Top 5/Vikings/College Football - Bumper to Bumper 10/13/25 Hour Three

Dan and Gaardsy review the Top 5 before getting back to some Vikings discussion as well as a deep dive into some college football coaching talk.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
If you have ever wondered whatever happened to Jeremy Piven,
He's on the ESPN Monday Night Countdown right now. So
that on ESPN bets. So do we know his bit?
Is he a sponsor? Is he looked like? Was he
a foot? Do they have a photo of him playing football?

(00:38):
As he used? That's what it looked like.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
It was like a high school picture, maybe a team photo.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, Jeremy Piven, He's one of us, isn't he. Isn't
he a Midwesterner? He went to school in the Midway?
I think he went didn't he go to Drake? I
thought he went to Drake for a one Jeremy Piven,
Drake and Iowa google Jeremy for some reason. I thought
he grew up in Chicago. That could be, but I mean,

(01:03):
that's that's Midwest. I know, you don't want to accept it.
Chicago's Midwest.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
He grew up in Evanston, Illinois, that's born in Manhattan,
grew up in Evanston.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Did he spend any time at Drake? He went to Drake. Uh,
somebody told me that I once knew a long time ago.
He departed after year and then went to New York
University's Tish School of the RC. So he went to
n YU. Apparently the Des Moines Community Theater was big
enough for cutting it. Yeah, he wasn't looking forward to

(01:33):
playing the Wells Fargo Center, so he had to. He
headed out. He's got the look he's on. He's got
the loafers on with no socks. So is that always
been in or is it just in again?

Speaker 3 (01:44):
I think it's pretty much so he's always been in,
but definitely in again.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
He's got little get the necklace going. It's not a
it's not like a JJ three level jewelry. Leckless. No,
I didn't see any diamonds in it. I had no
idea that this was he's becoming a football guy. Jeremy Piven,
he was doing stand up for a while. He can't.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, he came through town maybe four years ago, four
or five years ago.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Doing stand up. But I'm not I'm not sure what
he's up to now, rush, Yeah, I mean, maybe somebody
can update us on whatever happened to Jar other than
being on the ESPN set right now.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, well happened he got me too for a while
in the me too era, like twenty sixteen, seventeen, eighteen nineteen.
He had some allegations. So that's right, he had to point,
he had to well.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
He was also he was a terrific ensemble player early
in the Larry Sanders Show. For sure, he was excellent
in that he was one of the writers. He played
one of the writers on that show was outstanding. I
don't remember how many years he was on it, but
I still maintained the most underrated show in the history
of I guess that would be cable TV in that case, right,
because I don't. I mean, it wasn't on regular TEA,

(02:53):
couldn't be on regular TV, no, because the language and
so forth. That show is Oh god, this show.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Good part as the Dean and old school Oh yeah,
you're right, with Will Ferrell and Vince Vaughn and all
those guys, and then of course are a gold on
entourage age. Yeah, is as good as I mean, that's
probably the signature signature.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Right one of them. No question. Do you want to
do the grant in the hand and come back and
do top five? Why don't we do that? That's good,
that's good, du because I might. Well, we don't usually
go along that long with Hurly, but I felt obligated.
He always wants to talk sports. Yes, well we rarely
do it. I know you and him, You and he
spat chat about it, chat about it. But I want
the on air, want him to feel like he could

(03:31):
be a part of the on airything. I just cracked
up loving that he hemmed and hawed and struggled more
with the Vikings quarterback questions in peace in the Middle East.

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Speaker 1 (04:01):
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Speaker 2 (04:11):
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Speaker 2 (04:17):
Do you think there's any chance that your guy PJ.
Fleck could turn the Brian Callahan news into a contract extension?
The Titans job? The Titans job? I mean, has he
tried that? Is his agent tried pro jobs? Hey, they're
sniffing he played? Did PJ not play Pro football? He did? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Just saying I'll say this is agent. His agent is
very skilled at that. I've heard that his agent is
very skilled at that. Kevin Harlan's brother, you knew that part, right,
I did. I think I've told you this before.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
I got to know him very well when he was
one of the big shot media relations guys eighty five
Bears period. Back in that period, he was one of
their big time He's a good guy, excellent to work
with from a media stand put outstanding.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
I always wonder because when he comes into town, he
comes into town like once or twice a year, if
it's more. By the way, I do know that there's
a contract extension coming, right, It's usually for the first
game and he'll sit in our postgame press conference or
interview that I'll do with Pjcrum, he'll sit, well, he'll
Pj's office locker room. And I was just sit there

(05:25):
and I'm like, this guy's brother's Kevin Harlan, you know,
and who I grew up with, as you know, that's
like my guy listening to AM eleven thirty KFN, and
I'm always like, he's probably thinking like, who's this guy?

Speaker 2 (05:37):
You know?

Speaker 3 (05:37):
My brother's Kevin Harlan, And so I always feel like
I have to do well in front of Kevin Harlan's brother,
And then that gets in my head motivator.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
That's good. That actually works to your advantage. It could, Yeah,
not necessarily, No, I don't think it does. Sometimes you
choke up. Is that what you're saying? I think I might, Yeah,
I think I might. That's a lot, right. He's probably
thinking like, well, my brother would never do that. Very successful.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
That's why he's on Amazon Prime and you're not a kid,
but he's been on forever.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, that's a little or you think it's it's anything's
possible in America. Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
You know.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
For now, let's talk about KOs singing to Hemon and Haines.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
Spread your wings. We can go to forty two. We
got no guests. Well, Kevin O'Connor can get you there.
He'll fill up the times. That's true.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
He was asked today by none other than Kevin Seaffert,
who will join us tomorrow at three thirty?

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Did he glare at Seafford? Because that there's tension there too.
It's not just with su Hand, is what I've been told.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
I think chaos is in a better place now that
he's back Stateside. I think the sleeps at home, that's
the key to his own bed. Sure, he's got a
great bed, good thread count.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Do you think he has one of those beds where
what's the one where you can choose your side can
be sleep number, sleep number. Yeah. One side can be
soft if you soft, if you like it. One can
be very firm. Yeah, you think he's got one of those,
well those sleep number deals.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
I bet he has an even fancier bed that's probably
a true memory foam bed that we don't.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Even know about, with like surround sound. Yeah in the mattress. Yeah, yes,
you don't even have to have like earthing on your ear. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
And he slides into like the blue goggles, saw the
screen glass exactly.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
He's got everything. The sound machine, white noise, yeah, is
that they call it the sound machines white noise. Yeah,
he's got all of it. I bet.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
And if you want to sleep number, he just goes
to another room and sleeps there because he's probably got
extra space.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
He's got one in the We know he's got a
bet in the office. Every good coach does do all right.
So he was asked about JJ McCarthy, how's he looking.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
We had some good work last week. It was it
was great to get back on the grass and had, uh,
you know, some good sessions out there, kind of getting
back to a lot of the principles of lower body
mechanics and things that a body mechanics you know, been really.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
A flag football. I mean, how long has he been playing?

Speaker 4 (07:52):
And didn't even hit me till we were out there.
He had practiced one time since we had left Chicago.
He had practiced one time a fish. So a lot
of a lot of the things you're you know, allowing
him to get his health back.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Did he forget to play that check underneath him?

Speaker 4 (08:06):
But then building that foundation of fundamentals and techniques that
really you can talk about routes and certain throws and
certain plays and things like that, but it's the foundation
of throwing mechanics from the ground up that you know,
he's really taken too since he since he got here,
and just the consistency of it, whether it was dealing
through playing through that injury, you know, towards the second

(08:29):
half of that Atlanta game, or and and really you're
not talking about an incredible amount of body of work
when you're considering that when that injury happened in the
week that he had leading into that game. So I'm
very excited to get him back officially practicing. I don't
necessarily want to put a percentage on where I think
he's at health wise, and I think, well, you know

(08:50):
this this week will be massive for our whole team.
But just to see JJ back out there getting reps
and working through the process of building that foundation back up,
and we got off to a really good start last week.
I was very fortunate to get that time with him.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
At least, either he's playing the most advanced game of
Possum ever or he's greasing the wheels to make Carson
Wentz the de facto quarterback that we'll start on Sunday
against the Philadelphi Eagles, Right, I mean, when when you
start getting into reminding people, Hey, one practice since Chicago.

(09:27):
Uh was it lower body? What was he? I mean?
I didn't even understand what he was talking about there,
Like he was in the position.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
Hewk all that stuff. There's so much more that, you know,
we just say, can the guy spin it or not?
There's so much more that we just don't understand the fundamentals.
Apparently to me, that sounds very much.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Like he's setting the I don't mean even I don't
even mean he's calculating it that much to quote unquote
set it up. But he's in effect saying that the
chances of him being ready to start against the Eagles,
even if we want him to be the guy, are
remote at best. That's how I interpreted it. Even if
he didn't say anything like that, if you read between
the lines, that's what I took out of it. I

(10:06):
will be I don't know if gob smacks the right word.
I've seen too much, been surprised too many times, but
I will be pretty damn surprised on that basis that
if Wentz does not start and As I said earlier,
I think it's not beyond the realm of possibility that
your guy Brozmer is or is what's his name said,

(10:28):
Brozner is the number. Is the backup quarterback at least
for this week and maybe maybe even the next week.
I don't know, although by then the assumption is there
would have been enough practice for JJ that he could
at least be the backup. Against the charge, I'll keep
saying it.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
Don't let let the field, don't let Brozemer see the field.
Do not let him see the field. He was there
Saturday night, Go first Purdue. He's basically like an assistant quarterback.
I noticed that he's out there. Is there every time
he can by pay him?

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Or? Is that illegal? No, it's illegal? Why? I don't know.
I don't know why would it be illegal. I think
he can't be. I guess probably could. He could be,
but they're not paying. They probably don't have that kind
of money.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
But there were times when I'm like, I feel like
he wants to actually be in the huddle with Drake
Lindsay on the sideline, but he didn't go that far.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
Drake Lindsay is tall, Yeah, how tall is he? Six?
Four at least. Yeah a big dude. Yeah, yes, yes
he is. He's tall and faster than you think. Yeah,
well got the fourth down that they needed. H I
will say this, I don't think Brosmer should count on
running away from people. No, I think he's gonna have
to be the classic get rid of the ball quick,

(11:33):
you know, pocket quarterback, accurate, Just get the ball from
point A to point B.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
If that's fair. The Chiefs beat the Lions last night
thirty to seven. Nothing bad call by me.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
You have the Lions? I had the Lions, well, they
had opportunities. They did well the first half. I thought
they were going to dominate. Oh I love Campbell. At halftime,
did you hear what I did?

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Basically, we're three players from busting this thing open, and
you know he's got a pension two for They do
the halftime interview and then something happens. Remember when he
was the one where he said we need to get
a turnover and they got one last right before he
was even they were even done playing. The recording didn't
work out last night, But the news of the day
last night was the fight afterward that was instigated by

(12:15):
Brian Branch who was somebody Mahomes.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Tried to shake hands with somebody on the lines. I
don't remember who it was that ignored him, yep, And
that's what seemed to get. And then I think Mahomes
tried to branch. Oh, it was okay, okay, there you go,
all right, that's that's then that's right, and he walks past.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
Mahomes does branch, and then Smith Schuster was bitter about it. Juju,
so he turns roped and smacks him.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, it was not a good Also, by the way,
loved Dan Campbell in that situation last night, said I
love the guy.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
But he goes, that's not at all what we're about.
He goes, we're not about that. We're not doing that now.
Not a huge limb, but how often would you see
said that?

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Uh? Camp Campbell in the news said this isn't new
we are it's ridiculous. He can't do that.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
He didn't go with the I I got to back
my guy, right. Yeah, he said I love him like
they all do, but that was idiotic, and the league agreed.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
He was suspended for one game without pay for unsportsmanlike
conduct for the incident last night, so he will miss
the next game. Let's see who they play. I don't
have there all. Twenty two, they play Baker Mayfield in
Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay at home.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
Looks like that's Monday night football next week, so he
will not be available for that game.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Baker Mayfield, for me, used to be one of the
most unlikable players in this league, and I'm now rooting
for him, maybe more than any other player in the league.
It's his transformation. We talked about this with Salisbury on
a Thursday. Is amazing to me, how you know, getting
whatever you call it, like third life, fourth life, whatever

(13:43):
it is. I mean, he had another greed. He scrambled
away and made another throw for a long touchdown by
the way, and he's got receivers out too, and it
doesn't matter. He's MVP candidate. Guy. That's not crazy right now,
is it. I don't think it is. I think he's
it's you know, it's the stories are always richer, are

(14:06):
they not. When it's a player highly coveted, highly touted,
doesn't seem to be up to it almost becomes obnoxiously
omnipresident in every commercial, to the point where you get
sick of him. And it's like it's over for him,
and he's just like going from town to town hoping
he gets one more chance. You know, Cleveland. That still

(14:27):
Cleveland still hasn't found a quarterback despite all of the
Deshaun Watson nonsense. And they rejected him and now they
would kill to get him back if they could. He's
been a great story. And they they won their game.
That was another I think, pretty competitive game that they
ended up winning. What was the score of their game,

(14:48):
let me double check it thirty to nineteen. Ultimately they
knocked off the the forty nine ers, and there were
you know, for me, there are there were a number
of surprises. I thought Jacksonville, I thought, you know, they
would take care of business at home against Seattle, and
Seattle rebounded nicely. Darnold played well, and Seattle, I should say,

(15:11):
Jacksonville just couldn't get anything going offensively at all. Packers
are weird because they won, but the second half that
game was ridiculously close. Yep, for too long they seem
to like flirt with that stuff. Are the Ravens. They
haven't looked great since the destruction of the Lions. No,
that's true. The Packers. They're winning. They're three to one
and one. But you're right, they play with their food,

(15:33):
as we say with the Wolves the Ravens. You know,
maybe it's even too late. The QB is supposed to
come back soon, but they're sitting at one and five
right now. Yep. So maybe they'll be dead by the
time we get they get to the Vikings and it
will not be that formidable a ball game. But I
think there's every reason to believe that Jackson at least
will be back from that point. And the Cowboys lose

(15:54):
to the Panthers thirty to twenty seven, two three and
one for you know, your favorite national football team, the
Dallas Cowboys. Meanwhile, A Rodge and the Steelers just keep
turning again. They're you know, they're not beating great teams either,
but they were very methodical knocking off the Browns twenty
three to nine, And I thought A Rodge was efficient

(16:15):
and effective for what's become pretty much a running team.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
You mentioned the Tennessee Titans firing their coach Brian Callahan
six games into his second season as the team's head coach.
He finishes with a four and nineteen record, including one
and five this year, one and five this year, four
and nineteen twenty three games.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
That's tough. You're probably not coming back from now. Did
you find the Tomlins sound? I couldn't find. Okay, I
went to Steelers dot Com and the VISI sent it
because it was somewhere on acts. I'll give people the
basis of it. So the Bengals get let's back up.
The Browns decide to bench Methuselah, who's now with the

(16:59):
Bank Flash. They decided to go with the kid against us, right,
that was his first game a former Oregon quarterback. So
then they trade him to it. Not only tradehim, they
trade him within the division. Cincinnati says, we've seen enough
Jake Browning interceptions. We're desperate. We're just going to try something. Okay,
they do well. After the Steelers' victory, Tomlin somehow, I

(17:21):
don't know how it came up. He's asked about the
deal and he rips it. He names the Cleveland general manager.
Basin says, well, maybe he knows more than I do,
But explain to me how a guy you thought was
worthy of being your starting quarterback at the start of
the season, and not even two months later, you not

(17:42):
only reject him, you trade him, and you trade him
within the division, So I don't know if there's a
history there. I don't know if that's just the competitive
juices of well, you gave a division rival the chance
of a second life, perhaps at our expense. Right. He
may be thinking of it selfishly, but it's rare when

(18:05):
the coach of a team gets that involved in the
internal machinations of another team. You know what I'm saying.
It's very strange. So he was very unhappy about it,
and I get it. I kind of get his point
to a little to a degree. And it shows you
that the commitment is not very deep with some of
these quarterbacks. Now again, you can say Cleveland's desperate. They

(18:26):
may not have loved who they were starting the season with,
but they had to start with somebody, right, But it
does seem as if you go from a to a
very not just from a quick hook, because I think
he's cooked, notwithstanding his better second half against Green Bay.
But you trade him. Now, maybe he was gonna you know,
even though he'supposed to be Joe cool, maybe he was

(18:47):
behind the scenes getting really bitter and they basically said, well,
if you're not gonna play me, I'd like to get
out of here. I have absolutely no idea, but it
does show you how desperate teams are at quarterback and
sometimes how they're not very convicted that that they're not
really that committed to anybody. If you go from this
is our starter too, we're trading you away. What what

(19:10):
could he have actually done that was that different? Or
does that not call in the question your commitment to
go with him in the first place. James Franklin contract nugget.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
Yes, he was fired by Penn State yesterday after they
lost their third straight game, this one at home to Northwestern.
Not a great look after they lost to UCLA in
two weeks before that, a top ten matchup in double
overtime against Oregon, but.

Speaker 2 (19:33):
A very competitive game. The Oregon game was a great game.
Now is it added to his bad stats against top
five teams? Big game James, as they called him, exactly,
But it's what's happened since that's really caused the tailspin
here where you lose. I think he actually made it
a little competitive in the second half, but UCLA comes
out of nowhere. There was zero in four. Yeah, they

(19:55):
won that game, and then I don't even know what
the final score was against Northwest and I think they
end up losing it, as you say at home, in
State College.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
So the big number that everybody's looking at is the buyout.
Forty nine million dollars is what they owe him for
a contract that ran through twenty thirty one. But how
about this little nugget. I'm curious how he plays this
and other people play it. This is according to Front
Office Sports, he is required to look for another job
interesting in coaching or in broadcasting.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Well, how do you ascertain? How do you prove that?

Speaker 3 (20:28):
I don't know, unemployment benefits. You've got to go to meetings, right,
I bet they're not calling him into State College.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
But if Franklin's new job pays him less than the
eight million he's owed annually through twenty thirty one, then
Penn State only owes him the difference.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
So I think I can do that math.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
If we found a job and someone paid him four million,
Penn State would still have to pay him four million dollars.
See right, but it at least minimizes their deal. But
if somebody put it and you kind of hinted at it,
because that's what everybody always says, right, well, you're gonna
get your money, you know, just enjoy the fifty million
and don't do anything like the state's making him do
something for it. He does have to at least try
to find work, but does he do the George Costanza

(21:06):
and have Jerry answer the phone vandal at industries like
that's what he has to do is.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Getting Yeah, getting this to actually adhere to anything.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
You want to be my late tex salesman, that's what Yeah, right,
But there's at least a little protection there because a
lot of people just take the year off enjoy yourself.
But anyway, for camp, I'm still stunned that they did it.
I know, I'm hon I'm probably too pro coach in
most instances, but.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Well, I admit I'm not stunned that they would do it,
given this fall from grace at a place where you
have every asset in the world, every advantage of the world.
It's more that you found, even with the fat cats,
you felt comfortable about. Yeah, we're going to write a
check potentially for fifty million dollars. I mean that's is
that the highest number yet that's been paid out on No.

(21:53):
Jimbo fis seventy five guy for Texas A and M yes,
that's the south I should have know. I want to say,
is anybody yet, is anybody's buyout? Who will be the
first coach to negotiate a one hundred million dollar buyout
in their contract? It's by god, it's your guy. Well,

(22:15):
that's the only way to keep them. That's the only way,
and he and I can keep them because the buyo
most of the time is like the money that you're
still old, you're going to get all of it. Yes,
a lot of the time.

Speaker 3 (22:25):
So you think about it because he just signed the
extension last year right after they made the playoffs. And yes,
and I don't know how big it was, but he did.
I could look it up. It was like eight years,
like twelve million years. It was big money, as it
should be. But if he does it again and adds
a couple more years, you're probably looking at close to.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
One hundred million dollars.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
I would think, probably, Yeah, it's I mean Jimbo was
like ten years, seventy five million or whatever it was.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
And well, somebody said, I think we've talked about this before,
maybe it was even last year. That you have is
your advantage with him that he is that he's a
little older, sig. How old is sig? Will you double
check his age?

Speaker 4 (23:05):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (23:06):
So he's not like thirty five, He's not you know
that kind of up and comer where you get a
hotshot assistant at he's sixty four. Yeah. So the feeling
is that might make him less likely to get seduced
by the idea of you kidding me Penn State or
even I know he's from Pennsylvania, I think, or even
Blue or Bloods that might come calling to him because

(23:27):
there's a lot of open jobs where he might say,
I don't need I don't need to play that that game.
I can be king of the world. Yeah. Here, And
if they keep spending the money on the program they're
now spending because it's big money, yep. And I can,
you know, keep getting contract extensions, what the hell do
I care? Because in all honesty, what's weird about it

(23:48):
is you go to Penn State and the expectation is
still going to be greater. Right, You're going to be
on the clock in a different way then you're ever
probably going to be at Indiana, right, because you could
now be in the I think another five years and
just be average and no one's going to do anything
to you correct, right where Penn State. If he goes
there and they go all these assets, I thought he

(24:08):
was the greatest coach ever five years haven't done anything. Uh,
then there's actually more to lose. I guess it's the
old It depends on what you're what you're looking for.
He strikes me though, as being different enough than maybe
he doesn't care. I don't think he's going to Penn State.
I don't think.

Speaker 3 (24:22):
I'm not saying he won't use it to get more money,
but I I think he likes Indiana. I think he
should like Indiana. I agree, they gave him his first
big break. He's sixty four years old. He can do
whatever the hell he wants, and they're spending money. So
what do you have to complain about?

Speaker 2 (24:34):
Nothing?

Speaker 4 (24:35):
Right?

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Math that he complain Matt Rule the other name that
comes up there. Yeah, cause Sega is from Pittsburgh. He
went to West Virginia. Okay, but Matt Rule went to
Penn State and he's coming in here to coach the Gophers.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Our music ran out. That's the longest. Done enough? I'm sorry.
I know you love him. Matt Rule, Yeah, I don't
think he's done enough in Nebraska where I say, well,
I want him. I gotta get him if I'm Penn State. However,
he was good at Temple. He was also very good
at Baylor. Yes, and he's very highly thought of. But
he he gave one of my favorite answers because it's
so disingenuous. Why not kind of He talked about, you

(25:11):
know that he loves Penn State, had a Penn State
shirt when he was born, loves their ad. The ad
at Penn State was I think his ad at Temple
going all the way back.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
But just talked about, you know, I love it here.
I want to make this place a monster. I'm not
really going to talk about open jobs very much. But
then he said this one, which I always love because
it's just so not true. So, like I said, I'm
not going to talk about it very often. I'm certainly
not going to talk about it with anyone but my wife.
But Julie decides where we live, her business.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
She loves it.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
It's been an unbelievable time in our lives, and I
just think we can be a perennial top of the country,
one of the best teams in the country.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
I just like when they do.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Julie, she's deciding where I go. Like, you know, if
she wants to go to state college, I guess we'll go.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
I just love that so far. I will be honest
with you. I get it. It's Penn State, you know,
incredible football tradition. But speaking of quality of life and
wives and significant others, the whole bit, State College Pennsylvania
doesn't do much for me. I'm with you. I just
I mean, it's isolated. I I would go really okay, yeah,

(26:16):
that's that's wonderful. But I now, look, I'm not saying Bloomington,
Indiana is the center of the cultural universe, but it's
close to Indianapolis. It is. It's just close to a
real city and is accessible and so forth, and so
I yeah, I've never even understood the saint the state
college cult, people who are like oh State O, Pennsil

(26:37):
Penn State, And I don't know, it just doesn't because
you get there and you have to you have to
love it. Yeah. By the way, speaking of the Big Ten,
did you I see USC?

Speaker 4 (26:46):
Want?

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Who do you see us? Michigan? They beat Michigan, so
they're back there. They're ranked right USC. I think on
my Hoosiers moved up to number three. I think in
the latest poll that's the obviously got to be the
highest they've ever been. I can't imagine they've ever been. Well,
they probably had never been as high as they were
a week ago, but they have now I believe ranked

(27:08):
number three, and they're now viable. I mean they are now.
I mean to me, that was the key game. You
could say I would have a degree, and they do
have to go to Penn State. Yeah, but and I
think they go to Maryland. But they're in the viable
position where they and now can they beat Ohio State?
Would I pick them? Probably not.

Speaker 3 (27:27):
They don't play in the regular season. No, it would
be for the game in the title game. I'd love
to see that.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
It'd be if that would be an Indy And in
this case, oh yeah, Indiana fans will travel now because
they're selling they're selling out Memorial Stadium, which was honestly
when I went to school there. If it was a
one thirty game, you could decide to go to the game,
to start walking from Wilkie Quad at one twenty, get there.

(27:54):
That's probably that probably looking back, probably a good twenty minute,
twenty five minute walk walk in with line pick your
seat at one forty five or one fifty and be
you know, free as a bird. You go whatever you
want to do. Concessions. There was no lines, there was nothing,
and it was casual and it was and you knew
chances are you were't going to see a victory, but

(28:15):
you could. You could move wherever you wanted to at
any point, show up whenever you want to. You don't
have to worry about trafficking it or about anything. And
that's changed a little bit for the moment.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
USC ranked twentieth y'or three and one in the Big Ten,
five and one overall day, go to Notre Dame on
Saturday night. That's a good matchup, that will always be good.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
And then Nebraska is ranked and when we have we're
hosting Nebraska Friday night. Yes. Then what's next? Iowa on
the road? I at Iowa, and then we come back
home to play the winless in the Big Ten, Michigan
State's State Spartans on November and then it's Oregon or
is it after a bye? Do we have another?

Speaker 4 (28:46):
Buye?

Speaker 3 (28:47):
We have a bye and then a Friday night game
against Oregon on the Friday night game, yes, Eugene, and
then Northwestern at Wrigley and then Wisconsin and then the
season's over.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Yeah, a good job by Wisconsin shut out at home? Right,
it was a thirty eight. Nothing thirty seven or thirty eight.
It's like it's the thing, and they're head coach After
the game he whipped. Is he apologizing? You know, say
I'm sorry to everybody? Did they even do what's the core?
Fourth quarter? The fifth quarter? Oh? You mean no jump around?
Do they do they even do that?

Speaker 4 (29:15):
Do we?

Speaker 2 (29:15):
Are there any people there to actually jump around? They
stay for the jump around and then they leave, And
that's I don't know. How did Alvarez feel about that?
How does he is he ripped them again? His show
is usually tonight or tomorrow. I think that might be
worth monitoring because at some point I'm not sure even
he can defend what's going on here.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
Well, I'll say, though, what Penn State just did. Like,
Penn State's different than Wisconsin. Obviously historically, yeah there you
know historical program. Wisconsin, despite what their fans tell you,
have not been right the last thirty years. They've obviously
been good, but they're not one of the top five
brands in all of college football like Penn State. Paul

(29:52):
christ had like a bad year and chance true right
out of coach right like, he had like a seven
and five and then they were like two and two
when he got fired. I remember he went to the
Rosebill he won the West like every other year Rose
Bull Orange Bowl. Right, grew up in Madison, the whole bit,
loves butterburgers, loves culvers, all of it.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
And what do they do.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
They want to they fire him, which I wouldn't have
done in the first place. But then they bring in
a guy that's different, and he who's coming off a
playoff by the way Cincinnati, not a bad coach, but
immediately because it's different and he wasn't winning right away,
he's getting just trashed by former players, by former administrators,
by the fans. So that is just this toxic cycle

(30:35):
of negativity. And I don't know if he's a good
coach or not, but I can't imagine a quicker fall
like just in everybody's demeanor and behavior.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
I think what would hurt him in part and this
is not a good reason. He's not a charismatic guy,
very Alvaiz, and so it made it easier to jump
on him quicker. You know, he didn't he just he
just didn't see he was kind of bland. Yeah that
shouldn't be enough, but sometimes I think that ends up.
And because Alvarez was pretty bigger than life guy sure

(31:05):
will agree. Yeah, And so it was for sure, and
Chris wasn't.

Speaker 3 (31:08):
But he won a lot of games, and he was
one of the chosen you know, the offensive coordinator of
the chosen son.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
But I just because now they're I mean they're in
a bad, bad way. Yeah they are.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
And I don't know what you do because his buyout's
twenty to thirty million two and at some point you.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Got to make a call on that too, uh, from
the we didn't need them department that is coming up
next day ten. All right, we are indeed back guess

(32:04):
free the rest of the way, full addition on a Monday,
because there was no there's no Vikings programming to get
yet get to the purple. Of course, had the the
weekend off. I think for many fans that does give
them a chance if they want to not watch any football,
or to sort of branch out a little bit. And
you know, let's take a look at the other competition.

(32:27):
Here's the weird thing about this division. I'm not here
to declare the Chicago Bears are back. I'm really not.
I think they got a ways to go. But they
have their big rematch tonight against the Commanders in Washington.
That was the game that ended in infamy, Hail Mary,
last play. If you recall Vikings defense, I should say

(32:51):
Bears defensive backs celebrating taunting fans after the ball had
been hiked. Yeah, it's a remarkable moment. The monsters the
Midway history. One could say, if they somehow and it's
in Washington, so if they somehow, if they somehow steal

(33:11):
the game tonight, I think they play. I think they
host the Saints next week. Don't look now, but the
Bears could be at four and two in a division
where I guess you could say, if you're Biden's van,
you're encouraged by the Lions loss. Right, No one from
a record standpoint is running away with his division right now? Correct,

(33:32):
Let's take a look at the Let's still take a
look at the National Football League NFC North standings as
they stand right now, Packers lead the division at three
to one and one odd record, right, Lions now have

(33:53):
dropped the four and two or only a half game
behind them. We're three and two. Bears are two and two,
So there's great I mean, we have nobody bullet right
now below five hundred, and the Bears would be if
they lose this evening and I'm assuming their favorite, they're
underdogs in this in this ball game. They do have

(34:15):
the Saints next week as well. Yeah, so you know
it's and I haven't checked schedules of like the Packers
and Lions. We know obviously the the Viking schedule. The
best record right now in the National Football League is

(34:35):
shared by two teams. I bet you can't even name them. No,
I can't, so just tell me. The Indianapolis Colts are
five and one, yeah, and the Tampa Bay Tampa Bay
Bucks are five. That's why people love football, There's no
question about it. There's a I think there's a couple
of foreign ones here. Buffalo's four and one. The Steelers

(34:56):
are four and one. That's it even for one loss teams.
So already we have a great deal of balance. One
could say where this leads. I don't. I don't know,
did did somebody? Somebody just texted me that your guy
Polonko he was a hero yesterday? Yes, three run dong today?

(35:21):
Will you double check that? Is that somebody just trying
to get me? Oh?

Speaker 3 (35:24):
It might because they're playing right now. I was trying
to watch it on Fox. I can't get my TV
to change channels? So right, what channel should I go to?

Speaker 2 (35:31):
Eight o nine? Let me try and see if I
have any look in here? Eight zero nine? You say, yes,
channel nine, Fox nine. Yeah, they're up six three. Well,
yeah they're You're right, it is six three uh three?
Run the top of the fifth Man lovely lost. Ibody

(35:53):
liked him here, didn't you now? He had? He got annoying.
Sometimes you get a little casual. Sometimes he just I
was felling. He's one of those guys who just didn't
give a damn. You just go out and make a play. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Well, and somebody over the weekend, a friend of mine
texted me the screenshot of the hall we got in
return for Jorge Polanko, Gabriel Gonzalez, Darren Bowen, Justin Topa,
and Anthony Deskalfani.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
That's who we got for Jorge Polanco. Interesting, not exactly
a hall, no, how much of a hall at all?
To tell you the tell you the truth? You want
the other local angle, why not? We got another one. Oh,
he hit the dog off Varland. Is that true? That's correct? Wow,
So we've indicated on that which side of either you

(36:43):
can take one or the other you can't take them both.
I guess right at this point, I was three to
one and one better than four and two. Well, HNDO says,
I think it's it is better last year. Remember we
screwed it up last year.

Speaker 4 (36:58):
No.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Yeah, I always think if you have one less loss, yes,
that counts more than one more victory, correct in terms
of the percentages?

Speaker 3 (37:06):
Believe Yeah, we did that last year and it was
bad for us. Now we talked ourselves in and out
of like four different scenarios. Blanco is a ballplayer, period,
pure kid of the game.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Yeah. I think there's some truth to that. I think
he's the kind of guy you like, you just sort
of like having on your ball club, right. He just
doesn't give a damn he feels I'm not going to
say he's impervious to the pressure, but it just just
seems like one of those guys who seemed to you know,
who appeared to relish the clutch moments and didn't really
seem all that affected by it. The best thing about

(37:41):
Indiana success. It has you talk in college football that's awesome. Well, yeah,
that'll I'll tell you what if they lose to Michigan State,
that's homecoming, I wouldn't worry about. I'll jump right off
the bandwagon. I don't. I won't lie to you. I don't. Well,
as I said before, Bodus is much more into it
than me because he's close. He's around there a lot
more than I am. But yuh, Michigan State. I don't

(38:01):
know what's happened to them. Things don't seem to be
going very well there.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
No, which is surprising because their coach Jonathan Smith from
Oregon State, very highly thought of. They stole our defensive
coordinator Joe ROSSI, oh that's right, two years ago. Yeah,
for the tune of like one point five mil. And
they're not doing great. They come here in a couple
of weeks. Yeah, this is another opportunity to the Nebraska.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
Wan's big, right, because I think it's better than either
of the two teams that the Gophers have beaten. Be
a nice win, and yet I have I still have.
Maybe I'm too hard on the Huskers, but they still
strike me as one of those teams that every time
you start believing in them, they they make a couple
of plays where you go, how did they do that?
And they end up losing that game. They have yet

(38:46):
to prove. I think to me that they've made the
big jump right well, and I'm trying to think like
their best win was probably the one they just had
against Maryland on the road. Oh yeah, they haven't played exactly.
They lost to Michigan, who I don't think is great.
I think.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
I don't know if you and I talked about it,
but I talked about it on the Gopher pregame show
on Friday.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
I thought USC would beat Michigan.

Speaker 3 (39:06):
I watched them play against Wisconsin two weeks ago and
was just kind of left underwhelmed by their quarterback who's
very highly touted and again a freshman, but just I
was just underwhelmed by the whole thing. And they kind
of got run out of the coliseum by USC on Saturday.
So in Michigan and Nebraska lost to Michigan at home
at Memorial Stadium a couple of weeks ago, So their

(39:28):
best win probably just happened Maryland, who's been pretty good
so far this season. Maybe Cincinnati, you know, to start
the season because they've had a decent little run here.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
But so it's a big game. Wasn't Mitch Garver a
twin once? Yeah? What did he do? He's at the
plate right now for the Seattle Mariners, up six to three.
I mean, I don't know that he's done anything right now,
but I see him. That's how we live. That's how
we live vicariously through these playoffs as we pay attention

(39:59):
the players we let go or used to be here.
He just smashed one off the center field wall. He's
gonna get three. He's shogging to thirds. Didn't even need
a slide, but did a triple. He didn't need garments,
a near stand up triple. Yeah, wow, that's hard to do.
He that was not let's just say the center fielder
didn't look like Pucket going after the ball in center.

(40:21):
Oh but take a look at it. It's on replay now.
He smashed it. Yeah, I mean, I don't know if
he should have caught it. It just didn't look like
he got turned around both ways, went the wrong way
and then hit the wall. The old I can't jump
because I'm so close to the wall that I run
into the wall, taking away my opportunity to leap, which,

(40:42):
of course that was what Puckett did very well. That's
obviously what Tory Hunter perfected the art of climbing the wall.
Buckston not so much. We got that going for us.
We got a great succession. We do a center fielders
who could make that play. Maybe the next manager is
one of them. Tory Hunter. We used to say, Garber

(41:06):
scores on a single like kind of a Texas leaguer,
as we used to call him in the business, a
little bloop, and Seattle has improved or increased its lead
to seven to three over the Toronto Blue Jays. Uh,

(41:27):
you were on Friday, right, did we talk about well
you yeah, because we I talked about this with with Lovell,
and I had asked Johnny Athletic. He tried to surprise
Johnny with some questions every week a little bit sure,
and I don't think he was expecting a Twins baseball
manager question, but he was ready for it, and he
went along with sort of what's been my position for months,

(41:48):
you know, go ahead and do something goofy that at
least will be mildly entertaining, and that we'll upset every convention.
Aj Persinski would fall into that category. Who's the ex
White Sox managers who would get into it back in
a minute? Although again I say that, do I mean it?
Because any manager who's got a choice or anybody who's

(42:10):
out of it doesn't need to get back into it.
Are they gonna sit take this franchise seriously if they
come calling based on the current condition of the team.
But if you want to get a little more serious
about it, I agree with Lovell, and I think Sue
an rote Akama. This is James Rowson, who used to
be here would be an excellent person to talk to.

(42:31):
Now he may again fall into the category if somebody
says no, I'd rather wait. Yeah, I know. I don't
know when I'm going to get another opportunity or an opportunity,
but I'm not going to go there because it's it's
going to become a managerial graveyard, as Rocco apparently learned
the hard way.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
So when you're one of your biggest selling points is
there's only thirty of them or however many teams we
have now right right, the sooner you have to get
to that card, the less desirable your john is.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
You know what I mean, we'll hear that all the time.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Well, there's why would anybody go coach for Carolina Tennessee
right now? Oh, there's only thirty two NFL jobs. That's
that's true. That's not great, right, that's all you can
have to offer. It's just not a good sentence to have. No,
that's and having a really good ballpark, really pretty ballpark.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
That's not enough. How did you feel, speaking of baseball?
How did you did you have any any opinion on
the Okay, the Yankees get eliminated? Yes, you heard or
maybe saw what took place in the postgame show in
the studio. So it's a Rod yep, it's or t
Z and it's Gee Geetz right cap. And I can't

(43:45):
remember the player they're interviewing of the winning team, that
not who knocked off the Yankees Jays, wasn't it? Yes,
Jays who are now already in trouble in this next series.
And or Tz gets whoever the winning player is? Is they?
And I think they end up doing it together. Yankees lose.

(44:05):
The Yankees lose, you know a lah that big time
broadcast and too so the Ortiz is right, it's a
Rod who has to grin and Barrett and to his
left is jeets. Now, is that should that form of
studio taunting be penalized? Is that a little bit too

(44:27):
close to home? Even if it's you know, it's just
they're not even playing anymore. What do you think is
that fair game? And it was if you hate the Yankees,
you loved it. I'm trying to think, how would we
I don't think a probably took it. No, she probably
didn't like it. I'm trying to answer this way, how
would we feel if the inside the NBA crew did that? No,

(44:48):
I don't think we'd feel good.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
You don't think we'd like it, do you. I'm just
trying to think, like if they were doing it to
Shack bring Ass. I'm just trying to think. I guess
the other thing too, though, Like I think we're so
desensitized to it now because everybody's bringing their allegiances to
the forefront, right like Scott van Peltze Maryland guy, the

(45:10):
Albon and Greene or Northwestern guys. Yeah there at this
used to bug Feinstein for sure. It was one of
the things that he did. It just it just drove
him crazy. Because I'm just trying to think it was
it was lad uh Guerrero who was doing it too.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
I don't know if he started it and then Poppy,
Big Poppy, you went in on it. But I know
I heard them both, dude, and it was beautifully done,
no question about it. But I'm maybe I'm too, you know,
protective of Jeets. A Rod. You know, you said, Okay,
he's going to find but Jeets, and he's I'm I'm
sure it burns. It's got to. I don't care that

(45:47):
it's in a studio and it's well, it's the winner
gets the spoils, all that kind of stuff. Yeah, it's
like ORTEZI didn't beat them, but he loved obviously the
fact that the Yankees and Yankee fans were suffering.

Speaker 3 (45:59):
Yeah, Jeets, I would imagine probably called hal Steinbrenner on
the way home and said, look, this can never happen again.
Jeets probably takes it personally and where.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
A tight smile, see it Like again, It's hard to
tell with a Rod because he can he's got so
many faces.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
You know, of course, and he played for five teams, correct,
three Jesus the Yankee. Yeah, that would really I'm surprised
he didn't swing it. Poppy, I am too, actually, because
they because.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
They kept doing it. Yeah, it wasn't like we'll get
in and get out. Okay, we're not going to be
labor this because it could have you know, he could
have turned it a different way. But it was.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
I did love when the manager for the Jays before
they popped all the corks and the beer and everything,
did the start spreading the news.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
He did that. He brought them all up.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
He's like, start spreading the news after he talked about
how great these guys were and he's swearing in the
whole bit and then starts spreading the news.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
It was great. Yeah, that's that's just dudes being bros.
I loved it. Supposedly, then Big Poppy started taking tequila
shots on camp. I missed that part. I need to
watch this show. It was it is an interesting group
and I keep everyone's so I forget. It's like it's
the Wool's owner and he's still on doing a lot
of obviously studio baseball stuff.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
So so Twins staff. It could be Tory Hunter as
the manager. La Troy Hawkins is one of the pitching coaches.
I think he got to bring viola in. Oh my god,
that you want to talk about the curmudget. Yes, yeah,
Viola can be the starting pitching guy. Okay, A j
could be the bench coach. Yeah, I don't think we
want to spend on this many coaches and play. I

(47:35):
think we're going to be lucky to have a one
manager and like three coaches. So then we can't have
Dougie Baseball be the hitten. How good would that be?

Speaker 2 (47:42):
It'll be good. Look because Dougie gets almost as cranky
as sweet music. I think he's cranky, cranky, has just
given up. Yeah, engauge, Doug mn Kavich is ripping everybody
all the time as he is. Well, you bring him in, entertaining,
you bring him in, but you still let him do
their respective podcasts. So yeah, that money podcast. I don't

(48:05):
want Dougie Baseball to be a color analyst like for
thirty games. They'll never do that. That's probably not true. Yeah,
from the dugout, you know you can do you can
do color analysis from the dugout. I'm just entertaining with you.
That'd be great. I'm just thinking about how provincial we are,
like we just have all of those guys do it.
Although again I would take Ozzie in a minute. I
guess is he doesn't need it at this point. He's
not just gonna come here to come here. No, but

(48:26):
maybe he would be bored enough. But that's not realistic.
I think Rouson is. I think he represents he was,
as I said before, an interesting guy when he was here.
So I don't know. Well, we'll see. I have not

(48:46):
heard any name surface. Have you like that they're interested in? No,
but he is. It's a good guy to talk to
him is here? I think now he's hitting instructor guy.
And you say, okay, sooner or later you why don't
you give him a chance to It's got to move
up the food chain, so to speak. All right, no

(49:08):
bonus bucks for this correct three four and five? That's
what I thought. Somebody said, how about Dan dladden dazzle,
that'd be good too, you know. I mean, that's just yeah,
what we could think about that. Maybe that's the answer
forget putting talent on the field. Let's have all our
talent be in the dugout.

Speaker 3 (49:27):
Coaches and manager, well, we always brag about our great
legends series done in spring training, right, all the former
guys come down and they all give their time and
pass things on to the generation, Michael Kadi or he's
doing some yeah in at some point feisty little naked.

Speaker 2 (49:47):
Guys bring him back. Yeah, because he managed she managed
the Marlins for a while. All that is more interesting
than anything regarding this team's roster.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
Sadly enough, Twins territory would love it because those are
the guys that they associate with winning baseball. Right, you'd
sell more tickets, you do meet and greets with them
before the game and then let them go coach.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
Yeah, that's very true, Davy. All right, let's get a
pause in we'll wrap things up. Remind you what you
missed and what we have coming up on a powerpack
broadcast tomorrow as we continue and really get serious about
Eagles Week.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
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since nineteen seventy five.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
It's the Bumper to Bumper show Wrap Lance in Chaska
checking in, according to Kevin Fullness, not Fondness, Kevin Fullness.
To improve the top five and five and to truly
relate to the state of hockey, the Twins should hire
Mike Madonna to be their next general manager. Mike Madonna

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interesting to be by the way, A Falness did check
in bitter. Not only did you not mention the wild
in the top five and five, we had the longest
top five and five in history. We did, and we
didn't get you're right, we're back at home tonight. I
think it's the king, and it's the King's Fiala.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
And actually I was gonna play the Bill Garren Kevin
Fiala sound bite infamous that I thought about it.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
I had it somewhere, and then we kind of got sidetracked.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
I'm supposed to cut Matt Dunba because Kevin Fialis had
three good months.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
That was maybe the most honest, disarming quote that Garrein's
ever givens. It was so good because it's just he
was so annoyed that I was going down that road,
and it was he knew he probably shouldn't say it,
but he couldn't help himself, right, right, But it did
prove the point that he wasn't as shall we say,

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celebratory yep a fiala as perhaps others suggested he might
have been.

Speaker 3 (51:43):
By the way, tremendous fiala trade. He got a first
round pick in brock Favor Thoby. That's a hell of
a trade, and that's it's even with diminishing his value
on local radio. That's further proof of his genius. Yeah,
that's how good that trade was. Fawdness was better with
me this weekend because he's in his feelings.

Speaker 4 (52:00):
You know.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
They had a big twenty fifth anniversary, you know, some
posium and well, you know, well Jacques was there, risebros. There,
all these guys were at Tom Reid's and he tweeted
out a picture of all of them and he's in
the picture. He's in the picture. He says, can you
name everyone? And my response was, is that the Minneapolis Lakers?

Speaker 2 (52:18):
How did you take that? I did like it? They're
not like it. Didn't like it well at all? Honesty
close circuit to k Falness. He knows me a little bit. Okay,
do you what do you think the chances would have
been if he'd have texted me over the weekend or
you and said, hey, you want to have Jack Lamar
on Sunday? Sermon? Yeah, what do you think I would

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have said? You would have said, yes, please this a minute.
So instead of whining constantly, reach out, give us some ideas,
give us some suggestions, some things that might work, because
I might surprise you I mean, that's that's part of
the game, isn't it is? Hey, in case you slipped
your mind, they're here and Lamar's he's gettable. Don't know

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if he was still here Sunday, maybe he was flying
out Sunday morning. I have no idea, but if he
knows anything about me, I'm a history guy, whether it's sports,
a real world, or whatever. To have lamarzy on, hell,
he was a coach of the only team that mattered
in team history. Happened to be a long time ago,

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but that's the reality. I want to thank Johnny Athletic
who joined us today. I also want to thank Michael Hurley,
who gave his instant reaction to the Middle East deal
that at least is encouraging at this point. I think
he reminded us of what we all understand. You've got
to keep your eyes open. There's a lot of pieces

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to this thing where it could unravel. But he was
not afraid, perfectly willing to laude that the deal was done,
hostage is released.

Speaker 1 (53:51):
And a.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
A more fundamentally progressive step then we've had in the
Middle East peace process in a long long time. It's
can it pay out? Can it be hold?

Speaker 4 (54:05):
Up.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
I think there's reason to wonder about that, but that
doesn't mean the getting to this place shouldn't be celebrated.
And I've seen a lot of people who aren't exactly
Trump apologists do exactly that in this particular case, which
is what you should be able to do. I'm guessing
it's something that John Oliver is incapable of doing. But
that's just me. That's an aside to a couple of

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X battles that have broken out in recent in the
recent hour or two related to my account. So tonight
it's Fan of Demand and then it's Wild Kings. It's
an NFL double header again tonight it is Yep. Second,
I didn't remember who was in the first game. The
second game is Bears Washington. It's Atlanta Buffalo and the

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Falcons are up seven rip right now? I wonder, oh
Atlanta's up? Yeah? I wonder if cousins are gonna end
up landing anywhere? What do you think? Probably the problem
is that if Cincinnati sort of you know, made their
move already by the trade there can you can you
trade for another veteran court I don't know what the

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financially because he's got years left and there's Yeah, that's
true too, It's it's different. The reason Flaco's on the
move is because he's always on a six month contract. Basically, Yeah,
flim Flam writes, this is for fullness. I just cheftied
a tweet for seven thirty tonight. We didn't need Fiafa
he scheduled for seven thirty. We didn't need Fialla, which

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is a pretty good one as well. How about El
Gasolino for the bullpen Llan Berenger bring him back, sure,
that'd be pretty good. Yeah, how about the rat as
one of the base coaches. That's a good question. I
do not know, uh where he is tomorrow, Power Packed
Luigi Tuesday regular appearance Lieber with some bonus time because

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well we have him every week and there's obviously no
Viking game to play off of but his Eagles week.
So we'll get a preview with him tomorrow and Kevin
Seffert will join as well. As we get one step closer,
presumably to a resolution. When do you think the announcement
will be or do you think they're gonna play the
choy game of not even announcing till like Friday or Saturday.

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At the Quarterbacks, I.

Speaker 3 (56:19):
Bet they announce it because guys get enough access to
practice that there's no reason to hide it. I think
that's probably true. So I would guess Wednesday when Kot
meets the media again. Yeah, I think it's Wednesday when
he talks again.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
Is that the next next time? I think so Wednesday Thursday.
So Feeland, we're probably gonna skip this week because that
makes sense. You'll give him a rest and get back.
And it's a new game next week, it is, and
then Friday night football for you Gophers hosting Nebraska. Will
that game sell out? Yeah? It should be pretty close,
got to be close. Nebraska still travels pretty well, doesn't

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travels well. The interesting they'll be, they'll be a lot. Yeah,
all right, fair enough, thanks for watching, Thanks again for listen.
Thing for sure, and we will talk to you tomorrow
beginning at three. Go get them, you know, show us
what you can do.