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Speaker 2 (00:35):
It took me a little bit of.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
A little bit of work, ten of it work to
go through some back channels I had to. I had
to make a few phone calls. And what is it
when you if you've done favors for people and you
want one back. There's a phrase for that. I can't
remember what it is.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It's like reciprocate.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, but there's a phrase that they call. But anyway,
somebody will will will will send it to me eventually.
But I was able to get a pair of wild tickets.
It took me a while, yeah huh. And we're going
to give those away before the program is over, wild
tickets for I think it's their first home game, is
that correct?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
The first game is on the road.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Second game, No, the first game is they have Columbus
tomorrow night at home at home, that's right. Then they
host Seattle Saturday nights.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Seattle, so it's against the crack. So we've got tickets.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Maybe the best logo in jersey and all of hockey.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
You love that, don't you?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Usually like the new jerseys and the lo logos that
come out. I always despise them all. I always like
the old school ones.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
But they don't have a new team, so I don't
know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
They have the devils, actually, but I love the logo
for Seattle might be the best.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
What I said, they didn't have a new team, so
I was doing the new jersey because you said they
have new neighbors. I said, they don't have any joke,
and then I was just saying, well, you have a team,
but we were I thought we were going to do
the Who's on first, okay, but then you didn't want
to because you wanted to talk about the best jerseys
and sports.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Sorry, the best logo.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
In sports is the Saint Louis bluesloge. There's no better
for me. I mean, and I did like back in
the olden days.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I did like the Patriots where the center the minute
man snapping the ball between that was good.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I like the old Hartford Broiler's logo and the Houston Oilers.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
The old oil Derek was kind of cool.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
The old buffalo one wasn't. Just you wonder why buffaloes
almost became extinct.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
It's just sitting there just stupidly like that. It's just
you know, not you know, just looking straight down at
the ground. The new one, they've got him.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
He's more charging, he's more He's like one of those
bison at yellow Stone where you try to get to you.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Ever have you seen those stories?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
They come up like once every month, videos all the time. Now, idiots,
I go, I'm gonna go pet the bison. No, stay away,
it's a wild animal. Are you out of your mindy ways,
I've got video on my phone. We went to Yellowstone
with the boys, you know, we went to Big Sky, Potato,
Deuce and baby brother Peter.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You're driving down the road. All of a sudden, what's
the backup?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
I mean, how is there a traffic jam in the
middle of Yellowstone. Well, it's because a buffalo and you
can't roll or skate in a buffalo herd. By the way,
a buffalo herd is crossing the road and you got
to stop because he ain't stopping for you.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
I've got him there.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
He's right up in our car looking in our window. Guy,
he must weigh twelve fifteen hundred pounds. Who knows how
much he weighs.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
They call it a herd of buffalo, and we did
this yesterday we had it.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Sounds like a herd to me.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I think it's a herd of buffalo.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
So there you go, speaking of the wild, and we
will give away those tickets before the end of the
grum Chipskogins. Yeah, herd who I text and talk with
more than most people know. He's going to join us
at he's a column his Fish Refactory west Side. He'll
join us at two thirty talk about a number of
different topics. We're just gonna we'll spin the wheel of
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topic and if my golf game comes up. I don't
know if he has a comment town or not, but
we'll we'll we'll touch on a number of sports topics
with him. Sarah McClellan is the beat writer Fish rap
Factory west Side from the Minnesota Wild. Headline of the
story why Worry Gorill caprice Off is in the prime
of his career and the Wild have him. The biggest
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question is will right? Will he resign after the season,
What will his contract look like? These are some of
the questions he asked. Where will he play in two years?
I don't believe Tenneby, and you know, I'm not paying
as close attention to the wild as I once did.
He's not really tipped his hand in any way, shape
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or form, right, not like, oh yeah, I'm coming back
where you know I like it here. I mean, he's
he given any indication if.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
He hasn't, but I would say comments from others, okay,
would give you indication, right, Like the owner came out
when he had everyone in his owner's suite at one
of the preseason games, you know, basically said the you
we know that Caroll wants to win, and we're going
to offer him more than anything anyone else is going
to pay him. So it's now on us to make
(05:07):
sure we win so well that you're not saying that
unless Carell has indicated.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Hey, I'd like to win here, right right, Which is great.
I want that in a player, right, I want a
player who wants to absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
But it's also concerning that, like, well, for coming down
to this year after the year we just had and
we don't win.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Do you think he must be he and his agent
if everybody else is, they must be cognizant of this
dark cloud that's hung over us with pereezy suitor. Right,
So what do you think they take that into consideration
and say, well, now that that's gone, now we have
a chance to build his him. I'm willing to give
it a couple I mean, where is he?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
He's not old? Is he just entering the prime? In
his prime?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I mean, realistically, how much longer do you think a
guy like he's got ten years?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Doesn't he?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Oh yeah, he's twenty seven?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Okay, so at twenty seven, what do he have the
patience to say?
Speaker 2 (06:00):
I guess you'd have to.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Show him even if it doesn't happen this year where
it's like, all of a sudden we went to the
Stanley Cup Finals, we went to the at least showing
progress in.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
A game plan.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Or do you think it has to be nuts and bolts,
it's w's and l's will determine everything?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
Well, I mean, I think it's got to be a
certain amount of ws. But then it also has to
be what's the future here?
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Right?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Like, are the young guys? Can I can I see
us anario in which this young guy becomes a really
really good player, right does it? Can Marco Rossi improve?
Can Liam Ogren, Who's gonna be a rookie this year?
Your guy, his fellow Russia native Houstnadinov. So I you know,
you have to be able to see the big picture
of where can this Not only is where this team now,
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but where can it go? But I get it like
he's been kind of he's been stuck in the middle
of mediocrity, which has been the Minnesota Wild for the
last you know, fifteen years basically, or they're they're good
enough to not be awful, but never really good enough
to make a run out again.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I don't know if this is just a a ducky
and bunny evaluation of the local local.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Six six.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Unless you put your goaltender with ten minutes ago, because
you're down too, he still have six. I guess, uh,
we like the new goaltender, right he's supposed to be.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
How do you say his name?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
But then I was going to say the acoustaed Housta
dean off Faber. Do we have other young guys?
Speaker 4 (07:44):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (07:44):
All right, so do you think you look at that
and say, hey, look, then you know there's another fellow
Russian Russia player you're off who's not here yet.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
He's still playing in the kh L. He's supposed to
be potentially a big time prospect. Meybe by the time
next year rolls around, he'll be here.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
I wonder if that's enough to satisfy him or encourage him,
because you know, the money does play a part. I
mean when when when when Leipold says we're going to
offer more than anybody else can, I mean, is that
by long leaps and boundsers like we can offerm ten
Let's say ten, I don't know the numbers, Arbert and
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somebody else can off from nine. Is a guy willing
to leave a million dollars on the table because he
feels like he has a better chance to I mean.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
It's because it's the cop tennant well.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
And the other thing with Capriceov it might not just
be winning. He hasn't said this, but like he's put
up good numbers here. I still wonder, like if he
had legit first line players playing with him, what he
could really do all right? Last year him and Ericsonak
and Boldie were one of the best lines in hockey.
Unfortunately we didn't have depth elsewhere, but to try to
(08:51):
give us depth on multiple lines. They kind of are,
at least to start the season, are splitting up. Eric
Sinac can boldy away from him, but like throughout his
tenure here, he hasn't been playing with really like another
elite player. Him and Zucarello have like that good mojo.
They have the good vibe in chemistry, but like Zucarella
without him is not a top player. He's never had
a legit center playing with him, other than just Eric
(09:13):
Sinek for that stretch last year, but even the ericson
X more of as he's a guy who can produce offensively,
but he's a two way forward, right, He's not gonna
cheat definitively to get to offensively. You do wonder, man,
if you ever had a legit center playing with him,
or another elite first line player, what numbers could he
put up? And that might be part of the winning
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as well.
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Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
And that means can you do me a favor?
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Speaker 2 (10:45):
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Speaker 3 (10:47):
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Speaker 3 (11:04):
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Chicago next season.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
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Speaker 1 (11:18):
What team when we go to to Chicago the Black.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
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Aaron Rodgers is he's answering back. Tennaby clapping back. He's
clapping back. Quote he resents unquote speculation that he had
a role in coach Robert Sala's fiery dyline New York.
This is a CBS Sports story. One day after the
(12:02):
New York Football Jets abruptly fired head coach Robert Sala,
quarterback Aaron Rodgers has opened up on the team's decision.
Telling the Pat McAfee show, he resents speculation that he
had a hand in the move, calling the notion ridiculous
and patently false, while amazonzy the Jets needed change regardless
of Sola standing in the tough business of the NFL.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Here's what Rogers said.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I love coach Sala, calling the dismissed coach a quote
fantastic human being and a family man. We've a very
We've had a very solid relationship. We have since I
met him in twenty twenty one. He was a big
reason why I came to the Jets. Anybody's who's championing
this decision, I would just appeal to humanity this situation.
(12:47):
I resent any of those accusations that I wanted and
fired because they're patently false. It's interesting the amount of
power that people think I have. I love Robert I
I you know, I don't know. I you know, I
guess you have to take his word for it. There
are those that you know, you look at that one
(13:07):
piece of video was that from two weeks ago where
he pushed Sola away, and Rogers has he's kind.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Of his own worst enemy.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
For just I think, you know, and again maybe most
people love him, and I'm in the vast minority that
that that that I feel he's.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
He's mildly annoying.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
And it takes an an annoying person to uh, to
to see an annoying person. That takes one to know one.
And so uh, I I don't know, I guess, but
it seems as though he's you know, he says.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Because it's interesting the amount of power that people think
that I have.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I think he has a lot of power. I think
a lot.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
I think I think most elite quarterbacks, if you consider
them elite, yes, they can make that they make the
decisions they say, I mean, there.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Are he just like star NBA players. If Anthony Edwards
went to Glenn Taylor, A roder Mark Lauri and said,
I don't like Chris Finch. It's got him out of here. Yeah,
who's going first?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Chris Finch is going? Yeah, that would be it.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
There.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
There there is no there's no if sands or butts
in that regard, isn't there Like Lazard? Was he on
the Jets before Rogers got there? Did Rogers request him
to be on the team? Because Rogers has done that before,
right where he said, I want you to go get that.
You know his he went and got Cobb one time,
and he got who else says he had brought in of.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Course, so Lazard. Lazard signed with the Jets and free
agency well before Rodgers did. But it was known right
it was the same year. Okay, but that was kind
of your tip off that Rogers was going to sign
with the Jets because they brought in Lizard first.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
And I think Cobb there, yeah, last year, Yeah, because
I know, because you know, and you know, tend Toby,
I've said this to you.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Now there's ms about Devonte Adams being treated there you go.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah, and I and and there was another run wide
receiver at another time that played with him that he
wanted brought in that they did. If I'm not mistaken,
h he had Cob brought back from green to Green Bay.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
That's correct. And so you've heard me say this, tenemy.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
So I'm not even saying that's necessarily the wrong thing
to do.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
If if if you were given the job of program director.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Here, now you got I know, you got to really
it's brain's credulity. You got to really use your imagination here.
But if you became the program director and you had
to let's say we were in the days of having
we used to have an executive producer. You might go
outside the building and go with someone you've never worked
with before. But a lot of times people want to
work with people they know what they can do, what
they can't do, their strengths and weakness, and have a
working relationship with them.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
I guess Rogers feeling the same way.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
It's like someone's I need a couple of safety blankets.
I know this guy, this guy know we're on the
same page. We seem to have this this you know,
uncanny ability exactly. So that's not, yes, there is. That's
why I don't think it's all a bad thing. But
I I think sometimes that can get to be that
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could be dicey, especially if you're getting guys that may
be a bit over the hill.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
But he's claiming that he is in no way, shape
or form responsible for Robert Sala being let go, and
as we mentioned at the very beginning of the show, uh,
there's no reason to feel bad for him.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
Was it?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
How much money? Was he going to make over twenty
million dollars in the next.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Two years, basically twenty grand a day.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Yeah, so shed no tears. I mean I wouldn't want
to coach again. Now I wonder these contracts. Let's say
he were to get hired tomorrow to be a head
coach at a different club, then that the Jets don't
own that money.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Dude, I don't think I think that goes.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I'm sure that's how those You're right, right, because I
get the dough and I'd rather just get the dough
and out where and tend to be at this point
in my life if the choice was sit out and
get paid a bunch of money.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
That's why frankly, Sola is not getting a head coach
job anywhere else. Anyway you get like a defensive coordinator position.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Well, then I'll preface what I'm about to say is
I'm never going to get another talk show host shop
in town. But I always try to negotiate a bigger
severance for a longer time sitting out, right, But then
you know the non compete sure, right, you got these
things where like you can't.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Work, Well that's legal anymore.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah you're supposed to really? Is that true?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Yeah? I thought that was supposed to go down like
in September. Oh, well they passed the loss and those
are Yeah, well, I.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Appreciate you bringing that up.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
I'm gonna have to go rework by or maybe I
shouldn't becuse that might not work in my favorite But anyways,
I always said, no, I'd rather, you know, because you
can talk to other people right now. Most people don't
want to. If you're in the radio business, it's like, well,
you don't want to be gone too long because out
of sight, out of mind, right out of ear, out
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of Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
What I'm trying to say. I that's not if they.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Said we'll pay you if we let you go, we'll
pay you two years worth of salary, but you can't
work again for two years, I'd say I'm alright with that.
Matter of fact, you want to make a three, right
are you? Would you be different than that?
Speaker 1 (18:22):
No, that sounds good to me.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, I like that way better. But they don't want
to do that.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Play golf every day.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Yeah, that's wonderful. And if they forget about me, that's fine.
We'll pause come back.
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Speaker 2 (20:12):
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Speaker 2 (20:31):
How are you me boy ed?
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Thanks for having me. Yeah, I'm back from London. Got
back last night, so happy to be with you.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Did you do was it all business? Did you mix
any pleasure while you were in London Town?
Speaker 4 (20:44):
It was mostly business. We got out a little bit
on Saturday. I went back in twenty thirteen. I think
it was when they made their first trip over and
had to explore a little bit more there. But this
time was mostly mostly work.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Business trip for the for you and for the Vikings again.
Second week in a role where it was almost a
tail of two halves. They they they completely outclassed Green
Bay first week that have to recover an on side
kick in order to hang on. Jumped out to an
early lead again against the time against the Jets, and
the Jets made a close late. Your thoughts on the
Vikings worthy are hard to are you with five?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
And oh?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
Though, well, that's it And obviously they made the last
two weeks closer than they would have liked. And you
know one week is the defense getting leaky Sunday their
offense did nothing really once Aaron Jones went out, and
I think we saw the importance of that he has
with their offense. But good teams pick each other up.
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And that was kind of the thing with my column
is that even when things are going bad and one
side of the ball or another is having a bad day,
good teams find a way to win that. And I
think that should be the takeaway that when their offense
couldn't get anything going and their special teams were having
all kinds of penalties, the defense up and kept going
out there time and time again and shutting them down.
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And so I think that's the mark of a good team.
It's kind of a mature team. They obviously have to
clean some things up on offense and then need Aaron
Jones to get healthy. But it's better to learn those
lessons when you win than we've been in the lost.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Yeah, oftentimes, you know, we always think there's smoke screen
and subterfuge when we're talking injuries, and coaches don't say
much other than I guess he's weak to week. But
you know, after watching Jones get injured, you know, he
was on the sideline during the game and seemed to
be laughing and smiling and had his uniform on, so
it certainly wasn't more like he had to you know,
take them off in a stretcher and bring him to
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a hospital. So I think we tend to believe it's
weak to week.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Do you know anymore? Do you have a guess on
as it could he be ready for Detroit? That's two weeks.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
The bye week couldn't have come at a better time
for Jones, I guess, and that is Detroit in two weeks.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Yeah, O'Connor didn't have any real update. We met with them,
the Beat writers, I guesst a few months after the
main press conference. There and o'conna said he really didn't
have much. They need to do some MRIs and I
think he told the porters yester that he I was
flying back, but yeah, I don't know. They kind of
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wrote it that don't be surprised if he misses one game,
but it's not something that should, uh you know, be
significant or long term. So I don't know if he'll
be ready for that Detroit game or not. But as yeah,
clearly he'd have the bye week. This week buys them
some time with him and others who are banged up
until it came out a good time. But man, the
Lions game coming in here, that suddenly is a massive game,
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and it's going to be uh, you know, exciting because
I think both teams are really good. I mean, I
think we've been trying to figure out, you know, the
vikings as it's real, are they how good are they?
Having watched them and seeing their personnel, they're clearly better
than what a lot of the spot Yeah, and the
way they're getting down, I mean, he had a poor
day Sunday, but the way he's performed up to that
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has been a lot better than I think anyone would imagine.
Then they're defense. I think most of the stops their
defense would be good. They're really good. When you look
at the personnel they brought in to run Brian floor
as a scheme, that defense is legit. They're really really good.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
Uh Golphers, I mean this is it's been a crazy
season already. You go from you got Iowa, You totally
dominate him in the first half, got a fourteen to
seven lead. They were as outplayed as any college football
team I've seen get outplayed. The second half I would
just completely dominated. They go to Michigan and they lose
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the game.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Late.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Michigan dominates the first half. Golphers actually play, they have
a chance to win. They recover that on side kick,
the on side call, the off side is called. It
looks like that was wrong. They might have won that game.
And then they play a USC team ranked eleven. Whether
you think that's a little high or not. But same thing.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
First half was it.
Speaker 3 (24:49):
Well in the second half they put together maybe the
best half of football.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
They come away away with a win. It's been there's
been thrills, spills and chills with the club to this point.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Well, the biggest thing is just consistency. And we've seen it.
I mean you go back to the opener too. They
weren't consistent in there, and then they played two really
weak teams. But that's that's the thing they've been waiting on,
for them to put a complete game together, and I
think they saw it Saturday, and a lot of us
have been pounding the table and screaming for Pja to
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change the way he manages the game and be more
aggressive and take more chances, particularly when you're placing teams
that are you know, maybe better or higher caliber or
have the you know, pedigree that some of these big
programs do. That you can't coach tim it or conservative
against him. You got to take your chance when it's there,
and he did that in the biggest way possible with
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that fourth and one. I was surprised that he did that.
I thought, you know, that might be a saying there
where you kick a field goal, because if you don't
get it and then they come down and kick a
field goal, now all of a sudden, you know, people
are screaming. But he knew that his defense probably was
not going to be able to keep USC from marching
down the field, and so he showed the guts and
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went for it there in fourth one. And then Corey Parritch,
who's just I think is going to be a star here.
I mean he just has it, you know, written all
over his kids, a playmaker and came up at the
the interception. But conn of look at the college football
Alabama lost to Vandy.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Yeah, I mean that.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Tells you all you have, especially after a vaulting to
be the to get number one in the country just
a week before, and then to get beat by Mandy.
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Yeah. And I mean that one's an outlier. I mean
that's absolutely sunning. But I do think because of the
portal and there's so much fluidity in college sports now
that you I think that you know, the gap has
been closed some with the parody where you know, get
the Gophers they need a quarterback, Well, just go to
get a guy who's been a four year starter, albeit
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at a lower level, but he's been a four year
starter in college football, the bandy quarterback. He was a
starter elsewhere. So I think teams can really remake themselves
and improved pretty dramatically if you go out and hit
the portal hard and bring in a dozen fifteen twenty
players like some teams are doing and particularly if you
need a quarterback, instead of having to rely on a
freshman or a guy who hasn't started, you can go
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down and get a you know, a guy who started
three or four years in college football and plug him
right in. So I think that helps. But yeah, clearly,
when Bandy's beating Alabama, that's a unique day in college football.
That was across the board. It was a wild weekend.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Yeah. Yeah, well, and then.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
You look at it with each week there seems.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
To be another great matchup too.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
I mean the big one, number two against number three
this week, baby brother Peter is the Ohio State University
taken on Oregon.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Yeah. Well, when you're expanding conferences, and that's the thing,
you're adding more tough teams in there, which you're gonna
get more big games. And that's what this whole whole
thing about. The expansion in college football that's becoming these
super conferences that's driven by TV and what is TD
want marquee matchups to put on in their primetime slots,
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and that's what this is about. They won as many
high profile games as they can get because they can
fail that and that's how they funnel all the money
to schools, and so I think you're going to see
more and more that as these conferences consolidate, you're going
to get more of these premiere primetime games and so, uh,
you know, if you if you're a school like mess,
So even though they want to get us, it doesn't
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get easier when you span like that. You're you're adding
better programs, and so it's just going to make it
more difficult for everyone.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Well, as many college football teams as there are out there,
you still have a number of undefeated ones, including Indiana
that's six and no have a big ten. And you know,
Indiana hasn't had a good football team. I think what
was the last time they went to the roles was
a sixty seven or something like that.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Yeah, because they got it when they tied right with
the Yeah, they had a tiebreaker and.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Obviously even known as a basketball school forever. How good
are they do you think? Do you think it's any
smoking mirrors? Do you know enough about them or what?
What's your take on Indiana?
Speaker 4 (28:58):
I haven't had a chance to really sit down and
watched them in person yet. I don't you know. If
you get to that you're winning games, you're winning games
and conference. So I don't think it's you're just tricking
him and full of them. So there's obviously something there.
I don't know what they did in the portal. I
know they have a relatively new coaching staff and so
I don't know if they hit the portal hard and
brought in some key transfers that are helping them out.
(29:20):
But I don't think it's fluky, but it's it's when
you're at those programs in that mid tier, even say lower,
it's just so hard to sustain it year after year
after year because you know, the infrastructure, support, recruiting, all
those things are hard to maintain year after year. And
if you have a good player, maybe he's gonna leave.
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So but it's cool to see a program like that
have that success. We've seen, you know, a couple of
surprises in the Big ten. I think you'll know he's
better than what people out there to be. Indiana for
sure is and so yeah, I mean that's a nice
surprise because you know, everybody's kind of looking at the
top four or five teams the Big ten. Well, it's
nice to see some teams that nobody was talking about
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come up and have this kind of success.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
What do you think of Texas Number one, five and all?
Or you know what are they?
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Yeah? They're legit. Yeah, I've seen them. They're really good.
They're a national title contender. Good. I think Ohio State
and Texas are the two best teams. It's probably not
going down to a big stretch there, but I feel
like those are the two most talented teams, the deepest teams.
Obviously they got anybody'stention when they went in and beat Michigan.
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Michigan is average this year. This they don't have a quarterback,
and I wouldn't be surprised they wind up after the
Gophers if they beat Gophers. I was telling people, I
said they're going to lose two or three more games.
Then they went and lost at Washington. I just don't
think their offense. You just can't run that offense when
you don't really have a quarterback. So, but I do
think Texas is really good. I think they got a
lot of firepowers. So I think them in Ohio State
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are the stuff above everyone else.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Well, I think that's got to be who's that coach
for a house to day? What's the guy's name in
a high state? Yeah, day day, he's got to be
delighted because really, as any like since he's been there,
he's only.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Lost like three games. I think they're all the.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Michigan and you can't lose to Michigan and keep your
job there.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
You just can't.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
Well, you think about it, Jim Harball, he went all
those years where he was losing Ohio date to the
point where they made him cut a salary. I mean,
he was on the hot seat, and then uh, you know,
they they finally won and got all that hump and
I think they've beat him with two or three times
here now and now Ryan Day's hearing it. You can't
be Missigan that It's crazy that you can go, you know,
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ten and two or eleven and one and people are disappointed.
But when you're at that level in that program, you
can't lose that one game. It's just that sits with y'all,
you know, for the entire year or so. But I
do think they have They had a really good h
year in terms of guys that were going to go
to the NFL came back. I think they had three
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or four of them that could have been in the NFL.
They came back, and then the hit the transfer, Uh
portal hard. They got a kid from Alabama, I think,
a secondary player who's a really nice player. So they're good.
I picked them to win it all. I just think
they're that good.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I don't believe many people except maybe the people in
the organization, thought the Links would be in the w
NBA Finals at the beginning of the year. Certainly now
the way they've played throughout the season, it's I mean,
when you're talking about the team with the most success
in the state of Minnesota of the last five ten years, it's.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Got to be the Links, right, It's not even close.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Yeah. Well no, and they were. I don't know where
the preseason picks were, but I think there are picks
like seventh or eighth in the WNBA. Nobody was certainly
thinking this, But it's a credit to both Cheryl reve
the executive and Cheryl Reave the coach. She put together
a team that in the way she wanted to run
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defense first, and they share the ball in offense, and
they have some three point shooting. They're a fun team
to watch you when you look at the way they
share the ball, the way they'd move and pass and cut.
But really it starts with defense. They're terrific defense. I
think they're the best defensive team in the WNBA. And
and then obviously you have a superstar Nafisia Kyler, who's
one of the two best players in the WNBA, three
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best players in WNBA, you know, obviously an MVP candidate,
the defensive player of the Year. They just found a
chemistry and they came back from the Olympic break and
lost one game and it just all came together for him.
So I think that's the credit to how that the
roster is constructed. But then also adding the players she
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did in free agency with a clear vision of how
she wants that team to play, and they're running it,
and so I would Yes, I don't know it's New
York's favorite in the finals, but I won't be surprised
if they go with it all because I just think
they're playing the best basketball right now.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Were you, like most other people, pretty surprised, maybe even
on that big Miuse traded what three days before training
camp goes to New York? And what are your what
are your thoughts on the trade over all? You like it,
dislike it? Wait and see, I know Money was a
big Mason.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
What were your.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Thoughts well, yeah, I was clearly surprised. I didn't because
there was just no chatter about it right now. People
were saying, I think we all said, excuse me, they
have a lot of big salaries on that team, and
we said it last year like Towns Go Bear and
Jade McDaniels. Yeah, how are you going to make this work? Now?
(34:32):
I know you're going to go over the second apron
and they're willing to pay the money and all that,
but you need to be at the door winning championships
if you're going to continue down now for an owner
to say, yeah, let's just pay that big bill. So
I thought eventually something would have to happen. I thought
for sure they would run it back to Tennessee. You
know what it looked like coming off the Western Conference finals.
(34:54):
I like it. I think uh they added I mean,
Randall's a different type of player than Cat obviously, but
he's a productive player. It's just going to be it's
just gonna look different. I think they added three point
shooting obviously, which I think is a big deal. And
then it given himselves some flexibility, uh with the with
(35:15):
the payroll, and so I think I like it overall.
Kat for all, you know, he had things that he
does well, he still drove me crazy. Like you think
about in the playoff lat year, where Aunt was coming
in and telling the median Cat was there to tell
him to quit fouling that they're a better team with
you know, for a twenty one year old player to
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have to tell a nine year veteran to stop found
because they need him on the court. There was just
too much of that inconsistency with Cat where you weren't
really sure what he was going to give you in
the playoffs. If he was going to stand, you know,
be able to stay on the floors, are you going
to be in foul trouble? I mean, obviously the way
he played against Denver and Yokich was great. They don't
win that series without him, But it just was two
unpredictables at times with him in terms of what you're
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going to get, particularly with the foul trouble.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
If if it wasn't officially ants team before the trade,
it obviously is now. There are those that think, if
he's not already, he could become the best player in
the NBA. Do you think he's the best player in
the NBA among the top two three or five. And
if he's not, what do you think he needs to
do or add to his game to become the best player?
Speaker 2 (36:22):
If you think he.
Speaker 4 (36:23):
Can, oh, I think he is. Yeah. I think we
started to see a shift at the end of last
year where teams were really running a lot at him, doubles,
trying to get the ball in his hands, and he
started making the right play right. We saw it in
Phoenix that series where he would drive and kick to
the corner, he'd get al his hands. He was making
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the right play. And to me, that's instead of I
think early in his career we would see more hero ball,
like no matter what you know, I trust myself and
I'm going to get up a shot. He'd be a
wild shot. Now I thought he's well. I thought he
turned the corner where he started trusting his teammates and
making the right play, right pass, and so that to
me was a sign of a guy taking that next
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step and becoming a more complete player. So I think
it's just as much as anything. I think it's just
continue to mature and he's always been fearless, but just
taking that and harness it in with, you know, being
a better on ball defender, being a better shooter, all
those things. So I think he's Yeah, I mean, you
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can quit all about the top five, but he's clearly
in there. To me, I think he's a finisher. I
think he's just has the drive to be great and
the confidence to be great. So I think he could
absolutely be the best player, uh in the NBA, you know,
either now or the next couple of years.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Yeah, what's really crazy, if if my memory serves me correctly,
and it doesn't always, when he first came up, and
like he said, I don't even really like basketball. I
like football, So he didn't even really like the game,
he claims, and look at how good he is. It's
just it's astonishing to me.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
Well, that was the thing, remember the draft that's he
got floated out where he said something I can't even
remember what the quote was, or he likes football or whatever,
and people took that, oh because he loved the game enoughing, right,
are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (38:10):
But I but I do find it's interesting, right, but
I do find an interest that he said it wasn't
Deevin his favorites for he actually, if I remember, the
quote was he doesn't even really like basketball. He's just
I'm really good at this, So he's good and maybe
he does like it more than he let on to believe.
But I just find that was a that's quite the
quote and to get to the level that he's on. Now,
what's next for you? What are you writing on next?
Speaker 4 (38:30):
Can you stay home for a couple of days and
I'm going back out to I'm going to La Okay
Friday to cover the Gophers at UCLA Saturday night. They're
going to the Rose ball.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Yeah they are not with.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
The parade and all that, So I'll be out there
and I have a couple more projects. I'm working on
one hit this week with the getting ready for work
thing that's online now. So it's just been busy.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
Always good to talk to you. Thanks very much for
on short arms helping me out. Appreciate Chip.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Thanks, thanks dany Man.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
You bet Chipskogin's fish rap Factory Westside the Minnesota start
tribute now. Chipmuh always willing to help me on a pinch.
Speaker 2 (39:10):
She's a fellow would bury, you would bury and whatever
we call ourselves. Hey, Tnnedy, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Hey, great job.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
I thought you did a bang up job as well. Today.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Uh we enjoyed our visit with you. Thanks for sharing
part of your day with us. Big Ticket is out today,
per usual, on the Wednesday of bye week. Uh JG's
in a spot along with Brett Blakemore their next right
here on the fan.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
Talk to him at noon.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
All Right, good night, folks, good night Missus Calabash.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
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Speaker 1 (39:53):
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