 53:44
  Is it telling to you that some of those other teams that signed a Malik Willis or a Geno
• 53:50
  Smith or a you know, and obviously, we're talking about some bottom feeder teams,
• 53:54
  Dolphins, Jets, and a lot of that, that they didn't make a run at signing Kyler Murray.
• 53:59
  Is that a red flag to you, or is that just a sign of, like, some other notoriously bad
• 54:06
  franchises?
• 54:07
  Okay.
• 54:08
  So Or was that Kyler Murray saying, I ain't even interested in that.
• 54:12
  Like, it's it's one spot for you.
• 54:13
  I think it's the third option.
• 54:15
  I think it's the fact that Murray stated that he would wanna play for Minnesota, and that was
• 54:20
  where he wants to be.
• 54:22
  And who wouldn't wanna be here?
• 54:24
  Heck, if I could throw the ball and somebody's looking at me, I'd be like, yeah.
• 54:27
  I wanna throw to Jefferson and Addison, Hawk, and turn around and hand it off to Jones and
• 54:32
  Mason, you know.
• 54:34
  So, I mean, it it's the people that we have here that probably were the factors.
• 54:40
  I mean, the other guys that you named Bubba, you know yeah.
• 54:46
  I mean, the Jets probably coulda used a Murray, you know.
• 54:49
  Miami coulda used a Murray.
• 54:51
  Mean, they got talent there too, but, you know, I think the teams are just looking at me like,
• 54:55
  you know, he wants to go to Minnesota?
• 54:57
  Let's go somewhere else, you know.
• 55:01
  Great.
• 55:01
  Solo, can you ask that question one more time?
• 55:06
  Because I got I got some fire.
• 55:09
  Uh-oh.
• 55:10
  So, yeah, is it a red flag if, that these other teams out there that needed a quarterback did
• 55:19
  not, you know, reach out and and maybe they did, and I don't know that we'll ever know that
• 55:25
  for sure.
• 55:26
  A lot of this stuff is done by closed doors.
• 55:28
  But is it a red flag that other teams that needed a quarterback weren't moving to get
• 55:35
  Kyler Murray onto their team.
• 55:37
  And I I I he signed for 1.3 or whatever.
• 55:41
  And I don't know that that was because if he signed for more, that he would be endangering
• 55:45
  some of the money that he was owed.
• 55:47
  I I don't know if there's some contractual stuff in there at all, but it's just surprising
• 55:53
  to me that teams that needed a quarterback, I think, worse than Minnesota did, and not that
• 55:59
  we didn't need someone in the room, that they didn't move on Kyler Murray early and sign him.
• 56:05
  And to you, is that a red flag on the player or more a sign of just not great franchises?
• 56:13
  Oh, man.
• 56:16
  I've been waiting for this.
• 56:18
  Oh, man.
• 56:19
  I've been waiting for this.
• 56:20
  Alrighty.
• 56:21
  Well, honestly, I mean, I think it's a red flag in general.
• 56:25
  I think, you know, after the year that Jefferson had this past year, just barely
• 56:35
  barely getting over that thousand yard threshold.
• 56:39
  I mean, how many years does he got left on this contract?
• 56:44
  How many years does he really gonna be locked in mentally within that contract?
• 56:52
  So I think he I think it was smart for Kyler to do what he did.
• 56:58
  You know?
• 56:59
  Hey.
• 57:00
  It it it could work with Kevin O'Connell.
• 57:03
  He's supposedly the quarterback whisperer, you know, and he resurrected people like Sam
• 57:09
  Darnold who made Daniel Jones rich as shit for no good reason.
• 57:15
  Hey.
• 57:16
  Am I wrong?
• 57:17
  You feel me?
• 57:18
  No.
• 57:18
  No.
• 57:19
  I just sometimes just putting on that purple and gold, it just drips like our guy, Prince
• 57:25
  DiNero.
• 57:26
  It just it it turns into instant money.
• 57:31
  Yeah.
• 57:31
  You know, I mean, Kirk O'Chainz, he's got the best agent in history.
• 57:37
  Agent has to go down in NFL agent Hall of Fame.
• 57:41
  That dude is crazy.
• 57:44
  But I don't know.
• 57:46
  I mean, I think that if Kyler Murray does horseshit, that that'll that's two years that
• 57:58
  Justin Jefferson has had years of wasted.
• 58:04
  And I I see the the theme imploding real fucking fast.
• 58:11
  Wolf's whoever, Ziggy, wife, daughter, hit me up and give me a call.
• 58:21
  I'm I'm I'm all in.
• 58:23
  I'll help you out, but you gotta help me help you.
• 58:26
  Good right now, you're fucked.
• 58:30
  If Kyler Murray doesn't succeed, you're fucked.
• 58:34
  Yeah.
• 58:34
  Well and we said that.
• 58:35
  We were
• 58:36
  talking about it, and it was leaning in that direction that now KOC has the Kyler Murray
• 58:43
  kinda tied around ankle.
• 58:45
  And if Kyler fails, it probably means KOC loses his job because he's not him as we were all
• 58:52
  kind of led to believe.
• 58:53
  My worry for Kevin O'Connell is if I need to worry about the man or worry for him rather,
• 59:00
  but is that the quarterbacks that he has had success success with were all kind of of a
• 59:08
  similar mold and and make.
• 59:11
  And Kyler is not that.
• 59:13
  He is I think he's a much, much better athlete than a Sam Darnold or, you know, any of the
• 59:20
  list of guys that have come through here in the last few years that have shown even in small
• 59:25
  sample sizes.
• 59:26
  But he is just a different he's a different animal.
• 59:31
  He's only five ten.
• 59:32
  Sam Darnold's what?
• 59:34
  Six four?
• 59:34
  Sam Darnold's a big guy.
• 59:36
  Right?
• 59:36
  I mean, a tall quarterback.
• 59:37
  He's bigger than what?
• 59:39
  Don't know if he's six four, but he's a big dude.
• 59:41
  He's a lot bigger than five ten.
• 59:43
  Know?
• 59:43
  The guys that have had success behind KOCs in in KOCs system are guys that could see the
• 59:51
  field.
• 59:52
  Six three.
• 59:52
  He's a big guy.
• 59:53
  He's a you know, that's that's a inch or three bigger than me depending on who you ask.
• 59:59
  Oh, sorry about the password.
• 1:00:03
  Well and I worry that, you know, so much of this system that we have here and that KOC is
• 1:00:09
  installed is reliant on seeing the field.
• 1:00:12
  And I am coming from a purely physical standpoint.
• 1:00:16
  Can Kyler Murray see the damn field like KOC is going to want him to?
• 1:00:22
  There's a reason that the Saints offense was designed around Drew beat Breeze the way that
• 1:00:27
  it was and the way they ran their system and did the things that they did because you had a
• 1:00:33
  smaller statured quarterback, and and you designed things different.
• 1:00:36
  I don't know if Kevin O'Connell has enough adjustments in his playbook to to compensate
• 1:00:44
  for that.
• 1:00:44
  I don't know if he has it personally just as a man to make large adjustments like that.
• 1:00:50
  He's not going to take his whole playbook, throw it out, and start from scratch.
• 1:00:55
  And when you have a guy like Kyler Murray that only not only is limited just by his stature to
• 1:01:01
  see over the line of guys that are out there that are all six five, six six, six seven on
• 1:01:07
  your line and working inside of a tight pocket in those, But, also, the kid doesn't really
• 1:01:14
  like I shouldn't call him a kid anymore either.
• 1:01:15
  I mean, he's he's almost 30 years old.
• 1:01:17
  Right?
• 1:01:18
  Like, he's a seven year vet in the league that doesn't wanna study tape.
• 1:01:22
  How can you trust him with a playbook as deep as Kevin O'Connell's is to absorb all of this
• 1:01:30
  in time to be prepared to make reads that are that?
• 1:01:34
  It's not just fall back and rely on your athletic ability.
• 1:01:38
  That's not how this system works.
• 1:01:40
  And in fact, I think that's a lot of the reasons why KOC was getting pissed at JJ
• 1:01:45
  McCarthy.
• 1:01:46
  So to me, while I I've always stated that I think it improves, it it raises the floor of
• 1:01:52
  your QB room, I don't know if Kyler Murray has it upstairs or in the, physical stature
• 1:02:01
  department to be able to run this system the way that KOC wants it.
• 1:02:06
  And now as a coach, Kevin O'Connell has tied himself to that player because he's had more
• 1:02:12
  control now, you would assume, than ever before in his history as a head coach to make this
• 1:02:19
  decision.
• 1:02:20
  So I I I I am a little worried.
• 1:02:22
  I'm a little nervous for KOC on his behalf going into this season knowing that if you go
• 1:02:28
  out and go two and four in your first six games, you can kiss your fucking cushy NFL head
• 1:02:33
  coaching job goodbye because I don't think the wolves are going to stand for it.
• 1:02:39
  Well, I and Big b, if you wanna go first, I'm all for it.
• 1:02:44
  But, I mean, damn.
• 1:02:47
  I I think that KOC is on the hot seat and upper management because they had a opportunity to go
• 1:02:57
  for Kirk Cousins and bring him back knowing what he could do, but decided to go for this
• 1:03:03
  other thing.
• 1:03:04
  Big b, I'll submit to you.
• 1:03:07
  You can go ahead.
• 1:03:09
  So, I mean, I mean, I'm still I'm still the guy that still thinks no matter who's back there,
• 1:03:16
  you still gotta protect him and open up.
• 1:03:19
  You gotta have a good offensive line.
• 1:03:22
  You know?
• 1:03:22
  So that's gonna be my key factor in my, you know, thing here.
• 1:03:27
  Because, again, if you can't protect the quarterback, he's gonna go out there and get
• 1:03:31
  murdered and be out of the IR quicker than, you know
• 1:03:35
  Well, and a little bit of offensive line help has arrived.
• 1:03:39
  Right?
• 1:03:39
  They signed they signed a guy, your swing tackle.
• 1:03:42
  Brandel has been named a center on the offensive line.
• 1:03:46
  You should have a healthy Christian Daresall back.
• 1:03:50
  Right?
• 1:03:50
  We're all going, like, fingers crossed on that that he's healthy and plays all 17 games, which
• 1:03:55
  he's never done in his career.
• 1:03:58
  So a a lot of that in there.
• 1:04:01
  Now do I think a guy with the athletic ability of Kyler Murray can help an offensive line that
• 1:04:05
  may be a little slow to gel?
• 1:04:08
  I think inevitably, he does.
• 1:04:10
  I don't think that it's going to be as atrocious as some of the quarterback play that
• 1:04:17
  we saw last year, but you could have been you could have been better and still lost games.
• 1:04:22
  Right?
• 1:04:23
  Like, the quarterback play could have been better last year
• 1:04:25
  Yep.
• 1:04:25
  And you still lose some of those football games.
• 1:04:28
  And at the end of the day, it's wins and losses that matter.
• 1:04:31
  And and
• 1:04:33
  and that's that's the thing is is, you know, we we talk about if Kyle Murray's back, he'll see
• 1:04:38
  his output.
• 1:04:39
  Let's say Kyle Murray is putting up the stats, but we're still losing those one score games
• 1:04:44
  because the defense couldn't hold on.
• 1:04:46
  I mean, is that really Kyle Murray's fault?
• 1:04:48
  Is that KLC's fault?
• 1:04:49
  Most likely.
• 1:04:50
  But, you know, to me, it's the offensive line.
• 1:04:53
  That's why I'm worried about you know, we're talking about the draft, Mendota going to the
• 1:04:57
  Raiders because we all saw how bad they were last year.
• 1:05:01
  Did they get better?
• 1:05:02
  Of course, they did.
• 1:05:02
  But I don't think they signed a lot of offensive linemen to help them get better.
• 1:05:08
  I think they signed a lot of more people around, you know, the skill positions that it
• 1:05:12
  is.
• 1:05:12
  So know
• 1:05:13
  if it was true or not, B.
• 1:05:14
  You follow the rest of the league a little bit closer than I do.
• 1:05:17
  Did the bears shot sign Joey Bosa?
• 1:05:21
  Let me look.
• 1:05:22
  I did not hear that.
• 1:05:24
  Okay.
• 1:05:25
  I there's so much bullshit that's on the Internet.
• 1:05:27
  I saw a graphic that said it.
• 1:05:29
  I I didn't believe it when I saw it.
• 1:05:31
  I I didn't even investigate it all.
• 1:05:33
  But, I mean, that would change the look of the NFC North having a passer.
• 1:05:38
  Still with the with the bills.
• 1:05:42
  So
• 1:05:42
  Okay.
• 1:05:43
  Okay.
• 1:05:44
  Good.
• 1:05:44
  Well, like I said, I wasn't trying to break any news here.
• 1:05:47
  Just just asking a a question because I know you follow the league a little closer than I
• 1:05:52
  do.
• 1:05:53
  And, yeah, you can't trust anything that you see on the Internet anymore at all.
• 1:05:57
  If you saw it on social media, it chances are more likely now that it it's bullshit than that
• 1:06:04
  it's actually true.
• 1:06:05
  So I'm glad I referenced.
• 1:06:07
  Well, that it's bullshit.
• 1:06:10
  And the fact that you see something on Facebook, especially Facebook, Gotta click on a
• 1:06:18
  picture to go to the comments, to click the actual link that had the post with the comments
• 1:06:25
  to get to the comments and the link.
• 1:06:27
  Ain't that some shit?
• 1:06:31
  Shout out to Danielle, my wife watching today.
• 1:06:34
  She gave a hi to the fellas.
• 1:06:36
  Her and I were at Journey last night up in Sioux Falls.
• 1:06:41
  This podcast and our network continued to get invited to some really cool shit, And that was
• 1:06:47
  an amazing night of music last night.
• 1:06:49
  Just blown away by the musicianship of these guys in their seventies and eighties just
• 1:06:55
  rocking out.
• 1:06:57
  It was an incredible show.
• 1:06:59
  I I know she had a late night.
• 1:07:01
  We didn't get in till around midnight.
• 1:07:02
  She woke up, went to school, teaching youth in our little town today.
• 1:07:06
  So, yeah, she was working on the Cody the coach Cody schedule last night.
• 1:07:11
  Yep.
• 1:07:12
  Yep.
• 1:07:12
  Hey.
• 1:07:13
  You know what it is.
• 1:07:14
  You know what it is.
• 1:07:16
  Yeah.
• 1:07:17
  We we just don't stop, man, and that's what it takes.
• 1:07:20
  So and that's I mean, honestly, we we've covered it a lot here that, obviously, Kyler's
• 1:07:27
  an incredible athlete.
• 1:07:28
  When nobody is nobody is throwing it out there that he is not raises the floor of
• 1:07:34
  the team.
• 1:07:35
  Is still a
• 1:07:35
  free agent.
• 1:07:36
  He's not with the Bills.
• 1:07:38
  He's a free agent this year right now.
• 1:07:40
  He's out there.
• 1:07:41
  They have him
• 1:07:41
  out there.
• 1:07:42
  That's
• 1:07:45
  what I'm reading.
• 1:07:46
  He said he's still yeah.
• 1:07:48
  He's a free agent this year.
• 1:07:49
  He was only there for one year.
• 1:07:51
  So
• 1:07:52
  Under 30?
• 1:07:54
  Is let's see here.
• 1:08:03
  If he's under 30, he's gonna still get paid.
• 1:08:07
  If he's over 30, you're gonna get a deep contract.
• 1:08:10
  Guaranteed.
• 1:08:15
  He is nine he was born in '95.
• 1:08:22
  So he's 30 right now.
• 1:08:25
  30 already.
• 1:08:26
  Yeah.
• 1:08:26
  30 going on 31.
• 1:08:27
  He's still in that range and still putting up 31 July 11.
• 1:08:31
  So trash contract.
• 1:08:37
  Bring him to Minnesota.
• 1:08:38
  We'll take him.
• 1:08:39
  Hey.
• 1:08:40
  He'll
• 1:08:40
  he'll he'll hold out.
• 1:08:41
  And I'm sure that's what's going on.
• 1:08:43
  They're asking price was too high for the teams.
• 1:08:46
  They they don't see that value that they want, but also the player is willing to ride it out
• 1:08:52
  till somebody gets hurt in training camp and they'd be like, okay.
• 1:08:56
  I'll take my bag now.
• 1:08:57
  Thank you very much.
• 1:08:59
  I'm predicting that bullshit's market value is 13,700,000.0.
• 1:09:04
  13,700,000.0 at 30 years old?
• 1:09:07
  How many years?
• 1:09:09
  One one year?
• 1:09:10
  They just said that's his market value right now.
• 1:09:12
  So
• 1:09:13
  For one year?
• 1:09:14
  Yeah.
• 1:09:15
  I guess.
• 1:09:16
  I mean, they're just saying that his market value
• 1:09:18
  His agent is out there asking for 16 or 17 on a one year deal.
• 1:09:24
  Hey.
• 1:09:24
  I no disrespect, but damn that.
• 1:09:26
  Give me another Van Gink.
• 1:09:29
  Give me give me two more Van Ginks.
• 1:09:32
  Well and, coach, I know you've been diving the draft you've been diving the draft prospects a
• 1:09:38
  little bit harder than I have, obviously.
• 1:09:41
  And we're gonna do our mock draft next week, guys.
• 1:09:43
  I I promise you that we'll have something put together.
• 1:09:45
  I'll have Bea set it all up, and don't know if we'll do it.
• 1:09:48
  Maybe we can run it live, b.
• 1:09:50
  We can we can figure that out and do a screen share and run it.
• 1:09:53
  I think that would be fun to kinda see how one plays out live on the show.
• 1:09:56
  I'll have you walk me through the process a little bit.
• 1:09:59
  I've never done that before.
• 1:10:00
  Yeah.
• 1:10:01
  We could very good
• 1:10:01
  for this Viking just the NFL space in general.
• 1:10:06
  But
• 1:10:08
  Can we
• 1:10:09
  there sleeper athletes that are that we're looking at in the later rounds?
• 1:10:14
  And I'm really interested to see where, where we get and and who we can get in because we
• 1:10:20
  gotta fill up I it's not just starters, and we got holes in starting positions, but we need to
• 1:10:26
  get younger and fill in a lot of these the bottom half of that 53 man roster as well with
• 1:10:32
  younger talent, and and I don't know what's available to us.
• 1:10:35
  Really disappointed that, you know, we've had guys on this team that have gone on to have a
• 1:10:40
  lot of success elsewhere, most notably, obviously, NaShawn Wright going to Chicago and
• 1:10:45
  having a career year over there.
• 1:10:47
  The this guy was on your practice.
• 1:10:48
  He was on your team, man.
• 1:10:49
  Like so I hope that we're able to get a lot of talent stocked up into those, you know, into
• 1:10:59
  those areas and, you know, not drafting guys in the third round to be your gunner.
• 1:11:04
  Well that and that's one thing we've talked about and touched on that they now have to hit
• 1:11:10
  this draft with a's.
• 1:11:13
  I mean, they can't just go, this guy, you know, we're gonna take a flyer on and see what he
• 1:11:17
  could develop.
• 1:11:18
  I mean, we have to hit home runs or triples with every pick in this draft that we have
• 1:11:24
  because we're not getting younger.
• 1:11:26
  We're getting older.
• 1:11:26
  That's all we're signing is older players.
• 1:11:29
  So we have we have to hit bangers after bangers on this one.
• 1:11:34
  But that's all we do it.
• 1:11:36
  Like, man, I'm I'm so conflicted right now because this is the Vikings United podcast.
• 1:11:46
  But goddamn, I'm pissed off.
• 1:11:49
  Like, we get we get these sorry ass players in the back ass end of their careers, like, five,
• 1:11:56
  captain Mike went in.
• 1:11:58
  You know what I'm saying?
• 1:11:59
  Antoine, Whitfield.
• 1:12:00
  Like, what?
• 1:12:01
  You can make an argument where to feel if he was in the middle.
• 1:12:05
  But, like, other than that, we get some trash ass players thinking that they can just it's a
• 1:12:11
  Minnesota thing.
• 1:12:12
  We just saw.
• 1:12:14
  Well, and that and that's what you that's what you know, Cody, you hit it on the head,
• 1:12:18
  especially at the quarterback position.
• 1:12:19
  We've never developed a quarterback.
• 1:12:21
  Dante Culpepper is the last quarterback that's played for us that we drafted.
• 1:12:26
  I mean, then we went to Jeff George and Cunningham and Farm and
• 1:12:31
  McNabb.
• 1:12:32
  Fuck
• 1:12:33
  shit.
• 1:12:33
  McNabb.
• 1:12:34
  I mean yeah.
• 1:12:35
  So, I mean, yeah, it was cool to have Farr here where a player or two away from the Super Bowl,
• 1:12:40
  you know, and and stuff like that.
• 1:12:42
  But, yeah, we haven't
• 1:12:44
  I'm just gonna say developed our guy.
• 1:12:47
  I'm just gonna say it right now.
• 1:12:48
  Minnesota, you are so rash.
• 1:12:52
  Right?
• 1:12:53
  But I think you are trash.
• 1:12:55
  Like, oh, we can't get the number one overall pick.
• 1:12:59
  We'll sign one six years later.
• 1:13:01
  Hey, Sam.
• 1:13:01
  What are you doing?
• 1:13:04
  You know?
• 1:13:04
  Yo.
• 1:13:05
  He was just reaching out to the wolf to hire him.
• 1:13:07
  I don't know now.
• 1:13:08
  He's not yo.
• 1:13:11
  But yeah.
• 1:13:12
  No.
• 1:13:12
  I I get what you'd say, Cody, so does Bob, and so does the rest of the fan base.
• 1:13:16
  Yeah.
• 1:13:17
  We go out after the retreads, and it it's gonna sink me.
• 1:13:20
  I mean, we need to we need to have an a minus a draft.
• 1:13:25
  I mean, b plus maybe at the low end, but this draft has to be high.
• 1:13:30
  And, coach, on on kind of that note with the retreads, obviously, with Kyler coming in here,
• 1:13:36
  you're kinda getting another retread and a trip down that road.
• 1:13:40
  But on the development side, do you see the signing as a major detriment to the development
• 1:13:47
  of your young draft pick in JJ McCarthy?
• 1:13:50
  The well, through past twenty years, the the developmental guy for the QBEs, that dude gotta
• 1:13:59
  go.
• 1:14:00
  That dude's so robbing money from us right now because he ain't never fucking shit.
• 1:14:05
  Alright?
• 1:14:06
  I I don't and I don't I don't know if that's McCowen.
• 1:14:10
  Like, what do we sign him just because he was a former quarterback and we sign, higher former
• 1:14:16
  quarterbacks to run our teams and shit like that?
• 1:14:20
  Keenan McCart, that was the only smartass signing we've had.
• 1:14:25
  Damn.
• 1:14:27
  Like, I'm just I'm fed up right now.
• 1:14:31
  I'm fed up.
• 1:14:32
  I'm sorry.
• 1:14:32
  I'm checked out.
• 1:14:35
  Well, that's alright.
• 1:14:36
  You're you're right.
• 1:14:37
  Get through the
• 1:14:38
  draft the draft.
• 1:14:39
  See, and this is a lot of teams are.
• 1:14:40
  There's there's there's free agent fatigue right now.
• 1:14:44
  We had a bad season, and it wasn't even that bad.
• 1:14:47
  I mean, nine and eight, you still finish over 500.
• 1:14:49
  You're a
• 1:14:50
  couple of playweight or making a playoff.
• 1:14:52
  Can be in
• 1:14:53
  playoffs, in the tournament.
• 1:14:55
  Right?
• 1:14:55
  So it wasn't like it was a total tank of a season.
• 1:14:59
  And yet we feel so absolutely demoralized because it doesn't feel like we're getting
• 1:15:05
  better.
• 1:15:05
  And even the Kyler trade, and I am sure there's some fans out there that feel that he is the
• 1:15:10
  answer to that.
• 1:15:12
  I am not in that at all.
• 1:15:15
  Like I said, and I'll kinda reiterate.
• 1:15:17
  Right?
• 1:15:18
  Like, raises the floor, not the guy.
• 1:15:21
  Right?
• 1:15:21
  Like, not the savior of this franchise as your your super fans on the other side are going to
• 1:15:27
  paint him at.
• 1:15:28
  A lot better athlete than you've had at that position and, obviously, a lot better than the
• 1:15:33
  guys you had back there, you know, there last year, but it's it's you know, we're a long ways
• 1:15:41
  from being what I would call a contender next year, and I don't know that the draft is going
• 1:15:46
  to change that either.
• 1:15:49
  Yeah.
• 1:15:49
  No.
• 1:15:50
  And and that's the thing.
• 1:15:51
  And and, you know, Collie, I know we got the same somewhat same friends, and there's a guy
• 1:15:56
  by the name of mister Odenis has already announced to us the Super Bowl for this year
• 1:16:02
  with Kyler Murray.
• 1:16:03
  So
• 1:16:04
  but no.
• 1:16:05
  It What?
• 1:16:07
  Oh, yeah.
• 1:16:07
  I'm gonna say except the bikes are going to the Super Bowl.
• 1:16:10
  So
• 1:16:11
  Oh.
• 1:16:14
  Yeah.
• 1:16:14
  That's what we tell him every year.
• 1:16:16
  But, you know, he's he's a fan.
• 1:16:18
  He's definitely got high hopes.
• 1:16:19
  Some of the times, just think he's trying to pull our legs and make us taller.
• 1:16:22
  But Yeah.
• 1:16:24
  Jedi, thanks for tuning in.
• 1:16:26
  New name here on the show.
• 1:16:28
  Appreciate you.
• 1:16:29
  We I I think a lot of us here are in the same boat.
• 1:16:33
  I don't mind the Kyler Murray signing for 1.3.
• 1:16:36
  It it's it's the lowest risk quarterback
• 1:16:39
  Yep.
• 1:16:39
  You know, monetary wise and everything that you could get.
• 1:16:42
  Right?
• 1:16:42
  Like, you give me the choice of Geno Smith at 13 or whatever.
• 1:16:46
  I think he signed for a lot more than that.
• 1:16:48
  But even for, like, comparable backup money, you're usually paying your backup quarterback,
• 1:16:53
  I think, between, like, 8 and 12,000,000 is, like, the league average in there for for your
• 1:16:57
  backup QB.
• 1:16:58
  You got a guy that if he only serves as a backup, you're paying one point.
• 1:17:03
  You're paying him the vet league minimum.
• 1:17:05
  So on that note, great business move.
• 1:17:08
  I don't know how you look at that same player and and feel like he's the savior of the
• 1:17:13
  franchise, and all of a sudden, you're going to the Super Bowl.
• 1:17:15
  And, honestly, it's not just like super fans.
• 1:17:19
  Right?
• 1:17:19
  I I was it Skip Bayless I saw that kinda has the team projected to win the NFC North and and
• 1:17:25
  looking at that massive improvement out there.
• 1:17:28
  Now I think our team is going to win the the NFC North.
• 1:17:32
  I think that we have shown enough.
• 1:17:35
  And if we can restock some of these tools, I don't see any of the other teams in the North
• 1:17:40
  getting that much better.
• 1:17:42
  Right?
• 1:17:42
  I think the bears definitely took advantage of a last play schedule.
• 1:17:46
  They won some games against some really bad teams.
• 1:17:48
  Now they have a first place schedule.
• 1:17:50
  It's gonna be a whole different ballgame for them.
• 1:17:52
  I don't see them repeating into double digit wins.
• 1:17:55
  It's just the nature of the game.
• 1:17:58
  But the, you know, the the lions already looked cooked last year.
• 1:18:03
  They've done nothing but get older as well.
• 1:18:05
  Green Bay lost some key pieces.
• 1:18:08
  Right?
• 1:18:08
  That Malik Willis leaving is going to be an issue sometime during their season.
• 1:18:14
  Micah Parsons coming back from an injury.
• 1:18:17
  What is he gonna look like?
• 1:18:18
  You know?
• 1:18:19
  So there are a lot of questions around the rest of the league or around, you know, especially
• 1:18:23
  the NFC North, where I feel like the Vikings have the most intact roster from last year
• 1:18:30
  moving into this new season, and especially maintaining your number one free agent in, our
• 1:18:37
  our defensive coordinator is the is the game changer.
• 1:18:42
  I I think that's what adjusts everything and having a little bit there out of here.
• 1:18:47
  TechJedi, you're taking a vital year out of JJ McCarthy development time.
• 1:18:51
  The worst thing that's going to happen is if we pay Kyler next year, we're right back
• 1:18:55
  overpaying for a QB.
• 1:18:56
  Couldn't agree more with that.
• 1:18:58
  But but
• 1:18:59
  just but go.
• 1:19:00
  What so okay.
• 1:19:02
  Let's let's play this all over.
• 1:19:04
  If Kyler Murray stays healthy, let's say he goes let's go twelve and four or twelve and
• 1:19:12
  five, thirteen and four.
• 1:19:15
  We get to the playoffs.
• 1:19:16
  Maybe we get a first round by.
• 1:19:18
  Maybe we're the second seed.
• 1:19:20
  We get to the championship game.
• 1:19:22
  I mean, do we offer Kyler Murray?
• 1:19:26
  You know, let's say Kyler Murray's in the MVP talk.
• 1:19:29
  I mean, there there's a lot of factors that
• 1:19:32
  think I think what happens is if the team if the team is, like, a seven fifty win percentage
• 1:19:40
  about halfway through the season, I think that's the point you make the offer and at
• 1:19:45
  least put it on the table Yep.
• 1:19:47
  To their camp.
• 1:19:48
  I think you put extension talks on there because you're still gonna need a backup QB
• 1:19:52
  regardless.
• 1:19:53
  Right?
• 1:19:54
  What that money ends up being I mean, and if they're having a good year, the player's not
• 1:19:58
  gonna sign the contract.
• 1:20:00
  Right?
• 1:20:00
  They're gonna let it ride out.
• 1:20:02
  Do they feel disrespected by the offer that was put on the table enough
• 1:20:07
  to walk?
• 1:20:07
  I don't know
• 1:20:07
  what our cap situation projected is for next year, but I don't know that we have the money
• 1:20:12
  moving into next season
• 1:20:13
  to
• 1:20:14
  pay to pay a $3,040,000,000 dollar quarterback.
• 1:20:18
  I just
• 1:20:18
  I mean,
• 1:20:19
  I'm definitely I'm definitely in the camp, you know, like the last comment was with, you know,
• 1:20:26
  moving forward with with McCarthy and stuff.
• 1:20:28
  And, yeah, I mean, I've wanted to see Young quarterback for a while, but, you know and I
• 1:20:33
  saw, you know, to me, I saw enough that if we would not have signed a Kyler Murray and we
• 1:20:39
  just went strictly for a guy that's been a career backup, I would've been okay going into
• 1:20:43
  this year with Kyle or with JJ as it started.
• 1:20:47
  But again, I gotta see that offensive line play better before I can make that decision that JJ
• 1:20:53
  is a bust or not or you know?
• 1:20:56
  And I've said it before, to me, the Green Bay Packers had the best quarterback grooming in
• 1:21:03
  all the league.
• 1:21:04
  I mean, they went for far to Rogers.
• 1:21:06
  Rogers do love.
• 1:21:08
  Look at what they did to the league.
• 1:21:10
  Yeah.
• 1:21:10
  And that Malik Willis, what I
• 1:21:12
  think if if the Vikings woulda had any interest in Malik Willis, that would have been our
• 1:21:16
  number one guy, I think.
• 1:21:17
  I think definitely you bring them in, you know, granted, you know, if you wanna sign up for the
• 1:21:23
  3,000,000 that that Dolphins did, then we knew he we know he's going in as a starting
• 1:21:30
  quarterback.
• 1:21:31
  But to me, it's it's still the offensive line that has to improve for us to get a good
• 1:21:37
  judgment on these quarterbacks.
• 1:21:41
  I well, and I'd really like to ask coach this.
• 1:21:45
  If we get him back, I'll definitely probably ask this again.
• 1:21:48
  But, b, I'll I'll kinda pose the question to you this way.
• 1:21:52
  Is that is it I mean, JJ McCarthy, I think, what, this will be his third year.
• 1:22:00
  Correct?
• 1:22:01
  Third year.
• 1:22:02
  He'll have another year.
• 1:22:03
  Do they have to make the fifth year option decision and to offer that by the end of this
• 1:22:07
  season to put that fifth year out there?
• 1:22:11
  Are you going to see enough in practice, right, and him running a a practice squad and running
• 1:22:18
  the second team, are you going to see enough out of the young man to make him that fifth
• 1:22:23
  year option and and to maybe buy yourself an extra year?
• 1:22:27
  I don't necessarily have a huge problem with him not playing in the year if the team is
• 1:22:34
  doing well.
• 1:22:34
  If the team is struggling, you might as well put the young man out there.
• 1:22:38
  But if the team is doing well, is there something to be gained by being, you know, that
• 1:22:44
  that second team and gaining all of those practice reps that he had previously missed out
• 1:22:49
  on in the, you know, in this first season when he was injured and obviously in that offseason
• 1:22:55
  still rehabilitating there.
• 1:22:57
  So I don't know that it's completely I don't know that if Kyler starts the whole season that
• 1:23:02
  as a franchise, you're completely out on JJ McCarthy.
• 1:23:06
  I I I think that you can take one step back to take two steps forward possibly, that reps
• 1:23:14
  matter, obviously, but also wins matter more.
• 1:23:19
  Yep.
• 1:23:20
  Well and that's the thing is if if the Vikings are winning, you know, just in any sport, you
• 1:23:26
  gotta stay with the hot hand.
• 1:23:27
  And if if it's Murray that's leading the charge, you you gotta stay with them until you
• 1:23:34
  know, at least till the end of the year.
• 1:23:36
  And then, you know, that's gonna be the thing is, like you said, Bubba, if they're halfway
• 1:23:41
  through the season, they're leading the pack, you gotta throw out that extension.
• 1:23:44
  Be like, hey, we want you here for a couple more years, three years at the max, blah blah
• 1:23:49
  blah.
• 1:23:49
  Well and that becomes tricky too.
• 1:23:52
  Right?
• 1:23:52
  Well, the timing of all
• 1:23:53
  that becomes tricky because if you make a Kyler Murray a multiyear Yep.
• 1:23:58
  Starter and offer from that contract, you are now devaluing the the draft pick that you have
• 1:24:05
  in JJ McCarthy.
• 1:24:06
  So you almost have to be, like, trading McCarthy
• 1:24:09
  That that's what I'm really gonna do.
• 1:24:11
  Right, and
• 1:24:11
  and putting the offer on the table, but then you're also losing your leverage with the team.
• 1:24:16
  Like, you're putting yourself in such a spot this year as a franchise and as a business
• 1:24:22
  there.
• 1:24:23
  Hey.
• 1:24:23
  I I and TechJedi, I I love what you said here.
• 1:24:26
  I I totally agree with you that, like, hands are patient.
• 1:24:29
  Where if you were here with us during the season, we were railing against KOCs play
• 1:24:33
  calling as well.
• 1:24:34
  The man does not wanna run the ball.
• 1:24:36
  That's why I don't want to give
• 1:24:37
  him my love on this
• 1:24:38
  team because it doesn't I mean, not that we're getting up that high, but I have saw some trade
• 1:24:43
  scenarios, one that coach sent me
• 1:24:45
  And that and that
• 1:24:46
  I had to put in
• 1:24:47
  a group chat.
• 1:24:48
  And if we do and if and if Murray does have that good year that, you know, we do extend
• 1:24:54
  them, then, yeah, you gotta either have that big sit down with JJ and be like, hey, you
• 1:25:01
  know, we're signing up for another three years.
• 1:25:03
  We want you to be that guy.
• 1:25:06
  But, hey, if if you if you and your agent think you got better offers, let's let's let's, you
• 1:25:13
  know, talk about it.
• 1:25:14
  Let's see what we can do because, you know, you don't make the NFL not to play and not and be
• 1:25:21
  and and to sit there.
• 1:25:22
  You want you wanna play.
• 1:25:23
  So I think that's gonna be definitely a good talker towards the end of next year depending
• 1:25:31
  on how we're doing.
• 1:25:33
  KLC's offense got worse.
• 1:25:35
  Yeah.
• 1:25:36
  Yeah.
• 1:25:37
  Well, I think the league figured it out.
• 1:25:39
  The the league figured out that all you wanna do is run these long developing deep cross
• 1:25:44
  routes to Jake to Justin Jefferson.
• 1:25:47
  And when they take that away, who are you?
• 1:25:50
  And how are you getting that if that's what you want to hit and it's those throws that are out
• 1:25:55
  there, are we going to be in a position where we can make adjustments?
• 1:26:02
  And so far, he's shown that he can.
• 1:26:04
  And we're totally with you, Tech, in that take.
• 1:26:07
  We are.
• 1:26:07
  We have
• 1:26:08
  a hot take too.
• 1:26:09
  We need to
• 1:26:09
  get we need to get Dre back for some more hot takes.
• 1:26:12
  He woulda he woulda he's already fired KOC going back to last season.
• 1:26:16
  But No.
• 1:26:17
  Hot take, we were closer to winning a championship with Zimmer than we have, well,
• 1:26:21
  you know, than we have will be with KOC.
• 1:26:24
  So far so far, see, I mean, the the proof is kind of in the pudding on that now.
• 1:26:32
  A lot to be had this season.
• 1:26:35
  I I think an unhealthy offensive line hurt you a lot more Yeah.
• 1:26:39
  Than than what you were, you know, than than a lot of people will give credence to.
• 1:26:44
  A lot of, you know, a lot of the Viking struggles this year were all put on the arm of
• 1:26:50
  the young JJ McCarthy or the, you know, the what's left of Carson Wentz's shoulder.
• 1:26:56
  And and the couple of games that Max played.
• 1:27:01
  Right.
• 1:27:01
  It just was
• 1:27:02
  not gonna be good year.
• 1:27:03
  And people are say you know, people are still messaging me, and I've seen a couple cheers.
• 1:27:08
  See what the Vikings coulda had with Sam.
• 1:27:11
  You can't compare the two.
• 1:27:13
  You can't say that because Sam Yeah.
• 1:27:15
  Look at the running game that they leaned on even into the
• 1:27:19
  second hole.
• 1:27:20
  Exactly.
• 1:27:20
  That's that's not gonna happen with KOC and tech just to kinda reiterate some points that
• 1:27:25
  I've made on the show previously.
• 1:27:27
  Too is the old school philosophy was you gotta have a good run game to have a good pass game.
• 1:27:34
  You gotta have a good pass game to have a good run game.
• 1:27:37
  And that's a philosophy that I don't think football is ever gonna get away from because if
• 1:27:41
  they know you're gonna pass 90% of the time, they're gonna cover.
• 1:27:46
  If they if they're unsure what they're gonna do, you have a better chance of succeeding and
• 1:27:51
  moving that ball, you know, and stuff like that.
• 1:27:55
  Do you guys have a theory of KLC?
• 1:27:57
  I think it's pretty obvious that Quasie definitely wanted McCarthy, but I I think Drake
• 1:28:05
  May, even though he had a a a lot of success this season, I think in a lot of ways, they're
• 1:28:10
  they're very similar quarterbacks.
• 1:28:12
  Right?
• 1:28:13
  Like, I think you just had one guy that went out there and had the opportunity to struggle
• 1:28:19
  throughout his rookie year to learn all of those things and then apply all of that
• 1:28:23
  knowledge and all of those reps in his second year.
• 1:28:26
  And JJ McCarthy was injured not just for the season.
• 1:28:31
  He was injured early in the season and remained out.
• 1:28:35
  He could not practice with the team, and he remained injured well into the off season and
• 1:28:40
  rehabbing that injury.
• 1:28:41
  That is a that is a lost year.
• 1:28:43
  And then you tried to just hand the kid the job out of the gate.
• 1:28:47
  I think that was where the wrong move was.
• 1:28:49
  You should have signed a a a competent starter last year.
• 1:28:54
  You did not need to give the keys to JJ, and I think that's the problem.
• 1:28:59
  And, really, the Daniel Jones thing blew up in their face because I I think that the
• 1:29:03
  expectation was was that Daniel Jones was going to be on this team and you were running that,
• 1:29:08
  but you counted your chickens before they hatched, and Daniel Jones went on and signed
• 1:29:12
  with Indianapolis.
• 1:29:14
  Yeah.
• 1:29:14
  And that became a a much larger issue.
• 1:29:17
  And, you know, I mean, look what happened.
• 1:29:19
  He he ends up blowing out his Achilles.
• 1:29:21
  He may never be the same guy after that anyway.
• 1:29:24
  So Well, I I always twenty twenty.
• 1:29:26
  You're right.
• 1:29:27
  I I I it's always twenty twenty, but I do believe that tech is on the right track here
• 1:29:33
  that, you know, KLC wanted Drake or wanted somebody different to move up.
• 1:29:39
  Kwasey did not wanna make that move.
• 1:29:41
  We stuck at 10.
• 1:29:42
  We took JJ.
• 1:29:44
  And I kinda think it's it's now, like you said, opening it up and backstage that, you know,
• 1:29:49
  KLC's kind of slipped a little bit and has made it unintentional knowing that Murray is going
• 1:29:57
  in as the number one.
• 1:29:58
  So that to me just shows that JJ was a crazy guy and not a KOC guy even though, you know,
• 1:30:06
  he's gotta be the professional and say, yeah, you know, we love JJ.
• 1:30:09
  We hope the best for him and blah blah blah and all this.
• 1:30:12
  I mean, you're not gonna have a coach that comes out and says, oh, no.
• 1:30:15
  I never wanted this guy on my roster.
• 1:30:18
  You know, this wasn't my pick.
• 1:30:20
  So but Yeah.
• 1:30:21
  Well, do well.
• 1:30:22
  And, honestly, as as
• 1:30:24
  a business, it it devalues the pick that you did have.
• 1:30:27
  Like, right now, JJ McCarthy still has value.
• 1:30:29
  I I don't know, how the rest of the league feels about him.
• 1:30:33
  I I think you have a pretty a pretty good athlete.
• 1:30:36
  You you have a guy that's got an arm.
• 1:30:39
  It's not like he's got a wet noodle back there.
• 1:30:41
  Yeah.
• 1:30:41
  Well, I'll I'll tell you right now
• 1:30:44
  that the card collectors share value JJ McCarthy because his his stock in cards is
• 1:30:51
  still steady.
• 1:30:52
  You know?
• 1:30:52
  So everybody's, like, holding on to him because they don't know what to expect.
• 1:30:57
  I mean, you see a lot of cards up and down, and he's kinda hanging right there in the middle.
• 1:31:01
  So
• 1:31:02
  Do you think, B, that there is a chance that JJ McCarthy does enough, in OTAs in training camp
• 1:31:10
  to retain that starting position out there even with a Kyler Murray on this team, or do you
• 1:31:18
  think that it's all just out the window?
• 1:31:21
  KOC has his guy, and and that's just the way it's gonna be.
• 1:31:26
  I I I hope it's not be as you say, you know, this no matter what JJ does in the preseason or
• 1:31:37
  or OTCs in practice, that KOC is like, nope.
• 1:31:42
  I'm going with Murray.
• 1:31:43
  That's that's my number one guy.
• 1:31:45
  You know, hopefully, it is a fair determination.
• 1:31:48
  And if if if JJ outplays Murray, he should be the starter.
• 1:31:52
  I mean, we're not gonna be at every practice.
• 1:31:54
  We you know, we'll see limited action in the preseason.
• 1:31:57
  I know the news media will be like, hey.
• 1:31:59
  Look at these passes that JJ threw, and people will blow it up in in social media and be like,
• 1:32:05
  yeah.
• 1:32:05
  JJ's, you know, improving so immensely.
• 1:32:08
  And, you know, so I I really hope KLC and the coaching staff all are agree is that may the
• 1:32:15
  best man win.
• 1:32:16
  I mean, you know
• 1:32:18
  And let me and let me rephrase this a little bit and come to it from a a slightly different
• 1:32:23
  angle.
• 1:32:23
  Does Kyler Murray have anything to prove to earn that number one spot, or is it just he's
• 1:32:32
  walking into it regardless?
• 1:32:33
  As a fan, he's gotta prove it.
• 1:32:36
  I mean, we saw mean, he only played five games last year.
• 1:32:39
  So, you know, he's coming off an injury.
• 1:32:42
  You know, he's coming off some bad numbers.
• 1:32:44
  So, I mean, to me, he's gotta prove it too.
• 1:32:47
  Just like JJ's gotta prove it.
• 1:32:48
  I mean, heck, who knows?
• 1:32:50
  You know, Max might have learned a lot, you know, in the couple games he played in in the
• 1:32:55
  off season.
• 1:32:56
  He might surprise us.
• 1:32:57
  I mean, we just don't know.
• 1:32:59
  I mean, it just has to be a fair determination that going into week one, this guy actually
• 1:33:05
  earned a spot and wasn't given spot.
• 1:33:07
  Max looks like he needs to eat his Wheaties and put on about 25 pounds to play in the league.
• 1:33:12
  I know between me and you, we could probably handle some pounds, you know, and Yeah.
• 1:33:17
  But
• 1:33:18
  you know?
• 1:33:19
  God.
• 1:33:19
  I wish it was back.
• 1:33:21
  You know?
• 1:33:22
  I mean, even once he's coming back, so it's one of those things where, like, you know and you
• 1:33:27
  make a good point.
• 1:33:28
  You know, does is Murray coming in expecting to be the number one guy?
• 1:33:32
  Is he expected to compete?
• 1:33:34
  You know, does he did he earn enough?
• 1:33:36
  I mean, to me, to as a fan, he's gotta earn it.
• 1:33:41
  I I think both of them gotta earn it.
• 1:33:44
  Yeah.
• 1:33:44
  Well and that's why I would like a more I would like to at least feel like it's a a competition
• 1:33:50
  in there and that it's pushing because I don't think and I I obviously, that's the reason that
• 1:33:57
  you don't name him the starter is hoping to get more out of McCarthy, which is why it was about
• 1:34:04
  the the the signing anyway.
• 1:34:06
  Was right.
• 1:34:07
  Hey.
• 1:34:07
  Maybe this is what we need to put behind a guy to make him feel a little nervous, to to make
• 1:34:12
  him play a little bit harder, and to follow the rules that are set forth by your quarterback,
• 1:34:18
  you know, your quarterback coach, but also your head coach that wants to be the quarterback so
• 1:34:23
  fucking bad.
• 1:34:24
  Well, and that that
• 1:34:25
  and that's the thing too.
• 1:34:26
  Like, I referenced draft day when we we signed them, and there's a line in there where the
• 1:34:32
  quarterback that they have is is upset because they got number one pick.
• 1:34:36
  They're gonna draft this the the big guy, you know, the big name guy and, you know, I can't
• 1:34:44
  think of the GM right now.
• 1:34:46
  Goes up to they're talking, quarterback's just like, fine.
• 1:34:48
  Draft them.
• 1:34:49
  I'll just beat them all for the job.
• 1:34:51
  I hope JJ has that fire in him to do that, and hopefully, can do that because, you know, I'm a
• 1:35:00
  fan of this team for forty seven years.
• 1:35:02
  I want to see them have that longevity at quarterback position that the Packers have had.
• 1:35:09
  I mean, ever since Brett Favre took over, they've only had three main starters in that,
• 1:35:15
  you know, since '92, I think Favre took over.
• 1:35:18
  How many teams could say that?
• 1:35:19
  One.
• 1:35:20
  I mean, everybody else has been, you know, 15 plus quarterbacks in that range.
• 1:35:24
  So I wanna see the Vikings get that stability at that position.
• 1:35:30
  Yeah.
• 1:35:30
  Well, it would it would cause a a lot fewer headaches, at least on that side of the ball in
• 1:35:36
  there.
• 1:35:36
  But, yeah.
• 1:35:38
  And, Tech, you touched on a lot.
• 1:35:40
  And I know you're new to the show, so you haven't been privy to a lot of our other
• 1:35:44
  conversations.
• 1:35:45
  But we all want KOC to run the ball more.
• 1:35:48
  I kinda mentioned it earlier that
• 1:35:50
  You could be.
• 1:35:50
  You know, even if Jeremiah Love did land on this team, I don't know that we have a coach
• 1:35:55
  that would even know how to how to utilize him anyway.
• 1:35:58
  And that's the reason why when coach sent in the group chat the, you know, trade Addison at
• 1:36:05
  18 to go up to four or whatever it was with a bay of the Texans or somebody had that extra
• 1:36:10
  pick.
• 1:36:10
  I can't remember who it was, but that you go up there for that that player.
• 1:36:16
  And to me, if you're moving up into the top five, you're drafting Caleb Downs.
• 1:36:21
  I don't know if his draft stock has fallen since we were kinda talking about our our
• 1:36:25
  safeties and stuff like
• 1:36:27
  let me get to the
• 1:36:28
  Things move so often, and I don't know that it changes.
• 1:36:31
  I it probably changes a lot more on ESPN and some of these other boards than it does on the
• 1:36:37
  official, you know, the team's top 100 boards.
• 1:36:41
  Yeah.
• 1:36:41
  According according to ESPN, Downs is sitting at number six right now overall.
• 1:36:48
  So, I mean, if that's a guy that the Vikings are, you know, we gotta move up, I mean, it's
• 1:36:55
  still gonna cost us some, but he's more reasonable.
• 1:36:59
  Get it for the player and not future draft capital.
• 1:37:02
  If you can get that high, either trading an Addison or a Grenard to get a what what we all
• 1:37:08
  can assume is kind of, you know, your generational talent at at a position of need,
• 1:37:13
  at a position that's very important to this team in particular because of the names that
• 1:37:18
  have played it, in that you know, on the field.
• 1:37:22
  So I think there's, there's very few players that are worthy of that move up for, especially
• 1:37:29
  to jump 12 spots to get
• 1:37:31
  up to
• 1:37:32
  left.
• 1:37:32
  Too is on that defensive side, you got to replace your captain, your leader out there at
• 1:37:39
  safety, Harrison Smith, I mean, we all are still kinda waiting for the official word
• 1:37:46
  because I don't think he's officially announced his retirement.
• 1:37:49
  I don't think he's turned in the paperwork, you know.
• 1:37:51
  So is there a chance he comes back?
• 1:37:53
  Yeah.
• 1:37:54
  Is it one of those where he's gonna hold out the preseason and sign that last week of right
• 1:37:59
  before the training kit or the season started?
• 1:38:02
  A free agent then?
• 1:38:03
  Did his contract expire?
• 1:38:05
  Think he's still on the Vikings.
• 1:38:07
  Let me let me see.
• 1:38:10
  Harrison It
• 1:38:11
  was just kind of assumed that this would be Yeah.
• 1:38:14
  The end the end of the line Yeah.
• 1:38:17
  With him and everything.
• 1:38:18
  But, yeah, I mean, if he still got a year on the contract, he doesn't have to do anything.
• 1:38:22
  No.
• 1:38:22
  Couldn't.
• 1:38:23
  It was last year was his last year.
• 1:38:27
  They reached worked the deals for a one year extension for 2024 into 2025.
• 1:38:33
  So, yes, he is a free agent.
• 1:38:37
  So but, again, I mean, he hasn't really officially announced his retirement, but,
• 1:38:42
  I mean, he's Honestly, for him, I'd leave that door open as long as you can.
• 1:38:46
  You get through training camp.
• 1:38:48
  You see how the team's looking.
• 1:38:49
  I mean, the guy can step on the field, I think, and go play with the best of them.
• 1:38:54
  Still, he's maybe not the athlete, but the instincts and the quarterback of the defense, I
• 1:38:59
  think that value is there, what that contract ends up looking like, and what talks are going
• 1:39:04
  on behind closed doors with him, you know, to be seen.
• 1:39:09
  I would love to see him back.
• 1:39:11
  Basically
• 1:39:12
  if he's not back as a player, I hope he's back as a consultant or, you know, position coach
• 1:39:18
  they
• 1:39:18
  would make room for him on this team in in some capacity to kind of be around.
• 1:39:23
  Yeah.
• 1:39:23
  You would think.
• 1:39:24
  For sure.
• 1:39:25
  Well, I think we lost coach for the night.
• 1:39:28
  He he hasn't dipped back in.
• 1:39:30
  But, b, anything off the top here, we're gonna have a lot of homework to do before we get to,
• 1:39:37
  next week, mock draft.
• 1:39:39
  A lot of a lot of things to do in there.
• 1:39:42
  I'm really looking forward to just kind of getting through that draft.
• 1:39:46
  I know it puts us one step closer to the season.
• 1:39:49
  Next on the docket after that will be rookie minicamp and then OTAs, and then you just have
• 1:39:53
  so many things that really start to pick up steam up until July, and then everything kinda
• 1:39:59
  falls on its face pretraining camp.
• 1:40:01
  But, yeah, what you know, are there anything you wanna touch on before we get out of here
• 1:40:08
  tonight?
• 1:40:08
  No.
• 1:40:09
  And that and that's one thing nice about football.
• 1:40:10
  It's not a whole year process.
• 1:40:12
  I mean, you have these moments where it spikes up and it dies out.
• 1:40:15
  Spikes up and dies out.
• 1:40:16
  Now we're we're getting into that predraft mode to where everybody's boards are gonna change.
• 1:40:22
  We're gonna be coming up with ours.
• 1:40:24
  I guarantee between the three of us, none of us are gonna have outside the first pick, none of
• 1:40:28
  us are gonna have the same picks 12 or two through the end of the draft.
• 1:40:35
  No.
• 1:40:35
  I I'm excited for the draft.
• 1:40:39
  I'm I would guess that the sports world's gonna wake up, and we're gonna start to see some more
• 1:40:44
  mock draft, more movement.
• 1:40:48
  You know, I'm kinda surprised I haven't heard too much of the pro days this year, so I don't
• 1:40:52
  know what's going on there.
• 1:40:54
  Maybe I'll be talking
• 1:40:54
  to soon.
• 1:40:55
  To the talent pool the this season.
• 1:40:58
  Right?
• 1:40:58
  It's not a not a deep draft.
• 1:41:01
  Yeah.
• 1:41:01
  Your your quarterback names at the top aren't as deep.
• 1:41:04
  I just think it's kind of a down year for the talent level.
• 1:41:08
  You're probably having, you know it just happens like that.
• 1:41:11
  These things come in waves, and I think with as many kids because last year, you're still kinda
• 1:41:16
  getting a lot of the guys Mhmm.
• 1:41:17
  That were affected by the COVID years, whether it was in there for, you know, red shirt years
• 1:41:21
  or whatever it was, extra years of eligibility.
• 1:41:24
  You had a super deep draft in last season's draft that this year was gonna be a lull and
• 1:41:30
  then moving into next season.
• 1:41:31
  We're probably a little bit closer to a a traditional year now as we're kinda back in
• 1:41:36
  those regular cycles.
• 1:41:37
  So excited to get into the draft.
• 1:41:40
  SPSN, I don't know what I'm gonna do for the masters week and some coverage of the game, but
• 1:41:46
  we are obviously getting into our golf season here with the network.
• 1:41:51
  So eyes peeled for that.
• 1:41:52
  I did get some golf footage shot while I was out on the big tour a few weeks ago.
• 1:41:59
  Not necessarily anything that's episode worthy, but definitely have some content out there and
• 1:42:07
  start kind of unveiling our plans for that.
• 1:42:09
  Shout out to our guys at Skunked Golf Company.
• 1:42:12
  We got the Skunked Golf Classic.
• 1:42:15
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• 1:42:17
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• 1:42:21
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• 1:42:25
  A quick shout out to Skunk, just being along for the ride with us.
• 1:42:28
  Episode dropping this week with, one of the founders, Aubrey Smith.
• 1:42:33
  We had a great conversation and really looking forward to getting out with them for the skunk
• 1:42:37
  golf classic, June 27.
• 1:42:41
  That'll be up in Minot, North Dakota.
• 1:42:43
  And speaking of golf, shout out to I think you sent it.
• 1:42:48
  I don't know the kid's name, but shout out to him for winning that, golf tournament he was
• 1:42:53
  in.
• 1:42:53
  Lance.
• 1:42:53
  Yeah.
• 1:42:53
  Our our our cohost of the Scratch Project, Lance Christensen Junior.
• 1:42:58
  His team was championship.
• 1:42:59
  He was fourth on the day.
• 1:43:01
  His teammate was the number one overall, champion at that one, and he was only a few
• 1:43:07
  strokes behind.
• 1:43:07
  So it's good to see his game coming back after the big injury last year that really set him
• 1:43:12
  back.
• 1:43:13
  I mean, they said he wouldn't even be playing golf this year.
• 1:43:15
  Right?
• 1:43:15
  So for him to battle back and that's why I was so attracted to Lance and and his brand driven
• 1:43:21
  and everything that he's been doing just to get back to being able to step onto the golf course
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  and to play at the collegiate level again.
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  Granted, he dropped from d one down to the d two ranks.
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  But, hey, they're out there winning, and he's competing.
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  And this summer, he's looking to hit q school and possibly be accepted onto the Korn Ferry,
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  you know, invitational and then onto the tour.
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  So a lot of good things to come yet.
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  This network is growing.
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  We've attracted a lot of people.
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  I I've talked to a lot of PGA pros, you know, guys that have played on the tour and and such
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  that are gonna be featured on interviews on the s p SPSN now.
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  So we got a lot of cool things that are that are happening around us.
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  We don't get a chance to talk about it enough because we're only live twice a week now.
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  Make sure you're checking out seven eight nine on Sundays.
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  So I'm sure we'll sneak in some golf and masters talk on our golf show Sunday at 7PM.
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  Make sure you come and check that out as well.
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  Yeah.
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  Looking forward to it, man.
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  My my cubbies kinda dropped a one last night or maybe it was Sunday when we were watching.
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  I think they had doubleheader that day, but Yeah.
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  We'll say that they doubleheader.
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  So hey.
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  Just, you know, since we're out of sports news, hey.
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  Minnesota actually went three and o today.
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  The wolves won.
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  The wild wolf twins won.
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  So
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  There you go.
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  Hey.
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  And while they're making a push while they're making a push for those playoffs, we'll
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  probably be dipping in a little bit and covering that here on Vikings United.
• 1:44:55
  Cover a little bit of that as we kinda hit the doldrums of the NFL season baseball heating up.
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  But, yeah, we're obviously focused on the Minnesota teams.
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  I've had some conversations with some people in the office at the Minnesota Vikings, so, I
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  don't wanna give away too much.
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  But, be looking for some really cool stuff coming from the network over the next, twelve
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  months and growing a lot in every direction.
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  So appreciate you all tuning in.
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  Be as always, I appreciate everything you do for the network and being with us, couple
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  Obviously, a huge shout out to Operation Combating Veteran Suicide, my work with the
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• 1:46:30
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  We're so grateful to everyone.
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  We're we're grateful that you tuned in, albeit late.
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  We're just getting ready to dip out here.
• 1:46:52
  Mock draft next week, though, man.
• 1:46:54
  We need you to tune in right at the top of the show.
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  We go live 8PM every single Tuesday except last week.
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