December 12, 2025 • 54 mins
The Friday Football Feast begins with the boys talking about the Wild taking down the Stars, as well as a potential Wolves trade for Coby White. Then the show transitions to talk some Viks Bits.
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to the end zone.
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Touch down.
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Hey King yard touchdown to Josh Oliver, and the Minnesota
Vikings have taken a six zero leads.
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the Commanders.
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touch to it to Mason with his sixth rushing touchdown
this year, and Minnesota has taken up thirteen.
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clapping to the ball. Three on the play clock gets
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Duke is on fire with his first interception this season.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
It is second and nine for Washington Mariota going out
of the shotgun. Deebo Samuel in the backfield flexes up
to left Mariota. He's gonna throw to the left, stept
in by Harrison Smith.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
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Henny's taking down at the thirty six yard line.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
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Speaker 2 (03:31):
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Speaker 3 (03:37):
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Speaker 1 (03:46):
Uh, this is the Friday Football Feast and welcome alec
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Speaker 2 (03:51):
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Speaker 1 (03:54):
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Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's the feast.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Let's warm up together today, okay, into this Dallas Cowboys
game this weekend. The nine to noon open and courtesy
of Steve's Appliances and Steve's Appliances dot Com that would
include Alec Lewis's inclusion nine to noon is kind of
Hodgepodge Central.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
We begin with the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Why because it's the football what it's the feast at
Buffalo wild Wings Plymouth And here we are. We begin
with the Vikings. They take on the Cowboys Sunday night
at seven twenty and the news biggest news into the
game for the Minnesota Vikings involves left tackle Christian Darisa,
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who has not practiced two consecutive days. Aleck is a
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I did that to about three people last year. Thank you,
no problem. I'm a believer when it comes to that
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injury report and D and P and D and P
did not practice for Christian Darisaw two consecutive to days
today is important?
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Do you think he plays this weekend? And good morning,
good morning, happy to be here. A lot of the
folks who braved the weather, props to them. Christian Daresaw.
I'm kind of tired trying to figure out what's going
on with that. There are days where he doesn't practice,
doesn't practice, and those are planed days, and then there
are days where he doesn't practice, and you don't know
if they're planned days.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I don't like I put this on social media yesterday.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
If he practices today, that would leave me to think
that there's probably a high likelihood that he plays.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
He didn't get re injured in the game from what
I understand.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
So it's been a wild ride for Christian Daresaw from
a health standpoint all year. It feels like and I
am done trying to prognosticate when he's playing, when he's
staying in the game, when he's leaving the game, why
he's leaving the game, Who filling in for him, So
I'm kind of.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
That's where I'm at. But he's critical.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
I mean he's critical when he's available, and it's not
just in school. The offense has a much higher likelihood
of being successful.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
So we'll see. I don't know you got any intel
on that.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Well, first, ladies and gentlemen, what you just heard shared
by Alan Lewis is called five and eight fatigue. Yeah,
the team's five and eight and just there was part
of that diatribe that was five and eight fatigue, but
see keyword tired.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, well, the.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Crafty veteran recognized said fatigue and quickly that kind of
changed his face and picked up the tempo at the.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
End, and sure he activated the night.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Yeah no, did I had a conversation with somebody internally
about this situation. They're like, yeah, I don't know, man,
I mean it was it was like that, that's where
I don't know what I'm supposed to.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Do, and that person has fatigue at five and eight.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
There are many within the Love Covenant internally ht TCO
that probably have it, but I yeah, I don't. With
Christian Darisaw again, it is massive, like this Cowboys defense
is definitely gettable. One of the ways it's more gettable
is if you can protect the quarterback to be able
to throw the football around a little bit. So, yeah,
we'll see today. I would assume at this point he's
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gonna be questionable, and then as it as it's tended
to happen all year, they'll take it up to game
time and kind of Christian will feel the way he
feels and we'll figure out on Sunday night if he's
available or not.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Yeah, you had mentioned pa I think earlier this week
kind of the the idea that if if you had
to pick who the most important person on the team is,
we'll talk about the quarterback and things, but how important
Christian Darisaw is to this entire offense. And into the
Seattle game, I think he went DNP. You can tell
me if I'm wrong, Alec. I think it was into
the Seattle game d n P, DMP limited and then
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he didn't go in that Seattle game.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Is that accurate? Believe so, mother, And so today is
to day to kind of find it.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
It's just I wonder in some cases, how over the
course of a week, the unknown of whether he's gonna
play and how you handle that over practice periods.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I think that's awful in terms of trying to prepare
for a game.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
So just you know what that what that I guess
the effects of that on the offense over the course
of a week into a game it has to be frustrating.
The five and eight fatigue and all of that aside.
So but for the sake of this singular game, please
have seventy one in the mix.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Here, gentlemen, do we believe Sunday Night Football seven twenty
kfa n will be high or low scoring? Do we
think this game will be a high or a low
scoring game? Which you'all think?
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Yeah, when you asked that question, I was having a
hard time trying to decide I'm gonna go low scoring.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Why are you having a hard time? Five and eight fatigue?
Speaker 6 (08:57):
No, I'm not that anywhere it's hired cited for this
Sunday Night came out, Oh so am I.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
But it doesn't mean five and eight fatigue is something
that we don't need to overcome.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
No, But I mean if they were eight and five,
I'd probably have fatigue on a nine am Friday morning
with twelve degree weather.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That's kind of part of it.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Oba i'ma play in Oklahoma and awake. Yeah, so you
can think about they're gonna lose again. Probably we'll we'll
get there later in the show. But no, I I yeah,
that the fatigue is real, But no, I would say
low scoring probably because the Vikings defense has been really,
really good of late. Like I was thinking about this
the other day, what Eric Wilson's done. We've documented all season,
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but since adri Van Ginkle's back, they've been so solid.
I feel like Blake Cashman's play for the second year
in a row has flown onto the radar of how
solid he's been. The secondary, you know, hasn't probably been perfect,
but I'd say with the Vikings defense playing how they've played,
and JJ McCarthy in the Vikings offense not pushing the
ball down field, that would leave me to believe low scoring.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
What do you think, Norda, Well, I just quick twitched.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
So seven twenty percent of Cowboys games go over if
you were looking at totals or if you lived in
an area where you might be able to place a
wager without getting your hand slapped.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And for conicts and for context, the totals over unders
and Cowboys games are high.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
They are indeed and for the Vikings, believe it or not,
for a team that was shut out a couple of
weeks ago, we saw just languishing and Lambeau and all
of that. Fifty four percent of their games go over,
the Vikings find their way to points, including the thirty
one nothing shut out. I actually think this will be
a higher scoring game, and there will be moments. There's
going to be some takes. I just I think you're
under the bright lights of Jerry World. I think you're
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going to see a lot of points.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
On Sunday night, Hodgepodge Central from Buffalo Wild Wings and
Plymouth for the Friday Football and four checking feast in
the Capital City. Last night, ladies and gentlemen, your favorite
professional hockey team, Down Zookie and Down Midzie beat a
team that was ten to zero to five in its
last fifteen Can I get a witness and a raucous
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on the applause for the Minnesota Wild The Christmas Colors.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Given gifts early.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Uh Down Zookie and Midzi Stars on fire the It's
only the third regulation loss for the bally Hood Dallas
Stars in almost two months. Uh Gus got the Gus
got the net two consecutive games came through both times
and Alex Lewis's favorite player, Matt Bolding, He's unbelievable. Three
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points last night for the fifth time this season. That
was a home upset last night of the Dallas Stars,
Ladies and Gentlemen, and it was funky fine.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Does that mean well for the Dallas Minnesota matchup Sunday
night if you beat one of their teams?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Is that one for one? Right? Yeah, that's a great question.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
No, I I really thought Hines had the boys flying around.
Need some hockey analysis.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
I just just Boldie Boldi's unbelievable and that line in
particular with him and Marcus Johansson two goals for him.
That's kind of why I brought that up yesterday when
we were chat and hockey with Joe Smith. Jojoe Is,
you know, I think sometimes you're just sitting there a
third line, fourth line guy. It's like, oh, I get
a chance to work up in the top six, and
suddenly the production increases. He has to participate in that
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production increase, and I think Johansson's been terrific offensively.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Hold on here to take a look at the NFL
Network TV one of eight million TVs here at Buffalo
Wildwing's Plymouth. That's Jamie Erdal all right, she's a Minnesotan,
went to Blake. She's the host of Good Morning Football
on NFL Network. The wild victory resonated across the Great Divide,
ladies and gentlemen. You saw that sweatshirt she was wearing
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and said, the Boss has nothing to do with Jerome
Bettis it has to do with us, Boss and the
performance last night against those Dallas stars.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Wake up, come on, come on. Alf River would have
woken up an hour ago. Matt Body, Matt Body, Western
verbs though.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
I mean, look it's it's been a joke. But went
to a game last year. Yeah, I don't know what
I'm looking at, but he was the most controlled.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
They have hockey and Aniston. No, no, I mean they
have it. Yeah, they have hot.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
You just gotta I mean, you really got to go
looking for fight for ice tyme down there. No, I
mean ice time's very Yeah, yeahm wake up.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Skating Skating isn't isn't. Uh, you know, it's a little.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Don't look at the middle TV Alec it's uh. They're
talking about IU, which is going to win the National championship.
And probably beat Alabama and the rose Ball. I don't
want you to have college football PTSD or in a
football feast.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
No, But on a serious note, to have Gus and
Jesper Wallstead Yesper, how do you pronounce that, sir?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Guys?
Speaker 6 (13:35):
To have both those guys doing what they're doing in
the net makes you feel really good. It's I like
the Wild buzz, a little bit that's percolated around town.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Well rising to the occasion of their opponents.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
And this has just been an off talker with the
oft talker with the Wild over the last several years.
Beat the freaking good teams in your division, please anytime. Okay, So,
whether it's Winnipeg, Winnipeg looks middlings so far this year,
but whether it was Black Friday against the Abs, and
know what we saw last night. One stat that just
kind of popped off the page to me is you're
loving the wind. They only allowed eighteen total shots for
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the Stars last night.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
So Gus Buss was good, yeah, but really what was
going on in front of them?
Speaker 7 (14:14):
It's I mean, this is early December hockey, right, so
we got to get to April and we got to
see what it looks like them, but it was kind
of dominating at at Grand Casino last night.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Hodge Podge Central at Buffalo Wild Wings for the Friday
Football for checking and front court Feast. And the reason
we put this in the Hodgepodge there's something via x
called Legion Hoop. So when Nordo sent this to me yesterday,
this piece of intel, I'm like, Legion Hoops, We're happy
for you. Then I clicked into it and I saw
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nearly one million followers, and then I read through some
of the tweets. I'm like, damn this Legion hoops. Man,
they got it going on here. I gotta follow this thing.
I know who no Legion hoops with nearly one million
Twitter followers reported yesterday the Minnesota Timberwolves contacted the Chicago
Bulls asking about a player named Kobe White. Yes, used
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to play at North Carolina and actually Chris Finch and
I have chatted about him several times when the Timberwolves
are playing the Bulls.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I think the head coach has respect for the kids game,
doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
He was with he was with New Orleans when they
drafted Kobe White, and I'll refer to Kobe as the
kid with the hair and Finchy gets it. But he's
a guard by trade, kind of a point guard by
trade too. Is Kobe White for the state of hockey?
Not necessarily following a Bulls fan line with Adam Amine,
Kobe White point guard by trade, and he's kind of
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in a difficult spot. They got a player named Josha
Getty who's a better point guard than Kobe White. Then
they got Apple Valley's Trey Jones, who's not as good
as Kobe White, but he sucks up about twenty five
to twenty eight minutes a game. So Kobe's in a
difficult spot now the Timberwolves. And this is per our
conversation with Finchy on Tuesday, when I asked him about
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floor leaders and point guards. You can podcast and love
Covenant on demand. It's clear that that they they covet
or potentially could be searching for a true point guard,
some kind of a floor leader. So when this thing
popped up and I saw damn Legion hoops and then
Johnny kb Johnny Athletica subsequently tweeted and wrote about it
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and stuff like that, So there's some corroboration there. Uh.
Kobe White makes twelve million dollars this year. Now, remember
in the in the salary cap world of the NBA,
the second apron, Yeah you got. I mean they have
to match within a certain percentage ten or fifteen, like
ten or fifteen exactly. So Kobe White makes twelve million dollars.
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We can start there. I'm a fan of trading for
Kobe White.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
What about you, guys, Well, I'm I'm absolutely a fan
of trading for Kobe White. And the thing with with
Kobe on this team is, and as much as I
love Aunt, and as much as Ant is helping my
fantasy league right now, from a stats perspective, how disjointed
it is when he's having to create his own offense.
He's the main ball handler, and you have these weird
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nights where either Ant's going to go for forty and
then like the other night, you have everyone else going
two for thirty one or four for thirty one, whatever
the stat was. Otherwise, it's Jade McDaniel's having his games,
it's Nasred having his game, and then Ant's kind of
finding himself drifting backwards a bit in terms of his production.
So they need somebody to take the ball out of
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Ant's hands. So Ant can put himself in spots to dominate.
Now in terms of COVID of this team, I saw
the news that the idea that Conley didn't want to
wait until the trade deadline.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
So first of all, I dig that mentality. That's good.
We need a freaking point guard. Assuming it's accurate. Now
I'm riding that it is.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
But I will add on that a lot of calls
are made and not a lot of trades come through
because trades in the NBA with the second apron and
the tacks and all those things become quite difficult. Yeah,
and guys, although Conley's been pretty shifty with him, guys,
Guys kind of get married to their draft picks once
in a while. So I saw from Johnny k yesterday
that they have made the call, but nothing is exactly
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imminent now. That could change in ten minutes, but that's
where it's at right now. I love Kobe White on
this team.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
And Alec Lewis when the Timberwolves are going to the
Western Conference Final finals.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
You know, he's sidebar guy for the athletic You know.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
The thing is these primo media seats that he gets
in the corner about fifteen twenty feet from the floor.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Con game, a stringer work that he does during the.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
These high leverage postseason games. And then I just can't
wait for the story at the Athletics, can't wait, still
wait anywhere they keep refreshing.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I wrote like three story thres. I under I understand
that Boston the Lexus club, so that that.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Inherently makes alec an elite NBA mine. Now the the
the key here if you're in favor of this, which
it sounds like at least two thirds of us are.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Okay, so the cast is in favor.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
And just to amplify wood, Nordo said about kind of
a void at the point guard spot. They've been using
Dante DiVincenzo there and I, you know, I'm not trying
to be James Naismith, but it doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
He's not a point guard, so we'll just dot it.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
My My dumb take was, you saw it once in
the playoffs when he was with the Knicks, so naturally
that would happen here and it.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Would work, and it hasn't worked well.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
And we also saw Julius Randall run point forward in
the Oklahoma City Series last year, and that's okay as
a mixer, But like when it's your thing, then then
it gets easier to stop. So if this is accurate,
I see what they're doing here. The question would be,
if you trade for this guy making twelve million this year,
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who would leave and why? So the way I looked
at it from a salary standpoint, I believe Dante Divincenzo's
right around twelve million dollars a year. That could be
a straight swap. Oh, Kobe White for Dante DiVincenzo. Okay,
if you want to get exotic and like like, I
don't see them trading Edwards Randall.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
What about Rob I don't think, well, yeah, it doesn't
make en up. That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
But he Dillingham could be part of it because maybe
they won a fifth point guard on their roster to
compliment the other form. But I don't think anybody would
trade for Rudy Gobert, so I draw a line through him.
Jade McDaniels. He's at twenty four million dollars, all right,
So you can get Kobe White. And then they got
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a player on their team who played for Cleveland named Isaacacorro.
He can't score a lick, but he is a big
time perimeter defensive player Auburn supposedly what de Vincenzo was
going to be.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Along with hitting threes.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Kobe White is a better three point shooter than Dante
DiVincenzo for my taste, and he also handles the ball
better as a true point. So if McDaniels is a
trade ship here, you'd have to pedal him. Now you're
gonna lose some defense, Ain't no doubt. But Kobe White
and a Coro add up to j Mac de Vincenzo
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could be a straight swap.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
What do you think? Here's the one thing.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
First of all, John Krasinski on this yesterday on social media,
and I trust John. Yeah, I can tell you that
there is absolutely nothing cooking there right now. Could that
change down the road. Maybe he's certainly a name to watch,
but nothing percolating yet. So yeah, it's not something to
dismiss entirely with the way John said that reading between
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the lines, one quick segue, I'll have I the Sun's
game on that weeknight was like a no brainer Wolves loss,
like a weeknight.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Game on here.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Yeah, the weeknight game against the Suns team without Devin Booker,
Like you knew they weren't showing up at the beginning
of that game and feeling it's felt like since I
moved here in twenty twenty two, like they do this
every year, where it's just early in the season against
a team that they should easily beat, they are incapable
of doing that, and it's it's very frustrating to watch,
at least for me, someone who likes basketball.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
But I do feel like the point.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Guard spot would really allow them on both ends of
the court to be much better. It's unfortunate that Rob
Dillingham hasn't progressed I think to the to the spot
that you'd hope that he would at this point. He's
still a young player obviously, but we'll see to the point.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Finchy gave Bones Highlands money the other night, and.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Bones Highland like sometimes you watch sometimes you watch Bones Higland,
You're like, man, that guy can.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Really score the Bones ball.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
But it's just yeah, it's not probably a sustainable path.
So Kobe White, for sure, I just for me, And
and again this isn't the Kobe White conversation. I just
would love on a Tuesday night when they're playing the
Suns at home to be have full conviction that they
are going to come out and give it to the
other team on that night, and I just have never
Like I texted a buddy looking that the Wolves played
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that Tuesday night and I'm like, this is not this
is not gonna go well.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
And I shouldn't feel that way. I really I shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
That's next huge here, right, Nordo. Yeah, that's college sports mentality,
and it's fine. And when you grow up in a
in a blue blood college sports market like with Alabama
with the Crimson Tide or college basketball, and and ALEC
follows that markedly more closely than us every single minute
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of every single game. Isp your hands, get down, slide
and play defense. This this is the NBA, man, and
it's and it's November and December.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
No no foam fingers in the media seating, Okay, I
I I understand, I understand, But like they should against
the Suns a Devin Booker list sons. Yeah, I mean
they made Colin Gillespie look like Larry Bird. It just
it should it just shouldn't happen, absolutely correct, even if
your professionals.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Will you get paid to show up every night? Yeah,
so that's my standard.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Well, the problem with the the n b A and
I will I I just I look at it and
I love my favorite team. I want him to win
every game. Uh, show me how many teams in the
NBA play with absolute conviction the Thunder, what's their record?
There may be one team in the NBA right now
that actually plays with conviction on a nightly.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Base and honestly, they grab you by the throat two
minutes into it. Yeah, they take pleasure and play their
best players longer than anybody else, and then they're like, yeah,
we're up forty two.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
I think we can check out. So yeah, the Thunder
are what twenty four and one? Sir, it's one of
the most. People aren't talking about it nationally, but it
might go It might end up being like one of
the best.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
You know why they're not talking about.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
It nationally, I don't know, because they're focused on.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
The NFL talking about Kobe White changing games for the
Minnesota Timberwell.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
You want to change the conversation, Uh, beat in some games?
Speaker 6 (24:38):
No, listen, I just look, that's my standard is I
should have faith on a Tuesday night that the Wolves
are going.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
To come out and beat the Sun. No, I'm with you,
and if I don't, that's a problem.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
You need a season ticket next to Jimmy Ka, King
of the Rubes, so that both of you can start
your chance and you have oh yeah, the doorbuster deals
for the first five hundred.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Fans in the stadium. They've got part Burger in there.
I go one of those at halftime, the foods the
lead of Target Center.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
I just wonder that the hardcore, that the hardest of
hardcore Wolves fans. Yeah, what what kind of meltdown they
would have if you said, hey, uh, Jade McDaniels, he's
headed to Chicago and in return, you're getting Kobe.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
White, oh cool man, and Isaac Okorro I know, averages
six points a game. Fantasy football, Fantasy Basketball Nation is
gonna love that absolutely.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Now.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
I also wonder, as a complete, you know, just non
basketball related note, but with that team, if you traded
Jaden McDaniels, does Anthony Edwards get annoyed.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
They're not trading McDaniels. I don't think they will. But
I mean, just because the most.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Said jadon, I agree with you nine point five out
of ten. I put that name in for one reason because,
for whatever the reason of late McDaniels is working on
the producer's last nerve.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Because he's inconsistent.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
That's the only reason I put that name in and
actually researched Isaac KRO's salary.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
He started out the season with career numbers and he
still has a chance to get there.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I like Jayden McDaniels overall, but whether it's.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
Inconsistency in the playoffs, he's either shooting eight to ten
or one of seven like we saw a couple of
days ago. Appreciate the defense, appreciate that, but I just
see he's a black hole on offense too often for
my taste to make him this budding star that I
feel like we're being sold on. People will disagree with that,
but that's where I'm at on McDaniels. I like him
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on our team. I don't want him to leave.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I just need more consistency out of him.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
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Yeah, the podcast is, I mean it's it's it's not
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It's the five and eight. Fatigue might be affecting the
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All right, here's the first question. I do bikes bites
on Friday. Given Ordo a break from it, he does
a great job Monday through Thursday. He gets an opportunity
with Alex Lewis from The Athletic Theathletic dot Com to
opine on some of these hopefully pertinent queries. And the
first one is off the Vikings News with which we
started thirty five minutes ago. Christian Darisow hasn't practiced two
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consecutive days, my practice today, my play over the weekend.
But for either one of you, how much does it
hurt if Darisaw does not play in this game?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Gigantic?
Speaker 6 (31:33):
I mean it's absolutely gigantic because the drop off is
a mint to go from Christian Darosol both in the
run game and the past game, to Justin's school. Hey,
Justin school has had a hard go this year for sure,
and so there's no question. And it affects the entire
plan too. Nordo, you kind of insinuated this earlier, but
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there's such a difference if you're the offensive staff designing
an offensive game plan when you know you've got a
chip on that side every single time, and it affects
the number of players out in the route, it affects
the types of runs you can call. It effects, you know,
just every aspect of the Vikings game plan.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
So it's massive. Christian Darrisaw needs to play in this game.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
And I will say, like the Cowboys last week didn't
have Tyler Goeyton their left tackle. They had a backup,
Nate Thomas. He gave up eleven pressures in the game.
So any team that doesn't have their their left tackle,
you're gonna feel it to a level that really hurts.
Speaker 7 (32:31):
Frankly, Yeah, after JJ McCarthy. He is the most important
person in this entire operation. And the up and down
will he play? Will he not play?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
The five and eight fatigue, all that.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
It just I'm beyond exhausted just trying to figure out
whether or not he's gonna be on the field.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
So I hope he is. He has to be, whether you.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
Know, when you're trying to even whether you're in a vacuum.
Just a singular game with Max Brosmer didn't go well,
and the first couple of weeks of the season, we
remember what justin school looked like in those first two
weeks against the Bears and Falcons. The drop off is
just like jumping into the Grand Canyon. So we hope
that seventy one can play. It means a ton to
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us being able to put up some points and match
dak on Sunday Night.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Vikes, Bytes, Vikings and Cowboys. The pre game is at
five thirty for KFA M five thirty. Audio network affiliates
pick it up at six thirty than the Boom right
around seven to two to two Sunday night from AT
and T stadium, and if this is a high scoring game,
then the wide receivers probably would be prominent in the game.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
So yeah, here's the Vike bite. Here's the Vike byte.
Take two number two.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Better one two wide receiver tandem And why Jefferson and
Addison or C. D.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Lamb and georgege Pickens. Well I go with that one.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
Yeah, I'm just I'm gonna go straight Homer on it.
And I think that Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison and
all are healthy when all are rolling.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, I think that's the better tandem. Now.
Speaker 7 (34:03):
Now, the issue though, is that most of these conversations
have to include the person that's throwing it to him again.
You know, it's like we talked about like we're wasting
Jefferson's prime. Well, we we're wasting everybody's prime if we
don't figure out this QB situation and stats are cool,
the wins and potentially playoff wins and potentially a Super
Bowl me more. But in this conversation, I think Justin
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Jefferson is the most dynamic and versatile wide receiver of
the entire group, and flip a coin between Addison and Pickens.
But for me, this is all moot because of watching
what Dak is able to do in that offense. We're
going to talk more about your doc. Thanks for giving
me about twenty minutes to actually look at it. You're
sending it late. I don't know what's going on with
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your schedule. Sorry, the film watching required a lot of
time this week.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
No, I understand that.
Speaker 7 (34:52):
But to that end, what Dak's able to do with
those guys versus what we're seeing, which is just it,
it's abysmal at times in this offense, and that's part
of the five and eight fatigue.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
I think we have the better tandem.
Speaker 7 (35:03):
We also have one of the most underutilized tandems and
the unrealized fruit of said labor by receivers in the NFL.
Speaker 6 (35:12):
It's actually it's it's a really good question. Uh pa,
So so I I appreciate the question.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Well, thank you. It's a low hanger, as if it
were Mark just looking to kill segments.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Among the four five and eight fatigue though five and
eight fatigue the announcer as a jill among.
Speaker 6 (35:27):
The four receivers, Justin is easily the most reliable. Okay,
I would say Jordan Addison, the potential is definitely there.
But the production of those other two guys specifically this year.
I you know, I don't know how reliable George Pickens is,
but this year in particular, he's been pretty reliable. So
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i'd probably for right now had these two guys. If
you giving me for the have the Cowboys two guys,
if if you're giving me the option.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
For the future.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Yeah, uh, that's what it is. It's like it's quarterback. Yeah,
same level of competition, all healthy. Like the Nord said, well,
I mean Addison has provided some headaches along the way. Yeah,
I have a feeling the headaches provided by George Pickens.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
There's no remedy. Their stories, Like you.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
Talk to certain people in college, and there's stories of
like him showing up like forty five minutes before the
game date I I like, no Georgia.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
He went to Georgia George.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
Picks Yeah he's from Hoover, Alabama, got it, But like
him showing up like early late right before.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
The game poop Alabama? Is that where the Lewis Feldman
Law Firm is Like? Anyway, what is this an ad segment?
Speaker 2 (36:38):
We got now? I'm run for the eleven.
Speaker 6 (36:40):
No, no, but George Pickens and Cedee Lamb just to
segue to this game in particular, like this is a tough,
tough test for the Viking secondary and what.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
If Pickens can't get around Fabian Moreau.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
I I you asked Kevin O'Connor earlier in the week
about Fabian Moreau, and it was it was interesting to hear. I.
I George Pickens against Fabian Moreau is like me guarding
Kobe White on the basketball court.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
It's just not a no offense. But it's that's just
George Bess they said when Danzler's shut him down last game.
Speaker 6 (37:12):
Yeah, I uh, look George Pickens and his ability to run.
One of the most interesting things about the Cowboys is
they run slants at such a high clip, Like they've
targeted slants on like ten plus percent of passes.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Outside jump TD number six.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
But the hard part is if you're going to try
to allocate multiple defenders to George Pickens, that opens up
space in the middle of the field. And if you're
trying to allocate multiple defenders to both guys on the outside,
there's a lot of space.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
In the middle of the field.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
So it is a tough challenge for Brian flors defense
and this is where I go back to, like the
script of the game, for the Vikings to get ahead
early would be huge To then put them in a
situation where you can probably activate pressures, activate blitzes and
really get it. Dak, Presscott, but Dak. I think Dak's
playing at a really high level.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Round.
Speaker 7 (38:02):
So in the end, who is the tandem if all
things are the same, I mean, just say Dak and
Pickens in front of all these Vikings.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Yes here, well Justin I he's the best of the four.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Addison is a has been a more reliable receiver with
the right quarterback than Pickens.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Nineteen tds in his first that's true. That's true. I
think that's a separator.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Jefferson has proven no matter the QB, because I mean
Dak's have the steady QB. Dak having a wonderful year,
but CDs had him every step of the way. Justin's
had to adjust to a bunch of different ones and
still has been better.
Speaker 6 (38:38):
It's really a question of like, do you believe more
in the upside of George Pickens or Jordan Addison and
I I it's a hard one to answer.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
I do think for as much.
Speaker 6 (38:49):
As the you know, we've seen some of the off
field self of Jordan Addison. We've talked about George Pickens
and where his head's at. I mean, that's that is
that is kind of a dice roll. But the ceiling
of George Pickens is, as Michael Jordan once said, at
the roof or whatever, through the roof.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Yeah. So Pickens is unrestricted after the year.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
Yeah, and he's gonna make a boatload of money regardless
of where he goes and whichever that.
Speaker 7 (39:13):
Plays into his production though, I mean, he finds himself
in an offense, But I don't think it's completely unreasonable
when you when you see some things we saw it
with I'm just using obscure vikings right now, but like
a Faudio Denebo has the type of year that makes
you think he can start games and it's a disaster.
Patrick Jones into a contract year. Kyle Pitts did last night.
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Kyle Pitts, he has he did what no tight end
has done since like ninety six or something. They Shannon
Sharp related names being thrown out means that was historical.
But I'm just curious how much a contract year motivates
a guy individually. Now everyone everyone gets paid off by
right with the production and the wins potentially, But I'm
just curious.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
You know, Pickens.
Speaker 7 (39:56):
He might be weird, but I don't think he's an
off field issue. Like you don't You don't hear about
him in like legal snaffoos. Yeah, you just be mercurial.
Speaker 6 (40:04):
It could be sure, No, I I mean, look, he's
a fascinating player, say you, and he does some stuff
on the field where you're just like, I have never
seen some of that stuff, So it's impressed. It's It's
gonna be interesting to see how the Vikings try to
defend him on Sunday night, and I'm looking forward to
watching the plan that they try to impose.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Those are Vikes.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
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Speaker 2 (40:28):
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Speaker 1 (41:09):
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Speaker 2 (41:35):
And here we are. This is what we do at KFAM.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Coming up at ten o'clock, we're going to get into
some fantasy football involving wide receivers.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
But first a break from that.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
With the college football bowl system not being an elite
college sports mind, the ball system's cool.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
I dig the ball system.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Maybe maybe the hardcores from like tuscal Loosa and Gainesville
and things like that, maybe they're not super super big
on the college bowl system.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
What's your favorite bowl?
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Probably the Rose Bowl because I've attended it several times
at Arroyo Seco in Pasadena, California.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
Beautiful place, wonderful and your.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Team should hope to get an opportunity to be it
said beautiful Arroyo Seco in a week and change. But
the college football ball system, I think is cool and
a question we posed yesterday for Ben Leeber beloved Nacho
and and he he had a pretty stark opinion on it.
Alec follows college football very closely growing up in Alabama,
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the Alabama Crimson Tide football teams.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Everything matter, You still say roll tide do I say, Yeah,
I mean I live the lifestyles well done. So just
let me hit you with this.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Whether it's Notre Dame, Iowa State, Kansas State, these teams
that skip the ball games. As a college football snob,
somebody who cares about it, it's an important diversion for you.
What are your thoughts on teams skipping bowl games?
Speaker 6 (42:58):
Yeah, I mean there's part of me that selfishly I
enjoy watching the bowl games. It's nice on a Wednesday
in late December or whatever to be able to flip
on the TV and see some absurd game in Jacksonville like.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
That that it has no bit. It's it's just entertaining
to be able to turn that on, just like a
one pm Matt Net. Yeah, like between South Florida and Connecticut.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
I mean, it's just highly entertaining. Remember when they used
to have like the Blue Gray Ball on Christmas?
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Yeah, of course, Well Birmingham.
Speaker 6 (43:29):
Birmingham used to have the Papa John's Bowl. Then it
became I mean it and and it like it's fun
for these towns.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
A little bit.
Speaker 6 (43:35):
But I will say, like I also see the part
of it where it's like, what's the point I mean,
what's the point we got.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
If you're a coaching staff, you gotta be out recruiting. Uh.
Speaker 6 (43:47):
The players are in the portals, so they're not tied
to their teams, which I don't like any of this stuff,
but it's just kind of the nature of where college
football is at, so I'd probably see it a lot.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Of different ways. And teams are by the cash to
be in now, right, and it just it just feels.
Speaker 6 (44:03):
Like college football is becoming, has become, maybe has always
been just professional.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Frankly, like, I don't know how let's to say it that.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
So this doesn't really like move the meter for you
super negatively or super positively, Like like, I mean, you know,
I don't want to take Notcho Libra out of context,
but he was like, shame on you.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
College football.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
The system so broken and things have gotten so out
of hand on so many different levels. That's why this
is happening. They're taking us a stand, drawing a proverbial
wine in the sand, and he's all for it.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Yeah, And part of me does feel like there is
way too much.
Speaker 6 (44:41):
Priority put on the playoff and making the playoff to
where it's diminished almost everything else. And it definitely affects
like the history and the pageantry and part of what
makes college football different and special, and so that's kind
of frustrating and infuriating. But now I don't I don't
get crazy upset about it. Like Missouri Mioma Mater a
(45:03):
couple of years ago, they beat Ohio State in a
bowl game, and like I had a bunch of college
buddies and they're pumped we beat Ohio State. I'm like, yes, okay,
but Marvin Harrison didn't play, and they don't like their
quarterback didn't play.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
So what does it really do for you? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (45:20):
I see it in a lot of different ways, but
I'm not crazy passionate about it. I just hope, and
I think I'm hoping for something that is, you know,
that doesn't really have Like my hope doesn't matter, but
I hope college football just doesn't lose some of the
essence of what makes it different and special.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
And it feels like we are losing that. I think
it's already been lost.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
They just showed something on one of these TVs at
Buffalo Wild Wings Buffalo Wild Wings Pllyymouth for the Friday
Football Feast, like like the top twenty five nil earners
in college football, and it's reported because it's you. It's
very hard to get like like like hammer in on
exactly what it isn't from whom. But you know with
(46:02):
Caleb Williams, they were all super accurate with the three
and change, you know up to four that that was
reported when he was a rookie.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
Who's the Texas quarterback? Arch Manning? Arch Manning? Okay? Is
he a freshman or a sophomore? I think sophomore, junior? Okay?
Speaker 1 (46:16):
And you know what, here, here's what's sad about it.
It doesn't matter. I'd like to ask, is he really good?
Do you think he's going to be the next Manning
to pop tags and make a lot of money and memories?
In the end, it doesn't matter. He's a Manning. Who's
the quarterback for the Texas Longhorns. Six and a half
million dollars for the nil six and a half million dollars.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
Holy cow.
Speaker 6 (46:40):
There's a basketball player at BUYU right now, aj De
Bonsa I think is his name, and he's making six
to seven million million dollars. It has become such big business.
And again there's part of me that understands, like we
all watch it. We all love it, but it's definitely
affect don't know what you guys are saying.
Speaker 2 (47:01):
I'm nervous about it. But no, no, no, no, yeah,
it's your five. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
We just had a secret handshake. Sure, we're moving on
to the next part.
Speaker 7 (47:07):
Okay, Well, the thing with arts Manning though, I think,
and somebody can fact check me on this, there was
some bit where he was offered to three million dollars
at Texas, and I think he actually turned it down
because Quinn yours was getting you know, maybe five hundred
thousand dollars or something much smaller, and so Arch is like,
(47:27):
I can't be chilling on the bench making three mil
while the starting QB at Texas is hawking chicken tenders somewhere.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
All right, So I you Indiana University. I've heard of them, Okay,
all of a sudden, A football school is what they
tell us, beloved Hoosiers, go Hoosiers. Do you think or
what chance do you believe as a college football snob
and an elite football mind, what chance do you believe
IU has to win the national championship? A pretty good chance.
Speaker 6 (48:00):
I mean Kurt Signetti, who took over that job a
couple of years ago has ascended into a place. From
a coaching like perspective, this last form. This is more
than Mark Cuban ohing tens of millions into the sports
programs and bringing in I mean, like they got four
key guys from James Madison. Yeah, there's part of it
(48:22):
where they are definitely they definitely have a certain amount
of funds that allow them to play with the big
boys from a personnel perspective, But the coaching there is
so good and so sharp. And then their quarterback this year,
Fernando Mendoza, is a potential number one pick. And so
when you've got that guy and you're well coached, and
then what blew me away in the Ohio State game
(48:42):
was they just manhandled the fronts offensively and defensively in
that game.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
So they can control the front.
Speaker 6 (48:48):
They've got a quarterback, they have skilled players, they're really
well coached. It's hard not to I mean, it's hard
not to buy into Indiana and what they're capable of.
Speaker 2 (48:58):
Pretty crazy.
Speaker 1 (48:59):
And lastly, from College Football Central, your beloved Bama, Your
beloved Bama team Crimson Tide at Oklahoma a week from
today in Norman, Oklahoma. The winner gets Indiana University gets
those hoosiers at the Rose Bawl a week later. I
mean you and the marketing director, you and those with
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the Alex Lewis show t shirts. I mean, you gotta
be going to this game, right, you have to. No,
I'm not going.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
I mean no, no.
Speaker 6 (49:29):
Alabama this year has lost a lot of my respect.
They just shouldn't even be in the playoffs. They play
they are, They shouldn't. They play a style offensively that
drives me nuts. They try to throw it around the
yard with the quarterback, who is fine. It's a lot
of like designery plays. They don't run the ball, you know,
(49:52):
the play call it the quarterback is is for neetic
oftentimes dumb question.
Speaker 7 (49:57):
And it's still the bar down there, right, it is
still de bor down there. What are the prideful Tide
lovers and tuscal Loosa think about.
Speaker 6 (50:04):
Demor Well, I if he wins, more than they'll like him.
It's it's a bottom line business, just like the Wolves.
Just like the Wolves on a Tuesday night, if you
show up and you play the way you need to play,
then you will be respected by the fan base. But
they have a standard that has lead and bred success
for a long time, and so if they lose to
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Oklahoma for the second time this year, people will be
really frustrated, and they have every right to be because.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
They expect you're not going to this game. Exit No,
I don't.
Speaker 6 (50:33):
It's really hard to watch Alabama for me this year. Well,
the reason I mentioned that they shouldn't be in the
playoff though, you're you're a front runner.
Speaker 2 (50:40):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
You're a no, no, no no, you're a front runner
with your very this is your very favorite team of
all of them, and amazingly, to some, including you, they
have a chance to win the national champions They shouldn't
even be.
Speaker 2 (50:52):
In the playoffs.
Speaker 7 (50:53):
It's it's they They Notre Dame started the year with
close losses to Miami and then I believe it was
A and m who are both in Yeah, and they
ran the table the rest of the way there. And
I know they're putting fifty on Stanford here.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
I get that. I can't.
Speaker 7 (51:06):
But the most recent example of tied football is them
just getting housed okay and outclassed to the max by
Georgia in the SEC title game. It should have been
Notre Dame, which is why they were totally right on
multiple fronts to not take the carrot and deny a bowl.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
Okay, no, well, will do it next year.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
Jonathan Allen Poopy Dave, who is a He's one of
my very best friends for a quarter century. He's I
mean he he started following Miami football. It was Ray Lewis,
it was, it was at Reed, it was it was
Jeremy Shockey, it was it was that whole group. And
so like when you and Johnny Ojampa too used to
work for kfa Erik Gore, excellent basketball player.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
Johnny Oh's listening right now too. Well, if he's a
Canes fan, that means he hates Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
They're blowing up my phone with the with with the
robbery that took place with the Canes or whatever. And
I wish the Canes could play Alabama so they could
beat them by I mean, I get I I didn't
read the stories, but I saw enough with the headlines
and the subheads to recognize, Ah, Notre Dame thinks this.
Speaker 2 (52:08):
Oh, Miami beat beat Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
And Kendrick Perkins just told me this on ESPN, and
then we got this guy over here saying this.
Speaker 2 (52:16):
Okay, I understand when is.
Speaker 1 (52:18):
College football or college sports not shrouded in some form
of controversy.
Speaker 2 (52:23):
So I'm able to put it off to the side.
We have the teams.
Speaker 1 (52:26):
Your favorite team is one of them, and if they
win in Norman and I should be there, then okay,
if they do win, or you're going to the rose Ball,
probably not, why because I don't have to don't. Oh, no,
the death wait the Vikings play middle of the week
for your for for covering it for the game.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
No, I don't know. No, I've seen a lot of
football this year. Just head out, head out West.
Speaker 6 (52:53):
I really can't take much more warmer weather, bring the
marketing director. Didn't I can't take what I was good
enough to eat.
Speaker 2 (52:58):
Didn't Oklahoma get the be you at Tuscaloosa earlier this year?
They already beat Alabama, this fool.
Speaker 1 (53:03):
You know what they say, stuff to beat a team,
play thank you, especially in college football.
Speaker 6 (53:08):
You know what they also say, got to get the
first first down. Let's get the first first down. Offense goes.
Once you get the first first down.
Speaker 2 (53:15):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
Brother, All right, well so you think ten seconds you
get it all? Sure, if you had to better team
to win the college to win the Championship. Would you
bet Indiana? No, I probably bet Ohio State, Ohio State.
Thank you, Alan Lewis Nordo, Yours truly, Paul Allen. Into
the second part of the radio show. We begin with
some fantasy football and then we rolled down to some
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Thursday locker room drive bys with some Texas natives. I
walked around the Vikings locker room yesterday with the contraption
excuse me, and spoke with nothing but Texas Is about
what it was like growing up in Texas, having a
here America's team and stuff like that. Hopefully you like him.
That's coming up thirty minutes from now. Back to Buffalo
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Wild Wings Plymouth in a flash
I think.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
That anything to backfield re receivers right to left.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
First down from the commander's eighteen four man rush JJ
to the end zone.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Touch down.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Hey King yard touchdown to Josh Oliver, and the Minnesota
Vikings have taken a six zero leads.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
The Commanders have a pourtan hoole from the lawn.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Two receivers went to right in's empty backfield re receivers
right now take this step On's wrked out bounce us around.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Fires to the enzone and time late de Bo Samuel
back center of the end zone, putting hold onto it.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Josh a woman tell.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Us with excellent coverage, and the Vikings have turned over
the Commanders.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
On downs third and.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
One for Minnesota from the eats the ket of fur
four or third down, a party under center hands a
to Mason's principal less till the five to the unsod
touch to it to Mason with his sixth rushing touchdown
this year, and Minnesota has taken up thirteen.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Serially side silt for fourth and three from the Vikings nineteen.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Three receivers left and one to the right. Jalen Daniels
clapping to the ball. Three on the play clock gets
a throws un right left.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
That is picked up bike and rope can't go and
he goes standing.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
On fifteenth top morning inside the Thirtysberry's taken down. What
Duke is on fire with his first interception this season.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
It is second and nine for Washington Mariota going out
of the shotgun. Deebo Samuel in the backfield flexes up
to left Mariota. He's gonna throw to the left, stept
in by Harrison Smith.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Then I get man turns it up to the forty
Henny's taking down at the thirty six yard line.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
That is the thirty eighth interception in Harrison Smith's story career.
Paning he has passed Jolie Browner her sole possession of
court all time.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
In the annals of Minnesota Vikings history.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
The US the brown.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Bringing on Bumbalo Wild wins Plymouth was going on, welcome
to the first Yeah, this threw you back there you
got we got shirts to throw into the crowd and everything.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Uh, this is the Friday Football Feast and welcome alec
Lewis from the Athletic Nordo.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I'm Paul Allen, Engineer Extraordinaire.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
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over there, and Devin Ward has got Ian the Great
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f an And this is the Friday Football.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
It's the feast.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Let's warm up together today, okay, into this Dallas Cowboys
game this weekend. The nine to noon open and courtesy
of Steve's Appliances and Steve's Appliances dot Com that would
include Alec Lewis's inclusion nine to noon is kind of
Hodgepodge Central.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
We begin with the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Why because it's the football what it's the feast at
Buffalo wild Wings Plymouth And here we are. We begin
with the Vikings. They take on the Cowboys Sunday night
at seven twenty and the news biggest news into the
game for the Minnesota Vikings involves left tackle Christian Darisa,
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who has not practiced two consecutive days. Aleck is a
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I did that to about three people last year. Thank you,
no problem. I'm a believer when it comes to that
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injury report and D and P and D and P
did not practice for Christian Darisaw two consecutive to days
today is important?
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Do you think he plays this weekend? And good morning,
good morning, happy to be here. A lot of the
folks who braved the weather, props to them. Christian Daresaw.
I'm kind of tired trying to figure out what's going
on with that. There are days where he doesn't practice,
doesn't practice, and those are planed days, and then there
are days where he doesn't practice, and you don't know
if they're planned days.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
I don't like I put this on social media yesterday.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
If he practices today, that would leave me to think
that there's probably a high likelihood that he plays.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
He didn't get re injured in the game from what
I understand.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
So it's been a wild ride for Christian Daresaw from
a health standpoint all year. It feels like and I
am done trying to prognosticate when he's playing, when he's
staying in the game, when he's leaving the game, why
he's leaving the game, Who filling in for him, So
I'm kind of.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
That's where I'm at. But he's critical.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
I mean he's critical when he's available, and it's not
just in school. The offense has a much higher likelihood
of being successful.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
So we'll see. I don't know you got any intel
on that.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Well, first, ladies and gentlemen, what you just heard shared
by Alan Lewis is called five and eight fatigue. Yeah,
the team's five and eight and just there was part
of that diatribe that was five and eight fatigue, but
see keyword tired.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Yeah, well, the.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Crafty veteran recognized said fatigue and quickly that kind of
changed his face and picked up the tempo at the.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
End, and sure he activated the night.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Yeah no, did I had a conversation with somebody internally
about this situation. They're like, yeah, I don't know, man,
I mean it was it was like that, that's where
I don't know what I'm supposed to.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Do, and that person has fatigue at five and eight.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
There are many within the Love Covenant internally ht TCO
that probably have it, but I yeah, I don't. With
Christian Darisaw again, it is massive, like this Cowboys defense
is definitely gettable. One of the ways it's more gettable
is if you can protect the quarterback to be able
to throw the football around a little bit. So, yeah,
we'll see today. I would assume at this point he's
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gonna be questionable, and then as it as it's tended
to happen all year, they'll take it up to game
time and kind of Christian will feel the way he
feels and we'll figure out on Sunday night if he's
available or not.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Yeah, you had mentioned pa I think earlier this week
kind of the the idea that if if you had
to pick who the most important person on the team is,
we'll talk about the quarterback and things, but how important
Christian Darisaw is to this entire offense. And into the
Seattle game, I think he went DNP. You can tell
me if I'm wrong, Alec. I think it was into
the Seattle game d n P, DMP limited and then
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he didn't go in that Seattle game.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Is that accurate? Believe so, mother, And so today is
to day to kind of find it.
Speaker 7 (08:06):
It's just I wonder in some cases, how over the
course of a week, the unknown of whether he's gonna
play and how you handle that over practice periods.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I think that's awful in terms of trying to prepare
for a game.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
So just you know what that what that I guess
the effects of that on the offense over the course
of a week into a game it has to be frustrating.
The five and eight fatigue and all of that aside.
So but for the sake of this singular game, please
have seventy one in the mix.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Here, gentlemen, do we believe Sunday Night Football seven twenty
kfa n will be high or low scoring? Do we
think this game will be a high or a low
scoring game? Which you'all think?
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Yeah, when you asked that question, I was having a
hard time trying to decide I'm gonna go low scoring.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Why are you having a hard time? Five and eight fatigue?
Speaker 6 (08:57):
No, I'm not that anywhere it's hired cited for this
Sunday Night came out, Oh so am I.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
But it doesn't mean five and eight fatigue is something
that we don't need to overcome.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
No, But I mean if they were eight and five,
I'd probably have fatigue on a nine am Friday morning
with twelve degree weather.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That's kind of part of it.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
Oba i'ma play in Oklahoma and awake. Yeah, so you
can think about they're gonna lose again. Probably we'll we'll
get there later in the show. But no, I I yeah,
that the fatigue is real, But no, I would say
low scoring probably because the Vikings defense has been really,
really good of late. Like I was thinking about this
the other day, what Eric Wilson's done. We've documented all season,
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but since adri Van Ginkle's back, they've been so solid.
I feel like Blake Cashman's play for the second year
in a row has flown onto the radar of how
solid he's been. The secondary, you know, hasn't probably been perfect,
but I'd say with the Vikings defense playing how they've played,
and JJ McCarthy in the Vikings offense not pushing the
ball down field, that would leave me to believe low scoring.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
What do you think, Norda, Well, I just quick twitched.
Speaker 7 (09:58):
So seven twenty percent of Cowboys games go over if
you were looking at totals or if you lived in
an area where you might be able to place a
wager without getting your hand slapped.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
And for conicts and for context, the totals over unders
and Cowboys games are high.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
They are indeed and for the Vikings, believe it or not,
for a team that was shut out a couple of
weeks ago, we saw just languishing and Lambeau and all
of that. Fifty four percent of their games go over,
the Vikings find their way to points, including the thirty
one nothing shut out. I actually think this will be
a higher scoring game, and there will be moments. There's
going to be some takes. I just I think you're
under the bright lights of Jerry World. I think you're
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going to see a lot of points.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
On Sunday night, Hodgepodge Central from Buffalo Wild Wings and
Plymouth for the Friday Football and four checking feast in
the Capital City. Last night, ladies and gentlemen, your favorite
professional hockey team, Down Zookie and Down Midzie beat a
team that was ten to zero to five in its
last fifteen Can I get a witness and a raucous
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on the applause for the Minnesota Wild The Christmas Colors.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Given gifts early.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Uh Down Zookie and Midzi Stars on fire the It's
only the third regulation loss for the bally Hood Dallas
Stars in almost two months. Uh Gus got the Gus
got the net two consecutive games came through both times
and Alex Lewis's favorite player, Matt Bolding, He's unbelievable. Three
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points last night for the fifth time this season. That
was a home upset last night of the Dallas Stars,
Ladies and Gentlemen, and it was funky fine.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Does that mean well for the Dallas Minnesota matchup Sunday
night if you beat one of their teams?
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Is that one for one? Right? Yeah, that's a great question.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
No, I I really thought Hines had the boys flying around.
Need some hockey analysis.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
I just just Boldie Boldi's unbelievable and that line in
particular with him and Marcus Johansson two goals for him.
That's kind of why I brought that up yesterday when
we were chat and hockey with Joe Smith. Jojoe Is,
you know, I think sometimes you're just sitting there a
third line, fourth line guy. It's like, oh, I get
a chance to work up in the top six, and
suddenly the production increases. He has to participate in that
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production increase, and I think Johansson's been terrific offensively.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Hold on here to take a look at the NFL
Network TV one of eight million TVs here at Buffalo
Wildwing's Plymouth. That's Jamie Erdal all right, she's a Minnesotan,
went to Blake. She's the host of Good Morning Football
on NFL Network. The wild victory resonated across the Great Divide,
ladies and gentlemen. You saw that sweatshirt she was wearing
(12:34):
and said, the Boss has nothing to do with Jerome
Bettis it has to do with us, Boss and the
performance last night against those Dallas stars.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Wake up, come on, come on. Alf River would have
woken up an hour ago. Matt Body, Matt Body, Western
verbs though.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
I mean, look it's it's been a joke. But went
to a game last year. Yeah, I don't know what
I'm looking at, but he was the most controlled.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
They have hockey and Aniston. No, no, I mean they
have it. Yeah, they have hot.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
You just gotta I mean, you really got to go
looking for fight for ice tyme down there. No, I
mean ice time's very Yeah, yeahm wake up.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Skating Skating isn't isn't. Uh, you know, it's a little.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Don't look at the middle TV Alec it's uh. They're
talking about IU, which is going to win the National championship.
And probably beat Alabama and the rose Ball. I don't
want you to have college football PTSD or in a
football feast.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
No, But on a serious note, to have Gus and
Jesper Wallstead Yesper, how do you pronounce that, sir?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Guys?
Speaker 6 (13:35):
To have both those guys doing what they're doing in
the net makes you feel really good. It's I like
the Wild buzz, a little bit that's percolated around town.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Well rising to the occasion of their opponents.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
And this has just been an off talker with the
oft talker with the Wild over the last several years.
Beat the freaking good teams in your division, please anytime. Okay, So,
whether it's Winnipeg, Winnipeg looks middlings so far this year,
but whether it was Black Friday against the Abs, and
know what we saw last night. One stat that just
kind of popped off the page to me is you're
loving the wind. They only allowed eighteen total shots for
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the Stars last night.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
So Gus Buss was good, yeah, but really what was
going on in front of them?
Speaker 7 (14:14):
It's I mean, this is early December hockey, right, so
we got to get to April and we got to
see what it looks like them, but it was kind
of dominating at at Grand Casino last night.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Hodge Podge Central at Buffalo Wild Wings for the Friday
Football for checking and front court Feast. And the reason
we put this in the Hodgepodge there's something via x
called Legion Hoop. So when Nordo sent this to me yesterday,
this piece of intel, I'm like, Legion Hoops, We're happy
for you. Then I clicked into it and I saw
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nearly one million followers, and then I read through some
of the tweets. I'm like, damn this Legion hoops. Man,
they got it going on here. I gotta follow this thing.
I know who no Legion hoops with nearly one million
Twitter followers reported yesterday the Minnesota Timberwolves contacted the Chicago
Bulls asking about a player named Kobe White. Yes, used
(15:06):
to play at North Carolina and actually Chris Finch and
I have chatted about him several times when the Timberwolves
are playing the Bulls.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
I think the head coach has respect for the kids game,
doesn't it.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
He was with he was with New Orleans when they
drafted Kobe White, and I'll refer to Kobe as the
kid with the hair and Finchy gets it. But he's
a guard by trade, kind of a point guard by
trade too. Is Kobe White for the state of hockey?
Not necessarily following a Bulls fan line with Adam Amine,
Kobe White point guard by trade, and he's kind of
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in a difficult spot. They got a player named Josha
Getty who's a better point guard than Kobe White. Then
they got Apple Valley's Trey Jones, who's not as good
as Kobe White, but he sucks up about twenty five
to twenty eight minutes a game. So Kobe's in a
difficult spot now the Timberwolves. And this is per our
conversation with Finchy on Tuesday, when I asked him about
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floor leaders and point guards. You can podcast and love
Covenant on demand. It's clear that that they they covet
or potentially could be searching for a true point guard,
some kind of a floor leader. So when this thing
popped up and I saw damn Legion hoops and then
Johnny kb Johnny Athletica subsequently tweeted and wrote about it
(16:23):
and stuff like that, So there's some corroboration there. Uh.
Kobe White makes twelve million dollars this year. Now, remember
in the in the salary cap world of the NBA,
the second apron, Yeah you got. I mean they have
to match within a certain percentage ten or fifteen, like
ten or fifteen exactly. So Kobe White makes twelve million dollars.
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We can start there. I'm a fan of trading for
Kobe White.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
What about you, guys, Well, I'm I'm absolutely a fan
of trading for Kobe White. And the thing with with
Kobe on this team is, and as much as I
love Aunt, and as much as Ant is helping my
fantasy league right now, from a stats perspective, how disjointed
it is when he's having to create his own offense.
He's the main ball handler, and you have these weird
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nights where either Ant's going to go for forty and
then like the other night, you have everyone else going
two for thirty one or four for thirty one, whatever
the stat was. Otherwise, it's Jade McDaniel's having his games,
it's Nasred having his game, and then Ant's kind of
finding himself drifting backwards a bit in terms of his production.
So they need somebody to take the ball out of
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Ant's hands. So Ant can put himself in spots to dominate.
Now in terms of COVID of this team, I saw
the news that the idea that Conley didn't want to
wait until the trade deadline.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
So first of all, I dig that mentality. That's good.
We need a freaking point guard. Assuming it's accurate. Now
I'm riding that it is.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
But I will add on that a lot of calls
are made and not a lot of trades come through
because trades in the NBA with the second apron and
the tacks and all those things become quite difficult. Yeah,
and guys, although Conley's been pretty shifty with him, guys,
Guys kind of get married to their draft picks once
in a while. So I saw from Johnny k yesterday
that they have made the call, but nothing is exactly
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imminent now. That could change in ten minutes, but that's
where it's at right now. I love Kobe White on
this team.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
And Alec Lewis when the Timberwolves are going to the
Western Conference Final finals.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
You know, he's sidebar guy for the athletic You know.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
The thing is these primo media seats that he gets
in the corner about fifteen twenty feet from the floor.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Con game, a stringer work that he does during the.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
These high leverage postseason games. And then I just can't
wait for the story at the Athletics, can't wait, still
wait anywhere they keep refreshing.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I wrote like three story thres. I under I understand
that Boston the Lexus club, so that that.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Inherently makes alec an elite NBA mine. Now the the
the key here if you're in favor of this, which
it sounds like at least two thirds of us are.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Okay, so the cast is in favor.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
And just to amplify wood, Nordo said about kind of
a void at the point guard spot. They've been using
Dante DiVincenzo there and I, you know, I'm not trying
to be James Naismith, but it doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
He's not a point guard, so we'll just dot it.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
My My dumb take was, you saw it once in
the playoffs when he was with the Knicks, so naturally
that would happen here and it.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Would work, and it hasn't worked well.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
And we also saw Julius Randall run point forward in
the Oklahoma City Series last year, and that's okay as
a mixer, But like when it's your thing, then then
it gets easier to stop. So if this is accurate,
I see what they're doing here. The question would be,
if you trade for this guy making twelve million this year,
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who would leave and why? So the way I looked
at it from a salary standpoint, I believe Dante Divincenzo's
right around twelve million dollars a year. That could be
a straight swap. Oh, Kobe White for Dante DiVincenzo. Okay,
if you want to get exotic and like like, I
don't see them trading Edwards Randall.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
What about Rob I don't think, well, yeah, it doesn't
make en up. That's the problem.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
But he Dillingham could be part of it because maybe
they won a fifth point guard on their roster to
compliment the other form. But I don't think anybody would
trade for Rudy Gobert, so I draw a line through him.
Jade McDaniels. He's at twenty four million dollars, all right,
So you can get Kobe White. And then they got
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a player on their team who played for Cleveland named Isaacacorro.
He can't score a lick, but he is a big
time perimeter defensive player Auburn supposedly what de Vincenzo was
going to be.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Along with hitting threes.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Kobe White is a better three point shooter than Dante
DiVincenzo for my taste, and he also handles the ball
better as a true point. So if McDaniels is a
trade ship here, you'd have to pedal him. Now you're
gonna lose some defense, Ain't no doubt. But Kobe White
and a Coro add up to j Mac de Vincenzo
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could be a straight swap.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
What do you think? Here's the one thing.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
First of all, John Krasinski on this yesterday on social media,
and I trust John. Yeah, I can tell you that
there is absolutely nothing cooking there right now. Could that
change down the road. Maybe he's certainly a name to watch,
but nothing percolating yet. So yeah, it's not something to
dismiss entirely with the way John said that reading between
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the lines, one quick segue, I'll have I the Sun's
game on that weeknight was like a no brainer Wolves loss,
like a weeknight.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Game on here.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Yeah, the weeknight game against the Suns team without Devin Booker,
Like you knew they weren't showing up at the beginning
of that game and feeling it's felt like since I
moved here in twenty twenty two, like they do this
every year, where it's just early in the season against
a team that they should easily beat, they are incapable
of doing that, and it's it's very frustrating to watch,
at least for me, someone who likes basketball.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
But I do feel like the point.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
Guard spot would really allow them on both ends of
the court to be much better. It's unfortunate that Rob
Dillingham hasn't progressed I think to the to the spot
that you'd hope that he would at this point. He's
still a young player obviously, but we'll see to the point.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Finchy gave Bones Highlands money the other night, and.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Bones Highland like sometimes you watch sometimes you watch Bones Higland,
You're like, man, that guy can.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Really score the Bones ball.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
But it's just yeah, it's not probably a sustainable path.
So Kobe White, for sure, I just for me, And
and again this isn't the Kobe White conversation. I just
would love on a Tuesday night when they're playing the
Suns at home to be have full conviction that they
are going to come out and give it to the
other team on that night, and I just have never
Like I texted a buddy looking that the Wolves played
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that Tuesday night and I'm like, this is not this
is not gonna go well.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
And I shouldn't feel that way. I really I shouldn't.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
That's next huge here, right, Nordo. Yeah, that's college sports mentality,
and it's fine. And when you grow up in a
in a blue blood college sports market like with Alabama
with the Crimson Tide or college basketball, and and ALEC
follows that markedly more closely than us every single minute
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of every single game. Isp your hands, get down, slide
and play defense. This this is the NBA, man, and
it's and it's November and December.
Speaker 8 (23:24):
No no foam fingers in the media seating, Okay, I
I I understand, I understand, But like they should against
the Suns a Devin Booker list sons. Yeah, I mean
they made Colin Gillespie look like Larry Bird. It just
it should it just shouldn't happen, absolutely correct, even if
your professionals.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Will you get paid to show up every night? Yeah,
so that's my standard.
Speaker 7 (23:45):
Well, the problem with the the n b A and
I will I I just I look at it and
I love my favorite team. I want him to win
every game. Uh, show me how many teams in the
NBA play with absolute conviction the Thunder, what's their record?
There may be one team in the NBA right now
that actually plays with conviction on a nightly.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Base and honestly, they grab you by the throat two
minutes into it. Yeah, they take pleasure and play their
best players longer than anybody else, and then they're like, yeah,
we're up forty two.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
I think we can check out. So yeah, the Thunder
are what twenty four and one? Sir, it's one of
the most. People aren't talking about it nationally, but it
might go It might end up being like one of
the best.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
You know why they're not talking about.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
It nationally, I don't know, because they're focused on.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
The NFL talking about Kobe White changing games for the
Minnesota Timberwell.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
You want to change the conversation, Uh, beat in some games?
Speaker 6 (24:38):
No, listen, I just look, that's my standard is I
should have faith on a Tuesday night that the Wolves
are going.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
To come out and beat the Sun. No, I'm with you,
and if I don't, that's a problem.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
You need a season ticket next to Jimmy Ka, King
of the Rubes, so that both of you can start
your chance and you have oh yeah, the doorbuster deals
for the first five hundred.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Fans in the stadium. They've got part Burger in there.
I go one of those at halftime, the foods the
lead of Target Center.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
I just wonder that the hardcore, that the hardest of
hardcore Wolves fans. Yeah, what what kind of meltdown they
would have if you said, hey, uh, Jade McDaniels, he's
headed to Chicago and in return, you're getting Kobe.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
White, oh cool man, and Isaac Okorro I know, averages
six points a game. Fantasy football, Fantasy Basketball Nation is
gonna love that absolutely.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Now.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
I also wonder, as a complete, you know, just non
basketball related note, but with that team, if you traded
Jaden McDaniels, does Anthony Edwards get annoyed.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
They're not trading McDaniels. I don't think they will. But
I mean, just because the most.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Said jadon, I agree with you nine point five out
of ten. I put that name in for one reason because,
for whatever the reason of late McDaniels is working on
the producer's last nerve.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Because he's inconsistent.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
That's the only reason I put that name in and
actually researched Isaac KRO's salary.
Speaker 7 (25:57):
He started out the season with career numbers and he
still has a chance to get there.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
I like Jayden McDaniels overall, but whether it's.
Speaker 7 (26:04):
Inconsistency in the playoffs, he's either shooting eight to ten
or one of seven like we saw a couple of
days ago. Appreciate the defense, appreciate that, but I just
see he's a black hole on offense too often for
my taste to make him this budding star that I
feel like we're being sold on. People will disagree with that,
but that's where I'm at on McDaniels. I like him
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on our team. I don't want him to leave.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I just need more consistency out of him.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
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Alc Lewis Show. You have you got in your shirt yet?
I want a stocking cap? When did you get those?
It's the marketing director, she's she's orchestrated a lot of different.
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So we got shirts podcast going for the podcast.
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Yeah, the podcast is, I mean it's it's it's not
the audio network, the vast and never expanding, but but
it is. Yeah, the Alex Lewis Shows. It's it's been good.
It's the five and eight. Fatigue might be affecting the
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All right, here's the first question. I do bikes bites
on Friday. Given Ordo a break from it, he does
a great job Monday through Thursday. He gets an opportunity
with Alex Lewis from The Athletic Theathletic dot Com to
opine on some of these hopefully pertinent queries. And the
first one is off the Vikings News with which we
started thirty five minutes ago. Christian Darisow hasn't practiced two
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consecutive days, my practice today, my play over the weekend.
But for either one of you, how much does it
hurt if Darisaw does not play in this game?
Speaker 2 (31:32):
Gigantic?
Speaker 6 (31:33):
I mean it's absolutely gigantic because the drop off is
a mint to go from Christian Darosol both in the
run game and the past game, to Justin's school. Hey,
Justin school has had a hard go this year for sure,
and so there's no question. And it affects the entire
plan too. Nordo, you kind of insinuated this earlier, but
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there's such a difference if you're the offensive staff designing
an offensive game plan when you know you've got a
chip on that side every single time, and it affects
the number of players out in the route, it affects
the types of runs you can call. It effects, you know,
just every aspect of the Vikings game plan.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
So it's massive. Christian Darrisaw needs to play in this game.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
And I will say, like the Cowboys last week didn't
have Tyler Goeyton their left tackle. They had a backup,
Nate Thomas. He gave up eleven pressures in the game.
So any team that doesn't have their their left tackle,
you're gonna feel it to a level that really hurts.
Speaker 7 (32:31):
Frankly, Yeah, after JJ McCarthy. He is the most important
person in this entire operation. And the up and down
will he play? Will he not play?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
The five and eight fatigue, all that.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
It just I'm beyond exhausted just trying to figure out
whether or not he's gonna be on the field.
Speaker 2 (32:45):
So I hope he is. He has to be, whether you.
Speaker 7 (32:48):
Know, when you're trying to even whether you're in a vacuum.
Just a singular game with Max Brosmer didn't go well,
and the first couple of weeks of the season, we
remember what justin school looked like in those first two
weeks against the Bears and Falcons. The drop off is
just like jumping into the Grand Canyon. So we hope
that seventy one can play. It means a ton to
(33:10):
us being able to put up some points and match
dak on Sunday Night.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
Vikes, Bytes, Vikings and Cowboys. The pre game is at
five thirty for KFA M five thirty. Audio network affiliates
pick it up at six thirty than the Boom right
around seven to two to two Sunday night from AT
and T stadium, and if this is a high scoring game,
then the wide receivers probably would be prominent in the game.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
So yeah, here's the Vike bite. Here's the Vike byte.
Take two number two.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Better one two wide receiver tandem And why Jefferson and
Addison or C. D.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Lamb and georgege Pickens. Well I go with that one.
Speaker 7 (33:54):
Yeah, I'm just I'm gonna go straight Homer on it.
And I think that Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison and
all are healthy when all are rolling.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
Yeah, I think that's the better tandem. Now.
Speaker 7 (34:03):
Now, the issue though, is that most of these conversations
have to include the person that's throwing it to him again.
You know, it's like we talked about like we're wasting
Jefferson's prime. Well, we we're wasting everybody's prime if we
don't figure out this QB situation and stats are cool,
the wins and potentially playoff wins and potentially a Super
Bowl me more. But in this conversation, I think Justin
(34:26):
Jefferson is the most dynamic and versatile wide receiver of
the entire group, and flip a coin between Addison and Pickens.
But for me, this is all moot because of watching
what Dak is able to do in that offense. We're
going to talk more about your doc. Thanks for giving
me about twenty minutes to actually look at it. You're
sending it late. I don't know what's going on with
(34:47):
your schedule. Sorry, the film watching required a lot of
time this week.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
No, I understand that.
Speaker 7 (34:52):
But to that end, what Dak's able to do with
those guys versus what we're seeing, which is just it,
it's abysmal at times in this offense, and that's part
of the five and eight fatigue.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
I think we have the better tandem.
Speaker 7 (35:03):
We also have one of the most underutilized tandems and
the unrealized fruit of said labor by receivers in the NFL.
Speaker 6 (35:12):
It's actually it's it's a really good question. Uh pa,
So so I I appreciate the question.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
Well, thank you. It's a low hanger, as if it
were Mark just looking to kill segments.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Among the four five and eight fatigue though five and
eight fatigue the announcer as a jill among.
Speaker 6 (35:27):
The four receivers, Justin is easily the most reliable. Okay,
I would say Jordan Addison, the potential is definitely there.
But the production of those other two guys specifically this year.
I you know, I don't know how reliable George Pickens is,
but this year in particular, he's been pretty reliable. So
(35:48):
i'd probably for right now had these two guys. If
you giving me for the have the Cowboys two guys,
if if you're giving me the option.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
For the future.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Yeah, uh, that's what it is. It's like it's quarterback. Yeah,
same level of competition, all healthy. Like the Nord said, well,
I mean Addison has provided some headaches along the way. Yeah,
I have a feeling the headaches provided by George Pickens.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
There's no remedy. Their stories, Like you.
Speaker 6 (36:16):
Talk to certain people in college, and there's stories of
like him showing up like forty five minutes before the
game date I I like, no Georgia.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
He went to Georgia George.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
Picks Yeah he's from Hoover, Alabama, got it, But like
him showing up like early late right before.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
The game poop Alabama? Is that where the Lewis Feldman
Law Firm is Like? Anyway, what is this an ad segment?
Speaker 2 (36:38):
We got now? I'm run for the eleven.
Speaker 6 (36:40):
No, no, but George Pickens and Cedee Lamb just to
segue to this game in particular, like this is a tough,
tough test for the Viking secondary and what.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
If Pickens can't get around Fabian Moreau.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
I I you asked Kevin O'Connor earlier in the week
about Fabian Moreau, and it was it was interesting to hear. I.
I George Pickens against Fabian Moreau is like me guarding
Kobe White on the basketball court.
Speaker 2 (37:05):
It's just not a no offense. But it's that's just
George Bess they said when Danzler's shut him down last game.
Speaker 6 (37:12):
Yeah, I uh, look George Pickens and his ability to run.
One of the most interesting things about the Cowboys is
they run slants at such a high clip, Like they've
targeted slants on like ten plus percent of passes.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
Outside jump TD number six.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
But the hard part is if you're going to try
to allocate multiple defenders to George Pickens, that opens up
space in the middle of the field. And if you're
trying to allocate multiple defenders to both guys on the outside,
there's a lot of space.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
In the middle of the field.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
So it is a tough challenge for Brian flors defense
and this is where I go back to, like the
script of the game, for the Vikings to get ahead
early would be huge To then put them in a
situation where you can probably activate pressures, activate blitzes and
really get it. Dak, Presscott, but Dak. I think Dak's
playing at a really high level.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Round.
Speaker 7 (38:02):
So in the end, who is the tandem if all
things are the same, I mean, just say Dak and
Pickens in front of all these Vikings.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Yes here, well Justin I he's the best of the four.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Addison is a has been a more reliable receiver with
the right quarterback than Pickens.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Nineteen tds in his first that's true. That's true. I
think that's a separator.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
Jefferson has proven no matter the QB, because I mean
Dak's have the steady QB. Dak having a wonderful year,
but CDs had him every step of the way. Justin's
had to adjust to a bunch of different ones and
still has been better.
Speaker 6 (38:38):
It's really a question of like, do you believe more
in the upside of George Pickens or Jordan Addison and
I I it's a hard one to answer.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
I do think for as much.
Speaker 6 (38:49):
As the you know, we've seen some of the off
field self of Jordan Addison. We've talked about George Pickens
and where his head's at. I mean, that's that is
that is kind of a dice roll. But the ceiling
of George Pickens is, as Michael Jordan once said, at
the roof or whatever, through the roof.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Yeah. So Pickens is unrestricted after the year.
Speaker 6 (39:09):
Yeah, and he's gonna make a boatload of money regardless
of where he goes and whichever that.
Speaker 7 (39:13):
Plays into his production though, I mean, he finds himself
in an offense, But I don't think it's completely unreasonable
when you when you see some things we saw it
with I'm just using obscure vikings right now, but like
a Faudio Denebo has the type of year that makes
you think he can start games and it's a disaster.
Patrick Jones into a contract year. Kyle Pitts did last night.
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Kyle Pitts, he has he did what no tight end
has done since like ninety six or something. They Shannon
Sharp related names being thrown out means that was historical.
But I'm just curious how much a contract year motivates
a guy individually. Now everyone everyone gets paid off by
right with the production and the wins potentially, But I'm
just curious.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
You know, Pickens.
Speaker 7 (39:56):
He might be weird, but I don't think he's an
off field issue. Like you don't You don't hear about
him in like legal snaffoos. Yeah, you just be mercurial.
Speaker 6 (40:04):
It could be sure, No, I I mean, look, he's
a fascinating player, say you, and he does some stuff
on the field where you're just like, I have never
seen some of that stuff, So it's impressed. It's It's
gonna be interesting to see how the Vikings try to
defend him on Sunday night, and I'm looking forward to
watching the plan that they try to impose.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Those are Vikes.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
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Speaker 2 (40:28):
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Speaker 1 (41:09):
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Speaker 2 (41:35):
And here we are. This is what we do at KFAM.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
Coming up at ten o'clock, we're going to get into
some fantasy football involving wide receivers.
Speaker 2 (41:42):
But first a break from that.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
With the college football bowl system not being an elite
college sports mind, the ball system's cool.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
I dig the ball system.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Maybe maybe the hardcores from like tuscal Loosa and Gainesville
and things like that, maybe they're not super super big
on the college bowl system.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
What's your favorite bowl?
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Probably the Rose Bowl because I've attended it several times
at Arroyo Seco in Pasadena, California.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
Beautiful place, wonderful and your.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
Team should hope to get an opportunity to be it
said beautiful Arroyo Seco in a week and change. But
the college football ball system, I think is cool and
a question we posed yesterday for Ben Leeber beloved Nacho
and and he he had a pretty stark opinion on it.
Alec follows college football very closely growing up in Alabama,
(42:32):
the Alabama Crimson Tide football teams.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Everything matter, You still say roll tide do I say, Yeah,
I mean I live the lifestyles well done. So just
let me hit you with this.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
Whether it's Notre Dame, Iowa State, Kansas State, these teams
that skip the ball games. As a college football snob,
somebody who cares about it, it's an important diversion for you.
What are your thoughts on teams skipping bowl games?
Speaker 6 (42:58):
Yeah, I mean there's part of me that selfishly I
enjoy watching the bowl games. It's nice on a Wednesday
in late December or whatever to be able to flip
on the TV and see some absurd game in Jacksonville like.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
That that it has no bit. It's it's just entertaining
to be able to turn that on, just like a
one pm Matt Net. Yeah, like between South Florida and Connecticut.
Speaker 1 (43:22):
I mean, it's just highly entertaining. Remember when they used
to have like the Blue Gray Ball on Christmas?
Speaker 2 (43:27):
Yeah, of course, Well Birmingham.
Speaker 6 (43:29):
Birmingham used to have the Papa John's Bowl. Then it
became I mean it and and it like it's fun
for these towns.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
A little bit.
Speaker 6 (43:35):
But I will say, like I also see the part
of it where it's like, what's the point I mean,
what's the point we got.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
If you're a coaching staff, you gotta be out recruiting. Uh.
Speaker 6 (43:47):
The players are in the portals, so they're not tied
to their teams, which I don't like any of this stuff,
but it's just kind of the nature of where college
football is at, so I'd probably see it a lot.
Speaker 2 (43:58):
Of different ways. And teams are by the cash to
be in now, right, and it just it just feels.
Speaker 6 (44:03):
Like college football is becoming, has become, maybe has always
been just professional.
Speaker 2 (44:10):
Frankly, like, I don't know how let's to say it that.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
So this doesn't really like move the meter for you
super negatively or super positively, Like like, I mean, you know,
I don't want to take Notcho Libra out of context,
but he was like, shame on you.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
College football.
Speaker 1 (44:24):
The system so broken and things have gotten so out
of hand on so many different levels. That's why this
is happening. They're taking us a stand, drawing a proverbial
wine in the sand, and he's all for it.
Speaker 2 (44:35):
Yeah, And part of me does feel like there is
way too much.
Speaker 6 (44:41):
Priority put on the playoff and making the playoff to
where it's diminished almost everything else. And it definitely affects
like the history and the pageantry and part of what
makes college football different and special, and so that's kind
of frustrating and infuriating. But now I don't I don't
get crazy upset about it. Like Missouri Mioma Mater a
(45:03):
couple of years ago, they beat Ohio State in a
bowl game, and like I had a bunch of college
buddies and they're pumped we beat Ohio State. I'm like, yes, okay,
but Marvin Harrison didn't play, and they don't like their
quarterback didn't play.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
So what does it really do for you? I don't know.
Speaker 6 (45:20):
I see it in a lot of different ways, but
I'm not crazy passionate about it. I just hope, and
I think I'm hoping for something that is, you know,
that doesn't really have Like my hope doesn't matter, but
I hope college football just doesn't lose some of the
essence of what makes it different and special.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
And it feels like we are losing that. I think
it's already been lost.
Speaker 1 (45:41):
They just showed something on one of these TVs at
Buffalo Wild Wings Buffalo Wild Wings Pllyymouth for the Friday
Football Feast, like like the top twenty five nil earners
in college football, and it's reported because it's you. It's
very hard to get like like like hammer in on
exactly what it isn't from whom. But you know with
(46:02):
Caleb Williams, they were all super accurate with the three
and change, you know up to four that that was
reported when he was a rookie.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
Who's the Texas quarterback? Arch Manning? Arch Manning? Okay? Is
he a freshman or a sophomore? I think sophomore, junior? Okay?
Speaker 1 (46:16):
And you know what, here, here's what's sad about it.
It doesn't matter. I'd like to ask, is he really good?
Do you think he's going to be the next Manning
to pop tags and make a lot of money and memories?
In the end, it doesn't matter. He's a Manning. Who's
the quarterback for the Texas Longhorns. Six and a half
million dollars for the nil six and a half million dollars.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
Holy cow.
Speaker 6 (46:40):
There's a basketball player at BUYU right now, aj De
Bonsa I think is his name, and he's making six
to seven million million dollars. It has become such big business.
And again there's part of me that understands, like we
all watch it. We all love it, but it's definitely
affect don't know what you guys are saying.
Speaker 2 (47:01):
I'm nervous about it. But no, no, no, no, yeah,
it's your five. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:04):
We just had a secret handshake. Sure, we're moving on
to the next part.
Speaker 7 (47:07):
Okay, Well, the thing with arts Manning though, I think,
and somebody can fact check me on this, there was
some bit where he was offered to three million dollars
at Texas, and I think he actually turned it down
because Quinn yours was getting you know, maybe five hundred
thousand dollars or something much smaller, and so Arch is like,
(47:27):
I can't be chilling on the bench making three mil
while the starting QB at Texas is hawking chicken tenders somewhere.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
All right, So I you Indiana University. I've heard of them, Okay,
all of a sudden, A football school is what they
tell us, beloved Hoosiers, go Hoosiers. Do you think or
what chance do you believe as a college football snob
and an elite football mind, what chance do you believe
IU has to win the national championship? A pretty good chance.
Speaker 6 (48:00):
I mean Kurt Signetti, who took over that job a
couple of years ago has ascended into a place. From
a coaching like perspective, this last form. This is more
than Mark Cuban ohing tens of millions into the sports
programs and bringing in I mean, like they got four
key guys from James Madison. Yeah, there's part of it
(48:22):
where they are definitely they definitely have a certain amount
of funds that allow them to play with the big
boys from a personnel perspective, But the coaching there is
so good and so sharp. And then their quarterback this year,
Fernando Mendoza, is a potential number one pick. And so
when you've got that guy and you're well coached, and
then what blew me away in the Ohio State game
(48:42):
was they just manhandled the fronts offensively and defensively in
that game.
Speaker 2 (48:46):
So they can control the front.
Speaker 6 (48:48):
They've got a quarterback, they have skilled players, they're really
well coached. It's hard not to I mean, it's hard
not to buy into Indiana and what they're capable of.
Speaker 2 (48:58):
Pretty crazy.
Speaker 1 (48:59):
And lastly, from College Football Central, your beloved Bama, Your
beloved Bama team Crimson Tide at Oklahoma a week from
today in Norman, Oklahoma. The winner gets Indiana University gets
those hoosiers at the Rose Bawl a week later. I
mean you and the marketing director, you and those with
(49:22):
the Alex Lewis show t shirts. I mean, you gotta
be going to this game, right, you have to. No,
I'm not going.
Speaker 2 (49:28):
I mean no, no.
Speaker 6 (49:29):
Alabama this year has lost a lot of my respect.
They just shouldn't even be in the playoffs. They play
they are, They shouldn't. They play a style offensively that
drives me nuts. They try to throw it around the
yard with the quarterback, who is fine. It's a lot
of like designery plays. They don't run the ball, you know,
(49:52):
the play call it the quarterback is is for neetic
oftentimes dumb question.
Speaker 7 (49:57):
And it's still the bar down there, right, it is
still de bor down there. What are the prideful Tide
lovers and tuscal Loosa think about.
Speaker 6 (50:04):
Demor Well, I if he wins, more than they'll like him.
It's it's a bottom line business, just like the Wolves.
Just like the Wolves on a Tuesday night, if you
show up and you play the way you need to play,
then you will be respected by the fan base. But
they have a standard that has lead and bred success
for a long time, and so if they lose to
(50:25):
Oklahoma for the second time this year, people will be
really frustrated, and they have every right to be because.
Speaker 2 (50:29):
They expect you're not going to this game. Exit No,
I don't.
Speaker 6 (50:33):
It's really hard to watch Alabama for me this year. Well,
the reason I mentioned that they shouldn't be in the
playoff though, you're you're a front runner.
Speaker 2 (50:40):
I didn't.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
You're a no, no, no no, you're a front runner
with your very this is your very favorite team of
all of them, and amazingly, to some, including you, they
have a chance to win the national champions They shouldn't
even be.
Speaker 2 (50:52):
In the playoffs.
Speaker 7 (50:53):
It's it's they They Notre Dame started the year with
close losses to Miami and then I believe it was
A and m who are both in Yeah, and they
ran the table the rest of the way there. And
I know they're putting fifty on Stanford here.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
I get that. I can't.
Speaker 7 (51:06):
But the most recent example of tied football is them
just getting housed okay and outclassed to the max by
Georgia in the SEC title game. It should have been
Notre Dame, which is why they were totally right on
multiple fronts to not take the carrot and deny a bowl.
Speaker 2 (51:22):
Okay, no, well, will do it next year.
Speaker 1 (51:24):
Jonathan Allen Poopy Dave, who is a He's one of
my very best friends for a quarter century. He's I
mean he he started following Miami football. It was Ray Lewis,
it was, it was at Reed, it was it was
Jeremy Shockey, it was it was that whole group. And
so like when you and Johnny Ojampa too used to
work for kfa Erik Gore, excellent basketball player.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
Johnny Oh's listening right now too. Well, if he's a
Canes fan, that means he hates Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
They're blowing up my phone with the with with the
robbery that took place with the Canes or whatever. And
I wish the Canes could play Alabama so they could
beat them by I mean, I get I I didn't
read the stories, but I saw enough with the headlines
and the subheads to recognize, Ah, Notre Dame thinks this.
Speaker 2 (52:08):
Oh, Miami beat beat Notre Dame.
Speaker 1 (52:11):
And Kendrick Perkins just told me this on ESPN, and
then we got this guy over here saying this.
Speaker 2 (52:16):
Okay, I understand when is.
Speaker 1 (52:18):
College football or college sports not shrouded in some form
of controversy.
Speaker 2 (52:23):
So I'm able to put it off to the side.
We have the teams.
Speaker 1 (52:26):
Your favorite team is one of them, and if they
win in Norman and I should be there, then okay,
if they do win, or you're going to the rose Ball,
probably not, why because I don't have to don't. Oh, no,
the death wait the Vikings play middle of the week
for your for for covering it for the game.
Speaker 2 (52:47):
No, I don't know. No, I've seen a lot of
football this year. Just head out, head out West.
Speaker 6 (52:53):
I really can't take much more warmer weather, bring the
marketing director. Didn't I can't take what I was good
enough to eat.
Speaker 2 (52:58):
Didn't Oklahoma get the be you at Tuscaloosa earlier this year?
They already beat Alabama, this fool.
Speaker 1 (53:03):
You know what they say, stuff to beat a team,
play thank you, especially in college football.
Speaker 6 (53:08):
You know what they also say, got to get the
first first down. Let's get the first first down. Offense goes.
Once you get the first first down.
Speaker 2 (53:15):
Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (53:15):
Brother, All right, well so you think ten seconds you
get it all? Sure, if you had to better team
to win the college to win the Championship. Would you
bet Indiana? No, I probably bet Ohio State, Ohio State.
Thank you, Alan Lewis Nordo, Yours truly, Paul Allen. Into
the second part of the radio show. We begin with
some fantasy football and then we rolled down to some
(53:38):
Thursday locker room drive bys with some Texas natives. I
walked around the Vikings locker room yesterday with the contraption
excuse me, and spoke with nothing but Texas Is about
what it was like growing up in Texas, having a
here America's team and stuff like that. Hopefully you like him.
That's coming up thirty minutes from now. Back to Buffalo
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