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Speaker 2 (01:26):
Auble thirteen fourteen Pass Common Man program. I'm common He's
Brett Blake Moore. Is it best of after this with
Big Ticket? Or is it Yes? It's best of? What
just ground around a lot to get back? I'm just kidding.
Poised polishing professionals. What we call Big ticket, unprepared, uninformed
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and unapologetic is what we call this show. One o'clock hour.
Let's started out with a little five, three four. Time
now for five questions, Well actually three, but five sounds
like more than four. Question number one, it's time now
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to consider the course.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
There are no rules. It's Christmas Eve. What course in
Palm Springs are you most looking forward to playing next week?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It's called the poems Freddy Couple's Golf Course. I heard
it's really really good. I mean, you know I've said
this before. I'm not really you know. Look, if you
said to me, hey, Common, we can play a par
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three golf course, or we can play a Gusta National
Golf Club, I'm taking Augusta. But I like all golf courses.
I'm not a golf course nob. I mean, I know
what the best ones are, and I'll play them if
you want to. You want to get me on, I'll go.
But I especially on vacation golf, I just want eighteen flags.
If the greens run true, it's all I need. But yeah,
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playing three or four rounds. Haven't decided yet. I mean
last year I played PGA West. PGA West has on
some coin. Well yeah, and I think it's got like
nine six seven courses, but I think it's got nine
or eleven, like five of them are private for public
and play the Pete Dye Duing Course. It was nice,
but it's a fortune. It's like really, I mean you
could basically would you pay there for one round? You
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could play three or four rounds at more most courses,
so it's like, I'm done. It was it was fun,
you know, let baby brother Peter and do see what
it's like. But I'm done doing that. I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So question number two.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Time now for an h depth look at the state
of the state of hockey.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Oh well, I do have bad news besides the state
of the state of hockey, because that whole time that
you were explaining the palms and palm springs, I was
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trying to find one specific thing and I can't find it.
So we might need a little help from the Roobs
to find it or tennis somewhere. But I was going
to ask you, so I'll just say it. Where are
you now that that overtime loss? Now two losses in
a row, one regulation, one overtime to one good team
and one ok team and the Predators. Where is common
(04:30):
on the bandwagon for your Minnesota?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I want to ask you a question, okay, understandable. Since
the since the trade for Dylan Hughes, mm hmm, what's
the Wild record?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I want to say they're four to one and one
something like that, five one and.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
One since the trade. What's Vancouver record?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I think like five and one?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, why did we make that trade? We're not Vancouver's better?
This huge scored a goal, he's won, right.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
He has scored once?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yes, one assist. I think, yeah, boys are he's supposed
to be really, really good. Let me ask you this
question too, Yeah, what was our What was the wild
record in the month of November before we got here.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
It was really good. I don't remember the number, but it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Was why did we make a trade? We were good
enough as why why would we give away? You know?
And those three of those guys that were playing for us,
they were instrumental. I would think they did their part
and helping us to be really good. I think we
made a big mistake. I think we're in trouble.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So you're are you jumping off the mile off? Yeah,
it's uh, it's concerning. But question number three.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It's now time to take an in depth look at
the state of the school.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
What's the Lions coming to town to take on the Vikings?
You know, Brosmer is in airline fracture. JJ McCarthy. Of course,
the Vikings are the NFL team in town. They were
Purple Common. What is the best case scenario for Vikings fans?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I think it's to have the team play really well,
play in an exciting game and lose the game. And
I think you want to finish last and get that
last play schedule, the fourth place schedule, and then you
also get a better draft pick. And I know everybody
else disagrees with that, and then they think I'm saying
I think the players should do that purposely. I'm not
asking them to tank. If they're not going to tank.
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The coaching staff's not. I get all of that. This
isn't a short week. It's a fast opportunity. That's the
coach that yesterday. I would just like to see a
really good football game that's entertaining and to lose if
you're Vikings fan, because I know that a couple of
spots in the draft, you know, like let's say, I
don't even know where they're to pick right now. This
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eithera was seventeen, well one's rather be at fourteen. I
just would because and the idea that, you know, and
the coach was saying this, and I just it's a
wet blanket Wednesday. Man, it's it's or let's call it
a swaddling clothes Wednesday. He's talking about building momentum, playing
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really well in December as a stepping stone for next season.
Now that's preposterous. Every player on this team will forget
about these games and once the name when is the
season's over, they'll forget about the season. Then they'll take
their time off and then it'll be oda's and mini
camps and training camp and what happened last year will
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have no What happens in December has no bearing. You
can try to tell me it does, and it doesn't.
I'm sorry. It just has no bearing going forward. That's
just coach speak. That's what coaches want to say. But
it is, it has no bearing none. Oh, it'ska particularly
because like, of the current fifty three man roster, just
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give me a guess, Brett Lake, we're annoying how the
team is played. Knowing the contract situations, et cetera. How
many of the fifty three guys are currently on the
roster will be on the team next year forty yeah,
maybe ish, maybe forty five ishot or maybe fifty maybe
fifty guys will come back. I think they'll be major changes.
So those guys aren't going to those guys aren't going
to be here. So it's like, so for me, it's
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it's play well, have an exciting game. Maybe bros Will
play really well and just you know, lose on a
long field goal at the end. Of the game and
you can say, God, was it that was fun? I
really enjoyed it. I mean, it's too bad my team loss.
But guess what, you know, it's nice. We're gonna get
a better draft pick out of the deal.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
For the record, if the season ended right now, the
Vikings will be drafting fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Teams ahead of them in the draft order Baltimore, Dallas,
Kansas City, the Rams, via Trade, Miami, Cincinnati. So these
are all teams that And by the way, these teams
are losing to Baltimore, Dallas Kansas City. Can't say has
lost four in a row.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
So they're getting higher draft picks. And the Vikings told
they've won three in a row and now they're falling
down the draft ward.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Someone just said, funny, you weren't saying this when the
linesman is really strong three years ago. What a fraud.
I'd never said that. I never would have said. Plus
you could also say, and let's see, I did well.
They were on a team on the rise. They were ascending.
The Vikings aren't ascending. Last I checked. Their descending. They're
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dropping like a stone in water. There.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
They've won three in a row.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So I'm just telling you. Yeah, And that's it for
today's edition of five questions, Well actually three questions, but
five sounds like more than four. Let's pause. I needed
to finish my lunch. I got several other Oh yeah,
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there's a couple of other things NFL related I want
to talk about, maybe get back to the wild, a
little bit of the Wolves, and so much more here
on the common Man program.
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Speaker 2 (10:50):
A couple of thirteen fourteen past Common Man Program I'm
com and he's like, more Wolves did win? I'm winning games.
They Hey, they beat a team that's pretty good too.
It didn't just didn't beat up on an all so
ran and then find a way to lose against winning
teams have been playing a better as of late. Uh,
Big Meal was back in tom Bodega, Cat had forty
and Tad thirty eight. Really though, the the the the
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a topic of that game is Rosen and Sauce both
court side at the game. Sauce is a bigger fraud
than Rosen. You know, he winds about Rose and always
sitting in court side and this and that and the
other thing, and funny he's right there with him, sit
in court side. But yeah, good for.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
The Wolves, Sorry for the people behind him.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, that's true. So congratulations to your your your Minnesota
Timberwolves for winning that that football game.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I saw an.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Interesting story at cbssports dot com and it's the headline is,
what if the NFL had a transfer portal? What if
the NFL had a transfer portal? Ranking ten players who
would benefit most in twenty twenty six. Who's the running
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back for the Dolphins?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Eight Chan?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Eight Chan says he's one of the NFL's most explosive
running backs, is league leading five point eight yards per carry.
He has a league leading five point eight yards per
carry seventy hundred and thirty six yards from scrimmage, six
most in the league among running backs since twenty twenty four,
while there's twenty four scrimmage tutties in the same span
are tied for seventh most at that position at twenty four.
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The Speeds. There has a few top shelf years left,
which is why he would be better suited on a
squad an undergoing a crisis at QB like the Dolphins,
he'd like to transfer and get out right.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I have a feeling there might be a wide receiver
that we are familiar with on this list.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
It's possible. Dexter Lawrence, defensive tackle for the Giants is
on the list. Jeffrey Simmons defensive tackle for the Titans,
Brock Bowers tight end for the Radiators, Max Crosby edge
Russia for the Radiators. And you know last year there
were rumors the Lions we're going to go after. Can
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you imagine Crosby on one side and Hutch on the other.
That'd be meat at the quarterback. Yeah, that's meat at
the quarterback, is what it is. Number five would be
b Jeon Robinson and that's absolutely pot The Falcons are
a terrible team in a terrible city with terrible fans.
Are a terrible city. Tell me there's not a team
in the league. I mean, you know, you know Detroit
Scott Gibbs. San Francisco's got McCaffrey, Philly's got what's his face,
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but he's not been like, not even close to last
year's productivity, right, And I know those other running backs.
I'm leaving now King Henry over at Baltimore, But boy
b Jeon Robinson based the league in the yards from
scrimmage with two two ty twenty six. He's produced at
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least fourteen hundred yards from scrimmage in each of his
first three season first three seasons, making him one of
just fourteen running backs to do so in National Football
League history, and number four in that list is your guy,
Jets justin Jefferson, it says. The twenty twenty NFL Offensive
Player of the Year award winner entered the enter twenty
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twenty five as the NFL's all time receiving yards per
game leader, with a career average of ninety six point five.
Then twenty twenty four tenth overall pick quarterback J. J.
McCarthy happened. Jefferson is on a streak of ten straight
games about one hundred receiving yards, the longest streak of
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his career. A sixty one point one receiving yards per
game figure this season is significantly worse than his rookie
number of eighty seven point five Jefferson's previous career low
was seven point five. H Pokinakua has now overtaken Jefferson
for the league's all time receiving yards per game record,
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with the Viking Superstar dropping her number two at ninety
point eight career average. Phoka nakup is at ninety six
point nine. Jefferson helped revive Sammy Donald's career in twenty
twenty four, but he's been unable to make it work
with McArthur, who ranks dead last in the NFL out
of thirty three qualified quarterbacks in completion percentage, touchdown, the
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interception ratio, and passer rating, which none of the numbers
are good fifty seven point three percent, eleven and eleven tuddies,
twelve ins in the passer raddom seventy one point two.
The multi time All Pro could certainly walk off the
door of you have the option to do so in
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twenty twenty six. That's what you know. But here's what's
being said, and you've probably read the pieces. It's it's
been talking about on the radio, it's been on all
the national shows, and it's been in all the fish
rap East West Athletic and the coach is going The
coach is going over the top. I think in his
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praise of what a great teammate is and everything Justine
and he is. I'm not saying he's not, but I
think it's because that is the fear, and it might
even be unfounded, at least at this time. It doesn't
appear everything Jefferson has said is he's not. He's not
diva like, at least not certainly. That can change. But
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right now he's not complaining. It's he wants to. He
says all the right things. He says, I just well,
if I look discouraged, it's it's it's because we're not
winning and he wants to help. You've seen it when
he's connected on Tuddy passes to other players or made
big plays. He's the first guy to do the old
clap and he's pumped up. But that could change as
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time goes min and I think the coach is just
making sure, Gosh, we love you so very much of
the great because you want to make sure that the receiver,
and I think he already knows it, but you want
to keep reminding him we love you so much here
and we need I mean, he's the franch he's the
face of the franchise right now, and uh, there is
always that danger that if the quarterback situation doesn't get
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better because players have finite careers. He's age wise, probably
about to entry. He's probably starting in his prime right now,
right And you know it, it sounds good to say
I'm all in, and I'll I don't mind helping the
kid along and growing with him and us getting back
to where we once were because I like the organization,
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the coach and the culture and all of those, all
those catchphrases that we use. But you know, if if
next year is a lot like this year, that's when
the guy probably starts going. You know, we've seen guys
wave Buxton was willing to Buxton signed deal. I love Minnesota.
Want to end my career here. I think most players
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in a perfect world would to end their career with
the franchise they started with. But I think that that
is incumbent on the team also making postseason play, making
runs and hopefully even you know, winning a world championship,
but at least getting there every year makes it more fun.
If you're playing with a terrible team in a terrible city,
with the terrible fans, he gets old in a real hurry,
so we'll see how that goes. Let's let's pause, come back,
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and I've got more controversy of Vikings news on the
side of the break here on the common Man program
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Speaker 2 (18:45):
A couple thirteen fourteen pass common here along with Brett
Blake Moore. Travel should be good for Santa and his reindeer.
We don't have any calcuttas that I see in the offing.
Matter of fact, whether relatively mild for Christmas? Are you all?
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I'm dreaming of a white Christmas kind of a person.
I mean, can it be brown outside and you're still
okay with it? I know people that just hate that,
that just kills them if it's not. I want a
white Christmas, and that's okay because I don't mind a
white Christmas either, but I don't mind if it's.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It doesn't ruin my day. Yeah, right, But I would
prefer or white Christmas. But it's not like if we
If it keeps melting like it has been the last
couple days, I'm going to be devastated.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
What would you What would make Christmas better for you?
A white Christmas here in Minneapolis or being on the
first tea at the Palms with Common and baby brother
Peter where there's no snow.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
The only question is where we hit it?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, but that's yeah? What else was I gonna do?
There was one other thing I wanted to say before
I moved on to Uh, oh, I know it is.
It's another text message. This one says working at FedEx
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Ground today, while listening to the Christmas Eve version of
the Ground, I was expecting to hear at least one
Christmas Dylan duet. Not angry, just disappointed. Can you find
an instrumental that we can play? Tennebe was playing him
this week? Can you find an instrumental?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I'm not sure where he was. Oh, maybe this is
this a Christmas Let me see that doesn't seem like
a particular song.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah it's yeah, it's Christmas y. Yeah. I guess you
can make up words. Then I guess I could go
ahead trying him. I would prefer that Christmas is, but
if you can have a foursome me in Palm Springs instead,
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I'd rather do that. Where'd you hit it on one?
Not far from the green where you the UFI I
could just will have been a pitchfork habby Holidays. Merry
Christmas to all and to.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
All a good night, as ansay came to say, Rudolph,
with your nose so bright, won't.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
You guy my slay? Two nights? There you go.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
You give the people what they want.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Here's one of those football stories that I just rolled
my eyes from my shoulders and shake my head, and
I do like the result because I'm I don't in
this town. I don't think you'll find a lot of
Sean Payton fans. Sean Paynton, former coach of the New
Orleans Saints, current coach of the Denver Broncos. I think
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the I'm dislike and in some cases of Sean Payton
goes back to the two thousand and nine NFC Championship Game,
in which they soon to be Big Game World champion Minnesotoak.
He's led by your namesake, Brett Favre. We're beaten in
overtime by the by the Saints in the NFC Championship.
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And that was the bounty gate game where Sean Payton
was suspended for an entire season, folks. And that did
the defensive coordinator. I just burped down the air. Sorry
about that, sure, I quitch? Than did the defensive coordinator
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get banned for life or did he just get suspended too?
I don't remember who he was, but it was a
bounty gate, right, hey, beat this guy up, knock him
out of the game. He got five hundred bucks for it.
And then, if you'll remember when the Minneapois miracle, I
was there late in the game when it looked like
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it was over. I mean, you know, half a minute ago,
there was Peyton Sartin looked at the crowd and started
mocking this cold chant and then Keenum to digs In.
The Minneapolis Miracle was on. He's back in the news
for inspiring another team, apparently. Headline from the Associated Press
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story by Arnie Melandrez Stapleton, and the headline says how
the Jagar Jaguars used a small market comment as a
catalyst to end the Broncos eleven game win streak. Dateline Denver,
one man's flowers are apparently apparently another man's sours. Get
its Jaguars coach Liam Cohen said, great team effort. Just
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thankful that a small market team like us can come
into a place like Mile High and get it done.
Cohen used an innocuous comment or attempted compliment from Broncos
coach Sean Payton earlier in the week as a rallying
cry for his upstart team, which has won six straight games,
vaulting into the mix of the APC's top playoff seed
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with eleven to four record, a game behind both the
Bronx and the Pants. Several of his players repeated some
form of what they considered Denver's disc In the aftermath
of Jacksonville's signature win, Peyton insisted he meant no disrespect
last Wednesday when he mentioned the Jaguars hailing from a
small market. Asked last Wednesday about the challenge of facing Jacksonville,
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Peyton praised ConA and his staff, as well as the
Jaguars offense, defense, and special teams in trying to make
a point that they had closed in on a playoff
field in seemingly weren't getting their proper respect nationally. He
ended his windy list of obstacles the Broncos were facing
and the Jaguars with this summation. As you look at
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them and you watch the tape, it's a smaller market,
but you see a really good team. So apparently that
was the billboard material that Cohen was searching for. Cohen's
fitting right in as a head coach, using anything he
can grasp, any anything that could even be remotely interpreted
as a diss to use it on the billboard. And
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it's like, and you know, I'm no paying I'm no
Sean Payton fans, so I don't you know, But again,
I I guess I'm not. I still I enjoy watching
the Broncos play football. I like the Knicks kids fun
to watch. I won't if Denver wins a big game,
I won't be shut hate shock. So I just can't.
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I can't go there. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
And I and maybe Detroit, man.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
This is the super Bowl, and maybe that's sacrilegious. Maybe
I shouldn't be that way, Maybe I should just have
this hatred for him. But and then, do you believe
what Sean Payton said or not? Or do you think
he was trying to rip the club. If he was,
I mean, if he was going out of his way
to talk about what a wonderful team they are. The
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coaching staff's great, the team is great, office team, a
special teams's pretty good for a small market club. It
doesn't sound like he said it that way. Maybe he
meant it that way. I don't know. I wasn't there,
and I didn't see the video or hear the audio.
I don't know how it was delivered. I think he
actually has a point, because I plead guilty, I have
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not been paying it. Not only have I not been
paying his close attention to the Jackson Jacksonville Jaguars as
I once did. I've never paid attention to the Jacksonville
have you. I've never I couldn't care less about him.
Terrible team, terrible city, terrible fans, terrible stadium. One of
four teams never gone to a big game Cleveland, Detroit,
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jack Jacksonville, and I think the current Houston club now
that franchise. I think they were the Oilers. No, no,
the Texans were the Texans. There's four franchises that have
never been to a big game. There have been a
number of them that have gone and not one, san
Diego being one of those, san Diego being one of those,
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Minnesota Vikings being one of those, and several others. Cardinals
have never won the whole thing, but they've been to
a big game? Is it? Four teams have not?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
You nailed at Brown's Lions, Texans, Jaguars.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
So I you know, I and I harbornowheel will toward
the Jaguars matter fad. It's a nice story that I
could get on the bed, but I literally and I'm
not just making this up because of the story. As
I go through, you know, on Sunday, Sunday night and
early Monday, I kind of go through the game. So
is there anything interesting to talk about? People think I
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should say this because it kind of it kind of
peels the curtain a little bit. Yeah, and then people
go say, it isn't so common. I thought you didn't
prepare at all. I mean, I briefly look all the hate.
It's a hell of a game. That must have been fun.
What happened there?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Right?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
And then he got a couple of quotes from the game.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
So, I mean, I haven't watched the Jags game since.
Like Blake Bortles, it is the quarterback. Yeah, it's been
a long time.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
His father, you know, or maybe it was his grandfather.
He was part of the Bartles and James fortune. That
was that a wasn't that some kind of a wine cooler?
Bortles and James? Could you google Bortles and James. I
think it was his great grandfather, or maybe it was
just not great grandfather. His grandfather started the company Bortles
and James. Do you see Bortles and James ere Yes?
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What does it say?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Uh, it's spelled differently, so I don't think it's him.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
You're not supposed to see yes to go along with
the okay Mark Rosen.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Popular brand of flavored wine coolers. Yeah, nineteen eighties advertising
feature two older gentlemen in overalls and.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
If you watch Blake Portals play, you think he'd been
drinking some of that wine all over the place. Not
real accurate. But the gist of this one, at the
point I'm getting to is do you really have to
use that as motivation for your team? I know I
talk about this all the time, you know, because you'll
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teams will use any Do you really need that to
be motivated? I'm trying to think there was another there
have been. It seems like once a week there's some
well head coach of the Wolves had to do it.
The only way we're going to beat the thunder is
I got to get tossed from the game. So he
ranted and he raided, and he's like then they had
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to hold him back. You've heard a couple of times. Yeah,
he's let me add him, let me add him. I
did the same thing with every time this story. Oh,
this is a really good story. Hayde Ashbury days, scott
Land is fighting Mike Weaver at the Metropolitan Sports Center. Yeah,
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because I think the Marty Monroe fight was at Google
Mike Weaver versus Scotland. Do maybe it was at the
Saint Paul Auditorium. Regardless it was, it was one of
the Ladoue fights at the Metropolitan Sports Center because after
the fight we went over the old Thunderbird. Are you
familiar with the Thunderbird? Not Thunderber was out on the
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on the four ninety four strip in Bloomington. This is
when Metropolitan Stadium still existed. And when went to the
Metroma when eighty four wasn't it? Yeah, I think I think, oh,
I know the met Center was still there because we
went to the fight.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
The met Center.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yeah it was it was Due Weaver.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
November nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Okay, so were you born then? No? No? Okay, So
we're there a couple thirteen fourteen when after the fight
we're disappointed. Scott loses the fight, right, and I don't, don't,
don't this is this is actually embarrassing. I don't know
why I would do something like this Scott. At the time,
I didn't even know Scott personally, he didn't know me.
We became fast friends later on the Late Scott Land.
(31:24):
He lost the fight. Walking through the bar with the
Thunderbird and somebody calls. He goes, I'll adduce nothing but
a bomb anyways, And I was won, Michael, you just
called to do a bomb? Did you just? I mean
this guy, I didn't say I said ill do a bomb.
I mean, Scott gave it everything in. I was kind
of annoyed by it. He goes, yeah, I did, so
what of it? Well, then I'm not making this up?
(31:49):
So I got my drink. Mean, he goes, what are
you gonna do about it? Buddy boy? So at that
point I don't know what I've got to do. Something, right,
I've got it. You've been challenged. Challenge. So I a
mixed drink, which I don't do.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Much, right, You've had a bortles, and I've got bortles in.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
James, and I've decided, well, I'm gonna I'm gonna throw
the bortles in James on ice him. So I go
like that, but the ice is all just all frozen together,
and then it just drops between us feet. We both
looked down right at the ice. We both look at
each other, and then he rears back to throw a
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punch at me, and he grazes me. Because I've still
got a little you know, so I moved back. Immediately
his buddies and my buddies jump in and pull us
both back. Now, this guy would have killed me, right,
I mean, I'm fast and I'm wired. But my schoolboy
fight record, you know, from elementary school through graduation, until
(32:48):
I got to quit school, I was like two eight
and three, like two wins, eight losses, three draws, right,
So I wasn't. But at that point, right, and you
know that your buddies are holding you, and his buddies
are holding and then you get even to me more tough,
let me at him.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
I'll tear the limb from limb, right because you know, now,
had they said okay, go get him tiger and then
his his buddies.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
I might not be here today because he was big.
That was the biggest mistake. Hey, why would I care
if a guy says somebody I was mad Scott have lated.
Guys are in a trading room. Guys are laying on
a line.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Not twelve rounds with him.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Yeah, come on, lopsided decision loss some hercules. We were
ended up winting the heavyweight championship the world knock out
Big John Tait Knoxville, Tennessee with one punch in the
fifteenth and final round.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
But that was before your pillow throat day. Oh yeah, yeah,
so that was before we learned well.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
And I was under the influence nothing. You can use
this anytime there's an old saying I just made up,
and you can use this. Nothing good has ever come
from getting drunk. Nothing. Yeah, okay, you ran into a
gallon of barling. I'm okay, great, I'm talking about you know,
really good things.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
So Finchy's the same way, because you think had he
gotten away, he would have actually physically accosted the referees.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Of course he would not, but hold me back.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
They got to hold him back because he's gonna go
after those guys.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Man, So that'll happen. It's happened to me before. But
so you said thing about so Cohen. It's not enough
that you're playing a game on the road. You've got
a really good team, You're facing plenty on the line,
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you know, playoff spot. Maybe do they have a chance.
They don't. I don't think they get home field advantage
throughout the playoffs. But nevertheless they're they're at least get
a home game. You get a home game. You got
time zones, you have altitude change, you have have body
(35:18):
clocks or kadium rhythms. You have all of those things
going against you, and you're gonna lean on. They called
this a small market. He said, we're a little tiny town.
It basically said, we're Green Bay, little tiny town, little hamlet.
They basically said. Sean Payton basically said, we're a one
(35:40):
horse town. We've got one stop light that blinks on
and off. It's not even a real one that goes red,
yellow and green, and that has the you know, the
yellow arrow that says that you can take a left turn.
If there's no traffic on it, they roll the street up.
When the sun goes down, they just roll it up
and put it behind city Hall. All right, there's fighting wars.
(36:06):
If that's the way you're gonna see.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
If that's why he's gonna talk about Jacksonville, well guess what.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Let's go in this football.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
And they all ran out after it. I guess I
wish Ben Johnson would have said that green Bay is
a small market. Tell me he would have shined out
a little bit more this this.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Little great green Bay team, a little tiny team, ninety thousand people.
They don't have a building over two stories tall.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
I hope Kevin O'Connell says it next week.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Geez, I mean, bellieve, you know all honesty. It's like
you really needed that. I guess it worked. I guess
that's where their credit's gonna go. But like I said
about the Finch thing, you can only use that one time.
If let's say, who do they playing next? Can you look?
Speaker 1 (36:59):
I can't you got pick your spots with that. They
play the Nuggets tomorrow in Denver.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
They played Denver again. They just played Denver.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Oh you're talking, you're talking, Dug a jaguarre.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
We're still talking to Finch was just an example of
another follow on. I should have given you a print out,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
I missed the prep sheets. They get the cults.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah, so who's the head coach of the cult Stiking? No,
it's the new guy, the guy that used to play
court of a Kafka Franz Kafka, who was also a
was an novelist who didn't have who didn't have time
for a wife. And he's living with Davy, who's still
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in the Navy and probably will be for life.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
So is is is Stike?
Speaker 2 (37:54):
No Cofka. That's a really good team over there. And
if I'd do it, if I were, I'd go, that's
a really good team over there. They often Stevens Special
Teams is really good. They've been coaching them really well
and and and you know what I mean. And they're
in a small market. It's two smaller markets that we
complain about it all the time. Right, there's an East
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coast bias and there is a West coast bias. And
I know Jacksonville's on the West coast. Jacksonville, California, surf
city they call it, and I get that. So it
is it is a coastal team, but it's not when
we're talking East and West coast bias. We're talking about
Los Angeles and we're talking about New York and I
guess Boston too, right. You know, the big markets, they're
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the ones that get all of the attention, and because
why those markets have bigger populations. Bigger populations. It stll
works in the real world valet parking. The bigger the market,
the more media attention. The more media attention, the more
ad and the more eyes, The more dollars you can
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spend for advertising, the more advertising dollars that are spent,
and then people reap those profits and more people to
buy that products that are advertised. That's why they get
That's why we're flyover country because we're not quite as
big sam with Jacksonville. It's like, if you need that
to get yourself fired up, Jacksonville has no chance to
go anywhere in the posts. If that's what it took
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for them to get fired for as important a game
as well, to have to add that fuel to the fire.
The only thing that Trump's all of that is if
they if a guy looks at me and he says,
your grandma wears army boots. Now that them's dollars fighting words,
those are well, take a break. We got one more
(39:46):
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Speaker 2 (01:26):
Auble thirteen fourteen Pass Common Man program. I'm common He's
Brett Blake Moore. Is it best of after this with
Big Ticket? Or is it Yes? It's best of? What
just ground around a lot to get back? I'm just kidding.
Poised polishing professionals. What we call Big ticket, unprepared, uninformed
(01:47):
and unapologetic is what we call this show. One o'clock hour.
Let's started out with a little five, three four. Time
now for five questions, Well actually three, but five sounds
like more than four. Question number one, it's time now
(02:08):
to consider the course.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
There are no rules. It's Christmas Eve. What course in
Palm Springs are you most looking forward to playing next week?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It's called the poems Freddy Couple's Golf Course. I heard
it's really really good. I mean, you know I've said
this before. I'm not really you know. Look, if you
said to me, hey, Common, we can play a par
(02:48):
three golf course, or we can play a Gusta National
Golf Club, I'm taking Augusta. But I like all golf courses.
I'm not a golf course nob. I mean, I know
what the best ones are, and I'll play them if
you want to. You want to get me on, I'll go.
But I especially on vacation golf, I just want eighteen flags.
If the greens run true, it's all I need. But yeah,
(03:08):
playing three or four rounds. Haven't decided yet. I mean
last year I played PGA West. PGA West has on
some coin. Well yeah, and I think it's got like
nine six seven courses, but I think it's got nine
or eleven, like five of them are private for public
and play the Pete Dye Duing Course. It was nice,
but it's a fortune. It's like really, I mean you
could basically would you pay there for one round? You
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could play three or four rounds at more most courses,
so it's like, I'm done. It was it was fun,
you know, let baby brother Peter and do see what
it's like. But I'm done doing that. I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
So question number two.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Time now for an h depth look at the state
of the state of hockey.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Oh well, I do have bad news besides the state
of the state of hockey, because that whole time that
you were explaining the palms and palm springs, I was
(04:09):
trying to find one specific thing and I can't find it.
So we might need a little help from the Roobs
to find it or tennis somewhere. But I was going
to ask you, so I'll just say it. Where are
you now that that overtime loss? Now two losses in
a row, one regulation, one overtime to one good team
and one ok team and the Predators. Where is common
(04:30):
on the bandwagon for your Minnesota?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
I want to ask you a question, okay, understandable. Since
the since the trade for Dylan Hughes, mm hmm, what's
the Wild record?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I want to say they're four to one and one
something like that, five one and.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
One since the trade. What's Vancouver record?
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I think like five and one?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Yeah, why did we make that trade? We're not Vancouver's better?
This huge scored a goal, he's won, right.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
He has scored once?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yes, one assist. I think, yeah, boys are he's supposed
to be really, really good. Let me ask you this
question too, Yeah, what was our What was the wild
record in the month of November before we got here.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
It was really good. I don't remember the number, but it.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Was why did we make a trade? We were good
enough as why why would we give away? You know?
And those three of those guys that were playing for us,
they were instrumental. I would think they did their part
and helping us to be really good. I think we
made a big mistake. I think we're in trouble.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So you're are you jumping off the mile off? Yeah,
it's uh, it's concerning. But question number three.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
It's now time to take an in depth look at
the state of the school.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
What's the Lions coming to town to take on the Vikings?
You know, Brosmer is in airline fracture. JJ McCarthy. Of course,
the Vikings are the NFL team in town. They were
Purple Common. What is the best case scenario for Vikings fans?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I think it's to have the team play really well,
play in an exciting game and lose the game. And
I think you want to finish last and get that
last play schedule, the fourth place schedule, and then you
also get a better draft pick. And I know everybody
else disagrees with that, and then they think I'm saying
I think the players should do that purposely. I'm not
asking them to tank. If they're not going to tank.
(06:40):
The coaching staff's not. I get all of that. This
isn't a short week. It's a fast opportunity. That's the
coach that yesterday. I would just like to see a
really good football game that's entertaining and to lose if
you're Vikings fan, because I know that a couple of
spots in the draft, you know, like let's say, I
don't even know where they're to pick right now. This
(07:00):
eithera was seventeen, well one's rather be at fourteen. I
just would because and the idea that, you know, and
the coach was saying this, and I just it's a
wet blanket Wednesday. Man, it's it's or let's call it
a swaddling clothes Wednesday. He's talking about building momentum, playing
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really well in December as a stepping stone for next season.
Now that's preposterous. Every player on this team will forget
about these games and once the name when is the
season's over, they'll forget about the season. Then they'll take
their time off and then it'll be oda's and mini
camps and training camp and what happened last year will
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have no What happens in December has no bearing. You
can try to tell me it does, and it doesn't.
I'm sorry. It just has no bearing going forward. That's
just coach speak. That's what coaches want to say. But
it is, it has no bearing none. Oh, it'ska particularly
because like, of the current fifty three man roster, just
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give me a guess, Brett Lake, we're annoying how the
team is played. Knowing the contract situations, et cetera. How
many of the fifty three guys are currently on the
roster will be on the team next year forty yeah,
maybe ish, maybe forty five ishot or maybe fifty maybe
fifty guys will come back. I think they'll be major changes.
So those guys aren't going to those guys aren't going
to be here. So it's like, so for me, it's
(08:31):
it's play well, have an exciting game. Maybe bros Will
play really well and just you know, lose on a
long field goal at the end. Of the game and
you can say, God, was it that was fun? I
really enjoyed it. I mean, it's too bad my team loss.
But guess what, you know, it's nice. We're gonna get
a better draft pick out of the deal.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
For the record, if the season ended right now, the
Vikings will be drafting fifteenth.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Teams ahead of them in the draft order Baltimore, Dallas,
Kansas City, the Rams, via Trade, Miami, Cincinnati. So these
are all teams that And by the way, these teams
are losing to Baltimore, Dallas Kansas City. Can't say has
lost four in a row.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Let's go.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
So they're getting higher draft picks. And the Vikings told
they've won three in a row and now they're falling
down the draft ward.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Someone just said, funny, you weren't saying this when the
linesman is really strong three years ago. What a fraud.
I'd never said that. I never would have said. Plus
you could also say, and let's see, I did well.
They were on a team on the rise. They were ascending.
The Vikings aren't ascending. Last I checked. Their descending. They're
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dropping like a stone in water. There.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
They've won three in a row.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
So I'm just telling you. Yeah, And that's it for
today's edition of five questions, Well actually three questions, but
five sounds like more than four. Let's pause. I needed
to finish my lunch. I got several other Oh yeah,
(10:07):
there's a couple of other things NFL related I want
to talk about, maybe get back to the wild, a
little bit of the Wolves, and so much more here
on the common Man program.
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Speaker 2 (10:50):
A couple of thirteen fourteen past Common Man Program I'm
com and he's like, more Wolves did win? I'm winning games.
They Hey, they beat a team that's pretty good too.
It didn't just didn't beat up on an all so
ran and then find a way to lose against winning
teams have been playing a better as of late. Uh,
Big Meal was back in tom Bodega, Cat had forty
and Tad thirty eight. Really though, the the the the
(11:15):
a topic of that game is Rosen and Sauce both
court side at the game. Sauce is a bigger fraud
than Rosen. You know, he winds about Rose and always
sitting in court side and this and that and the
other thing, and funny he's right there with him, sit
in court side. But yeah, good for.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
The Wolves, Sorry for the people behind him.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, that's true. So congratulations to your your your Minnesota
Timberwolves for winning that that football game.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I saw an.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Interesting story at cbssports dot com and it's the headline is,
what if the NFL had a transfer portal? What if
the NFL had a transfer portal? Ranking ten players who
would benefit most in twenty twenty six. Who's the running
(12:09):
back for the Dolphins?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Eight Chan?
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Eight Chan says he's one of the NFL's most explosive
running backs, is league leading five point eight yards per carry.
He has a league leading five point eight yards per
carry seventy hundred and thirty six yards from scrimmage, six
most in the league among running backs since twenty twenty four,
while there's twenty four scrimmage tutties in the same span
are tied for seventh most at that position at twenty four.
(12:35):
The Speeds. There has a few top shelf years left,
which is why he would be better suited on a
squad an undergoing a crisis at QB like the Dolphins,
he'd like to transfer and get out right.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I have a feeling there might be a wide receiver
that we are familiar with on this list.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
It's possible. Dexter Lawrence, defensive tackle for the Giants is
on the list. Jeffrey Simmons defensive tackle for the Titans,
Brock Bowers tight end for the Radiators, Max Crosby edge
Russia for the Radiators. And you know last year there
were rumors the Lions we're going to go after. Can
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you imagine Crosby on one side and Hutch on the other.
That'd be meat at the quarterback. Yeah, that's meat at
the quarterback, is what it is. Number five would be
b Jeon Robinson and that's absolutely pot The Falcons are
a terrible team in a terrible city with terrible fans.
Are a terrible city. Tell me there's not a team
in the league. I mean, you know, you know Detroit
Scott Gibbs. San Francisco's got McCaffrey, Philly's got what's his face,
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but he's not been like, not even close to last
year's productivity, right, And I know those other running backs.
I'm leaving now King Henry over at Baltimore, But boy
b Jeon Robinson based the league in the yards from
scrimmage with two two ty twenty six. He's produced at
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least fourteen hundred yards from scrimmage in each of his
first three season first three seasons, making him one of
just fourteen running backs to do so in National Football
League history, and number four in that list is your guy,
Jets justin Jefferson, it says. The twenty twenty NFL Offensive
Player of the Year award winner entered the enter twenty
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twenty five as the NFL's all time receiving yards per
game leader, with a career average of ninety six point five.
Then twenty twenty four tenth overall pick quarterback J. J.
McCarthy happened. Jefferson is on a streak of ten straight
games about one hundred receiving yards, the longest streak of
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his career. A sixty one point one receiving yards per
game figure this season is significantly worse than his rookie
number of eighty seven point five Jefferson's previous career low
was seven point five. H Pokinakua has now overtaken Jefferson
for the league's all time receiving yards per game record,
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with the Viking Superstar dropping her number two at ninety
point eight career average. Phoka nakup is at ninety six
point nine. Jefferson helped revive Sammy Donald's career in twenty
twenty four, but he's been unable to make it work
with McArthur, who ranks dead last in the NFL out
of thirty three qualified quarterbacks in completion percentage, touchdown, the
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interception ratio, and passer rating, which none of the numbers
are good fifty seven point three percent, eleven and eleven tuddies,
twelve ins in the passer raddom seventy one point two.
The multi time All Pro could certainly walk off the
door of you have the option to do so in
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twenty twenty six. That's what you know. But here's what's
being said, and you've probably read the pieces. It's it's
been talking about on the radio, it's been on all
the national shows, and it's been in all the fish
rap East West Athletic and the coach is going The
coach is going over the top. I think in his
(16:13):
praise of what a great teammate is and everything Justine
and he is. I'm not saying he's not, but I
think it's because that is the fear, and it might
even be unfounded, at least at this time. It doesn't
appear everything Jefferson has said is he's not. He's not
diva like, at least not certainly. That can change. But
(16:33):
right now he's not complaining. It's he wants to. He
says all the right things. He says, I just well,
if I look discouraged, it's it's it's because we're not
winning and he wants to help. You've seen it when
he's connected on Tuddy passes to other players or made
big plays. He's the first guy to do the old
clap and he's pumped up. But that could change as
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time goes min and I think the coach is just
making sure, Gosh, we love you so very much of
the great because you want to make sure that the receiver,
and I think he already knows it, but you want
to keep reminding him we love you so much here
and we need I mean, he's the franch he's the
face of the franchise right now, and uh, there is
always that danger that if the quarterback situation doesn't get
(17:16):
better because players have finite careers. He's age wise, probably
about to entry. He's probably starting in his prime right now,
right And you know it, it sounds good to say
I'm all in, and I'll I don't mind helping the
kid along and growing with him and us getting back
to where we once were because I like the organization,
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the coach and the culture and all of those, all
those catchphrases that we use. But you know, if if
next year is a lot like this year, that's when
the guy probably starts going. You know, we've seen guys
wave Buxton was willing to Buxton signed deal. I love Minnesota.
Want to end my career here. I think most players
(17:59):
in a perfect world would to end their career with
the franchise they started with. But I think that that
is incumbent on the team also making postseason play, making
runs and hopefully even you know, winning a world championship,
but at least getting there every year makes it more fun.
If you're playing with a terrible team in a terrible city,
with the terrible fans, he gets old in a real hurry,
so we'll see how that goes. Let's let's pause, come back,
(18:21):
and I've got more controversy of Vikings news on the
side of the break here on the common Man program
on the Fan, Hey.
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Speaker 2 (18:45):
A couple thirteen fourteen pass common here along with Brett
Blake Moore. Travel should be good for Santa and his reindeer.
We don't have any calcuttas that I see in the offing.
Matter of fact, whether relatively mild for Christmas? Are you all?
(19:08):
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas kind of a person.
I mean, can it be brown outside and you're still
okay with it? I know people that just hate that,
that just kills them if it's not. I want a
white Christmas, and that's okay because I don't mind a
white Christmas either, but I don't mind if it's.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
It doesn't ruin my day. Yeah, right, But I would
prefer or white Christmas. But it's not like if we
If it keeps melting like it has been the last
couple days, I'm going to be devastated.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
What would you What would make Christmas better for you?
A white Christmas here in Minneapolis or being on the
first tea at the Palms with Common and baby brother
Peter where there's no snow.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
The only question is where we hit it?
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, but that's yeah? What else was I gonna do?
There was one other thing I wanted to say before
I moved on to Uh, oh, I know it is.
It's another text message. This one says working at FedEx
(20:05):
Ground today, while listening to the Christmas Eve version of
the Ground, I was expecting to hear at least one
Christmas Dylan duet. Not angry, just disappointed. Can you find
an instrumental that we can play? Tennebe was playing him
this week? Can you find an instrumental?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
I'm not sure where he was. Oh, maybe this is
this a Christmas Let me see that doesn't seem like
a particular song.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah it's yeah, it's Christmas y. Yeah. I guess you
can make up words. Then I guess I could go
ahead trying him. I would prefer that Christmas is, but
if you can have a foursome me in Palm Springs instead,
(21:05):
I'd rather do that. Where'd you hit it on one?
Not far from the green where you the UFI I
could just will have been a pitchfork habby Holidays. Merry
Christmas to all and to.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
All a good night, as ansay came to say, Rudolph,
with your nose so bright, won't.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
You guy my slay? Two nights? There you go.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
You give the people what they want.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Here's one of those football stories that I just rolled
my eyes from my shoulders and shake my head, and
I do like the result because I'm I don't in
this town. I don't think you'll find a lot of
Sean Payton fans. Sean Paynton, former coach of the New
Orleans Saints, current coach of the Denver Broncos. I think
(21:55):
the I'm dislike and in some cases of Sean Payton
goes back to the two thousand and nine NFC Championship Game,
in which they soon to be Big Game World champion Minnesotoak.
He's led by your namesake, Brett Favre. We're beaten in
overtime by the by the Saints in the NFC Championship.
(22:17):
And that was the bounty gate game where Sean Payton
was suspended for an entire season, folks. And that did
the defensive coordinator. I just burped down the air. Sorry
about that, sure, I quitch? Than did the defensive coordinator
(22:44):
get banned for life or did he just get suspended too?
I don't remember who he was, but it was a
bounty gate, right, hey, beat this guy up, knock him
out of the game. He got five hundred bucks for it.
And then, if you'll remember when the Minneapois miracle, I
was there late in the game when it looked like
(23:07):
it was over. I mean, you know, half a minute ago,
there was Peyton Sartin looked at the crowd and started
mocking this cold chant and then Keenum to digs In.
The Minneapolis Miracle was on. He's back in the news
for inspiring another team, apparently. Headline from the Associated Press
(23:33):
story by Arnie Melandrez Stapleton, and the headline says how
the Jagar Jaguars used a small market comment as a
catalyst to end the Broncos eleven game win streak. Dateline Denver,
one man's flowers are apparently apparently another man's sours. Get
its Jaguars coach Liam Cohen said, great team effort. Just
(24:00):
thankful that a small market team like us can come
into a place like Mile High and get it done.
Cohen used an innocuous comment or attempted compliment from Broncos
coach Sean Payton earlier in the week as a rallying
cry for his upstart team, which has won six straight games,
vaulting into the mix of the APC's top playoff seed
(24:22):
with eleven to four record, a game behind both the
Bronx and the Pants. Several of his players repeated some
form of what they considered Denver's disc In the aftermath
of Jacksonville's signature win, Peyton insisted he meant no disrespect
last Wednesday when he mentioned the Jaguars hailing from a
small market. Asked last Wednesday about the challenge of facing Jacksonville,
(24:45):
Peyton praised ConA and his staff, as well as the
Jaguars offense, defense, and special teams in trying to make
a point that they had closed in on a playoff
field in seemingly weren't getting their proper respect nationally. He
ended his windy list of obstacles the Broncos were facing
and the Jaguars with this summation. As you look at
(25:05):
them and you watch the tape, it's a smaller market,
but you see a really good team. So apparently that
was the billboard material that Cohen was searching for. Cohen's
fitting right in as a head coach, using anything he
can grasp, any anything that could even be remotely interpreted
as a diss to use it on the billboard. And
(25:28):
it's like, and you know, I'm no paying I'm no
Sean Payton fans, so I don't you know, But again,
I I guess I'm not. I still I enjoy watching
the Broncos play football. I like the Knicks kids fun
to watch. I won't if Denver wins a big game,
I won't be shut hate shock. So I just can't.
(25:50):
I can't go there. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
And I and maybe Detroit, man.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
This is the super Bowl, and maybe that's sacrilegious. Maybe
I shouldn't be that way, Maybe I should just have
this hatred for him. But and then, do you believe
what Sean Payton said or not? Or do you think
he was trying to rip the club. If he was,
I mean, if he was going out of his way
to talk about what a wonderful team they are. The
(26:14):
coaching staff's great, the team is great, office team, a
special teams's pretty good for a small market club. It
doesn't sound like he said it that way. Maybe he
meant it that way. I don't know. I wasn't there,
and I didn't see the video or hear the audio.
I don't know how it was delivered. I think he
actually has a point, because I plead guilty, I have
(26:35):
not been paying it. Not only have I not been
paying his close attention to the Jackson Jacksonville Jaguars as
I once did. I've never paid attention to the Jacksonville
have you. I've never I couldn't care less about him.
Terrible team, terrible city, terrible fans, terrible stadium. One of
four teams never gone to a big game Cleveland, Detroit,
(26:59):
jack Jacksonville, and I think the current Houston club now
that franchise. I think they were the Oilers. No, no,
the Texans were the Texans. There's four franchises that have
never been to a big game. There have been a
number of them that have gone and not one, san
Diego being one of those, san Diego being one of those,
(27:21):
Minnesota Vikings being one of those, and several others. Cardinals
have never won the whole thing, but they've been to
a big game? Is it? Four teams have not?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
You nailed at Brown's Lions, Texans, Jaguars.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
So I you know, I and I harbornowheel will toward
the Jaguars matter fad. It's a nice story that I
could get on the bed, but I literally and I'm
not just making this up because of the story. As
I go through, you know, on Sunday, Sunday night and
early Monday, I kind of go through the game. So
is there anything interesting to talk about? People think I
(27:59):
should say this because it kind of it kind of
peels the curtain a little bit. Yeah, and then people
go say, it isn't so common. I thought you didn't
prepare at all. I mean, I briefly look all the hate.
It's a hell of a game. That must have been fun.
What happened there?
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Right?
Speaker 2 (28:14):
And then he got a couple of quotes from the game.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
So, I mean, I haven't watched the Jags game since.
Like Blake Bortles, it is the quarterback. Yeah, it's been
a long time.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
His father, you know, or maybe it was his grandfather.
He was part of the Bartles and James fortune. That
was that a wasn't that some kind of a wine cooler?
Bortles and James? Could you google Bortles and James. I
think it was his great grandfather, or maybe it was
just not great grandfather. His grandfather started the company Bortles
and James. Do you see Bortles and James ere Yes?
(28:48):
What does it say?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Uh, it's spelled differently, so I don't think it's him.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
You're not supposed to see yes to go along with
the okay Mark Rosen.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Popular brand of flavored wine coolers. Yeah, nineteen eighties advertising
feature two older gentlemen in overalls and.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
If you watch Blake Portals play, you think he'd been
drinking some of that wine all over the place. Not
real accurate. But the gist of this one, at the
point I'm getting to is do you really have to
use that as motivation for your team? I know I
talk about this all the time, you know, because you'll
(29:28):
teams will use any Do you really need that to
be motivated? I'm trying to think there was another there
have been. It seems like once a week there's some
well head coach of the Wolves had to do it.
The only way we're going to beat the thunder is
I got to get tossed from the game. So he
ranted and he raided, and he's like then they had
(29:49):
to hold him back. You've heard a couple of times. Yeah,
he's let me add him, let me add him. I
did the same thing with every time this story. Oh,
this is a really good story. Hayde Ashbury days, scott
Land is fighting Mike Weaver at the Metropolitan Sports Center. Yeah,
(30:17):
because I think the Marty Monroe fight was at Google
Mike Weaver versus Scotland. Do maybe it was at the
Saint Paul Auditorium. Regardless it was, it was one of
the Ladoue fights at the Metropolitan Sports Center because after
the fight we went over the old Thunderbird. Are you
familiar with the Thunderbird? Not Thunderber was out on the
(30:38):
on the four ninety four strip in Bloomington. This is
when Metropolitan Stadium still existed. And when went to the
Metroma when eighty four wasn't it? Yeah, I think I think, oh,
I know the met Center was still there because we
went to the fight.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
The met Center.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yeah it was it was Due Weaver.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
November nineteen seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Okay, so were you born then? No? No? Okay, So
we're there a couple thirteen fourteen when after the fight
we're disappointed. Scott loses the fight, right, and I don't, don't,
don't this is this is actually embarrassing. I don't know
why I would do something like this Scott. At the time,
I didn't even know Scott personally, he didn't know me.
We became fast friends later on the Late Scott Land.
(31:24):
He lost the fight. Walking through the bar with the
Thunderbird and somebody calls. He goes, I'll adduce nothing but
a bomb anyways, And I was won, Michael, you just
called to do a bomb? Did you just? I mean
this guy, I didn't say I said ill do a bomb.
I mean, Scott gave it everything in. I was kind
of annoyed by it. He goes, yeah, I did, so
what of it? Well, then I'm not making this up?
(31:49):
So I got my drink. Mean, he goes, what are
you gonna do about it? Buddy boy? So at that
point I don't know what I've got to do. Something, right,
I've got it. You've been challenged. Challenge. So I a
mixed drink, which I don't do.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Much, right, You've had a bortles, and I've got bortles in.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
James, and I've decided, well, I'm gonna I'm gonna throw
the bortles in James on ice him. So I go
like that, but the ice is all just all frozen together,
and then it just drops between us feet. We both
looked down right at the ice. We both look at
each other, and then he rears back to throw a
(32:24):
punch at me, and he grazes me. Because I've still
got a little you know, so I moved back. Immediately
his buddies and my buddies jump in and pull us
both back. Now, this guy would have killed me, right,
I mean, I'm fast and I'm wired. But my schoolboy
fight record, you know, from elementary school through graduation, until
(32:48):
I got to quit school, I was like two eight
and three, like two wins, eight losses, three draws, right,
So I wasn't. But at that point, right, and you
know that your buddies are holding you, and his buddies
are holding and then you get even to me more tough,
let me at him.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
I'll tear the limb from limb, right because you know, now,
had they said okay, go get him tiger and then
his his buddies.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
I might not be here today because he was big.
That was the biggest mistake. Hey, why would I care
if a guy says somebody I was mad Scott have lated.
Guys are in a trading room. Guys are laying on
a line.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
Not twelve rounds with him.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
Yeah, come on, lopsided decision loss some hercules. We were
ended up winting the heavyweight championship the world knock out
Big John Tait Knoxville, Tennessee with one punch in the
fifteenth and final round.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
But that was before your pillow throat day. Oh yeah, yeah,
so that was before we learned well.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
And I was under the influence nothing. You can use
this anytime there's an old saying I just made up,
and you can use this. Nothing good has ever come
from getting drunk. Nothing. Yeah, okay, you ran into a
gallon of barling. I'm okay, great, I'm talking about you know,
really good things.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
So Finchy's the same way, because you think had he
gotten away, he would have actually physically accosted the referees.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Of course he would not, but hold me back.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
They got to hold him back because he's gonna go
after those guys.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Man, So that'll happen. It's happened to me before. But
so you said thing about so Cohen. It's not enough
that you're playing a game on the road. You've got
a really good team, You're facing plenty on the line,
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you know, playoff spot. Maybe do they have a chance.
They don't. I don't think they get home field advantage
throughout the playoffs. But nevertheless they're they're at least get
a home game. You get a home game. You got
time zones, you have altitude change, you have have body
(35:18):
clocks or kadium rhythms. You have all of those things
going against you, and you're gonna lean on. They called
this a small market. He said, we're a little tiny town.
It basically said, we're Green Bay, little tiny town, little hamlet.
They basically said. Sean Payton basically said, we're a one
(35:40):
horse town. We've got one stop light that blinks on
and off. It's not even a real one that goes red,
yellow and green, and that has the you know, the
yellow arrow that says that you can take a left turn.
If there's no traffic on it, they roll the street up.
When the sun goes down, they just roll it up
and put it behind city Hall. All right, there's fighting wars.
(36:06):
If that's the way you're gonna see.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
If that's why he's gonna talk about Jacksonville, well guess what.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Let's go in this football.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
And they all ran out after it. I guess I
wish Ben Johnson would have said that green Bay is
a small market. Tell me he would have shined out
a little bit more this this.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Little great green Bay team, a little tiny team, ninety thousand people.
They don't have a building over two stories tall.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
I hope Kevin O'Connell says it next week.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Geez, I mean, bellieve, you know all honesty. It's like
you really needed that. I guess it worked. I guess
that's where their credit's gonna go. But like I said
about the Finch thing, you can only use that one time.
If let's say, who do they playing next? Can you look?
Speaker 1 (36:59):
I can't you got pick your spots with that. They
play the Nuggets tomorrow in Denver.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
They played Denver again. They just played Denver.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Oh you're talking, you're talking, Dug a jaguarre.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
We're still talking to Finch was just an example of
another follow on. I should have given you a print out,
thank you.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
I missed the prep sheets. They get the cults.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Yeah, so who's the head coach of the cult Stiking? No,
it's the new guy, the guy that used to play
court of a Kafka Franz Kafka, who was also a
was an novelist who didn't have who didn't have time
for a wife. And he's living with Davy, who's still
(37:46):
in the Navy and probably will be for life.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
So is is is Stike?
Speaker 2 (37:54):
No Cofka. That's a really good team over there. And
if I'd do it, if I were, I'd go, that's
a really good team over there. They often Stevens Special
Teams is really good. They've been coaching them really well
and and and you know what I mean. And they're
in a small market. It's two smaller markets that we
complain about it all the time. Right, there's an East
(38:17):
coast bias and there is a West coast bias. And
I know Jacksonville's on the West coast. Jacksonville, California, surf
city they call it, and I get that. So it
is it is a coastal team, but it's not when
we're talking East and West coast bias. We're talking about
Los Angeles and we're talking about New York and I
guess Boston too, right. You know, the big markets, they're
(38:41):
the ones that get all of the attention, and because
why those markets have bigger populations. Bigger populations. It stll
works in the real world valet parking. The bigger the market,
the more media attention. The more media attention, the more
ad and the more eyes, The more dollars you can
(39:01):
spend for advertising, the more advertising dollars that are spent,
and then people reap those profits and more people to
buy that products that are advertised. That's why they get
That's why we're flyover country because we're not quite as
big sam with Jacksonville. It's like, if you need that
to get yourself fired up, Jacksonville has no chance to
go anywhere in the posts. If that's what it took
(39:23):
for them to get fired for as important a game
as well, to have to add that fuel to the fire.
The only thing that Trump's all of that is if
they if a guy looks at me and he says,
your grandma wears army boots. Now that them's dollars fighting words,
those are well, take a break. We got one more
(39:46):
hour to go. Hope you're enjoying your Christmas Eve. We
are as well. It's a common man along with Brett
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