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Speaker 1 (00:04):
I thought, I thought your one question for PJ Fleck
this week was absolutely outstanding. I knew that was coming.
Do you think if and or when we have him
on next year? It's going to be a when do
you think you'll have one and a half next year?
Or maybe two? Maybe we could combine on a second question.
We can go a little one for however, I start
(00:24):
one and you finish it, we can call it.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
One and a half. There we go, maybe like a
mini follow up.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
It's just a follow ups count adorable thing that I mean,
I encounter on a weekly basis getting texted by the
surrogate kid, like you know, I want to join for
the PJ chat. I want to join for the PJ Chat. Awesome, great,
can't wait? Comes in one question every week? I point
to him, you want another one? I'm good. That's a
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softball point.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
That's a that's a slow no body better, it's a
slow pitch point right there. That's a that's I got it.
Don't worry about is to no, they play in Ottawa tomorrow. Ever,
coming home we did the math. There's like as a
ninety day window here and she's gone for sixty four
of you.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
You're not even married, yet you're already doing the map
and the tit for tat nature over the relationship. But Babe,
you were gone sixty days, so I get to be
gone sixty days. But babe, oh man, that means I
gotta make I gotta start meal prep in, I.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Gotta do the whole deal.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Man.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It's yeah, it's it's tough around these parts. Well, gonna
share the news, yeah, of course.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Wow, Parker Fox starts a job today. First, like yeah, first,
like white collars job, blue collar, non hoop job in
your life, right, that's right. It is with First Resource
Bank in Minneapolis off Washington, and it's for a very
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very dear friend of mine, somebody with whom I'm very close,
Tim Siegley, the owner of First Resource Banks, along with
his son Aaron and some other some other family members
and ancillary pieces.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And you're gonna love working for Tim, ma'am. Yeah, I'm excited. Yeah.
I just like the deal that you crafted.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
You know, one hundred and forty five thousand a year
for working twenty five hours a week because uncle Tim
just loves humanity.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I mean, that's beautifully done. Wow. So what are you
going to do in the banking business.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Well, I'm going to start out by learning all about
you know, credit analysis and and all that kind of
fun stuff, all the all the banking terms that I'm
sure so many people.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Know and love. We got a haircut.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I got a haircut at shave. We were you know,
we're not in the sweatpants today. So it'll be fun. Man,
It's it's exciting. And as you know, I'm a people
person and Tim is, like I've told h the Nine
to Noon Faithful, Tim's neighbored to my parents, so we
get to see Tim all the time and to meat
I yeah, yeah, we see him out walking his dog
Gabby and the whole bit, and and he thinks it'll
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be It'll be perfect for me because at the end
of the day, it's all about you know, your relationships,
about who you know, and I think that's a big
part of all the whole credit analysis game. So I'm
excited to get in there today and start learning. It's
been a while since I really learned.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
You know, does does Tim know that you call Gophers
basketball games for Big Ten Network?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Do you think in any way he's.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Hiring you to angle his way to a couple of
court sides for a conference game. That's always what it is, right,
It's always what it is. No, they've been big supporters
of Gopher athletics. I think last year it was their
first year kind of into the NIL department with with
Gopher athletics and supporting that program, and especially on the
basketball side. As we know, it's all about it's all
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about throwing dollar amount of kids and you got to
find ways to do it. So I think they've been
big helps kind of in that in that regard. So
did you accept this job at First Resource Bank Minneapolis
off Washington by Chicago. Did you accept this job so
potentially you and Taylor can join Tim for a Vikings
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game in the Medtronic Club.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Totally love that. That's right. I take those sweet tickets
that I get him.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Man, come and hang out with you up in the
press box Long Vale.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It's the it's the best. But no, it's good people.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
As you know, you guys are very very close and
I've gotten to know him now over the years and
his son, Aaron, and I'm just excited about what they're
doing in the direction they're going, and excited that I
could be a little part of it.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
You ever noticed since you stopped playing for the Golden
Gophers basketball team. You subsequently have not been invited back
to the private iHeart suite next to the box. I
always love work. How that works? Huh, Austin Garcia, Right, yeah,
my guy, DG. That's right. Yeah, I mean you guys.
It's it's like you guys had season tickets in there
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at one point. Now, all of a sudden, he goes
to the NBA, You go to work with Tim Siegily,
and I can't find you next to the box.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
What are we doing here?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
I have a feeling there may be a few open
seats for the final three. It's slide in there with
the with the nice food. Just check your calendar, Check calendar,
I'll see if they'm open one coming up this week.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Thanks closed on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
H Yeah, I mean this is a this is this
is a small It's not like big bank rigmaroles.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Which I think you're really really gonna like, so hey,
Covenant class right here?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Okay, yeah, thank you, big boys. First real job.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
And if you could see him here in the in
the six five to one carpets plus studios, your heart
would palpitate like mine in that it's like somebody heading
to the bus for their first day of school.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
His suit's too big. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It's it's it's the most adorable thing that I've ever seen.
I couldn't be happier for you right now.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Yeah, do you have to get a custom cut suit?
I do.
Speaker 4 (05:36):
I feel like you're just going to stamp just big
and tall. I don't think I that just doesn't seem
like that's going to work out for you. So you
have to get like custom tailored bits. Yeah, like an Hammermaid.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Yeah. Hammermid's great. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I've been lucky enough through the U the past couple
of years. They give us a you know, they come
in and fit us for suits, the whole team, So
we always get one a year. I've got four of those,
and then had a couple of their weddings and fun
stuff on the side that I've had to get suits for.
And so yeah, I've got a good relationship with a
tailoring company in Saint Paul. They fit us well. They
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fit all the Vikings too. So when the last time
I was in there, last it was me and TJ.
Hockinson hanging out for about an hour and they were
showing me justin Jefferson's shoot says Theya Rogers suits.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
So they do a great, great job for us.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Parker Fox at Parker Fox two four via the tweet machine,
not offended if you say no, did you happen to
listen to any part of the early stages of today's
radio show? H So you know what fiena is? Fairness
and nine to noon act? Yeah? What was the few
fairness in Little Fact?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah, I mean brilliant old guy Fat Fingers wrote, you know,
a page and a half of opening segment pros and
the flight back from the slaughter in Seattle, sat next
to a dear friend of mine for about thirty thirty
five minutes, chatting about lots in life, and I'm like, cool,
I'll just I'll just get to the studio three and
a half hours sleep. We're good, funday to talk about
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wrote for an hour and fifteen minutes, went to save
it and it didn't so and then the screen went blank,
and no, it's eight fifty and I lost four and
a half pages of writing, including just thirteen of the
greatest Parker Fox related questions that I think I've ever
crafted in my life. So we were kind of we're
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shooting from the hip and or lip today, so let's
be patient with us. Okay, so you did you answer
the question, is Taylor ever coming back?
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I did answer the question.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I she'll be back Wednesday, Frost have a couple of
home games, but then she's back on the road as
USA takes on Canada for some rivalry series in Edmonton, Canada.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
So she excited to go up there.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
That's kind of the last stop with Team USA before
the Winter Olympics occur in February. So obviously got to
stay healthy. Things got to go your way, it right. Yeah,
it'll be in Milan, Italy.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Are you going to Milan? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I'm going over there. How'd you cut that deal with
First Ree Source Bank? You're just starting today?
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Kidding me?
Speaker 1 (08:02):
That's a can't miss, that's right. You get one seventy
five a year. You got to work twenty five hours
a week for the bucks seventy five from KIM and
you get you start with more vacation days than any
of us have here at KFAM.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
So that's that's how the kids do it now, is
they as soon as they get the job, they ask
for three weeks in vacation.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
That's just how the kids do it these days. Well,
props to him. He's getting it, is getting that an
opportunity is Seriously, that's a can't miss. Though I love
the secretly fan family. Do not take advantage of them,
you hear me, No, no, no, nothing like that. But
I'm telling you that's a can't miss. That's a one
in a lifetime experience. Joella got a me ving ev DV. Gee, yeah,
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I guess so. Is the is the is the you know,
as you approach your June wedding, June right August August wedding, Uh,
given Taylor's gone basically two thirds of the year, and
you know you're having to get twenty five hour a
week jobs at standalone banks off Washing didn't buy Chicago.
Don't forget about the Moxie. Have you subscribed to the mantra?
(09:05):
Absence makes the heart grow fonder? Oh, it's the truth, man.
How fond is your heart right now? Hardy heart's pretty fond.
It's gonna grow even more fond.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
But I think it's tough, right, But it also is
is good because it's because I understand it, because I was.
I did it for a long time too, So I
think it takes it takes a person that really understands
what's going on. But babe, but babe, some babe terrors
there at least once a week, one thousand percent on
thousand percent. Yeah, But I think it's it's she's doing
some really special things in life right now.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
She's in phenomenal uncharted territory.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
So I think for me to I don't have enough
of an ego to step on that. So I think
it's it's all about supporting her and seeing what she
can do with the time that that God.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Gives her to do it.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Well, I missed her and Somewinkle at fashion Fest. I
know those are my dogs at fashion Fest. I don't
know many people there, and got to go up on
the stage and stuff and home opener, man got no,
Heisi got no Zumwinkle.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
That wasn't the home opener. That was at Seattle? I think,
Oh was it?
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Oh no, it was the twenty first right, yeah, yeah
against Toronto.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
It was an elegance.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Did we beat Seattle? We did three zero? Yeah, Hey,
somebody beat Seattle.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Let's go three two. Let's Ottawa. Have they played them yet? No,
that'll be the third game of the season. Haven't played him?
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Yet what do they played once every five days something
like that? Seriously, Well, they don't have the they don't
have the Vikings team playing. You got to catch the
commercial flights and there was no direct flight from Seattle
to Ottawa, so they had to drive up to Vancouver
and then fly from Vancouver to Ottawa. So travel in
a startup league, isn't you need a capon Clark, I guess.
(10:38):
Brosmer though, Yeah, I mean, I know you know Max,
I know you like him. I've gotten to know him
quite well this season. Yeah, when we have said this before,
but we we ride the same bus from the team
hotel to the stadium, and you know, I've seen a
lot of players making big spot debuts and new players
and stuff like that, and quarterbacks and all that over
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X amount of years, and so I kind of feel like,
you know, I know what to look for before the game,
just to see, like what their demeanor is unique. And
Brosmer was the exact same yesterday. Man. I mean, it's
me Spearfish jeff Us three on the bus in walks
Throsmer and he's cracking jokes about his five years a
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New Hampshire and winning the musket and tattoos and things
like this, and I'm.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Like you, you're.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Nice and calm, and it's not that he was all fidgety.
It's burstage. This is something I left out with with
not knowing what a Google doc is and how saving
works and everything is with Brosmer. Okay, so McCarthy at
times he's a kid. At a time he's twenty two.
Brozmer's a little older. McCarthy at times won't see it
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quickly enough. And in the Packers game there was a
pass to Josh Oliver left flat by the sideline that
if it's just a few beats earlier, then Josh Oliver
is probably.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Rolling down the sideline from here to w Wassaw.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
So you know, kids are going to be kids and
experience is required, so you know, Max not Max JJ
occasionally will see it too slowly.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Well.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
The analyst Pete Bersich, A's brilliant b he's Notre Dame raised,
and see he knows what he's looking for because he
coached and or played for a decade and change in
the NFL. Early in the broadcast yesterday, like after the
second or third pass, he's like, this is crazy.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Brozmers seeing it too quickly.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
It's like the processing machine was going so fast that
he's he just now he needs to slow down a
beat kids at a time, and he's just seeing it
too quickly. And I'm like, all right, you know, I'm
not going to argue with the analyst. He knows more
about it than me. Postgame press conference, Kevin O'Connell asked
about Brosmer pretty much said the same thing was just
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processing so quickly. It was actually seeing it too quickly,
needed and needed to like pull back a little bit.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
It's these kids.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I'm just telling you, Yeah, I mean, I mean give
him credit for for what he's done. I think PJ
talks enough about him. And Greg Olsen was highlighting it
on the on the screen too, about his relationship with
PJ and the positive things that PJ says about him,
and how he just came in and was just this
leader and he understands the game at such a high level.
And yeah, I didn't go the way you wanted it
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to go, but I saw some good things from Max. Obviously,
there's some things that I'm sure he wants back. He
knows he's just got to take that sack rolling out
of the pocket. It's just one. You got to eat up.
It's unfortunate, but I think there's a lot of things
for him to learn. Who knows what the situation is
with it?
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Or maybe on the fourth and one we plunge up
the middle, or run CJ Ham or run the tush
push with Brandon Pale, or run the wildcatter. Yeah, your
big second and kick a field goal if you wanted
to give it up in that spot, tick a field goal,
because the Alabama kid never misses. So that's I don't know, man, Yeah,
that's that one hurts. It definitely hurts.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I think it's tough on a kid, a twenty four
year old kid in Brozmer to come in and it's
first start on the road with the twelfth man.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Let's check the tweet machine here, Reale, quick at the
account we talked about last night and this morning while
we were awaiting something.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Oh yes, go ahead, check that and give me.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
The thumbs up and just tell me if if there
is a certain announcement from a certain.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Football team involving.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
A certain player, and I'd like to share with you
what I wrote down at six forty five this morning
regarding said situation.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
But would you like me to just read the tweet itself.
The post here it is available. It is as of
two minutes ago.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Okay, ladies and gentlemen, this is the serious portion of
the nine to new radio presentation. Please listen closely for
Minnesota Vikings and Adam Thielen related news. Adam was a
healthy scratch in the game yesterday for the first time
in his career and for more in a roundabout way
on that, but kind of the what's next plan.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Here is the con.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
A statement from general manager Quasiadelfamensa in relation to the
team waiving wide receiver Adam Thielen.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Here's Quacy.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Last week, Adam's representation approached the team and asked if
we would be willing to release Adam, expressing his desire
to play a bigger role in the remaining weeks of
what he has indicated will be his final NFL season.
Following discussions through the weekend and out of respect for Adam,
we have agreed to give him the opportunity to pursue
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more playing time elsewhere. Adam is one of the all
time great Vikings. We wish him and his family continued success.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Okay, that's from the team.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I would I would expect an Adam Thielen related release
to transpire relatively soon, and we will follow up on
that front from at one to nine himself.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And yeah, there there were fast it's of.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
That playing ride home last night that were I don't
want to say heart wrenching, that that would be That
would be too that would be too sappy. Adam is
sault of the earth. Adam is if you get to
know him as well as I have during his career
and his family from Detroit Lakes, He's a He's a
heartfelt human being, genuinely cares about people. It was a
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tough week for Adam feeling and it you know, it
probably was a tough week for the organization too. Now
the Vikings release said Blake Barrett's with Institute for Athletes
that contacted them before the Seahawks game, saying paraphrasing, you
ain't playing him.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
This, that and the other.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
And he thought on releasing him so he can latch
on with the pit, so he can latch on with
another team, maybe going to the playoffs. And and then
it got kind of quiet. And I understand why it
got quiet, because they had a game to place on
and if feel in was not going to play in
the game, or play two plays or whatever. Then it's
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organizationally pragmatic to watch the game and make sure everybody
gets out of it alive. Yeah, eighteen three one four
bahole thing. So they did that and that's where we
are now, and good for the team to grant a
Minnesota sports legacy the opportunity to finish his career with
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a team that will be playoff bound now. Adam Thielen
also has something to say via a release that's available.
I believe it's at Vikings via the tweet machine. Nordo
has it at his fingertips.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
Yeah, and his specific his own X account Atheling nineteen.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Thank you. Here's the statement from a T one nine
Vikings family. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
This is tremendously difficult for me to write, certainly not
how any of us imagine this to go. As a
Minnesota native, putting on this uniform over the years and
representing this community both on and off the field has
always meant that much more to me. This team is
in my bones, it is in my heart, and it's
part of my DNA. I will always be in Minnesota Viking.
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Since this last spring, I knew this was going to
be my last season playing in the National Football League,
given that the Vikings allowed me the opportunity to go
compete elsewhere for the last few weeks of my career.
Minnesota will always be our home. And we are incredibly
grateful to the will family, Quasko, Rob and everyone in
the Vikings organization for bringing us back in August. This
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organization means the world to us from the top down.
And this locker room is filled with true professionals with
gratitude and love. And I'll be back to retire Adam.
That's beautiful. And the team did not have to do this,
No chose to do it.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
So now you got a pecking order here where the
Tennessee Titans can claim Adam Thieln once the release and
all the paperwork is done happens and he says, no, well,
that's a fat l for team eighty one nine. It
generally doesn't work that way. You know, I'm not saying
you got handshake agreements, but like the Tennessee Titans, with
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somebody who has five games and some playoff games left
in their career, they're gonna do that. So then you
just keep going and keep going and keep going. So
you know, when in knowing this was going to take
place this morning, I started to kind of read between
the lines, looking at how games went yesterday and recently,
and who has good records and stuff like that, and
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who has good.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Quarterbacks and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
And then I'd say, as we were negotiating moderate chop
over Montana at ESPN dot com, a story popped about
Aaron Rodgers savaging his receivers for not being on point,
not watching enough. No, no, they're watching enough film. It's
just like what they're doing is not translating. And then
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Calvin Austin was like, yeah, right, I mean we need
to be more on point. So that resonated with me
an AFC North team with a Hall of fame quarterback
who got after his receivers after a loss to Buffalo.
So that's where my mythical honeybee lands. As to what's
next for Adam Thielen. They brought him back because Jordan
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Addison was on a three game suspension, and with respect,
Jordan Addison is a wild card in the whole equation
on suspension or not. We got the London walk you know,
walk through bit, just the whole thing, man, So I
pull for him.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I like Jordan A.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Lotti, supremely gifted, but nevertheless three game suspension needed. Somebody
got some wild card Jalen Naylor, some forget how to
bust it up hand into the season, so there was
a little bit of a problem there. So the Vikings
needed a receiver for multiple reasons into the season, and
they went and got Adam theeln So now adam skills
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and leadership obviously were needed at that time, and and
something fell off. I don't even know how to explain it,
you know, to go from X amount of plays and
then Addison's back and Nailor's hands fine, and well Altiel
and all of a sudden, it's not playing. So that
that precipitated and led to everything that we've heard with
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his representation respectfully asking the team, I mean, can you
release the guy so you know, his final X amount
of games?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Maybe he can he can take some kind of a run.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
So it didn't pan out here, Barrett's contacts the team
and the team has acquiesced it's a crazy run for
at one nine comes home, doesn't work out, gets to
watch his Bob about this, and then he gets to
watch his former team go seven and six and beat
the la Rams and Bryce Field, right, and he was
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with Bryce when Bryce's yards per attempt was four and
then he gradually got better. And Adam is Adam is very,
very fond of Bryce Young. Yeah, and so therefore, you
know that's all happening. Probably can't be super easy to
watch that. So somebody, like maybe the Steelers, feels like
what he offers is in what will be his final year,
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So maybe somebody's going to take it on over here,
learn the offense, let's find a way to win together.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
And so best of luck to Adam Deeling right.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
Yeah, yeah, one of the favorite receivers I've gotten to
watch being a Vikings fan for a long time. And
I think you're right. Obviously you're around him more. I
don't know him the way you know him, but seems
like a true assault of the earth kind of guy,
and you wish him the best.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
No, Adam, Adam is great and we will miss him,
and it's just but this is just part of a
wonky twenty twenty five just thinking right what he had
provided you see him he eclipses a couple of years ago,
one thousand yards with the fresh squad down in Charlotte
and everything's weird with Bryce Young and then it's like, okay,
well we do have the three game suspension, we do
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have what what do we have in Speedy Naylor is
probably part of that conversation. So you feel good about
the fourth round pick, You feel good about some of
the equity you gave to Charlotte to bring him in
and to watch that snap count precipitously decline the way
it is culminating with the with the healthy scratch, I mean,
it just kind of feels and it's it's it's unfair
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that a guy that's give nim Minnesota what he has
over the years that it kind of ends with a thud. Yeah,
I mean that's kind of and and in the end
it's going to be really positive at some point as
he retires, he'll retire as a Viking. There'll there'll be
a ton of positive conversations in the future down the road.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
But right now it's just kind of ending with a thud.
I mean, he's just he's moving on.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Definitely rooting for him with the next squad, But our
team's got four wins, nineteen didn't get to contribute much
to the operation this year.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
It's kind of ending with a thud with with with feeling.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
So so hopefully he latches on to a spot that's
going to give him a chance to go out with
a couple w's under his.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Belt, fairly analyzed. Can you stick around for a short
segment around the corner. Yeah, let's start Parker Fox at
Parker Fox two four once again, the Viking's offered up
a release about ten minutes ago. Speaking of release, Adam
Feelin at his behest that of him and his agent,
Blake Barrett's at the request of them, the Vikings have
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released Adam Thielen. They acquiesced to the demands or to
the request, and he's going to look to sign with
a team that has a good quarterback, potentially future Hall
of Fame quarterback and is going to the postseason. So
that'll all be coming down the road. I fully expect
an announcement from another team later today or tomorrow as
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to where he's going to be playing, and I fully
expect Adam Thielen to play for that team coming up
this weekend, which is going to be great for Vikings
fans where I'm like, how much more can they and
we take? I mean, what's next three, one, five or one,
five and three in a must win type game.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
You know, well, we can go cheer on Adam Thielen's team,
I guess, and we will do that. That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Then Adam Adam and his twitter feed he wrote he
wrote something out and posted it. But that's all official
now and we wish at him. Well, we'll be right back,
all right, mister elite football mind. The last time we
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chatted on the radio before today was Friday at Buffalo
Wild Wings Mall of America for the Friday Football Peace
and you know, just out of nowhere killing time. Near
the end of the show, I asked you what you
thought of the Chicago Bears and Philadelphia Eagles, and I
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built it up by saying the Dogs were barking on
Thanksgiving every underdog one. Well, you basically paraphrasing, were like, well, Paul,
it's going to be four for four because not only
do I like Chicago to cover that point spread, I
like Chicago to win the game.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
And then Bears went out and won the game. Well done.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
And then Theeln's former team beats the LA Rams, and
now Chicago's in first place in the NFC, tied with
the Rams. But they have a better conference record each
team with five games to go. It rivalries, division rivalries,
fan base rivalries be damned.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
There. There's no way to get around.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Saying it other than Ben Johnson has done spectacular work
with the Chicago Bears, and when they were set to
beat I mean play the Vikings, when I was deep.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Diving kind of who what where winning? Why? How they're winning?
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Ladygain Cincinnati and Caleb's running it in from seventeen against
the New York Football Giants. Not great teams, but they're
finding the money. There was a lot of the Chicago
Bears that reminded me of the twenty twenty two Minnesota
Vikings when Kevin O'Connell brought the spirit back into the
building and positivity and innovation and things that had just
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been lost in the previous year and previous x amount
of years. Well, they kind of did the same thing
in twenty twenty two when out all these close games
and everything, they did not finish as the one seed.
The You know, it's tough for me to predict that
the Bears will finish as the one seed. They have
an excellent chance. They're at lambeau Field this weekend three
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twenty five boom. I mean, that's a spectacular game, but
nice tout on the Bears.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
And and how'd you come up with that one?
Speaker 3 (27:32):
I just love what they've been doing in the run game,
and it hit home against this Eagles team on their
home turf. Mynung guy goes for twenty two and one thirty,
Deandres Swift goes for eighteen one twenty five, and they
just dominated them in the run game. Burstch was talking
about it with the Vikings team, with the Skull team,
is they just weren't able to get the run game going,
you know. And I think it's such an important thing
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across any level of football, and it's really prevalent in
the NFL as well. And then you look at Philadelphia's side,
say Kwan only goes for fifty seve and he's had
a tough year and it just hasn't been the year
that he had last year. But if you can dominate
that run game, if you can put up a two
hundred and fifty five from your top two in the
running category, you're gonna win football games.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
I didn't get a chance to watch either of the
last Wolves games. Watched all of the OKC game. We
talked about that Friday at the Feast. Your Timberwolves have
won two consecutive They have beaten two consecutive teams with
winning records. Huge caught San Antonio without Wemby, but that's
just how it works. And and Boston it looked like
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that Saturday game between Jalen Brown and Anthony Edwards and
Boston and the Timberwolves. I mean that looked like a
heck of a game. It was like one seventeen, one
fifteen something like that. Did you get a chance to
watch either of the games, and if so, what were
you seeing?
Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
I wish I would have went to the Celtics one.
I opted out kind of last minute, kind of regretted that.
Did you go to the Battle for the Acts?
Speaker 2 (28:54):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I went pregame to Malcolm Yards, met up with a
couple of people too snowy, and.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Called for people. I'm not not a three and a
half hours in the snow. It's not going to work
at first resource. I'm not going to be in the snow.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
That they need more tenacity wherewithal of tough nature or
nature to mental toughness.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
And work ethic. Now you're right about that. You're You're
certainly right. I opted for for some games on the couch,
got you. But nonetheless, the Wolves have looked good. Getting
wins over you know, teams north of five hundred I
think is important.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
I thought they looked pretty good against Okay, see, yeah,
they looked they looked good, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
And this is something that I think the Wolves are
really working on, is Hey, where do we go in
that last five minutes?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Like who is our leader?
Speaker 3 (29:33):
You look at Anthony Edwards, right, he's your guy, But
at the same time, he's not. He's not the really
to set the offense up and facilitate and get guys
in the right spot kind of guy. He's the takeover
the game kind of guy. So I think they're trying
to figure that out and what that looks like. And
it's it's good that they got some wins over north
of five hundred teams. And you're right, no Stefan Castle,
no Wemby, So that's a no, that's what you should
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win type of you know game. But but nonetheless, you
won the game and you move on and now you
go to New Orleans tomorrow and you try to get
one down there.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
How about Jalen Brown Sans Jason Tatum, I mean, and
he gets a chance to spread his proverbial wings and
show his the totality of his overall game.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Jalen's a tough sucker. I think.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
I think he's been nurse nursing and nurturing a back
for a little while. Doesn't miss games played played in
a back to back, So you know, Tatum is a
ball dominating type players as as as you know, and
he's you know, one of the best five or whatever
in the NBA, but he's out for the year and
for Boston, like one of my favorite players in the league.
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The best shot blocking guard in the league is Derek White,
and Derek can still block shots, and Derek's good and
Derek has good games, but he's fallen off a little
bit without Tatum and Brown playing the way he's playing.
So that's just you know, it's it's I'm not going
to call basketball the ultimate team game. There's a team
facet to it for sure, connectivity, but really it comes
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down to the to the matchups late late in the
shot clock. Yeah, the pick and roll, we're going over,
we're going under? Are we not repeating ls? How's the
help defense? What's my size like compared to another team.
So it's a team game, but you know what I mean,
dred percent football and hockey ultimate team games where a
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has to go to B two CD DDE just to get.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
That thing to work.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
And and I've just been you know, really and I
didn't see the game, but really impressed with like Jalen
Brown's overall game rebounding, steals, assists, shooting percentage can be
super up and down.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
But he's just a dog man. He's a tough, tough player.
I mean, he's a super max type of guy. You know,
he's a he deserves the money he's getting for a reason.
He's a top three pick out of cal I think
he's averaging about twenty ninety game this year.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
But I think you're right.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
It's all about matchups, and Derek White is now in
a position where he's getting that secondary defender versus getting
that third defender, So at any time, I think that
can change some of the things. I think they're really
well coached. I think Missoula does a really good job
over there. They get them in the right spots. You know,
he coaches them really hard. But it's just a difference
when you're the second guy versus the third guy. You're
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carrying the balls in your hands more. You're not coming
off of, you know, driving kick type of situations. You're
creating the driving kick situations. But Jaylen Brown, he's a
super Max guy for a reason, and I think he's
got a bright future ahead. Hopefully that one two punch
can stay in Dallas, I mean stay in Boston and
they can continue to afford them.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
So about an hour ago when we had PJ fleck
on and you guys were talking about the the the
students and just the crowd and everything, and I'm glad
you guys went down that road because you know, I
just I had forgotten how Barren and you know how
the student section just wasn't great, probably early when PJ
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was here, but certainly before him. And you know, watching
this thing while flying to Seattle and just seeing the
beauty that is a snowy football game in what PJ
calls the snow globe, those are just wonderful visuals. But
the student section again was packed. And every time I
watch a Gophers game, it's like that. Well it was
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like that when when you played basketball there and like
went to the games, you and Taylor and stuff, I
mean it's like the fans, you know, whether they're seven
and five or they're winning nine or ten whatever it
was with ten or Morgan beating Penn State on that Saturday,
it's that they've embraced it and they've embraced this culture.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
I remember going in to be a student at the
U and one of my first classes was was some
sort of sport class and we were researching. We were
trying to figure out, like how do you keep students
there for the second half?
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Right, Like how do you you got students that want
to go to the game that's part of a class
where you get an extra actual credit. Yeah, it was
like it was like a sport marketing type of class.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
So we were working on like promotions for said football game, right,
and how do we keep students around because the kind
of the.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
That's brilliant by the university. Why paying a marketing advertising
firm one point three million?
Speaker 3 (34:00):
The students do it and call it a credit the kids, man,
get the young minds out, brilliant, but talk this insta
of that right this.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Uh, And we kind of we were like, how do
you do it right?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
How do you how do you get kids to stay
versus going to Sally's Saloon and going to party and
or going to house parties in the whole bit. But
I think at the end of the day, it has
to come from PJ. Fleck and the culture that he creates,
and it has to be something where you're proud of
this football team, You're there for a reason, you want
to be there, and I think he's really created that.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
So I give a lot of respect to PJ.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
The road, the Bowl culture, and I think it's really
he's really built something special.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Now, you know, I asked him, and I knew he
wouldn't answer, but I wanted to play around with the
Bowl game.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Like do you have any idea like it?
Speaker 1 (34:41):
Have there been any stories or anything like the five
potential places they haven't been?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I know, I haven't seen anything they're going to go
on it yet. Yeah, I would love to love to know,
I think. And then that's something too where they've been
so successful and Gopher fans have traveled and and made
that some sort of a vacation of sorts, and but
they've he's been so successful and those games as well,
So I think no matter where he goes, those guys
will be bought in and hopefully it'll be somewhere nice
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and warm for him and Heather.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
But lastly, what time do you start your first job today?
I'm gonna run over there right after this, so really yeah,
ready to rock and roll?
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Man?
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Change clothes? Right, come on, I gotta I got a
nice little jacket. You got a coach? Yeah, I got
a co jacket I got in the car? Has on
clip on or real? I don't know. Come on, I'm
gonna clip on. I am. I'm a throw and throw
that thing up. Yeah, right a rock and roll.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Did Uncle Tim Sieglely provide you parking in the Moxie
parking lot? Yes, they're there. Now you're popping tags. Well,
I'm sure you'll be in the Metronics Club for the
Commander's game. So you're playing really fast right now, and
it's it's great to be opposite somebody playing fast, and
that would be you, And we're happy for you. We're
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proud of you, and we wish you the best of
luck with your first day at First Resource Bank.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Right. Thank you man, love you, ye, love you too,
and we'll see you soon.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
That's Parker Fox at Parker Box two four via X,
our final segment of this maniacal Monday is next man.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Lockut wait COCKU wait until the morro Here it is.
Speaker 1 (36:12):
The December season is on the line for a lot
of kids, specifically tot So. The core four of kfa
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Speaker 2 (36:30):
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Speaker 1 (36:32):
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every Tuesday. He'll be there at ten and we're going
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Speaker 2 (36:53):
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Speaker 1 (36:53):
Thank you very much for listening to this impromptu serendipitous
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Speaker 2 (37:02):
By good stuff, the game is over. Now, what what
did I do wrong? Okay?
Speaker 4 (37:14):
What a day would the host off script control z
not in play all the notes of the clip to
three hours of mostly shooting from the lips and taking
on a couple of verbal road trips like Ryan Kelly's
hip his team hurts, whole squad chucking their lunch down
the front of their shirts, shout out for the first
time in eighteen years, rubs left dropping tears, and their respective.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Beers selling my tickets if fire quasi.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
These arguments and critiques feeling true prima facie, same results
with a different kid.
Speaker 2 (37:42):
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down tomorrow at Shields. Fill the lots and I know
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