December 8, 2025 • 37 mins
Common Man Hour 2 --5 Questions --Dynasty Over? --JJ McCarthy --Rate Bowl --Bowl Game Declining
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to ten to B with a little five three.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Four time now four five questions? Well, actually three, but
five sounds like more than four.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Question number one NFL no huddle boy, literally ready.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
The Chiefs dropped to six and seven after a twenty
ten loss of the Texans. Last common is the Chiefs
dynasty over?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, there was someone I worked with who thought it
was going to be the Chiefs and the Vikings in
the big game, and we were on our own after
that that it didn't look like that's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
But you never know.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Both teams are still mathematically alive. I don't mind. My
favorite part was there are people that get so touchy.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
So I'm watching the game.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I watched.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I'm an NFL roube. I watched three games.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I'll watched Vikings Commanders, I watched Bears Packers Bears Packers
was such a good football game and the result wasn't
what I wanted, but it was. It was a terrific
football game. And then last night Chiefs Texans. I just
love defense. Defense wins championships. You saw last night the
better defense beat the better offense. And so there were
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three early in the game, there were three consecutive penalties
against the Texans. So again, I know there's not a conspiracy,
but I like going with it anyway. I go, Rebenalty's
in a row against the Texans playing the Chiefs. Hmm,
And one guy says, maybe worry about her own bleak
team and golf game, because so then I go, I
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was curious. So then I click his profile says Royals,
Chiefs and Razorbacks.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Is there anything else?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So in other words, sports sports sports, His fieldings were hurt.
He was bitter with me because I was I was
making the accusation that the fix was in, and you
know the fix isn't in. But the league wants Kansas
City in the big game.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Oh yeah, no, Pat Mahomes, no, Lamark Jackson, maybe this
year's playoffs.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
No, No, Travis Kelcey, slash Tayte. I mean, they want
it so bad, and I understand that. I mean, I'll
use my sister as an example. She doesn't know who CJ.
Stroud is. She knows who Pat Mahomes, so she's more
likely to watch the big game because of that, right,
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And other people are as well, Oh it's Pat Mahomes again.
Oh yeah, and Kelsey and oh big Andy Reid.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
You know, my wife's bored of it now.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But the first couple of times Taylor Swift was going
to Chiefs games, my wife was wanting to watch it
to see if she get a glimpse of Tait exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So they want him to win. I don't mind a
change into the guard now. I don't think this means
they're and look, there's still a chance they could qualify
for the PLAYFFS. That doesn't look very likely. I don't
think they're done either, not as long as Pat Mahomes
is still Pat Mahomes and as long as Andy Reid's
around and make you know you can't. I mean, that's
a that's a decade of dominance, right, So but yeah,
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I don't mind seeing other teams. I really don't. I
gotta remit I am a little bored of it.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Jordan Love threw three touchdowns, two of them to Christian
Watson as the Packers beat the Bears twenty eight to
twenty one. They now sit atop the NFC North Common
Are you ready to declare the Greemit Packers is the
best team in the NFC North?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, yeah, and I and it surprises me because they
I mean, who's this Jordan Love guy?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Why would they draft him? I'm still accepting.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Apologies from listeners and Packer fans that ripped me for
you know what I said. Do you remember when they
drafted Jordan Love? Ninety percent of Packer fans were up
in arms. What are you doing? We've got a chance
to win a big game here. You need to get
another wide receiver for Aaron. No, Aaron needs to make
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the wide receivers better.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
That's what his job is. I've said it before and
I'll say it again. I just love And you know what,
if I don't blow my own horn.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
By the way, the Packers did draft Christian Watson for
Aaron Rodgers, and he proceeded to ignore him the first
season because they dropped the first past of the year.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
That's exactly right, and so I'll say it, and this
is the way I always phrase it. The general manager
is the caretaker of the franchise, and if he thinks
he's identified the next franchise quarterback, it is incumbent upon
him to draft him, no matter what, no matter what.
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And that's what they've done. He's They were raving about
him last night, not only during the game, but on
the post game. They're all talking about he might be
right now playing the best quarterback in all of pro football.
That could very well be. It doesn't hurt when you
have an offensive line like that in a running game.
That's a good team and it takes us so good.
And we talked last week about how young that roster is.
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Viking fans take notice. That team is going to be
around for a while. I don't think they're going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
The Steelers outlasted the Ravens twenty seven to twenty two.
They now have a one game edge in the AFC
North Common. Are the Ravens done ze?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I think they could very well. And that doesn't bother
me either.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I Mean again, I don't have anything against Lamar and
King Henry or that team in general, but I every
years i'd like to see Buffalo get bounced, you know,
I mean, I just want to see fresh blood.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I think this might gonna be in the year Buffalo
makes it. Josh Allen's not going to have Mahomes Mar
Lamar Jackson. The quarterbacks are going to be there, That
is correct, right, It's gonna be a very young Drake
may who hasn't gone through the postseason experience. What Trevor
Lawrence and Bo Nix and I mean, Josh Allen's by
far going to be the best quarter Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You're absolutely right in that, and they may be the team.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
That does that. What was your question, by the way,
I'm sorry, Raven Steelers.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Oh well, you know, let's twist it back to the
Vikings in KOC.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
You know when I said I was really I was
really adamant about the Vikings keeping Sam Darnold. We also
talked at the time when Aaron Rodgers expressed interest, that
actually would have been the best answer, right, because if
you really didn't want to sign Sam.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Donald to a three year expensive deal because you want.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Maccarthur to be to the guy, Aaron would have come
from one year at ten million dollars. He just wanted
to play with the team that he thought. Had he
the Vikings wors first choice. Now with all the injuries,
it might not have made any difference. I don't know
if Aaron, you know, with the offensive line injuries, if
that makes any difference. If the Bikings would have ended
up basically with the same record, now, maybe game or
two better with Rogers. But that would have been the
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solution to look at the kid. And people were telling me, well,
you can't do that because you might make JJ angry.
Oh no, not that anything about that. You just tell
the kid, I got a chance to bring in a
Hall of Famer, you get to work under. The kid
would have probably been starry eyed and said, I mean
I get to learn from Aaron Rodgers and watch what
he does. I might be able to go want a
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darkness retreat with him and share a jug ayahuasca. I'm
in that's what they should have done. But and Rogers
was really good again yesterday, not spectacular. And he's he's
he's got some rust, right, you know, he's he's got
wear and tear.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
He's like, you're you know, he's not.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
A California Cadillac. You don't even know he's from California.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
He's the one that you bought Minnesota twelve months out
of the year for ten, twelve, fifteen years. You start
rusting out a little bit. But he still got cunning
and guyle and he was good yesterday and they beat
the Ravens.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
So yeah, I like Wesgine number two.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Oh, it's now time to take an in depth look
at the welfare of the Wolves.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
The Wolves at won five in a row after beating
the ll A Clippers one O nine, one oh six
Saturday night at Target Center. Anthony Edwards scored just fifteen
points on three of eleven shooting, but Jade McDaniels loved
the Wolves at twenty seven points. Julius Randalls scored twenty four,
and Nas Reed added nineteen off the bench, including a
big three late common What sticks out to you from
the Wolves win?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Just the same old, same old, and I get a
win though a right?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Okay, you know there, I think someone texted me a
friend of mine who's a big Wolves guy. He does
the stacking a gelling all the time, and he sent
me after that win, it's says, second longest winning streak
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in the association right now, second longest winning streak, And
then I texted back for now, the team is is lazy,
they're bored. They've admitted it, but they won, and you
know that's what I guess. Good team. They are a
good team when they when they're all connected and they
put their best foot forward and play as if they
are interested. They're they're a good basketball team. They are
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a playoff caliber club that should be better than a
sixth seed that they were last year. We know all
the reasons why, because of the a laxadaisical effort against
really bad teams. They gave away too many games.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
They're doing it now.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
If the playoffs started the day, I think they're the
sixth seed. And that's okay because even two years they
were a sixth seed and they got to the to
the to the Western Conference Finals. So I just I
just like the way. I just like the way the
Nuggets play. Here's their headline from the same night. Thunder
win fourteenth straight behind SGA's thirty three says. Sga made
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ten of twelve field goals, eleven and twelve free throws
to help the Thunder improve to twenty two to one overall.
He scored at least twenty points for the ninety fifth
straight game. That's the second longest streak in league history,
behind Wilt Chamberlain's one hundred and twenty six from sixty
one to sixty three.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
So he's got ninety five. It's there.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
It's a ways to go, you know, and it just
takes one game of miss being cold or maybe tweaking something.
But he's got ninety five consecutive games.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Is he like one of the most anonymous best player
in their leagues that we've seen, Well, you could argue
he's the best player in the league and nobody talks
about him. He just won a championship, that's got one loss,
Nobody talks about him.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
He that team plays like sixteen year old kids. It
appears to me they play with enthusiasm, with a joy
for the game. They play with poised, a poised and
polished professionalism, wanting to repeat again. They don't take any
team for granted. They don't take nights off. They play
hard every single They're not bored. They're not bored winning
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for basketball games. Say they're they're a pleasure to watch.
They really are.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
We'll break, we'll come back.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
And that's it for today's edition of five Questions.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Well, actually three questions, but five sounds like more than four.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I got a quote from a former Viking quarterback about
the Vikings quarterback situation.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
It raises some interesting issues. It's controversial, to say the least.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
That's interesting.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
We'll do it next.
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I don't know what happened. It's just gone.
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the hip crickety Barrad Sean Bryant, KFE and Texall line
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It didn't like, wasn't there some controversy where the US
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Speaker 4 (13:27):
It over something called signal?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
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It was before?
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like every three months you have to change you password, Yes,
and I don't want to keep changing my passwords.
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But there's nothing there's no state secrets inside of my email.
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from my email, so I don't need to change the
password every three months.
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I couldn't agree with anymore. But there it is sitting there,
So I don't know.
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Chad Abbott for all time sake? Can you let me
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If not, maybe you could just unication any indication where
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Do we have any indication do they get tales? They
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Exactly, Well, we probably got beat by more than that.
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voice we do all the time. I really love Koc
and the Vikings. I think everything they've done is perfect.
They've never done anything wrong. They just miscalculated a couple
of things that's not fair. And that's what these robots,
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Speaker 1 (16:11):
So I'm also a guessing at some point in the
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their big achievement.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
And then guess what the food will be? Something yucky
that you don't like, and that's what they'll probably Vikings win.
Yesterday they dropped the four was it thirty one? Zip o?
The final score thirty one meat sauce, and as I
mentioned yesterday or earlier today in my tweet, it right
away it came to my tent, I thought they might
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shut out, shut out the Commanders, and the week before
they were shut out, and that's exactly what happened. It's
never happened in franchise history. As matter of fact, I
think somebody else did a note and I don't know
what I did with it, but it's the first time
it's happened since like nineteen ninety two, that a team
would get shut out one week and the following week
they would win via via shut up, And so it
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doesn't happen very often, and it's the first time in
franchise history.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Vikings look very good. They dumbed down the offense.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
For JJ McCarthy, it tell him to play like a
sixteen year old and stop worrying about your mechanics. And
he goes out there and they they win, and he
posts his best numbers and has his best overall performance of.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
His young career.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
His best moments still were that fourth quarter in his
first game ever against the Bears that was very very good,
but overall start to finish obviously, yesterday before that game
tend to be.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
And I'm not sure where I I came across this
quote that I saved.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
It's either from Fish Shrap East, Fish Shrap West, or
the Athletic or CBS Sports, one of them. And now
of course I can't find it again. But give me
a second, I will. Why does this god you all
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the time? It's like losing hip cricket here is.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
So I'll read these three paragraphs and there's quotes from former.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Minnesota Viking quarterback and one time National Football League MVP
when he quarterbacked the Oakland Raiders to a big game appearance,
Rich Gannet. Here's what Here's what the three paragraphs say.
The hope, No, the expectation for this year was a
seamless transition. With reigning NFL Coach of the Year Kevin
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O'Connell McCarthy coming off a knee injury that wiped out
his entire rookie season and three hundred million dollars worth
the veteran free agent signings, that was the a seamless transition.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Here's what Gannon said. It was the perfect storm.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Sam plays great, meaning Darnold, it's Kevin, It's Kevin's the
quarterback whisperer. Throw anybody in there and he can make
them Johnny Unitis or fran Tarkington. I live in Minnesota,
people asking me in the summer, can JJ take them
to the big game. I'm like, guys, you have no
idea how hard this is. There were unrealistic expectations on JJ. Now,
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Rich Scanner doesn't have all the answers. Now I do,
or at least like to think I do. But Gan
and I we both have great quarterbacking minds. He says,
there was unrealistic expectations and JJ, and you know, at
the end of the day, now it's just one football season.
It's coming gone. I think for me, what's what's maybe
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alarming is too strong of a ward. But what's disappointing
is coming off the kind of season they had, and
they were bringing back most everybody except they decided not
to come back with the quarterback. But they were coming
back with most everybody.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
And then they added some pieces that they thought and
the guys they got I.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Bought into it. They were all veteran players who would
all established themselves as quality football players. Lbit.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
They were coming off injuries, most of them.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
But you thought, well, maybe this will work because if
you buy it at the quarterback whisper stuff and you know,
other young quarterbacks have gotten off to a pretty quick start.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
But obviously, as Gannon said, the expectations were too much.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
We just threw away a year. This is really what
we did. And then that begs the question which was
not asked at the news conference at A don't know
it'll ever be asked of the head coach. Shouldn't you
have dumbed it down and not worried about mechanics early
in the year or when did you know the mechanics
weren't there, because I would have thought you would have
saw that in combine or when you had them for
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workouts or watching film when he played for Michigan. So
I don't understand. But you know, that's no water under
the bridge, so we'll But I just think it needs
to be We need to at least, you know, wrap
it in a bowl, you know what, as the holiday
season is here, and then you know, put a cherry
on top and kind of wrap it up. I just
think that the miscalculation really hurt that. I don't know
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what this team would have done had they kept Sam
Darnold signed Aaron Rodgers, Danny Dimes. I don't know, but
it certainly couldn't have been worse than what we went
through this year.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
But maybe now we have.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Four games left, is that correct?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Ent Tovy?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Just four?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
And they are I know the last two are at
home against Detroit.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Chicago, Dallas at New York against the Giants or Detroit.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Green Bay, right are we Bay? Yeah? So it's Dallas
on Sunday night. And did you say it's that their
plays are our place Dallas?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
And then next Dame, I'm sorry, at New York Giants,
new York chances and so then yeah, so that these
will be good tests. I know Dallas's defense was better
for a couple of weeks and then they their their
last outing was awful.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Detroit just ran rough shot, but they're still playing for something.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
But they are playing for something.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Giants. Those guys are kind of the same boat we are, say,
have two teams. They still seem to be a little
more interested than their Washington was. But I don't know,
and then you know, by then we don't know what
kind of a situation the kiddies will be in. You know,
the kitties could be that win against Dallas keeps their
hopes alive, but they're still on the outside looking in.
But and they're playing the Rams this week, Tendaby and
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I just don't see them, especially with Branch out with
the torn achilles.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
I just don't see how they can slow down Maddie Stafford.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Nuka kapuka nuka, huluka ulu si bagumba nuka puka nikua.
Is that how you're saying?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
And then who's the other guy for Sam's I don't
know how they.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Stopped that club or slowed them down. I just don't
know how they do. So. In other words, a Lions
team that might be out of it, I'd rather the
Vikings they play the Lions with McCarthy, with the Lions
needing to win, because that makes it you know, then
then you're playing you're not playing a team that's going
through the motions right. And then same thing with the
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final game with Green Bay. My guess is the Green
Bay games, they'll be of clinch to playoff spot, but
they will be looking for seating at that point. So
we'll see how it goes over the next four weeks,
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We knew it was coming, but I just don't think
it's enough. I think that's for what they accomplished. That's
just not much of a celebration to me. That's like
if you one, if you decided to spend big fat
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it stuff. It's a bracket sixty four they should all
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be given lifetime contracts with blank checks, whatever you want.
That's so good they are.
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I hope they already have those.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
They probably they probably do. That's a very good that's
a very good point.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Is there still a hockey team with like one loss
or something like that?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Who is the team?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I mean I haven't I haven't monitored over the weekend,
but the Colorado Avalanche in that category?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yes, Because I was about to say, who do you
think right now regulations?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
I was about to say, I was about.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
To ask why should they get too?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Now? What team.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
In North American sports as we speak?
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Would you say? Is is the is the very best team?
And I would say it's the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Sure, twenty two to one.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
They take it seriously, poise, polished, professional, blah blah blah
blah blah. And I tried to come up with a comparison,
and the only thing I could come up with would
be Nordo and I in program passwords past Friday? How
how how connected were we? How good was that performance?
I mean that was almost flawless. I mean it wasn't
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a perfect game. You know, I'm not suggesting that we
were mister zero. We weren't the Wall of Saint Paul, who,
by the way, had some trouble the other night. But
you know that's going to happen. I mean, but I'm
not saying we were Frank Brimsic like, but Tennebee we
basically destroyed, deconstructed, We deconstructed a golden uh Caleb true
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acts in the in the Grimmar. It was a really
good performance.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
I could tell that you were even you don't have
got some chemistry.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Yeah, we do have some chemistry. Maybe uh oh, I
don't know. Probably end up doing a program password an
invitational tournament again.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
So we start changing it to like the actual Jeopardy
show that the winner gets to return next week.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Right, that would because to bring him back, we might
do that. They don't have the schedule to do that.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
But yeah, problem, Well tell your wife, Hey, sorry, I'm
going to miss the tenth consecutive Friday at one again.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Well, I mean when the company like pay him money,
But okay, that's probably not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
We forget like a sponsor or something would give like
gift cards to every time they they come in.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
It's not a bad idea.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Got start a golden Golfers were awarded a bowl.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Game. They accepted Guarantee Bowl. Playing New Mexico, I played
Gainst Rate Bulls. I was called Oh did it used
to be the Guaranteed Rate Bowl and I was just
the Rate Ball?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I read.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
That's what I did. They just shorten it, did Guaranteed
drop away? Was there a split in the company. I
don't know, because I would have it.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Used to be called the Guaranteed Rate Bowl, but it's
called the Rate Bowl.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
It can't guarantee that rate anymore.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Maybe that's what wait hold on game of schedule for Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Also in twenty twenty, Guaranteed Rates signed on as the
title sponsored the game, remaining renaming it at the Guaranteed
Rate Ball, But in October twenty twenty four, the game
became the Rate Bowl as the part of a company rebrand.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Okay, the game is scheduled for December twenty sixth and Phoenix,
Arizona all the way to Tacoma, Philadelphia, Atlanta, LA.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
You should have Guaranteed Human Bowl.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
North and Northern California where the girls are warm and
I mean mats and baby. Yeah, keep on rock, keep
on recking me, baby. They're playing New Mexico team they
never played before and they're really really excited about that game.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Do you al'ty know all the names as Bowl has
been Yeah, sure, Copper Bowl through eighteen ninety six, then
the Inside dot Com Bowl, then the Inside Bowl, then
the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl, then the Cactus Bowl, then
the Cheese at Ball Guaranteed Rate Bowl, and now rate Ball.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
It seems like the former sponsors have as much interest
as the teams do. At least some teams. Are three
schools at least in counting that have decided thanks but
no thanks. They have not accepted bull bids. That would
be the Fighting and Average and Order Dame. They're bitter.
They call it a gut punch. They were not invited
to the twelve team season ending tournament. I think they
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finished with a record at ten and two. They lost
their first two games of the season. Every game since
then they won by like thirty plus points. Now they
don't have a conference and mean they're not in a
conference or an independent, so they did not have a
conference championship game like the versus Indiana, right, so they
didn't get that extra chance. I guess to impress the selectors,
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and I don't know who these people are. How many
of they are don't know. There's probably a list of
names available somewhere, I would think, but there's a group
of they sit up on high Maybe they're like you know,
they're like Supreme Court justices. They decide they bestow births
on the twelve teams. I guess some are automatic. I
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guess I think two other teams that decided not to
stay Bowl games, or Case State and Iowa State said
we're out.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Both teams.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Are getting new head coaches, so I think that's been
given as one of the reasons. In Kansas State each
got fined five hundred thousand dollars by the Big Twelve
for opting out of Bulls because of coaching changes. Though
I did see a story where Iowa State said they
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took a vote amongst the players, and they have so
many injuries too, they don't feel like they can feel
the healthy team. I don't know if Case State has
that same reason. I think the dirty little secret is
I think there's a lot of different moving parts here.
Ten To me, one is a lot of these guys
are waiting to see what kind of nail money they're
going to get first, before they're going to play again, right?
Am I getting milled money? No one wants to play
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in that last game and get hurt. Also, I think
this is just the truth of the matter. I think
a lot of the kids on these teams don't want
to play another game. They've already played twelve rugged games.
They've already, They've already they've let guys are laying out.
Guys are the trader rooms and doesn't work. These guys
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are always a very physical game. It takes a lot
out of you. You get beat up. Every guy is
beat up. And to now have to practice for three.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Or four more weeks me game for a meaningless game.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
These games, folks, they are not rewards for good seasons.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
A six and six season is not a good season.
Seven and five is not a good season.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
They are now searching for five and seven teams again
to fill the two teams that don't want the three
teams that don't want to go, just like the golfers
went last year. Is a five and seven team, and
they were selected over another five and sevent team. If
I'm not mistaken because of their academic excellence, which is.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Great, you should be.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
That's they actually should.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Reward teams with academic excellence rather than wins and losses
on the field.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
But then you might get some sloppy games.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
That aren't so good. The truth of the matter is
most of these players don't want to practice for three
or four more weeks and go playing a meaningless bowl game,
and they're half a yeah, and why would you?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
It's just it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
So maybe now.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
This is starting to come to a head where we're
we're going to have to limit the ball games, and
we know why they're done. They are done to fill
empty slots on ESPN and who else.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
I don't I don't know if it's just HPN, the OHO,
whoever it is, all these.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
These these sports sports, sports your whole life, just sports.
Television networks need games, and I don't even know. You
must either really love college football or have no life.
If you're gonna sit, if you have no attachment to
New Mexico or Minnesota, Why would you watch that game?
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Would you watch that game the day after Christmas on Friday? Why?
Read a book?
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I just read a great book called An Anatomy of
a Song I was talked about with Brian Oak on
Rock Talk last week.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Read a book.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I'm kind of in the market for a book for Christmas. Oh,
I would like to get one as a gift idea.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Well, I'd like to tell you that Being the common Man,
the Best, Lousiest, Lousy as the Best is for sale,
but it's sold up. Oh No, I was actually waiting
for this one are not available.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
There's just no interest in these games.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I have watched more college football in the last two
or three years, four years and I've watched in my.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Entire life combined because Deuce.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Went to do you know what the end on the
side of the Nebraska helmet stands for a time knowledge
he went to Nebraska for four years. It's been fun
to follow Nebraska. They are They are a team that
I don't track many other college football teams. I guess
the only ones I pay attention to are Nebraska the
because that's where baby brother Peter still goes. He's in
his junior year, and then the University of Minnesota is
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because it's the team in town and we do a
sports sports Sports as your whole life to sports talk show.
And Nebraska's fun to watch because they're always it seems
like almost every game almost they're in it, and they
find there they're lions like and that they find.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Unique and bizarre ways.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
To those football games. And it's kind of fun that way.
But if if one of those three teams is not involved. Now,
I did watch the in Indiana. That was a really
good football game, and.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Defense was king at I just, I just I know
that I'm in the minority.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Most people like offense and football because fantasy football dominates football, certainly,
I don't know. I'm sure they must have fantasy football
for college football too, don't they. It's not as popular,
but they probably do fantasy right, and they're so that's
where you get your points, and so people like it.
And then people just like explode. They like long pad.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
They're fascinated by the quarterback drops back to.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Bast The was a long arch, but well, in McCarthy's
case it's a bullet, but everybody else there was a long,
arching long and it is like yesterday there was a
this is every NFL game. I'm gonna do a little
idol in the pedestalize every NFL game. This happens at
half a dozen times. Quarterback makes a throw that you
cannot believe he can fit it into a window, and
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the quarter the receiver makes some miraculous catch and you go,
how does he how does he get the ball to him?
How does he catch it, hang on to it and
get his feet down in bounds. It is amazing. But
that's what people like I liked. Yesterday's Kansas City versus
Texans game was so good Green Bay even though there
were some offense, particular in the second half, there was
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more offense that was but the offense was hard earned. Man,
it was fun to watch. And that Ohio State Indiana
game was really really good. I feel bad for the
Ohio State kicker. I think it happened to him last
year against Michigan too, and then maybe brother Peter said
it happened the year before missed chip shot field. They
could have tied the game at thirteen, and he missed
a twenty seven yard for people, I think pulled it
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wide left.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
The only.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
The only thing he can fall back on as an
individual player the team itself is that game didn't eliminate
them from posts.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
It was like, what's your season's over now? I mean
the loser of that game was yeah, yeah, they were
going to either be the one or the two set.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
The winner was going to get the one. The loser
was going to get the two unless it would have
been a route. Let's say one of the teams would
have blown out the other one. The team that got
blown out I dropped at three or four, but they
weren't going to lose to the kid might get a
chance to redeem himself. But it just goes to show
you TENN Toby how the golphers can't wait to go
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play a ball game because that's where their program is.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
PJ.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Hangs has had on that we run another ball game,
another ball game every year.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Were in a ball game, that's great. The Iowa States is,
and the Kansas State says, and the Notre Dame said,
I'm not playing.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
I'm not playing in rate ball. I'm not playing in
the Coppara Bowl, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Playing in the it's a consolation round. Yeah, it's a consultation.
I'm not playing in any of that stuff. And I
do think today at a legitimate complaint. I mean, don't
lose your first two games, I guess, But how about Alabama?
How did they get in and they didn't even perform?
They got crushed by Oklahoma?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Did they not?
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Was it twenty or Georgia was it twenty eight seven
or twenty eight fourteen. They were never in that game. Really,
they have three losses and they're in How does James
we'll talk about that well. On the other side of
the break, we'll talk a little bit more college a football,
how we got wild and Wolves to get to, some
more thoughts on the vikings in the NFL, and much
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Tweet home Alabama. Oh it's my cue to throw it
to ten to B with a little five three.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Four time now four five questions? Well, actually three, but
five sounds like more than four.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Question number one NFL no huddle boy, literally ready.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
The Chiefs dropped to six and seven after a twenty
ten loss of the Texans. Last common is the Chiefs
dynasty over?
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, there was someone I worked with who thought it
was going to be the Chiefs and the Vikings in
the big game, and we were on our own after
that that it didn't look like that's gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
But you never know.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Both teams are still mathematically alive. I don't mind. My
favorite part was there are people that get so touchy.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
So I'm watching the game.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I watched.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I'm an NFL roube. I watched three games.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I'll watched Vikings Commanders, I watched Bears Packers Bears Packers
was such a good football game and the result wasn't
what I wanted, but it was. It was a terrific
football game. And then last night Chiefs Texans. I just
love defense. Defense wins championships. You saw last night the
better defense beat the better offense. And so there were
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three early in the game, there were three consecutive penalties
against the Texans. So again, I know there's not a conspiracy,
but I like going with it anyway. I go, Rebenalty's
in a row against the Texans playing the Chiefs. Hmm,
And one guy says, maybe worry about her own bleak
team and golf game, because so then I go, I
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was curious. So then I click his profile says Royals,
Chiefs and Razorbacks.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Is there anything else?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
So in other words, sports sports sports, His fieldings were hurt.
He was bitter with me because I was I was
making the accusation that the fix was in, and you
know the fix isn't in. But the league wants Kansas
City in the big game.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Oh yeah, no, Pat Mahomes, no, Lamark Jackson, maybe this
year's playoffs.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
No, No, Travis Kelcey, slash Tayte. I mean, they want
it so bad, and I understand that. I mean, I'll
use my sister as an example. She doesn't know who CJ.
Stroud is. She knows who Pat Mahomes, so she's more
likely to watch the big game because of that, right,
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And other people are as well, Oh it's Pat Mahomes again.
Oh yeah, and Kelsey and oh big Andy Reid.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
You know, my wife's bored of it now.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But the first couple of times Taylor Swift was going
to Chiefs games, my wife was wanting to watch it
to see if she get a glimpse of Tait exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
So they want him to win. I don't mind a
change into the guard now. I don't think this means
they're and look, there's still a chance they could qualify
for the PLAYFFS. That doesn't look very likely. I don't
think they're done either, not as long as Pat Mahomes
is still Pat Mahomes and as long as Andy Reid's
around and make you know you can't. I mean, that's
a that's a decade of dominance, right, So but yeah,
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I don't mind seeing other teams. I really don't. I
gotta remit I am a little bored of it.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Jordan Love threw three touchdowns, two of them to Christian
Watson as the Packers beat the Bears twenty eight to
twenty one. They now sit atop the NFC North Common
Are you ready to declare the Greemit Packers is the
best team in the NFC North?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Well, yeah, and I and it surprises me because they
I mean, who's this Jordan Love guy?
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Why would they draft him? I'm still accepting.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Apologies from listeners and Packer fans that ripped me for
you know what I said. Do you remember when they
drafted Jordan Love? Ninety percent of Packer fans were up
in arms. What are you doing? We've got a chance
to win a big game here. You need to get
another wide receiver for Aaron. No, Aaron needs to make
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the wide receivers better.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
That's what his job is. I've said it before and
I'll say it again. I just love And you know what,
if I don't blow my own horn.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
By the way, the Packers did draft Christian Watson for
Aaron Rodgers, and he proceeded to ignore him the first
season because they dropped the first past of the year.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
That's exactly right, and so I'll say it, and this
is the way I always phrase it. The general manager
is the caretaker of the franchise, and if he thinks
he's identified the next franchise quarterback, it is incumbent upon
him to draft him, no matter what, no matter what.
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And that's what they've done. He's They were raving about
him last night, not only during the game, but on
the post game. They're all talking about he might be
right now playing the best quarterback in all of pro football.
That could very well be. It doesn't hurt when you
have an offensive line like that in a running game.
That's a good team and it takes us so good.
And we talked last week about how young that roster is.
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Viking fans take notice. That team is going to be
around for a while. I don't think they're going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
The Steelers outlasted the Ravens twenty seven to twenty two.
They now have a one game edge in the AFC
North Common. Are the Ravens done ze?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I think they could very well. And that doesn't bother
me either.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I Mean again, I don't have anything against Lamar and
King Henry or that team in general, but I every
years i'd like to see Buffalo get bounced, you know,
I mean, I just want to see fresh blood.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I think this might gonna be in the year Buffalo
makes it. Josh Allen's not going to have Mahomes Mar
Lamar Jackson. The quarterbacks are going to be there, That
is correct, right, It's gonna be a very young Drake
may who hasn't gone through the postseason experience. What Trevor
Lawrence and Bo Nix and I mean, Josh Allen's by
far going to be the best quarter Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You're absolutely right in that, and they may be the team.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
That does that. What was your question, by the way,
I'm sorry, Raven Steelers.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Oh well, you know, let's twist it back to the
Vikings in KOC.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
You know when I said I was really I was
really adamant about the Vikings keeping Sam Darnold. We also
talked at the time when Aaron Rodgers expressed interest, that
actually would have been the best answer, right, because if
you really didn't want to sign Sam.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Donald to a three year expensive deal because you want.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Maccarthur to be to the guy, Aaron would have come
from one year at ten million dollars. He just wanted
to play with the team that he thought. Had he
the Vikings wors first choice. Now with all the injuries,
it might not have made any difference. I don't know
if Aaron, you know, with the offensive line injuries, if
that makes any difference. If the Bikings would have ended
up basically with the same record, now, maybe game or
two better with Rogers. But that would have been the
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solution to look at the kid. And people were telling me, well,
you can't do that because you might make JJ angry.
Oh no, not that anything about that. You just tell
the kid, I got a chance to bring in a
Hall of Famer, you get to work under. The kid
would have probably been starry eyed and said, I mean
I get to learn from Aaron Rodgers and watch what
he does. I might be able to go want a
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darkness retreat with him and share a jug ayahuasca. I'm
in that's what they should have done. But and Rogers
was really good again yesterday, not spectacular. And he's he's
he's got some rust, right, you know, he's he's got
wear and tear.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
He's like, you're you know, he's not.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
A California Cadillac. You don't even know he's from California.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
He's the one that you bought Minnesota twelve months out
of the year for ten, twelve, fifteen years. You start
rusting out a little bit. But he still got cunning
and guyle and he was good yesterday and they beat
the Ravens.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
So yeah, I like Wesgine number two.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Oh, it's now time to take an in depth look
at the welfare of the Wolves.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
The Wolves at won five in a row after beating
the ll A Clippers one O nine, one oh six
Saturday night at Target Center. Anthony Edwards scored just fifteen
points on three of eleven shooting, but Jade McDaniels loved
the Wolves at twenty seven points. Julius Randalls scored twenty four,
and Nas Reed added nineteen off the bench, including a
big three late common What sticks out to you from
the Wolves win?
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Just the same old, same old, and I get a
win though a right?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Okay, you know there, I think someone texted me a
friend of mine who's a big Wolves guy. He does
the stacking a gelling all the time, and he sent
me after that win, it's says, second longest winning streak
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in the association right now, second longest winning streak, And
then I texted back for now, the team is is lazy,
they're bored. They've admitted it, but they won, and you
know that's what I guess. Good team. They are a
good team when they when they're all connected and they
put their best foot forward and play as if they
are interested. They're they're a good basketball team. They are
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a playoff caliber club that should be better than a
sixth seed that they were last year. We know all
the reasons why, because of the a laxadaisical effort against
really bad teams. They gave away too many games.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
They're doing it now.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
If the playoffs started the day, I think they're the
sixth seed. And that's okay because even two years they
were a sixth seed and they got to the to
the to the Western Conference Finals. So I just I
just like the way. I just like the way the
Nuggets play. Here's their headline from the same night. Thunder
win fourteenth straight behind SGA's thirty three says. Sga made
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ten of twelve field goals, eleven and twelve free throws
to help the Thunder improve to twenty two to one overall.
He scored at least twenty points for the ninety fifth
straight game. That's the second longest streak in league history,
behind Wilt Chamberlain's one hundred and twenty six from sixty
one to sixty three.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
So he's got ninety five. It's there.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
It's a ways to go, you know, and it just
takes one game of miss being cold or maybe tweaking something.
But he's got ninety five consecutive games.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Is he like one of the most anonymous best player
in their leagues that we've seen, Well, you could argue
he's the best player in the league and nobody talks
about him. He just won a championship, that's got one loss,
Nobody talks about him.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
He that team plays like sixteen year old kids. It
appears to me they play with enthusiasm, with a joy
for the game. They play with poised, a poised and
polished professionalism, wanting to repeat again. They don't take any
team for granted. They don't take nights off. They play
hard every single They're not bored. They're not bored winning
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for basketball games. Say they're they're a pleasure to watch.
They really are.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
We'll break, we'll come back.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
And that's it for today's edition of five Questions.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Well, actually three questions, but five sounds like more than four.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I got a quote from a former Viking quarterback about
the Vikings quarterback situation.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
It raises some interesting issues. It's controversial, to say the least.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
That's interesting.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
We'll do it next.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
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Oh time he means up comfort and joy.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
I'm gonna go into my ape or go to bit now.
Chad Abbott would be the concierge. David do Wall playing
Tom Hagen not to be confused with Bob Time for
two more. Hagen, Can you do a verification code again
for old time sake? Because I just lost your cricket.
(12:48):
I don't know what happened. It's just gone.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Usually after like an hour and a half or like
an hour or so times out and you have to
reload it.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Why is that? What is so secretive, so special about
the hip crickety Barrad Sean Bryant, KFE and Texall line
was like, do they think it's like? What was that?
It didn't like, wasn't there some controversy where the US
(13:21):
military was planning some type of They had some plan
and they decided they did They did.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
It over something called signal?
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yes? Is that what this is? Is? Like what we're
doing so top secret? Then this is like it's like,
why can't it just be the way.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
It was before?
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I always find it hilarious, Like for your email basically
like every three months you have to change you password, Yes,
and I don't want to keep changing my passwords.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
But there's nothing there's no state secrets inside of my email.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
I'm not worried about anyone coming in and getting information
from my email, so I don't need to change the
password every three months.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
I couldn't agree with anymore. But there it is sitting there,
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Now I can't. I can't communicate so close circuit to
Chad Abbott for all time sake? Can you let me
off the hook? He probably doesn't want to enable me again.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
By the way, do you know where by a chance?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
If not, maybe you could just unication any indication where
the final four is this year the NCAA Men's basketball
Final Four. And I'll tell you why.
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I ask.
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Brackets lucas ol Stadium Bracket.
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and you'll find this as a shock.
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Speaker 3 (14:47):
You've got to be kidding me.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
They won. I wonder how many votes they beat me by.
Do we have any indication do they get tales? They
don't do any talies? You know what, why because not
that many people. Probably they just don't care.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
We lost fifty five to forty three.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Exactly, Well, we probably got beat by more than that.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
The Power Trip.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
You know, they've got a strong as loyal and a
strong following. They're hypnotized, they've they've been drugg They're like
the movie I've brought this up before, Invasion of the
Body Snatchers nineteen fifty eight or nine, where these pods
were put under people's bed that an exact duplicate would
replace you and then it would be like the robot
(15:30):
voice we do all the time. I really love Koc
and the Vikings. I think everything they've done is perfect.
They've never done anything wrong. They just miscalculated a couple
of things that's not fair. And that's what these robots,
these people would come out of the pod would do
the same thing. The only reason I'm saying is because
it's been revealed. It's been announced. It's coming to my
attention that the Power Trip Morning Show was voted the
(15:53):
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and the Coroner's office and will be they'll be. Hey,
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just like their final four at Lucas Oil Stateium. It'll
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because I wouldn't want to go to Indianapolis.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
So I'm also a guessing at some point in the
next week in the KFM press box area. Yeah, they're
gonna have like some sort of party celebration. Hey, we're
gonna bring some food to celebrate the Power Trip and
their big achievement.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
And then guess what the food will be? Something yucky
that you don't like, and that's what they'll probably Vikings win.
Yesterday they dropped the four was it thirty one? Zip o?
The final score thirty one meat sauce, and as I
mentioned yesterday or earlier today in my tweet, it right
away it came to my tent, I thought they might
(16:45):
shut out, shut out the Commanders, and the week before
they were shut out, and that's exactly what happened. It's
never happened in franchise history. As matter of fact, I
think somebody else did a note and I don't know
what I did with it, but it's the first time
it's happened since like nineteen ninety two, that a team
would get shut out one week and the following week
they would win via via shut up, And so it
(17:07):
doesn't happen very often, and it's the first time in
franchise history.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Vikings look very good. They dumbed down the offense.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
For JJ McCarthy, it tell him to play like a
sixteen year old and stop worrying about your mechanics. And
he goes out there and they they win, and he
posts his best numbers and has his best overall performance of.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
His young career.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
His best moments still were that fourth quarter in his
first game ever against the Bears that was very very good,
but overall start to finish obviously, yesterday before that game
tend to be.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
And I'm not sure where I I came across this
quote that I saved.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
It's either from Fish Shrap East, Fish Shrap West, or
the Athletic or CBS Sports, one of them. And now
of course I can't find it again. But give me
a second, I will. Why does this god you all
(18:14):
the time? It's like losing hip cricket here is.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
So I'll read these three paragraphs and there's quotes from former.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Minnesota Viking quarterback and one time National Football League MVP
when he quarterbacked the Oakland Raiders to a big game appearance,
Rich Gannet. Here's what Here's what the three paragraphs say.
The hope, No, the expectation for this year was a
seamless transition. With reigning NFL Coach of the Year Kevin
(18:49):
O'Connell McCarthy coming off a knee injury that wiped out
his entire rookie season and three hundred million dollars worth
the veteran free agent signings, that was the a seamless transition.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Here's what Gannon said. It was the perfect storm.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Sam plays great, meaning Darnold, it's Kevin, It's Kevin's the
quarterback whisperer. Throw anybody in there and he can make
them Johnny Unitis or fran Tarkington. I live in Minnesota,
people asking me in the summer, can JJ take them
to the big game. I'm like, guys, you have no
idea how hard this is. There were unrealistic expectations on JJ. Now,
(19:36):
Rich Scanner doesn't have all the answers. Now I do,
or at least like to think I do. But Gan
and I we both have great quarterbacking minds. He says,
there was unrealistic expectations and JJ, and you know, at
the end of the day, now it's just one football season.
It's coming gone. I think for me, what's what's maybe
(19:57):
alarming is too strong of a ward. But what's disappointing
is coming off the kind of season they had, and
they were bringing back most everybody except they decided not
to come back with the quarterback. But they were coming
back with most everybody.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
And then they added some pieces that they thought and
the guys they got I.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Bought into it. They were all veteran players who would
all established themselves as quality football players. Lbit.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
They were coming off injuries, most of them.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
But you thought, well, maybe this will work because if
you buy it at the quarterback whisper stuff and you know,
other young quarterbacks have gotten off to a pretty quick start.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
But obviously, as Gannon said, the expectations were too much.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
We just threw away a year. This is really what
we did. And then that begs the question which was
not asked at the news conference at A don't know
it'll ever be asked of the head coach. Shouldn't you
have dumbed it down and not worried about mechanics early
in the year or when did you know the mechanics
weren't there, because I would have thought you would have
saw that in combine or when you had them for
(20:59):
workouts or watching film when he played for Michigan. So
I don't understand. But you know, that's no water under
the bridge, so we'll But I just think it needs
to be We need to at least, you know, wrap
it in a bowl, you know what, as the holiday
season is here, and then you know, put a cherry
on top and kind of wrap it up. I just
think that the miscalculation really hurt that. I don't know
(21:21):
what this team would have done had they kept Sam
Darnold signed Aaron Rodgers, Danny Dimes. I don't know, but
it certainly couldn't have been worse than what we went
through this year.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
But maybe now we have.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Four games left, is that correct?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Ent Tovy?
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Just four?
Speaker 4 (21:38):
And they are I know the last two are at
home against Detroit.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Chicago, Dallas at New York against the Giants or Detroit.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Green Bay, right are we Bay? Yeah? So it's Dallas
on Sunday night. And did you say it's that their
plays are our place Dallas?
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
And then next Dame, I'm sorry, at New York Giants,
new York chances and so then yeah, so that these
will be good tests. I know Dallas's defense was better
for a couple of weeks and then they their their
last outing was awful.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Detroit just ran rough shot, but they're still playing for something.
Speaker 4 (22:09):
But they are playing for something.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Giants. Those guys are kind of the same boat we are, say,
have two teams. They still seem to be a little
more interested than their Washington was. But I don't know,
and then you know, by then we don't know what
kind of a situation the kiddies will be in. You know,
the kitties could be that win against Dallas keeps their
hopes alive, but they're still on the outside looking in.
But and they're playing the Rams this week, Tendaby and
(22:32):
I just don't see them, especially with Branch out with
the torn achilles.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
I just don't see how they can slow down Maddie Stafford.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Nuka kapuka nuka, huluka ulu si bagumba nuka puka nikua.
Is that how you're saying?
Speaker 4 (22:48):
And then who's the other guy for Sam's I don't
know how they.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Stopped that club or slowed them down. I just don't
know how they do. So. In other words, a Lions
team that might be out of it, I'd rather the
Vikings they play the Lions with McCarthy, with the Lions
needing to win, because that makes it you know, then
then you're playing you're not playing a team that's going
through the motions right. And then same thing with the
(23:16):
final game with Green Bay. My guess is the Green
Bay games, they'll be of clinch to playoff spot, but
they will be looking for seating at that point. So
we'll see how it goes over the next four weeks,
will break, we'll come back with little distat lot here
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Speaker 2 (24:12):
It's enough.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
For I just don't think I always loved that one.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
We knew it was coming, but I just don't think
it's enough. I think that's for what they accomplished. That's
just not much of a celebration to me. That's like
if you one, if you decided to spend big fat
stacks and boost to provide a cash in New York
City in the final for the NIT, that's like an
it stuff. It's a bracket sixty four they should all
(24:39):
be given lifetime contracts with blank checks, whatever you want.
That's so good they are.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I hope they already have those.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
They probably they probably do. That's a very good that's
a very good point.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Is there still a hockey team with like one loss
or something like that?
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Who is the team?
Speaker 1 (24:56):
I mean I haven't I haven't monitored over the weekend,
but the Colorado Avalanche in that category?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Yes, Because I was about to say, who do you
think right now regulations?
Speaker 4 (25:05):
I was about to say, I was about.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
To ask why should they get too?
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Now? What team.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
In North American sports as we speak?
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Would you say? Is is the is the very best team?
And I would say it's the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Sure, twenty two to one.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
They take it seriously, poise, polished, professional, blah blah blah
blah blah. And I tried to come up with a comparison,
and the only thing I could come up with would
be Nordo and I in program passwords past Friday? How
how how connected were we? How good was that performance?
I mean that was almost flawless. I mean it wasn't
(25:45):
a perfect game. You know, I'm not suggesting that we
were mister zero. We weren't the Wall of Saint Paul, who,
by the way, had some trouble the other night. But
you know that's going to happen. I mean, but I'm
not saying we were Frank Brimsic like, but Tennebee we
basically destroyed, deconstructed, We deconstructed a golden uh Caleb true
(26:07):
acts in the in the Grimmar. It was a really
good performance.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
I could tell that you were even you don't have
got some chemistry.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Yeah, we do have some chemistry. Maybe uh oh, I
don't know. Probably end up doing a program password an
invitational tournament again.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
So we start changing it to like the actual Jeopardy
show that the winner gets to return next week.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Right, that would because to bring him back, we might
do that. They don't have the schedule to do that.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
But yeah, problem, Well tell your wife, Hey, sorry, I'm
going to miss the tenth consecutive Friday at one again.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Well, I mean when the company like pay him money,
But okay, that's probably not gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
We forget like a sponsor or something would give like
gift cards to every time they they come in.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
It's not a bad idea.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
Got start a golden Golfers were awarded a bowl.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Game. They accepted Guarantee Bowl. Playing New Mexico, I played
Gainst Rate Bulls. I was called Oh did it used
to be the Guaranteed Rate Bowl and I was just
the Rate Ball?
Speaker 1 (27:12):
I read.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
That's what I did. They just shorten it, did Guaranteed
drop away? Was there a split in the company. I
don't know, because I would have it.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Used to be called the Guaranteed Rate Bowl, but it's
called the Rate Bowl.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
It can't guarantee that rate anymore.
Speaker 4 (27:27):
Maybe that's what wait hold on game of schedule for Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
Also in twenty twenty, Guaranteed Rates signed on as the
title sponsored the game, remaining renaming it at the Guaranteed
Rate Ball, But in October twenty twenty four, the game
became the Rate Bowl as the part of a company rebrand.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Okay, the game is scheduled for December twenty sixth and Phoenix,
Arizona all the way to Tacoma, Philadelphia, Atlanta, LA.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
You should have Guaranteed Human Bowl.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
North and Northern California where the girls are warm and
I mean mats and baby. Yeah, keep on rock, keep
on recking me, baby. They're playing New Mexico team they
never played before and they're really really excited about that game.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Do you al'ty know all the names as Bowl has
been Yeah, sure, Copper Bowl through eighteen ninety six, then
the Inside dot Com Bowl, then the Inside Bowl, then
the Buffalo Wild Wings Bowl, then the Cactus Bowl, then
the Cheese at Ball Guaranteed Rate Bowl, and now rate Ball.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
It seems like the former sponsors have as much interest
as the teams do. At least some teams. Are three
schools at least in counting that have decided thanks but
no thanks. They have not accepted bull bids. That would
be the Fighting and Average and Order Dame. They're bitter.
They call it a gut punch. They were not invited
to the twelve team season ending tournament. I think they
(28:52):
finished with a record at ten and two. They lost
their first two games of the season. Every game since
then they won by like thirty plus points. Now they
don't have a conference and mean they're not in a
conference or an independent, so they did not have a
conference championship game like the versus Indiana, right, so they
didn't get that extra chance. I guess to impress the selectors,
(29:14):
and I don't know who these people are. How many
of they are don't know. There's probably a list of
names available somewhere, I would think, but there's a group
of they sit up on high Maybe they're like you know,
they're like Supreme Court justices. They decide they bestow births
on the twelve teams. I guess some are automatic. I
(29:34):
guess I think two other teams that decided not to
stay Bowl games, or Case State and Iowa State said
we're out.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Both teams.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Are getting new head coaches, so I think that's been
given as one of the reasons. In Kansas State each
got fined five hundred thousand dollars by the Big Twelve
for opting out of Bulls because of coaching changes. Though
I did see a story where Iowa State said they
(30:13):
took a vote amongst the players, and they have so
many injuries too, they don't feel like they can feel
the healthy team. I don't know if Case State has
that same reason. I think the dirty little secret is
I think there's a lot of different moving parts here.
Ten To me, one is a lot of these guys
are waiting to see what kind of nail money they're
going to get first, before they're going to play again, right?
Am I getting milled money? No one wants to play
(30:34):
in that last game and get hurt. Also, I think
this is just the truth of the matter. I think
a lot of the kids on these teams don't want
to play another game. They've already played twelve rugged games.
They've already, They've already they've let guys are laying out.
Guys are the trader rooms and doesn't work. These guys
(30:55):
are always a very physical game. It takes a lot
out of you. You get beat up. Every guy is
beat up. And to now have to practice for three.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
Or four more weeks me game for a meaningless game.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
These games, folks, they are not rewards for good seasons.
Speaker 4 (31:12):
A six and six season is not a good season.
Seven and five is not a good season.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
They are now searching for five and seven teams again
to fill the two teams that don't want the three
teams that don't want to go, just like the golfers
went last year. Is a five and seven team, and
they were selected over another five and sevent team. If
I'm not mistaken because of their academic excellence, which is.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Great, you should be.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
That's they actually should.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Reward teams with academic excellence rather than wins and losses
on the field.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
But then you might get some sloppy games.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
That aren't so good. The truth of the matter is
most of these players don't want to practice for three
or four more weeks and go playing a meaningless bowl game,
and they're half a yeah, and why would you?
Speaker 3 (31:54):
It's just it's ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
So maybe now.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
This is starting to come to a head where we're
we're going to have to limit the ball games, and
we know why they're done. They are done to fill
empty slots on ESPN and who else.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
I don't I don't know if it's just HPN, the OHO,
whoever it is, all these.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
These these sports sports, sports your whole life, just sports.
Television networks need games, and I don't even know. You
must either really love college football or have no life.
If you're gonna sit, if you have no attachment to
New Mexico or Minnesota, Why would you watch that game?
(32:34):
Would you watch that game the day after Christmas on Friday? Why?
Read a book?
Speaker 4 (32:40):
I just read a great book called An Anatomy of
a Song I was talked about with Brian Oak on
Rock Talk last week.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Read a book.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
I'm kind of in the market for a book for Christmas. Oh,
I would like to get one as a gift idea.
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Well, I'd like to tell you that Being the common Man,
the Best, Lousiest, Lousy as the Best is for sale,
but it's sold up. Oh No, I was actually waiting
for this one are not available.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
There's just no interest in these games.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I have watched more college football in the last two
or three years, four years and I've watched in my.
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Entire life combined because Deuce.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Went to do you know what the end on the
side of the Nebraska helmet stands for a time knowledge
he went to Nebraska for four years. It's been fun
to follow Nebraska. They are They are a team that
I don't track many other college football teams. I guess
the only ones I pay attention to are Nebraska the
because that's where baby brother Peter still goes. He's in
his junior year, and then the University of Minnesota is
(33:50):
because it's the team in town and we do a
sports sports Sports as your whole life to sports talk show.
And Nebraska's fun to watch because they're always it seems
like almost every game almost they're in it, and they
find there they're lions like and that they find.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Unique and bizarre ways.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
To those football games. And it's kind of fun that way.
But if if one of those three teams is not involved. Now,
I did watch the in Indiana. That was a really
good football game, and.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
Defense was king at I just, I just I know
that I'm in the minority.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Most people like offense and football because fantasy football dominates football, certainly,
I don't know. I'm sure they must have fantasy football
for college football too, don't they. It's not as popular,
but they probably do fantasy right, and they're so that's
where you get your points, and so people like it.
And then people just like explode. They like long pad.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
They're fascinated by the quarterback drops back to.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Bast The was a long arch, but well, in McCarthy's
case it's a bullet, but everybody else there was a long,
arching long and it is like yesterday there was a
this is every NFL game. I'm gonna do a little
idol in the pedestalize every NFL game. This happens at
half a dozen times. Quarterback makes a throw that you
cannot believe he can fit it into a window, and
(35:08):
the quarter the receiver makes some miraculous catch and you go,
how does he how does he get the ball to him?
How does he catch it, hang on to it and
get his feet down in bounds. It is amazing. But
that's what people like I liked. Yesterday's Kansas City versus
Texans game was so good Green Bay even though there
were some offense, particular in the second half, there was
(35:29):
more offense that was but the offense was hard earned. Man,
it was fun to watch. And that Ohio State Indiana
game was really really good. I feel bad for the
Ohio State kicker. I think it happened to him last
year against Michigan too, and then maybe brother Peter said
it happened the year before missed chip shot field. They
could have tied the game at thirteen, and he missed
a twenty seven yard for people, I think pulled it
(35:51):
wide left.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
The only.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
The only thing he can fall back on as an
individual player the team itself is that game didn't eliminate
them from posts.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
It was like, what's your season's over now? I mean
the loser of that game was yeah, yeah, they were
going to either be the one or the two set.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
The winner was going to get the one. The loser
was going to get the two unless it would have
been a route. Let's say one of the teams would
have blown out the other one. The team that got
blown out I dropped at three or four, but they
weren't going to lose to the kid might get a
chance to redeem himself. But it just goes to show
you TENN Toby how the golphers can't wait to go
(36:32):
play a ball game because that's where their program is.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
PJ.
Speaker 4 (36:37):
Hangs has had on that we run another ball game,
another ball game every year.
Speaker 2 (36:42):
Were in a ball game, that's great. The Iowa States is,
and the Kansas State says, and the Notre Dame said,
I'm not playing.
Speaker 4 (36:51):
I'm not playing in rate ball. I'm not playing in
the Coppara Bowl, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Playing in the it's a consolation round. Yeah, it's a consultation.
I'm not playing in any of that stuff. And I
do think today at a legitimate complaint. I mean, don't
lose your first two games, I guess, But how about Alabama?
How did they get in and they didn't even perform?
They got crushed by Oklahoma?
Speaker 3 (37:14):
Did they not?
Speaker 2 (37:14):
Was it twenty or Georgia was it twenty eight seven
or twenty eight fourteen. They were never in that game. Really,
they have three losses and they're in How does James
we'll talk about that well. On the other side of
the break, we'll talk a little bit more college a football,
how we got wild and Wolves to get to, some
more thoughts on the vikings in the NFL, and much
(37:34):
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