Vikings Cut Candidates! Common Man Hour 3

Common Man Hour 3 --NFL Gift Giving --Officiating --Why No Guests? --Vikings Cut Candidates

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
A couple of.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Thirteen fourteen pass commomying programs is the season Tennabe in
which people come barying gifts. Remember so far, How about
the McCauley sisters once again bearying gifts for you and
I for no other reason than they like us and
that we've supported them in their golfing careers.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Get a little Christmas card.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Apparently they think that they don't think you can afford
your own golf balls, the best and golf ball, so
did I. Bella played in the uh at Augusta National
Golf Course for the women's amateur tournament there because they
you know, they do the masters, they do the pro
for the men, and now they do an amateur one
for the ladies.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
And you know the flags that they have in the
in the pins on the greens.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Yeah, she had suing. You're ones of those, and each
gave us one of those, So that's that's a.

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Nice Christmas gift. They're the best, they are the very best,
and we do appreciate that, and we wish them both
have a very.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Happy holidays, Merry Christmas, and the very the best in
their golf careers and in their their lives. Right, it
is the time for gift giving and it happens everywhere,
including the National Football League.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
I stumbled across the story in.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Which they were The story was basically talking about some of.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
The gifts that players received from other players.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Generally, it's a high profile quarterback giving gifts to his
offensive line. Sure, and I understand why, because if anybody
breathes on you, there's a penalty.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
That's penalty flaggers thrown. Meanwhile, the guys that are.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Keeping you upright are beaten, torn and tattered, bruised. They're
eating dirt and rubbing robotesting on it. Right, I'm gonna
need some help on this.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Tend to be with you.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
If you've got a calculator, you have a calculator. Patrick
Mahomes really went above and beyond the call of duty
when it came to giving gifts. Now, it's it doesn't
say the number of players. Is it just the starting
five linemen or do you think it's the backup linement
as well.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
It's a good question that could get a little awkward. Yeah,
so you know, I would assume I don't know Kansas
City's status for the season, but I'm guessing they haven't
just had the same five guys playing offense ries. I
think you kind of got to give them to all
of them, don't you know?

Speaker 2 (03:02):
So how many are usually offensive? Woman? Does a team
carry to eight or nine? Eight or nine? Let's say
ten to round it off. See you have ten guys. Now.

Speaker 3 (03:09):
I googled these items and took the highest prices of
all of them except for the Hue Blot watch.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Is it Hu Blot or Hu Blue hublah Uh?

Speaker 3 (03:19):
I don't know how to say it, because there was
One of the watches was one hundred and forty three
thousand dollars per watch. One hundred forty three thousand. Now,
maybe Pat went all out and did one hundred and
forty three thousand. He gave avaton E bikes and the
highest priced abaton E bike is twenty eight hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
So add twenty eight hundred times ten twenty one thousand, right,
twenty thousand, add eight thousand.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Add this PS five with protective carrier nine hundred and
ninety nine dollars.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
So let's round it up to one thousand.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Times ten players twenty four thousand dollars for the Hugh
blow Watch hublot who blew twenty four thousand per watch.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Yeah, that's two hundred and forty thousand, okay. Oakley metro
glasses or met Meta glasses Meta, you know those are
really fancy pants things five hundred dollars five thousand.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Beat Studio Pro headphones two hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Two thousand, and then.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
Ramaua luggage carriers, the really nice ones made of aluminum sturdy,
three thousand dollars. Okay, So what's that total?

Speaker 2 (04:40):
All together? It's a lot of money.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yes, five hundred and eighty three thousand, five hundred and
eighty three thousand, two hundred.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Pat mahomes is worth two hundred million dollars. So can
you say what percentage of two hundred million is?

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Can you ask.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Ai what percentage of two hundred and that's just what
he's worth. You know that is I'm going on ai
if he could be worth more than I mean, he
signed a four hundred and fifty million dollar contract, but
he hasn't collected all of that yet, right but as
of right now, it says with exact wild exact figures
very Patrick mahlmes not networth is estimated to be around
two hundred million.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
Dollars zero point two percent or zero point three percent
will round it up.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
I'm throwing a wet blanket on I'm doing a mood
killer Monday. I'm trying to throw a mood killer on
the homes and I'm really not that is what White
wants to do. But when you think of that's like
if I got zero what did you say? Zero?

Speaker 4 (05:52):
What?

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Zero point three percent? Zero point three percent?

Speaker 3 (05:55):
If I bought you a set of goal clothes for
my networth, that'd be like me buying you set a goal.
Oh I'm not going to own nice I'm not going
to but it'd be like buying a set of golf
So you see when you put it in that context,
We'll put it this way. Golf bought all of his
guys that keep him up high tech golf carts. Okay,

(06:17):
ten guys, fifteen thousand dollars is the high end of those.
So what's what's what's that amount to fifteen thousand dollars?
A golf cart for ten players? Each one gets one?

Speaker 2 (06:28):
You just add a zero? Yeah, well you do it.
I can't under a two thousand, one hundred and so
one hundred is that one hundred and fifty thousand dollars?
What say it again?

Speaker 3 (06:36):
It's you said fifteen thousand dollars and we're saying there's
ten offensive linemen.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
Jared goff networth.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
His networth is estimated to be around sixty million dollars.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
So what percentage of sixty million dollar is?

Speaker 1 (07:00):
Basically the same things that Mahome said, same percentage, zero
point two five percent?

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Okay, very good.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Well, now another one says Jared Gobin his net worth
is one hundred million.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
See, I don't even know which one to believe.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
As I say, I don't believe he's sixty million for
Jared Goff because he's made more than that in his career.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
This one is saying one hundred million. So if you
do it that.

Speaker 3 (07:21):
Way, made more than that. Yeah, So I think we're close. Yeah,
As rookie deal was twenty seven point nine million guaranteed.
In twenty twenty four, he pushed his career earnings past
one hundred million, with estimates around two hundred million in total.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
And well, then why are they saying is.

Speaker 3 (07:41):
There he he must be not spending his money very wisely.
These only worth sixty million dollars. So I guess my
point is I wish I was alignment for the Kansas
City Chiefs or the Detroit Lions. Caspials are pretty nifty gifts.
But see what I'm saying, It's like.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
It's it's it is wonderful, but it's like me buying
you a set of golf clubs? So could you do that?
What kind you want?

Speaker 3 (08:08):
I got a connection with I know a guy who
knows that guy sounds I know I know a guy
who knows a guy knows because you've helped me stand
up every day for the year after year.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
I don't know what I'd do without you. I'm getting
very emotional here. Yeah, and then there were several examples
of other quarterbacks.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
And if I gave you zero point two five percent
of my networth, I could get you like a fifteen
dollars gift card to Caraba.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
I'm about a sleeve a golf boss. Yeah, you know not.

Speaker 3 (08:36):
Now, I can't afford to buy my own golf balls,
but I would take a sleeve of golf balls.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
But yeah, it was where are some of the other
Let me grab the story again. I had to go
off my computer, to off my story to in order
to uh do the mathematics.

Speaker 4 (08:59):
Here.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Oh, here's one for you. Here's another one a Doncic.
Now here's what he did. Luca after practice rat up,
doncit surprised players and staff with more than one hundred

(09:22):
electric bikes, one hundred, spreading cheer throughout the entire organization.
Head coach JJ Reddick set the scene by telling the
team Luca had something for us, which briefly at least
one player to wonder if a Bugatti was coming. Huh,
Bugatti electric bike, Bugatti electric bike.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
I'll take the Bugatti.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Doncic, who's been with the Lakers for less than a year,
gifted the pedal all wheel drive S model, priced at
three thousand, three hundred and fifty dollars.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Multiply that by one hundred, one.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Hundred, Yes, thirty three hundred and fifty dollars times one hundred.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
That's three hundred and thirty five thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Hold on Luca don Sich his career earnings one hundred
and ninety eight million dollars. His what was this net worth?

(10:44):
Give me one second net worth? That's not enough, they
say it where he's worth one hundred million. Yeah, that's wrong.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
He's signed a five year, two hundred and seven million
dollars super Max rookie extent with the Maverison twenty twenty one.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
How can they be that far off on that because
just in investments.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Alone, they've made more money. I know there's taxes. I
get that. If you make a two hunred million dollar contract,
you make one hundred million, But then you're doing investments.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
I don't know, but yeah, in the career earnings, I'm
sure it doesn't count.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Endorsements.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
Well that's what I was talking about with Mahomes too,
because think of all that the one Mahomes has, he
has a half a dozen of them. At least got
six seven endorsements. So Merry Christmas to all of those
people and have a good night and all that will
take a break. We'll come back with a little dissed
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And we are striking a nerve today. There's a lot
of topics we've talked about. Well, no, it need a
good and bad way. I mean, it's true, just a
lot of people have I think I appreciate the topic.
Is what I'm saying is someone says coaches and players

(12:56):
spend an inordinate amount of time trying to manipulate the
reps in their favor. They have no interest in a
fairly call the game. You could make that argument for sure.
You can even make it with Finch. I mean, every
coach works the referees. That's part of being a coach
on every level. Tend to be NBA, collegiate, G League,

(13:19):
high school travel basketball in house, Howard Pulley, Sizzle, Pop
Warner working the officials. And I think every coach has
a different way of doing it, you know, calm, casual, cool,

(13:42):
calm and collected ranting and raving, you know, and after
why you get to know the referees, you know on
a first name basis, and you know how you ingratiate
your yourself to the referee. I don't know, I don't
know how that all works, but so yeah, I mean,
and as we'd said earlier, there is an to coach
or a player who he thinks his team is always

(14:04):
being fouled and his players never make a foul, or
the players think can never make a follow, and that's why.
To me, it's it's just it's kind of an exercise
and futility. And I think that's why sometimes you know,
and again it sounds like I'm really sticking them for referees,
and I guess I kind of amated to a certain degree.
If you have a player or coach, you shouldn't do this.
But it's only human nature. If you have a player
or coach who just keeps riding you and writing you

(14:25):
and writing you and basically saying you're missing calls. After
a while, it's like, dude, I heard what you said.
I'm doing the best thing. I don't think referees are
intentionally having them for other teams unless that team or
that player that coach.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Gets to the point where it gets.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
Derogatory and it's just and I'm not even saying they
should do it, but I'm they're probably gonna say, what
you think that was a bad call?

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Wait till you see this one, meathead?

Speaker 4 (14:51):
Right?

Speaker 2 (14:51):
So I think they they are.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
This one says Finch is being praised for behaving like
a before oooon himself. I don't think Finch gets the
praise he currently is getting for sticking a first team
over an evenly called game if the team would have lost.
That could be had they lost that game, I don't
know if people would say it was a great move
on his part to inspire them, there would be something
that would say it was the only thing that kept
him in the game.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
I mean, I can't speak for everyone, but just following
by a social media people were praising it before the
outcome was even in doubt or before we knew so.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
Right, But what he's saying is after the loss, would
people have praised it then?

Speaker 4 (15:29):
I know.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
I'm just saying though he was, he was being praised
online by people on social media and we didn't know
whether they're gonna win or lose yet.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
I'm not a big social media as my guide on
what's good or bad. That just but you're right, No,
you're right, I know. And just like I'm sure the
fans in the stands were all cheering them. They probably
fans love that stuff, right, So that's my point. Fans
of teams like doesn't.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
They're always hoping anything that's done will benefit their club,
and that's that's that's their hope.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Fans love when the manager comes out to the umpire
and starts kicking dirt on the plate and kicking dirt
on his shoes and yelling and screaming, even though half
the time it looks very childish and immature.

Speaker 3 (16:04):
Would not cheer for SGA or Luca even if they
played for Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
They're foul bating and flopping or unwatchable. I think he's
lying to himself. I don't know. I kind of agree, really. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:17):
So if it was announced that the Wolves acquired SGA
in a blockbuster tray, they and they kept Ample, they
let go of go Bear draft picks, blah blah blah,
you would say, I can't watch this club play.

Speaker 2 (16:27):
I'm against this team. It's hard to know until they're there. Yeah,
but I.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Definitely despise the foul bating out of both of them.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
I think could change. I think for most people are.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
Changes if they're if they're on your team.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
This one says, coming, man, how come the Power Trip,
Paul Allen and Bumber to Bumper are all have weekly
guests from the local sports teams, coaches or players.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
But you guys don't why they.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Don't want to be on our show. We've tried many,
many times. They go buffoon at noon. You're kidding me, No,
it was a conscious.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
Decision I made years and years and years ago. When
I first started here, I had a part I started
nineteen ninety three. You got a full time show in
the fall of nineteen forty four?

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Did I say forty four? Seems like that? Nineteen ninety
four and one of my first shows. This is so
long ago.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
We were still the NFC Central and Tampa Bay Tampa
Bay was in our division, so it was Vikings, Lions, Packers,
Bears in Tampa Bay.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
And I did what all the shows do tennaby.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
I had a beat writer for all four of those
towns scheduled for that show that night between six and nine.
Joe Bagga Donuts from the Green Bay Daily, Joe Baggo
Donuts from the Tampa Bay Daily Planet, Joe bag A
Donuts from the Detroit Free Press, blah blah blah, and

(18:13):
so phone lines were full, like they always were back
in the day.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
We did a purely call in show, start to finish,
start to finish, take calls. That's where the moniker things started.
Steelers guy, Bill.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
Bates, guy Asthma guy, officiating guy, vomit guy, this guy,
that guy. Right, So the phone lines were all full
and we were taking a few calls, and I go, okay,
we're gonna go to break when we come back. Joe
bagg A Donuts and the Green Bay Daily bugles next.
Then all the phone lines emptied out because the listeners, well,

(18:52):
I'm not going to get on the air comms doing
a guest, And I thought, what I'd rather talk to
Vomit guy than talk about the green Bay offensive line.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
With a beat writer who's probably really into it. You know,
he's into it, He's cut all the stats, and he
loves sports, sports, sports, and.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
I just find that that's what everybody else is doing,
So why don't we do something different.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Why don't I just talk about myself? That's what I did.
I just talked about myself, and we talked about all
the listeners, and we talked about it, and we talked
sports too, So we just kind of blended it and
make we get Rows in every week.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
Now we got him for an hour three times a week,
and we we mix a match. We'll have liber on
a couple times a year versus John a couple times
a year. We'll have Chips Coggins in a few times
a year. So we do do guests occasionally. But plus,
I've got a lot to say. Huh, why I do?

(19:54):
It's a lot about nothing, but I have a lot
to say.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
This is value. It's only three.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Hours a day. You've got a lot to say.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
If we started having guessed, you'd get even less time
to talk now than you do as it is, right,
So that's basically.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Why we don't do it just so because everybody else
is doing it. So we just want to have our
show to be a little different.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
This one says someone gives calm in their opinion and
he disagrees crazy I agree.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
With Tenna, Well, I disagree that you're agreeing with Tenna,
b I don't agree with that.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
I don't agree that you're disagreeing with him agreeing with me. Yeah,
I'm if you have a stupid opinion. I mean, if
you have an opinion that I don't agree with, I'm
gonna argue with you. Well, I do it most because
I brought up the term devil's advocate earlier.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
I really wished if I and I dropped out of height.
Not only do I have four years of college eligibility remaining,
but I have two of high school. And had I
stayed and walk the straight and arrow instead of getting
on the long and winding row and multi colored galaxy
uppers Donald screams and laughter, there's nothing more depraved than
a man in the depths of an ether, Binch.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
I would have wanted to have been in a debate
class because I just like debating. I I'll take either
side of the story and just and like to make
an argument for thee. I think it's fun. I think
debate is important.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
It's lie and I like when it's lively and do
I always believe.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
Everything I say?

Speaker 3 (21:29):
No, But I still like to make It keeps me,
it keeps your mind fresh, keeps you sharp. To debate
and to take other stories and try to look at
the other person's side of things.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
I can come back right now if you want me
to and just rip SGA and Donches for their foul baby.
I don't particularly like it either, but I think fans
are lying to themselves. If they said that guy was
on their team doing the same thing, they would hate it.
They would like, do you like parades? They love him
in Oklahoma City.

Speaker 3 (21:59):
We don't have them here. They do in Oklahoma City.
And it's not like he does it. Everybody acts like
every shot he takes he's followed me. I've watched not
a lot of Oklahoma City basketball, but enough to know
it doesn't happen on every single play.

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Though with these with the holidays fast approaching, schedules do
vary from show to show. Vikings Beat the Giant sixteen
thirteen and here's a Here's part of the pain. And
it was tremendous of being a host that at all sports, sports, sports,

(23:40):
your whole life to sports station. I felt obligated to
watch the entire game. Those listening, unless they're doing it
for a living.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Didn't have to. You could just say I've had enough
of this and just leave right. I don't even know
if I would have started. Yeah, go.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
Sorts, socks, watch paint dry, wait for a boiling hot
bad of asphalt to be delivered.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
But yeah, it wasn't. There wasn't.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
You know.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
I guess I'm watching just basically to see the JJ.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
McCarthy, right, I mean, is he the guy or not?
You know? Now he was supposed to have an MRI
in his hand. Today You is there anything on the
Twitter machine?

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Haven't heard anything obviously, you know, Koc's not talking today,
and I'm sure there's not media availabilitily.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
So so for now we don't know anything other than
he left the game with a hand injury, did not
return Max let a scoring drive, didn't he didn't he
go like six six of seven, something like six seven
and for like fifty two yards or something.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
Remember it was after.

Speaker 3 (24:46):
The Commander's game in which we were in total command
part in the point we won.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
That was.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
Remember we we were shut out the week before by
Seattle with Brozmer at the helm, and then the following
week we shut out the command.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
And there was about six seven minutes.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
To go in that Commander's game, and I tweeted out
I put Brozmer in right now, and people thought, that's ridiculous.
Gott to let McCarthy finish the work, and he needs
all the work he can get it. All right, you're
up thirty one nothing, there's six seven minutes to go.
What more is he going to learn? What more you're
gonna see at that point you're handing the ball off.

(25:25):
I thought, playing Brosemer, if you believe Brosmer has a
future on your roster, not as your franchise quarterback.

Speaker 2 (25:33):
I don't think anybody, including.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
The franchise and Brosmer himself, believes he's going to be
the franchise quarterback. But if you think he's worth keeping
on the club as your backup, that's a pretty bad
taste to leave in your mouth after his bad as
he played said, they have that your only action in
the NFL, other than a couple of mop up duty things, right,
but your only time where it's like it's all yours kid,
go out and get him because he was not good

(25:57):
against Seattle, so I thought, get him in against the Commanders.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
And they didn't. They let JJ finish it off.

Speaker 3 (26:03):
Maybe they want to, yeah, right, But what I was
saying was six seven minutes to go in up thirty
one nothing?

Speaker 2 (26:10):
What more is there to see?

Speaker 3 (26:11):
Does he need a rep on handing the ball off again?
I think he's handled the ball off plenty. I mean,
you you can make that argument. I guess, I'm I
guess I'm disagreeing with you again.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
I would I.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
I just thought he's he's engineered a thirty one nothing lead.
Everything's good. Now you're just handing the ball off anyways
and maybe throwing one short pass and just for bros
mersanity because of how how bad it is, Like Tenneby
after you have a really after I have a really
bad show, which is often, I wouldn't want that to
be my last show or or live with that.

Speaker 2 (26:44):
I'd like to go out and try to improve upon.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
Like my last I always hate when my last round
of the year is awful. It leaves a bad taste
in my mouth. For Max brose Mur, that was such
a bad performance, especially the interception.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Yeah, that you would want to rinse that from your
mouth and give him an opportunity to play a little
bit better. And he got that chance yesterday. It wasn't great,
but it was.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
Miles ahead of his last game, so that was nice
to see.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
He was functional.

Speaker 3 (27:14):
He was functional, which was nice to see. At least
he can hold his head up, hie and go you
know it? Because didn't he lead the team to a
score and.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
They got a field goal? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yeah, so he led the team to a score. He
moved the ball a little bit. Good for him. We
might see more of him now, depending upon how serious
the injury is to McCarthy's hand.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
Where do you stand on the McCarthy thing.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
I mean, his last couple of performances have been encouraging,
all right, thanks to the Thanks to the NFC East
for allowing the Viking season to turn back around and
give us some good vibes.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
I'm agreeing with you going into the off season.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
You know, now it's been against three bad defenses, three
bad teams. The interesting even even before this latest injury,
I was like, well, how can we depend on this guy's.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Durability moving forward? Give me?

Speaker 1 (28:07):
He said, two injuries last year and an injury, and
now he's got a third injury after missing the entire
season last year. So I mean his last couple of
outings were definitely a step in the right direction. I
think he at least did enough to go, hey, he
still has a shot at being a starting quarterback in
this league. So I wouldn't be ready to completely move

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on this offseason. We see, unless there's a big fish
out there, those don't come around very often. So it's
but if we can go Bill Garron on it, I'd
consider that.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
I think we completely agree. And that funny is Joe
Burrow Really that's not a possibility, is it?

Speaker 3 (28:51):
Because that I keep getting text messages and seeing that
on message boards, does he I thought, did can he
come out and say no, I really don't want him.
I mean, I don't really want out of Cincinnati? Or
I think was he hinting.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
At it early?

Speaker 3 (29:06):
He just had the cryptic comments like a couple of
weeks ago. Yes, But since then, hasn't he said I'm
fine here? And I know he could just be saying
that because you don't want to. I don't think he
wanted demand a trade at this moment. I don't know
I even have the wherewithal to get him anyways, what
even want?

Speaker 2 (29:23):
Well, that's the thing. Do we have the assets to
get him? And does he want to play?

Speaker 1 (29:26):
Is it worth giving up all those assets to get him?
Because we have enough to work around him.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
He's not.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
The quarterback is the most important position. I was looking
at a piece from the Athletic and the Vikings aren't
alone in this tennabe. But there are so many There
are so many positions in which in a lot of
asks to do it it's it's it's it's it's the money.

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There's a lot of decisions the Vikings have to make.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Says Starting Center.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Says, only the charges will match the Vikings and their
usage of sixteen offensive line combinations this season, three centers
of seen action Ryan Kelly, Break Brandell and Michael Jurgens.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
The Vikers will have a.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Decision to make this offseason. With Kelly, he'll turn thirty
three in May. He hasn't played seventeen games in a
season since twenty twenty two.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Cut him before June and the Vikings save around twelve
million dollars on.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
The twenty twenty six cap. That move would leave the
Vikings about an obvious center, although Brandell filled in admirably,
Perhaps Bikes comparing him with a journeyman free agent, a
middle round draft pick with more upside than Jurgens could
also make sense. That's the direction they have to save

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the twelve million dollars, right.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
That's not all that, but just for his own personal
healthy I'd be like you, he might just retire before
even after this good decision. That's correct, and he should
and the team should be encouraging him to do so.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
Pass catching tight end, the Vikings don't have to part ways.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
With tight end TJ. Howkinson at season's end. He is
ostensibly under contract for two more seasons, but his camp
hit is projected to be around twenty one million dollars,
the second highest among NFL tight ends in twenty twenty six,
behind only David Nijojo. Who is He plays for the
Cleveland Browns.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
I think they're happy with I mean, he might be
really good, but aren't they Three to twelve. Minnesota's cap
situation will let minimum require a reworking of Howkinson's figure.

Speaker 2 (31:48):
Vikings could also save her own nine million for next
season by cutting him. What do you do there?

Speaker 1 (31:58):
My guess is he'd try to do the restraction sure route.
You definitely can't have that much committed against the cap
for him, you know, and some of these guys, it's
hard to know how much of it is their productions
going down because of them, and how much of it
is just because of the quarterback in the.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
Offense, right right? Yeah, Like I don't think.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
I don't think Justin Jefferson just got immensely worse this season.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
But his stats would show you. I mean, t J.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Hockinson, if he gets three yards, if he gets three
catches for thirty yards, you think, all right, that's a
good game for him this season, because he ain't getting
much more than that. So it's hard to pay him
twenty one against the cap next year for the production
he's giving you. So I think you got to go
to the restructure route or Yeah, the funny thing isn't

(32:45):
maybe you have more coming up here. Every year we
go into the draft and pre agency, like what are
our needs? And last year we felt like most of
our needs were up addressed before we even got to
the draft. This year, you could have one to two
offensive linemen tight end, running back, quarterback, slash backup, quarterback,

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edge rusher, interior, defensive line, cornerback, safety.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
Yeah, needs all over the place. Yeah, I fill the ball. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Well yeah, because and they bring those up, they say
all around. Running back to pair with Jordan Mason, Aaron
Jones cap number ranks is the fourth largest among all
running backs in twenty twenty six. If the Vikers were
to keep him and Mason be spending close to twenty
million on the running backs room for next season twenty
million dollars.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
Only the Saints are projected mediocre production. Yeah, only the
Saints are projected to spend more.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
The thirty one year olds still reliable as a pass catcher,
pass protector of slasher between the tackles, but the Vikings
could benefit from some youth free agent class includes possibilities Williams,
Kenneth Gainwell, and others. There will be several running backs
worthy of being drafted in the middle rounds too. All
comes down to dollars and cents with a lot of

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these guys that they're making so much money and their
productivity just doesn't match, you know, talk about the lines.
I brought this quote up a couple of times in
the last few weeks. When they re signed Hutchinson for
the massive deal we were and you gave him the
new big deal. They asked him, you know, you're spending
a lot of money. He goes, yeah, and we'll spend
it till we run out. And that's what happens to, right,

(34:32):
You spend it till you run out, and you hope
that all that spending all works out, that you have
all those your your high priced players are all peeking
at about the same time, and you get a little
luck and stay healthy in you and you win a
world championship. But yeah, there's all sorts of trusted interior
defensive lineman, number three wide receiver, off ball linebacker next

(34:55):
to Blake Cashman, tackled depth everything you were just talking
about al Lewis lays out in this athletic piece.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
Even you said tackle depth right, like, ye, you shouldn't
tackle shouldn't be a need for xt year. But given
the year Christian Derris I just had and Brian O'Neil's
getting a little bit longer in the tooth, Yep, there's
another area you need to address. It's a pretty important spot.
We got a really good punter and a really good placekicker.
I like our placekicker a lot.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
We got that going for us, which is nice. Yeah,
even you know Edge Rusher, I think bing Inkle is
a quality player.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
Gernard went healthy, was probably one of your best defensive players.
But given you have Dallas Turner, does Gernard become expendable
so you can use those resource resources elsewhere?

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Is he a cut candidate even though when healthy he
was one of your best players?

Speaker 2 (35:47):
Sure? Sure, that's that's that's it.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
And then I keep hearing everybody's saying Bradbury's having a
Pro Bowl like season?

Speaker 2 (36:01):
Is that true?

Speaker 4 (36:02):
Is?

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Is that's what people now?

Speaker 4 (36:05):
Are?

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Those?

Speaker 3 (36:06):
Are those people just trying to stir the pot like
I did earlier when I said, well, we better off.
Were the Wild just as good without me? You know,
before they made the trade, they were one of the
best teams in hockey. They're still one of the best
teams in hockey. But you know, you could make an
argument that maybe they should have just played it out.
I think most people mighty nine out of one hundred,

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would say it was the right trade to make.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
But it is.

Speaker 3 (36:33):
Everybody said Bradbury had to go too small, big nose
tackles were beating him around.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
This matter of fact, text.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
Messages came in or it says Bradbury hasn't given up
a sack or had a penalty called on him, played
nine hundred plus snaps.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
I would say that's solid. That is impressive. What is
he doing this year that he didn't do previously? I
don't know. Is some of it system? And do some
of it tend to be inspiration? Oh?

Speaker 3 (37:06):
You doubted me, you know what I'm saying. I mean
sometimes if you know that team doubted me, everybody's down
on me. There were things I got it.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
Maybe that does that. Well.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
Don Chick's a prime example. You're fat and don't play defense.
That's what they said about it when they traded him.
The general manager of the U of Dallas. Well, now
he looks I mean, they look like an Adonis, but
he's he doesn't have a dad bought anymore. Right, he
looks much better than he did. I gotta think that

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wasn't by accident. He is an all of a sudden
started eating better. It was just, oh, you think i'm
fat on maybe I do have a few extra pounds.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
I'll show you. Maybe that's what Bradbury did the old
I'll show you. But yeah, there's all sorts of them,
and they're not the only team.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
They're everywhere. General manager, I'm beginning to believe is about
the most important spot your general manager coach combination when
they decide on personnel to draft right, finding the right
quarter well, finding the right quarterback obviously it's important, but
also finding but look what they Look what they've done
in Detroit.

Speaker 2 (38:18):
Now it's it's over for Detroit now right there? Their
windows over. It might not be, yeah, I mean they
still have some good They should.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Be playoff competitors here for the next yeah year, a
year or two, but maybe they'll get remotivated. Maybe after
a year of people now starting to doubt them in
the offseason.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
But look at Philadelphia and we don't like them. We
don't like the Eagles here, but they is that how
he is at Rossman Roseman. All he does is draft
offensive seems like every year they draft two, three, four,
five offensive linemen. So they've always got offensive linemens in
the cycle, right, they're always there. Leaves the free agency,

(39:01):
got another one. If a guy gets injured, got a
nice backup. That's the place to invest your money, because
we've seen it. Look what happened to Detroit this year
offensive line. They were playing a third string center yesterday
one one of the most important well the series, that
was the first and goal at the one, and he
gets called for flinching.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
The center flinches. Now, could have first dring center do that?

Speaker 3 (39:24):
Yeah, I suppose, but it's less likely. And then we've
seen what's happened to the Vikings this year. Only the Chargers,
as we picked that line from this piece from Alex
Lewis and he did a few days ago, the only
team to use more offensive line combinations and are the
Chargers in the Vikings they were either the same or
the Chargers.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
Had one or two more than us.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
I don't think JJ is going to buy his offensive
line and any Christmas gifts they should be buying him
Christmas gifts. Thank you, thank you, thank you very much.
But anyway, we got a game on Sunday, Tennebee. Actually
on Thursday, I got Christmas Day. Christmas Day, your master

(40:12):
control supervising that day.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
Unfortunately, I saw this tweet, this tweet that resonated with
me from something called Frank Schwab of Yahoo. He said,
the NFL got unlucky with the three Christmas matchups all
turning out to be duds. But they deserve the bad
karma for being entirely greedy and trying to take over Christmas.
They get what they get, and that felt good to

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me because I have the exact same.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
Time they do. Get agreed. There's no question they had.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
It to They just the NFL has to take over everything,
They have to dominate everything, and they had to take
over a day that they didn't need to do and
let the NBA have their day.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
Yes, and because they can't flex those games. You can't. Yeah,
they're in the Thursday night games. You just can't do that.
You can't.

Speaker 3 (40:58):
All of a sudden, look at I don't know this.
Let's say there's a more attractive game coming up. You know,
let's say it's San Francisco Seattle. Well, you can't flex
that from a Sunday with I don't think he could
do with that short notice. Maybe you could, but they're
not so Yeah, they're getting bad games.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
But I'll be there.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
I'm going to the game ten. I'm bringing the family.
So our one appearance at the bank. It's a white out,
so we'll be there for the game, and you'll be
there in spirit. You'll be back here at our studio.
We'll be excited about that. Any other big plans for
the holid like Christmas Day.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
I'm saying the Boys of the Wild game tomorrow. I okay,
And then no, we'll just go over to the in
laws for Christmas, even Christmas, and then you know, a
little Mike hockey tournament next weekend.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
Very good. I'm good for you.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
And we got the hockey rink all set up this
last weekend, so we find them in outside skating a
little in your backyard.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Yeah, yeah, it's been been very nice, very good. Good
for you.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Flooded that thing like a month ago and hadn't been
able to skate on any because the weather had just
been killing my rink.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
We'll got three skates in. I'm just gonna Homa sit
on the couch practice of the Olympics. Couch louge my.
That is a good line. The team USA didn't seem
to find the humor. They didn have no idea what
I was talking about. Couch love. If you have to
explain the joke, it's bad. Oh. By the way, go

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Speaker 3 (42:27):
Going to be there February I think it's twenty third
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Speaker 2 (42:31):
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Speaker 3 (42:34):
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