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Special Guest Pierre Noujaim from Fox 9 TV · Sports Done Wright w/ Vince Wright

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  Speaker 1: But so excited.
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  Speaker 5: We're just gonna give right to it because we got
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  Speaker 5: Timberwolves trades. As you know by now, LaMelo is coming
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  Speaker 5: to town. Local legend, crowd favorite fan favorite, state favorite
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  Speaker 5: Nas read on his way out to North Carolina. Mad
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  Speaker 5: respects for Nas, but hey, nobody's untradable. I guess so
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  Speaker 5: I reached out last week before all this started popping off.
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  Speaker 5: And by the way, thank you for listening to the
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  Speaker 5: Sports Done Right Podcast. I am Vince Right, the Sports
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  Speaker 5: Governor of Minnesota, coming to you from the Situation room.
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  Speaker 5: And we got Channel nine, Fox nine here in the
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  Speaker 5: Twin City, Twin Cities. Excuse me, we have Pierre Neusham
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  Speaker 5: joining us, and we're gonna get into it all. That's
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  Speaker 5: why I'm not talking about anything.
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  Speaker 1: You're good.
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  Speaker 5: You're gonna hear it here in a few seconds. Pierre
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  Speaker 5: is a great dude. He has been on the show before,
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  Speaker 5: so this is a second go around on the Sports
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  Speaker 5: Done Right Podcast. When I'm out there, you know, at events,
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  Speaker 5: Gopher games, things like that that I've had access to.
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  Speaker 5: He is one of the coolest guys. Nicest guys, always
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  Speaker 5: has time to, you know, answer some questions and things
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  Speaker 5: like that. So shout out to you, by the way,
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  Speaker 5: not only a new husband, but soon to be new
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  Speaker 5: father Pierre Nusham as well. So let's just get right
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  Speaker 5: to it, folks. We got about thirty four minutes of
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  Speaker 5: this wonderful interview and we're gonna get into it all. Gophers, Vikings,
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  Speaker 5: and of course the Timberwolves. So here we go, all right, everybody,
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  Speaker 5: Events Right, Sports Done Right Podcast, and we are with
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  Speaker 5: a returning member of the local sports scene, mister Pierre
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  Speaker 5: Nusiam joining us from Fox nine, one of our favorites,
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  Speaker 5: and we're gonna get into it all because obviously we
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  Speaker 5: got you see me depped out into Wolves gear. Here
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna be talking Wolves obviously, but we're gonna touch
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  Speaker 5: on Vikings. But one thing that I wanted to start
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  Speaker 5: the interview with Pierre and ask him this question, and
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  Speaker 5: we've talked a little bit off air about it, but
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  Speaker 5: you know, I have people coming to me and they
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  Speaker 5: asked me about the Minnesota sports scene and they're actually
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  Speaker 5: pretty surprised by what's available here, Pierre. So you know,
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  Speaker 5: from a media standpoint, you know, if you get that
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  Speaker 5: question from other media members, how do you describe the
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  Speaker 5: Twin City sports scene or the Minnesota sports scene to people?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I one thing I would tell them is we
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  Speaker 6: have absolutely everything here. Everything you can imagine. We have
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  Speaker 6: all four of the major sports, plus Major League Soccer,
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  Speaker 6: plus the WNBA, plus the PWHL. And then you have
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  Speaker 6: two big Division one universities in the University of Minnesota,
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  Speaker 6: and of course Saint Thomas isn't as big right now,
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  Speaker 6: but they're gonna be on their way, you know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: ran a D one status not long ago, so you
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  Speaker 6: have that. Plus you have an active prep scene and
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  Speaker 6: between basketball and football, of course, but I think one
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  Speaker 6: thing that makes Minnesota unique obviously is the hockey, and
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  Speaker 6: we have prep hockey and there's a lot of interest
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  Speaker 6: in prep hockey around here. There's a lot of guys
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  Speaker 6: who go on to play Major Division one and are
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  Speaker 6: looked at his NHL prospects. So that we have absolutely
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  Speaker 6: everything here in the Twin Cities, absolutely everything to offer
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  Speaker 6: in terms of sports.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you know, MLS, no, absolutely national women's
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  Speaker 5: sports up and down to dial is Well.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I love it.
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  Speaker 5: You know, from a sports fan perspective, you really can't
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  Speaker 5: beat this area. Pierre, let me ask you this as
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  Speaker 5: we kind of get into the nuts and bolts here,
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  Speaker 5: we got the big trade that went down yesterday, right
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  Speaker 5: and you know, local Jen naz Reid out of here
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  Speaker 5: for you know, LaMelo. But you know, to have twenty
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  Speaker 5: four hours to think about it now, because at first,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you're all over Twitter you see it too.
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  Speaker 5: You know, everybody's just bummed that nas is out of here.
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  Speaker 5: But now that you've had some time to think about it,
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  Speaker 5: kind of process it a little bit. What are your
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  Speaker 5: thoughts or initial thoughts on the big trade?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I think anytime you see a trade happen in
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  Speaker 6: the NBA, the first question, at least for me, I ask,
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  Speaker 6: is who's the best player in the deal, and I think,
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  Speaker 6: without question, lamel and Ball is the best player in
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  Speaker 6: the deal. So the Wolves, in my opinion, are getting
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  Speaker 6: the best player in the deal. Now, they had to
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  Speaker 6: give up a lot to get him. I certainly understand it.
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  Speaker 6: Tim Connelly is a man who doesn't really seem to
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  Speaker 6: care all that much about his draft picks, and he's
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  Speaker 6: very much win now mode, and that's I don't have
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  Speaker 6: a problem with that. When the regular I'm sorry, when
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  Speaker 6: the postseason ended, I was on record I said, outside
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  Speaker 6: of trading Anthony Edwards, everything should be on the table. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 6: everything should be on the table. And even though Jaden
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  Speaker 6: McDaniels is as close to untouchable as it gets outside
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  Speaker 6: of Anthony Edwards, to me, if somebody came to me
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  Speaker 6: and proposed a trade that involved Jaden McDaniels, I would
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  Speaker 6: absolutely listen. Oh it doesn't mean I would trade him,
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  Speaker 6: but I would absolutely be listening. Because you can't go
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  Speaker 6: to the Western Conference Finals two years in a row
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  Speaker 6: and then take a step back this year and have
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  Speaker 6: a second round playoff exit and think to yourself, we're
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  Speaker 6: only one piece away, or if we stand pat for
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  Speaker 6: the most part, we can run it back and probably
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  Speaker 6: be fine if everything breaks right for us healthwise. There
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  Speaker 6: was no way possible for me to sit here and
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  Speaker 6: think that you could have that mentality, So you have
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  Speaker 6: to do something drastic. Now, Is it enough to keep
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  Speaker 6: up with the Oklahoma Cities and the San Antonio's in
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  Speaker 6: the Western Conference? I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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  Speaker 6: But I do think that this is a move that
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  Speaker 6: makes Minnesota a lot more intriguing. The pairing of LaMelo
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  Speaker 6: Ball and Anthony Edwards makes up for one of the
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  Speaker 6: more dynamic backcourts in the game. I'm a little curious
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  Speaker 6: to know what Io Desumu's thinking right now, because he
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  Speaker 6: reportedly agreed to a five year, one hundred and twelve
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  Speaker 6: million dollar extension. And if I was Io Desumo, I
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  Speaker 6: might be thinking. With Dante DiVincenzo about to miss all
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  Speaker 6: most of, if not all, of next season, wouldn't I
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  Speaker 6: be the starting point guard? And now maybe Io Desumu's
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  Speaker 6: not the starting point guard. Perhaps I don't know what
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  Speaker 6: their starting five is gonna look like now. We still
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  Speaker 6: don't know because the team isn't fully built just yet.
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  Speaker 6: So it's a very intriguing team. It's a move that
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  Speaker 6: I'm a fan of and I think even though nas
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  Speaker 6: Reed is a beloved member of not just this team,
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  Speaker 6: but this community. It's it's a move that I can
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  Speaker 6: certainly understand why Tim Connolly made the move. I can
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  Speaker 6: certainly understand it. We're gonna miss nas Reid, There's no
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  Speaker 6: question about it. It's tough when you get personally attached
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  Speaker 6: to some of these guys. Yeah, but it's the business.
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  Speaker 6: And anybody who's been in the business long enough knows
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  Speaker 6: this is the business and these things can happen. And
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  Speaker 6: we're in the business of winning. And if we feel
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  Speaker 6: that this is a move that can help us win
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  Speaker 6: more than last year, you should be doing it.
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  Speaker 5: Hey man, Michael Jordan Woulder playing for the Wizards. Wayne
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  Speaker 5: Gretzky got traded for Edmonton, right, every anything's possible, man,
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  Speaker 5: So again, talking with the news here from Fox nine.
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  Speaker 5: The one thing I kind of like about it is
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  Speaker 5: maybe ant Man doesn't get double teamed as much. Now, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I mean that's one thing I noticed a
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  Speaker 5: lot last season, a lot of teams able to get
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  Speaker 5: double teams. He's able to kick the ball away. But
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  Speaker 5: to who Now you got LaMelo in their former rookie
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  Speaker 5: of the year. Hey man, we got some options. So
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  Speaker 5: I'm you know, like you said, team isn't built yet.
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  Speaker 5: We got to see how obviously the chemistry attitudes, like
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  Speaker 5: you say, you know, Io, he might have thought he
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  Speaker 5: was gonna be the number two guy here all of
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  Speaker 5: a sudden. So yeah, I'm very interested to see how
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  Speaker 5: it plays out. Let me ask you this news, anything
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  Speaker 5: else happening with the Wolves that you've heard. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you know, obviously this is a huge trade, but you
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  Speaker 5: know there's still some other moves possibly to be made
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  Speaker 5: with this team.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think they're gonna be looking around right now
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  Speaker 6: because you have to ask yourself the question, what exactly
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  Speaker 6: is the starting lineup right now? And I don't outside
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  Speaker 6: of Aunt, Jaden and Rudy, I'm assuming LaMelo ball is
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  Speaker 6: going to start at point guard. I think I think
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  Speaker 6: that's probably to assume. So who's your starting four right now?
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  Speaker 6: Do you start a small lineup of LaMelo, Io Aunt
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  Speaker 6: and have Jayden play the four? I don't think that's
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  Speaker 6: probably what they're thinking. Probably not so to me. I
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  Speaker 6: still don't think there's enough shooting on this team right now.
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  Speaker 6: Right now as constructor, LaMelo can shoot the ball there's
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  Speaker 6: no question about it. But is he enough of a
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  Speaker 6: distraction for opposing defenses to lay off of Anthony Edwards
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  Speaker 6: like you said, and to not want to go at
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  Speaker 6: him and double team Anthony Edwards. Is everybody going to
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  Speaker 6: think to themselves, we're going to make LaMelo Ball beat
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  Speaker 6: us by shooting threes. I still think there needs to
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  Speaker 6: be another shooter on the floor with this group. Jade McDaniels,
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  Speaker 6: as great as he was in that first round series
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  Speaker 6: against Denver, I mean, he was spectacular in that opening
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  Speaker 6: round series, I don't know what the next level is
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  Speaker 6: for him in terms of being a scorer in this Say,
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  Speaker 6: can we rely on Jade McDaniels to be an eighteen, nineteen,
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  Speaker 6: even twenty points scorer in this league? I don't know
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  Speaker 6: if I'm ready to be fully on board with that notion.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know he could, and that would be awesome.
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  Speaker 6: I would be more than happy to see it. But
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if I'm ready to go there just yet.
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  Speaker 6: And that's why I'm starting to think, where's the other
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  Speaker 6: scoring contribution going to be coming from? Are you going
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  Speaker 6: to be looking at, you know, a stretch for to
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  Speaker 6: come in and start Are you going to be looking
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  Speaker 6: for another perimeter shooter and maybe you plug them in
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  Speaker 6: the lineup, and maybe Jayden does play a little bit
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  Speaker 6: of a point forward role of for not a point forward,
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  Speaker 6: but it's yeah, there's there's a lot of questions still
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  Speaker 6: left on this roster and we're far from done from
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  Speaker 6: seeing it be complete.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think Tim Connelly thinks that this team hit
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  Speaker 1: its ceiling, so to speak.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if I think there's got to be
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  Speaker 6: some version of that thought in his mind, because if
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  Speaker 6: he didn't, you know, then Julius Randam might still be
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  Speaker 6: on this team, right. So, so I think that with
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  Speaker 6: the way they looked offensively at times, a lot of
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  Speaker 6: it was bogged down. I remember in the first year
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  Speaker 6: of Julius, you know, he came in here so late.
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  Speaker 6: Did they have to adjust on the fly with him
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  Speaker 6: being a part of the team right before training camp started,
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  Speaker 6: so there wasn't a lot of time to build chemistry
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  Speaker 6: with him, and you know, there there was Chris Finch
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  Speaker 6: would talk sometimes after games about the offense looking like
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  Speaker 6: your turn, my turn, kind of a thing with Anthony
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  Speaker 6: Edwards and Julius Randall. So I think they reached a
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  Speaker 6: point to where the offense wasn't as much of in
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  Speaker 6: a flow and a rhythm with Julius in there. Even
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  Speaker 6: though Julius I thought was playing some great basketball this year,
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  Speaker 6: I mean last year in the playoffs he was great.
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  Speaker 6: The first what twenty five thirty games this season, he
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  Speaker 6: was at an all star pace in my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, yeah, that's a great point.
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  Speaker 5: And also, you know, because we were talking earlier about
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  Speaker 5: nas and how he you know, embedded himself in the
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  Speaker 5: community and with the fans and everything, Julius Randall was
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  Speaker 5: kind of like on his way to that. You know,
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  Speaker 5: everybody's on social media. He's out there with his kid
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  Speaker 5: on the court all the time, and everybody loved that.
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  Speaker 5: And then it all just kind of went south all
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  Speaker 5: of a sudden. And yeah, I mean, obviously he's gone,
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  Speaker 5: but yeah, I just thought that was very interesting how
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  Speaker 5: kind of quick it switched up on him here.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it did. And I and I saw a lot
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  Speaker 6: of the things. And to be perfectly honest with you,
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  Speaker 6: you know, I'm I don't shy away from criticizing athletes
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  Speaker 6: or coaches. That it's part of the job. I don't
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  Speaker 6: shy away from it. But I didn't love what I
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  Speaker 6: saw online about Julius Randall. I know he didn't play
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  Speaker 6: his best basketball against San Antonio, and and really you
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  Speaker 6: know he was he was even so so against Denver.
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  Speaker 6: But I didn't love what I saw in terms of
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  Speaker 6: him becoming a lightning rod for the fans. I thought
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  Speaker 6: that was unfair to him. But you know, the team
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  Speaker 6: even alluded to at times of there being a moodiness
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  Speaker 6: about this group, and I think that, you know, if
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  Speaker 6: you read the tea leaves, I think he was a
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  Speaker 6: big part of that. So yeah, I didn't love the
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  Speaker 6: fact that he got so much flak from the fans.
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  Speaker 6: I don't I don't think he was fully deserving of that.
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  Speaker 6: But at the same time, too, when you don't produce,
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  Speaker 6: especially in the postseason, you're gonna leave yourself open for criticism.
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  Speaker 6: Whether you think that's right or whether you think that's wrong.
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  Speaker 6: That's part of the gig. So you know, we wish
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  Speaker 6: him all the best on his way to Brooklyn. I
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  Speaker 6: certainly am not in the camp of, you know, good riddance.
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  Speaker 6: I definitely do not feel that way at all about
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  Speaker 6: Julius Randall. I thought he played good basketball. He was here.
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  Speaker 6: I thought you know, he was great with us US
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  Speaker 6: media folk. I have nothing bad to say about Julius
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  Speaker 6: Randall at all.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there you go.
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  Speaker 5: All right, So last question for the Wolves here and
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  Speaker 5: then we're going to get into the Vikings and their
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  Speaker 5: off season training camp coming up next month. But for
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  Speaker 5: the Wolves, what does a successful season look like next year?
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  Speaker 3: Is it? You know?
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  Speaker 1: I mean obviously we say, hey, get into the NBA Championship.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah right, maybe realistically just with what we know now obviously,
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  Speaker 5: just have some fun with the news.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what what what does the successful season look like
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  Speaker 1: for the Wolves next year?
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  Speaker 6: To me at minimum or return trips to the Western
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  Speaker 6: Conference Final at minimum? You know? And that's again it's
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  Speaker 6: hard not to And I got into it a little
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  Speaker 6: bit with some people online about this, and I know
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  Speaker 6: you don't construct a team to specifically beat one or
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  Speaker 6: two teams, but with the way San Antonio and Oklahoma
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  Speaker 6: City are constructed right now, at some point in the postseason,
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  Speaker 6: no matter the round, you are very likely going to
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  Speaker 6: have to go through one of them, if not both
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  Speaker 6: of them, to get to the NBA Finals because those
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  Speaker 6: two teams are built for the next five, six, seven, eight, nine,
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  Speaker 6: possibly even ten years so they're not going away, So
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  Speaker 6: you have to find a way to get past, like
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  Speaker 6: I said, one of if not both of them. And
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  Speaker 6: if you get back to the Western Conference Finals, I'm
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  Speaker 6: probably led to believe that you already went through one
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  Speaker 6: of them. It's it's likely depending on injuries, of course,
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  Speaker 6: and you know, Denver perhaps could re emerge as a
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  Speaker 6: power again. But I think right now Minnesota has to
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  Speaker 6: think to themselves at minimum a return trip to the
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  Speaker 6: Western Conference Finals to call it a if you want
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  Speaker 6: to call it a successful season. To me, in the
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  Speaker 6: world of pro sports, there's only one way to measure success,
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  Speaker 6: and that's championships. I know a lot of people might
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  Speaker 6: think otherwise, I don't. This is pro sports. There's only
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  Speaker 6: one successful team every year in every league. Everything other
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  Speaker 6: than that is a failure to me at that point.
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  Speaker 6: But yeah, obviously you want to see Minnesota get to
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  Speaker 6: hoisting that Larry O'Brian trophy at some point. But I
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  Speaker 6: think at bare minimum, when you make a move like
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  Speaker 6: this to get LaMelo ball, you have to make the
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  Speaker 6: Western Conference Finals at minimum to say to yourself the
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  Speaker 6: move was worth it.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: Well said here in Nusium, Fox nine here locally and
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: I couldn't agree more man. I mean, you know, and
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: that's why I like Tim Connolly. And you know, he's
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: pulling the trigger, he's making the moves. Obviously, we got
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: to see if everything, you know, works out, but he's
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: willing to take the shot. And that's what he did
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: out in Denver and brought them a chip as well.
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: And this is what I would say about Tim Connolly.
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: I know a lot of people are, you know, after
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: the Knicks won the title and everybody's seeing Kat hoisting
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: the title around, and I understand why people feel the
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: way that they do. But one thing I'll say about
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: Tim Connolly is the guy is a sly fox like
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: he acts on when he gets in front of the camera.
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: He acts like, yeah, I don't really know what we're
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: gonna do. We have options, we could do this, we
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: might do that, you know, but you know, behind the scenes,
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: this guy is a shark. He's a shark. He is
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: gonna swing big, he is going to go for the
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: home run. And we talked to him on draft night
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: and we had there was no indication at the end
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: of round one that a move like this was coming,
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: no indication whatsoever. And then we didn't get We didn't
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: really know about it until the end of round two
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: when we heard the talk about LaMelo Ball suddenly becoming
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: available in the trade. I mean, we just talked to
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: Matt Lloyd the GM an hour prior to that, and
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: suddenly LaMelo Ball is available for a trade, and twelve
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: hours later he's a member of the Minnesota timber On.
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: These guys are playing it close to the best. They
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: don't really give us much of an indication of what
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: might be ahead. But I love the guts that Tim
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: Connolly has. If you're if you're standing still, Vince, you're
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: falling behind. And what does not stand still?
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Absolutely? All right?
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: So all right, people, there's the tea Wolves wrap up
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: with our main man here the news.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: From Fox nine.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: It's gonna be fun, and barring injuries and all that
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: other stuff, it's gonna be very interesting to see how
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: it plays out before.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: We jump into the vikings.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: And I'll make it very very quick because you know,
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Pierre is a very busy man. Go for football, alright,
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: go for football.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: I was talking with some Gopher fans here and you know,
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: actually I might now a former season ticket holder gave
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: the season tickets up because I want to do some
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: other things on some Saturdays, but obviously I'll you know,
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: I'll still be at a couple of games and follow
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: my squad. Are we ever going to see another season
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: like twenty nineteen here? You know, with the new teams
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: in the league, the rise of the ever powerful Indiana
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: who's your national championship? Still can't even say it? Are
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: we are we gonna see another season like that? Where
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: we you know, we have a top ten squad here
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: in Minnesota, and obviously nowadays we'd be in the college Playoff.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: It's hard for me to see it. It's it's hard
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: for me to see the pathway to that right now.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: And there's a couple of reasons for that. One is
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: the landscape of college football. We still don't know what
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: it's going to look like five years from now, let
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: alone next year. You know, I know Minnesota would love
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: the expansion of the college football Playoff. They are a
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: kind of middle of the road team in the Big
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: Ten that would love to see the expansion of the
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: college football playoff. And if they have that one good year,
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: maybe they can get in the playoff if things break
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: their way. But you know, especially when you bring up Indiana.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: You know, Indiana has a Mark Cuban who's got deep pockets,
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: who can contribute to his alumni.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: Well you know that, and people real quick news and
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: people don't know this, and I've talked about this on
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: other shows. They have the largest alumni network as well. Yeah, yeah,
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: people don't know that about Indiana's Again they think it's
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: just this little flyover state. But yeah, mad money going
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: into IU.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: And so it's like, where where's the money? And again
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: that brings me to my next point. We live in
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: a world of nil now, and some of these guys,
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: these top tier players, expect to be paid and it's
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: going to take big dollars to compete with the blue
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: bloods across the country. Where's that money coming from from Minnesota?
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: Where are the big donors? Where are the alumni pouring
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: money into try to make sure that this team gets
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: the best players it possibly can get. That is the world,
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: the cold world now of college football. I feel for
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: PJ Fleck because PJ is a guy who runs his
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: program with the intent of not just solely producing NFL players,
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: while that is an added benefit and a good selling
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: point to recruits, which he has done over the last
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: handful of years. That's that I certainly understand, you know,
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: understand it from that aspect. It's tough because you don't
• 22:28
  Speaker 6: pay season tickets and you don't pay a ticket to
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: the game because the guy's got good grades. That just
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: doesn't sell. And that's it's it's unfortunate. It's unfortunate because
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: PJ runs his program to try to make sure that
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: these guys when they leave school are contributing members of society.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: It doesn't have to be with just football. These guys
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: are getting good grades. They rarely get in trouble. I
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: know Drake Lindsay had a hiccup last month that was unfortunate.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: But outside of that, the guys, you don't hear them
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: getting into trouble, much trouble off campus, at least not
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: that we've heard of. You see them graduating, you see
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: them getting good grades, you see them being competitive on
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: the field. Unfortunately, those off the field things that are great.
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: If you're a parent of these kids, you're loving this.
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: But if you're a season ticket holder, if you want
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: to pay a ticket to go see winning football, like
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: a top tier winning football program, it hasn't translated yet.
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: And that's where I feel for PJ because he's in
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: the people business as much as he in the football business.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: So yeah, it's tough for me to see Minnesota getting
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: there at any point in the near future. I would
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: love to see it, but I have a hard time
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: seeing it.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: No, And that's why I wanted to ask you about
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: it again. I you know, I had some people ask
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: me about it, and I kind of had the same thought.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: It's just, you know, yeah, when you're a Minnesota and
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: you know, middle of the middle of the tier type
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: of school, you know, kind of okay alumni, but you know,
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: because people are you know, you always hear it, Oh,
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: we have all these fortune five hundred companies here and
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: that that are headquartered here. But you know, ironically a
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: lot of the CEOs did not go to Minnesota and
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: right be trying to steer some of that money elsewhere.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: To be honest with you, Okay, let's talk about Minnesota
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: Vikings training camp next month, the quarterback battle.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Now that Kyler's in town.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: What are your initial thoughts. What have you seen from
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: your you know, time out there and around the scene,
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: you know, with the little mini camps that have happened
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: so far.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: News.
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I know, I know that a lot of people
• 24:35
  Speaker 6: want to make, uh make something of the interceptions that
• 24:39
  Speaker 6: Kyler Murray has thrown in the seven on seven's and
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: some of that, and I think I think we can
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: certainly have that conversation. I think Kyler Murray probably needs
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: a little bit of runway to get himself accustomed to
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: this offense. Now, if he does need that, does that
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: give JJ McCarthy an advantage perhaps beating him out? This
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: is his third year with the program. He knows the offense.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: It's on JJ McCarthy to go out there and take
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: the job. And that's that's where I'm feeling. Even though
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: I do think Kyler Murray will eventually end up being
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: the starter, I will take Kevin O'Connell and the Viking's
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: word as far as them saying it's an open competition.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: If it's an open competition, then that means the quarterback
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: job is there for the taking. If you want it,
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: go get it. It's up to you to go get
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: it and take care of business and become the number
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: one starter here in Minnesota. So if JJ McCarthy wants it,
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: it's open for him to go and grab it. But
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: I do believe in the end, Kyler Murray will win
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: the starting job. Now, I'm not as sold on Kyler
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: Murray as a lot of other people seem to be
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: a lot of times when I look at him on tape,
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: I see a guy who avoids taking contact like the plague.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: And it's not because he can get the job done
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: with his legs, which he certainly can. But does he
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: stand in the pocket long enough to allow routes to develop?
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: Can he stand in the pocket and take a hit,
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: just that one extra second to get a throw off
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: and not be scared of the contact and just turn
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: and run. That's my question with Kyler Murray. I don't
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: know if Kevin o'connall can unlock that in him. He's
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: got a smaller frame. I understand that he you know,
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: he doesn't want to get hurt. He hasn't what is it,
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: one full season, maybe two under in his seven seasons
• 26:28
  Speaker 6: in the league, or however many it is. But you know,
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: I'm still a little skeptical about what Kyler Murray can become.
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: I do think he can be great. I think Kevin
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: o'cannach can make him great. But I'm gonna reserve judgment
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: until I get a chance to see it up close
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: in person exactly now.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: You know, there was even rumors, you know, a little
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: while ago that maybe even JJ was trying to get
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: out of here and this and that.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: But I agree with you. I think it is a
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: true competition.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: I think, like you said, you know, Kylo will probably
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: win this competition and start, as you know, our starting quarterback.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: And I have the same questions as you did too,
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: because you know, that's what people have talked about with
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: other Viking quarterback greats. You know, they have been able
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: to stand in there and take that hit, you know,
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: stand in the pocket, let those routes develop, and especially
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: when you got obviously it's you know, my opinion is
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: still best wide receiver in football. You know out there
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: as well, that's going to be very important. Have we
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: heard anything on the interior line, on that offensive line?
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: What what do we you know, what are we looking
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: like there? What are your thoughts there?
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Nuge?
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Well, Donovan Jackson is going to be coming back
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: for a year two. It looks like Blake Brandle is
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: going to be your starting center. That's what it currently
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: looks like. I know that they have faith and confidence
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: in him to take over that position. And be the
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: full time starter at Center. So you know, Will Fryes
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: is there for you at Guard as well. You have
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: your bookends that you're you've had for a number of
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: years now, so uh Center Guard, Yeah, listen, I think that. God,
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: I think you're fine at Guard. I think you're fine,
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: Uh Center, Blake Brandle, can he can he prove to
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: be a weekly proven commodity at the position. I guess
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: we're gonna wait and see. But as far as the
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: rest of the line goes, I think you're you're looking
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: pretty good. I mean, you can never have enough depth
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: at the position, so h But I think right now,
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: as far as the interior of the line goes, if
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: you're looking specifically at Guard, I think we're feeling pretty
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: good for the most part. And that's something we haven't
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: been able to say over the years. But Guarter, you're okay.
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: Blake Brandle, Hey, it's your job, now show it to.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Me right exactly. Hey, man, is here's since Smith retired?
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: Great question?
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Or does he just want to play elsewhere?
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: I I don't know if he necessarily wants to play
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: elsewhere that that's I don't think that might be the case.
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: I think I think the longer this goes on, the
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: more I'm starting to think this is a classic example
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: of a veteran who you know, just needed to take
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: some time in the offseason, doesn't really want to show
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: up to mini camp. Maybe doesn't even want to show
• 29:16
  Speaker 6: up to training camp. He may not even want to
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: show up to training camp. It's like, I don't want
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: to go through this. You know, this is not really
• 29:24
  Speaker 6: you know, after however many years he's been in the league,
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: I really don't want to go through another training camp.
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: I just don't feel like it. The door is open,
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: the door is open for him to return if he
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: wants to play football. I think he will play football,
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: and I think he will play in the Vikings uniform.
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: So it's still a toss up. There are times I'm sure,
• 29:46
  Speaker 6: I'm sure Harrison Smith is probably thinking to himself. There
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: are days where it's great where I can send on
• 29:51
  Speaker 6: my couch or I can just go out and play
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: golf and I don't have to worry about football. This
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: is good. This retirement life is great. But as you know, Vince,
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: being around a fleets when it starts to get a
• 30:02
  Speaker 6: little closer to the season. If they're in this position,
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: they start to get the itch, they start to get
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: the itch. Am I am I ready to be full
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: time dad? Am I ready to be full time husband?
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: I don't know, I might miss the guys, I might
• 30:15
  Speaker 6: miss the locker room. So it's still up in the air.
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: It's still up in the air.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: No exactly.
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: And that's why, you know, that's that is a huge
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: part of it. People obviously keep forgetting that. You know,
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: it's just being around the scene, you know, being around
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: the guys in the locker room, you know, the you
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: know those times on the plane, you know, the poker games.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: All the other stuff, you know.
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's it's you know, and then when you
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: do want to say goodbye to it, it can definitely
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: be tough. Okay, a couple more minutes with the news.
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: So Kevin O'Connell, our head coach, Yeah, is he on
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: the hot seat? This year? He's gotten a lot of leeway. Yeah,
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: you know, some well deserved you know. Yeah, I think
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: he's a I think he's a very good coach. Yeah, well,
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: you know, kind of you know, he's been here for
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: a while now and we're kind of getting to that point.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Maybe is he on the hot seat?
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: If he's not, I think there's a problem, okay, And
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: and and the reason why I say that is because, yeah,
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: like you just said, he he is widely respected, not
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: just here in Minnesota, but across the league. If he
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: got fired tomorrow, he would get hired the following day
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: by somebody. There's no question in my mind that that
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: would happen. But in fairness, he's been the head coach
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: here for four seasons, zero playoff wins. I've seen people
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: get fired for a lot less than so, so if
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: he's not on the hot seat, if he doesn't feel
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: some heat, I think there's a problem because at this
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: point now you are expected to produce results. You've had
• 31:50
  Speaker 6: enough time to develop guys to run your program, you know,
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: to put your scheme in and have everybody get on board.
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: This is now your fifth season as the head coach
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: of this team. If you don't at minimum win a
• 32:03
  Speaker 6: playoff game, you might be looking for employment elsewhere you
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: might be you know. And and Nolan Teasley's coming in here,
• 32:11
  Speaker 6: and listen, Nolan Teasley didn't hire Kevin O'Connell. Nolan Teasley
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: didn't get to pick his quarterback, right, So, And I'm
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: not a fan especially in the NFL. I'm not a
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: fan of arranged marriages, so interesting. So Kevin O'Connell, to me,
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: I think has a lot to prove this year, a
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: lot to prove. So he as much, like I said,
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: as much as he's widely respected and and we all
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: think he's got a brilliant offensive mind, which which I'm
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: one of those people. I think he does, and I
• 32:45
  Speaker 6: think he he has the ability to get the best
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: out of his players. But it's a results oriented business.
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: And you know, we've seen the Packers get it done
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: in the postseason. We've seen the Lions get it done
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: in the postseason. And the Bears just went to the
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: second they won the division, just just got to the
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: second round. They were close to getting to the NFC
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: champions Right exactly where are the Vikings now? Is anybody
• 33:09
  Speaker 6: taking the Vikings seriously? Does anybody? Is anybody looking at
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: the Vikings and considering them a threat?
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Not?
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: Right now? They're not. Not right now, they're not. So
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: there's a lot to prove for Kevin O'Connor this season,
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: in my opinion.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: I got a friend that does sports over in Green Bay,
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: and you know that's what I was talking to him
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: about because everybody else and even with Detroit kind of
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: coming back to the pack a little bit after you know,
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: the past couple of seasons for them, but.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Still excitement out there for them.
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: And yeah, it's just like the Vikings, you know, you
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: start thinking about it's like, man, are we the last
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: place team in this division all of a sudden, Yeah,
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: and could very well be.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Real quick news.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: What are your thoughts on the defensive side of the
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: ball here? You know, Caleb Banks first round pick. I'm
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: looking over at my screen here out of Florida. There
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: are definitely some questions about him. But you know, first
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: round pick. You know, took a linebacker from Cincinnati, safety
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: from Miami, Kobe Thomas, who I actually think may actually
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: be a player in this league someday.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: But but yeah, just your.
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: Initial thoughts on the defensive side of the ball and
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: what we may be looking at as we go into
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: training camp.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, my biggest question mark remains in the trenches up front.
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  Speaker 6: You know, you got rid of Jonathan Allen, you got
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  Speaker 6: rid of Yavon Hargrave and and I don't blame you
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  Speaker 6: for doing that. I mean they came in here last
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  Speaker 6: year and were for the most part unproductive. They didn't
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  Speaker 6: produce the numbers that we all thought they would when
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  Speaker 6: they came in here to Minnesota. And then you've got
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  Speaker 6: two rookies along the defensive line. One of them is
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: already injured in Caleb Banks, and we're covering from injury,
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  Speaker 6: i should say, and the other Dominique Orange. We don't
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: know what he's going to be at the NFL level yet.
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  Speaker 6: So that is where my question lies really is along
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  Speaker 6: the defensive front. Because if you don't got the big
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  Speaker 6: boys up front to cause havoc at the line of scrimmage,
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  Speaker 6: then nothing else matters. So this is a team that
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  Speaker 6: I think are gonna need young players like you just
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  Speaker 6: said to contribute maybe quicker than Brian Flores might be
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: accustomed to a very demanding coach. Brian Flores is. But
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  Speaker 6: to be perfectly honest, you know, I've said it for
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: ever since he got here, I'm I'm a huge fan
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  Speaker 6: of Brian Flora as the coach. I am a believer
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: of Brian Flora as the coach. Now are his players
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: and do the people that work with him are they
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: a fan of him? You'd have to ask them. I
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  Speaker 6: think the jury might be out depending on who you ask.
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  Speaker 6: But like I said, I would be a hypocrite if
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: I wouldn't point to the results and it being a
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: results oriented business. And for the most part it hasn't
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: been perfect. But for the most part, Brian Flores has
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: produced very solid, steady results with this Minnesota defense ever
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  Speaker 6: since he's gotten here. So I have a lot of
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  Speaker 6: faith in Brian Flores. It's just gonna be a crash
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  Speaker 6: course for some of these young players on defense to
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  Speaker 6: get up to speed as quickly as they possibly can
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  Speaker 6: to help balance this team out.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, and last Vikings question kind of the same thing
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  Speaker 5: that I asked you about the Timberwolves. What is this
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: successful season? Let's say, you know, the common knowledge maybe
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: comes the past. Murray is our starting quarterback. What does
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: this successful season look like for you with the Vikings
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  Speaker 5: next year? If that is in fact the case.
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  Speaker 6: To me, it's eleven or twelve wins. It's hosting the
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: first round playoff game, you know that that and winning
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  Speaker 6: it More importantly, I should say, yeah, you have to.
• 36:39
  Speaker 6: You have to win at least one playoff game to
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: inspire any kind of confidence I think in this fan base.
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: If you're asked I that to me is the bare
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: minimum to me personally, me personally, if you're asking me,
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: I think, I think in order to really establish confidence
• 36:55
  Speaker 6: moving forward, you got to get to the NFC Championship game. Okay,
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: that that seems like a tall order. I know I
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: might be being a little unfair perhaps, but to me,
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  Speaker 6: that's where if you want to inspire real confidence in
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  Speaker 6: this fan base that we have the right coach, we
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: have the right players, get me to the NFC Championship Game,
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  Speaker 6: and then we'll see what happens from there. But at
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: bare minimum, this team has to win a playoff game.
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: At bare minimum, let's be honest, because if they don't, Vince,
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  Speaker 6: I think you're gonna see a different head coach in
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: Minnesota next year.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, all right, well a News, I'll let
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  Speaker 1: you go.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 5: I want to thank you for taking thirty three minutes
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  Speaker 5: and forty two seconds of your time this morning. And
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: I always love talking sports with you, man, and I
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: really really love what you do. Keep up the good
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: job over there at Fox, and I and my.
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: Friend mister Governor, it's a pleasure to be on with
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: you appreciate it so much.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, oh A, how's married?
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: Life. Married life is great, see Pops, yep, yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 6: We are like or four weeks away from that, so
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: wish yeah, wish me luck. Uh you won't. You won't
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: be seeing me at training camp this season. I'll probably
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: be on fraternity lead, that's all right, but I'll be
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: back in time for the start of the season.
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  Speaker 1: So oh good. Hey man, congrats again on that.
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  Speaker 5: You know that was loved all the pictures that you
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: put out there on your social media, and congrats to
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: you on your beautiful bride and we will talk again soon.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you so much. We really appreciate it. Thanks VI.