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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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times a week. All right, before I talk about the
Minnesota Vikings, there was a big story recently that involved
another plane crash. Unfortunately, there's been a lot of plane
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crashes recently. Of course, you had the one in Washington, DC,
Ronald Reagan. You've had near Ronald Reagan International Report, which
I have flown into countless times I've lived in Washington, DC.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
And this actually brings me back to.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
A memory on a plane when I was about to
land at Reagan, which I'm knowing what we know now.
Who knows how true it is, but it is a
scary situation. We're descending to land at Ronald Reagan and
then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, the plane
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changes course of action or descending. We're descending, we're descending,
we're descending, and alsen it goes straight up into the
air and almost like I was trying to avoid something.
Who knows what it was trying to avoid. Obviously we
avoided it, but it was not a natural descent onto
the ground. To Ronald Reagan International Airport, it is one
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of the busiest airports in the world. Is stand down there,
you watch the planes come in, and there's a plane
coming in like every three to four minutes. They have
a watching viewing area right by Ronald Reagan International Airport
where the planes literally fly straight over your head. It
almost seems like you could touch it. Obviously you can't,
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and you stand there and there are planes coming in
over and over and over again. So Dallas Airport, I've
never even touched my foot near that airport because the
convenience of Ronald Reagan is so close. But anyways, the
point that I was trying to get to is that
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there was another Delta crash. A Minneapolis plane going to Toronto, Canada,
landed awkwardly, put too much pressure or force on that
front wheel. The plane flipped and thankfully, miraculously, nobody was
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seriously injured on that plane.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
There's a couple of people that had to go to
the hospital and.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Get checked out and maybe even have an overnight stay,
but nobody had a life threatening injury after that crash,
and a few days after the Delta Airlines decided to
make a decision for every passenger on board. And the
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decision is this. Delta Airlines is now offering a thirty
thousand dollars payoff to victims of their plane crash, just
two days after it occurred, and someone posted this question,
are they trying to pay people out to get ahead
of the impending DEI pilot revelations. Delta and Operator Endeavor,
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famous for their all female crews, have still refused to
identify the pilots who crashed the plane. And I think
we all know why that came from Nick soortor on
x and seeing this story play out and following it closely,
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because this was a plane from Minneapolis landing in Toronto,
I can't help but ask myself a hypothetical question, would
you be a part of a plane crash know you
would survive one hundred percent chance of survival and then
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you would be guaranteed thirty thousand dollars afterwards. If you
knew the fact that you would survive this plane crash
and we're going to be given thirty thousand dollars because
of the accident, then would you accept that? Now, I'm
afraid of heights, and think about the mental toll that
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this would take.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Maybe that's.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Too much to overcome when you think about getting a
free thirty thousand dollars. I'm afraid of heights. I don't
ever want to go on the power tower at Value Fair.
But if you offered me thirty thousand dollars to go
on the power tower at Value Fair, sign me up,
and I'd gone at ten times in a row. But
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this is different. This is a plane literally crashing. But
if you knew the outcome of this situation before the
situation happened, Obviously, if it was a fifty to fifty outcome,
or even a seventy five twenty five outcome, even if
it was a ninety five five percent outcome survival to
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death thread, I would not participate in this. But if
you knew you had one hundred percent chance of survival
and you would walk out unscathed and you'd be.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Just fine, would you do it? Would you do it
thirty thousand dollars. It's a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
But this is a Minnesota Vikings podcast, and I talked
about the Minnesota Vikings. That's why it's the Minnesota Vikings podcast.
Former Vikings punter. This is not my a topic, but
I'm gonna get there in a second. Former Vikings punter
Chris Klooey. Remember that guy Chris kloe was arrested while
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protesting the Mega Movement in front of a city council
meaning about President Trump. He called it a Nazi movement
and said he would also engage in civil disobedience. The
place handcuffed him and carried him out. Now, I don't
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get too political. I'm definitely not a left winger, and
if you had to ask me if I'm more of
a left winger or right winger, I'm definitely more of
a right winger because of what that party stands for.
But I think both sides of the party are messed up.
I voted in the twenty twenty four election, but I
did not vote in the twenty twenty election because I
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chose that the President of the United States doesn't dictate
how good of a life that I can create for myself,
I believe that hard work and dedication and thinking smartly
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determines what happens, and of course, by the faithfulness of
the Lord Jesus Christ, that will determine a lot about
what happens to you and where you end up in life.
But taking a look at Chris Kluie's comments, now, just
a few months ago people called Trump hitler and then
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he is almost assassinated in Pennsylvania, and then everyone came, well,
we just need a band together and come together and
unite and have civil conversation and talk.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
And let's stop with the name calling.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And that stopped for about a day, and then about
two weeks later people were back calling Trump hitler.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Oh, Trump's hitler. All his plan is Hitler esque. What
would you call.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Joe Biden and his plan letting in thousands, if not
thousands and thousands more of illegal immigrants coming across the
southern border. What if Trump is a Nazi for his plan,
then what is Joe Biden? What is his plan? It's
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so funny, how you know, if you're a right winger
you hate everything the left does. And if you're a
left winger like Chris Cluley, obvious it obviously is then
you hate everything Donald Trump does.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And I've always posed this question to.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
People that are right wingers about left wingers, and to
left winger is about right wingers. If a left winger
Chris Kluey, who's probably not strugglingguer cash, or maybe he is,
I can't remember how long his career was. But if
you are a left winger and Donald Trump walked into
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your house right now and offered you five hundred thousand
dollars just because you're a good American citizen, would you
still despise Donald Trump?
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Would you still hate him?
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Same thing to a right winger if Joe Biden walked
into your office and offered you six hundred thousand dollars
because he wanted a one up Trump, would you still
despise Joe Biden? Would you still stand up against the
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decisions that are the policies that he implemented? And just
a random question. I don't mean to get too political,
but time to get into the a topic. After ten
minutes of rambling about whatever nonsense I just rambled about,
this is my podcast. I can do whatever the heckuy want.
Thank you for staying with me. The NFL salary cap
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and the Minnesota Vikings have been given a big boost.
Dan Graziano of ESPN the NFL today informed teams that
the twenty twenty five per team salary cap will fall
in the range of two hundred and seventy seven point
five million to two hundred and eighty one point five million,
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way up from last year two hundred and fifty five
point four million, So we're looking at twenty two to
twenty six million dollar increase. Cap will have increased by
more than fifty three million over the last two years.
And the way that affects the Vikings is that they
already were entering the offseason with a plethora cab space,
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and Ben Getthsling of Star Tribune said this in.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
His ex tweet.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
This would be the This would put the Vikings with
between sixty one million and sixty five million of cab
space before the twenty twenty five league year. More adjustments
could still be ahead, but they have more spending room
than they've had in years. The Minnesota Vikings are going
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to spend big this upcoming free agency to put together
the right resources around QB one. Jaj McCarthy and the
Minnesota Vikings just received a huge benefit to their off
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season plan, and this one came from Pro Football Talk
on next He was one of the reporters Chiefs are
not expected to franchise or transition tag Trey Smith, which
means he'll be an unrestricted free agent that the Minnesota
Vikings could target this offseason. And he put him. I
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don't know if he's a left tackle or right tackle
or right guard left guard, but you put him next
to Christian Darisa or Bryan O'Neil and he immediately improves
the Vikings offensive line. So the cap goes up. The
Chiefs aren't transitioning or tagging offensive lineman Tray Smith, which
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means the Minnesota Vikings can target him and one other
guy via agency and use the draft picks to select
a running back and defensive pieces in the secondary and
defensive tackles. So this is all good news for the Vikings.
Now the cap goes up for everybody. The cap doesn't
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just go up for the Vikings. The cap goes up
for every other team in the NFL. But as it appears,
the Minnesota Vikings are gonna be a very big spender
this offseason because they have the sixth most money to
spend in the entire league. And this goes back three
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years ago when Quesse Adolfo Mensag.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Got hired and Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
This has been a part of their plan from the start,
and it's the reason why they weren't offering Kirk Cousins
a lucrative multi year deal. They're very restrictive on the
amount of money that they were going to offer Cousins
because they wanted a rookie contract as a quarterback and
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be able to spend their money elsewhere to try to
build a super Bowl roster. Kirk Cousins, his greatness didn't
quite you know, overcome the amount of money you're going
to spend on the guy.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
Same thing with Sam Donald.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Donald is not so great that you're gonna spend fifty
million dollars a year on him because he can't overcome
at the positions on.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
The football field like a Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
And the Vikings certainly can't overcome their ability right now
to draft guys on rookie contracts and put them in
position to succeed at a very cheap rate. So the
Vikings plan this offseason, whether it's to take and trade
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Donald or let Donald walk completely. That kind of see
seems like the vibe Kevin o'connin's been sending for the
last few weeks. In his comments, the Vikings have money
and they want the money, and they're gonna show me
the money because they need to put together strong pieces
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around their first time starting quarterback Jajon McCarthy. And things
are looking good and things are looking bright for the
Vikings because of the cap going up, which means they
can offer more money for a Tray Smith and the
Chiefs are planning to let six twenty five year old
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guard Tray Smith to free agency.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
And according to.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
PFF Pro Football Focus, taking a look at his grades,
he was fourteenth out of one hundred and thirty five
guards last season.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
It is seventy eight point eight overall great.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
In his past block he was thirty third out one
hundred and thirty five and his run blocking his tenth
out of one hundred and thirty five. This would be
a good addition for the Vikings offensive line. And he's
only twenty five years old. It's not a situation where,
you know, maybe he's got two years left on his
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you know, to play and maybe the Vikings can ooze
out any talent that he has left in his career.
He's twenty five years old. If the Vikings sign him
to a multi year deal, he will be entering his
prime in a matter of moments, in a matter of
a year or two. So this definitely has to be
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a guy the Vikings are going to target this offseason
in free agency and things are looking good. Because the
cap went up, Vikings get more money to spend. Other
teams did too, but the Vikings already had money to
spend and now they can spend even more. So it's
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just going to strengthen the roster, which is a very
very good thing. Thank you for watching this episode. Thank
you for sticking with me and my rambling and my
hypothetical questions and my analysis on all things sports, politics
and playing rights.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Appreciate you all.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
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