December 16, 2025 • 40 mins
Common Man Hour 1 --Tenna's Back --Peek at the Purple --NBA Cup --Vikings, Wild, Wolves --Quinn Hughes Trade
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Speaker 5 (03:31):
Good afternoon in ac Acadac and Daca actually in yours.
First of all, off air business, closer to the Chad
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during my first break. No, yeah, I hip cricket. After
working so well, I can check my emails. That's not
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But that's another that's a whole nother. Oh no, I
know what happened.
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It's my password for my password and my password I
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that email You have to change your password. You get
into the email by the what's the day tomorrow, the seventeenth,
until the seventeenth, And I changed that today successfully on
my own.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
That's the second time I've been able to change my
email pass code all by my lonesome. I'm so proud
of myself. I feel like, you know the song watching
Scottie Girl. Did it like Nickey Mouse? Oh that's a shock,
that's my boy. I felt just like watching this cirk
at that. Well, I I but I put the wrong
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code it.
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I'll fix that.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
So anyway, I'm onto you, cap. You didn't fool me.
Well you did it first, you know, I get the
text not coming in. What, by the way, what is
your contract expired?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Couple of years? Always have that much.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I was hoping to say a couple of months, because
I think you were trying to show your value to
the program. So on the day, after waiting all day
for Sunday night, JJ McCarthy puts together nine puts together
his best probably his best game as a pro, certainly
this one and the one against Washington very very good.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Right, So we win, looking forward.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
To a montage and then the Skate Riots not the
Wild anymore. We're back to being the skate Routes. Make
a blockbuster trade that's still reverberating across the National Hockey League.
It's a matter of fact. It's cracked ice over at
Grand Casino Arena.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
The ice cracked. It was reverberating so hard, so myself,
the audience.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
We're all looking forward to a great I was thinking
maybe even a double montage. You know, you do those
double montages where you'll do the vikings and all of
a sudden, the scratching of the record, then we'll break
into another one. I thought we'd have one for the
Wild and the Wolves won. Both Gopher teams.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
Yeah, My plan was to do a lovely day montage
with all three teams, since it was the first time
since two thousand and three they've all won on a
Sunday together.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
And then you don't show about. We'll show com We'll
see how he does. And I'll admit it was a
struggle I found. Really Sam Bird's fine. Sam's only done
the show twice. This was his second time. He gets
the bit, but he doesn't know all the nuances there was,
and I didn't ask him to. He sent me a text,
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is there any audio or other needs you have?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I said no, let's wing it.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Then he texted back, why did I know that's what
you were.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Going to say?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
And then the laughing emodes, you know, with the tears
coming out of the smiley face guy's eyes, And I said,
it's free form radio. The danger of free form radio.
It offen leads to a free fall. And we were falling.
It was we were Tom petting the Heartbreakers yesterday. We
were free falling. We were in a tailor. We were
we were we were Gary Lewis and the Jayhawks. We
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were in a tailspin. We got out of it, survived.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
You know.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
It's sort of like when a plane's gonna land on
a runway, full flaps, full flaps, It runs out of a room,
it skids off the end of the runway, but you know,
everything's fine. That's what it was like, because I did
miss the montage. There was no montage to be played.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Sam didn't know about.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Just just bashing the soundboard right the button bar, just
hammering it over and over again. So I had to
add that we did do a five three four. He
wasn't aware of the bumping me in and out of breaks,
which I can't do radio anymore without hearing that music.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I told him. I said, if I don't.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Hear the music playing, I'll just keep talking even when
I'm aware that I'm supposed to stop. Do you know
what I'm saying. By the I'm so used to hearing
music as I go to break. I can't just go
back with more here with the fan. I can't go
out cold like that. And I told Sam I had
to remind him like the first seven eight times, but.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
He finally CAUGHTSI six seven times when he caught on
to it. The last time.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
He did a great job. I'm not ripping it, ah,
but I missed you. It's time for me to go
in for a contract negotiation.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
That's negotiation.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I would say that you or more you give give
tenn Toby the race he so richly deserves. One text
message right away said the only reason I tuned in
was to here what Tenney had to say about the trade.
The wild trades aur out and then he's had him out. Wow,
So that was it. He wanted to hear what you
had to say. He couldn't care less what I had
to say. I couldn't even remember the guy's name, to
be honest, So Sam didn't know his name. I couldn't
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remember his name. How do you think that sounded on
the on the on your audio home for the men
that one we traded for, the best defenseman in hockey.
His name was Edward no Hugh Hugh Quinn. I think
I called him Hugh Quinn. Who I just reversed his name.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It's no big deal.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
It's it's it's Quinn, Edward no Quinn Hughes. And he
made an impact right away. So yeah, so it's good
to have you. It's uh, welcome back to the spot.
It's going to be ben.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah. Well sure, you.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
You had a sick child, sol is sick. Yeah, of
course you were just to show and you you proved
your point. We can't operate without you. We get that now,
so you can you can you can stop with the ruse.
Remember we use that word last week. We can because
some of the ruse that, oh, you have a child sick.
I'm not mind it.
Speaker 9 (09:13):
But anyway, I was actually over in St. Paul the
interview for that video coordinator. Well really what I was doing?
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Well, now there'll be plenty of a coordinating to do
and plenty of video the while make a blockbuster Billy
Garren trades, Yeah, Ogrin, don't, don't stop, don't I'll do
the names.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I'll figure out how I think I remember him.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Ogrin, A Boom and Foligno, No, not Foligno, Rossi, Rossi
and an unprotected number one I think next year. So
the equivalent of four because all those players were first
round trafficks, the equivalent of four first rounders for arguably,
he won the Norris last year.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (09:54):
As the defenseman of the Year, and he's considered one
of the best defensemen, if not the best, in the
National Hockey leagu He's now on our club. It's a
four for one. I said it was herschel Walker like,
though I don't think. I don't think Quinn Hughes is
going to be herschel Walker like. Does that make sense?
It's it's a blockbuster. It's four pieces for one piece.
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But I think, if I'm not mistaken, tend to be.
I think the I think the organization, and I think
Wild Nation is very excited.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Your thoughts on.
Speaker 9 (10:25):
The trade, Well, it's an immediate upgrade, massive upgrade on
the blue line. And I think anyone who follows hockey
this is not breaking news to me. He's he's really
really good, at least offensively. He's he's basically a fourth forward.
It's like having another Caprice stuff on the ice, and
I'm looking forward to having Caprice stff have another player
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to play with. I can't wait till Zukerello's healthy because
he can dish the pucket, get every Quinn hughes. But
he is as dynamic offensively as any defenseman in the NHL.
He can skate not only forward but backward and laterally,
and he can walk the blue line and escape from pressure.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Is just skating scaled on par with yours.
Speaker 9 (11:10):
Slightly better, slightly better than mine. He will jump up
in the play at all times. So I mean, just
you know, you kind of think of, hey, we need
to add offense, and you think of it as a forward,
as we're going to be and maybe they still will
add at some point for the trade deadline. But when
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you have a defenseman who's going to be out there
for twenty twenty five minutes a game, he is going
to make every other forward out there better. So yeah,
it's short term, it's very exciting. Now there's there's two
ways this trade goes south. I'm not concerned at all
about Quinn Hughes and his ability to perform for you.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Obviously he's signed through.
Speaker 9 (11:55):
The reason he's available is because there's been rumors for
so long that you want wants to play with his brothers,
or he wants to play closer to home.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
They both play in New Jersey and then Detroit, Michigan
is his home.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
So you know, the Wild now has to prove it here, right,
I mean they kind of have to do it this
season because he's probably gonna you know, he's going to
be eligible for an extension this summer. That's where you're
going to want to extend him. So the Wild need
to prove this year, Hey, this is a place you
can come and you can win. So now it's on
it's on them to do that. But if he if
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we get to the summer and Quinn Hees goes, I'm
not going to extend it. I'd rather get to free agency.
You know, now this trade can go south a little bit.
The other part of where this could go south is
I think of all the assets we gave up, Boo
Yam is the one that could still come back to
bite you someday. Marco Rossi's a fine players, He's a
he's a quality NHL center. Liam Ogrin, I don't know
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if he's going to be much more than a third liner,
but he can play in your bottom six in the
National Hockey League. Those two aren't ultimately, while they're going
to be NHL players, aren't going to come back to
completely bite you and go, man, we really screwed up
letting that guy go. Buuyam is the one where he
can potentially has a ceiling, maybe even a Quinn Hue
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ceiling someday, but that's obviously not guaranteed, and you don't
know where that development is going to go. Where Quinn
Newes right now is he's a stud. So I mean
for this season alone, they are much better this year.
If they somehow can get him to a contract extension,
then I'd say, yeah, it's a home run deal.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Can he play offensive line for the Vikings? He's a
little small. Can he be in the d.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
H or first base? But well, I guess we got
on first baseman. Can he play for the Twins? We
got about eight spots he could play on the Twins
for us?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
How about point guard? And maybe he can? He can
just ask you condish it because those teams need some
help as well. So there we go. We'll talk more
about that.
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Vikings defeat Dallas on Sunday night ten and being been
waiting all day for it, so at I Vikings win
by eight.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
They stave off any rallies by Dallas.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Uh team plays pretty well all in all, Dallas pretty
explosive offense, and to hold them to what was our
final thirty four to twenty thirty six, twenty sixth and things.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
So it's yeah, thirty four twenty six I think it
was a final score so holding I miss field goals too,
and they did miss a couple of figies. But yeah,
so we.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
And offensively it was nice. It seemed it was more
than just three tight end sets. It's almost as if,
you know, as we've been talking about, it seems as
though the expectations in week one from McCarthy were a
bit much.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I think, maybe not just for for fans and media.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
You know, when you're the tenth overall pick, you know,
you're you've only lost one game as a high school
and college player, you expect you expect the guy to
come out, you know, maybe not completely up to speed.
In the National Football they'd be ready to play, and
it didn't seem like he was at all.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
And so then you wonder.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
If if the head coach and the coaching staff in
the front office and ownership maybe overestimated how prepared he was.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Then he had the.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Ankle injury and he's so he's I don't what is
his number of starts now is it's seven six seven?
I think he has six to seven starts right now
in the National Football League, and the last two were
he The game against Washington was nice. They they really
did scale things back. They wanted him to get rid
of the ball quickly. They did a lot of three
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tight ends set stuff or at least throwing to tight
ends and and and trying to get the ball out
of his hand quickly. They told him not to worry
about mechanics, and he didn't, and he played pretty well,
and they beat Washington, very disinterested Washington team that was
maybe the worst against the pass going into the game.
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I think they were giving up on average seven point
eight yards.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Per pass play, which was which was the largest, the
worst in the National Football League.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
And it seems like they built on it a little
bit Tennabee and opened it up a little bit more
against Dallas another And I should apologize who you were right.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I didn't.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I thought Dallas had showed improvement in two games. They're
awful defensive, They're just terrible. But again, as you've heard
me say many many times over the years, when it
comes to evaluating players or teams or coaches or whatever,
the Vikings aren't responsible for putting Dallas's roster together.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
They don't do their draft picks. Maybe they should do ours.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
We don't put the schedule together, we don't put the
game plans together, none of that. So you play who
you play when you play when they.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Show up on the schedule. And McCarthy had another nice
out and it was it wasn't perfect.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
He had some overthrows, but he was he was solid right,
but he did something when they add was a great
play call too when they were was it a third
and goal or was it even fourth on? I think
it was fourth when they did the the uh you
know the student body right, they made okay, they're going
to run it right, and then the what do they
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call that quarterback play when he just a bootleg right,
He just boot legs over the left and he goes
in untouched and he did a little celebration like his
form of.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
The the Gritty. He did his own kind of version
of of the Gritty.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
And they asked him about it after the game, and
here's the quote in the Fish Rep Factory West Side.
He said, I did it in practice and was told
not to do it, MacCarthy said of his end zone celebration.
But me being who I am, I was even more
enticed to do it, said Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I would say the finish I wouldn't classify as special.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
It was entertaining, and I guess we are in the
entertainment business, which I'm glad he said that because I
brought that up. I've brought I bring that up usually
once every couple of weeks. That you know, at the
end of the day, it is the entertainment business. None
of this is life or death. We treat it that way.
Sometimes fans treat it that way, media players, coaches, ownership,
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you know, we treat it as like, you know, lives
are at stake here. It's really that important to us.
At the end of the day, it is just entertainment.
It's no different really than.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
A play, TV show, movie, music, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 9 (20:38):
I'm curious as to why he was he was told
not to do it. Yeah, wow, is that a quarterback thing?
Like we can't have the quarterback? I don't know, I
don't super cocky, and then they're going to go after
I know.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Well, but I don't.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
But my next question would be, if the coach told
you not to do it, why did you do it?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
See to me, that's even.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
You know, and I'm not saying it's a gregious and
again it's not life or death, but if you're the coach,
and you tell a guy not to do something, then
he does it. But like the coach said, it's the
entertainment business. And you know what, Look, that's where this
game has morphed to. I mean we see it all
the time. Anytime there's a turnover and the defense gets
an interception of fumbel recovery, the guy that gets the
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ball starts waving everybody down to the edge. Come on,
we're going to do our celebration now. And they do
these celebrations. They're harmless. I'm I'm not really a fan
or I'm not against it either, right, you know what
I'm saying. It's I don't I could do without them.
They're mildly amusing. Sometimes some of them are you know,
some of them are creative. You know remember the one
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I think a lot of different units have done, the
one where they pretend they're a bowling ball and they
you know, they knock down the pins.
Speaker 9 (21:48):
They we've lost our camby here and there, Yeah we have.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
And so but yeah, I'm with you. Why the coach
doesn't like it? And why the.
Speaker 9 (22:01):
Why the why is Jefferson allowed to do it? McCarthy, right, And.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
And why did the quarterback disobey the coach, better him
disobey the don't celebrate in the end zone thing, Then hey,
don't throw that ball into triple coverage.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
And he says, well, I'm just do what I do
and throw it into triple coverage.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Right. That's it's better to do the celebration after a
tuddy than throw it into when the coach tells you
not to, than to throw it into triple coverage when the.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Coach tells you to throw it away.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
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Speaker 5 (23:14):
Keep her calendar this isn't in a derogatory way in
any way.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
But I'm about to say something controversial that's interesting, is it.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Mike McDaniel. Is he the coach of the Dolphins. Yes,
he just doesn't have that look of a football coach
like Dan Campbell does. He looks to me like a
acoustic guitar player that you would see at a folk nightclub,
a folk music nightclub.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, he just does. But he's a head football.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Coach and they lost last night to Pittsburgh. I think
in the I didn't even turn it on.
Speaker 9 (23:44):
He's that guy that like you'd meet him as a
complete stranger and you like introduce yourself, Hey, what do
you do for a living? Oh, I'm a head football coach?
And you start laughing at funnyoke.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Yeah so so no, really, like do you do like
are you more like Harry Chapin or are you a
more l like chimp croache?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Because you look like a folk guitar player.
Speaker 9 (24:01):
For me, I think you'd say the same thing. He's
will reikerd Well, that's true in public. My wife, my life,
my lovely wife, potato, my first wife. My second wife
hasn't been born yet. She asked me, you're going to
watch the Monday night game.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
I mean, here's you're making conversation, wanting to know because
you know, we watched a lot of football at the
at thirteen fourteen insane way, and I just said, I
don't think.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
We'll be tuning in tonight though.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I thought about Scout and Pittsburgh. That's who the kiddies play.
They host them at Litterbox and Aaron Rodgers now eight
and six, right, Pittsburgh and the think are they in
first place out there vision ahead of yeah, Baltimore. And
do those two teams play again? Have they already played
their two games? I'd love to see them go at
it again. And I mean it wouldn't be you know
if it was you know, no.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
They played to other last game of the year.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Yeah, I mean, if it's programming perdicament, I'm not necessarily
saying I.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Watched that game. That might be the flex game. Yeah,
that could be a flexible fly kind of a game.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
One thing that you brought up at the beginning of
the show, and I saw I saw it in a
number of different places here locally about this is the
first time in how many years that the Wild Three,
the Wild, the Vikings and the Wolves all won on
the same day. But then I got to think, well,
how many times did they play team?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
It's not even that big of a deal.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
It's because I have all three of them win, Yeah,
but how many times? Even so to me, it's not
that big of a deal. It's like it sounded like
the to eighteen twin streak. You know, this is like
I even asked groc Ai how many times have the
three teams played on the same day? And I took
the deep dive and it says the number of times
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they have played on the same day without all winning
has not been specified in the search results, but it
is likely a higher number given the long gap between
the win trifectas. The alignment of schedules, especially in the
NFL game on a Saturday, which it wasn't two thousand
and three, makes these same day games relatively rare recurrent.
So maybe it's in the in the history of the
three franchises all existing at the same time. Remember the
(26:06):
Vikings only played once week and they don't play the
entire you know, the National Hockey League in the NBA
go into February. Uh, uh, February, what's the what's after
February March April. Oh wait, our teams don't get into April,
very off April May.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
I you know we're both gonna get to the Western
Conference Finals. That'll be your programming predicament. Wild in Game
seven of the Western Conference Finals. Wolves in the Game
seven of the Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
What are you gonna watch?
Speaker 9 (26:35):
Common But it's only gonna happen on November or December,
right seven? And then the odds of all three teams playing, honestly,
given that are very slim.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
So to me, it wasn't even worthy of mention, is
I Okay? The number of times that meet Sauce and
common Man have both been funny, I flops, wet in tears.
Never of course we have worked together quite a few times.
But you get my point, and think was that big
of a deal. But you know, people love those those
silly numbers like that. Oh, I know what I wanted
(27:11):
to say to you, NBA cup tonight, that's your programming.
That's a big one.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Nika Bakers against the Spurs.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Uh the Spurs, I wouldn't call them a surprise entrance entrance.
I mean they did have to beat the Oklahoma City
Thunder and okay, See.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
It only lost one game.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Going into that and they were beaten by the Spurs.
And if any team that this at this point in time,
I would say could give okay See a run for
their money. As far as representing the Western Conference in
the NBA Finals, I would say it's the Spur, Yeer
and Ives and it's also possible Denver.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Those would be my top two. Houston.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Yeah, and you know, if the Wolves finally decided to
play defense.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
From the start of the game to the end of
the game and take.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
And treat the sport with some respect, I think they
could possibly get there.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
But I there was a.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Here's a stat tend to be from the Spurs versus.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Okay See game. I think that was Saturday night.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
The Spurs outscored the Thunder by twenty one points when
Victor Winbinyama was playing and got outscored by nineteen points
when he was out. He finished with twenty two points,
nine boards, two assists, and two blocks in twenty one minutes.
He was coming off eight calf injury, I believe, and
I think it was his that was his first.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Game back, if I'm not mistaken, But I mean, and
I don't.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Know, you know, when we're doing the first time all
three teams and one has there ever been a guy
that I mean, I'm sure it's happened, but to me,
that's just an astonishing statistic. The Spurs outscored the Thunder
by twenty one when wom Binyama was playing, and got
outscored by nineteen when he wasn't in the game. That's
what an impact he makes, both offensively and defensively.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Obviously, it's he's.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
And you know, you know when I chied had Rosen
about saying not, you know, he that you know, not
in a million years would he trade Ant for wembin Yama.
And then the next day he said, well, I said
about Injua. He didn't talk about health the first one.
He just immediately said no because he loves Ant and
everybody does. And you can make the argument you'd keep
antover women Yama if you want. Yeah, it was one
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of those things. I mean, everybody's entitled their own stupid opinion.
I mean, everybody's entitled their opinion. But that would be
the question with womenym. You know, those big gangly guys,
there's a lot of body parts that can get strained
and broken, and because when you're a standing seven four
and running up and down the floor, and it's a
physical game there, it seems like there's a greater chance
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to be injured.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
But that's how good he is.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
And and you know, all the players I just read,
I briefly skimmed the story. I should admit that working
at the all sports stations that they just skimmed the
sports page. But you know, they're all trying to act
as though this really means something. Mean some of the city,
you know, the NBA Cup means some of the city
means And a couple of guys ronn and say said.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
It's really about the money. I mean, let's face it,
I mean it's he says, that's what makes world go around.
That's what it's all about, especially the players that aren't in.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
If you're in big meal money, you know, you got
the kind of contract, big meo as many of the
other players that are playing in tonight's game.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
It's walking around money for those guys, right.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
But there are the guys on the teams that don't
have those max deals that five hundred thousand dollars comes
in into a nice but guys that you know, when
you look at the box score every night it says
d n P slash C d d n P slash CD.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
What does that mean?
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Did not play coach's decision? You know those guys aren't
making any munch. Yeah, so the well, I'm just about
the end of the bench. Guys that just aren't playing.
It's not load management. They never get off the bench
because they just don't play.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Most teams don't go.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Much more than eight deep, though we know the Thunder
goes ten deep, and there's probably the other teams that
do as well.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
But I will say, though.
Speaker 9 (31:14):
It's kind of hard to say there's a flaw in
a team that's basically on pace become the greatest NBA
team ever. But if there is a flaw defensively for them,
because defensively they are outstanding, but they're they are so
good at shutting down the other teams one twos and threes, right,
they have so many guys that they just go in
waves and shut to But I don't want I think
(31:36):
Wenby's is probably unguardable in general, right, correct, But then
even if if you look at, okay, the defense, like hey,
if there's a spot you can get to them, it
would be a big man they have nobody can guard Wenby.
But at the same time, I don't know if okay,
see defensively with the big man, is is that their
strength either, so well, that might be a little bit
of a mismatch for them.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
What I saw, I saw a highlight package.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
How many times you think chet Holmbern has had his
shot blocked in the NBA, never except he got it
blocked by we And it was, you know, it was
one of those things where I'm sure Homegren's trying to
prove himself right, it's a one on one match up.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I got there.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
I know you're taller. I mean he got me by
three inches, but watch my moves. And Homegron went through
his entire arsenal of moves, you know, back bounced, behind
the back, twisting, turney. Then he went up to take
the jumper and wemb be Yama just slammed it back
in his face.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
And we love check because he's one of us, right,
But yeah, but.
Speaker 9 (32:26):
You can't really prepare for unless you play him, right, Like,
there's nobody else else in the league that that's tall,
in that athletic and I think that's probably you're not
used to.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
Players exactly, And and like I say, when Homegren is
rarely going to get a shot blocked.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
It just doesn't happen. But it does.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
With with wemben Yama, your underdog fantasy thing, you were
talking about the over and unders. Did they have fires
and lures? Did they have one for a number of
flagrant foul twos for for Rudy Gobert, because that's what
I wanted.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Are you a lot? Do they have that option they
points and rebounds and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Yeah, because the flagran followed, that would be just like, well,
that's a no brainer. You take the over or no,
what did you say? It's not called over higher or lower?
You take the higher on that one right away? You
just I just thought I just wanted to get that.
I wanted to I wanted to wedge that cheap shot,
and I was going to do it coming out of
the break, but I forgot it. But then it dawned
on me again and I just had it. I'll send
(33:24):
it to rewrite and have them it's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Yeah, I thought I didn't think it was too bad.
It's new material. It doesn't happen often.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
It happens about as often as the wild the vikings
and the Wolves Ruin on the same day.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
How rare it is?
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Uh, I saw some quotes Rock Faber. If anybody is
going to if there's one guy who's going to benefit
more than others, it's Favor. Right, they played the same Favor.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Was just excited. I have the quote somewhere.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
I could dig him up, but he just talks about
how Yeah, it's just you know what, what do you
have to do? Just you know, learn to play together.
It's not too hard. It's fun playing with a guy
at that level. It will make it should make him.
He's already a great player, right Favors, Yes, very good.
It should make him even better. Is that your best
one two punch for defense? Because they play at the
same time all the time, do they you have to
(34:15):
tell me him and Quin Hughes last game game and
do you think that Obviously Yah tapers down on the
top power play unit with them, But dude, are the
defensive parents usually the same all the time or does
it change depending on how well a guy's playing or
how well or is it always always the same? It's
going to be it's forget the.
Speaker 9 (34:30):
Favor It's mostly the same, but power play and penaltykill
can change. That you know, sometimes if you have a
defenseman get hurt in the game, which they did last game,
then you might be double shifting some of your guys,
or you might be rotating five. But generally speaking, yes,
and I actually has a pretty astute observation by you, Oh,
you are a great hockey mind, because the one thing
(34:51):
I took out of that game other than the performance
Quinn Hughes, was brock Favor played differently when he had
Quin Hughes as a defensive partner, right. Like, for the
most of the season, brock Favor has been playing with
Jonas Brodein, quality defenseman, great skater, you know, you know,
backwards and lateral skating as good as anyone.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
If you're going up.
Speaker 9 (35:11):
Against Conor McDavid, you not quite okay, But if you're
going up against Connor McDavid, like, you want a guy
like Jonas Brodein on your team, right because he can
skate with Connor McDavid, which is very challenging to do.
But like Jonas Brodein's going to play a pretty conservative game.
So as your defensive partner, like, you're not going to
jump up in the play in this, you know, and
(35:32):
get aggressive in the offensive zone in this spot, whereas
with Quinn Hughes, you're not worried about him losing the puck,
You're not losing about him turning it over. If you
get into a scoring area, he's going to get you
the pucks. All of a sudden, it appeared to me
the other night brock Favor was playing much more aggressively,
much more offensively than I had seen previously, And I
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would think that would only grow once you know, that
was only first game with Quinn Hughes, once he started
to learn each other's ten season patterns. I think that's
just scheming gonna get better. So you know, Brock Faber
is a a great defensive player that has a little
bit of offense to him. You know, he's he's run
the power play at times, he's he's put up points,
(36:16):
and I I just saw a mindset difference with him
with Quinn Hughes as partner compared to Jonas Burden.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
At the risk of being a rube, because it's only
been one game, right, they haven't played a second one yet,
could that be considered the best defensive pairing pairing preparing
in the in the NHL. I get it's early. They
have to play together more than one game. But just
their reputations and their talent levels and how their careers
have gone, is that as good as it gets.
Speaker 9 (36:45):
Man, I'd have to like break down every defensive pairing
in the national hockey I will say, you know, before
we get too excited about Quinn, he's not a great
defensive player. He's he's a very average defensive player. Now,
what he is great is the puck and a sick
He's elite. And that's now I'm not just talking about
the offensive zone defensive zone, like he's a one man breakout.
(37:07):
He'll get the fuck out of the zone. But in
terms of defending other teams, I do have a little
concern with you get in the playoffs and the type
of style of hockey changes. Sure, and Quinn Hughes is
not big. Jared Spurgeon's not big. Jonas Brodein doesn't really
play big. Brock favors kind of average size, right, Like,
(37:31):
so we are going to have to still see you
get into a playoff series against a team that has
some big, powerful, physical forwards that want to get to
the net, whether we're going to hold up there or not.
You know, Quinn's not he's an average defensive player, he's
just so elite offensively that it overcomes all shortcomings you
can think of.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
Well, that was what I was just about to ask you,
because I read the same thing when and they they
kind of just, you know, just mentioned it brief that
you know, not really a defensive defenseman, but all world offensively.
Is I'm the old I love doing the scale of
one to ten, ten being he's Bobby or Bobby were
great defensively and offensively?
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Right, wasn't he? At least? I never watched him play.
I think he was litable.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
But whoever the best defensive defenseman was? And then you
know somebody who never played, you know, Pa playing pick
up basketball being number one? Right, where would you give him?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Is he a five? Is he a two?
Speaker 5 (38:26):
Is?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
I mean he can play defense? Some writer he can skate? Okay?
Speaker 9 (38:31):
Yeah, you know, I don't know how much you can
handle power forward. So a lot of it might be
matchup related, depending on what team you're facing, right, Like
you know, for facing the the Winnipeg Jets, for instance,
the team that's gonna try to bloody you up a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
We'll see how he.
Speaker 9 (38:49):
Does in those situations, right, Yeah, watching him from Afar
sound like I've been able to watch him consistently night
after night.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
How how he plays defensively.
Speaker 9 (38:58):
And you know he's he's so aggressive and so common
with the puck, like he's going to turn the puck
over occasionally. I mean that that's going to happen as well.
But I mean he's he is, he is another caprice
off on the ice. He's absolutely elite with the stick.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
I think we are now. I think we've pivoted some
and we're pointing towards.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Skate triots country again.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
Now.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
I mean, I'm not ready to say we're the skate triots,
but I think we'll come in. I do like the move.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
I said it yesterday Tennabe when the when the Wolves,
when Conley made the trade to get go Bear, I said,
I don't know if it's going to work, but I'm
all for it because it's been a terrible team.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Nothing else has worked for the franchise.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
The while have been like like the Wolves as far
as that remember when the Wolves that that's seven seasons
in a row where they want and done' that's all.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
So I don't know if this will work, and that's.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
You're giving the equivalent of four first round draft picks,
but whether it's highly regarded, this guy is and where
we are, and I'm I'm all for it.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
There's risk, but there's also a reward.
Speaker 5 (39:56):
Were correct, we'll break come back, we'll see what the
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That means you're the best of the lousiest and the
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nations encourage and inspire, and indeed require hard work and
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Speaker 4 (01:06):
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that I've done, hundreds.
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Hundreds, nothing better at it?
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Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, I always love that one. You're breaking up, Bob.
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Breaking Yeah, I always love that one.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
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Speaker 5 (02:01):
Rak?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
How disappointing is that we're the state of hockey, and
I think that brings that souf.
Speaker 7 (02:14):
Yes, I've seen enough out of Cousin's Paul put him
on ice.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I'm gonna say, Son pow Bush, that's.
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I know it's he touched the southern Tennessee.
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Speaker 5 (03:26):
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Speaker 2 (03:29):
Selves more than four two one Greeting's.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Good afternoon in ac Acadac and Daca actually in yours.
First of all, off air business, closer to the Chad
abb But if you could come down to the studio
during my first break. No, yeah, I hip cricket. After
working so well, I can check my emails. That's not
working now today because it's says I don't. It's the
incorrect password, but it's the password we set up, so
(03:52):
I don't understand why I don't have a correct password.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
But that's another that's a whole nother. Oh no, I
know what happened.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
It's my password for my password and my password I
just changed because we out until tomorrow. Did you get
that email You have to change your password. You get
into the email by the what's the day tomorrow, the seventeenth,
until the seventeenth, And I changed that today successfully on
my own.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
That's the second time I've been able to change my
email pass code all by my lonesome. I'm so proud
of myself. I feel like, you know the song watching
Scottie Girl. Did it like Nickey Mouse? Oh that's a shock,
that's my boy. I felt just like watching this cirk
at that. Well, I I but I put the wrong
(04:39):
code it.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I'll fix that.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
So anyway, I'm onto you, cap. You didn't fool me.
Well you did it first, you know, I get the
text not coming in. What, by the way, what is
your contract expired?
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Couple of years? Always have that much.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
I was hoping to say a couple of months, because
I think you were trying to show your value to
the program. So on the day, after waiting all day
for Sunday night, JJ McCarthy puts together nine puts together
his best probably his best game as a pro, certainly
this one and the one against Washington very very good.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Right, So we win, looking forward.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
To a montage and then the Skate Riots not the
Wild anymore. We're back to being the skate Routes. Make
a blockbuster trade that's still reverberating across the National Hockey League.
It's a matter of fact. It's cracked ice over at
Grand Casino Arena.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
The ice cracked. It was reverberating so hard, so myself,
the audience.
Speaker 5 (05:43):
We're all looking forward to a great I was thinking
maybe even a double montage. You know, you do those
double montages where you'll do the vikings and all of
a sudden, the scratching of the record, then we'll break
into another one. I thought we'd have one for the
Wild and the Wolves won. Both Gopher teams.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
Yeah, My plan was to do a lovely day montage
with all three teams, since it was the first time
since two thousand and three they've all won on a
Sunday together.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
And then you don't show about. We'll show com We'll
see how he does. And I'll admit it was a
struggle I found. Really Sam Bird's fine. Sam's only done
the show twice. This was his second time. He gets
the bit, but he doesn't know all the nuances there was,
and I didn't ask him to. He sent me a text,
(06:25):
is there any audio or other needs you have?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I said no, let's wing it.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
Then he texted back, why did I know that's what
you were.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Going to say?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
And then the laughing emodes, you know, with the tears
coming out of the smiley face guy's eyes, And I said,
it's free form radio. The danger of free form radio.
It offen leads to a free fall. And we were falling.
It was we were Tom petting the Heartbreakers yesterday. We
were free falling. We were in a tailor. We were
we were we were Gary Lewis and the Jayhawks. We
(06:56):
were in a tailspin. We got out of it, survived.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
You know.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
It's sort of like when a plane's gonna land on
a runway, full flaps, full flaps, It runs out of a room,
it skids off the end of the runway, but you know,
everything's fine. That's what it was like, because I did
miss the montage. There was no montage to be played.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Sam didn't know about.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
Just just bashing the soundboard right the button bar, just
hammering it over and over again. So I had to
add that we did do a five three four. He
wasn't aware of the bumping me in and out of breaks,
which I can't do radio anymore without hearing that music.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I told him. I said, if I don't.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Hear the music playing, I'll just keep talking even when
I'm aware that I'm supposed to stop. Do you know
what I'm saying. By the I'm so used to hearing
music as I go to break. I can't just go
back with more here with the fan. I can't go
out cold like that. And I told Sam I had
to remind him like the first seven eight times, but.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
He finally CAUGHTSI six seven times when he caught on
to it. The last time.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
He did a great job. I'm not ripping it, ah,
but I missed you. It's time for me to go
in for a contract negotiation.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
That's negotiation.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I would say that you or more you give give
tenn Toby the race he so richly deserves. One text
message right away said the only reason I tuned in
was to here what Tenney had to say about the trade.
The wild trades aur out and then he's had him out. Wow,
So that was it. He wanted to hear what you
had to say. He couldn't care less what I had
to say. I couldn't even remember the guy's name, to
be honest, So Sam didn't know his name. I couldn't
(08:22):
remember his name. How do you think that sounded on
the on the on your audio home for the men
that one we traded for, the best defenseman in hockey.
His name was Edward no Hugh Hugh Quinn. I think
I called him Hugh Quinn. Who I just reversed his name.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
It's no big deal.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
It's it's it's Quinn, Edward no Quinn Hughes. And he
made an impact right away. So yeah, so it's good
to have you. It's uh, welcome back to the spot.
It's going to be ben.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah. Well sure, you.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
You had a sick child, sol is sick. Yeah, of
course you were just to show and you you proved
your point. We can't operate without you. We get that now,
so you can you can you can stop with the ruse.
Remember we use that word last week. We can because
some of the ruse that, oh, you have a child sick.
I'm not mind it.
Speaker 9 (09:13):
But anyway, I was actually over in St. Paul the
interview for that video coordinator. Well really what I was doing?
Speaker 5 (09:19):
Well, now there'll be plenty of a coordinating to do
and plenty of video the while make a blockbuster Billy
Garren trades, Yeah, Ogrin, don't, don't stop, don't I'll do
the names.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I'll figure out how I think I remember him.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
Ogrin, A Boom and Foligno, No, not Foligno, Rossi, Rossi
and an unprotected number one I think next year. So
the equivalent of four because all those players were first
round trafficks, the equivalent of four first rounders for arguably,
he won the Norris last year.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Is that correct?
Speaker 5 (09:54):
As the defenseman of the Year, and he's considered one
of the best defensemen, if not the best, in the
National Hockey leagu He's now on our club. It's a
four for one. I said it was herschel Walker like,
though I don't think. I don't think Quinn Hughes is
going to be herschel Walker like. Does that make sense?
It's it's a blockbuster. It's four pieces for one piece.
(10:17):
But I think, if I'm not mistaken, tend to be.
I think the I think the organization, and I think
Wild Nation is very excited.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Your thoughts on.
Speaker 9 (10:25):
The trade, Well, it's an immediate upgrade, massive upgrade on
the blue line. And I think anyone who follows hockey
this is not breaking news to me. He's he's really
really good, at least offensively. He's he's basically a fourth forward.
It's like having another Caprice stuff on the ice, and
I'm looking forward to having Caprice stff have another player
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to play with. I can't wait till Zukerello's healthy because
he can dish the pucket, get every Quinn hughes. But
he is as dynamic offensively as any defenseman in the NHL.
He can skate not only forward but backward and laterally,
and he can walk the blue line and escape from pressure.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Is just skating scaled on par with yours.
Speaker 9 (11:10):
Slightly better, slightly better than mine. He will jump up
in the play at all times. So I mean, just
you know, you kind of think of, hey, we need
to add offense, and you think of it as a forward,
as we're going to be and maybe they still will
add at some point for the trade deadline. But when
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you have a defenseman who's going to be out there
for twenty twenty five minutes a game, he is going
to make every other forward out there better. So yeah,
it's short term, it's very exciting. Now there's there's two
ways this trade goes south. I'm not concerned at all
about Quinn Hughes and his ability to perform for you.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Obviously he's signed through.
Speaker 9 (11:55):
The reason he's available is because there's been rumors for
so long that you want wants to play with his brothers,
or he wants to play closer to home.
Speaker 5 (12:02):
They both play in New Jersey and then Detroit, Michigan
is his home.
Speaker 9 (12:07):
So you know, the Wild now has to prove it here, right,
I mean they kind of have to do it this
season because he's probably gonna you know, he's going to
be eligible for an extension this summer. That's where you're
going to want to extend him. So the Wild need
to prove this year, Hey, this is a place you
can come and you can win. So now it's on
it's on them to do that. But if he if
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we get to the summer and Quinn Hees goes, I'm
not going to extend it. I'd rather get to free agency.
You know, now this trade can go south a little bit.
The other part of where this could go south is
I think of all the assets we gave up, Boo
Yam is the one that could still come back to
bite you someday. Marco Rossi's a fine players, He's a
he's a quality NHL center. Liam Ogrin, I don't know
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if he's going to be much more than a third liner,
but he can play in your bottom six in the
National Hockey League. Those two aren't ultimately, while they're going
to be NHL players, aren't going to come back to
completely bite you and go, man, we really screwed up
letting that guy go. Buuyam is the one where he
can potentially has a ceiling, maybe even a Quinn Hue
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ceiling someday, but that's obviously not guaranteed, and you don't
know where that development is going to go. Where Quinn
Newes right now is he's a stud. So I mean
for this season alone, they are much better this year.
If they somehow can get him to a contract extension,
then I'd say, yeah, it's a home run deal.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Can he play offensive line for the Vikings? He's a
little small. Can he be in the d.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
H or first base? But well, I guess we got
on first baseman. Can he play for the Twins? We
got about eight spots he could play on the Twins
for us?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
How about point guard? And maybe he can? He can
just ask you condish it because those teams need some
help as well. So there we go. We'll talk more
about that.
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Vikings defeat Dallas on Sunday night ten and being been
waiting all day for it, so at I Vikings win
by eight.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
They stave off any rallies by Dallas.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Uh team plays pretty well all in all, Dallas pretty
explosive offense, and to hold them to what was our
final thirty four to twenty thirty six, twenty sixth and things.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
So it's yeah, thirty four twenty six I think it
was a final score so holding I miss field goals too,
and they did miss a couple of figies. But yeah,
so we.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
And offensively it was nice. It seemed it was more
than just three tight end sets. It's almost as if,
you know, as we've been talking about, it seems as
though the expectations in week one from McCarthy were a
bit much.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
I think, maybe not just for for fans and media.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
You know, when you're the tenth overall pick, you know,
you're you've only lost one game as a high school
and college player, you expect you expect the guy to
come out, you know, maybe not completely up to speed.
In the National Football they'd be ready to play, and
it didn't seem like he was at all.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
And so then you wonder.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
If if the head coach and the coaching staff in
the front office and ownership maybe overestimated how prepared he was.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Then he had the.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Ankle injury and he's so he's I don't what is
his number of starts now is it's seven six seven?
I think he has six to seven starts right now
in the National Football League, and the last two were
he The game against Washington was nice. They they really
did scale things back. They wanted him to get rid
of the ball quickly. They did a lot of three
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tight ends set stuff or at least throwing to tight
ends and and and trying to get the ball out
of his hand quickly. They told him not to worry
about mechanics, and he didn't, and he played pretty well,
and they beat Washington, very disinterested Washington team that was
maybe the worst against the pass going into the game.
(18:13):
I think they were giving up on average seven point
eight yards.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Per pass play, which was which was the largest, the
worst in the National Football League.
Speaker 5 (18:22):
And it seems like they built on it a little
bit Tennabee and opened it up a little bit more
against Dallas another And I should apologize who you were right.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I didn't.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
I thought Dallas had showed improvement in two games. They're
awful defensive, They're just terrible. But again, as you've heard
me say many many times over the years, when it
comes to evaluating players or teams or coaches or whatever,
the Vikings aren't responsible for putting Dallas's roster together.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
They don't do their draft picks. Maybe they should do ours.
Speaker 5 (18:52):
We don't put the schedule together, we don't put the
game plans together, none of that. So you play who
you play when you play when they.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
Show up on the schedule. And McCarthy had another nice
out and it was it wasn't perfect.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
He had some overthrows, but he was he was solid right,
but he did something when they add was a great
play call too when they were was it a third
and goal or was it even fourth on? I think
it was fourth when they did the the uh you
know the student body right, they made okay, they're going
to run it right, and then the what do they
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call that quarterback play when he just a bootleg right,
He just boot legs over the left and he goes
in untouched and he did a little celebration like his
form of.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
The the Gritty. He did his own kind of version
of of the Gritty.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
And they asked him about it after the game, and
here's the quote in the Fish Rep Factory West Side.
He said, I did it in practice and was told
not to do it, MacCarthy said of his end zone celebration.
But me being who I am, I was even more
enticed to do it, said Vikings coach Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
I would say the finish I wouldn't classify as special.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
It was entertaining, and I guess we are in the
entertainment business, which I'm glad he said that because I
brought that up. I've brought I bring that up usually
once every couple of weeks. That you know, at the
end of the day, it is the entertainment business. None
of this is life or death. We treat it that way.
Sometimes fans treat it that way, media players, coaches, ownership,
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you know, we treat it as like, you know, lives
are at stake here. It's really that important to us.
At the end of the day, it is just entertainment.
It's no different really than.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
A play, TV show, movie, music, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 9 (20:38):
I'm curious as to why he was he was told
not to do it. Yeah, wow, is that a quarterback thing?
Like we can't have the quarterback? I don't know, I
don't super cocky, and then they're going to go after
I know.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Well, but I don't.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
But my next question would be, if the coach told
you not to do it, why did you do it?
Speaker 2 (20:57):
See to me, that's even.
Speaker 5 (20:58):
You know, and I'm not saying it's a gregious and
again it's not life or death, but if you're the coach,
and you tell a guy not to do something, then
he does it. But like the coach said, it's the
entertainment business. And you know what, Look, that's where this
game has morphed to. I mean we see it all
the time. Anytime there's a turnover and the defense gets
an interception of fumbel recovery, the guy that gets the
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ball starts waving everybody down to the edge. Come on,
we're going to do our celebration now. And they do
these celebrations. They're harmless. I'm I'm not really a fan
or I'm not against it either, right, you know what
I'm saying. It's I don't I could do without them.
They're mildly amusing. Sometimes some of them are you know,
some of them are creative. You know remember the one
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I think a lot of different units have done, the
one where they pretend they're a bowling ball and they
you know, they knock down the pins.
Speaker 9 (21:48):
They we've lost our camby here and there, Yeah we have.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
And so but yeah, I'm with you. Why the coach
doesn't like it? And why the.
Speaker 9 (22:01):
Why the why is Jefferson allowed to do it? McCarthy, right, And.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
And why did the quarterback disobey the coach, better him
disobey the don't celebrate in the end zone thing, Then hey,
don't throw that ball into triple coverage.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
And he says, well, I'm just do what I do
and throw it into triple coverage.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Right. That's it's better to do the celebration after a
tuddy than throw it into when the coach tells you
not to, than to throw it into triple coverage when the.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Coach tells you to throw it away.
Speaker 5 (22:28):
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Speaker 5 (23:14):
Keep her calendar this isn't in a derogatory way in
any way.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
But I'm about to say something controversial that's interesting, is it.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
Mike McDaniel. Is he the coach of the Dolphins. Yes,
he just doesn't have that look of a football coach
like Dan Campbell does. He looks to me like a
acoustic guitar player that you would see at a folk nightclub,
a folk music nightclub.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Yeah, he just does. But he's a head football.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Coach and they lost last night to Pittsburgh. I think
in the I didn't even turn it on.
Speaker 9 (23:44):
He's that guy that like you'd meet him as a
complete stranger and you like introduce yourself, Hey, what do
you do for a living? Oh, I'm a head football coach?
And you start laughing at funnyoke.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Yeah so so no, really, like do you do like
are you more like Harry Chapin or are you a
more l like chimp croache?
Speaker 2 (23:58):
Because you look like a folk guitar player.
Speaker 9 (24:01):
For me, I think you'd say the same thing. He's
will reikerd Well, that's true in public. My wife, my life,
my lovely wife, potato, my first wife. My second wife
hasn't been born yet. She asked me, you're going to
watch the Monday night game.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
I mean, here's you're making conversation, wanting to know because
you know, we watched a lot of football at the
at thirteen fourteen insane way, and I just said, I
don't think.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
We'll be tuning in tonight though.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I thought about Scout and Pittsburgh. That's who the kiddies play.
They host them at Litterbox and Aaron Rodgers now eight
and six, right, Pittsburgh and the think are they in
first place out there vision ahead of yeah, Baltimore. And
do those two teams play again? Have they already played
their two games? I'd love to see them go at
it again. And I mean it wouldn't be you know
if it was you know, no.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
They played to other last game of the year.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Yeah, I mean, if it's programming perdicament, I'm not necessarily
saying I.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Watched that game. That might be the flex game. Yeah,
that could be a flexible fly kind of a game.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
One thing that you brought up at the beginning of
the show, and I saw I saw it in a
number of different places here locally about this is the
first time in how many years that the Wild Three,
the Wild, the Vikings and the Wolves all won on
the same day. But then I got to think, well,
how many times did they play team?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
It's not even that big of a deal.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
It's because I have all three of them win, Yeah,
but how many times? Even so to me, it's not
that big of a deal. It's like it sounded like
the to eighteen twin streak. You know, this is like
I even asked groc Ai how many times have the
three teams played on the same day? And I took
the deep dive and it says the number of times
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they have played on the same day without all winning
has not been specified in the search results, but it
is likely a higher number given the long gap between
the win trifectas. The alignment of schedules, especially in the
NFL game on a Saturday, which it wasn't two thousand
and three, makes these same day games relatively rare recurrent.
So maybe it's in the in the history of the
three franchises all existing at the same time. Remember the
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Vikings only played once week and they don't play the
entire you know, the National Hockey League in the NBA
go into February. Uh, uh, February, what's the what's after
February March April. Oh wait, our teams don't get into April,
very off April May.
Speaker 8 (26:24):
I you know we're both gonna get to the Western
Conference Finals. That'll be your programming predicament. Wild in Game
seven of the Western Conference Finals. Wolves in the Game
seven of the Western Conference Finals.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
What are you gonna watch?
Speaker 9 (26:35):
Common But it's only gonna happen on November or December,
right seven? And then the odds of all three teams playing, honestly,
given that are very slim.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
So to me, it wasn't even worthy of mention, is
I Okay? The number of times that meet Sauce and
common Man have both been funny, I flops, wet in tears.
Never of course we have worked together quite a few times.
But you get my point, and think was that big
of a deal. But you know, people love those those
silly numbers like that. Oh, I know what I wanted
(27:11):
to say to you, NBA cup tonight, that's your programming.
That's a big one.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Nika Bakers against the Spurs.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
Uh the Spurs, I wouldn't call them a surprise entrance entrance.
I mean they did have to beat the Oklahoma City
Thunder and okay, See.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
It only lost one game.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
Going into that and they were beaten by the Spurs.
And if any team that this at this point in time,
I would say could give okay See a run for
their money. As far as representing the Western Conference in
the NBA Finals, I would say it's the Spur, Yeer
and Ives and it's also possible Denver.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Those would be my top two. Houston.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
Yeah, and you know, if the Wolves finally decided to
play defense.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
From the start of the game to the end of
the game and take.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
And treat the sport with some respect, I think they
could possibly get there.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
But I there was a.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Here's a stat tend to be from the Spurs versus.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
Okay See game. I think that was Saturday night.
Speaker 5 (28:21):
The Spurs outscored the Thunder by twenty one points when
Victor Winbinyama was playing and got outscored by nineteen points
when he was out. He finished with twenty two points,
nine boards, two assists, and two blocks in twenty one minutes.
He was coming off eight calf injury, I believe, and
I think it was his that was his first.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Game back, if I'm not mistaken, But I mean, and
I don't.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Know, you know, when we're doing the first time all
three teams and one has there ever been a guy
that I mean, I'm sure it's happened, but to me,
that's just an astonishing statistic. The Spurs outscored the Thunder
by twenty one when wom Binyama was playing, and got
outscored by nineteen when he wasn't in the game. That's
what an impact he makes, both offensively and defensively.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Obviously, it's he's.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
And you know, you know when I chied had Rosen
about saying not, you know, he that you know, not
in a million years would he trade Ant for wembin Yama.
And then the next day he said, well, I said
about Injua. He didn't talk about health the first one.
He just immediately said no because he loves Ant and
everybody does. And you can make the argument you'd keep
antover women Yama if you want. Yeah, it was one
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of those things. I mean, everybody's entitled their own stupid opinion.
I mean, everybody's entitled their opinion. But that would be
the question with womenym. You know, those big gangly guys,
there's a lot of body parts that can get strained
and broken, and because when you're a standing seven four
and running up and down the floor, and it's a
physical game there, it seems like there's a greater chance
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to be injured.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
But that's how good he is.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
And and you know, all the players I just read,
I briefly skimmed the story. I should admit that working
at the all sports stations that they just skimmed the
sports page. But you know, they're all trying to act
as though this really means something. Mean some of the city,
you know, the NBA Cup means some of the city
means And a couple of guys ronn and say said.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
It's really about the money. I mean, let's face it,
I mean it's he says, that's what makes world go around.
That's what it's all about, especially the players that aren't in.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
If you're in big meal money, you know, you got
the kind of contract, big meo as many of the
other players that are playing in tonight's game.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
It's walking around money for those guys, right.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
But there are the guys on the teams that don't
have those max deals that five hundred thousand dollars comes
in into a nice but guys that you know, when
you look at the box score every night it says
d n P slash C d d n P slash CD.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
What does that mean?
Speaker 5 (30:52):
Did not play coach's decision? You know those guys aren't
making any munch. Yeah, so the well, I'm just about
the end of the bench. Guys that just aren't playing.
It's not load management. They never get off the bench
because they just don't play.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Most teams don't go.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
Much more than eight deep, though we know the Thunder
goes ten deep, and there's probably the other teams that
do as well.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
But I will say, though.
Speaker 9 (31:14):
It's kind of hard to say there's a flaw in
a team that's basically on pace become the greatest NBA
team ever. But if there is a flaw defensively for them,
because defensively they are outstanding, but they're they are so
good at shutting down the other teams one twos and threes, right,
they have so many guys that they just go in
waves and shut to But I don't want I think
(31:36):
Wenby's is probably unguardable in general, right, correct, But then
even if if you look at, okay, the defense, like hey,
if there's a spot you can get to them, it
would be a big man they have nobody can guard Wenby.
But at the same time, I don't know if okay,
see defensively with the big man, is is that their
strength either, so well, that might be a little bit
of a mismatch for them.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
What I saw, I saw a highlight package.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
How many times you think chet Holmbern has had his
shot blocked in the NBA, never except he got it
blocked by we And it was, you know, it was
one of those things where I'm sure Homegren's trying to
prove himself right, it's a one on one match up.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I got there.
Speaker 5 (32:10):
I know you're taller. I mean he got me by
three inches, but watch my moves. And Homegron went through
his entire arsenal of moves, you know, back bounced, behind
the back, twisting, turney. Then he went up to take
the jumper and wemb be Yama just slammed it back
in his face.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
And we love check because he's one of us, right,
But yeah, but.
Speaker 9 (32:26):
You can't really prepare for unless you play him, right, Like,
there's nobody else else in the league that that's tall,
in that athletic and I think that's probably you're not
used to.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
Players exactly, And and like I say, when Homegren is
rarely going to get a shot blocked.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
It just doesn't happen. But it does.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
With with wemben Yama, your underdog fantasy thing, you were
talking about the over and unders. Did they have fires
and lures? Did they have one for a number of
flagrant foul twos for for Rudy Gobert, because that's what
I wanted.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Are you a lot? Do they have that option they
points and rebounds and stuff like that.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Yeah, because the flagran followed, that would be just like, well,
that's a no brainer. You take the over or no,
what did you say? It's not called over higher or lower?
You take the higher on that one right away? You
just I just thought I just wanted to get that.
I wanted to I wanted to wedge that cheap shot,
and I was going to do it coming out of
the break, but I forgot it. But then it dawned
on me again and I just had it. I'll send
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it to rewrite and have them it's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
Yeah, I thought I didn't think it was too bad.
It's new material. It doesn't happen often.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
It happens about as often as the wild the vikings
and the Wolves Ruin on the same day.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
How rare it is?
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Uh, I saw some quotes Rock Faber. If anybody is
going to if there's one guy who's going to benefit
more than others, it's Favor. Right, they played the same Favor.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Was just excited. I have the quote somewhere.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
I could dig him up, but he just talks about
how Yeah, it's just you know what, what do you
have to do? Just you know, learn to play together.
It's not too hard. It's fun playing with a guy
at that level. It will make it should make him.
He's already a great player, right Favors, Yes, very good.
It should make him even better. Is that your best
one two punch for defense? Because they play at the
same time all the time, do they you have to
(34:15):
tell me him and Quin Hughes last game game and
do you think that Obviously Yah tapers down on the
top power play unit with them, But dude, are the
defensive parents usually the same all the time or does
it change depending on how well a guy's playing or
how well or is it always always the same? It's
going to be it's forget the.
Speaker 9 (34:30):
Favor It's mostly the same, but power play and penaltykill
can change. That you know, sometimes if you have a
defenseman get hurt in the game, which they did last game,
then you might be double shifting some of your guys,
or you might be rotating five. But generally speaking, yes,
and I actually has a pretty astute observation by you, Oh,
you are a great hockey mind, because the one thing
(34:51):
I took out of that game other than the performance
Quinn Hughes, was brock Favor played differently when he had
Quin Hughes as a defensive partner, right. Like, for the
most of the season, brock Favor has been playing with
Jonas Brodein, quality defenseman, great skater, you know, you know,
backwards and lateral skating as good as anyone.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
If you're going up.
Speaker 9 (35:11):
Against Conor McDavid, you not quite okay, But if you're
going up against Connor McDavid, like, you want a guy
like Jonas Brodein on your team, right because he can
skate with Connor McDavid, which is very challenging to do.
But like Jonas Brodein's going to play a pretty conservative game.
So as your defensive partner, like, you're not going to
jump up in the play in this, you know, and
(35:32):
get aggressive in the offensive zone in this spot, whereas
with Quinn Hughes, you're not worried about him losing the puck,
You're not losing about him turning it over. If you
get into a scoring area, he's going to get you
the pucks. All of a sudden, it appeared to me
the other night brock Favor was playing much more aggressively,
much more offensively than I had seen previously, And I
(35:54):
would think that would only grow once you know, that
was only first game with Quinn Hughes, once he started
to learn each other's ten season patterns. I think that's
just scheming gonna get better. So you know, Brock Faber
is a a great defensive player that has a little
bit of offense to him. You know, he's he's run
the power play at times, he's he's put up points,
(36:16):
and I I just saw a mindset difference with him
with Quinn Hughes as partner compared to Jonas Burden.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
At the risk of being a rube, because it's only
been one game, right, they haven't played a second one yet,
could that be considered the best defensive pairing pairing preparing
in the in the NHL. I get it's early. They
have to play together more than one game. But just
their reputations and their talent levels and how their careers
have gone, is that as good as it gets.
Speaker 9 (36:45):
Man, I'd have to like break down every defensive pairing
in the national hockey I will say, you know, before
we get too excited about Quinn, he's not a great
defensive player. He's he's a very average defensive player. Now,
what he is great is the puck and a sick
He's elite. And that's now I'm not just talking about
the offensive zone defensive zone, like he's a one man breakout.
(37:07):
He'll get the fuck out of the zone. But in
terms of defending other teams, I do have a little
concern with you get in the playoffs and the type
of style of hockey changes. Sure, and Quinn Hughes is
not big. Jared Spurgeon's not big. Jonas Brodein doesn't really
play big. Brock favors kind of average size, right, Like,
(37:31):
so we are going to have to still see you
get into a playoff series against a team that has
some big, powerful, physical forwards that want to get to
the net, whether we're going to hold up there or not.
You know, Quinn's not he's an average defensive player, he's
just so elite offensively that it overcomes all shortcomings you
can think of.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
Well, that was what I was just about to ask you,
because I read the same thing when and they they
kind of just, you know, just mentioned it brief that
you know, not really a defensive defenseman, but all world offensively.
Is I'm the old I love doing the scale of
one to ten, ten being he's Bobby or Bobby were
great defensively and offensively?
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Right, wasn't he? At least? I never watched him play.
I think he was litable.
Speaker 5 (38:14):
But whoever the best defensive defenseman was? And then you
know somebody who never played, you know, Pa playing pick
up basketball being number one? Right, where would you give him?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Is he a five? Is he a two?
Speaker 5 (38:26):
Is?
Speaker 2 (38:26):
I mean he can play defense? Some writer he can skate? Okay?
Speaker 9 (38:31):
Yeah, you know, I don't know how much you can
handle power forward. So a lot of it might be
matchup related, depending on what team you're facing, right, Like
you know, for facing the the Winnipeg Jets, for instance,
the team that's gonna try to bloody you up a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
We'll see how he.
Speaker 9 (38:49):
Does in those situations, right, Yeah, watching him from Afar
sound like I've been able to watch him consistently night
after night.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
How how he plays defensively.
Speaker 9 (38:58):
And you know he's he's so aggressive and so common
with the puck, like he's going to turn the puck
over occasionally. I mean that that's going to happen as well.
But I mean he's he is, he is another caprice
off on the ice. He's absolutely elite with the stick.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
I think we are now. I think we've pivoted some
and we're pointing towards.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Skate triots country again.
Speaker 5 (39:17):
Now.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
I mean, I'm not ready to say we're the skate triots,
but I think we'll come in. I do like the move.
Speaker 5 (39:23):
I said it yesterday Tennabe when the when the Wolves,
when Conley made the trade to get go Bear, I said,
I don't know if it's going to work, but I'm
all for it because it's been a terrible team.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Nothing else has worked for the franchise.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
The while have been like like the Wolves as far
as that remember when the Wolves that that's seven seasons
in a row where they want and done' that's all.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
So I don't know if this will work, and that's.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
You're giving the equivalent of four first round draft picks,
but whether it's highly regarded, this guy is and where
we are, and I'm I'm all for it.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
There's risk, but there's also a reward.
Speaker 5 (39:56):
Were correct, we'll break come back, we'll see what the
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