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  Speaker 8: a wonderful interview and it's coming up next. We're gonna
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  Speaker 8: get right to it here my main man, thor Neistrom
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  Speaker 8: we did a interview that we just wrapped up, and
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  Speaker 8: we're gonna be talking about the Vikings and it's all
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  Speaker 8: about the quarterback folks.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, what are we gonna do it? That's the question.
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  Speaker 6: What are we gonna do?
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  Speaker 8: If you're a fan of JJ, if you're not a
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  Speaker 8: fan of JJ, We're gonna cover it all here in
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  Speaker 6: Special guests Thorn and Eistrim.
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  Speaker 8: Sorry about that, all right, So let's get to it, man,
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  Speaker 8: because there's lots to get to here with the Minnesota Vikings.
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  Speaker 8: Especially first off, though, we got to give some mad
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  Speaker 8: props to the former Vikings quarterback Sam Donald. Went out
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  Speaker 8: did his thing, and we talk about Sam in this interview,
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  Speaker 8: but again, Sam did what he had to do.
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  Speaker 6: Was he flashy?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 6: Was he you know, three hundred four hundred yards Sam Donald? No?
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  Speaker 6: He was not.
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  Speaker 8: But guess what he didn't need to be. And honestly,
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  Speaker 8: I get it. It wasn't a great first half in
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  Speaker 8: the Super Bowl. Was in nine nothing at half or
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  Speaker 8: whatever the three field goals? If that game ended nine
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  Speaker 8: to nothing, you think those Seattle Seahawks and their fans
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  Speaker 8: and in the city and the region would give two
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  Speaker 8: shits about it. If they won a Super Bowl nine
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  Speaker 8: to nothing. Now, the rest of sports media would probably
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  Speaker 8: be raking them over to Coles. But they're still Super
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  Speaker 8: Bowl champions. And guess what second half got a much
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  Speaker 8: better game. The Seattle defense man, they are phenomenal. They
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  Speaker 8: were really the MVP and MACHA in my book. So
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  Speaker 8: congratulations to Sam, Congratulations to the rest of the Seahawks,
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  Speaker 8: to the city of Seattle, multi time winner now of
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  Speaker 8: the NFL Super Bowl, And if you're a Vikings fan,
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  Speaker 8: I get it. Tough to watch now, obviously, if Sam
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  Speaker 8: stays here, that doesn't mean that we're going to the super.
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  Speaker 6: Bowl by any means.
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  Speaker 8: But you know, when you get a guy that gets
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  Speaker 8: your fourteen wins and I get it, you know, the
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  Speaker 8: playoffs last year, all that stuff.
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  Speaker 6: But I'm just glad I don't have to make these decisions, man,
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  Speaker 6: I really am.
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  Speaker 8: So all right, let's just get right into our interview
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  Speaker 8: Thorn and Eistrom Thor talks purple over at Score North.
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  Speaker 6: This man is blowing up all over the Twin City.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, Thor, I'm just honored that we got
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  Speaker 6: you for a few minutes.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 6: I know everybody wants your time, So thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: No, thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 10: I haven't been on before, so I was appreciative that
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  Speaker 10: that you invited me on. Good to talk to you,
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  Speaker 10: Good to be here. I'm excited to talk some football with.
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  Speaker 6: You, exactly, all right.
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  Speaker 8: So let's just get right to it, people, because, as
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  Speaker 8: I was just telling Thor literally a few seconds ago,
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  Speaker 8: it's just all about this Vikings quarterback conundrum, snap food,
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  Speaker 8: whatever the hell you want to call it.
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  Speaker 6: But you know, Thor, just real quick, you.
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  Speaker 8: Know, especially obviously you know Seattle now super Bowl champions,
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  Speaker 8: Sam Donald on top of the world, all that stuff,
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  Speaker 8: But just real quick, give us your initial thoughts after
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  Speaker 8: last year when it became known you know, hey, they're
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  Speaker 8: going to JJ route and they let Sam Donald go.
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  Speaker 6: Did you agree with it? Disagree? Kind of in the middle,
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  Speaker 6: what were your thoughts?
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  Speaker 2: No, I agreed with it.
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  Speaker 10: I think ninety nine point well, we'll say ninety nine
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  Speaker 10: percent of people agreed with it humorously. You know, national media,
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  Speaker 10: you look around this past week and it's all the
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  Speaker 10: Vikings are idiots for letting Sam walk. And it's most
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  Speaker 10: the people saying that are the people who one year
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  Speaker 10: ago were like, the Vikings would be idiots to re
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  Speaker 10: sign Sam. I'm looking at you, Steven A. Smith, and
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  Speaker 10: there's there's a whole bunch of other people like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, my my opinion was, you have set the
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  Speaker 10: roster you for a couple of years now. You have
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  Speaker 10: set the deck up, uh to take on the rookie
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  Speaker 10: scale quarterback contract and then build up the rest of
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  Speaker 10: the roster, use your free agency money with that. The Vikings,
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  Speaker 10: they obviously had a rough free agency periods as we
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  Speaker 10: come to see during the season, and then you can
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  Speaker 10: pound that with four years of poor drafting obviously, then
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  Speaker 10: Quacy getting fired. The depth issue was acute this past season.
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  Speaker 10: But yeah, I'm very happy for Sam. He found a
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  Speaker 10: great spot, you know. And it's interesting just the way
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  Speaker 10: that things go with the Vikings. They tried their dangdis
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  Speaker 10: to get Sam Donald traded last year at the combine.
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  Speaker 10: They want they wanted to do a tag and trade.
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  Speaker 10: Not one NFL team was interested in that. They shook
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  Speaker 10: every single tree. No one was interested in it. And
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  Speaker 10: so then and then Seattle ended up being the only team,
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  Speaker 10: you know, that was willing to go monetarily to where
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  Speaker 10: they went.
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  Speaker 2: But to do that, they first had to trade Gino Smith.
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  Speaker 10: And of course Mike Silver has since reported that Kevin
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  Speaker 10: O'Connell was instrumental in selling Sam to John Schneider.
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  Speaker 2: Uh sort of during that period.
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  Speaker 10: But you have to love it for Sam, you know,
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  Speaker 10: a guy who had a full circle, you know, and
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  Speaker 10: winning the championship there.
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  Speaker 8: You know, yeah, exactly, because you know, I'll be perfectly honest,
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  Speaker 8: I was not a Sam Donald fan. You know, when
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  Speaker 8: he came out of USC, I thought he was okay.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't think anything great of him. And then obviously,
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  Speaker 8: you know, he goes to the Jets. You know, nobody's
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  Speaker 8: gonna look good with the Jets, it seems like, so,
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  Speaker 8: you know, get the Carolina you know him Baker, kind
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  Speaker 8: of competing in the same room, all that fun stuff,
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  Speaker 8: but it didn't work. There started to change a little
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  Speaker 8: bit once he got to the Niners. Obviously we know
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  Speaker 8: what happened when he gets to Minnesota. So I was, yeah,
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  Speaker 8: I was, I was happy for him. You know, I
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  Speaker 8: was trying to think, Man, if we just now, obviously,
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  Speaker 8: if you keep somebody that doesn't guarantee, like, hey, the
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  Speaker 8: Vikings would have got to the super Bowl with Sam Darnold.
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  Speaker 8: But what I you know, I just, you know, looking
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  Speaker 8: back at it all, I just don't know about JJ
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  Speaker 8: because Michigan never asked him to do anything great back
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  Speaker 8: when he was in college. I think the Vikings might
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  Speaker 8: have got enamored with having a national championship winning quarterback
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  Speaker 8: available to draft and kind of ran from there.
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  Speaker 6: But we will see, we will see, you know.
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  Speaker 8: So here's here's what I wanted to talk to you about,
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  Speaker 8: because I think you just hit an interesting point to him.
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  Speaker 8: We'll get back into the quarterback, but talk about the
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  Speaker 8: drafting here the past few years. You know, when when
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  Speaker 8: Quazy was let go here about a week half ago,
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  Speaker 8: you know, we kind of focused more on the quarterback
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  Speaker 8: and then that situation. But yeah, he didn't really draft
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  Speaker 8: all that great either, and you talked about the depth
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  Speaker 8: on this team and a lot of key positions, so yeah,
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  Speaker 8: just kind of spanned on that for or give me
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  Speaker 8: your thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean the reason that the Seahawks won the
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  Speaker 10: Super Bowl, it's not the quarterback position, is because of
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  Speaker 10: how well they've drafted the last four years.
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  Speaker 2: Sam was the final touch on that.
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  Speaker 10: But yeah, I mean watch the games, right, I mean, like,
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  Speaker 10: you know, again, he's a complimentary piece. He even talked
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  Speaker 10: about how he is so appreciative to Brock Purdy for
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  Speaker 10: getting into his mind, like be a facilitator, be a
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  Speaker 10: point guard, you know, a quarterback, don't try to take
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  Speaker 10: over games.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what Seattle needed him to be.
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  Speaker 10: Like in the game against the Patriots, he wasn't throwing
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  Speaker 10: the ball the best, But in that game, what did
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  Speaker 10: they need him to do? Not turn the ball over,
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  Speaker 10: not take debilitating sacks? What was he good at not
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  Speaker 10: turning the ball over in that game? And then he
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  Speaker 10: was very nifty at avoiding the first rusher that he
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  Speaker 10: had to do to you know, to avoid putting Seattle
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  Speaker 10: in second and seventeen type situations and when you're running
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  Speaker 10: the ball as well as Seattle was in that game
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  Speaker 10: where Kenneth Walker was just going nuts, you know. And
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  Speaker 10: it's the organization Seattle, the way that they built it up.
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  Speaker 10: Number one DVOA defense this past year, Number two special
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  Speaker 10: teams and obviously they can run the ball. And the
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  Speaker 10: advancements that Sam's made with his game was very close
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  Speaker 10: to a long touchdown passer too, you know, just came
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  Speaker 10: a little bit short in the Super Bowl. This is
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  Speaker 10: nothing to take away from Sam Sam. Sam's one of
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  Speaker 10: the you know, fifteen best quarterbacks walking the earth right now,
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  Speaker 10: right Like it's not, you know, in any way to
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  Speaker 10: disparage him, and like it's the full circle thing and
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  Speaker 10: everything with his story is great. But yeah, that that
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  Speaker 10: Seattle team, it was built up through the draft and
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  Speaker 10: you start in twenty twenty two, you're coming off with
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  Speaker 10: the Russell Wilson trade, which John Schneider was the GM
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  Speaker 10: for Seattle, was blast for in the moment, but he
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  Speaker 10: ends up getting multiple first round picks in that. You
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  Speaker 10: turn around, you turn that into Charles Cross, Devin Witherspoon,
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  Speaker 10: Kenneth Walker, and yeah, Mafe was one of the guys too.
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  Speaker 10: That they got with the four picks that they got
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  Speaker 10: from the bron you know, the Broncos in that trade
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  Speaker 10: or whatever. But from twenty twenty two through this past season,
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  Speaker 10: that Seattle's just been slaughtering every draft I went through
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  Speaker 10: and I looked at the career value. There's a metric
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  Speaker 10: career weighted value and Seattle, you look at the past
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  Speaker 10: four drafts comparison to the Vikings, it's more than double
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  Speaker 10: the career value that they have gotten from the prospects
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  Speaker 10: just out of those last four classes. And the really
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  Speaker 10: sick thing about the Vikings is meager output. In that is,
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  Speaker 10: one quarter of the Vikings's w a V accounting for
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  Speaker 10: the last four classes comes from ed Ingram and Videri
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  Speaker 10: and Lowe. Much of it accrued with other teams, right,
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  Speaker 10: I mean Ingram this past season, all of a sudden, voila.
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  Speaker 10: He gets out of Minnesota and he's good. Right and
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  Speaker 10: then lo, when he got out of here, he could
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  Speaker 10: actually get on the field for New England.
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  Speaker 2: So you have the issues with the drafting.
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  Speaker 10: You could argue that it's development as well, but that's
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  Speaker 10: that's got to get fixed here. It's the thing that
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  Speaker 10: Seattle used to build up their juggernaut.
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  Speaker 2: Ross.
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  Speaker 8: No, exactly, very very well stated there. So let's let's
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  Speaker 8: jump on the culture real quick. Koc had a lot
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  Speaker 8: of love here the past few years, the quarterback whisper
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  Speaker 8: all that stuff. Now past couple of seasons, you know,
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  Speaker 8: finally kind of a little hiccup in the road, so
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  Speaker 8: to speak here with him and kind of you know,
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  Speaker 8: the public and whatnot. Give me your analysis here on
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  Speaker 8: where we are with Koc. Now, I'm not saying, you know,
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  Speaker 8: he needs to be fired anything like that. A couple
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  Speaker 8: yahoo's out there we're calling for his job for some reason.
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  Speaker 6: But you know, if we have another bad year next
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  Speaker 6: year or something, well we'll revisit.
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  Speaker 8: But thor, give me your thoughts on our head coach,
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  Speaker 8: and exactly he is right now in your thoughts in
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  Speaker 8: this organization.
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  Speaker 2: He's coming off a bad year. I mean, it just
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  Speaker 2: it just is what it is. You know.
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  Speaker 10: People want to talk about the quarterback thing. O'Connell was
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  Speaker 10: obviously the guy that that hand picked McCarthy developed him,
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  Speaker 10: call his plays, But I'm talking even beyond the quarterback position,
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  Speaker 10: the entire offense, which during his tenure has been rather mediocre.
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  Speaker 10: The Vikings' offense here at the past four years. You
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  Speaker 10: look at it in the aggregate, I think it's number
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  Speaker 10: eighteen epa per play over the last four years in total. Yeah,
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  Speaker 10: which was the same finish that Ed Donna Tell's defense
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  Speaker 10: had in twenty twenty two that got him fired. Now,
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  Speaker 10: you know, obviously the Vikings defense been really good since then.
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  Speaker 10: That helped you get into the playoffs. A couple of times.
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  Speaker 10: Are the Vikings a player or two away right now
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  Speaker 10: from being able to make a run.
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  Speaker 2: In the playoffs.
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  Speaker 10: It's been a while since they've won a playoff game, right,
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  Speaker 10: So yeah, as far as O'Connell himself can can he
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  Speaker 10: can he get back to where he was? Sure, But
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  Speaker 10: like now we're you're trying to win in a different way.
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  Speaker 10: And I think what this past year proved in the
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  Speaker 10: struggles a Kevin O'Connell, the intractability is something that we
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  Speaker 10: hadn't seen before with the with the game plans, I
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  Speaker 10: think in particular, but then you saw some just intractable
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  Speaker 10: thinking as well when he was up in front of
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  Speaker 10: the media. I would like to see more adjustments, more
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  Speaker 10: more tailoring your game plan and your philosophy to the
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  Speaker 10: personnel on hand, Like like his friend Sean McVay. Right,
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  Speaker 10: Sean McVay, when he started off with the Rams, it
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  Speaker 10: was a lot of high flying uh.
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  Speaker 2: Three wide receivers, four wide receivers.
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  Speaker 10: And then now with the way that defenses have changed,
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  Speaker 10: McVeigh and the Rams use as much two and three
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  Speaker 10: tight ends as anyone in the NFL. It's just been
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  Speaker 10: a total philosophy change. But he's responding to the tide
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  Speaker 10: of of the way the defenses are playing them right circumstantially,
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  Speaker 10: Uh yeah, molding your strategy around that, Whereas it seems
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  Speaker 10: like O'Connell every year, it's it's got to be my way,
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  Speaker 10: got to be my way, gotta be more. It's it's
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  Speaker 10: tough to do that when you're not changing your game plans,
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  Speaker 10: because it makes you easier to game plan against as well.
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  Speaker 10: You know, there's a thing in baseball of you know,
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  Speaker 10: the first time through a lineup, but then your second
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  Speaker 10: and third time through when they've seen you, they've seen
• 17:19
  Speaker 10: your stuff. Now, when when when hitters start to get
• 17:22
  Speaker 10: a beat on what's coming and you don't switch up
• 17:25
  Speaker 10: the sequencing and you have the same three pitches or
• 17:28
  Speaker 10: you O'Connell's case, maybe you could argue too.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Adapting needs to happen there and and I hope it does.
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: Ladies and gentlemen.
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: Thornnstrom joining us here on the Sports Done Right podcast,
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: and you see why I wanted them on. I mean,
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: nobody can dis set this team quite like big Thorn
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: and Eistrom can.
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: So Thorn, let me ask you this general manager, you
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: know we gotta gotta bring one in.
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I all of a sudden, so many moving parts
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: with this organization here this offseason.
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: What do you want to see in our next GM.
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: What's kind of the stereotype you're looking for or the
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: prototype I think is maybe the better word.
• 18:09
  Speaker 10: My biggest thing for it would be that it is
• 18:13
  Speaker 10: this is outside of even a trait of that guy,
• 18:16
  Speaker 10: which I know is what you're asking, But I wanted
• 18:18
  Speaker 10: to be a guy when he is hired where there
• 18:21
  Speaker 10: is no if ins or butts about it. This is
• 18:25
  Speaker 10: the guy that is making the personnel decisions. Every successful one,
• 18:30
  Speaker 10: it's it's because of him. Everyone that fails is on him.
• 18:35
  Speaker 10: This stuff that the Viking, this nonsense with the triangle
• 18:38
  Speaker 10: of authority and the collaboration and.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: All this stuff. It always sounds good when they afforded
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: to the public.
• 18:45
  Speaker 10: We have now had the second administration that we've seen
• 18:48
  Speaker 10: here just recently, where the GM and the coach are
• 18:52
  Speaker 10: so at odds that you have to blow it up
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: right and.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: In this case the GM goes.
• 18:57
  Speaker 10: The last case, it was both Spielman getting it the
• 19:00
  Speaker 10: same time as zimmer But you see the issues with
• 19:03
  Speaker 10: this philosophy.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: And you know, the way that people can kind of
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: think about.
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: This is it's like, it's great in theory to you know,
• 19:11
  Speaker 10: open office concept plan and every department there's no barrier
• 19:15
  Speaker 10: between it and it's free communication and we're going to
• 19:18
  Speaker 10: come to.
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Every decision collaboratively.
• 19:21
  Speaker 10: It sounds great in theory, but what ends up happening
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: is in every one off transaction you have a bunch
• 19:28
  Speaker 10: of different voices that are jocking for position to make
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: that ultimate decision.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: The people who end up being.
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: Right if they're then proven wrong on that now all
• 19:37
  Speaker 10: of a sudden, the people that lost out on the
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: previous one, they now have more of a stick in
• 19:42
  Speaker 10: the next argument. You start having finger pointing and no,
• 19:45
  Speaker 10: you you were the guy that was pushing for that
• 19:47
  Speaker 10: one that didn't work out, and and all of a
• 19:49
  Speaker 10: sudden it becomes this this big finger pointing thing and
• 19:52
  Speaker 10: fight for uh say in the room and who has
• 19:54
  Speaker 10: the loudest voice, and all that's different. It just doesn't work.
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: And now it is that has been proven out. This
• 20:00
  Speaker 10: is not a coach problem. This is not a general
• 20:03
  Speaker 10: manager problem. This is a Wilf problem. There's only one
• 20:06
  Speaker 10: group of folks that can fix this one. It's the
• 20:08
  Speaker 10: same one that have allowed that culture seem to prefer
• 20:11
  Speaker 10: it for whatever reason they.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Have for that.
• 20:14
  Speaker 10: What needs to happen now is the next guy you
• 20:16
  Speaker 10: bring in there, this is the dude who's in charge
• 20:18
  Speaker 10: of that, And when the team goes on the field,
• 20:21
  Speaker 10: that's O'Connell.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: He's in charge of that.
• 20:23
  Speaker 10: But it has to be clearly defined and delineated who
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: is in charge of what so that there can be
• 20:29
  Speaker 10: accountability when things don't go well. Because the last administration,
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: what we had the past four years, you could not
• 20:36
  Speaker 10: put a finger on where the decisions that didn't go right,
• 20:40
  Speaker 10: where they were coming from right. And then you have
• 20:42
  Speaker 10: the thing of okay, well, now we can get Quacy
• 20:44
  Speaker 10: out and he'll be the scapegoat for all of it.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: And it's like that that's not actually how it went down.
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: No, exactly and you know the way that they also,
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: you know, I mean they I don't know whose idea
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: was to make a big deal of the story about
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: him on the paternity lead for you know, two weeks
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: after his child was born in the or kind of
• 21:01
  Speaker 8: working you know, working remotely so to speak there and
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: not being available you know, in house, you know, I
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: mean the Viking signed off on that, you know, I mean,
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: you know they're sitting here, whoever lead that story.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: But it's like, well, the organization gave them the opportunity
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: to do to do that, so why wouldn't he.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: But yeah, one hundred percent.
• 21:21
  Speaker 10: And and my whole thing with that, you know, because
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: because then it's like, well, well maybe there weren't people
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: in the organization saying it right then, that's it was
• 21:28
  Speaker 10: just an open secret, which is true. Uh, you know,
• 21:30
  Speaker 10: it was an open secret. And so that's how it
• 21:32
  Speaker 10: got into some of the stories. Well, well that that's fine.
• 21:36
  Speaker 10: You know, it's like because that's been offered as sort
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: of a defense of the people that are still in
• 21:40
  Speaker 10: the building, like they weren't speaking out of school right then,
• 21:42
  Speaker 10: Like that was just sort of a you know, but
• 21:45
  Speaker 10: but my whole thing is it's been reported that it's
• 21:48
  Speaker 10: like this league wide joke. And I can tell folks
• 21:51
  Speaker 10: out there that all the media people around here knew
• 21:53
  Speaker 10: about this because it was just spoken about like that.
• 21:57
  Speaker 10: My whole point is going back to the culture thing.
• 22:00
  Speaker 10: If you have a good culture, that is that thing
• 22:03
  Speaker 10: of quasy going out for two weeks. If you think
• 22:06
  Speaker 10: that that is bad enough, where Okay, this is indicative.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Of the way he does his job.
• 22:11
  Speaker 10: Fire him then, right, or or it's not a thing
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: and when he comes back it's over the fact that
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: it gets around the league. Right, that's indicative of you
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: talking your crap about him out of school, which by
• 22:26
  Speaker 10: this is to me more troubling that it goes back years.
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: So to me, it doesn't matter if one of the
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: coaches in you know, in that day or the day
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: after with one of their media content. It doesn't matter.
• 22:37
  Speaker 10: He'll let the cat out of the bag long before that.
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: And why did you do it in order to cut
• 22:42
  Speaker 10: him down at the knee? His influence and the respect
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: level that he had by the end there, crazy He
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: wasn't involved in a lot of transactions, right, He didn't
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: finish out the Adam DeLand trade. He didn't want to
• 22:52
  Speaker 10: do the Adam Delen trade, the price got above where
• 22:55
  Speaker 10: he was comfortable. Okay, you can't do it. Send in
• 22:58
  Speaker 10: rob B. He'll get that thing done. That's how that
• 23:00
  Speaker 10: trade got done, did Jonathan Allen negotiations were like that.
• 23:03
  Speaker 10: And it's not just that, right the coaches, and this
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: has been widely reported the draft decisions right arm wrestling
• 23:11
  Speaker 10: for those and they've sort of commenteered the draft process.
• 23:14
  Speaker 10: All of which is to say, I'm not arguing the
• 23:16
  Speaker 10: quazy deserved to keep his job, Like like, do I
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: think he was great at it?
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: No, he was definitely feckless by the end. So I
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: definitely get it.
• 23:25
  Speaker 10: But if you're going to put all that stuff on
• 23:27
  Speaker 10: and and this stuff is bad enough that someone has
• 23:29
  Speaker 10: to go, you almost need to clean out all the
• 23:31
  Speaker 10: house or else.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: None of it well said, well said, all right, so
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: let's do this.
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: We got a few just a few more minutes here
• 23:38
  Speaker 8: with thor and excuse me from looking to the sides.
• 23:40
  Speaker 8: I got my trust the iPad over here, but Vikings
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: Territory dot Com. I used to do some work over
• 23:46
  Speaker 8: at Purple PTSD, so I like checking in with my
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: old fellas here article. Let me make sure I'm just
• 23:52
  Speaker 8: giving people proper credit. Dustin Baker article here, yeah and
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: good old dust yep yep.
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: And here's the thing.
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: He's got a list of about ge'z twenty twenty five
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: names for the Vikings next quarterback, starting with Aaron Rodgers.
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: I'm not going to go through the mall, but just
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: to give you an idea, Gardner Minshew's on the list,
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: Canny pick It, Joe flack O, Malik Willis, who's kind
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: of you know, his stock rising after the playoffs here,
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: Russell Wilson's still out there. He even put Teddy Bridgewater
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: on the list, Tyrod Taylor, Zach Wilson, and you know
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: everybody else that's available as well. Who do you want
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: to see in here? And do you want them to
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: come in? Because there's two scenarios people are talking about,
• 24:46
  Speaker 8: let's sign a quarterback that's going to be the solid
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: number two and if JJ gets injured again, he can
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: come right in and play and blah blah blah blah blah.
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: Or do we want a true quarterback competition. We're gonna
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: sign somebody and effort. Whoever wins this job wins this job,
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: and that's who we're rolling with. What kind of scenario.
• 25:06
  Speaker 8: Would you like to see and throw out a few
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: names that you wouldn't mind seeing the.
• 25:09
  Speaker 10: Purple You have to get a better insurance policy, right,
• 25:13
  Speaker 10: I mean everyone knows on the biggest JJ bobo out there.
• 25:16
  Speaker 10: But it's true, he's played ten games in two seasons, right,
• 25:20
  Speaker 10: and the durability concerns are real there. It's a guy
• 25:23
  Speaker 10: that didn't miss games in college, didn't miss him in
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: high school. Right, he was durable up till now. But
• 25:30
  Speaker 10: obviously with the data points you have here, and that's
• 25:33
  Speaker 10: the thing that sunk last season, right, if you had
• 25:35
  Speaker 10: Daniel Jones, if he could have gotten that done, if
• 25:37
  Speaker 10: he could have gotten done one done for a better
• 25:39
  Speaker 10: backup quarterback, you probably win the game that you needed
• 25:43
  Speaker 10: to get into the playoffs there, right, Hey, and real quick.
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: Can I stop you since you mentioned Daniel Jones. Yeah,
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: it's on the list. His name is on the list.
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: And obviously with him getting injured and the little quarterback reshuffled,
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: there might be an opportunity to maybe look at bringing
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: them back.
• 25:59
  Speaker 10: I don't know, so I think the Colts are going
• 26:02
  Speaker 10: to resign him, like they really like Daniel Jones, And
• 26:05
  Speaker 10: the one issue with that thinking about it. For what
• 26:07
  Speaker 10: the Vikings are looking for is you wouldn't get the
• 26:10
  Speaker 10: guy in camp to you know, quote unquote push JJ
• 26:13
  Speaker 10: or compete with him or however you want to say it.
• 26:15
  Speaker 10: And then also at the beginning of the season, like
• 26:17
  Speaker 10: let's say that you are trepidacious about JJ and camp,
• 26:21
  Speaker 10: right Like if you so, he's not a guy that
• 26:24
  Speaker 10: would be active at that point.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: It wouldn't be until later in the season.
• 26:28
  Speaker 10: Obviously, I advocate for McCarthy starting next year, but I
• 26:32
  Speaker 10: think it's just as obvious or just as in my opinion,
• 26:35
  Speaker 10: just as common sense, you have to get the better
• 26:36
  Speaker 10: backup quarterback.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: They should And Daniel Jones, you know, it was what
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: it was.
• 26:41
  Speaker 10: He knew that he was gonna have a better shot
• 26:42
  Speaker 10: to start with Indianapolis, and then he rebuilt his value
• 26:45
  Speaker 10: real quick, like he made a good business decision. But yeah,
• 26:48
  Speaker 10: the Vikings have to do a better job with that
• 26:50
  Speaker 10: this offseason. For me, I would want the guy where
• 26:53
  Speaker 10: it can be he's it's it's legitimate, you know, whether
• 26:57
  Speaker 10: again competition or however you want to see it in camp,
• 27:00
  Speaker 10: but someone and and so number one number two where
• 27:04
  Speaker 10: they wouldn't embarrass themselves on the field that they're they're
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: going to help out, you know, you know, if and
• 27:08
  Speaker 10: when they are on the field, they're not gonna embarrass themselves.
• 27:11
  Speaker 10: And the number three for me, the last criteria would
• 27:14
  Speaker 10: be someone that I could envision being a good teammate
• 27:18
  Speaker 10: as a backup quarterback if it goes down that way.
• 27:21
  Speaker 10: So that's why for me number one, and you know,
• 27:24
  Speaker 10: I can't believe I think this as well, it's kirkoh oh.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Kirko is the best guy that all the different things.
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: That was my next question, man, that was my next question.
• 27:35
  Speaker 10: It is he showed and I wouldn't have thought this before.
• 27:38
  Speaker 10: He proved things to me by not playing. He proved
• 27:41
  Speaker 10: to me I can be a good teammate and a
• 27:43
  Speaker 10: good influence when the organization goes with the younger guy.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: And not only that, but I will be ready to
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: go the.
• 27:50
  Speaker 10: Second that that guy you know, injured taking off the whatever,
• 27:54
  Speaker 10: when I have to go in, I'm ready to go.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: He proved that to me this past season.
• 27:59
  Speaker 10: I know it wasn't fun for him being in Atlanta,
• 28:01
  Speaker 10: but the fact that he was still the really good
• 28:04
  Speaker 10: soldier and everything like that.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: So you prove that to me.
• 28:06
  Speaker 10: He showed on the field down the stretch last season
• 28:09
  Speaker 10: that he can still play.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: It's a good teammate guy.
• 28:12
  Speaker 10: It's a guy that knows the Kevin O'Connell system, so
• 28:15
  Speaker 10: he checks a lot of boxes. And it shouldn't be
• 28:18
  Speaker 10: too expensive to too expensive right like you would think
• 28:21
  Speaker 10: it would.
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: Made his money. He'd be willing to take, you know,
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: a lower salary at this point of his career.
• 28:29
  Speaker 10: And it's a guy who I can tell you is
• 28:32
  Speaker 10: it's not one hundred percent that Cousins plays next year.
• 28:34
  Speaker 10: He is considering the TV thing, which obviously is retirement
• 28:38
  Speaker 10: in this case, and then starting the career. He'll be
• 28:41
  Speaker 10: fabulous and you know in the booth, but you think
• 28:44
  Speaker 10: about if he decides to play one more year, what
• 28:46
  Speaker 10: would that circumstance look like. He ain't going back to Atlanta,
• 28:49
  Speaker 10: can promise you that he didn't like it there. But
• 28:51
  Speaker 10: you look around, like at the other organizations. I do
• 28:55
  Speaker 10: think that there will be opportunities out there because of
• 28:58
  Speaker 10: how many teams need quarterbacks and in the draft you
• 29:00
  Speaker 10: only have one guy that can play right away. In
• 29:02
  Speaker 10: free agency, as you see, there's very few. You have
• 29:04
  Speaker 10: Malik Willis, You're I mean Daniel Jones a viable one,
• 29:07
  Speaker 10: but he hurt, right, Like, you just have so a
• 29:10
  Speaker 10: few and you have all these teams that need quarterbacks.
• 29:13
  Speaker 10: So it is certainly theoretically possible that there will be
• 29:15
  Speaker 10: a situation that either offers Kirk Moore year one money
• 29:20
  Speaker 10: next season and or could promise him the starting job,
• 29:24
  Speaker 10: at least initially. Then you know, then the Vikings could
• 29:27
  Speaker 10: because they're not going to do that with him. But
• 29:29
  Speaker 10: I do think there's still a shot that he might
• 29:32
  Speaker 10: pick Minnesota anyway if he wants to play the one
• 29:35
  Speaker 10: more season, because you think about some of the situations
• 29:37
  Speaker 10: where it could be like, all right, dude, we'll give
• 29:40
  Speaker 10: you a twenty four million next year and guarantee you're
• 29:43
  Speaker 10: the Week one starter, and you think, just logically, okay,
• 29:46
  Speaker 10: he probably but if it's a situation like the Jets,
• 29:49
  Speaker 10: it's a situation like the Browns, ye right, why in
• 29:52
  Speaker 10: his last season a guy who you can tell that
• 29:55
  Speaker 10: Kirk Cousins has feelings and stuff, but he's viewed as
• 29:58
  Speaker 10: a mercenary. There is not one fan base that like
• 30:01
  Speaker 10: owns Kirk Cousins because the way his career went down,
• 30:03
  Speaker 10: right like the Washington left him in free agency, the
• 30:06
  Speaker 10: way it ended in Minnesota Atlanta.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Obviously that thing was doomed from the start.
• 30:11
  Speaker 10: If you go back to Minnesota though, and play it
• 30:13
  Speaker 10: out for one last season, whether you get on the
• 30:15
  Speaker 10: field and you have a good season or whether you're
• 30:17
  Speaker 10: just a really good teammate, you're gonna get readopted by Minnesota.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: We know Minnesota, don't events.
• 30:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we do, and we that's kind of my problem
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: with Minnesota at times. Yeah, come on back, you're one
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: back and this.
• 30:29
  Speaker 10: And that, I hear you, and send them off into
• 30:31
  Speaker 10: retirement where you go into the TV booth and there's
• 30:34
  Speaker 10: really good feelings and vibes with that. I actually think
• 30:37
  Speaker 10: someone like Kirk Cousins would put a value on that.
• 30:39
  Speaker 10: I don't know how much you would value that against
• 30:41
  Speaker 10: some of these other things, but I do think that's
• 30:43
  Speaker 10: the best option, and I absolutely think it's in play.
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: Thor.
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: You know, if you're a Kirk Cousins fan out there,
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: you just heard, you know, a five star case for
• 30:53
  Speaker 8: bringing them back, because you know, personally, I'm I'm like,
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: you know, we we've done it. We've you know, we
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: did what we did with Kurt, and can only get
• 31:02
  Speaker 8: so far. Blah blah blah, blah, you make a very
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: valid case. I mean, I'm gonna be honest with you
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: make a valid case because honestly, there's you know, it's
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: just a bunch of question marks out there all the
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: way around. And like you said, I think the good
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: point that you bring up is him being a good teammate.
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: And that's where even I as as you were talking there,
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: I started kind of thinking about it myself and being like, yeah,
• 31:25
  Speaker 8: that is a very good point because it's such a
• 31:27
  Speaker 8: you know, the it's the diva position on the football team,
• 31:30
  Speaker 8: and yeah, you don't want to get somebody in there
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: who is not you know, a team player, and then
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: may even be sabotaging JJ or something like that.
• 31:38
  Speaker 10: So you know, and however that decision goes like, you know,
• 31:42
  Speaker 10: if it's JJ and then there's the veteran, and it's
• 31:45
  Speaker 10: it's forwarded as a camp competition.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Whatever.
• 31:47
  Speaker 10: The point when you're going to have to announce to
• 31:49
  Speaker 10: the week one starter is the media. Then they're going
• 31:51
  Speaker 10: to do what they've been doing the vikings last couple
• 31:53
  Speaker 10: of months and trying to coax them to criticize their teammates,
• 31:56
  Speaker 10: you know, and you have to have a guy that's
• 31:58
  Speaker 10: going to be cool with it, right, that's going to
• 32:00
  Speaker 10: be a good soldier if that's the way that it
• 32:02
  Speaker 10: ends up going down. And we know that that's going
• 32:04
  Speaker 10: to be the case of Cousins because we've already seen it, right,
• 32:08
  Speaker 10: So I mean that just sort of is what it is.
• 32:10
  Speaker 10: And I know that there's people out out there that
• 32:11
  Speaker 10: are like, you know, both, I never want to see
• 32:14
  Speaker 10: Cousins again.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: I get that.
• 32:16
  Speaker 10: And I know that there's also people out there that
• 32:18
  Speaker 10: are like, I think Jaj McCarthy's a bus Now. I
• 32:22
  Speaker 10: understand maybe that less, you know, but I get it.
• 32:25
  Speaker 10: And you're like, I don't want either of those two guys.
• 32:27
  Speaker 10: I want to clean house. What I would tell those
• 32:30
  Speaker 10: folks is forget the names. Forget the names on both
• 32:35
  Speaker 10: of them. That just the profile of what Cousins is,
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  Speaker 10: what he sort of represents as the one year stopgap thing,
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  Speaker 10: where then you have.
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  Speaker 2: Two quarterbacks that can play right that thing.
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  Speaker 10: And then you look at this situation that we're in
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  Speaker 10: right now in time where the twenty twenty seven NFL Draft,
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  Speaker 10: the quarterback class is going to be one of the
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  Speaker 10: best ones we've seen for the last twenty five years.
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  Speaker 2: In my opinion, there's already four first round Locke quarterbacks
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  Speaker 2: in that class.
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  Speaker 10: That's Arch Manning, Dante Moore, Leonora Sellers, and Julian Saying,
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  Speaker 10: and you have a list of like eight guys behind
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  Speaker 10: that that have a shot to go in for the
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  Speaker 10: first round.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 10: The last stat quarterback class of twenty twenty, the one
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  Speaker 10: with Nix and McCarthy and Jade and Daniels and Caleb
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  Speaker 10: and everything, he had six of twelve, right, and then
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  Speaker 10: there was a break until the fourth round. This class
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  Speaker 10: that's coming up here a year from April and twenty
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  Speaker 10: twenty seven is definitely going to compete with that in
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  Speaker 10: terms of qualitatively and just if you're a Vikings fan
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  Speaker 10: thinking this through of how they have set up the
• 33:41
  Speaker 10: books and everything and what they're looking for in next
• 33:44
  Speaker 10: year's team, but then also in the future, I think
• 33:47
  Speaker 10: again it's just common sense of playing the thing out
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  Speaker 10: for one more season. And if you think McCarthy stinks
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  Speaker 10: out there, you think he's a bust, great play him
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  Speaker 10: and work your way to the top of the twenty
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  Speaker 10: twenty seven board. Or if, like myself, you think the
• 34:02
  Speaker 10: JJ is going to be a star, why would you
• 34:04
  Speaker 10: pull the plug early? It's common sense on both sides
• 34:07
  Speaker 10: of it to see it. And after year three is
• 34:11
  Speaker 10: when you have to know with the rookie, the first
• 34:14
  Speaker 10: round rookies, because that's when you have to make the
• 34:17
  Speaker 10: decision on the fifth year option is leading into the
• 34:19
  Speaker 10: fourth year, so that's when you need your data right,
• 34:22
  Speaker 10: So you have to see mccarthyel this year to know
• 34:25
  Speaker 10: whether you want to do that, because if you don't know,
• 34:27
  Speaker 10: that means that you're not going to do it, then
• 34:29
  Speaker 10: the asset has no value that's one.
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  Speaker 2: Year from now if that's what it ends up being.
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  Speaker 10: Right, So to me, this is just sort of common sense,
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  Speaker 10: And again I think it's a vital importance this offseason,
• 34:39
  Speaker 10: right near the top of the needs list, go out
• 34:42
  Speaker 10: and get another quarterback that you feel comfortable playing, that
• 34:45
  Speaker 10: can fit all these different things.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: But you probably don't want the multi year guy.
• 34:48
  Speaker 10: You don't have a bunch of money to spend, and
• 34:51
  Speaker 10: you need a guy that potentially could be cool holding
• 34:54
  Speaker 10: the clipboard there.
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  Speaker 2: So for all those reasons, I think, cousins.
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  Speaker 6: There you go.
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  Speaker 8: Well, perfect spot to end it on man Thor, thank
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  Speaker 8: you so much for joining us here. It's been a
• 35:05
  Speaker 8: wonderful half hour and you know, love to get you
• 35:09
  Speaker 8: back down the road, and then you know, talk some
• 35:11
  Speaker 8: other sports as well as I know, you know obviously
• 35:13
  Speaker 8: you follow Gophers and this and that.
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: But before we get you out of here, tell the
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: folks where they can find you, where they can listen
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: to you all that good stuff.
• 35:21
  Speaker 10: Yeah, you can find me on Score North. You mentioned
• 35:24
  Speaker 10: Thor Talks Purple. I appreciate that. That's five days a week,
• 35:27
  Speaker 10: Monday through Friday, and then we do another show called
• 35:30
  Speaker 10: Football Takes where it's more like National NFL. But the
• 35:34
  Speaker 10: Football Takes show on Score North is where all my
• 35:36
  Speaker 10: NFL draft stuff is going to be this spring, so
• 35:38
  Speaker 10: the mock drafts, the position rankings leading up to doing
• 35:42
  Speaker 10: the five hundred player big board, you know, sleepers, We're
• 35:45
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• 35:47
  Speaker 10: weeks from right now is the day that I'm leaving
• 35:49
  Speaker 10: on Wednesday, and we'll have all the live coverage from
• 35:53
  Speaker 10: the NFL Combine there as well.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: But yeah, check us out at Score.
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: North absolutely and we'll definitely get you back on after
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: the combine. It's gonna be really love yeah for sure.
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: All right, Thorp, Well, thank you so much, my friend.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Vince.
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: All right, there you have it, folks, Thorn and Eistrom
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