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The Vikings Tailgate: Chef Andrew Zimmern & The Celebrity Softball Game | LV | Episode 31 · The Vikings Tailgate

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Speaker 1: another really fun episode of the Tailgate this week. I
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Speaker 1: know normally we have fans of other NFL teams, but
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Speaker 1: we had to jump at the opportunity to get Andrew
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Speaker 1: Zimmern on the show King of Kings, celebrity chef, difference
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Speaker 1: We are trying to find a win amidst a couple
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Speaker 1: of losses and joining me to talk all things purple,
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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, the great Andrew Zimmern. And Andrew, why
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Speaker 1: don't you tell us if you have ever found yourself
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Speaker 1: as a naked man in a room with a naked
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Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson.
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Speaker 2: Wow, we're just diving right into the deep end of
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Speaker 2: the pool, aren't we.
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Speaker 1: That's what we call a get the show started question.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean obviously the answer is yes. Who
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Speaker 2: hasn't been I guess at the sort of at the
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Speaker 2: height of AP's vikiness when he was a dominant force
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Speaker 2: in the NFL annually and historically, target Field opened, and
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Speaker 2: Major League Baseball, in its great wisdom, whenever a new
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Speaker 2: stadium opens, likes to have the celebrity All Star Softball
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Speaker 2: game take place there, and they like to pepper the
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Speaker 2: team or teams in this case, with a variety of
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Speaker 2: local celebrities. Right, So they always make sure they have
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Speaker 2: an athlete from every pro team, and then they have
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Speaker 2: a couple of other folks. I was the couple of
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Speaker 2: other folks we had, you know, we had a wild player.
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Speaker 2: We had someone from the Lens and Adrian Peterson was playing.
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Speaker 2: And you spend when you're when you make this commitment,
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Speaker 2: it's like a four or five day commitment. You get
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Speaker 2: you know, batting practice tips and fielding tips from Hall
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Speaker 2: of famers, You go do make a wish stuff, you
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Speaker 2: do children's cancer funds. I mean, it really is for
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Speaker 2: a sports geek like me, I'm with forty you know,
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Speaker 2: Hall of Famer Ledgend and a smattering of other celebrities
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Speaker 2: who love to play baseball, and we're just hanging out
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Speaker 2: and doing stuff for four or five days. Game day arrives,
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Speaker 2: we get to the stadium much earlier than I thought
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Speaker 2: we would, and we're directed to the locker room where
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Speaker 2: everyone is served. The locker rooms at that time for
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Speaker 2: the Twins, and we were the AL team, so we
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Speaker 2: were in the Twins locker room, not the visitors locker room.
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Speaker 2: We are in sort of like pods of two. It's
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Speaker 2: sort of like half clover leafs, right, so there's some privacy,
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Speaker 2: but you're essentially sharing a locker room with somebody. And
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Speaker 2: I was sharing a locker or an area with Adrian
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Speaker 2: Peterson and we both took out all the uniform stuff.
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Speaker 2: And do you put the hose on before the pants?
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Speaker 2: The pants on before the hose? That I mean you
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Speaker 2: have a pro UNI And I don't know what part
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Speaker 2: of the kit goes on first. I know underwear starts,
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Speaker 2: but the first but the first thing you have to
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Speaker 2: do is take off everything that you have.
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Speaker 1: Now classic getting undressed.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, classic. So if we remember one thing about Adrian
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Speaker 2: Peterson was like lowest body fat counts in the history
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Speaker 2: of body fat counts. The guy was six foot three
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Speaker 2: of sculpted majesty, and I am not. So we take
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Speaker 2: off our clothes and everyone is looking at him. I
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Speaker 2: mean everyone is looking at it. It was just like
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Speaker 2: this was. Let me just say, in every aspect you
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Speaker 2: could possibly imagine, he was legendary. And I'm just sitting
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Speaker 2: there expanding next to him, naked, just I'm frozen. And
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Speaker 2: from across the room is one of our coaches, Raleigh Fingers,
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Speaker 2: and he's sitting underneath the sign that says no smoking,
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Speaker 2: with a heater dangling out of his mouth with about
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Speaker 2: an inch of ash on it. While he's sitting there
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Speaker 2: Buck naked too, just on a little stool. Right, and
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Speaker 2: he's sitting next to Jack Morris, right, the legendary Hall
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Speaker 2: of Fame Pitcher World Series winner Minnesota God and in
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Speaker 2: a loud enough voice so that every single person can
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Speaker 2: hear in the locker room, figures nudges Morris and points
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Speaker 2: at me and says, look at zimmern look at Zimmer,
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Speaker 2: And everybody turns and looks at me, and I'm like,
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Speaker 2: oh my god, nothing could be worse. He goes, that's
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Speaker 2: a baseball player's body. That's a ballplayer's body. It was
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Speaker 2: Adrian Pearson just thought it was the funniest thing in
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Speaker 2: the whole world. So we were immediately cemented as being
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Speaker 2: pretty chummy. We get upstairs to where we're actually going
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Speaker 2: to warm up on the field before the game, and
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Speaker 2: he pulled down. If you remember your Viking's history, for
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Speaker 2: as long as he was a Viking, they kept saying,
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Speaker 2: if you could just throw the ball to him in
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Speaker 2: the flat, in a little bit of space, give him
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Speaker 2: some you know, eight nine steps to get up to speed,
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Speaker 2: he would average fifteen yards to carry. I mean, if
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Speaker 2: he could catch the ball in the flat, this guy
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Speaker 2: could be the greatest football player of all time. But
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Speaker 2: it was drop after. I mean, he had a horrific
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Speaker 2: catch game, and I always thought it was some sort
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Speaker 2: of like football thing. Bad luck, the yips, it got
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Speaker 2: in his head. He pulls me aside, along with another
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Speaker 2: player on the team and says, hey, can the three
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Speaker 2: of us warm up? And it was weird because everyone
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Speaker 2: was paring off. No one was in freeze. You're just
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Speaker 2: warming up, you're throwing the ball, you just getting your
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Speaker 2: arm loose. You're playing catch, and I sit there and
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Speaker 2: I look at him and he says, stay with me,
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Speaker 2: and I'm like okay, And the other fellow twenty five
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Speaker 2: thirty away would throw me the ball. I would catch it,
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Speaker 2: and Adrian would say give me the ball, and I
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Speaker 2: would hand it to him and he'd throw it back.
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Speaker 2: Then they'd throw it to me again. I would throw
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Speaker 2: it back and he and I would alternate. He never
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Speaker 2: caught the ball, and I realized it wasn't that he
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Speaker 2: couldn't catch the football or had some kind of yips
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Speaker 2: associated with it. He literally couldn't catch. He could run
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Speaker 2: and he could run over everyone. He just couldn't catch.
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Speaker 2: It was one of the greatest days of my life.
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Speaker 2: My mother in law at the time after the game
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Speaker 2: hugged him, and Adrian's people came up to me and said,
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Speaker 2: you have to tell her to let go. She wouldn't
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Speaker 2: let go. She was like five feet tall. She wouldn't
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Speaker 2: let go.
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Speaker 1: I know the part that I should focus on as
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Speaker 1: a Viking fan, as the ap thing, because I've gotten
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Speaker 1: to shake his hand and that thing. It got so
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Speaker 1: cliche to hear every Troy Aikman and knock off Troy Aikman. Go,
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Speaker 1: when you shake this guy's hand, it feels like he's
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Speaker 1: a call our crusher. But it's true. I've never Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I was like, are you shaking my elbow right now?
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Speaker 1: What is? How? Are you this strong of a human man?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I still have a broken finger from
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Speaker 2: hanging out with him for a day. He I mean,
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Speaker 2: but I think it's why, And I think it's a
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Speaker 2: fascinating part of sports fastening, part of of of media
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Speaker 2: and our modern age that is moving along at a
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Speaker 2: at a lightning pace in every single discipline anywhere you
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Speaker 2: look at in life, nothing is slowing down. Everything is
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Speaker 2: speeding up, and we we end up lionizing and making
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Speaker 2: judgments about people. And you know, on the field, this
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Speaker 2: guy was devastating. And you know again, I mean he
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Speaker 2: will he's he's in the record books, he's going he's
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Speaker 2: one of the all time greats. But oh my god,
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Speaker 2: what a devastating kind of in that, you know. I
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Speaker 2: mean he was a couple of pounds less, but he
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Speaker 2: was a little bit taller and a little faster. I
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Speaker 2: think in that Eddie George Mold where he just he
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Speaker 2: could run over everybody and was just so talented once
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Speaker 2: he had the ball tucked away and was running.
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Speaker 1: He's the Jim Brown of Eddie George's is what he is.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly right, That's exactly right, Jim Brown. Jim Brown
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Speaker 2: was someone who I got friendly with on the you know,
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Speaker 2: social justice and advocacy front. And I got a chance
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Speaker 2: to hang out with Jim Brown a couple of times.
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Speaker 2: And he was here in the Twin Cities being interviewed
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Speaker 2: at the Walker It is about fifteen seventeen years ago,
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Speaker 2: and I got a chance to spend the day and
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Speaker 2: dinner with him. And Jim Brown was one of those
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Speaker 2: people like when he talked, he didn't have to raise
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Speaker 2: his voice. He would just talk and everyone within about
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Speaker 2: a half mile just fell silent. That man was some else.
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Speaker 2: And for any young football fans listening, I won't even
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Speaker 2: go into it. Just look up his stats by year
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Speaker 2: and how relevant he was. I think he's one of
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Speaker 2: those guys that if he was playing today, would be
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Speaker 2: a perennial All Pro and record setting no matter what
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Speaker 2: he was, he was just too talented an athlete.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was generationless. The thing I will say about
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Speaker 1: Ap though, is, you know, on the football side of
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Speaker 1: things is. I think there's an extremely strong argument to
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Speaker 1: make for if you are picking any running back from
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Speaker 1: their prime from any moment in the history of this game,
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Speaker 1: I think he's the top. I like, we so quickly,
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Speaker 1: the NFL evolved so quickly into this. You know, let's
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Speaker 1: see seventeen different types of motions running backs. Don't like.
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Speaker 1: We went from the running back world to this new
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Speaker 1: world very quickly. And I think lost in that was
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Speaker 1: that season that Viking fans remember but where down the
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Speaker 1: stretch Christian Ponder was the quarterback AP runs for two
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Speaker 1: thousand yards. But all that's written down somewhere and you
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Speaker 1: can look at it. But what we remember was like, hey,
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Speaker 1: the Colts are putting sixteen people in the box. They're
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Speaker 1: they're putting their linebacker coach out there in the box.
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Speaker 1: And we still it was like here you go, AP,
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Speaker 1: and he was executing on a level that you were like, well,
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Speaker 1: you would have to be playing eleven on five for
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Speaker 1: somebody to get this many yards game after game.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think what's interesting, And you know, I don't
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Speaker 2: want to get too wonky, but I'm I'm a pretty
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Speaker 2: keen observer of the sport. I mean, we can talk
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Speaker 2: about Jim Brown, who was you know generations, you know,
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Speaker 2: a generation a half minimum before APU. Walter Payton I
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Speaker 2: think had retired by the time ap even started, you know,
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Speaker 2: running in the league. Eric Dickerson the same. But when
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Speaker 2: you look at Adrian Peterson's era, I pick I take
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Speaker 2: him before Tomlinson. I pick him before Marshall Falk, who
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Speaker 2: I think was running at the time. I hate to
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Speaker 2: say it, I think he had more explosiveness than Emmett Smith.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Emmitt Smith has a lot of records because
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Speaker 2: of the durability. But if it's a if we're going,
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Speaker 2: you know, school yard pick and we're at running back,
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Speaker 2: I'm hard pressed to not pick Adyard Peterson, And off
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Speaker 2: the top of my head, I can't pick someone that
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Speaker 2: I would take instead of him in his.
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Speaker 1: Proct that's a great way.
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Speaker 2: Don't just don't throw him the ball or stand next
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Speaker 2: to him naked. It's the most emasculating feeling I've ever had.
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Speaker 1: Man. Back when I was failing at acting heavily, I
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Speaker 1: would have this feeling every great once in a while
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Speaker 1: where you'd get an audition and you knew you were
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Speaker 1: in trouble because somewhere in the description it would say handsome,
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Speaker 1: and you would go in and you would sit in
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Speaker 1: this room with eighteen other better versions of yourself. You're like,
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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, there's lots of abs sigh, and there's
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Speaker 1: two inches taller sigh. It was so I can I
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Speaker 1: think you had in that situation, though, there's a disconnect
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Speaker 1: where you go, well, I'm never gonna be I mean,
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Speaker 1: I'm not an NFL running back. There's there's enough at
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Speaker 1: least that you can convince yourself like, yes, I'm not
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Speaker 1: supposed to look like this man, but.
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Speaker 2: That's that's correct, that's correct. And yet yet a half
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Speaker 2: hour later, up on the field, I realize I have
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Speaker 2: some athletic superiority over him. That was the craziest thing
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Speaker 2: inside of my head to figure out why is this
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Speaker 2: so surreal? And I realized it's because I'm standing next
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Speaker 2: to him naked and just looking up at him and
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Speaker 2: just thinking, oh my god, this is this is the
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Speaker 2: most insane sculpted human being I've ever seen in my life.
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Speaker 2: And then a half hour later, dressed, he's whispering to me,
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Speaker 2: hatch the ball for me. I mean, I like, I
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Speaker 2: believe this is crazy. This is great. By the way,
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Speaker 2: By the way, I'm sixty two now. Target field is
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Speaker 2: how old? Ten years old? Nine years old?
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Speaker 1: At least? Yeah, eleven.
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Speaker 2: I mean it's somewhere, there's a while ago, but I'm
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Speaker 2: still fifty, isn't He was the starting running back on
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Speaker 2: our foot on NFL football team. I mean, you would
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Speaker 2: think in every single way he would have some athletic
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Speaker 2: dominance over me. And I realized my catching game is
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Speaker 2: better than Adrian Peterson's. By the way, well, I don't
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Speaker 2: want a humble brag.
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Speaker 1: No do it, let it, let it rip.
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Speaker 2: But I'm but I'm going to our tane piece of
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Speaker 2: sports trivia. The only I think it's two days in
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Speaker 2: America where there's no professional sports being play is Baseball
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Speaker 2: All Star Game weekend. There is nothing else on there
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Speaker 2: in the Big Four. I mean there's some you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm sure there's some obscure Bowl game being played somewhere,
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Speaker 2: but there is no there is no Big four sport
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Speaker 2: being played. So ESPN, I don't know. I think they
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Speaker 2: just do Top ten now, But back then they did
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Speaker 2: the web Gem. It was sponsored by some insurance company
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Speaker 2: or whatever, and it was always the defensive baseball play
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Speaker 2: of the day, and I was the ESPN Web Gem
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Speaker 2: of the Day, which was pretty pretty crazy. Ozzy Wizard
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Speaker 2: of Oz was on first base for the NL. I'm
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Speaker 2: playing second base. Dowkins lines one straight up the middle,
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Speaker 2: sort of to the shortstop side. It goes off Jack
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Speaker 2: Morris's foot he was pitching for US, and ricochetes towards
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Speaker 2: second base. So I'm leaning right and I dove left.
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Speaker 2: In my head, I'm parallel to the ground three feet
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Speaker 2: above it. The picture shows that there's like an inch
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Speaker 2: of space between me and the ground. I had some
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Speaker 2: I basically fell over, but at one point I was
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Speaker 2: horizontal and parallel to the ground and I grabbed the
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Speaker 2: ball and I flipped it back to Paris the Wild Captain,
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Speaker 2: who is playing shortstop. He stomps on the bag and
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Speaker 2: throws out a shocked Dawkins. At first, Ozzy Smith keeps
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Speaker 2: running through the bag right but knows he's well out,
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Speaker 2: and he makes the turn because there were no outs
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Speaker 2: to head back to his bench, and in the middle
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Speaker 2: there's still two outs. The game is on. The other
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Speaker 2: batter is walking from the batter from the on deck
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Speaker 2: circle into the batter's box, and I ran after Ozzy
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Speaker 2: Smith and everyone is looking at me like what are
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Speaker 2: you doing? And by the way, I should tell you,
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Speaker 2: target field is full. There's fifty thousand people watching this
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Speaker 2: game because right because all the All Stars are there
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Speaker 2: watching us. And then right after I think was the
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Speaker 2: home run derby that night, so and there's fireworks. It's
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Speaker 2: a big baseball day. So the place is full and
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Speaker 2: everyone is looking like what is this crazy done of
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Speaker 2: a doing? And I go running. I'm like Ozzie because
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Speaker 2: I was such a big fan of his, and he's
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Speaker 2: looking at me like he's looking at me like what
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Speaker 2: are you doing. I think he actually may have said that,
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Speaker 2: like you're about to selena him, that's right, And he
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Speaker 2: or Nancy Kerrigan or whatever her name was, and he
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Speaker 2: turns like what are you doing? And I said, when
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Speaker 2: you ran by, I thought you whispered good play, And
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Speaker 2: I need to know was that like good play, you
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Speaker 2: were being nice or was it actually a good play?
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Speaker 2: Like I needed to know from him. I needed to
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Speaker 2: be beatified and to be be made holy by the
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Speaker 2: Wizard of Oz. And he looked at me like I'm nuts.
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Speaker 2: He says, no, that was a great play. Go back
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Speaker 2: in the game, and I ran back I'm like, Okay,
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Speaker 2: Ozzy thinks I made a good play. Literally, the greatest
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Speaker 2: sports moment of my life as a player was that play.
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Speaker 1: You have to sink into those you have to.
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Speaker 2: You have to are you kidding me? Once in a lifetime,
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Speaker 2: when am I ever going to do that again?
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Speaker 1: You can have Ozzy Smith compliment you and then just
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Speaker 1: walk away from that. That's not how That's not how
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Speaker 1: you exist in your world. That's sure. If you're Cal
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Speaker 1: Ripken junior, you'd be like, thanks, Oz, But if you're
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Speaker 1: not a pro baseball player, let's go let's go suck
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Speaker 1: that up a little bit.
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Speaker 2: I've had to. I also had to know polite. Was
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Speaker 2: he being polite or was it? Or was it legit?
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Speaker 2: Another really great moment for me. I mean, I know
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Speaker 2: we're supposed to be talking football, but it was such
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Speaker 2: a great, great moment. I'm someone one of the PR people.
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Speaker 2: I mean, there's hundreds of them there that day to
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Speaker 2: manage all the different talent and interviews and all that.
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Speaker 2: And someone comes out and says, Dwight Gooden wants to
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Speaker 2: talk to you, and I'm like, oh, okay, great, And
19:05
Speaker 2: you know I was born and raised in New York,
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Speaker 2: I watched him pitch his legendary rookie year. I saw
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Speaker 2: the World Series games, you know, so I knew his
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Speaker 2: professional life. And go out and he's there with his
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Speaker 2: wife and his kids, and he's like, hey, we're huge fans.
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Speaker 2: Can I get a picture of you with my wife
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Speaker 2: and kids? We've seen every show you've ever done, and
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Speaker 2: I'm just like sure, And then he turns to me afterwards,
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Speaker 2: he goes, so great to meet you, and I'm like, Dwight,
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Speaker 2: we've met before, and he looks at me sort of strange, like,
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Speaker 2: oh when, And I'm like, we were roommates for like
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Speaker 2: three days as Smithers back when he was in treatment
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Speaker 2: in New York and I was in treatment in New York.
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Speaker 2: Neither one of us stayed sober afterwards, but we met
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Speaker 2: at Smithers and I was just I thought it was
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Speaker 2: so And obviously I remembered who he was and he
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Speaker 2: forgot who I was, and he's he's very sober now
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Speaker 2: and as a foundation does a lot of work helping
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Speaker 2: people get healthy and well. And obviously I'm thirty two
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Speaker 2: years sober and very public about it and do the
20:13
Speaker 2: same sorts of things. And we just had such a
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Speaker 2: laugh about that because it was so typical of two
20:21
Speaker 2: people who don't say sober. But he yeah, he had
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Speaker 2: no idea who I was there then, and I was
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Speaker 2: like we roomed together like three nights we crossed. You know,
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Speaker 2: there's like five people in a room there like we were.
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Speaker 2: There's a great moment of my not recovery was rooming
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Speaker 2: with him for thirty seconds at Smithers.
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Speaker 1: We'll move on. We're going to talk Raiders. We're going
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Speaker 1: to talk this team.
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Speaker 2: Yep.
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Speaker 1: But there are there are two things that I can't
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Speaker 1: let go. One the reason why comedians need to be
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Speaker 1: allowed to be on, Like you needed a Louis Anderson
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Speaker 1: in that game or something Roley Fingers line about that's
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Speaker 1: a baseball player's body. That is a funny, funny, funny line.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, the room just lost it. I mean,
21:02
Speaker 2: Raleigh Figures is one of the funniest human beings and
21:06
Speaker 2: obviously one of the you know, greatest baseball players, you know,
21:09
Speaker 2: full stop of all time. But what an incredible man.
21:13
Speaker 1: It would, but you to have a guy in there
21:16
Speaker 1: like a like a Louis rest his soul, or like
21:19
Speaker 1: a just another great comic who could have just taken
21:22
Speaker 1: that premise. The first thing I'm gonna say is like, hey, everybody, look,
21:27
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson has a weird white mole. Like there the
21:32
Speaker 1: amount of lines that would probably I can't even do
21:35
Speaker 1: on this show that I have. I am it's becoming
21:38
Speaker 1: a roast in that locker room immediately immediately.
21:42
Speaker 2: I mean, everyone was so afraid because you have all
21:45
Speaker 2: these big personalities, and I mean, first of all, the
21:48
Speaker 2: Hall of Famers, You've got the celebrity celebrities that are
21:51
Speaker 2: flown in from LA and New York to participate, You've
21:54
Speaker 2: got the local folks. It was I think everyone was.
21:59
Speaker 2: It was great icebreaker and if it if it weren't there,
22:03
Speaker 2: but for a few inches and a pitch or two,
22:06
Speaker 2: we would have won that game and probably credited Raleigh's
22:09
Speaker 2: tremendous coaching. But yeah, we blew it.
22:12
Speaker 1: You make a good point about the personalities in the room,
22:15
Speaker 1: because I find it goes one of two ways, Because
22:18
Speaker 1: it it is impossible to reach the height of your
22:21
Speaker 1: profession without a level of belief in yourself and a
22:26
Speaker 1: level of ego that both had. Like I think ego's
22:29
Speaker 1: got this horrible, you know, connotation to it in our society.
22:32
Speaker 1: But I think there's there's definite pros to it. There's
22:36
Speaker 1: definite like you need this almost sadistic belief in yourself
22:41
Speaker 1: to rise above hundreds of millions of other people in
22:45
Speaker 1: a job where everybody wishes they could do it well.
22:49
Speaker 2: It's the same way in t same way in TV
22:51
Speaker 2: and cooking right now. I mean like it's it's crazy.
22:54
Speaker 2: And if you don't think or have the kind of
22:57
Speaker 2: the minute you get nervous and don't think think that
23:01
Speaker 2: you can cook that dish perfectly, or don't think in
23:03
Speaker 2: the in the age of competition, whether whether it's on
23:07
Speaker 2: television literally with competition TV shows, or competing for a
23:12
Speaker 2: job that five thousand people want and are a thousand
23:16
Speaker 2: are probably qualified for, or just being a line cook
23:20
Speaker 2: in the kitchen where it's like I need to be
23:23
Speaker 2: I need to be a sous chef in a year,
23:26
Speaker 2: and there's ten other people who want that job as
23:29
Speaker 2: much as me. I've got an outwork, out, hustle, outperform,
23:34
Speaker 2: find my place, and to be confident in how you
23:38
Speaker 2: behave in those situations and not being a total piece
23:41
Speaker 2: of junk. Uh And and by that I mean if
23:46
Speaker 2: you're too self centered your behavior will turn off other people.
23:50
Speaker 2: And you could be the most talented, but you're you're
23:53
Speaker 2: not getting chosen. I've never been the most talented person
23:58
Speaker 2: in any room that I've walked into professionally. In my world, however,
24:04
Speaker 2: I have had enough of the other skills where I
24:08
Speaker 2: have been the chosen person. And after you've been the
24:11
Speaker 2: chosen person a while, then the healthy part of the
24:14
Speaker 2: ego comes in. You have to have some humility about
24:18
Speaker 2: what you do. You have to understand the role that
24:20
Speaker 2: luck plays. You have to understand that there's more than
24:25
Speaker 2: just skill being evaluated here, and there's some things that
24:28
Speaker 2: no one can understand. Sports is very quantifiable, I mean,
24:31
Speaker 2: the numbers don't lie. You may have a string of
24:34
Speaker 2: bad luck and not make it from the miners to
24:36
Speaker 2: the majors, or from college to the pros and football
24:40
Speaker 2: in my world the metrics are a little bit different.
24:45
Speaker 2: But the key to it all is to have the
24:48
Speaker 2: self confidence that makes you raise your hand and say
24:51
Speaker 2: I can do that. I mean if you can't, if
24:54
Speaker 2: you don't have that belief in yourself, that healthy piece
24:57
Speaker 2: of self confidence, you're going to struggle. You're going to struggle,
25:01
Speaker 2: which is why as a parent you're trying to teach
25:04
Speaker 2: your kids as they get older. It's okay to lose,
25:07
Speaker 2: it's okay not to be the best. But you got
25:09
Speaker 2: to believe in yourself and you got to keep trying
25:12
Speaker 2: and keep putting yourself up for things and keep raising
25:15
Speaker 2: your hand, because otherwise it's not going to work well.
25:18
Speaker 1: And I find those two when people rise to that
25:20
Speaker 1: occasion and you've been like celebrity softball games, you know
25:23
Speaker 1: you do wonderful charity work, wonderful community work. So you
25:27
Speaker 1: find yourself in the presence of a lot of these
25:29
Speaker 1: people a lot and through some of the things I've done,
25:32
Speaker 1: I have as well on a different scale. But I
25:35
Speaker 1: find the interesting thing about that ego is there's two
25:37
Speaker 1: versions of it that's right once you get there. There's
25:40
Speaker 1: the one that really and I don't even mean like
25:43
Speaker 1: one guy's a dick and one guy's awesome. I mean
25:46
Speaker 1: like it's the sense of humor about oneself. And I
25:50
Speaker 1: think a lot of those big egos. If you are
25:54
Speaker 1: funny and you can riff and you can run and
25:56
Speaker 1: you can attack, a lot of them, go god, that
25:59
Speaker 1: was funny. All of us big like impressive people in
26:02
Speaker 1: this when Roley Fingers said that in a room full
26:04
Speaker 1: of impressive people like to cut each other. There's a
26:08
Speaker 1: different sort of humor in that.
26:09
Speaker 2: Yeah.
26:10
Speaker 1: And then the other side of it is the ones
26:12
Speaker 1: who like I did an event for the Super Bowl
26:15
Speaker 1: for Adidas and I was interviewing I might have told
26:18
Speaker 1: this to people on the show before, but they we
26:21
Speaker 1: were interviewing players for ESPN, and my job was to
26:25
Speaker 1: try to pitch them business ideas, to try to get
26:30
Speaker 1: them to I was basically doing one man sized shark
26:33
Speaker 1: tank and like Xavier Rhoades and Alvin Kamara were so
26:37
Speaker 1: funny and they got it. And I sat down and
26:39
Speaker 1: I'm sure this dude has the best I'm I'm sure
26:42
Speaker 1: he's great. But I pitched Dak Prescott, who was wearing
26:47
Speaker 1: a hat that said dac on it. I pitched Dak
26:52
Speaker 1: Prescott's Panini Prescott which was which was a sandwich bed.
26:57
Speaker 1: It was probably my only good, only good idea of
27:00
Speaker 1: the day.
27:00
Speaker 2: That's a really good one.
27:02
Speaker 1: Thank you. He looked at me like somebody like We're like, hey,
27:05
Speaker 1: are we a dictatorship yet? Can we put this guy down?
27:09
Speaker 1: Why is he here? How can we get rid of
27:11
Speaker 1: this man? So it's always funny navigating some guys who
27:13
Speaker 1: are like, oh my god, that's funny, and other guy's like, no, no, no, no, no, no,
27:17
Speaker 1: I'm the king.
27:18
Speaker 2: Did you remind him of the George Foreman grill? That
27:21
Speaker 2: George Foreman? I mean, it's hundreds and hundreds of billions
27:25
Speaker 2: of dollars.
27:25
Speaker 1: It was literally the lean in and he's a sleep
27:28
Speaker 1: number guy. I was like, let's take the Foreman success.
27:32
Speaker 1: You're brand building in the sleep world, and let's make something.
27:36
Speaker 1: And it was funny to no one.
27:39
Speaker 2: I'll tell you you said a very important word in there,
27:43
Speaker 2: and that is the word fun. I think if you
27:45
Speaker 2: don't have fun in life by saying yes, something's going
27:51
Speaker 2: to wind up being missing. And I'll give you a
27:53
Speaker 2: really short, big example. You know, I'm at a point
27:56
Speaker 2: in my career with you know, restaurants and a war
28:00
Speaker 2: and shows and my work away from TV and stuff,
28:06
Speaker 2: that it's not necessary for me to say yes to everything.
28:11
Speaker 2: And I said yes to a couple of cooking competitions recently.
28:16
Speaker 2: A few of them are going to air. One big
28:20
Speaker 2: one is going to air in the next week or so.
28:23
Speaker 2: And people looked at me and said, why are you
28:26
Speaker 2: doing that you know, what if what if one of
28:29
Speaker 2: these young chefs who's been on Top Chef at Every
28:34
Speaker 2: Other Guy Fiery Show and does nothing but cooking competitions
28:38
Speaker 2: like they're in cooking competition shape. You know, you've got
28:41
Speaker 2: a half an hour to make three dishes? Why are
28:44
Speaker 2: you doing that? And I said, because it's fun. Because
28:48
Speaker 2: I want to see at age sixty two, if I
28:52
Speaker 2: still have it. Number one, Number two, I'm actually confident
28:56
Speaker 2: enough that I can compete against anyone, anytime, any place.
29:00
Speaker 2: Bring it on still and I have I feel that way.
29:05
Speaker 2: And three, probably most importantly, it's just a blast. Why
29:10
Speaker 2: wouldn't you want to do it? You got nothing to lose.
29:13
Speaker 2: So what if some young chef who's really talented, uh,
29:17
Speaker 2: you know, in the eyes of three judges, celebrity judges
29:20
Speaker 2: that most of them don't know food at all, pick
29:22
Speaker 2: that person by a point or two. Who cares? Who cares?
29:26
Speaker 2: I think people get too wrapped up in what other
29:28
Speaker 2: people are gonna think, and in the age of cancelation
29:32
Speaker 2: and being dragged and put on blast and all those
29:37
Speaker 2: other things that we do to focus many people, by
29:39
Speaker 2: the way, deservedly, but we have this idea that anytime
29:43
Speaker 2: somebody stumbles, we all have to go, oh, look at that,
29:46
Speaker 2: look at that, look at that. They're a stumbler. I
29:49
Speaker 2: think I don't think that's that's how to be. If
29:52
Speaker 2: I think you have to say yes to things, you
29:54
Speaker 2: have to ignore the people, you know, throwing banana peels
29:57
Speaker 2: from the cheap seats, and you got to have fun.
29:59
Speaker 2: It's great recipe for life.
30:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so. I always I'm not a big
30:05
Speaker 1: boxing guy, so you know, for you know, for of
30:08
Speaker 1: all people to make this reference. But I don't want
30:12
Speaker 1: to be Floyd Mayweather.
30:13
Speaker 2: That's right.
30:14
Speaker 1: I'm happy to be. I'm happy to be, you know,
30:16
Speaker 1: a different guy who loses a bunch of fights. You know, Floyd.
30:19
Speaker 1: The big thing with him is what, right, never fought anybody,
30:22
Speaker 1: never fought anybody in there. Sure he won all these fights,
30:24
Speaker 1: never fought anybody in his prime.
30:25
Speaker 2: That's right.
30:26
Speaker 1: He'll tell you he's the greatest though.
30:28
Speaker 2: That's right.
30:29
Speaker 1: Uh, Well, let's talk. Let's talk a little vikings here
30:32
Speaker 1: we Yesterday, Josh Dobbs gets named starter. Yep, coming out
30:37
Speaker 1: of the by I've probably been leading the charge on
30:41
Speaker 1: the the Dobbs thing here on this show. Annoyingly in
30:45
Speaker 1: my personal life. People are like, if this is a
30:46
Speaker 1: Dobbs call, I'm hanging up. I want to I want
30:50
Speaker 1: I want to discuss where we're going to dinner. Uh,
30:53
Speaker 1: And so I'm really I think all the conversation around
30:57
Speaker 1: I'd be curious about your take on quarterbacks. I so often.
31:01
Speaker 1: You know, we were just doing it. We were discussing
31:03
Speaker 1: Peterson and all the greats, but we forget that the
31:07
Speaker 1: NFL is a math equation. You know, it's they have
31:10
Speaker 1: perfected the salary cap. And you know, my expectations for
31:14
Speaker 1: quarterbacks around the league is heavily tied to what they
31:18
Speaker 1: make versus what they output. So like a guy can
31:22
Speaker 1: make forty and be worth more than that, he can
31:24
Speaker 1: make two million and be worth less than that, or
31:27
Speaker 1: he could be brought thirty yeah, or he could be
31:29
Speaker 1: Well that's that's my thing. You see a lot of
31:32
Speaker 1: these teams that succeed succeed with guys who are on
31:37
Speaker 1: rookie quarter rookie deals or early career deals that are
31:40
Speaker 1: far better than those deals. So all that Kirk versus
31:44
Speaker 1: Dobbs a side thing. I just think it's exciting to
31:48
Speaker 1: have a guy who brings an elopment to the game
31:50
Speaker 1: that we haven't seen in a while, and I think
31:53
Speaker 1: it's exciting to not not really know. Maybe it goes
31:59
Speaker 1: down and flames the rest of the year, But also
32:01
Speaker 1: I don't think so maybe it gets crazy. Maybe we're
32:04
Speaker 1: a weird team that you're like, how the hell are
32:05
Speaker 1: they in the NFC Championship game right now?
32:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's funny that you say that, because I literally
32:12
Speaker 2: was thinking to myself as a fan what everyone is
32:15
Speaker 2: thinking these days, which is with the schedule ahead of
32:18
Speaker 2: us and with the with the math on the playoffs,
32:22
Speaker 2: we could find ourselves. We could find ourselves in the playoffs,
32:26
Speaker 2: and what are the expectations? And I think with no
32:29
Speaker 2: expectations on the shoulders of this team, mark my words,
32:32
Speaker 2: if we get in as a as a wild card team,
32:37
Speaker 2: I think we have a chance of winning a game.
32:40
Speaker 2: And here's why. I think we saw an unfiltered Dobbs
32:46
Speaker 2: with a pair down playbook, just playing school yard ball,
32:49
Speaker 2: come out and be successful the moment he joined our team,
32:53
Speaker 2: and and he won his first two games. Then he
32:57
Speaker 2: gets into the play and he's got it. He's now
33:00
Speaker 2: thinking about seven hundred things instead of two hundred, and
33:04
Speaker 2: he throws a lot of picks. All right, the guy
33:07
Speaker 2: can run it. You can watch him even in his failures.
33:11
Speaker 2: He's not scanning one way. He's not doing the justin
33:15
Speaker 2: fields thing where he'll look one way and throw it,
33:18
Speaker 2: and he can be successful against a week defense or
33:22
Speaker 2: throwing your reception. Josh Dobbs checks down and looks at
33:26
Speaker 2: every single one of his options. Has he thrown some
33:28
Speaker 2: bad balls? Yes he has. Do I think the bye
33:31
Speaker 2: week really, really really is going to have been helpful
33:35
Speaker 2: to him one thousand percent. I think we're going to
33:39
Speaker 2: see a different Josh Doobbs. I think they've had time
33:42
Speaker 2: to put in the right kind of plays for him
33:46
Speaker 2: in our scheme we now and I don't think you
33:48
Speaker 2: can underestimate the return of Jefferson. I don't care what
33:51
Speaker 2: anybody says, but if you as if you have Osborne,
33:54
Speaker 2: Addison and Jefferson, you have to be the Raiders. Even
33:58
Speaker 2: though they have one of the top ten secondaries in
34:01
Speaker 2: the league and by the numbers are holding quarterbacks, you
34:05
Speaker 2: know to I think ninety something average QBR. I mean
34:08
Speaker 2: their defense is playing well. I think we have a
34:11
Speaker 2: good scheme against them this weekend. I trust our coaching
34:15
Speaker 2: staff to have put in the right kind of the
34:17
Speaker 2: right kind of plays. The naysayers are going to be surprised.
34:21
Speaker 2: I think we win this game, and then I think
34:24
Speaker 2: things get very, very interesting. And look what Flores has
34:29
Speaker 2: done with the defense. That defense of ours has kept
34:32
Speaker 2: us in. Yes, we had a couple of big blowouts,
34:35
Speaker 2: but we we are so much better on defense. And
34:39
Speaker 2: I think this kid mantell Us, Oh my gosh, what
34:42
Speaker 2: a secret weapon. Well it's not a secret anymore, but
34:47
Speaker 2: can do so many things. I really look and look
34:51
Speaker 2: the Vegas offense. I don't believe in them. I believe
34:55
Speaker 2: in our defense more than their offense. And I think
34:58
Speaker 2: Dobbs doesn't throw oh fifteen picks this game, and I
35:02
Speaker 2: think we win this game.
35:04
Speaker 1: You said what I think is the most intriguing thing,
35:07
Speaker 1: and I haven't heard anybody else hit on it, And
35:09
Speaker 1: it's where my brain's been consistently. Everybody looks at that
35:13
Speaker 1: last game against the Chicago Bears and they go, what
35:15
Speaker 1: a disaster, what a And inarguable it was a disaster.
35:20
Speaker 1: But I think if you look back at the first
35:23
Speaker 1: time we played with Kirk, the minus the five hundred
35:27
Speaker 1: live interception balls, right, let's call them the panic balls
35:31
Speaker 1: that are happening right the uh oh throw it in
35:34
Speaker 1: the air. The statistics were about Dobbs was twenty one
35:39
Speaker 1: for thirty one for one to eighty one, Kirk was
35:42
Speaker 1: twenty two for thirty two for one eighty five something
35:44
Speaker 1: like that. That that is just clearly not a great
35:47
Speaker 1: matchup for us, especially without Justin Jefferson. And I think
35:52
Speaker 1: where everybody is pointing at the quarterback, going you need
35:56
Speaker 1: to protect the ball. You can't make a couple of
35:58
Speaker 1: these mistakes, and all that's true, true, I think what
36:01
Speaker 1: the head coach is doing is going quietly, is going no, no, no, no, no,
36:06
Speaker 1: I need to put you in a position. O'Connell is
36:11
Speaker 1: such a good self scouter that I think when you
36:14
Speaker 1: there was one play in that game where he dropped back,
36:17
Speaker 1: he fell onto the right hash and he tried to
36:20
Speaker 1: throw back and get it in between a high low
36:22
Speaker 1: concept to Addison and it was picked off. And I
36:26
Speaker 1: think that is a throw that somebody with Kirk Cousin's
36:29
Speaker 1: arm talent layers that ball in there. And so I
36:35
Speaker 1: don't know that this staff and this team is going
36:38
Speaker 1: to spend the rest of the year pretending that Josh
36:42
Speaker 1: Dobbs can achieve Kirk Cousin's arm talent. I expect them
36:46
Speaker 1: to come out and I expect us to see more rollouts.
36:49
Speaker 1: I expect now that Nick Mullins is healthy and is
36:52
Speaker 1: an actual option, I expect them to be willing to
36:56
Speaker 1: call some runs. I mean, this guy's the second best
36:59
Speaker 1: running quarterback in the league, only to the greatest running
37:02
Speaker 1: quarterback in NFL history. I think it was all possome.
37:07
Speaker 1: I don't think they were ever even considering starting anybody
37:10
Speaker 1: but Dobbs. I think you're exactly right. I think the
37:13
Speaker 1: coaches approach this week is going to have people go,
37:16
Speaker 1: oh shit, and.
37:18
Speaker 2: You said something very important. I think the coaches knew
37:21
Speaker 2: all along their starting Dobbs. I think they want to
37:23
Speaker 2: get his competitive blood. This is a smart man, a
37:28
Speaker 2: great competitor, a lifelong multi sport athlete before he just
37:33
Speaker 2: went football. I think Josh Dobbs is going to have
37:36
Speaker 2: a great game, and I think the reason is, you
37:40
Speaker 2: hit the nail on the head. Their game plan is
37:42
Speaker 2: going to be to spread that ball around so that
37:45
Speaker 2: that Las Vegas defense does not know who's getting the
37:49
Speaker 2: ball when and where and whether it's a runner or pass.
37:52
Speaker 2: And they've had time to actually put that game plan in,
37:56
Speaker 2: and I think that's the difference maker this weekend.
37:58
Speaker 1: You see it so often with these young NFL coaches
38:01
Speaker 1: because it's such a different breed of coach that we've
38:03
Speaker 1: seen come in after McVeigh and Shanahan really put their
38:07
Speaker 1: stamp on the league. We just saw it in Cincinnati,
38:10
Speaker 1: in the Cincinnati Jacksonville game on Monday, Joe Burrow goes down.
38:13
Speaker 1: They start Jake Browning against the Steelers. It's a disaster
38:17
Speaker 1: because they're trying to do some Burrow esque things. And
38:20
Speaker 1: if you listen to their staff this week, they put
38:23
Speaker 1: in more RPO with second level looks. They put in
38:26
Speaker 1: more boots and more play actions, and Jake Browning, a
38:29
Speaker 1: guy that you most people listening didn't even know was
38:32
Speaker 1: a human man, goes out and puts up eighty percent
38:36
Speaker 1: on like three hundred some absurd stat line. And the
38:40
Speaker 1: key there, and the reason why I think that's important
38:43
Speaker 1: is because t Higgins came back. That's right, and so
38:46
Speaker 1: now he's hand and Chase brown came back. So it's
38:49
Speaker 1: a very similar like now we have our weapons, let's
38:53
Speaker 1: let this guy do what he does within the weapons.
38:55
Speaker 2: Let me go, let me go back to saying you
38:57
Speaker 2: said earlier about design run plays for Dobbs. In that
39:00
Speaker 2: Cincinnati game, Browning had two runs for very good yardage
39:06
Speaker 2: at important parts of the game. Burrow is not that
39:10
Speaker 2: kind of scrambler right now, and it was just enough.
39:14
Speaker 2: I mean, announcers say it all the time. You get
39:18
Speaker 2: in two run plays and the defense questions whether or
39:22
Speaker 2: not that next play ten minutes later on another series
39:27
Speaker 2: is going to be a run. I have a lot
39:29
Speaker 2: of faith in our coaching staff on both sides of
39:32
Speaker 2: the ball. I like Connell. I like the group he's
39:35
Speaker 2: put together. I think they're going to design a really
39:38
Speaker 2: good game plan to take advantage of the weaknesses that
39:41
Speaker 2: the Raiders have. And I think they're going to bite
39:43
Speaker 2: on a lot of stuff or we're gonna take advantage
39:45
Speaker 2: of it.
39:45
Speaker 1: And I think the funny thing about football is, you know,
39:49
Speaker 1: they say it's a game of inches, and they say
39:51
Speaker 1: it's a game of moments, And you can never dismiss
39:55
Speaker 1: anything because that happens in every game everywhere. You can
39:59
Speaker 1: never use it as an excuse. But I do think,
40:01
Speaker 1: like if you go back to that Bears game, it's
40:05
Speaker 1: such especially when you're not at full strength you don't
40:07
Speaker 1: have justin Jefferson. You're playing with your backup quarterback. There
40:11
Speaker 1: are moments in which, like that opening pass to Addison,
40:15
Speaker 1: which is impossible to get a good replay for the
40:18
Speaker 1: coaches to challenge it. But we all now know that
40:21
Speaker 1: was a caught ball yep, right then. And as bad
40:24
Speaker 1: as Dobbs was on some things, you know, it's a
40:26
Speaker 1: team sport. That play where Addison didn't get his head,
40:29
Speaker 1: which he said that, O'Connell said that, and it doinks
40:32
Speaker 1: off and it's a pick he catches that he's probably
40:34
Speaker 1: still running, He's probably he's probably in Canada on his
40:37
Speaker 1: bye week, still running. And so then what does that
40:40
Speaker 1: week look like? And so I think all that adds
40:43
Speaker 1: up to let's see what it looks like this Sunday,
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Speaker 1: and then let's go from there. And I want to see,
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Speaker 1: after we moved on from Zimmer, this is what we
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Speaker 1: got this guy for. We wanted a guy who goes,
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Speaker 1: what are my pieces? I might fail, our team might
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Speaker 1: struggle in a game that we shouldn't have, But now
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Speaker 1: how am I gonna not do that the next week?
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Speaker 1: And I think you're right. I think that's who we
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Speaker 1: have in the building these days.
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Speaker 2: I think, and ironically Game of Inches is what they
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Speaker 2: called My whole day spent in the locker room with
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Speaker 2: Adrian Peterson Andrew.
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Speaker 1: I have this problem where I need shows to have
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Speaker 1: the perfect end, and I have a couple of questions
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Speaker 1: I need to ask you. But I've never wanted to
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Speaker 1: just cut to theme music better than after that moment?
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Speaker 1: What is the jay? What's the point? Why are we
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Speaker 1: still doing this show? That was too funny? We're gonna
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Speaker 1: do the one. Everybody hates this, but I do. We
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Speaker 1: got to do a prediction. Tell me what you think
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Speaker 1: it's Tell me what you think it's gonna look like.
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Speaker 1: Tell me what you think the score is gonna be.
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Speaker 2: I think we win this game twenty eight twenty one,
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Speaker 2: and I think it's not going to be that close.
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Speaker 2: I think Vegas gets a touchdown in garbage chime. I
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Speaker 2: think we're safely ahead and we hang on thanks to
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Speaker 2: our defense to win because I think Vegas makes the
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Speaker 2: adjustments at halftime. I think we go up at the half,
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Speaker 2: they make adjustments, we're safely ahead, we win, they score
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Speaker 2: more points than us in the second half. I think
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Speaker 2: that's how it's gonna go we hang on to win.
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Speaker 1: Looks a little bit like that Saints game. Yes, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna go. I think defense is gonna be important too.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. Raiders fourteen, Vikings one hundred and thirty eight. Okay, Andrew,
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Speaker 1: you're King of Kings man. We really really appreciate the
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Speaker 1: time and thank you for doing it. Thanks again to
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Speaker 1: Andrew Zimmern for joining us on the show tonight, and
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