October 2, 2025 • 43 mins
Common Man Hour 1 --Wheel of Topics --Peek at the Purple --Vikings/Browns Preview --New Twins Manager
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Speaker 5 (00:24):
Object to day to day.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's time for common man.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Oh boy, why should anybody aspire to be a common man?
An average man? Do you realize what it means to
be average? That means you're the best of the lousiest
and the lousiest of the best. Now, if we demand
more and more for producing less and less while they
have not, nations encourage and inspire and indeed require hard
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work and maximum effort. If we deify the common man
while they encourage and reward the uncommon ones, well, end
result of such a lopsided races that is too obvious
to require elaboration.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
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the keep battling.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Do you think that's an information I would like to know?
To dry your own conclusions?
Speaker 6 (01:41):
People, I gotta say that I read all the way
here because I thought I would be talking to the
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I mean, he's not I'm talking about this radio. That
guy's not.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
It's good thing here. I'll have to pass along that
you're a fan of the common.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
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the guy. He's nuts.
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Speaker 7 (03:03):
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Speaker 8 (03:20):
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Speaker 3 (03:33):
Nineteen Bobby Blue Bland nineteen seventy or something. And I
just thought of it for the first time in years
because of the spotlight thing. I said, welcome back to
the spotlight. And I said, I really, I've really never
left the spotlight. Quite frankly, greetings.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
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Speaker 3 (03:54):
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more do you need to know so much to get
to Major League Baseball playoffs?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Continues.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
It's the second day of the rest of our lives
with Carill Caprice off under contract the beginning of the
first of eight By the way Tennabee did he had
a year to go. Did they just roll that into
one as it now seven years?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I don't understand how that went.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Contract starts after the next year. He's with us for
the next nine years. So it's the first day of
the next day of the year of nine years. The Vikings,
I don't know if they've done anything with the offensive line.
I don't think there's much they can do to have
the twins hired a manager. Yet there's so much to
get to. I don't know where to begin. So why
don't we spin the wheel off topic.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Commons golf games?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Oh, it was a special day to what did you
shoot today? Eight zero nine over eight zero? We played
at River Falls Golf Course ssconsin.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Where'd you hit it on?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
One?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Right up the gut? As good a drive as I
can hit? I don't know. River Falls A Part four,
Part Part four? How far from the green? I had
a hybrid in my hand, second topped it it rolled through.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
That was one of those you know where sometimes you'll
have a bunker and then there's a little grass after
the bunker and then there's a bunker again. I ended
up going through the bunker and ended up in the
grass erie between the two bunkers.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
So I caught a break. I five iron might as
well be a pitch fork.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Then what well, I didn't really take advantage of it.
I had one fifteen to the green and.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I hit it short. But then I hit a brilliant
ship to a foot made bogie. I had a.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
See nine then were uh nine over? That means I
had nine by one birdie, So I must have had
I don't know how many how would that be? I
don't know how many pars and bogies I had. I
know I had one bird in the rest for Parson.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
One birdy in one bogie. Yeah. Uh bogies? Yeah, I
know what I said.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I had one very yeah and eight parts seven parts.
That's exactly right. I didn't play nineteen holes.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I played today with with It was Roube golf today.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I got auctioned off at the Danny Boy Open.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Auctioned off. The people will actually pay money to play
golf with me. Actually, they're thinking, well, as long as
I'm donating to the charity, I might as well get
something out of it and then they had an opportunity
to play with common Uh. Jake was my host and
his brother has Cohen syndrome co O h e N.
It's a rare inherited genetic disorder that affects multiple body systems,
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the vision and everything. It's it's ugly. They're they're there
are not a lot of them that appear as kind
of rare as I just said, but they're raising money
for research. And so the Danny Boy opened and they
auctioned me off and we hit knock down, punch, cut,
fade draws.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It was delightful.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Got to meet the owner of the golf course, Tony
Bloom is lovely wife Holly is also a part of
that team, and they bought it a couple of years
ago and they love owning a golf course. It was
fun and the weather was terrific, and we raised money
and so I feel I feel good. I feel better
about my game heading into Golf Toberfest. I'm out tomorrow.
The ten of Fitzgerald will set sail about twelve my
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guests to start the day.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It'll be.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Partly cloudy skies, a light breeze, a zephyr, as we
say with temperature somewhere in the seventies and eighties, and
who knows if it will stay that way the entire voyage,
or will dark clouds begin to cluster and approach the
ten of Fitzgerald.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I'm not sure what do you have? But we're well
prepared with lifeboats. Do you have?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Hear tomorrow's trip, so I think, regardless of the weather,
who are your lifeboats? Well, we have Pete bercich okay
talk about Vikings Browns twelve thirty.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Well, I thought he would be talking about I thought
it was the Vikings interior decorator. I thought I was
gonna be talking about what they did over at the
new Winter Park for color schemes and such like that.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
But I'm assuming they'll be joints in one. I guess
I should communicate with her first.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Are you doing program? Password? We are? Are you playing?
I'm playing tomorrow?
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Well be he's playing, and then Nordo will be here
and John Krazinski from the Athletic.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Who's going to do? Have you have you?
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Blake Moore's hosting, so I'm leaving that up to him. Oh,
the parings, Yeah, he's he can make that decision. Played
before he's played a time or two. Yes, he's hard
to get tracked down, but at least the Wolf season
hasn't started yet.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I do remember him playing it were we were he
and it teamates. I'm sure you have. I know he
was in here one time for sure. Okay, very good.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Well then, speaking of the athletic Michael Russo will join
at two thirty tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
So that's a shock. You're talking hockey, the Jolly Green Giant.
It's good.
Speaker 5 (08:52):
At least they're you know, they're in the news now timely. Yeah,
it's very This is about the start. We just locked
up Caprice of its funny, no one's I'm talking about
the gust bust negotiations.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
How's it going with the gus busy? I haven't heard
much about it.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
It's been on the back burner because we've just been
consumed with Caprisa this whole time.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Give me a PA. Deuce loves that he's never heard it.
Can you send that sound by Tooman?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Is there a way to send it from the system
to far Because he doesn't have to earn down yet,
he kind of goes earn and I tried to.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
You have to listen to it so that you can
get it down to.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
A sign when you're when you're in the middle of
making a statement and pie goes h then you know
it's for Fosters.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Well, that's yes, that is that's for sure. And Gore
was very good at that. So so at Golf Toberfest.
I've been hosting Golf Toberfest a Grand View for thirteen
fourteen years. Actually it's longer than that's probably twenty or
twenty five roubs come up. I think it's like maybe
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I don't know what the prices. It goes up a
little bit each year like anything else, right, but I
think it's for like probably right around four bills. You
get unlimited golf, two nights, lodging, breakfast, buffet, tailgate party
on Saturday night that I host.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I do.
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I tell a few jokes. I basically rip meat, sauce, cove,
and hockey. That's what I do because I'm envious and
jealous of the Morning show. I think we all are
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You can't tell the difference between a dark roast, a
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I rubbed the Genies lamps. She popped out. Is any
more wishes? You said? Your wish is my command. My
other wish was some good coffee.
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Here in our break room. I would like to have
that someday. Whether that happens or not remains to be seen.
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Today we go into week number five of the National
Football League season. It's the Vikings last game before the
bye week to the first team ever to play I think,
the first team ever to play back to back games
in two different countries, right. I think somebody told us
that there was Jacksonville did it, But this is the
first time where it's been in because that was the
very first ever game in Dublin. And then there's the
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game in London this weekend against the Browns, and then
the Vikings have their bye week.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I saw some we know that Carson Wentz will start.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
JJ McCarthy, the supposed, the alleged the hope for franchise
quarterback for the soon to be Big Game World champion
of Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Vikings played the first two weeks.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Week one, he won the NFC Offensive Player of the
Week with his scintillating fourth quarter performance, and all was
right with the world.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
And then it was back to the.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Basics as Whaling, Jennings and Willie Nelson won'ts sing sang song,
or at least it was Whalan. He didn't play very
well again. Then he sprained his ankle and he has
not played since. Carson Wentz has been our QB. I
wonder though, Tennabe, You know, everybody sort of expects that
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JJ as soon as his ankle will allow him to,
he will be back under center and be the starting quarterback,
which would be not next week but the week after
when they take on Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
But I saw this quote from O'Connell fisherp Factory West Side.
This was a story from It's Today. Tomorrow is the.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Third right, so it was yesterday and the dateline is
where England. You're supposed to say, I don't know where.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I don't know where in England. No where England, England's
and Europe. No no, no, no, no where England.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Yeah, it's part of that I'm not gonna act like
I know everything to associated with the Great Britain where
there's multiple countries kind of connected that one little area.
They're like an island nation, but they're on the heage.
Certainly one more England is like, how embarrassing is that?
I know you didn't graduate high school, but that's just embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I do know this where England is located somewhere on
the boot part of of of England.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Oh soo, England's a brand name of a boot you
want to wear? You want to wear it? Okay, got it?
That little boot part in Europe.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
That's exactly what that is. Here's what Here's what O'Connell
said about Wins. I've been really happy with him. You
really peel back the layers on it. He's two tipball
interceptions and having a pretty clean sheet and running our
offense helping.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Us score in some points. Consistency amongst all the eleven
guys in offense, regardless of who's in, is what we're
looking for, because we feel when we do the little things,
we can have a good day on offense. Do you
think he's setting the stage, setting the table to say, hey, Carson,
opportunity to play against the team he started his are
you with uh?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
You know?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
And JJ Spielde's at the ankle.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
You know that that he's a right handed quarterback, so
you know you want to be that plant foot you
you don't, you don't want to take any chances. And
we're gonna go with Carson again for another week? Do
you think that's or am I just imagine anythings?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
You know me?
Speaker 5 (16:15):
I'm always I thought from the get go, because we
talked about it after Carson's first game, right when they
when they walked all over the Cincinnati Bengals, and the
question was, oh, if Carson repeats this performance, do you
stick with him?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Now?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
They didn't necessarily repeat that performance against Pittsburgh, but I
didn't think Carson was the reason why that they didn't.
And if you have any trepidation on JJ to begin
with throwing him into Philadelphia Chargers, Lions Baltimore with at
this point like one or two starting offensive lineman, that
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doesn't sound like a recipe for developing her quarterback. I
tend I do think Chaos like doesn't like to I mean,
most head coaches don't like to lose, but I don't
think Koc is like a, Hey, I'm okay. Having two
years of struggles to develop our quarterback three, I still
think he's got a lot of win now to him.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yes, as do most most head coaches do. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
So if Carson is showing that he's playing better than J. J. McCarthy,
I still think he's going to go with who gives
him the best option to win.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah. Well, you know it's interesting. I got that.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Texting troller that you know, tried to from listening to
me things I don't like JJ and that I want
to give up on, which is just as preposterous as
it gets. But somebody sent me an email to comment
at KFE and dot com yesterday saying something to the
effect of if you're a team that was feeling your
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window was open and coming off a fourteen and three season,
I think the Vikings felt that way, particularly what the
moves they made.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
They decided to.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Refurbished the middle of the offensive line and the defensive lines,
and I don't think you make those moves and spend
that kind of free agent money on veterans if you
don't want to win right now, right that's a lot
of money to spend. They hat it, but guys that
are longer, and there's damn you know the two offensive
lineman which we're thirty and thirty two or twenty eight
and thirty one, I don't know, they and coming off injuries.
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So I think they certainly did want to win. And
the question from the emailer was, if that is the case,
is it really wise to start a rookie quarterback which
you're not he's basically a rookie where you're just sure freshman, yes,
where you're just not sure what you're going to get.
And you could make that argument, or you could say
that's the way the league is now. It happens all
the time. I mean, first round picks oftentimes start right away.
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It's like, okay, kid, we're counting on you, and you
want to get is much out of him while he's
on that rookie contract, if you wait three years like
they've done with they did with Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay.
They did it with Jordan Love right, well now is
love and is like his and did he I'm a
new deal I don't even recall, but yes, okay, so
then they didn't paid they didn't get a lot out
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of him under the rookie contract, right, So you know
it's it can be a bit more complicated than that.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
But jajj is also a very young quarterback. Yes, well
that's like some of these guys out, you know, like
our opponent on Sunday, Dylan Gabriel.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
He played six years of college.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
J J.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
McCarthy played three, right as you know, twenty one years.
You know, twenty one years. He was the youngest quarterback
coming out of that draft. Yes, and and and then
you add the other layer of.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
What was the other layer I wanted to do? Well,
I forget it doesn't matter. I think I think you
get the point of what we're trying to say. If
you are trying to win now, that can be a
little that can be a little dangerous to place.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Oh, I know, I was gonna say.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
There's also because the emailer said, do you think O'Connell's
a snake oil salesman? I said, well, no, I said
a theory I've had and I heard from a source.
I think that I sort of kind of trust said that.
You know, all these guys have egos, and I think
O'Connor believes he can he can take any quarterback and
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coach him up and make him great.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
And he probably can't. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I you know, he gets a lot of credit for Darnold.
I've pushed back a little on that and said it
didn't hurt to be on the bench for a year
in San Francisco watching Rock Purty and Kyle Shanahan take
a franchise to the big game.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Lbit.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
They lost, but still, and you got a pretty good
quarterbacks coach too. But maybe you start thinking yourself. You know,
everybody's saying it, and I believe it, and I think
I can. I don't need a veteran quarterback. I can
coach this kid up quickly, get his feet and his
vision focused. That's the big thing with O'Connell. And I
can get this kid playing at a high level right away,
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and he still could because it is early.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
It is only two games.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
But it does make you wonder, and so I think
we'll probably we'll get more answers after this game. How
Wentz performs and then how McCarthy I was recovering from
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Speaker 5 (21:13):
I don't mean to read at the very least the
comments from koc leads me to believe they're going to
take their time with JJ coming back. Yes, right, like, oh,
you probably could go, let's get you in there. I
don't think that's the case. I think I think they're
going to wait this out as much as they can
to see what they got in carsons.
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doesn't and and I and I know it probably annoys
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I guess I just keep.
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I guess for lack of a better phrase. But we
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it starts in the fall.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
It's in the winter.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
It's usually on the weekends, noon games. I'm not doing
anything outdoors. I'm not golfing anymore, so I like it's
once a week.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
It's great.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
And then we talked about can you watch any game now?
You because you have fantasy football in underdog sports, you
know things going on for you, you can watch maybe
not every game person. It's hard for me. But the
reason I'm bringing this up tonight is a good football game,
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or at least we have a pair of three and
one teams in the same division San Francisco forty nine ers,
and I think it's at LA.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Is that correct? They're taking on the Rams. That's the
game that piques my interest.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Well, I don't know if it's going to peak your interests.
Why is San Francisco's offense is completely decimated, so brock
Party's out. Their top two wide receivers John Jennings and
Ricky Purse Pearce.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
All are out. What about Deebo Sax.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
That's why if you look at your NFL spread, swing
Rams are favored by eight and a half in this one,
just because San Francisco is so beat up. So I'm
not certain it's going to be the game that maybe
you thought it would be.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Well, then you know what, I appreciate you alerting me
to that fact that I don't have to worry about it.
I think I'll be up and I'll be up.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
In nis Wat. Your Shoffles will be behind you.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I'll be in Camp Bridges and maybe I'll go work
on my game instead of we'll begintting dark about that.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
But maybe I'll do something else. But that would still
the NFL, so it's still be good. But that would
generally peak my curity out.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Now, how it has in Maddy Ice is he is
he got a creaky back or am I imagining.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
He did in the preseason, but he hasn't missed any actions. Yeah,
very good, Okay, we'll see that. He seems to be playing.
I speaking of spread swing that's coming up at one thirty.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Marcoros will show up a half hour earlyer than normal
on a Thursday, and then Deuce will join us. I think,
I don't know if you'll be via via phone, Deuces.
He's going to be working remotely on Friday. He's going
back to Lincoln again. What now, this is for homecoming
and you know, Deuce's his girlfriend. Their family really likes
(27:17):
Dues and so they want them to come. They have
a big party at a banquet. Nurse, you know they're
that's it's that's it's a big homecoming is a big
deal in Lincoln. There's nothing else to do, right, So
he was going to drive to Lincoln, drive back, and
then his company has some training form in Madison, and
then he was going to drive to Madison Sunday and
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then I don't know how many days the training is
and then drive back from Madison.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I said, dude, you're making money now, why don't you
Why don't you fly?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
But he doesn't want to spend the money, but I
convinced him to at least get on a plane. That's
why you make money, and time is money. Get on
instead of driving the it's a six and a half
hour drive to Lincoln, and then if you include a
couple of stops, you're talking about seven and a half
hours in the car to go to Lincoln in seventy
that's fifteen hours over time.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Don't do that.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Go the plane ticket round trip is about five hundred bucks.
That's a lot of money. But if you go, time
is money and then gas money, right, I mean, you
know the gas is gonna be what one hundred and
fifty bucks because he's got a jeep and the thing
just burns gas. He gets about four miles to the gown.
So I've convinced him to do that. So he's leaving
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work a little early. Maybe he'll roll over here and
pop in and be in person for spread sweat because
he's got to get to the airport. The flight leaves
I think at three thirty or four o'clock, but that's
coming up.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
A little blight costs you pretty crazy these days.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Yeah, yeah, five hundreds a lot of money, but you know,
he's making money.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Now, he's making good money.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I almost forced him into it, so I told him
I'll pay for a little bit of it, because I
think he went I would have flown not only would
have flown to Lincoln and back, I would have flown
to Madison's pack too.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
His company is probably paying for his his mileage and
that kind of thing too. But nevertheless, teach his own
I saw the twins fired Baldeli. Was that Monday or Tuesday?
It was Monday, Well, regardless of what day, it doesn't
really matter. And and after the after the you know,
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after the reverberation settled down a little bit in the
reaction to to you know, it was Baldeli escapegoat.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Was he mediocre at his job? So it was a
combination of the two.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
I think what we're hearing out of the goose that
laid the golden egg is they don't think he was
very adept at developing players, because that's really I've talked
about it, Tenney, this is it's just it's so interesting
that I've got to pull that pocket protectors at every turn.
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It doesn't matter what they say, they're always wrong. We
talk about this all the time selling hope, right. We
got all these prospects. We've got Miranda, We've got Julian,
We've got Royce Lewis, We've got Larnick Wallner, we got
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brooks Lee, Cody Clemens, got all these players.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
We're gonna be really good.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
We're gonna go We're gonna have a deep and talented lineup,
and this and then and the other thing, and then
what happens that that's that's hope selling is what it is.
And that's what I've always said about these young guys.
You know, what are they prospects? Are suspect until the
prospects or.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Something like that.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
There's an old saying about it. But it's not that
some of those players haven't had flashes. They've had stretches
and moments. But is it a man manager's job to
develop those guys?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Is that part of his job? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
And sometimes, you know, can you really make the Mona
Lise out of a clump oft clich No? Not Mona
Lise was the statue of David without the arms right,
you can see.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
His private parts? Can you make I mean, you know,
can you make that out of at out of a
out of a can of play though.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
In other words, yeah, manager probably should be responsible helping
develop players. But if the player, if there's nothing there
to develop because they're really they're just okay, and then
you oversold them and you overrated them, then is it
really his fault? But nevertheless, that's what they've decided to do.
Now the conversation becomes who should the Twins hire for manager?
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Bobby Nightingale writes beat Wright a fisher re factory west Side.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
He did a piece. What do we say today? Is
the second so two days ago he wrote a piece.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
He throws out all sorts of names. Brandon hw former
Orioles manager. He was the twenty twenty three American League
Manager of the Years.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
I love that how you could be the manager of
the year and then two years out of a later
out of a job malltor Yeah ball Dellie.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
And then one hundred and three wins season he was
manager of the year. He's not anymore, and Hyde was
manager of the year just two years ago. He's out.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Skip Schumacher Rangers senior advisor. He joined the Rangers as
an advisor to Chris Young, the president of baseball operations,
after his time in Miami created some speculation and be
the manager and waiting there with Bruce bochie De partying
after an eighty one and eighty one season. Craig Albernaz
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Guardians associate manager. I didn't know they had associate managers.
When did that start?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Associate can I mean the associate producer? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Oh, I like that associate producer because you've morphed into
luxury producer because that's a luxury a half somebody like you.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Associate manager. When did that position.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Become available or it become a real position. You know,
you had a manager, and then you had your assistant coaches,
and you know that was it. You had a third
base coach, first base coach, hitting coach, pitching coach, bullpen coach.
I don't know if you had a bullpen coach that
was actually that's jah. Now we've got assistant manager. I
wonder if there's an assistant. I don't know if there's
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an assistant to the associate manager. If there's an associate
to the associate manager, I don't know who these people are.
Derek Shelton, former Pirates manager.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
We've ford of that. I know that name is well.
He was a Twins bench coach for two seasons from
twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen. We love the guys that
once had a connection to us. His career record is
as a manager's three hundred and six wins, four hundred
and forty losses.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
He fit right in here, right, it's a four to
ten winning percentage. Zero postseason appearance. Is part of that
reason is Pittsburgh is one of the lowest funded teams
in the league.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
So again, he'd fit right in. Yeah, he would know,
he would, at least he would.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
He wouldn't he would know what to expect, right, he
might not be able to do anything with a with
with with a low number pay roll like he wasn't
able to do in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
At least he knows it's coming.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Uh. And then, by the way, Levelly Neil rob is
going to get to Lovelly o neil's list as well.
Lovell O'Neil has this name on his list, Tory Hunter Angels.
Special's not just an assistant to.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Me, He's a special assistant. I wonder if they have
an extra.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Special assistant because that's what I'd like to be. Yeah,
you're a special assistant. I'm extra special.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
What Lavell wrote, was he once heard because I Hunter.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Managed something or other some I don't know what it was,
some not the big team, but it's something light, you know,
with some I don't know. I look at Lebell's apiece
and apparently LaBelle said that Tory said I could manage
major League baseball, And at first Levell thought he was kidding.
But now Leavell thinks there's a possibility because I think
Tory Hunter does want to be a manager. David Bell
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is the Blue Jays assistant general manager. James Rowson Yankees
hitting coach. He used to be our hitting coach. David
Ross former Cubs manager. His record was two sixty two
to eighty four four eighty winning percentage. You would fit
in right here. George Lombard is the Tigers bench coach.
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I mean, these aren't all of these names. I recognize
one or two of them. I don't know if there's
a lot to differentiate each one from another. Scott LeBell
had five names on his list, including Derek Shelton and
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UH and Tory Hunter. So we had two of the
names that night and a game.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Yeah, we had to do the Minnesota Connections. Yes. Then
there's Jason Tingler.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Jingler man in San Diego in twenty twenty and twenty
twenty one, leading the Padres to a wildcard berth in
his first season and finishing as the runner up in
the National League.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Banners that they're voting. Things didn't end well.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
There though, so he was so he would have to
explain why things would be different here. He's also got
Rouson on there and Tory Hunter the other name. He asked,
Toby garden Hier, right, well, you have to have that
name on there. I don't see how you can get
I would take Molly in a second. He label writes
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about garden Hier, who has more knowledge about development within
this organization than garden Higher. He has help players reach
the majors. He's used to getting them back on track
when they were sent down. He spent the last five
seasons with the Saints as manager. As many current Twins
moved through the way moved through on the way.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
To the majors. Don't expect the Twins to make a
home run higher. Don't expect them to land the best
candidate on the market or someone with big name recognition.
The next manager of the Twins could come from a
list like this, one, consider your expectations managed. This is
a little punchline at the end.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
And again these names. I don't know, Tennebee, I don't
even know. What do you ask them to in interviews?
If they agree to an interview, and then what do
they ask you? You know, we we had Chips Gogins
with us yesterday and we talked about the managerial opening
and Chip basically said the same thing.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
He said, you know, if a manager comes in here
and so, well, what you know?
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I yeah, Hey, I'm I'm I'm humbled that you're that
you've invited me in for a interview for the manager's job.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
But why would I want to take it by you?
Speaker 7 (37:55):
You?
Speaker 3 (37:56):
You decimated the team, he traded eleven players, You cut
your payroll.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Are you gonna cut the payroll more? Am? I? I
mean do I even have a chance? Is there even
a chance? And do you care?
Speaker 3 (38:06):
I mean if if, if, if we have another losing season,
A you're gonna blame me when you're really not offering
any help. I'm not a magician. I'm not a miracle
worker here. I mean, what do you expect?
Speaker 2 (38:17):
That would be the question you would want to get.
But I don't know if you'd get that.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
You might get it one from the from the veteran guys,
but other guys will take it no matter what the
situation is. Right the manager in big league baseball, I
don't care if you have no payroll. I don't care
if if we're taking volunteers out of the stands to
play baseball. I am now I can believe that's it.
I'm a manager in Big League baseball.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
It's a good payday, and it's a good maybe not
so much here, but right right, generally speaking, it's a
good day and then And the truth.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Of the matter is, really will it really make a difference.
I just don't know that it does, because.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
It's your part, Like you want to know what the
vision of this franchise is, because I think right now
we don't know. I've said before, I think there's a
possibility they still cut more salary this winter just because
they brought in minority help with funds. I'm not convinced
all of a sudden up payrolls back to normal. They
just had a season in which attendance was an all
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time low at target Field. Other than the COVID year,
I don't see a scenario in which that's getting any
better next year.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
The pole Ads allegedly apparently we're struggling at least in
revenue that they had to bring on minority owners. So
like they've always treated it like a business, they are
going to make money first. So I still envision money
is going to be cut. Potentially like a Joe Ryan,
I could see not being here next year. So that's
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a lot for a manager jump on into that. Plus
they're gonna still paying rocke belt ally for another year,
so it's not like they're just gonna be handing big
bucks for a man to come in either.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
So yeah, at the end of the day, it really
probably doesn't matter too much.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Lastly, before we go to break and do five three
four and then wait for Rosie to come in, uh
and Induced to join us as well. You know, we
were talking about the quarterback situation here. Do you if
McCarthy's healthy and you're play him right away, you let him?
Do you want to you know, do you want to
contin you know, especially if Wentz plays well. The discussion
(40:31):
was just you do you go with Wentz if he
continues to play well, or do you go with McCarthy
no matter what? When he's healthy, And there are several
people that texted and they seem to all want to
go with the kid. This one says, the season is over,
put j J in and take the bubble wrap off
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the kid. Let me get you a couple more here,
real quick, tan to me. This one says, based on
the first four games, we already know the Bikes are
not a super Bowl team this year, So play the
kid as soon as he's healthy.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
It isn't rocket science. And then another one said.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
The Bears like Caleb Williams take sixty plus sacks last year,
and he's showing some progress. I saw him, I saw
roll him out. I say, roll him out there and
let him grow. They aren't winning the big game anyways.
If it doesn't turn out to be good, And I.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Guess have we determined that yet? Well determined what? Well?
Speaker 5 (41:34):
Just the season's over already, Like I get it, it
doesn't look good, and I would I would lean towards
that being the case. But who knows if this and
I don't know if we're ever going to get to
the point where the roster is healthy. But if the
roster is fully healthy and everything's going, could they be
a playoff team.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
I think they could. And if you're a playoff team,
you played to win a big.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Game, and well, besides that, I guess you'd have to
do it. No team is going to publicly admit we're.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Just playing out the string. They're not going to say.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
Maybe inside those walls after four games and maybe this
this next game, let's let's say the Vikings lose again.
Let's said they lose to the Browns, they go to
two and three, they've got myriad injuries. Once is just okay. Anyway,
you're not going to publicly say we're starting JJ McCarthy
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because we think the season's over. You're not going to
say that, But maybe inside the office, you're saying, in
the inside that building, you say to yourself, nobody say
this publicly, but I think we all.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Agree we ain't going anywhere this year. So let's play McCarthy.
So you know, you, I understand that. I understand that.
Thinking that it's like.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
You know, we're a terrible team in a terrible city
with terrible fans, but this team you're you can't convince
me that that they made those moves in the offensive
and defensive line. Signing aging veteran free agents, to big
contracts because they were just trying to get JJ ready
to play, and they came into the season.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
We were fourteen and three last year. Our offensive line
let us down.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
I think I can coach McCarthy to play everybody as
good as Darnold. We can make the playoffs you get
and make a run this time. That's what they're thinking.
And I don't I don't think they're giving up on
that yet. To your point, I don't think after.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Four weeks No. Two and two team in the National
footb League is giving up there. Absolutely can't do that. Well,
Break will come back. Five, maybe the Bengals, Well, there
you go, five, three, four. The Vikings and Browns have
reached a new low.
Bad command, common man, no show people solid plan.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Since we can't adel the secit a broach, unfail. It's
time for common man, com uncommon man charge house ones
like going can what shoot?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Word?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
We play's nonsense?
Speaker 5 (00:24):
Object to day to day.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
It's time for common man.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Oh boy, why should anybody aspire to be a common man?
An average man? Do you realize what it means to
be average? That means you're the best of the lousiest
and the lousiest of the best. Now, if we demand
more and more for producing less and less while they
have not, nations encourage and inspire and indeed require hard
(00:52):
work and maximum effort. If we deify the common man
while they encourage and reward the uncommon ones, well, end
result of such a lopsided races that is too obvious
to require elaboration.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Hell yeah, baby, just keep battling it, Just keep battling
(01:27):
the keep battling.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Do you think that's an information I would like to know?
To dry your own conclusions?
Speaker 6 (01:41):
People, I gotta say that I read all the way
here because I thought I would be talking to the
(02:02):
common guy. Let me tell them only because the guy
I mean, he's not I'm talking about this radio. That
guy's not.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
It's good thing here. I'll have to pass along that
you're a fan of the common.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
Man, right in, a silly fan. But I wouldn't sell
the guy. He's nuts.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
I love the common man.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Yeah, I love the common man. I know nothing nothing
very funny, very funny. That may be school duggery.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I had.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Both wearing woman's on the war part of your thing.
Speaker 7 (03:03):
Yeah, baby, back to the spotlight, young, Well, I've never
seen the clown from Brown.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
He's the fourth in the North.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
It's not this.
Speaker 8 (03:20):
He is the common man, dank light. It's not the moonlight.
That's Bobby Blue Bland.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Nineteen Bobby Blue Bland nineteen seventy or something. And I
just thought of it for the first time in years
because of the spotlight thing. I said, welcome back to
the spotlight. And I said, I really, I've really never
left the spotlight. Quite frankly, greetings.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
Good afternoon. N ak akadak and dak daka act you
in yours.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
I'm common He's tending to be rosing it to what
more do you need to know so much to get
to Major League Baseball playoffs?
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Continues.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
It's the second day of the rest of our lives
with Carill Caprice off under contract the beginning of the
first of eight By the way Tennabee did he had
a year to go. Did they just roll that into
one as it now seven years?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
I don't understand how that went.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
Contract starts after the next year. He's with us for
the next nine years. So it's the first day of
the next day of the year of nine years. The Vikings,
I don't know if they've done anything with the offensive line.
I don't think there's much they can do to have
the twins hired a manager. Yet there's so much to
get to. I don't know where to begin. So why
don't we spin the wheel off topic.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Commons golf games?
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Oh, it was a special day to what did you
shoot today? Eight zero nine over eight zero? We played
at River Falls Golf Course ssconsin.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Where'd you hit it on?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
One?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Right up the gut? As good a drive as I
can hit? I don't know. River Falls A Part four,
Part Part four? How far from the green? I had
a hybrid in my hand, second topped it it rolled through.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
That was one of those you know where sometimes you'll
have a bunker and then there's a little grass after
the bunker and then there's a bunker again. I ended
up going through the bunker and ended up in the
grass erie between the two bunkers.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
So I caught a break. I five iron might as
well be a pitch fork.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Then what well, I didn't really take advantage of it.
I had one fifteen to the green and.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I hit it short. But then I hit a brilliant
ship to a foot made bogie. I had a.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
See nine then were uh nine over? That means I
had nine by one birdie, So I must have had
I don't know how many how would that be? I
don't know how many pars and bogies I had. I
know I had one bird in the rest for Parson.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
One birdy in one bogie. Yeah. Uh bogies? Yeah, I
know what I said.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I had one very yeah and eight parts seven parts.
That's exactly right. I didn't play nineteen holes.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I played today with with It was Roube golf today.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I got auctioned off at the Danny Boy Open.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Auctioned off. The people will actually pay money to play
golf with me. Actually, they're thinking, well, as long as
I'm donating to the charity, I might as well get
something out of it and then they had an opportunity
to play with common Uh. Jake was my host and
his brother has Cohen syndrome co O h e N.
It's a rare inherited genetic disorder that affects multiple body systems,
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the vision and everything. It's it's ugly. They're they're there
are not a lot of them that appear as kind
of rare as I just said, but they're raising money
for research. And so the Danny Boy opened and they
auctioned me off and we hit knock down, punch, cut,
fade draws.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
It was delightful.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Got to meet the owner of the golf course, Tony
Bloom is lovely wife Holly is also a part of
that team, and they bought it a couple of years
ago and they love owning a golf course. It was
fun and the weather was terrific, and we raised money
and so I feel I feel good. I feel better
about my game heading into Golf Toberfest. I'm out tomorrow.
The ten of Fitzgerald will set sail about twelve my
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guests to start the day.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It'll be.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Partly cloudy skies, a light breeze, a zephyr, as we
say with temperature somewhere in the seventies and eighties, and
who knows if it will stay that way the entire voyage,
or will dark clouds begin to cluster and approach the
ten of Fitzgerald.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I'm not sure what do you have? But we're well
prepared with lifeboats. Do you have?
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Hear tomorrow's trip, so I think, regardless of the weather,
who are your lifeboats? Well, we have Pete bercich okay
talk about Vikings Browns twelve thirty.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Well, I thought he would be talking about I thought
it was the Vikings interior decorator. I thought I was
gonna be talking about what they did over at the
new Winter Park for color schemes and such like that.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
But I'm assuming they'll be joints in one. I guess
I should communicate with her first.
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Blake Moore's hosting, so I'm leaving that up to him. Oh,
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before he's played a time or two. Yes, he's hard
to get tracked down, but at least the Wolf season
hasn't started yet.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
I do remember him playing it were we were he
and it teamates. I'm sure you have. I know he
was in here one time for sure. Okay, very good.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
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So that's a shock. You're talking hockey, the Jolly Green Giant.
It's good.
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At least they're you know, they're in the news now timely. Yeah,
it's very This is about the start. We just locked
up Caprice of its funny, no one's I'm talking about
the gust bust negotiations.
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How's it going with the gus busy? I haven't heard
much about it.
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It's been on the back burner because we've just been
consumed with Caprisa this whole time.
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Can you send that sound by Tooman?
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Is there a way to send it from the system
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I've been hosting Golf Toberfest a Grand View for thirteen
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You can't tell the difference between a dark roast, a
medium roast and a light roast. And my only request
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I rubbed the Genies lamps. She popped out. Is any
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Here in our break room. I would like to have
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Today we go into week number five of the National
Football League season. It's the Vikings last game before the
bye week to the first team ever to play I think,
the first team ever to play back to back games
in two different countries, right. I think somebody told us
that there was Jacksonville did it, But this is the
first time where it's been in because that was the
very first ever game in Dublin. And then there's the
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game in London this weekend against the Browns, and then
the Vikings have their bye week.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I saw some we know that Carson Wentz will start.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
JJ McCarthy, the supposed, the alleged the hope for franchise
quarterback for the soon to be Big Game World champion
of Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Vikings played the first two weeks.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Week one, he won the NFC Offensive Player of the
Week with his scintillating fourth quarter performance, and all was
right with the world.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
And then it was back to the.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Basics as Whaling, Jennings and Willie Nelson won'ts sing sang song,
or at least it was Whalan. He didn't play very
well again. Then he sprained his ankle and he has
not played since. Carson Wentz has been our QB. I
wonder though, Tennabe, You know, everybody sort of expects that
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JJ as soon as his ankle will allow him to,
he will be back under center and be the starting quarterback,
which would be not next week but the week after
when they take on Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
But I saw this quote from O'Connell fisherp Factory West Side.
This was a story from It's Today. Tomorrow is the.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Third right, so it was yesterday and the dateline is
where England. You're supposed to say, I don't know where.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I don't know where in England. No where England, England's
and Europe. No no, no, no, no where England.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Yeah, it's part of that I'm not gonna act like
I know everything to associated with the Great Britain where
there's multiple countries kind of connected that one little area.
They're like an island nation, but they're on the heage.
Certainly one more England is like, how embarrassing is that?
I know you didn't graduate high school, but that's just embarrassing.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
I do know this where England is located somewhere on
the boot part of of of England.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Oh soo, England's a brand name of a boot you
want to wear? You want to wear it? Okay, got it?
That little boot part in Europe.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
That's exactly what that is. Here's what Here's what O'Connell
said about Wins. I've been really happy with him. You
really peel back the layers on it. He's two tipball
interceptions and having a pretty clean sheet and running our
offense helping.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Us score in some points. Consistency amongst all the eleven
guys in offense, regardless of who's in, is what we're
looking for, because we feel when we do the little things,
we can have a good day on offense. Do you
think he's setting the stage, setting the table to say, hey, Carson,
opportunity to play against the team he started his are
you with uh?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
You know?
Speaker 2 (16:01):
And JJ Spielde's at the ankle.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
You know that that he's a right handed quarterback, so
you know you want to be that plant foot you
you don't, you don't want to take any chances. And
we're gonna go with Carson again for another week? Do
you think that's or am I just imagine anythings?
Speaker 2 (16:14):
You know me?
Speaker 5 (16:15):
I'm always I thought from the get go, because we
talked about it after Carson's first game, right when they
when they walked all over the Cincinnati Bengals, and the
question was, oh, if Carson repeats this performance, do you
stick with him?
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Now?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
They didn't necessarily repeat that performance against Pittsburgh, but I
didn't think Carson was the reason why that they didn't.
And if you have any trepidation on JJ to begin
with throwing him into Philadelphia Chargers, Lions Baltimore with at
this point like one or two starting offensive lineman, that
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doesn't sound like a recipe for developing her quarterback. I
tend I do think Chaos like doesn't like to I mean,
most head coaches don't like to lose, but I don't
think Koc is like a, Hey, I'm okay. Having two
years of struggles to develop our quarterback three, I still
think he's got a lot of win now to him.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Yes, as do most most head coaches do. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
So if Carson is showing that he's playing better than J. J. McCarthy,
I still think he's going to go with who gives
him the best option to win.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yeah. Well, you know it's interesting. I got that.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Texting troller that you know, tried to from listening to
me things I don't like JJ and that I want
to give up on, which is just as preposterous as
it gets. But somebody sent me an email to comment
at KFE and dot com yesterday saying something to the
effect of if you're a team that was feeling your
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window was open and coming off a fourteen and three season,
I think the Vikings felt that way, particularly what the
moves they made.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
They decided to.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Refurbished the middle of the offensive line and the defensive lines,
and I don't think you make those moves and spend
that kind of free agent money on veterans if you
don't want to win right now, right that's a lot
of money to spend. They hat it, but guys that
are longer, and there's damn you know the two offensive
lineman which we're thirty and thirty two or twenty eight
and thirty one, I don't know, they and coming off injuries.
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So I think they certainly did want to win. And
the question from the emailer was, if that is the case,
is it really wise to start a rookie quarterback which
you're not he's basically a rookie where you're just sure freshman, yes,
where you're just not sure what you're going to get.
And you could make that argument, or you could say
that's the way the league is now. It happens all
the time. I mean, first round picks oftentimes start right away.
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It's like, okay, kid, we're counting on you, and you
want to get is much out of him while he's
on that rookie contract, if you wait three years like
they've done with they did with Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay.
They did it with Jordan Love right, well now is
love and is like his and did he I'm a
new deal I don't even recall, but yes, okay, so
then they didn't paid they didn't get a lot out
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of him under the rookie contract, right, So you know
it's it can be a bit more complicated than that.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
But jajj is also a very young quarterback. Yes, well
that's like some of these guys out, you know, like
our opponent on Sunday, Dylan Gabriel.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
He played six years of college.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
J J.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
McCarthy played three, right as you know, twenty one years.
You know, twenty one years. He was the youngest quarterback
coming out of that draft. Yes, and and and then
you add the other layer of.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
What was the other layer I wanted to do? Well,
I forget it doesn't matter. I think I think you
get the point of what we're trying to say. If
you are trying to win now, that can be a
little that can be a little dangerous to place.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Oh, I know, I was gonna say.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
There's also because the emailer said, do you think O'Connell's
a snake oil salesman? I said, well, no, I said
a theory I've had and I heard from a source.
I think that I sort of kind of trust said that.
You know, all these guys have egos, and I think
O'Connor believes he can he can take any quarterback and
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coach him up and make him great.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
And he probably can't. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I you know, he gets a lot of credit for Darnold.
I've pushed back a little on that and said it
didn't hurt to be on the bench for a year
in San Francisco watching Rock Purty and Kyle Shanahan take
a franchise to the big game.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Lbit.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
They lost, but still, and you got a pretty good
quarterbacks coach too. But maybe you start thinking yourself. You know,
everybody's saying it, and I believe it, and I think
I can. I don't need a veteran quarterback. I can
coach this kid up quickly, get his feet and his
vision focused. That's the big thing with O'Connell. And I
can get this kid playing at a high level right away,
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and he still could because it is early.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
It is only two games.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
But it does make you wonder, and so I think
we'll probably we'll get more answers after this game. How
Wentz performs and then how McCarthy I was recovering from
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Speaker 5 (21:13):
I don't mean to read at the very least the
comments from koc leads me to believe they're going to
take their time with JJ coming back. Yes, right, like, oh,
you probably could go, let's get you in there. I
don't think that's the case. I think I think they're
going to wait this out as much as they can
to see what they got in carsons.
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Okay, the golf course there with the restaurant they also
but yeah, I think he said it was a fifty
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I think they're getting a little too excited at their excite.
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You know, Timy, we talked about this before about programming,
predicaments and watching sports and what interests me and what
doesn't and and I and I know it probably annoys
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people or maybe didn't not necessarily annoys them, but they
roll their eyes, shrug their shoulders and shake their heads
and say, well, how can you be working at the
all sports sports sports as you whole have just sports
station if you rarely watch sports sports sports, And it's
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
I guess I just keep.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
I just.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
I just keep fooling.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
I guess for lack of a better phrase. But we
have talked about I do like the National Football I
really do. Seventeen games regular season. It's in the middle
of win you know, not the middle of winter, but
it starts in the fall.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
It's in the winter.
Speaker 3 (25:18):
It's usually on the weekends, noon games. I'm not doing
anything outdoors. I'm not golfing anymore, so I like it's
once a week.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
It's great.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
And then we talked about can you watch any game now?
You because you have fantasy football in underdog sports, you
know things going on for you, you can watch maybe
not every game person. It's hard for me. But the
reason I'm bringing this up tonight is a good football game,
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or at least we have a pair of three and
one teams in the same division San Francisco forty nine ers,
and I think it's at LA.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Is that correct? They're taking on the Rams. That's the
game that piques my interest.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Well, I don't know if it's going to peak your interests.
Why is San Francisco's offense is completely decimated, so brock
Party's out. Their top two wide receivers John Jennings and
Ricky Purse Pearce.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
All are out. What about Deebo Sax.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
That's why if you look at your NFL spread, swing
Rams are favored by eight and a half in this one,
just because San Francisco is so beat up. So I'm
not certain it's going to be the game that maybe
you thought it would be.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Well, then you know what, I appreciate you alerting me
to that fact that I don't have to worry about it.
I think I'll be up and I'll be up.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
In nis Wat. Your Shoffles will be behind you.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I'll be in Camp Bridges and maybe I'll go work
on my game instead of we'll begintting dark about that.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
But maybe I'll do something else. But that would still
the NFL, so it's still be good. But that would
generally peak my curity out.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Now, how it has in Maddy Ice is he is
he got a creaky back or am I imagining.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
He did in the preseason, but he hasn't missed any actions. Yeah,
very good, Okay, we'll see that. He seems to be playing.
I speaking of spread swing that's coming up at one thirty.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Marcoros will show up a half hour earlyer than normal
on a Thursday, and then Deuce will join us. I think,
I don't know if you'll be via via phone, Deuces.
He's going to be working remotely on Friday. He's going
back to Lincoln again. What now, this is for homecoming
and you know, Deuce's his girlfriend. Their family really likes
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Dues and so they want them to come. They have
a big party at a banquet. Nurse, you know they're
that's it's that's it's a big homecoming is a big
deal in Lincoln. There's nothing else to do, right, So
he was going to drive to Lincoln, drive back, and
then his company has some training form in Madison, and
then he was going to drive to Madison Sunday and
(27:38):
then I don't know how many days the training is
and then drive back from Madison.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I said, dude, you're making money now, why don't you
Why don't you fly?
Speaker 3 (27:45):
But he doesn't want to spend the money, but I
convinced him to at least get on a plane. That's
why you make money, and time is money. Get on
instead of driving the it's a six and a half
hour drive to Lincoln, and then if you include a
couple of stops, you're talking about seven and a half
hours in the car to go to Lincoln in seventy
that's fifteen hours over time.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Don't do that.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Go the plane ticket round trip is about five hundred bucks.
That's a lot of money. But if you go, time
is money and then gas money, right, I mean, you
know the gas is gonna be what one hundred and
fifty bucks because he's got a jeep and the thing
just burns gas. He gets about four miles to the gown.
So I've convinced him to do that. So he's leaving
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work a little early. Maybe he'll roll over here and
pop in and be in person for spread sweat because
he's got to get to the airport. The flight leaves
I think at three thirty or four o'clock, but that's
coming up.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
A little blight costs you pretty crazy these days.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Yeah, yeah, five hundreds a lot of money, but you know,
he's making money.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Now, he's making good money.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
I almost forced him into it, so I told him
I'll pay for a little bit of it, because I
think he went I would have flown not only would
have flown to Lincoln and back, I would have flown
to Madison's pack too.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
His company is probably paying for his his mileage and
that kind of thing too. But nevertheless, teach his own
I saw the twins fired Baldeli. Was that Monday or Tuesday?
It was Monday, Well, regardless of what day, it doesn't
really matter. And and after the after the you know,
(29:32):
after the reverberation settled down a little bit in the
reaction to to you know, it was Baldeli escapegoat.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Was he mediocre at his job? So it was a
combination of the two.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
I think what we're hearing out of the goose that
laid the golden egg is they don't think he was
very adept at developing players, because that's really I've talked
about it, Tenney, this is it's just it's so interesting
that I've got to pull that pocket protectors at every turn.
(30:08):
It doesn't matter what they say, they're always wrong. We
talk about this all the time selling hope, right. We
got all these prospects. We've got Miranda, We've got Julian,
We've got Royce Lewis, We've got Larnick Wallner, we got
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brooks Lee, Cody Clemens, got all these players.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
We're gonna be really good.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
We're gonna go We're gonna have a deep and talented lineup,
and this and then and the other thing, and then
what happens that that's that's hope selling is what it is.
And that's what I've always said about these young guys.
You know, what are they prospects? Are suspect until the
prospects or.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Something like that.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
There's an old saying about it. But it's not that
some of those players haven't had flashes. They've had stretches
and moments. But is it a man manager's job to
develop those guys?
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Is that part of his job? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
And sometimes, you know, can you really make the Mona
Lise out of a clump oft clich No? Not Mona
Lise was the statue of David without the arms right,
you can see.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
His private parts? Can you make I mean, you know,
can you make that out of at out of a
out of a can of play though.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
In other words, yeah, manager probably should be responsible helping
develop players. But if the player, if there's nothing there
to develop because they're really they're just okay, and then
you oversold them and you overrated them, then is it
really his fault? But nevertheless, that's what they've decided to do.
Now the conversation becomes who should the Twins hire for manager?
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Bobby Nightingale writes beat Wright a fisher re factory west Side.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
He did a piece. What do we say today? Is
the second so two days ago he wrote a piece.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
He throws out all sorts of names. Brandon hw former
Orioles manager. He was the twenty twenty three American League
Manager of the Years.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
I love that how you could be the manager of
the year and then two years out of a later
out of a job malltor Yeah ball Dellie.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
And then one hundred and three wins season he was
manager of the year. He's not anymore, and Hyde was
manager of the year just two years ago. He's out.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
Skip Schumacher Rangers senior advisor. He joined the Rangers as
an advisor to Chris Young, the president of baseball operations,
after his time in Miami created some speculation and be
the manager and waiting there with Bruce bochie De partying
after an eighty one and eighty one season. Craig Albernaz
(32:43):
Guardians associate manager. I didn't know they had associate managers.
When did that start?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Associate can I mean the associate producer? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Oh, I like that associate producer because you've morphed into
luxury producer because that's a luxury a half somebody like you.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Associate manager. When did that position.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
Become available or it become a real position. You know,
you had a manager, and then you had your assistant coaches,
and you know that was it. You had a third
base coach, first base coach, hitting coach, pitching coach, bullpen coach.
I don't know if you had a bullpen coach that
was actually that's jah. Now we've got assistant manager. I
wonder if there's an assistant. I don't know if there's
(33:24):
an assistant to the associate manager. If there's an associate
to the associate manager, I don't know who these people are.
Derek Shelton, former Pirates manager.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
We've ford of that. I know that name is well.
He was a Twins bench coach for two seasons from
twenty eighteen to twenty nineteen. We love the guys that
once had a connection to us. His career record is
as a manager's three hundred and six wins, four hundred
and forty losses.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
He fit right in here, right, it's a four to
ten winning percentage. Zero postseason appearance. Is part of that
reason is Pittsburgh is one of the lowest funded teams
in the league.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
So again, he'd fit right in. Yeah, he would know,
he would, at least he would.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
He wouldn't he would know what to expect, right, he
might not be able to do anything with a with
with with a low number pay roll like he wasn't
able to do in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
At least he knows it's coming.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
Uh. And then, by the way, Levelly Neil rob is
going to get to Lovelly o neil's list as well.
Lovell O'Neil has this name on his list, Tory Hunter Angels.
Special's not just an assistant to.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
Me, He's a special assistant. I wonder if they have
an extra.
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Special assistant because that's what I'd like to be. Yeah,
you're a special assistant. I'm extra special.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
What Lavell wrote, was he once heard because I Hunter.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
Managed something or other some I don't know what it was,
some not the big team, but it's something light, you know,
with some I don't know. I look at Lebell's apiece
and apparently LaBelle said that Tory said I could manage
major League baseball, And at first Levell thought he was kidding.
But now Leavell thinks there's a possibility because I think
Tory Hunter does want to be a manager. David Bell
(35:15):
is the Blue Jays assistant general manager. James Rowson Yankees
hitting coach. He used to be our hitting coach. David
Ross former Cubs manager. His record was two sixty two
to eighty four four eighty winning percentage. You would fit
in right here. George Lombard is the Tigers bench coach.
(35:36):
I mean, these aren't all of these names. I recognize
one or two of them. I don't know if there's
a lot to differentiate each one from another. Scott LeBell
had five names on his list, including Derek Shelton and
(36:02):
UH and Tory Hunter. So we had two of the
names that night and a game.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Yeah, we had to do the Minnesota Connections. Yes. Then
there's Jason Tingler.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Jingler man in San Diego in twenty twenty and twenty
twenty one, leading the Padres to a wildcard berth in
his first season and finishing as the runner up in
the National League.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Banners that they're voting. Things didn't end well.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
There though, so he was so he would have to
explain why things would be different here. He's also got
Rouson on there and Tory Hunter the other name. He asked,
Toby garden Hier, right, well, you have to have that
name on there. I don't see how you can get
I would take Molly in a second. He label writes
(36:53):
about garden Hier, who has more knowledge about development within
this organization than garden Higher. He has help players reach
the majors. He's used to getting them back on track
when they were sent down. He spent the last five
seasons with the Saints as manager. As many current Twins
moved through the way moved through on the way.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
To the majors. Don't expect the Twins to make a
home run higher. Don't expect them to land the best
candidate on the market or someone with big name recognition.
The next manager of the Twins could come from a
list like this, one, consider your expectations managed. This is
a little punchline at the end.
Speaker 3 (37:24):
And again these names. I don't know, Tennebee, I don't
even know. What do you ask them to in interviews?
If they agree to an interview, and then what do
they ask you? You know, we we had Chips Gogins
with us yesterday and we talked about the managerial opening
and Chip basically said the same thing.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
He said, you know, if a manager comes in here
and so, well, what you know?
Speaker 3 (37:45):
I yeah, Hey, I'm I'm I'm humbled that you're that
you've invited me in for a interview for the manager's job.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
But why would I want to take it by you?
Speaker 7 (37:55):
You?
Speaker 3 (37:56):
You decimated the team, he traded eleven players, You cut
your payroll.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Are you gonna cut the payroll more? Am? I? I
mean do I even have a chance? Is there even
a chance? And do you care?
Speaker 3 (38:06):
I mean if if, if, if we have another losing season,
A you're gonna blame me when you're really not offering
any help. I'm not a magician. I'm not a miracle
worker here. I mean, what do you expect?
Speaker 2 (38:17):
That would be the question you would want to get.
But I don't know if you'd get that.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
You might get it one from the from the veteran guys,
but other guys will take it no matter what the
situation is. Right the manager in big league baseball, I
don't care if you have no payroll. I don't care
if if we're taking volunteers out of the stands to
play baseball. I am now I can believe that's it.
I'm a manager in Big League baseball.
Speaker 5 (38:39):
It's a good payday, and it's a good maybe not
so much here, but right right, generally speaking, it's a
good day and then And the truth.
Speaker 3 (38:47):
Of the matter is, really will it really make a difference.
I just don't know that it does, because.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
It's your part, Like you want to know what the
vision of this franchise is, because I think right now
we don't know. I've said before, I think there's a
possibility they still cut more salary this winter just because
they brought in minority help with funds. I'm not convinced
all of a sudden up payrolls back to normal. They
just had a season in which attendance was an all
(39:18):
time low at target Field. Other than the COVID year,
I don't see a scenario in which that's getting any
better next year.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
The pole Ads allegedly apparently we're struggling at least in
revenue that they had to bring on minority owners. So
like they've always treated it like a business, they are
going to make money first. So I still envision money
is going to be cut. Potentially like a Joe Ryan,
I could see not being here next year. So that's
(39:52):
a lot for a manager jump on into that. Plus
they're gonna still paying rocke belt ally for another year,
so it's not like they're just gonna be handing big
bucks for a man to come in either.
Speaker 2 (40:02):
So yeah, at the end of the day, it really
probably doesn't matter too much.
Speaker 3 (40:08):
Lastly, before we go to break and do five three
four and then wait for Rosie to come in, uh
and Induced to join us as well. You know, we
were talking about the quarterback situation here. Do you if
McCarthy's healthy and you're play him right away, you let him?
Do you want to you know, do you want to
contin you know, especially if Wentz plays well. The discussion
(40:31):
was just you do you go with Wentz if he
continues to play well, or do you go with McCarthy
no matter what? When he's healthy, And there are several
people that texted and they seem to all want to
go with the kid. This one says, the season is over,
put j J in and take the bubble wrap off
(40:52):
the kid. Let me get you a couple more here,
real quick, tan to me. This one says, based on
the first four games, we already know the Bikes are
not a super Bowl team this year, So play the
kid as soon as he's healthy.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
It isn't rocket science. And then another one said.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
The Bears like Caleb Williams take sixty plus sacks last year,
and he's showing some progress. I saw him, I saw
roll him out. I say, roll him out there and
let him grow. They aren't winning the big game anyways.
If it doesn't turn out to be good, And I.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
Guess have we determined that yet? Well determined what? Well?
Speaker 5 (41:34):
Just the season's over already, Like I get it, it
doesn't look good, and I would I would lean towards
that being the case. But who knows if this and
I don't know if we're ever going to get to
the point where the roster is healthy. But if the
roster is fully healthy and everything's going, could they be
a playoff team.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
I think they could. And if you're a playoff team,
you played to win a big.
Speaker 3 (41:55):
Game, and well, besides that, I guess you'd have to
do it. No team is going to publicly admit we're.
Speaker 2 (42:05):
Just playing out the string. They're not going to say.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
Maybe inside those walls after four games and maybe this
this next game, let's let's say the Vikings lose again.
Let's said they lose to the Browns, they go to
two and three, they've got myriad injuries. Once is just okay. Anyway,
you're not going to publicly say we're starting JJ McCarthy
(42:30):
because we think the season's over. You're not going to
say that, But maybe inside the office, you're saying, in
the inside that building, you say to yourself, nobody say
this publicly, but I think we all.
Speaker 2 (42:40):
Agree we ain't going anywhere this year. So let's play McCarthy.
So you know, you, I understand that. I understand that.
Thinking that it's like.
Speaker 3 (42:48):
You know, we're a terrible team in a terrible city
with terrible fans, but this team you're you can't convince
me that that they made those moves in the offensive
and defensive line. Signing aging veteran free agents, to big
contracts because they were just trying to get JJ ready
to play, and they came into the season.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
We were fourteen and three last year. Our offensive line
let us down.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
I think I can coach McCarthy to play everybody as
good as Darnold. We can make the playoffs you get
and make a run this time. That's what they're thinking.
And I don't I don't think they're giving up on
that yet. To your point, I don't think after.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Four weeks No. Two and two team in the National
footb League is giving up there. Absolutely can't do that. Well,
Break will come back. Five, maybe the Bengals, Well, there
you go, five, three, four. The Vikings and Browns have
reached a new low.
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