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October 9, 2025 • 39 mins
Dan continues some of the quarterback discussion from the first hour regarding Carson Wentz and JJ McCarthy before we open "Dr. Dan's Inbox!"

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Inbox four thirty Russo Radio from Saint Louis. Meet me
in Saint Louis Louis five oh two. We're going to
distance today until six thirty tonight. Let me just read
you a sample. The texts have come in that underscore

(00:41):
one inescapable fact. What a great interview with Salisbury. Loved
hearing him talk about in Analyzed Football. I think Fox
has an opening replacing Mark Sanchez. Laugh emoji Wentz starts,
writes Rube Paul until he stinks, which I doubt not

(01:05):
if the whisperer has anything to do with it. He'll
be starting for another team next year, and hopefully Quasy
can turn the South Dakota native into some extra draft capital,
just like Cousins Darnold John Dakota JJ it good point,
JJ is the future. What's the big hurry? My text
from the other day. I call him Shawnee because we
got a good five. There's so many more. Hang with me, Sean,

(01:34):
Salisbury is all class twins need to fire their brass.
JJ is fragile glass. Bring you ass wolves and five
really enjoy your guests, Sean, Please keep bringing him on
solid entertaining delivery and delivery deliverer of good takes. Please
substantiate how Wentz is the clear best choice to win now?

(01:56):
The headgear analogy was great. Do Shaan hit the bottle
after he got canned from the radio station. That just
might be from a.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
At jj OBO.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Highly arguable, But you're talking like it's a foregone conclusion.
Explain why Wentz is the obvious best choice chance to win.
I still think the solution at quarterback is Woodstock two
point zero Salisbury knows ball. Agree with one hundred percent

(02:33):
with Sean. If Carson keeps playing well, what's the problem.
You can't assume Wentz is a better option based off
recency buyas in him having a healthier O line around
him and Addison back apples to oranges. The slower the cook,
the better the meat. De Shawn know that a week

(02:54):
ago Sunday, the Vikings lost and went through two and
Wentz through two and almost three interceptions. Wentz is playing
better because he's the only one playing. Max doesn't want
to hear any of this reasoncy bias over or only
I should say Sean, you can't possibly say Wentz is
a better option to elevate the team. Did you watch
the tape? He was basically a one read and dump

(03:19):
it off QB. He was not at all running Chao's
typical offense. Some that might have to do is because
no one if they tried to run Chao's typical offense,
there would have been twenty two sacks. JJ has much
higher upside Mike and New Richmond. Why in the world
do you guys even spending time speculating and projecting about

(03:41):
a non existent quarterback controversy? No more one year Reynolds
not a recipe for long term success. What about losing
another year on the rookie deal for JJ McCarthy. I've
read just about half of the texas have come in
since Salisbury appeared, and they are all related to what
the quarterback quarterback situation, which some of our texts are saying, Well,

(04:04):
there's no situation. As Glenn Mason would say, you're wrong,
You just are best laid plans become irrelevant sometimes that
and often it doesn't really have any It doesn't even
make any statement on the fitness of the player who

(04:27):
is sitting right.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
It's amazing to me that people who watch football as
often as I'm assuming these many of these folks do
don't understand the rules that apply almost every time in
a situation like this. Now, if the guy hurt is

(04:52):
a legend, then.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Generally it's pretty easy to say as soon as the
legend's healthy, he's going to play again.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
AJ McCarthy might end up being a legend. He's not now.
At college he was, he's not as a pro.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
So in real time, even coaches committed to what McCarthy
inferior represents has to deal with the week to week
reality in front of them. I don't know why this
is so difficult for people, you know what I'm saying,
It's just very But again, the reminder is.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
Quarterback.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeah, the position that we could literally talk about this
all day, every day right up to the Eagles game
and have no difficulty at least getting reaction or getting
texts or getting people to bounce off of regarding you know,
what they thought on this thing.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
It's in all of sports.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
I don't even think it's just football debate over the quarterback,
who should play, who makes more sense, who has more upside,
namely another position.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
There is a one.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
There just isn't a one. And now it helps this.
This is the most popular sport, but I think this
is part of the reason it is the best. That's
part of the sport and that's why.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
It's what Seffert was talking about yesterday in the studio
when he said some of the tension right now that
he thinks Koc is feeling, or the whole operation is
feeling about the intensity of the quarterback discussion. Says, Look,
this is what our readers want to read about. This
is the biggest story. It's the biggest team, and it's
a it's a quarterback deal. And we've had this JJ

(06:34):
thing for a while and it was always going to
be the story. It was the story in training camp,
and now that it's a story in a different way,
it's maybe even an even bigger story. So we're going
to write about it. Then the team doesn't really love it,
but they have to know. That's Netflix did a series
on it called Quarterback because people were excited. They also
did one about receiver. That wasn't as exciting you know
what had justin Jefferson. Yeah, and they've done one on

(06:56):
the NBA.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
They did. It wasn't enough of.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
A diva, quite, frank been more of a diva. It
probably would have sold better.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
They did one with Lebron and Anthony Edwards and Jason
Tatum and all these guys. The thing that got the
most run was the first run of quarterback with Mahomes
and Cousins and Mariota and everybody else that was a
part of it.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
It's just part of the deal.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
JJ Stalls, Wentz Balls, Bros, mur Falls, Wolves and five.
Why does Max have to catch his stray when he
got dumped by I think he just needed another stanza
I got when he got dumped by the Browns. I
argued that the Vikings should have gone after him, and
they could have. He's talking about Mayfield. Mayfield, and you

(07:41):
can check the tape on this. There was absolutely a day.
This was in the Cousins era when we were getting
tired of him, and there were even rumors about because
of their head coach Stefanski, that might be a landing
place for him.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
I don't know what year this would have been.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
And I said on the record one hundred thousand watt radio,
I am all in on trade just to get out
from his contract.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Trade.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
If you could trade Cousins to Cleveland, I will take
Baker Mayfield. Not assuming that he's going to be my guy,
but I say, in the short run, just to be
out of the contract, I'd bring him in.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
And then you got nothing to lose you work with him. Yeah,
we did talk about it.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
If he like, if he catches lightning in a bottle,
as he has since, then you don't even have to
worry about looking at any other place for quarterback. If not,
you say, Banks, we had nice memories, but you go
your way, we go ours.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
We absolutely talked about that at the time. I feel
like he would have been a good quarterback for Zimmer too.
Seems like a Simmer kind of guy.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
That's true. Yeah, he's probably right. Maybe maybe I'm wrong.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
Maybe there is no quarterback for a perfect quarterback, but
more closer to perfect.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yeah, for Mike Sick. I work with someone at the
you that worked with Baker Mayfield a little. Yeah, says
he's just a peach of a guy. Really like, couldn't
rave about an individual anymore, and he does stuff.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
You know, the players love him in Tampa. We do,
they do. I mean he's bringing his line that they do.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
You know, Fleming's Mason in my spot down there in
Tampa with our buddy.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Dave, like he's just a dude.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
He's just a good dude, a good team guy, and
everybody that's around him loves him.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
So it makes sense that he's having success again.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
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Speaker 3 (09:54):
You're gonna get your toy. That's all I can say
to McCarthy fans. You are gonna get your toy. You're
gonna get a chance to see how much fun said
toy can be. Gonna happen. Undeniable. I'm not investing in
Wentz what a ago, I'm not.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
I'm really not.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Like I said the day they was announced that they'd
signed him, I.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Was bored with it. But you have to be foolish
to not.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
I mean, think of all the things that have happened
since that day already to this team. That's the stuff
that gets in the way, that intrudes, it makes it messy.
And what the best teams do is they react, they adjust,
they consider a lot of different alternatives.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
And again.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
There are people out there who cover this team who
believe that if McCarthy's healthy, he's gonna start against Philly.
Seyffert didn't think Wentz has played well enough that it's
a clear cut decision to keep playing him. I think
there's enough on the table that I would I would,
I would start him at least against the Eagles. He
could stink against them. Then it probably is again it

(11:12):
becomes the leash. My leash on Wentz isn't really long.
It's just not I don't It's not like I'm gonna go, well,
give him a mulligan. But again, I have concern about
how ready the guy, the shiny new toy that I
get it, you want, you're excited about because it's been
built up and he's gonna be our shiny toy for

(11:34):
a while, and he's gonna stay our toy even if
he even when he's not so shiny, So we don't
have to keep making all these changes. I still worry
about his readiness right now. That doesn't mean I'm suggesting
Wentz is a great choice, saying you're you're dealing with
what your all your alternatives are, right, So I don't know.

(11:56):
If you're a betting man, who do you think starts
against the Eagles?

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Wentz not by much though.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
No.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
I think he's good. I think dead. As I said to.

Speaker 3 (12:09):
Sean, if he plays really well against the Eagles, that's
when it really gets interesting.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
That's where it's exactly right, because it's kind of an
easy one to go. We're gonna let JJ get his
feet back under him. Even Koc either earlier this week
or maybe he was on the Schreger podcast, said something
along the lines of he's never really talking about JJ.
He hasn't really had a regular week of preparation, given
that he had a baby after Week one and then

(12:34):
he was hurt, and so they definitely want to give
him the longest runway before he plays again. And I
think Wentz has played well enough where it's not a
slam dunk to go back to j J under adverse.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Conditions, having just gotten to the team about a day
before the season began.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
But it does get interesting if he plays, and again
we've It's just crazy how often we've had this conversation
just in the last ten years, about do you go
back to Bradford, what do you do with Teddy? What
do you do now with you? Even going back to
last year, what do you do with Darnold? It's very numbing,
all right, that's not the right word. It's draining.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, the process that we've had to tend to go
through here at the quarterback.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
What do we do with Q?

Speaker 1 (13:15):
We signed Keenum, what do we do with Kirk? All
these questions it's a lot of fun. I think, like
you say it, it's great discussion because everybody's got an
opinion on it and they can be as adamant about
that as anything in their life and can't believe anybody
else would look at it in any different way. But
I think Onz probably starts against Philly. The Yankees eliminated

(13:37):
last night in New York. They lose their series.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Was it who?

Speaker 3 (13:42):
They lose to Toronto Toronto three games to one? Yep,
the Louis Varland led Toronto JA.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
He rebounded nicely. And this is how sick I am.
I then got out my computer and I say, let's
do the Let's do the Yankees in the postseason against
the Twins. Yankees in the postseason against everybody else. I

(14:10):
happen to see this going back to when the two
teams first met in the postseason, which I think was
two thousand and three, and I knew it was going
to be a stark contrast. And by the way, the
Yankees have still had I mean, weren't they in the
World Series a year ago. I mean, they still have
had some successful seasons. But the numbers are pretty astonishing,

(14:31):
or maybe not so much if you remember the way
the Twins were dominated by the Yankees. But since two
thousand and three postseason, the Yankees have a four to
forty winning percentage against everybody but the Twins and an
eight eighty nine winning percentage against the Twins. We know
it's not good Baseball sixteen and two Yankees against US

(14:54):
fifty six and seventy one. I guess everybody else think
about it. I mean, you could make the argument that
if not for the Twins much of that through much
of the last twenty years.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
The Yankees would not be viewed as the Yankees. It's true, that's.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
How much we've helped them catapult them Now again a
year ago, they didn't need us. They haven't always needed
us to advance, but we have jump started them on
a number of occasions. Or maybe the other way to
look at it is because we've had fun with this
game too, Because what invariably happened when the Twins lost
the Yankees, the ball guys.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
Would say, lost to a better team, what do you expect?
We expect the Yankees.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
They got a four hundred million dollars payroll, our payrolls
for forty two thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
Then they'd losing five in the next year exactly, and
we know how unbeatable were they.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
That was one of the bits I do miss doing yes,
because the Twins just haven't been in the playoffs enough.
When we first started doing it, there was a little
bit of a decent run there, and we could preview
the World Series and just say the Yankees are taking
on the Mets, even though they had lost two rounds prior,
and then people would text in and say, what do

(16:04):
you mean the Yankees in the World Series.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Well, we just assumed it.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
We just assumed that there's no way that the Texas
Rangers could have beaten them. There's no way that they
could have lost to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
There's no way they lost to the White Side. This
is it's impossible, no way. I do miss doing that bit,
but the Twins haven't been in the postseason enough for
us to do that.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
Well, what do you think of this idea? This is
from Matt Inidna koc needs to hockey goalie.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
The situation, Oh jeez, hold.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Start Wentz three more games, start JJ nine games. Wentz
starts Philly at Lions at Packers. JJ gets the rest
and gets a couple of weeks to game plan between starts. There,
you go, probably unlikely that it'll go that way.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
I would, I don't know if you want to. So
then is Brozmer the ebug the emergency goalie?

Speaker 2 (16:49):
I think pretty much. Yeah, that's what you gotta go with,
which I know does not sit well with you.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
I'm just saying, imagine if Wentz is hurt and then
JJ's still not ready, or he doesn't play well and
Brozmer has to go in there for or Jja gets
hurt again because by the way, he's played two games
and gotten hurt in both of them. Basically right in
his career. And that's I don't mean he's the next
Joe Mauer by part of the story. But he hasn't
been able to play consecutive games.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
Really no, And that's another part of that.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
The jj obos do not want to the macobos do
not want to accept.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Is it's not even a matter of saying that means
he's soft.

Speaker 3 (17:23):
No, But part of the possibility for these sorts of
controversies or questions to arise is.

Speaker 2 (17:30):
He's not out there.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
He hasn't been out there at all. And if he hasn't,
there's a vacuum. Somebody has to play and other decisions
have to be made because they still play the games.
We played the games a year ago, right, we did,
and we and one fourteen of them played the games.
We're playing the game so far this year.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
They're not going to.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Shut things down, and so things like that fill the
gaps when somebody that you believe in and are excited
about has not had a chance to play all. Right,
bottom of the hour, Doctor Dan's inboxes coming up?

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Is that correct?

Speaker 1 (18:02):
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Speaker 5 (18:06):
Time now for the Vikings report on the Fan presented
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Speaker 3 (18:34):
All right, we've got RUSSO Radio live from Saint Louis
as the Wild prepare for their season opener tonight against
the plucky Blues, and we've.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Got Doctordan's inbox coming up right now.

Speaker 1 (18:50):
Correct, Yeah, because we're not really gonna have a top
five or maybe we'll do a five thirty sports fix.
Did you see two injury updates in the NBA? Very
relevant given who the Wolves play? I think twice very
early in the season. Yeah, one of them's relevant. One
of them I think is funny. I'll get to both
of them. Lebron, who maybe hurt himself in that commercial

(19:11):
for the drink or whatever, restrained something U sciatic during
that what is it, Hennessy? I think so, Yeah, but sciatica,
according to Shams.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
On his right side, that can be very painful. I
guess so.

Speaker 1 (19:24):
So he is going to miss about a month is
what they think, three to four weeks due to sciatica
on his right side. Luckily for the Lakers, they were
gifted Luca last year and he's like one hundred and
twelve pounds now and motivated, so they probably won't miss
Lebron too.

Speaker 2 (19:41):
Much, and they'll still miss him, I think.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
And then this one he and as I said, I
think the Wolves have two early season games against him
against the Lakers, including I think this the third game
at home. Yeah, the Tasers nu very early.

Speaker 1 (19:53):
We have Wednesday, we played them on the twenty fourth,
and the twenty ninth. We open out there, I think
against them on the twenty fourth. So there's that, and
then this one just cracks me up. And I've been
texting all the beat writers. Oh, good for me. The
Joe Ingles injury updated.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
You see.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
Yes, yes, he played a lot the other night. And
by the way, it looks like he's on the Luca diet.
He's lost a bunch of weight, and I had noticed that. Yes,
he looked really good, played a lot the other night,
But he has a left groin strain, Joe Ingles, and
he'll be re evaluated in a week. So adjust your
fantasy basketball cheat sheets accordingly.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
I guess I just it's difficult for me given the
logjam at several positions.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
I guess I.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
Once the real games we're going to begin, I don't
believe he's here to play.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
No, he's not here to play. That's it's hilarious. And
we all love Joe Ingles. There's no question he's a
great in boundary. He's funny, he's good for the group, ambassador,
the little bet. He calms down Randall, he calms down
Anton Rudy.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
If he's a regular in the rotation, then that means
a lot of other things have have have gone pear shaped.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Let's be honest. It's like, do they even reevaluate him
in a week? Well maybe not, that's very possible. Joe,
how you feeling? Yeah? Yeah? Do we need to bring
in doctor Burns? What is the deal here? And? I
love Joe, but it just cracks me up? All right,
shl we get to it. Might as well. Thanks time
for doctor your doctor.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Dan. As the longest tenured owner of a Minnesota sports franchise,
I'm discombobulated by the news to see Leopold has signed
one player to a one hundred and thirty six million
dollar contract.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
What is he thinking? Doesn't he know that?

Speaker 1 (21:41):
Thanks mainly to me and my family, Minnesota sports fans
have been conditioned to accept losing an excuses all spending
that kind of money does is give people hope, but
hope don't float.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Doctor Dan.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
My advice to see Leopold cut the payroll trade your
best players, sit in your Lake Minatonka mansion or the
penthouse at the Saint Paul Hotel and count all the
money that the sports loving suckers of Minnesota will give
to you. It's worked for me, Cee Leopold, it will
work for you too, Jay Polaz, Well.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
Here's the question that we're going to get to with
Russo at the top of the hour. And this is
for the hockey community. I'm sure many members of said
community are already mulling this over. Let's say that the
Wild struggle again this year. Who are we going to

(22:30):
take the average hockey fan. Well, he or she take
out his or her iron on the team for.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
Squandering this great talent, or might a growing number of
them take it out on the player himself.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, under the obvious.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
Point of man, you didn't exactly help us out at all,
did you, Carill?

Speaker 5 (22:55):
Right?

Speaker 2 (22:55):
You're your guy, you know. Let's let's remember the sequence.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
The Wild offer him sixteen million a year, which, even
if he had taken that deal, would have been more
than any deal that's been signed since and not even close.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
They rejected.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
Garn throws some things around mf's several unnamed individuals, but
then ultimately says, okay, fine, seventeen MILLI year, at which
point Carrill's agent says, nice offer, but we're countering it

(23:36):
with and we don't even know exactly what the counter is.
Is it eighteen, is it nineteen?

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Is it toddle? Even if what the maximum might.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
Have been, At which point Garn confirmed this with us.
They said, that's all we can do is seventeen mili
and they came back to it, that's not even close
to a hometown discount. So the question is, are you
going to be mad at the wild for squandering or
is there going to be more of these other guys

(24:02):
seem to want to help their their team out a
little bit. Carill, how about giving us a little bit
of help. What did you do for us? You were
you know, it wasn't like you were poor. You were
gonna be fine at yep, fourteen fifteen million, but you
had to have not sixteen but seventeen, and then you.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
Had to ask for more as well.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
I think that's a sneaky angle to not lose sight
of you're right as we go through this season, especially
if he gets hurt again.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
That's a big part. You're right, which he's bus a lot.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
We'll be mad at him, even though if it's a
legitimate injury, just because while there.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
He goes again he's hurt.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
I do remember vividly that that line of thinking is
one of the reasons why we lost the Peizy Pontiac deal,
because you mentioned, Zach that once you signed the big contract,
like there is a unique pressure we saw with Joe Mauer. Yes,
apparently that hadn't That hadn't occurred to zee Perizi back then,
because he seemed very put off by the implication. Right,

(24:57):
he hadn't thought about well, I guess wait, people are
going to be upset at me if we don't win
because we've signed these ninety eight million dollar contracts. I
vividly remember that being one of the One of the
things is you signed the big deal to who much
is given.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
He's on the clock, But then you're on the clock
even more than you were before.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
And we'll talk about that with the Russho We're gonna
kind of stay in this ballpark.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Here, among other things by the way, there's a lot
of injury stuff two or three.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
So I was like, when people make it topical for
today's show with a good theme. Dear doctor Dan, all
I'm hearing now is you overpaid Jay Eichel and see
McDavid signed better deals, but you know what they're on.
You know who overpaid T Jefferson. The Louisiana purchase equates

(25:43):
to roughly three hundred and seventy million dollars in today's money. Sure,
it doubled the US and size and led to the
Lewis and Clark expedition, But you know what, I'm a
pioneer setting the trend and we're going to take this
wild club to unchartered territory out of the first round
of the playoffs and into the Stanley Cup finals. Be Garren, Well,
we should fill people in on our three o'clock discussion

(26:05):
on the Louisiana purchase.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
I don't even know how it came up, but we
got there and then I thought it was five million year.

Speaker 2 (26:10):
You corrected me that it was fifteen million. I mean
a year.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
I looked fifteen million. I didn't just go, oh, Dan,
it was fifteen I knew it was a bargain.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
I think five million would have been an absolute steal,
but fifteen was still a pretty damn good deal. And
that's the callback right to that part of your program. Well,
somebody did bring this up. Do we take any of
our wrath out on JJ as in justin Jefferson.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
He signed a big deal.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
Yeah he did, But no, I don't think this feels
the same because it's more and he's about to be
He's already been overtaken. I think, if not, he's about
to be, right, that's that's that's correct in the wide
receiver market. And I still and I don't know, I
don't think the cap situations are very analogous either. I

(26:57):
guess you could always say, well, if he'd cut way back,
we could have made even more deals.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
But I don't.

Speaker 3 (27:01):
I don't think there's a sense that the vikings have
been necessarily strapped by any of these deals. But and look,
we're well aware the new contract doesn't start till next year,
but presumably this stuff's going to play out over time, Right,
We're not just talking about.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
The next three weeks.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
But it has been announced now, and so it becomes
a feel that people have people can't not know it
even if the contract does not take effect until next season.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
It's time for a doctor.

Speaker 5 (27:32):
Box.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
You're Doctor Dan.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Every morning I hobble into the training room like I'm
re enacting the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan. The
trainers keep telling me it's a high ankle sprain, but honestly, Doc,
it feels like a career setback. I'm doing everything they
tell me ice compression, elevation, visualization and meditation, hydration. I
even tried manifestation. Didn't work. Carson Wentz is still playing.

(28:02):
They say, don't rush back, but it's hard not to
rush when you see Captain comeback out there, doing your handoffs,
your screens and celebrating like he just part of the
Red Sea. I saw him chest bump Koc the other day.
I swear my ankle flared up out of jealousy. It's weird, Doc.
A few months ago, I was the shiny new hope. Yeah,
the future of the franchise, the next big thing. Now
I'm the kid in the walking boot. Even the cafeteria

(28:23):
worker asked if I wanted the injured player discount. I'll
be fine, though, just a couple more weeks of rehab,
a few more pool workouts, I'll be ready to go.
Then maybe people will remember that I too can hand
off successfully and throw for one hundred and sixty two
yards without an interception.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
So tell me, Doc Kenny. I don't know if he can,
but go ahead.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
When I'm back, Do I just limp over and whisper
my turn again? Or do I need to start showing
up to practice wearing a knee brace and calling myself
Carson two point? Oh? Jay McCarthy, Well, here's really well written,
by the way, very well. Ruke Boyd outstanding writer, good good?
Is he a regular?

Speaker 5 (28:58):
He?

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Maybe I think he is, But that might be really good?

Speaker 3 (29:02):
Might be one of his pen names. Some people have
burner accounts, even for the even for the J.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
McCarthy, one of the.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
More desperate please that I've want a read today via
the text line the old Court, the old NF the
old football rule.

Speaker 3 (29:26):
Pertaining allegedly to quarterbacks, if you're the starter, you never
lose your job to injury. I can't even I don't
even know what to say to that individual.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
Has that ever been proven true?

Speaker 1 (29:39):
No?

Speaker 3 (29:40):
It's it's it's it's malleable, it's movable.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Yea.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
It sometimes applies, and then sometimes it means nothing. But
in all seriousness, even if you're am Gobo and you
think he's he's gonna end up being first ballot Hall
of Fame. Do you say that with a straight face
about a guy who was handed the job. I mean, yeah,

(30:03):
you're right, shouldn't lose a job he was he won
the starting job.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
He didn't really win anything.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
I mean, who did he have to beat out in
the preseason training camp?

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Sam Howell, a.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
Guy they despised so much that they traded him. They
were so horrified about the possibility of him being the
backup quarterback that they went out and got another one
named See Wentz. So I'd be careful going too farway
up your starter. You don't lose your job when you're
a starter, like he's some grizzled, established veteran quarterback who's
got years of equity that any coach is going to

(30:40):
fall back on and say, you're the man.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
Don't worry about You're not losing anything.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
A couple of famous ones Drew Bledsoe lost his job
due to injury.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
Great point.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
And then the one I always think about this underrated
is Tony Romo, who's great in the h Remember he
was hurt and Dak Prescott came in and played really well.
They had to have a press conference where Romo basically
gave him the job, annointed him and basically said, look,
I'd love to have my job back, but the kid
has played great. And I learned this from so and
so and so and so. I remember it being a

(31:07):
very cool moment. But he's like, yeah, the guy's playing. Well,
I can't just come in and say it's my job.
I was the starter and he's the guy most affected.
This isn't a fan, this is him. It was his life. Yeah,
he's been working with Nance ever since. Interesting, Well, you
get the next one going. I'm gonna change this chair.
I try to go to the chair that doesn't like
like sink, immediately think yeah, but I don't like what

(31:30):
it's doing in my back. So I'm gonna change the
chair while you prepare for another one. All right, I've
got a good one here, dear doctor Dan figure i'd
write in and check in since I do have a
lot of free time. It's an epidemic. It happens to
happen every few years. I don't get it. That's a
lot better on my back. I guess the Eastern Conference

(31:51):
Finals wasn't good enough in New York because the players
also expect water and practice at games and not on
my watch. So I've been using my time wisely get
in on former players like d de Vincenzo and Jay
Randall at my old stomping grounds with the Wolves and
giving words of wisdoms to see Finch on building a
culture of positivity, and made it known that these guys

(32:12):
need more minutes. I also had the pleasure to talk
with b Garin and Jay Hines at the wild training camp,
and Carill isn't playing enough there either.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
He's paid now play.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Now off to visit Jay Buckets and the Golden State Warriors.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Sincerely, yours, T.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Thibodeau set I hung with the team in San Diego, Heygo.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
We talked about it.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
That may been the day you were out. I forgot
they were out there. I knew he was at practice,
and then I had to be reminded that they're playing
that when they're playing. It came out there because he
was visiting. I think he'd just been to the Clippers
practice as well. Probably I should try. I let me
see if I still got tips as a number. I
think you do that's what I should do, because he's
if you're ever going to get him, that's when you

(32:55):
get him, right when he's out of the game. Yes,
and maybe a little bit more bored, doesn't feel like
he's got a guard and thin. Yeah, I still got
TIB's number. Oh, yeah, I might try that. Yeah, and
maybe we can get him on at some point. Although
the last text I sent Tibbs March sixth, twenty twenty three,
it's not that long ago. Morrero checking in from the

(33:16):
Minnesota tunder I'm thoroughly enjoying the growth of your team, TIBs.

Speaker 2 (33:19):
Nice work, especially last night. No reply, but again, he was.

Speaker 1 (33:23):
Coaching then, he was trying to get a number top
four seed for the Knicks.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
He doesn't have time. He had time for mine. Now
it's for my sucking up. We had him on when
he was the Knicks coach, though, I'm pretty sure. Yeah,
I'm almost positive we did.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
A time remember that. Yes, Oh, I'm almost.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
Positive we did go back in the text, because I'm
sure you have an agreement with him at some point
that we that we had him on while he was coaching.

Speaker 2 (33:46):
Oh, this is the only one, you know.

Speaker 3 (33:47):
Sometimes they like reset or something I don't think there
are anymore, at least at this number.

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Oh that's too bad. Yeah, yeah, we gotta go. I
try that Tibodah. We got t Crean to get back
into the mix. Yeah, I definitely got to get Mitchell.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Be careful as you lay out that list, because you
know he's listening.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Kay falness where if you're listen to how far donal list?
You're gonna go with the hockey people.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Well, given that we're celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary this season,
I'm sure we're gonna have plenty of wild greats and
all these mythic moments that we've celebrated.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
I'm sure we'll have a great list. Do you think
we'll get Gabby on? They get Gabby? Didn't he leave
us for nothing?

Speaker 1 (34:24):
You left us for nothing and a lot more money,
you know, I like to You know, we should get
on with Louie because Louis agreed.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
I want to do more legends with Louis Legend again
this year. We should get Lamayor on with Louis.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
That would be good.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
We haven't had Lamaire on in forever, and I think
he's still doing pretty well health wise. I believe I
don't know for sure. Louis would know. Fallness does pop
him on every does he about once a year?

Speaker 2 (34:49):
I didn't realize it.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
Yeah, I'm on the pond or on one of the
wild shows. Yeah, I enjoyed Lamire. Of course you got
ripped a lot, but I enjoyed him.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
I do a couple more. Tell that we ever get
further in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
No, with Lamair, I imagine he's probably going to be backing.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
How can we watch that kind of hockey? Do you
like winning? Or are you like looking pretty?

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Dear doctor Dan, My goodness, the rumors have been swirling
around my shores this Vikings bye week. It seems like
only yesterday, but to last it has been twenty years
since the infamous boat cruise that shook the NFL. Frankly,
I thought I had been pretty famous before that, with
the Purple Rain movie and all, but the publicity from
that boat trip put me on the global nautical map.
So imagine my excitement when I heard there was another

(35:31):
Vikings love boat cruise in the works. You think p
Diddy could throw a party shiver me timbers when the
Vikings set sail. But sadly, it seems one of the
current player's wives slid into the group chat to alert
the party planners of rough seas ahead should they try
another innocent little boat trip. Let me quote the title
of a somewhat notable beach boys song, sail On Sailor.

(35:52):
It's only Thursday, boys, there's still time and the weather's nice.
We'll keep it on the DL this time, I promised, sincerely,
l Minnetonka.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Oh Man.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Yeah, the big anniversary that was the day you were
out right wasn't Friday.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
It was Friday.

Speaker 3 (36:09):
We didn't we didn't spend as much time on it
as I originally thought we would.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Part of it is at some point it's like where
do you go next? You know? We told so many
parts of the story.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
The thing I forgot to ask Seffert about because he
had to cover it. Yeah, was my recollection that if
several of the players hadn't gotten off of the boat
and peeded on somebody's property, it never the story, the
scandal might never have have seen have seen the light
of day.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Correct, That was my information.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
That's what caused the ruckus and got people's antenna up.
What happened on the boat. Nobody really knew him. I
could have stayed on the boat. Have stayed on the boat.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
Yeah, well, where did we find out the boat in question?
It's on like Oka boat, right, that's the last check.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
I don't know if it's been commissioned somewhere else or retired.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
You know what they have on that boat like in
the galley area, Yes, the original Ontario Smith Wizonator. They
have that there, which came first the love Boat or
the Wizinator I think, but not by much.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
Green Era, wasn't it? No, it was Tice was because
Ontario Smith.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
He's drafted him though, because he called him steal the draft?
Didn't or no, did he call himself steal the draft?
I think he called himself that. I'm I'm pretty sure
it was Tyson.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
You might be right.

Speaker 1 (37:37):
I'll look it during the break. Yeah, real quick, walk
off here, dude, doctor Dan. I hear that one of
your sharp eyed co workers, Ze Halverson, spot of the
skycam wire causing a recent Viking field goal attempt to
go wide. Do you know if said worker is available
for a consult. I have a video I'd like him
to look at from the twenty fifteen playoffs. More important,
what is the statute of limitations for appealing mis.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Goals the wash.

Speaker 3 (38:02):
That's a good call back right there by the way,
speaking of well, we're up against the clock now, we
got Russo coming up, so maybe i'll save it. Yesterday,
Dan Minnesota reminded us of a new entry in the
calendar of calamity and it goes back to nineteen sixty two,
and apparently that was the first time the Vikings in

(38:23):
Anger released their franchise kicker. His name was Mike Mercer. Oh,
I don't even remember this, do you? I remember him
Minnesota alerting us to it. Yeah, that was yesterday, that
was the anniversary of it. They cut him after five games.
You want to know what his percentage of successful field

(38:44):
goal kicks was at that.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
Point, It was probably like ninety eight percent zero. Oh,
he didn't make any. He took five, made none. Yeah,
that's a would you see the game?

Speaker 3 (38:53):
I mean, even Mike Zimmer ridiculing that I think would
be understood that.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Yeah, for sure, that would have made sense. All right
out five and.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
Five we do have Russo Radio filing a live report
from the Checker Dome in Saint Louis, Missouri, the Wild
opening the twenty twenty five to twenty six season, and
the first ten minutes will all be probably injury related.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
Stay tuned, it's frustrated.
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