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  Speaker 1: Awesome guest this week. You know him from Transformers, Buddy Games,
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  Speaker 1: fan Josh Dumel is on the show. This was a
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  Speaker 1: Josh Dumel. New series on on CBS based on the
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  Speaker 1: hit movie Buddy Games, diehard Viking fan. What's up, dude,
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  Speaker 1: How you.
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  Speaker 3: Doing, man, It's good to see you. Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: I will say you. Before we started recording, we were
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  Speaker 1: chatting and you said a sentence that I didn't react to,
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  Speaker 1: but I need you to know I was furious about
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  Speaker 1: because in the Midwest, everybody loves fall. To me, it's
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  Speaker 1: just the death of summer and sunshine and happiness. And
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  Speaker 1: you said out loud, Hold on a second, my dog
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  Speaker 1: just chased a lizard through like as I saw sun
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  Speaker 1: beaming across your face. Yeah, that's hunting as you Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: as your little Friendschie sits in front of his pool
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  Speaker 1: in the beautiful sun. I'm very jealous, man. But you were.
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  Speaker 1: You were back in in the Great State for the
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  Speaker 1: home opener, right, I was.
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  Speaker 2: I was, and I thought for sure we'd have a nice,
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  Speaker 2: you know, opening game against the Buccaneers new quarterback Baker,
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  Speaker 2: who's always a little scary because he's he's a battler
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  Speaker 2: of that dude. Yeah, but I figured we that was
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  Speaker 2: a game that we would win handily. And I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what. I don't know what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I still believe in this team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I really do.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I feel like we're going to get
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  Speaker 3: it together.
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  Speaker 2: We got another tough one this weekend against the Chargers
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  Speaker 2: and they're owing to so something's got to give there.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they want to win just like we want
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  Speaker 3: to win. So I don't know. I'm hoping to get
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  Speaker 3: our shit together soon.
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  Speaker 1: I I also hoping that, and I it's always hard
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  Speaker 1: to I know Baker Mayfield at times has been very,
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  Speaker 1: very good, and it's not I don't spend my time
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  Speaker 1: on this show going after people, but it never surprises me.
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  Speaker 1: When he rises up. He feels like football's version of
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  Speaker 1: a bar fighter. Yeah, Like, why do you got those
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  Speaker 1: big pads on? He's a little too husky and a
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  Speaker 1: little too cocky, Like at any given point in time,
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  Speaker 1: you could see that guy getting beaten into a wall
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  Speaker 1: or throwing three people out of door. There's just something
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  Speaker 1: odd about him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean since college.
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  Speaker 2: If you think, if you go back to where where
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  Speaker 2: do you start Texas Tech and then transferred to Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he walked on at both schools. Wild
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  Speaker 3: won the starting job.
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  Speaker 2: He is bounced around the league, was picked number one
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  Speaker 2: overall by the Browns, played pretty well, made the Browns
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  Speaker 2: better than they've been in years. Yeah, left there and
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  Speaker 2: went to, uh, where do you go?
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  Speaker 3: After that?
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  Speaker 1: He went spent a little time in Carolina that was horrible,
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  Speaker 1: and then he had that amazing football resurrection moment last year,
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  Speaker 1: you remember, where it's like everyone's like his career is over.
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  Speaker 1: And on Wednesday he flew to La started one game,
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  Speaker 1: played horrible, but had an amazing drive and everybody's like
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  Speaker 1: he's still a starter and he got a job.
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  Speaker 3: It was crazy, and then he goes in back. The
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  Speaker 3: guy is an absolute battler.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't want to make this whole thing
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  Speaker 2: about Baker Mayfield, but mad respect for that guy. Seriously,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, talk about a dude who wasn't sort of
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  Speaker 2: he didn't come up as a blue chip for his
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  Speaker 2: whole life and was the sort of you know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: don You're going to be a superstar. He's at a
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  Speaker 2: battle for every single job he's had, and he just
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  Speaker 2: seems to keep winning these jobs and he knows how
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  Speaker 2: to win football games.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, what was it? So here's the thing. You got
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  Speaker 1: to be a part of the festivities for the opener.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you grew up a fan of the team.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to ask you, like, oh Josh, tell
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  Speaker 1: me what that's like. I don't want to go radio
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  Speaker 1: on you. But genuinely, when you grow up this team
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  Speaker 1: dominates this area, You grew up loving him. What was
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  Speaker 1: it like to be so intertwined with the organization you
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  Speaker 1: love so much?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the truth is, you know, when I was living
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  Speaker 2: in mine out North Dakota, everybody was a Vikings fan.
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  Speaker 2: They always pissed us off, and as a young kid,
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I'm not going to root for the bikes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be a Cowboys fan. So for a
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  Speaker 2: good part of my life I was a Cowboys fan first,
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  Speaker 2: Vikings fan second. And then I moved to California. This
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  Speaker 2: is half my lifetime ago, probably twenty six years ago now,
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  Speaker 2: And when I moved away, I started to realize how
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  Speaker 2: much it's almost like when you got a younger brother
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  Speaker 2: or sister and you beat up on them all the time,
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  Speaker 2: but then when somebody else beats up on him, you
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  Speaker 2: defend him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It was like it was like, no, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I love that team. That is the team that I
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  Speaker 2: really actually love. I just didn't want to admit it before.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, twenty five twenty six years ago was
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  Speaker 2: when I really really started being a hardcore fan.
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  Speaker 3: And I always was.
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  Speaker 2: I always followed him, but it wasn't until I moved
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  Speaker 2: away from home that it was like my connection to home.
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  Speaker 3: The Vikings were kind of my connection to home.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I've developed a great relationship with Brian
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  Speaker 2: Harper and a lot of the guys over there at
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings, and you know, they've been really they've been
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  Speaker 2: really cool to me. You know, every time I come,
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  Speaker 2: they they let me go down on the field for
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. I got to I got to beat
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  Speaker 2: the skull drawn last weekend or the opening weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Does any part of you have them? So? I remember
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  Speaker 1: the first time I got to get down on the field,
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  Speaker 1: I had that moment in my brain where I was like,
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  Speaker 1: these people have no clue what I'm capable of.
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  Speaker 4: I've been like like they let me, Like I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: I might go talk to Brett Favv right now, I
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  Speaker 4: shouldn't be on the field, Like was a part of
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  Speaker 4: did any part of you have that psycho fan that
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  Speaker 4: you're like, keep it together, Josh, keep it together.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's watching keep it together.
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  Speaker 2: It's really hard for me not to go out into
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  Speaker 2: the field and start throwing start throwing out routes. Yea,
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  Speaker 2: I so badly want to go out there and start
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  Speaker 2: chucking the ball around, but I just can't do it.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, it's Uh.
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  Speaker 2: There's something about being on that football field, and it
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  Speaker 2: also makes you realize once you are down there on
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  Speaker 2: the field that you have no business playing with those guys.
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  Speaker 3: They are just monsters.
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  Speaker 2: It's wild playing at Minus State University. See that te
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  Speaker 2: shirt back in the day I played quarterback there. I
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  Speaker 2: thought those guys were monsters and they wouldn't even play.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't even as big as the cornerbacks. Yeah, like
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  Speaker 2: the free safeties in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: You're a big dude, you put together. I'm about six
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  Speaker 1: or four. I remember one of the first times I
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  Speaker 1: was down there. I was standing over by the tunnel
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  Speaker 1: because you know the groups in pregame, the groups come
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  Speaker 1: out by group. It's like, oh, here come the corners,
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  Speaker 1: now here come the wide receivers together and I remember
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  Speaker 1: these dudes coming out and I'm like, all right, all right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm out. And then you see the offensive linemen coming out.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, that's the biggest man I've ever seen in
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  Speaker 1: my life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they've got a whole stable of them. And
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  Speaker 2: then the d linemen come out and they're as big,
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  Speaker 2: but just all muscle, yes, and.
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  Speaker 3: Just want to literally kill you, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And I that's why I have such mad respect for
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  Speaker 2: these quarterbacks who can hang in there and just take
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  Speaker 2: hit after hit, because it takes a lot of courage knowing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's not as bad as they're a lot
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  Speaker 2: more protected now than they used to be.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, and I think because of that they're a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more bold.
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  Speaker 2: But still, you know, guys, they're coming downhill at you
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  Speaker 2: as hard as they can, and you know, it's a
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  Speaker 2: pretty scary feeling.
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  Speaker 1: I've said this a million times. I was on a
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  Speaker 1: bike ride once and I got like drilled in the
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  Speaker 1: face with a butterfly and it ruined. It ruined a
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  Speaker 1: good couple days for me. I can't imagine one of
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  Speaker 1: these men landing on my body. That's not I'm not
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  Speaker 1: trying to sound weak, but.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, did you have to go into concussion protocol?
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  Speaker 1: I should have, I can tell you I should have.
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  Speaker 1: I complained enough that everybody was like, if you don't
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  Speaker 1: have a concussion. We need to get you into therapy
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  Speaker 1: because this is not the way a grown man should Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we were watching I had a bunch of buddies over
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  Speaker 1: and we were watching the Monday night games. They had
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  Speaker 1: the dual games last night, and Kenny Pickett had a
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  Speaker 1: rough go and one of the guys there was a
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  Speaker 1: Steelers fan, and the amount of words he was calling
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  Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett while Pickett was under duress. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: we all can have expectations for guys who you know,
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  Speaker 1: are hired to do a job. Like if your plumber
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  Speaker 1: shows up, like and he's he looks like a plumber,
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  Speaker 1: you expect him to plumb.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I understand how people would feel that way about
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  Speaker 1: Kenny Pickett, but he was going so hard. I was like, man, Scott,
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  Speaker 1: if I like tripped you, it would end our friendship.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta give this dude a break. They're so fast.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think I still think Kenny Pickett's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a good quarterback for them.
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  Speaker 1: You know I do too.
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  Speaker 3: It's tough.
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  Speaker 2: It takes these guys a couple of years, you know,
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  Speaker 2: even Zach Wilson in New York. It's like they New
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  Speaker 2: Yorkers are so quick to just turn on these guys. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: they threw them in there.
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  Speaker 3: I think he was he should have been a senior
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  Speaker 3: for his rookie year, and he just wasn't ready, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and it just crushed his confidence. My hope for them
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  Speaker 3: is that Rogers sticks around, does the right thing he's
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  Speaker 3: done for the season most likely, and really mentors this
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  Speaker 3: kid because I'd love to see him figure it out
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  Speaker 3: in New York and prove all those haters wrong.
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  Speaker 1: It's the best thing about New York is their hate
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  Speaker 1: because everyone So it's like when Porzingis faded off the map,
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  Speaker 1: but when Porzingis came in and was a beast those
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  Speaker 1: first six games and he had that like you doubted
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  Speaker 1: me vibe, that was about as good as it gets. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you played quarterbacks, so here's as we're talking about quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: I think the thing that's most fascinating to me is
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  Speaker 1: the like is exactly what you're saying. It's not just
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  Speaker 1: whether or not you can do it, it's the situation
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  Speaker 1: you're placed in. Right. I don't think people the regular
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  Speaker 1: fan you went through this like, they don't understand what
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  Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator truly means. What the coaching staff, what
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  Speaker 1: the like at the NFL level, the organizational support, like
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  Speaker 1: all the factors that go into allowing someone a proper
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  Speaker 1: learning curve at in high level athletics is wild, and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it really doesn't matter how good you are. I
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  Speaker 1: think there are quarterbacks who flamed out of the league that,
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  Speaker 1: had they flip flopped with another guy, might have had
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  Speaker 1: a really successful career.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're absolutely right.
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  Speaker 2: I think that so much of the success of a
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  Speaker 2: quarterback depends on the coaching that they have around them,
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  Speaker 2: the sort of organizational support, you know, and some teams
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  Speaker 2: are really good at it.
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  Speaker 3: Damn Packers seem to be really good at it.
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  Speaker 1: I can't do it, man, I've said this on this
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  Speaker 1: show before. They are the trust fund babies of the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: They're fans, like, yeah, they are, like and if going
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  Speaker 1: from far to Rogers was like watching a sixteen year
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  Speaker 1: old crash a Ferrari and so his dad buys him
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  Speaker 1: a Maserati. Yeah, if I have to watch Jordan Love
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  Speaker 1: be a Hall of Famer for sixteen years and then
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  Speaker 1: win one more, I can't do it, dude, I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I have too many relatives in that state.
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  Speaker 2: I was so sure he was gonna suck, and then
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  Speaker 2: I saw him play. I was like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: this kid is good. He's really good. Although they did
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  Speaker 2: lose last week, so maybe and he did have a
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  Speaker 2: chance to. You know, I don't know if he's got
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  Speaker 2: what Rogers had, that last minute sort of comeback ability
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  Speaker 2: because he could have done it and they weren't able to.
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  Speaker 3: But he's got a lot of talent.
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  Speaker 1: You've played, doesn't he have that thing? That what scares me?
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  Speaker 1: And I can't quantify this. You quantify this for me
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  Speaker 1: as an actual human who knows football. The way his
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  Speaker 1: the way he floats and moves fluidly into his like
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  Speaker 1: just his footwork and his ease in which he is
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  Speaker 1: progressing and moving. I go, ah, damn it, that's actually
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  Speaker 1: I'm worried that That's a good thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: It is a good thing because you know, and I've
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  Speaker 2: been really hard on Cousins over the years, I really
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  Speaker 2: root for the guy now after getting to know him
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  Speaker 2: a little bit on the h I've never met met
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  Speaker 2: him in person, but watching him on the Netflix show,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I can't help but they're root for the guy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you're going to take those two players.
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  Speaker 2: For example, like Kirk feels like he's really working. He's
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  Speaker 2: putting a lot of effort into everything he does. Yes, Jordan,
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  Speaker 2: it seems to come easy, like he just kind of
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  Speaker 2: floats around the ball and just kind of flies off
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  Speaker 2: his fingertips. Again, he's three games, two games in. It's
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  Speaker 2: way too early to tell, but you know, it does
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  Speaker 2: look as if he.
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  Speaker 3: Might have a lot of ability, and I hope. Oh man,
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  Speaker 3: I just can't. I have too many Packer fan friends.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't do it drive me nuts, and they
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  Speaker 2: just don't deserve another good quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but they just don't.
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  Speaker 1: What I need is to be able to continue to
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  Speaker 1: say the sentence that I have said for the last
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  Speaker 1: twelve years or so, which is I understand that you
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  Speaker 1: guys one football back when it was played with leather helmets,
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  Speaker 1: but since the grownups came around in the two thousands.
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  Speaker 1: I know you're you're giving us shit, but you have
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  Speaker 1: won exactly as many titles as you've had been featured
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  Speaker 1: on making the Murderer as a state, So like I
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  Speaker 1: I don't like I want that to stay the same.
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  Speaker 1: I want the amount of titles and the amount of
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  Speaker 1: controversial Steve Avery convictions in Wisconsin to stay the same
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  Speaker 1: for all of eternity. I think that's that's I have
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  Speaker 1: a harsh I'm gonna I'm I'm gonna have a real
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  Speaker 1: harsh stance on it. I can't imagine your career is
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  Speaker 1: ever gonna go wrong. You've made a lot of great stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But if it does, let me give you some advice.
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  Speaker 1: Have somebody follow you around and make a documentary, because
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  Speaker 1: holy shit, that's a good way to like somebody.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and he does seem like a really likable dude.
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  Speaker 2: I do like his work ethic. Yeah, he's tough as nails.
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  Speaker 2: He shows up every Sunday to play. You know, his
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  Speaker 2: stats are great. I just need him to to have
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  Speaker 2: whatever that is that some of these quarterbacks have that
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  Speaker 2: you know, if there's two minutes left in the down seven,
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  Speaker 2: there's a good chance they're gonna win the football game.
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  Speaker 3: Last year, I thought he did a really good job.
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  Speaker 2: For the first time ever, the Vikings were winning games
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  Speaker 2: and in the end that normally we lose, and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, God, that's that's maybe maybe this is the year.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, then to see a sort of flame
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  Speaker 2: out there at the end, just in others. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they always find a new way to break your heart,
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  Speaker 2: and they did it again last year. But maybe he
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  Speaker 2: needed this, this sort of validation from the world that
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  Speaker 2: that suddenly is rooting for him and he can get
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  Speaker 2: that monkey off his back and sort of let go
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  Speaker 2: and just play free. But you know, we're owned two.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hoping we can. We can turn it around quick.
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  Speaker 3: It's not over. You can't go fifteen to two without
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  Speaker 3: losing two games, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: That's a very that's you handle this. Here's what I'm
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  Speaker 1: watching in your eyeballs, Josh. You you managed to do
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  Speaker 1: what I'm not capable of. You walk through how you're feeling,
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  Speaker 1: and then you summarize up you always you're like, but
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  Speaker 1: you know you could always win every game from here
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: on out. What I do is I walk through my
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: feelings and then I spiral into nothingness.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: You know, cup half full, man, I mean, it's it's.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Uh, it's enviable.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: It is enviable. It's a little hateable with the sunshine
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: on your face, but it is enviable.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: We know that we have a good football team, right absolutely.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: I think I think we got a lot of talent.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: I'm a little concerned we lost too many good players.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: But I like the I like the upgrade at defensive coordinator.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: I think that he's going to do a good job.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Awesome.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: I do really like Kevin O'Connell. I like our GM.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: You know, we got maybe the best wide receiving duo
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: in the league. Yes, but you know we got talent.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: We got a lot of talent. It's just a matter
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: of now, we just got to put together some wins.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: I will say it is a unique way to lose
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: two games.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: It's to go and turn the ball all over that
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: many times. It's almost like who's ever in charge? If
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: there's a god that's in charge of football, he watched
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: last season, He's like, I'm gonna watch these guys this year.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: I gotta pay attention to this that got out of
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: hand last year. So I'm hoping. I'm hoping that we're
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: paid down now, right, Yeah, we paid off our debt
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: for last season. Let us have a nice time against
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: the Chargers. Let us go out and have some smiles.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, I agree. You know you gotta get one.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: You gotta get you And the nice thing is is
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: that everybody else in our division loss last week, Yes,
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: you know that at least we didn't lose any ground.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: So we're still you know, we're still in the game.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: We still have a legitimate team. We can't we can't
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: lose another one or two without stringing together a few wins.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Here though, I couldn't agree more. Let me let me
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: get you out of here, dude. Let me ask you
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: a couple questions that I think fans will love a
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: lot so Buddy Games. If you haven't seen the series,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: go see the series, watch the movies, two of them
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: out now. If you had to like, which four vikings?
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: I'm putting you on the spot. So I'm gonna dance
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: around the question and give you time. But which four
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: vikings do you feel like would be the best at
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Buddy Games? Challenge slat like an episode? You know, because
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: part of that Buddy Games didn't just It isn't just
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: a physical ability. It's about a bond and a cohesion
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: and an ability to work together, right.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and and recognize each other's strengths weaknesses. It's it's mental.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: It's it's assigning certain people certain jobs, like Philadelphia was
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: terrible at that this year.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you'll you'll find out if you watch this. It's
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: really funny. Man.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: I'm like, why would you make Anthony swim you can't swim?
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: And why would Anthony were a sweatshirt when he's trying
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: to swim, you just have the swet. The Sweatster's not
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: gonna keep him warm in the water, you dummy. So anyway,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: there's a good example of not of of of not
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: making good decisions within the team. Uh So who I
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: who would I pick? I think I'd go Kyle Okay.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I feel like he's a good teammate. Who would who
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: could do a lot of different things.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Love it.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: You need a guy that when you need pure muscle
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: and pure grit. I'd go John Randall.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I love that we're going all time vikings because that's
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: going to open my answer up to a whole new world.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: John Randall's a NonStop motivation.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: And he's trashing everybody else. That's a dude that makes
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: the most sense.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: And also that's part of the game too. You got
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: to be able to talk a lot of smack uh
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: and sabotage the other team. I want to say, feeling
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: for some reason, just because he's from near where my
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: cabin is in Minnesota.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll give a little bit of hometown tie.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: And he's a good utility man and uh, you know
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: he'll surprise you with this. You think he's you think
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: he's one thing, but he's a lot more than that.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: And then I'll go with let's go with uh Jefferson.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Why not?
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: It's hard not to pick Jefferson. Yeah, I'm going to
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: go a different direction with it here, Okay, And I
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: understand that I'm going to lose. I put this team together,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: but I like just putting some odd people together and
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: see I go to the Philadelphia route. I just want
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: to see how you guys can handle a tense situation.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna pick Jerry Ball from the early days,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Big Jerry Ball, three hundred and eighty pounds, Jerry Ball.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I'm going that's a nineteen ninety eight poll right there.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Wassawa Orwanga because I think you
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: need the greatest name in Viking's history. I'm gonna put
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: him on there. I'm gonna go with TJ. Hockinson just
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: because I want that beautiful hair running through the course.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: And then I think you need somebody who can keep
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: everybody on track, and either he can bring you up
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: to where you need to be or for not. At
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: least it's gonna be fun to watch him freak out.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna throw Mike Zimmer in there. I'm gonna
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: throw a Zim on top of those three men and
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: watch them try to navigate an episode. I don't think
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: it's gonna go well, Josh, but I think I'm tuning in.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Uh well, this would be My one critique is that
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: you do have to you do have to have some endurance.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of like real there's a couple of
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: events where you are sucking wind.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, did I pick a couple of people who don't
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: have to throw?
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Mister Ball and mister Zimmer might struggle.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I like being the underdog man, but you never know.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: You know they're scrappy, man, You can never tell.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: We might just surprise someone.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Really hard to predict.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: People hate this. I put them on the spot. Let
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: me get a prediction for this week against the Chargers
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: of Score prediction.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: This is what I think. I think we win. I
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: think we win soundly. I think we win like thirty
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: five to seventeen.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, I love that. I'm gonna go Chargers thirteen Vikings
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: one hundred and forty eight. Josh, you're the king Man.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: It means a ton that you took a few minutes
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: to do this.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: You're you're a bigger You're a bigger homer than Pa Man.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: You watch your mouth, You watch your damn mouth. I
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: that's that's I'm the I lie to myself in an
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: aggressive way, Mark king Man. We appreciate it. Thank you
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: so much for hanging out all right, I appreciate it.
• 22:12
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• 22:15
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