July 17, 2025 • 18 mins
In this episode, Tim discusses the recent ranking of NFL wide receivers, focusing on Justin Jefferson's position as the second-best receiver in the league. He argues that despite Ja'Marr Chase's statistical superiority, Jefferson's professionalism and lack of drama make him the best choice. The conversation then shifts to the Minnesota Twins, with insights on the team's ownership situation and the potential for a sale, emphasizing the need for new leadership to restore fan trust.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Grind, a Minnesota sports podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome into the Grind, where it's been over twelve thousand
days since the Minnesota Twins and a Minnesota sports team,
one of the four major sports teams won a championship.
On today's episode, was Justin Jefferson disrespected by scouts, executives
and coaches in the NFL after ranking him as the
(00:29):
second best wide receiver in the NFL. Plus a Minnesota
Twins transaction could be coming soon, says MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Those are the topics for today.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
But first I need to tell you about five Star
Bess Solutions in Minneapolis, because they transformed our entire master bathroom.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
In forty eight hours.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm talking about the Hall Enchilada. If you're looking at
the before pictures on YouTube, we had blue floor, a
blue step, an ugly shower, mold in the shower, a
single sink, old countertops, vanity and mirror. And in forty
eight hours we had a new floor, a new shower,
(01:18):
a noose around the mold was gone. We went from
a single to a double, a new vanity, countertops and mirror,
and we love it. Convenient, affordable, amazing, five star bath
Solutions of Minneapolis transformed our bathroom in forty eight hours.
(01:39):
And that's their promise for you. Don't wait eight weeks.
Get your bathroom done soon. It's the worst idea to
cram into your teeny tiny bathroom in the basement of
your house. Call five Star Bath Solutions of Minneapolis and
transform your bathroom today.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
All right.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Justin Jefferson ranked as the second best wide receiver in
the NFL according to.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Executive scouts and coaches.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Well, who do they place number one? No one else
except for Jamar Chase, who led the league in receptions, touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
And yards and yards per game. He had what they
call the triple.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Crown in the NFL last year, and Justin Jefferson had
a great season himself. Ten touchdowns, fifteen hundred yards, one
hundred and three receiving yards.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And right now.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
It's a very special time of year because we're going
through the top one hundred, we're going through the best
players at each position.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
And this is what I like to call the.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Offendable part of the year, because so many people get
lost in these rankings and lists and they get offended
that Justin Jefferson was ranked as the second best wide
receiver in the league, and last year, Justin Jefferson was
(03:23):
the second best wide receiver in the league statistically. And
the response, which is fair and unfair, is while Joe
Burrow was throwing Jamar Chase the football versus Sam Darnold,
and I hear that. I get that, But we don't
(03:47):
take anything away from Jerry Rice because he had Joe
Montana and.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
The lefty throwing him the football. Why's the left to
excusing my brain?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Ridiculous? I can picture his face. He's an ESPN Countdown analyst.
I'm sure all you listening and watching are rallying off
his name. It's on the tip of my tongue. H
Steve Young, I can picture his face.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Face is right there.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
We don't hold anything against Jerry Rice for Joe Montana
and Steve Young throwing him the football. So statistically last year,
Jamar Chase was better than Justin Jefferson or receptions, touchdowns, yards.
With that being said, there is no wide receiver in
(04:52):
the league that I would rather.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Have than Justin Jefferson. And let me ex playing why.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Although statistically Jamar Chase was the better wide receiver throughout
Justin Jefferson's five year career. He has been a distraction
zero times, not once, through contract extensions, through cryptic tweets,
(05:32):
through postgame comments. There has not been a single situation
where Justin Jefferson has created drama.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
It has been.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Other people like Peter Florio, creating drama that was never
actually there. Justin Jefferson has not created a single ounce
of drama of crypticness. There's never been an ESPN First
Take episode or a national television show responding to comments
(06:16):
that Justin Jefferson made or a cryptic tweet or an issue.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
With the contract extension. There were.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
And was drama about a contract extension with Justin Jefferson
getting done or not getting done, but it was never
released anonymously to inside sources like Adam Schefter from Justin
Jefferson's camp. He's never done that, and Jamar Chase has so.
(06:54):
Although statistically Jamar Chase was the better wide receiver and
I have no problem with him being number one statistics
change year over year, this year it could be Justin
Jefferson being the best wide receiver in the league with
receptions and touchdowns and yarns. Twenty twenty two, Jefferson had
(07:16):
the most receptions and had the most yards. He only
had eight touchdowns, but receptions in yards Jefferson led the league,
and that's one of those things.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
That changes the year over year. So I don't get
too stressed.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Or too concerned that Jamar and Chase led the league
and receptions, touchdowns and yarns. The position of wide receiver
is the most diva position in the league.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Just look around the league.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Deebo Samuel last year, Terry mcclaurin this year, Juwan Jennings
of the forty nine is wide receiver. Three is all
of a sudden making. Jamar Chase was talked about for
a long time before he got his contract extension because
of his hold in slash hold out and is this
(08:13):
gonna get done and blah blah blah blah blah, and
justin Jefferson plays the most dramatized position.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
In the league.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Is the best wide receiver in the league arguably and
has never created drama. He is, in my opinion, the
best wide receiver that has ever played the game that
(08:48):
hasn't brought any drama along with him yet. Is still
only twenty six years old, so there's time. But through
his five years, through different quarterbacks like Kirk Cousins and
Sam Darnold and Josh Dobbs and Jared Hall and drafting
(09:10):
JJ McCarthy. Justin Jefferson has never said boot. And because
of his head on the shoulders and his willingness to
submit to whatever the Vikings organization.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And the direction they go, there's.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
No receiver I would rather have in the league than
Justin Jefferson, Tyreek, Kale, Jamar Chase, Terry McLaurin. Diva is
everywhere drama, cryptic tweets, I want to be traded, I want.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
This contract attention. I'm gonna hold out.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Even when Justin Jefferson could have held out, he didn't.
Even when he could have released cryptic tweets or sent
out toonymously that he wants to be traded or give
me a contract extension, he never did. He waited patiently
sign that contract extension. Now he's locked up without a
(10:11):
single ounce of drama. And I'm not disrespected, And Justin
Jefferson shouldn't be disrespected by him being number two in
the NFL from scouts, executives, and coaches. Who cares? Those
(10:31):
things change you overy year. But what is without question
is that Jefferson is the best wide receiver in the
league that does not carry drama with them every season.
So it's really incredible. Right next topic, Rob Manfred gives
(10:57):
Minnesota Twins fans a glimmer of hope. But first I
need to tell you about Hokland Farms Beef because they
have the best rotationally graysed one hundred percent grass fed beef.
There is contact Jared nine five two four nine five
four one.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
And what's so amazing about this beef.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
It's about four dollars a pound, not just for the
one pound beef, but for steaks and truck ROAs. You
go to the store and it's like eight nine dollars
a pound for this truck roast or a steak at
the store. It's expensive. It's four dollars and thirty cents
a pound roughly at Hoakland Farms Beef for all of it,
for steaks, truck roasts, everything, ribs. Contact Hoakland Farms Beef
(11:45):
nine five two four one five four one for the
best rotationally grays one one hundred percent grass fed beef.
Don't question where your beef comes from. Contact Hoakland Farms
nine five two four one five four one. Phil Miller,
the Trip said this on July fifteenth, m they'll be
(12:09):
Commissioner Rob Manfred says bidders to buy Twins backed off
when it became evident justin Ishbieh was the leader in
the clubhouse, but now that he's out, Manfred is confident
that a transaction will take place, presumably soon. And this
(12:31):
is not wrong. Of course, a transaction is going to
take place. The Minnesota Twins are for sale, and there
are billionaires that want to buy professional sports teams. So
Rob Manfred doesn't give me any more confidence than I
(12:55):
already had that the Minnesota Twins are going to sail.
They are for sale and billionaires want a piece of
professional sports teams. The Lakers just sold for ten billion.
Of course, the Twins aren't going to sell for that,
but the Minnesota Timberwolves just sold officially for one point
(13:16):
five billion. The Minnesota Twins are going to sell. It's
just a matter of who and.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
When, because the poll Ads.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Want out, but they want the highest number they can
get because they're what four hundred and fifty million dollars
in debt and the Minnesota Twins and the fan base
(13:52):
is so upset with the owners that it takes a
Nelly concert for them to show up. The poll ads
have burned every bridge from the Minnesota Twins fan base,
and the Minnesota Twins fan base cannot wait until they're gone.
(14:16):
And these comments by Rob Manfred, it's confident that a
transaction will take place. Of course, a transaction will take place.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
See why these comments by Rob Manfred is news whatsoever,
because it's like a garage sale. If you open up
your doors for a garage shell, there will be transactions
that take place. Maybe a fifty cent shirt here, a
dollar here, a two dollars toy there, But a transaction
(14:53):
will take place. And it's the same thing with the
Minnesota Twins. They are for sale. They don't want on
the team anymore. They went out of debt. The Minnesota
Twins fans want them gone, and there are billionaires that
want to buy organizations. A transaction will take place, of
(15:15):
course it will. Thank you for making the most obvious
statement in the world, Rob Manfred. The question that we
all want answered is who is going to step up
to the plate and give the Minnesota Twins organization and
(15:37):
fan base a boost.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
In the right direction. Confidence that.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Someone else stepping in can actually give the organization some
allure and some attraction and some energy because for the
last few years, the pull ads have created a dumpster fire.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
And they have lost the trust.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
From the Minnesota Twins fan base that they are going
to make the right.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Decision and build a winning team.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And that's why it has been one of the lowest
attended seasons in target field history. So when and who
that's the question that I want answer. Don't tell me
that a transaction is going to take place. Of course,
a transaction is going to take place eventually, but.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Who's in the running? Who's thrown their name out there?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Because the latest I've seen is that there haven't been
many reports that there are bidders. I think Alex Rodriguez
was kind of like see about the Timberwolsey by the
Twins too. Glenn Taylor's name was thrown out recently, but
I have not seen many inside reports or speculation that
(17:20):
there are a line of billionaires looking to buy the
Minnesota Twins. But it will happen, but it will take time.
So thank you for joining the show and watching. Remember
five Star Bass Solutions of Minneapolis for a forty eight
(17:42):
hour bathroom Ramodel and Hoakland Farms Beef for the best
one rotationally graized beef Grassfit nine two four nine four one.
Contact Jared tell him Tim sent you from the Grind.
Thank you for watching and making this podcast part of
your day
The Grind, a Minnesota sports podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Welcome into the Grind, where it's been over twelve thousand
days since the Minnesota Twins and a Minnesota sports team,
one of the four major sports teams won a championship.
On today's episode, was Justin Jefferson disrespected by scouts, executives
and coaches in the NFL after ranking him as the
(00:29):
second best wide receiver in the NFL. Plus a Minnesota
Twins transaction could be coming soon, says MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Those are the topics for today.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
But first I need to tell you about five Star
Bess Solutions in Minneapolis, because they transformed our entire master bathroom.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
In forty eight hours.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I'm talking about the Hall Enchilada. If you're looking at
the before pictures on YouTube, we had blue floor, a
blue step, an ugly shower, mold in the shower, a
single sink, old countertops, vanity and mirror. And in forty
eight hours we had a new floor, a new shower,
(01:18):
a noose around the mold was gone. We went from
a single to a double, a new vanity, countertops and mirror,
and we love it. Convenient, affordable, amazing, five star bath
Solutions of Minneapolis transformed our bathroom in forty eight hours.
(01:39):
And that's their promise for you. Don't wait eight weeks.
Get your bathroom done soon. It's the worst idea to
cram into your teeny tiny bathroom in the basement of
your house. Call five Star Bath Solutions of Minneapolis and
transform your bathroom today.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
All right.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Justin Jefferson ranked as the second best wide receiver in
the NFL according to.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Executive scouts and coaches.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Well, who do they place number one? No one else
except for Jamar Chase, who led the league in receptions, touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
And yards and yards per game. He had what they
call the triple.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Crown in the NFL last year, and Justin Jefferson had
a great season himself. Ten touchdowns, fifteen hundred yards, one
hundred and three receiving yards.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And right now.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
It's a very special time of year because we're going
through the top one hundred, we're going through the best
players at each position.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
And this is what I like to call the.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Offendable part of the year, because so many people get
lost in these rankings and lists and they get offended
that Justin Jefferson was ranked as the second best wide
receiver in the league, and last year, Justin Jefferson was
(03:23):
the second best wide receiver in the league statistically. And
the response, which is fair and unfair, is while Joe
Burrow was throwing Jamar Chase the football versus Sam Darnold,
and I hear that. I get that, But we don't
(03:47):
take anything away from Jerry Rice because he had Joe
Montana and.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
The lefty throwing him the football. Why's the left to
excusing my brain?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Ridiculous? I can picture his face. He's an ESPN Countdown analyst.
I'm sure all you listening and watching are rallying off
his name. It's on the tip of my tongue. H
Steve Young, I can picture his face.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Face is right there.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
We don't hold anything against Jerry Rice for Joe Montana
and Steve Young throwing him the football. So statistically last year,
Jamar Chase was better than Justin Jefferson or receptions, touchdowns, yards.
With that being said, there is no wide receiver in
(04:52):
the league that I would rather.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Have than Justin Jefferson. And let me ex playing why.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Although statistically Jamar Chase was the better wide receiver throughout
Justin Jefferson's five year career. He has been a distraction
zero times, not once, through contract extensions, through cryptic tweets,
(05:32):
through postgame comments. There has not been a single situation
where Justin Jefferson has created drama.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
It has been.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Other people like Peter Florio, creating drama that was never
actually there. Justin Jefferson has not created a single ounce
of drama of crypticness. There's never been an ESPN First
Take episode or a national television show responding to comments
(06:16):
that Justin Jefferson made or a cryptic tweet or an issue.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
With the contract extension. There were.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
And was drama about a contract extension with Justin Jefferson
getting done or not getting done, but it was never
released anonymously to inside sources like Adam Schefter from Justin
Jefferson's camp. He's never done that, and Jamar Chase has so.
(06:54):
Although statistically Jamar Chase was the better wide receiver and
I have no problem with him being number one statistics
change year over year, this year it could be Justin
Jefferson being the best wide receiver in the league with
receptions and touchdowns and yarns. Twenty twenty two, Jefferson had
(07:16):
the most receptions and had the most yards. He only
had eight touchdowns, but receptions in yards Jefferson led the league,
and that's one of those things.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
That changes the year over year. So I don't get
too stressed.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Or too concerned that Jamar and Chase led the league
and receptions, touchdowns and yarns. The position of wide receiver
is the most diva position in the league.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Just look around the league.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Deebo Samuel last year, Terry mcclaurin this year, Juwan Jennings
of the forty nine is wide receiver. Three is all
of a sudden making. Jamar Chase was talked about for
a long time before he got his contract extension because
of his hold in slash hold out and is this
(08:13):
gonna get done and blah blah blah blah blah, and
justin Jefferson plays the most dramatized position.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
In the league.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Is the best wide receiver in the league arguably and
has never created drama. He is, in my opinion, the
best wide receiver that has ever played the game that
(08:48):
hasn't brought any drama along with him yet. Is still
only twenty six years old, so there's time. But through
his five years, through different quarterbacks like Kirk Cousins and
Sam Darnold and Josh Dobbs and Jared Hall and drafting
(09:10):
JJ McCarthy. Justin Jefferson has never said boot. And because
of his head on the shoulders and his willingness to
submit to whatever the Vikings organization.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
And the direction they go, there's.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
No receiver I would rather have in the league than
Justin Jefferson, Tyreek, Kale, Jamar Chase, Terry McLaurin. Diva is
everywhere drama, cryptic tweets, I want to be traded, I want.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
This contract attention. I'm gonna hold out.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Even when Justin Jefferson could have held out, he didn't.
Even when he could have released cryptic tweets or sent
out toonymously that he wants to be traded or give
me a contract extension, he never did. He waited patiently
sign that contract extension. Now he's locked up without a
(10:11):
single ounce of drama. And I'm not disrespected, And Justin
Jefferson shouldn't be disrespected by him being number two in
the NFL from scouts, executives, and coaches. Who cares? Those
(10:31):
things change you overy year. But what is without question
is that Jefferson is the best wide receiver in the
league that does not carry drama with them every season.
So it's really incredible. Right next topic, Rob Manfred gives
(10:57):
Minnesota Twins fans a glimmer of hope. But first I
need to tell you about Hokland Farms Beef because they
have the best rotationally graysed one hundred percent grass fed beef.
There is contact Jared nine five two four nine five
four one.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
And what's so amazing about this beef.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
It's about four dollars a pound, not just for the
one pound beef, but for steaks and truck ROAs. You
go to the store and it's like eight nine dollars
a pound for this truck roast or a steak at
the store. It's expensive. It's four dollars and thirty cents
a pound roughly at Hoakland Farms Beef for all of it,
for steaks, truck roasts, everything, ribs. Contact Hoakland Farms Beef
(11:45):
nine five two four one five four one for the
best rotationally grays one one hundred percent grass fed beef.
Don't question where your beef comes from. Contact Hoakland Farms
nine five two four one five four one. Phil Miller,
the Trip said this on July fifteenth, m they'll be
(12:09):
Commissioner Rob Manfred says bidders to buy Twins backed off
when it became evident justin Ishbieh was the leader in
the clubhouse, but now that he's out, Manfred is confident
that a transaction will take place, presumably soon. And this
(12:31):
is not wrong. Of course, a transaction is going to
take place. The Minnesota Twins are for sale, and there
are billionaires that want to buy professional sports teams. So
Rob Manfred doesn't give me any more confidence than I
(12:55):
already had that the Minnesota Twins are going to sail.
They are for sale and billionaires want a piece of
professional sports teams. The Lakers just sold for ten billion.
Of course, the Twins aren't going to sell for that,
but the Minnesota Timberwolves just sold officially for one point
(13:16):
five billion. The Minnesota Twins are going to sell. It's
just a matter of who and.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
When, because the poll Ads.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Want out, but they want the highest number they can
get because they're what four hundred and fifty million dollars
in debt and the Minnesota Twins and the fan base
(13:52):
is so upset with the owners that it takes a
Nelly concert for them to show up. The poll ads
have burned every bridge from the Minnesota Twins fan base,
and the Minnesota Twins fan base cannot wait until they're gone.
(14:16):
And these comments by Rob Manfred, it's confident that a
transaction will take place. Of course, a transaction will take place.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I don't.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
See why these comments by Rob Manfred is news whatsoever,
because it's like a garage sale. If you open up
your doors for a garage shell, there will be transactions
that take place. Maybe a fifty cent shirt here, a
dollar here, a two dollars toy there, But a transaction
(14:53):
will take place. And it's the same thing with the
Minnesota Twins. They are for sale. They don't want on
the team anymore. They went out of debt. The Minnesota
Twins fans want them gone, and there are billionaires that
want to buy organizations. A transaction will take place, of
(15:15):
course it will. Thank you for making the most obvious
statement in the world, Rob Manfred. The question that we
all want answered is who is going to step up
to the plate and give the Minnesota Twins organization and
(15:37):
fan base a boost.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
In the right direction. Confidence that.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Someone else stepping in can actually give the organization some
allure and some attraction and some energy because for the
last few years, the pull ads have created a dumpster fire.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
And they have lost the trust.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
From the Minnesota Twins fan base that they are going
to make the right.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Decision and build a winning team.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And that's why it has been one of the lowest
attended seasons in target field history. So when and who
that's the question that I want answer. Don't tell me
that a transaction is going to take place. Of course,
a transaction is going to take place eventually, but.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Who's in the running? Who's thrown their name out there?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Because the latest I've seen is that there haven't been
many reports that there are bidders. I think Alex Rodriguez
was kind of like see about the Timberwolsey by the
Twins too. Glenn Taylor's name was thrown out recently, but
I have not seen many inside reports or speculation that
(17:20):
there are a line of billionaires looking to buy the
Minnesota Twins. But it will happen, but it will take time.
So thank you for joining the show and watching. Remember
five Star Bass Solutions of Minneapolis for a forty eight
(17:42):
hour bathroom Ramodel and Hoakland Farms Beef for the best
one rotationally graized beef Grassfit nine two four nine four one.
Contact Jared tell him Tim sent you from the Grind.
Thank you for watching and making this podcast part of
your day
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