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January 15, 2026 45 mins
The guys have one final, exclusive Power Trip Press Conference featuring both Kevin O'Connel and Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, Tom Pelissero talks about the breaking NFL news and shares his thoughts on the real press conference

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Our Sorcerers.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Music pas Bump for music today.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Sweet, it's kind of grieving. Can you play it? One
p A going over this it's hot? Yeah, yeah, please.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Up.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
I don't know what's it's in here, somewhere, I'll find it.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
We're gonna.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, I play back our press conference in this segment
because yesterday we got.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
One on one time with them KOC and both. Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Because we are your official powers of morning show, the
the Vikings in Minnesota, Vikings Morning Show.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
That's what we do.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
So we let everybody else talk to him first. Then
we ask him the hard hitting questions.

Speaker 5 (01:26):
Mostly non football related of course, right, because everybody else
asked the football questions.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
So it's like we get it. They asked, well, JJ McCarthy, whatever,
whatever's right, whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Anyway, I can't find it. Maybe it's been deleted or
lost to the history.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Oh there's donuts down the hallway. It's got an email.
We've got donuts here, is that right? Donuts are good.

Speaker 5 (01:58):
So I believe what they're gonna do is there's a
dozen of them. So if you want one of them,
put your name in a raffle and then they will
decide who gets the donuts.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
And then the oh, Tony Romo.

Speaker 6 (02:26):
And then the.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
And then the.

Speaker 6 (02:33):
And then the and then the.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
All right, rank them? What makes people turn the radio
off the fastest?

Speaker 5 (02:48):
Me guessing the World Series of Poker made event champion
in the year that you asked? You asking a forty
nine second question. More PA making porn sounds sounding like
Tony Romo, because that makes me uncomfortable.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
I would turn it off the fastest with the p
A sound bites. I'm just still always wondering what version
of ho here he was listening to. Yeah, jeez, I
don't think that.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
I don't even know that song?

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Is he? Okay?

Speaker 5 (03:21):
I bet doctors have asked him to open up and
say exactly once and then they've just said it never again.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
We'll just guess never again. Don't say it like that,
go on, never mind, and then take your tools out?
Who cares? You got strap? And then the.

Speaker 1 (03:42):
We're gonna take your kidneys out over here too? Poor
just got harvest harvest. I think there's uh you can
make a lot of money.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Hart. It's if PA was going to donate an organ
to you, what would you take. That's a good question.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
It's not just answer it, just pick just say gall
bladder or something. It doesn't matter. Probably his uh liver.
Oh my god, you were thinking way too long. Just
say it, answered, I hate that lady.

Speaker 3 (04:25):
Her day two because you drank more than he did. Lady, Yeah,
he doesn't drink a lot.

Speaker 7 (04:36):
I don't want his kidneys because he peas all forty
three leave him alone forty three.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
Yeah. So the liver is also seventeen years older than you. Yeah,
but by definition, anything you're going to get from him
seventeen years older. Yeah. Yeah, should we do the bit?
I mean, I mean yeah, yeah, because this bit's going
in Nope. Yeah, yeah, I thought. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (05:00):
So yesterday at TCO you had a chance to talk
to Kuoisy Udolpha Mensa and Kevin O'Connell.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
It's the general manager and the head coach in the
Minnesota Vikings.

Speaker 5 (05:09):
Again, the Power Tiboni Shoe always granted exclusive access to
talk to KOC, but this time it was like end
of the year bit, So let's have a Quasy joint
as well, right, Yeah, let's.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
Do it, and na it's time for a power trip
press conference.

Speaker 5 (05:25):
All right, Soquasy I heard you were recently on the
same flight as Sauce.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
You obviously are the general manager of the Vikings.

Speaker 5 (05:31):
You said in first class, But Sauce was an aisle
twenty three window seat seat twenty three F.

Speaker 3 (05:37):
But in twenty three A B and C it was
Shack Ruben Stuttard and a small African elephant. How did
the pilot describe the flight? It's a delicate balance. Yeah,
it's very close. Wow, that was a fat joke.

Speaker 8 (05:53):
I got it.

Speaker 7 (05:53):
Okay, Hey, coach, meet Sauce here. Nice to see you, man.
What's last thing Rosen wants to hear after a one
night stand?

Speaker 3 (06:03):
Good morning? You know why you ripping? Roso?

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Is that goad you do something?

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Okay? Cool?

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Hey, coach, I know you've got progressive insurance. I heard
Jordan Hatison ran into your car. Have you have you
talked to anybody about it?

Speaker 3 (06:21):
We've been really aggressive, and Flow knows exactly how we
feel about really.

Speaker 7 (06:25):
Really sorry, coach. I hated me to talk over you,
but Hawk's brilliant mine are so bad.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Hey Qracy, I've heard you suck at Hide and Seek.
What do you say over here? Sa Flora's yours? Hey, coach,
I heard you hooked up with Hawk's sister. What happened immediately?
After you went to the bathroom. It definitely stung.

Speaker 9 (06:52):
Oh oh that sucks, hey, Coach, It's well known Corey
don't have much use for rap music.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
Okay, from what you know, is there any rapper that
Corey gets the game makes sense to him? Well done, Hawk,
he speaks to me, he does, I get it the game.

Speaker 7 (07:21):
The game.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
He's got a few slammers. I didn't live his exact life,
but like I understand what he's saying. That matters. All
your hands up, Hawk, that is, I don't know. I
don't know how he knew who the game was in
or love I just call themselves. Sorry, guys, Hey, Max,

(07:55):
stick around for this one. You're gonna like this one. Hey, Crazy,
what's one thing you can't get enough of?

Speaker 7 (08:00):
But Coach, what would any woman say if they were
hugged too long by pa?

Speaker 3 (08:14):
I felt gross?

Speaker 8 (08:17):
Darn it?

Speaker 3 (08:20):
Okay, well it changes things up for me. I got
one for you. What's something you've never done on Monopoly?
Finished the game? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (08:27):
Yeah, you and me both, buddy, Yeah, well said, game
takes forever. Hey, Crazy, what I'm so sorry about this?
How would you describe what you just mailed the Cola
Guard A full sample hey, coach, beet Saucier again? What
was ets and goal?

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Get home? Yeah?

Speaker 7 (08:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Quick music questions, koc, what's your favorite being a song? Something?
What's your favorite bread song? No matter what? Okay, thank right?
I can't name another bread song besides everything I own? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (09:13):
Last one for me, crazy, My friend Ace has a
question for you. He's a pet detective. He he turned
around and bent over and grabbed his cheeks and wanted
to I wanted to know about your twenty twenty six
draft plans.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
You know, I understand where that question comes from. Oh yeah,
well where is that? But exactly it came from this button?
Well done, corn, Hey, coach. Last one for me, bring Brett.

Speaker 7 (09:34):
What's something John Kriesel and Lieutenant Dan can't do?

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Put his best foot for yeah?

Speaker 2 (09:45):
Hey, we want to say thank you because we really
care about him. But it looks like, because of everything
going on in Minneapolis, you're gonna help one of our
coworkers out.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
We're gonna you know, get Max ready to go and
what I mean the wolves plane just in case Max
and scene. But that was good.

Speaker 5 (10:15):
You guys are funny. We should probably just keep that
on the button bar forever. Probably, But yeah, sauce, what
do you think is suh wheat?

Speaker 3 (10:24):
But but yeah, right, butts are sweet. You're a big fan.
Can I'm a fan of one of them? Only one? Ye,
Angela White, my wife.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
They're gonna say, Betty White.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
Thank you for your service, sauce. What's the best part
about Betty White? But I felt growth? Pull your hands out,
Petty White h two years ago? Sure, I felt growth.
Now she died like ten years ago? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Well did she?

Speaker 3 (11:08):
She died like a year and a half. Didn't she
die like two years ago? At ninety nine? Round? She
made it to one hundred twenty twenty one one? She
did make it to one hundred. Her birthday, by the way,
is in a couple of days.

Speaker 10 (11:20):
She would be one hundred and four if wo wow
wow man in Brentwood, nice spot Woody Man.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
That's where uh, that's where OJ lived. She was on
a brilliant game Showstedy Way. Yes she was.

Speaker 10 (11:38):
Yeah, she survived a lot, including OJ a lot of years. Yeah,
ninety nine years old.

Speaker 5 (11:47):
That just sucks that. Oh she didn't make it eighteen
days short of one hundred. Turds way to give up Twitter.

Speaker 11 (11:56):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
The Washington Nationals became the seventeen to joint Major League
base Paul's broadcasting arm on Wednesday and expect to move
after years of legal disputes.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
What what just happened? Are you gonna see? Sure? What
are you barking at? Pictures of Betty Way one of
her previous spouses back in forty five? Alan Luton? Richard Barker, Oh,
Richard Barker. I get it. I get what you're barking. Yeah,
you can. Is that the game?

Speaker 11 (12:30):
Game?

Speaker 3 (12:35):
That's DMX? Okay, it sounds hip hoppy. How do you
know that? That's something? My dad said it last year's
Super Bowl?

Speaker 11 (12:49):
Who is this?

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Is that the game? No, it's Kendrick Lamar. The game
makes sense to him. Yeah, it makes sense to me.
Tom Pella Sero is all over the NFL. That's right.
We can ask him about Brian Flores, we can ask
him about John.

Speaker 5 (13:05):
Horriva and much much more. We'll talk to him probably
like ten minutes. This is the Power tri Money Show.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
I'm a fan he is. I'm gonna be coming up

(13:36):
through your channel. I'm guessing there. That's correct.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Great, Ray, I want to make sure. Hey, welcome back.
It's the Partrip Morning Show. You're trying our very best
to give you something to take your mind off everything
this morning.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
That's what we do.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
It's a pow trip and max O's gone for the day,
Thank you, max So. But Zach's over there. Meets Austome Corey.
My name is Chris Hockian. Thanks to our friends at
bell Bank. You good people at Bank. From the Bell
Bank studios over there and from his home is palatial mansion,
there's Tom Pella Cero. Hi Tom. Yeah, I can't hear him.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Why not? I don't know how much? All right, I'm
gonna go fix. But this is the word Jim Nan says,
a tradition like I can translate.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
He's saying, talk to me a little bit of Tom,
so I can read your lips, you know mine? Yeah,
he said, Hello, I am a fan of the Disney
Princess character.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
There is Yeah, there was.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
I'm gonna say something really bad, so I'm cloudy.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
He did.

Speaker 4 (14:46):
Hi.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
Tom's great to see you, buddy.

Speaker 6 (14:48):
Great to see you too.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
You know, lots of is going on, and we're doing
our best to give people something else to talk about
and think about, release a little bit of the weight
on their mind.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
So let's talk football. Hey, I get, can I get?

Speaker 5 (15:00):
Let me combine the two since you just talked about
lip reading, Tom yesterday.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
I'm bumper to bumper.

Speaker 5 (15:05):
Dan Beurrera was talking a lot about forty one don't
at the NFC title game where the Vikings got shut
up by the Giants forty one nothing and anyone. I'm
talking about stolen signals and all this kind of stuff,
And then it got me thinking about lip reading.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
Does that happen?

Speaker 5 (15:20):
Is there any rule in place where a team couldn't
have somebody in the booth that is a professional lip
reader that's trying to figure out exactly what the coaches
say if they aren't covering their mouths, Like, is that
a thing? Are their rules against that?

Speaker 6 (15:34):
So you have the broadcast feed is in the coaches booth.

Speaker 8 (15:38):
It's how they see you know, when they're advising on,
for instance, instant replay, and so hypothetically, sure, if you're
not covering your mouth, if you had someone you would
just have to translate it so quickly, know what the
words mean, communicate it down to the sideline and then
into the sigma caller on the field. There's a variety
of other things. I mean, every team in the in

(16:00):
the NFL sends an advanced scout to every game, so
you know, if the if the Vikings are playing the
Packers this week and the Bears next week, you're gonna
see a Bear's scout at the Vikings game. And they're
there for several reasons. They chart, you know, injuries, you know,
just mark that those things down so they know if
a player is dealing with something what that is. They're
they're looking at different things that you may not pick

(16:20):
up on tape, and a big one of those is
the signaling that comes in on the sideline. They are
trying to decode the signals. They're trying to figure out, okay,
if they're making you know, these hand signals. A lot
of those are for the personnel groups that come on
and off the field. You know, in two minute situations,
there's gonna be a little bit more because it's frantic,
and so that's what every team does. Literally, advanced scouts

(16:42):
are sign stealers. They're not probably with binoculars looking to
read lips, but they are looking through their binoculars.

Speaker 6 (16:49):
You can see them.

Speaker 8 (16:49):
They have seats in the press box, you know, us
pank Stadium. Every week you can see there's two guys
down there for the two advanced opponents, and they're watching
to see what those signals are. The actual lip reading
probably a little bit more difficult, but not impossible, you know.
And the play callers to use shorter play calls obviously
are a lot easier to discern than if you got

(17:11):
a you know, a John grudenstyle spider two why banana
hook route right left, whatever the hell he says.

Speaker 6 (17:16):
Those are probably more complicated.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
That's all of a play.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah, that is Tom.

Speaker 7 (17:20):
Everybody is saying that John Harbaugh is going to be
the next coach of the Giants. Two part question, How
big of a get is that for the Giants? And
now how quickly will some of these other coaches fall
in place?

Speaker 6 (17:33):
Well, that was the first big domino.

Speaker 8 (17:35):
It's it's big for the Giants in large part because
they needed some type of credibility after everything the you know,
the ups and a lot of downs that they've had,
really since the second Super Bowl, that they wanteder Tom Coughlin.
I think everybody in their mind's eye can picture Tom
Coughlin with like the Rudolph red nose on the sideline
when it gets cold, and he looked a million years old.

(17:55):
He was five years younger than John Harbaugh, and the
Giants hired Get Wow, John Harbaugh is sixty three. Tom
Coughlin was fifty eight, but he got that job.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
He looked seventy five. He's like a Harry Potter character.

Speaker 8 (18:07):
He's got a full Wilford, Brimley and Cocoon thing going
where you're like he.

Speaker 6 (18:11):
Was forty five in that movie. Yeah, really so John
Harbaugh is. I mean, he's very experienced.

Speaker 8 (18:18):
But it also like the media and the fans as
much as anything, as much as you want to think
like we're making these decisions solely based on football. At
some point, especially in a market like that, they were
in a position where if they didn't get John Harbaugh,
there was going to be a revolt that they blew it,
and then nobody wanted to take the job, and so
they recruited John Harbaugh very, very hard. From the day
that the Ravens fired him, which was feels like EON's

(18:40):
He goes nine days ago, Harbaugh took his time evaluating
different situations, and this was much like what coaching searches
were back in the nineties and the two thousands. There's
all kinds of rules in place now. Coaches who are
under contract assistant coaches with teams right now, they still
can't interview in person until next Monday. But anybody who's
fired is essentially exempt from those rules, which is why

(19:03):
Harbaugh could set this up like what it used to be,
which was, all right, you narrow it down. If you
got five teams that want you, you can narrow it
down to two or three places. But the first one
that you go to, it's either you hire them or
he's gone. You're not getting them back. So John Harbaugh
got on the plane and left, but before last night
was over he had decided to take the job. They

(19:24):
postponed or you know, basically canceled the Titans visit and
told the giants who want to work on the contract.
That's where you know news broke late last night was
because they had told the other teams you're out on
this thing. They still as far as I'm aware, and
as of twenty minutes ago, they had not actually negotiated
the contract, like the details of it. But it's pretty straightforward.
John Harbaugh's gonna be one of the highest paid coaches

(19:46):
in the NFL. They are paying for that credibility. You
certainly can look at John Harbaugh's recent history. I mean
he's got a grand total of four playoff wins since
Barack Obama's first term.

Speaker 6 (19:57):
I mean it's he has not had that level of success.

Speaker 8 (20:00):
Two days ago, Steve Bashatti, the Ravens owner, is at
the podium saying we perpetually underachieved. We have interchieved in
the post season or the worst team in the NFL.
A blowing leads late. One man's trash is another man's
new head coach, and John Harbaugh comes with. You know,
a lot of optimism about for a team that's just
they've not had any type of steadiness. And they have
cycled through coaches since Kaughlin, from you know, Ben McAdoo

(20:23):
to Pat Shermer to Joe Judge to Brian Davil.

Speaker 6 (20:25):
They've had flashes.

Speaker 8 (20:26):
They went to the playoffs once with McAdoo, they went
to the playoffs and beat the Vikings a few years
ago with Dable, but they've not had any type of consistency.
John Harbaugh has been pretty consistent. He's won over sixty
percent of his games. You know, he knows how to
set a culture. We'll see how long the runway is.
Because he's sixty three years old. But certainly he's going
into this that he's you know, if not having something

(20:46):
to prove, certainly that he wants to show that he
can still win.

Speaker 5 (20:49):
Big Give me the most realistic path for the next
nine months before week one for Jordan Addison in the
Minnesota Vikings, what's the plan?

Speaker 8 (21:00):
One thing I would say is I would not rush
to judgment on the situation in Florida. I've done not,
you know, a great deal of digging on it. But
from what I've heard, this is probably, you know, a
speed bump, and if this were a different player, this
would not be a big deal. Certainly though Jordan, based
on his history, having served the suspension to start this season,
having multiple issues in the past, it follows a concerning

(21:24):
type of a pattern. And as much as the Vikings
love Jordan Adison as a player, you know, there's certainly
a part of it that's like, you know, it's kind
of it's a different situation. But you know, people can say,
why did the Steelers trade George Pickens to the Cowboys?

Speaker 6 (21:36):
Why? Why would they do that?

Speaker 8 (21:38):
The answer is, sometimes you've just you've had enough in
your building and you've just you don't think that you
know that if you pay the guy that it's going
to improve.

Speaker 6 (21:46):
I don't know precisely where the Vikings stand.

Speaker 8 (21:49):
I do know that obviously they've still got you know,
the best receiver on the planet and justin Jefferson. They
have a break up player in Jalen Naylor. Jordan Adisen.
I mean he made big plays. You know, he was
suspended for the well the first quarter of the game
in Europe and then caught the game winning touchdown. I mean,
you know what he is while he's on the field.
It's just how much of the other stuff can you

(22:10):
stomach here? So it's up to the Vikings they how
they want to proceed if they feel like he's a
long term part of the program. If he's not, then
there'd be no shortage of teams, much like the Cowboys
were on George Pickens. Who would be willing to bring
in a really talented young player who with the benefit
of a fresh start and maybe, you know, having a
bit of a wake up call, maybe things change. I'm

(22:32):
not in any way saying the Vikings have given up
on Jordan Adison. I would just say, you know, again,
without overplaying an issue in Florida, that does not sound
like it is something major. From the limited information that
I do have, it still does add to just some
of the questions about exactly you know how much. Quite frankly,
you can you can trust the guy is going to
grow up and be a professional and be available to

(22:54):
you for seventeen games a year.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
Tom Oh, go ahead on, okay, just real quick, I
want to save the vikings if you don't mind. So
we're hearing the Florest is going to interview for the
Washington defensive coordinator job and their head coach job as well.
Obviously you can't see into the future and tell us
what's going to happen, but it does feel weird to
us that he would interview with other teams to be
their defensive coordinator.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
Why would he do that?

Speaker 8 (23:13):
In your opinion, well, I don't He did interview with
Washington yesterday. I don't really see that being necessarily a fit.
Not impossible, But flow is. He's obviously he's a big personality,
he's very very good at his job. Working for a
defensive head coach like Dan Quinn would seem unlikely. I mean,
he essentially and this is taking nothing away from Kevin

(23:36):
O'Connell but full kind of has, you know, some level
of autonomy on the defense. He's the head coach of
defense in Minnesota. You're not going to get that everywhere.
But you know, there's really no reason for him to
sign a contract to come back to Minnesota because think
of a number of different dominoes that we still had
to fall in this entire thing. Number one, as you mentioned,
he's got multiple head coaching interviews the Steelers put in

(23:58):
for him. He was an assistant coach there under Mike Tomlin.
He was in the building for a year. You know,
I would certainly think that's you know, Art Rooney, who
gets to know all these guys personally, that has Art
Rooney's stamp all over it, that hey, he's an impressive guy.
Why wouldn't we have him, you know as a part
of the process. He already had another head coaching interview.
And then in terms of those additional dominos, let's say

(24:20):
let's say he doesn't get a head coaching job. You
already right now have the Cowboys, the Commanders, and the
Jets do not have defensive coordinators. You have nine new
coaching staffs that are going to come in, So that's
twelve and then any defensive coordinators to get head coaching jobs,
you have to backfill that. So half the league basically
is going to have a new defensive coordinator in twenty

(24:42):
twenty six. There's no reason to shut the doors on anything.
Your leverage is only going to grow, you know, until
these jobs begin to fill up here. So you know,
he's certainly, Brian Flores is very valued in Minnesota. They've taken,
as Kevin O'Connell said the other day, several runs at
bringing him back as the DC. He's not taking those contracts.

(25:03):
But I don't view that as necessarily like he's hell
bent on leaving the Vikings. It's much more so why
lock himself in? Let's say, hypothetically, all right, let's say
Jeff Hafley gets a head coaching job. Halfley's got like
five interviews, He's viewed as a top candidate within the league.
Matt Lefflor said the other day he thinks he's going
to get a job elsewhere.

Speaker 6 (25:22):
Why wouldn't the.

Speaker 8 (25:22):
Packers be on line one for Brian Flores the moment
that happens week in your division rival and bring in
one of the top defensive coordinators in all the football
there's all these different things. There's some things that we
don't even see coming because you know, the Rams defensive
coordinator Chris Shu has a bunch of interviews. The Chargers
defense coordinator Jesse Minter has request from all or he
had nine requests to come into the interview. There's a

(25:45):
lot of ballgame left. There's several weeks left at this point.
You know, I'm probably doing the same thing frankly as Flores,
which is keep your options open.

Speaker 6 (25:53):
The Vikings have a standing offer for him.

Speaker 8 (25:55):
At some point, he might come back, or there might
be something else that's really alluring, you know, that makes
him go. You know what, if my aspiration is to
be a head coach again, I might have a chance
to put myself in better position by going here.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
Tom, Kevin O'Connell and Quacy spoke this week. What are
your thoughts on the non committal basically non answer about
who will be their starter at quarterback next season for
your Vikings?

Speaker 8 (26:20):
Realistically, JJ McCarthy has shown flashes where he has played
really well. He's had whole games where he's played very well,
but he's not been available. That's the number one thing.
He's been hurt. He you know, he missed his entire
rookie season. He had I believe four separate you know
points at this season at which he was unavailable with
the high ankle spray and the concussion, the hand, and

(26:43):
then the hand again in the final game. JJ, you know,
kind of opened the door on that too by talking
after the final game and basically saying like, hey, if
I'm out of here, I'm out of here. There's just
you know, there's just a lot of questions surrounding it.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
You know.

Speaker 8 (26:54):
Kevin O'Connell also said very clearly, you know, this is
going to be a very important offseason. JJ is a
big part of the play But they have to have
a plan B. You can't go through the off season
like they did last year. Now listen, they traded for
Sam Howell. It just didn't work out. You know, you
bring in Carson Wentz basically, you know, at the cutdown deadline,
and then he ends up playing. If Carson Wentz doesn't

(27:14):
get hurt, they si might make the playoffs. You know,
if he's if he's operating just at a little bit
higher level, they win one more game they're in. As
opposed to Carson, you know, battling that that shoulder until
he finally had you know, couldn't do it anymore and
had surgery. They know that they just need to elevate
the level of their options within that room. They took
a swing at it last year. I mean they took

(27:35):
We've talked about it a lot. You know, they were
interested in bringing Sam Darnold back. They weren't going to
go where the Seahawks did, and they couldn't offer him,
you know, the long term commitment in a place where
he didn't have somebody breathing down his neck. They wanted
to bring back Daniel Jones. Daniel Jones chose to go
someplace else. They explored other things. They traded for Sam Howell,
the guy who started in the league.

Speaker 6 (27:53):
This wasn't the right fit. He didn't play well, he
didn't practice well. They had to move on. I think
that they know how important it is is.

Speaker 8 (28:00):
Yeah, I mean they still finished nine to eight, They
still were, you know, a half game out of playoff contention.
But you know, the moves that you make in February
and March, you know that just proved that they're extremely
important to what your options are. And when you have
a young quarterback who you like but just hasn't been
on the field. You owe it to yourself and your
team to make sure that you've got those other options

(28:20):
in play. If for one reason or another, JJ does
not emerged healthy number one and as the clear cut
number one guy going to the September Final.

Speaker 5 (28:29):
Question or two for Tom Pellisero Divisional round of the
NFL playoffs this weekend.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
Does it still feel wide open to you? Or is
a team or two emerging?

Speaker 6 (28:37):
I think it's wide open.

Speaker 8 (28:38):
I mean, what do we have four out of the
six road teams one games in the wild card round?
I think Bill's Broncos is a really fascinating type of
a matchup because, you know, the Bills, frankly they have
Josh Allen.

Speaker 6 (28:52):
The Broncos are the winning.

Speaker 8 (28:53):
This team, you know, in football this season, certainly in
the AFC, Sean Payton's done a great job. But they're
not like an know, an offensive juggernaut. You know, They've
got a lot of young developing players on offense. Are
they going to show up after a week off? You know,
first big game that a lot of these guys have
played in in the NFL at home or the Bills
with all their playoff experience with a quarterback in Josh

(29:14):
Allen who's really tough, but he's banged up. I just
think that that's a really unique type of a matchup
because if the Bills go in there and pull off
that win, I mean, they could end up there's a
scenario where the Bills could host the AFC championship game.
The Texans that have to beat the Patriots, but there's
a chance we had one more game at high Mark Stadium.
Then on the NFC side of things, kind of the
same deal with the Bears. I mean, they showed up

(29:35):
when they needed to. They roared back in the second half,
and Ben Johnson got to scream bleep the Packers, the
thing that had been probably running through his head since
the day he took the job in the locker room scene.

Speaker 6 (29:45):
It was cool.

Speaker 8 (29:46):
But you got a really battle tested Rams team, you know,
with Matthew Stafford at quarterback. And then you know, probably
the game of the weekend is the rematch with you know,
the forty nine ers going up against the Seahawks.

Speaker 6 (29:55):
We just saw this in Week eighteen.

Speaker 8 (29:58):
That would have been you know, this would have been
the area of the Vikings were drawing up after they
you know, kind of performed like the forty nine ers
did in Week eight team with the number one CE
on the line last year. Instead the Vikings went and
lost to the Rams. Forty nine's get at another crack
at this thing. Nobody has survived more. They just lost
George Kittle now to an Achilles as well, you know,
but they go into Seattle. I think all four of
these games are going to be really competitive. I don't

(30:19):
think there's a clear uh, a clear favorite. I think
that the you know, the fascinating dynamic to me is
the two teams that had buys are new at this
it's Mike McDonald's first time in the playoffs with a
vastly different roster and Sam Darnold playing a divisional playoff
game at home. And on the Broncos side of things,
young bo Nicks, they were in the playoffs last year,
but you know, this is the they need to get

(30:40):
that first playoff win in the the Sean Payton era
for the Broncos.

Speaker 6 (30:44):
So great weekend of games.

Speaker 8 (30:45):
Still totally wide open, and you know, we're we're gonna
have We're gonna have a new super Bowl this year,
which we can't always say.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
Tom, you're the best dude. Thanks appreciate it. Talk to
you next week.

Speaker 6 (30:55):
Thanks guys.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
To Sarah Row.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Thanks about bank from the Bell Bank studios over there.
Nice job, All right, work, Let's.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
Do this.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
Four headlines. Hey, happy twenty fifth birthday.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
To Wikipedia.

Speaker 5 (31:14):
Oh the first ever Wikipedia post was twenty five years
ago today, January fifteenth?

Speaker 3 (31:20):
Is Wikipedia still in the rozone? Sparely? Yeah? Leo would
date Wikipedia. Why you've been so many to him? I
don't either.

Speaker 2 (31:29):
Why do you do that?

Speaker 3 (31:30):
He's not mad at me, he's mad at Hawk. Yeah,
and that's what I mean.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
I'm the only one that ever sticks up for him, though.

Speaker 5 (31:36):
Even though some are extremely small where they look like
freckles or moles out of here.

Speaker 3 (31:43):
One out of every blank people has a third nipple.

Speaker 5 (31:51):
Seven one out of every seven one thousand, Zach, I'd
say two very different guesses even in a thousand.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
About fifty. Yeah, do you know anyone who does? There's
four of us, any of us have a third one.
I mean Harry Styles, Harry Styles, Chandler being it is
more than Dusty Ron.

Speaker 5 (32:18):
One out of every eighteen Chris not a terrible guest,
wasn't a bad Yeah, most of them look like freckles
or moles, but technically mine.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
I have one on my left side, just like everybody,
and then on the right side, I've got one abnormally
large one that is actually five different nipples stacked on
top of each other.

Speaker 8 (32:40):
What.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
Yeah, they're trying to sneak into a bar in a
trench coat. Yeah, it sprouts.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
It looks like something that I caught from an alien.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
You need to you need to get that looked bad.
He's fine.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Yeah, No, I hadn't looked at Doctor Mead said it
was sexy.

Speaker 7 (32:56):
No, doctor mea, definitely, it's a professional. And by the way,
everything looks great, but that five nipples is sex.

Speaker 5 (33:06):
We had heard rumors and reports, but now, according to
new reports, Metallica is finalizing a deal for a residency
at the Sphere in Las Vegas.

Speaker 7 (33:15):
That'd be cool, man, I go that to Metallica. Can
I make a real dumb statement?

Speaker 6 (33:20):
Can't wait?

Speaker 5 (33:23):
That's way too loud, way too loud. What is Metallica
at the Sphere? Metallica anywhere? Metallic at the Sphere? Way
too loud?

Speaker 2 (33:33):
You you haven't you haven't seen it yet.

Speaker 3 (33:36):
No, but it's going to be way too loud. How
do you know, because their music is loud.

Speaker 10 (33:41):
I would bet probably a little bit against that. Sorry,
they got one hundred thousand speakers in that place and
they're all people directed. I mean, yes, you too, American
Start you two doesn't play Welcome to Paradise.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
Yeah, but they're gonna they're to make it sound well. Yeah. Hey,
he saw Green Day at the sphere. I have not.
I've never seen that.

Speaker 5 (34:07):
You know, he just Welcome to Paradise to the song
by green Day. But I think he just accidentally combined
Welcome to the Jungle in Paradise.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
City by that's what you just did. No, I was
trying to be funny. What part of that was funny? Okay,
I didn't know. I did reading with George Carlin.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Because I wish did.

Speaker 5 (34:27):
Was the Welcome to Paradise reference Green Day or the
combination of just trying to make a joke that was
a green Day song that Welcome to Paradise. I know,
I just I was convinced because Metallica is like in
the same era as Guns n' Roses. I thought you
were going with that.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
No, I was just trying to be funny. It didn't work.
It feel miserably now. He keeps like the sweet Child
the Brownstone.

Speaker 5 (34:49):
Yeah, you know, I don't know if you guys saw this,
but man, whoever is writing for HBO is definitely tapped
into the zeitgeist right now. Because if you saw the
trailer for season three of youph You, Sidney Sweeney's character
in season three apparently is an only fans model.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Okay, I haven't seen the trailer yet, I'll have to
check that out. Is that we made it like two
episodes in? Is that showing any good? I don't know. Yeah,
it's about as wild as it gets, but very very graphic.
What's it about outside of Sydney Sweeney? Well, yeah, rue and.

Speaker 10 (35:31):
And she was the main character, but then really is
kind of taken a back seat to the absolutely mess.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
What was that? I don't know, man, he was trying
to do a Green Day joke? Oh what was it?

Speaker 10 (35:48):
But yeah, no, it's it's a it's a basically a
bunch of messed up teenagers that do a lot of
messed up things.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
And but I mean, is there a central plot line?
Like what are they doing there? It just make sex alcohol?
So there isn't like there's murder.

Speaker 10 (36:07):
Uh, well, there's kinda there's a kid that well, I
don't want to spoil it, but uh so, it's not just.

Speaker 5 (36:15):
A party show that something has to be happening. It's
what's happened. It's a depressing show. It is a it's
very well shot, very well acted. It's really hard to
explain other than like I said, it is just about
a bunch of people and substance abuse.

Speaker 3 (36:30):
Rue is Oh you feel terrible for she's had a
rough life. It's that has broken hearted. But there is
a lot of nudity that took a bad guy marveled
for that was good man. Yeah, you guys don't need

(36:55):
to be so. Does do you believe that Sauce completely
gets the joke? Yeah? I think he does.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
Now I don't know if he does. I think he
gets half of it what you're saying, you know what
I mean, what you're saying. Yeah, I see what you're saying,
but I disagree. I still think he gets the whole thing.

Speaker 3 (37:15):
I'm going and he only knows half.

Speaker 5 (37:17):
Zach, does he understand the complete joke or did he
just laugh because it wasn't Jonathan Major's or whatever?

Speaker 3 (37:24):
Yeah? Really it is that Kang was that his name? Yes, Sir,
Admittedly I don't get the joke. You don't get the
full joke either, No, Sauce, explain it. Kangaroo. Yeah, see, exactly,
he only knew half the joke. It's the other half
he Winnie the.

Speaker 5 (37:36):
Poo, kang is the mom and Rue the little kid.
He did not know that exactly. I've read the book
retain it well.

Speaker 10 (37:43):
And then also another thing about this show is one
of the really main characters, the actor died a couple
of years ago. And then one of the other ones
is the guy from the other show that he's got als. Now,
what's his name, the the hunchback of Notre Dame. Yes,
so I don't even know how much he's even in
the show. Who has als? Let's see here, he's a

(38:06):
well known actor, Eric Dane.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
I don't know that.

Speaker 10 (38:11):
You don't know Eric Dane. You've seen him. He's one
of those guys like you've seen him in. He was
in Gray's Anatomy.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
Eric Dane has l als. He was in Marley and Me.
I don't recognize him at all. I just googled him.
I'm sorry. You don't have to apologize. Yeah, it's okay.
So Jacob a Lord is a big deal. Right, he's
on that show. Yeah, Sidney Sweeney's and Daya those are
the big three. Yes, rest in peace, Angus Cloud. That sucks.

Speaker 10 (38:45):
I don't know how they're gonna make season three without him,
but out of respect, all right? Anyway, so you're ready
for some jokes, yeah, man, this is pretty you goes.

Speaker 5 (39:02):
On Tuesday, police in Florida responded to a call it
a place called the Palms of Emerald Coast massage parlor
to investigate an alleged attack.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
I mean, come on, yeah, the poems come on.

Speaker 5 (39:18):
Someone from the Department of Health reported that they were
yelled at and physically shoved out of the business by
a massage parlor employee. When the cops showed up, they
tried to cofer say, hey, like, you're under arrests, right,
that's how that goes. But in her attempt to avoid
being arrested, she defecated towards the officers.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
Lord, it didn't work. The woman was arrested for battery.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
I'm sorry you misread that splattery.

Speaker 3 (39:48):
So the Flora is yours.

Speaker 7 (39:53):
Hawk's dad is currently signing up to be a police officer,
be a dad of a palm spot. Eventually he's gonna
be like Hawk, because Hawk's gonna go in there like
the one time he went in there and got his job.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
So Hawk's dad refers to Chris as Hawk. So and
he's not sure it's him Hawk.

Speaker 11 (40:20):
Is that you?

Speaker 3 (40:26):
He questioned? He just wasn't sure, but then then he just.

Speaker 7 (40:32):
Actually and then when he saw him again, he paused,
looked at him, nodded and said, that'll do pim.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
He said that to the copper. That's a babe reference.
When he says that will do pig. You don't call
bab's pig you have. This show is so dumb.

Speaker 5 (40:56):
A Swedish soccer enthusiast record. All right, I hope you
guys didn't read this. I want to see wh and
get the closest. Think about this for a second. Guy's
a giant soccer fan. Right.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
He broke a Guinness World record.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
When he juggled a soccer ball using only his knees, chest,
head and feet. Right, can't use your hands, knees, chest,
head and feet. How long did he juggle a soccer
ball for? That was the Guinness World record?

Speaker 3 (41:31):
Two hours? We've all seen those videos, right.

Speaker 5 (41:33):
Somebody just said, basically, hacky sack in eight hours here
you on, so Zach you said two yeah, Hawckey said
what twenty seven yeah?

Speaker 3 (41:41):
And Sauce you said what thirty eight? Thirty eight survey
says one of you missed it by one hour and
twenty one minutes. Zach Chris what twenty eight hours, twenty
one minutes and two seconds. Yeah, geez specky, that's nuts.

(42:03):
That's nuts.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
I thought he had He's lowed to use those too.

Speaker 3 (42:06):
He could can use his hands, all right, Think about this?
How terrifying?

Speaker 5 (42:10):
This truly would be a stranger in Illinois knocked on
someone's door around midnight.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
Already, that's not that's unnerving, right, what are you doing? Terrifying?
Leave me alone? Please?

Speaker 5 (42:21):
Then ask the person who answered the door, the resident,
to make him a pizza. The resident called the police.
He said, the best thing about it is they're available
at midnight. I mean that's scary because it's midnight. It's
also scary because you, I would think immediately know this
is a person that has a problem and this is

(42:42):
not going to be stable.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
This is not good. That's terrifying. Today's National Bagel Day.
So I Heeart brought donuts. Yep, yep, we appreciate it
very much. Yeah, thanks simily.

Speaker 5 (42:55):
Here's a Robinhood story. A guy walks into a bank
and demands a thousand dollars. The teller gives him one
hundred and forty. Don't know why, but that's what he got.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
He then walks to a nearby Mexican restaurant and orders food.
The food costs nineteen dollars and fifty three cents. He
ate it and then left the remainder of the money
from the bank as a tip. Oh so, like Robin Hood, Yes, yes, man.

Speaker 5 (43:24):
But what I'm saying is it sounds like they caught
this guy because they I mean, the story is in
the news. So he robbed a bank to eat at
a Mexican restaurant and give a you know, one hundred
and twenty dollars tip.

Speaker 3 (43:38):
Does the place have to give that back? That's a
great question. Yeah, that's a good question. That's a really
good question. I would think. So. Yeah, I don't know.
So not the money that they spent on the food.

Speaker 11 (43:55):
Just a tip, that's all microft, it's all hot, it's
such let's try this, let's try this one. But just
the tip, oh.

Speaker 4 (44:10):
Much worse than thank you, thank you? Right, our best yeah, whatever, Yeah,
I mean, take care of each other please. Tomorrow at
five thirty, Tommy Olsen, John Kriesel. I think John's bringing.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
In Jeff Tafe Goprah hockey fans from back in the day.
We'll remember Jeff Tape.

Speaker 5 (44:30):
I think Jeff Tape's gonna be on the show tomorrow.

Speaker 3 (44:33):
Marnie Gellner is a maybe.

Speaker 5 (44:35):
I guess she's a little bit under the weather, but
hopefully Marnie's feeling better. Mark Parrish tomorrow, and then Vikings
long snapper Andrew Depaula plays initials for the second time.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
What are we at?

Speaker 5 (44:44):
One O seven or one O seven to five? That's
I'm not asking for kfe and the plus what's the
jackpot five? Something like one O seven five, So we're
talking either way six figures plus. It's a ton of
money the jackpot tomorrow, maybe somebody wins it. Tomorrow nine
to noon is next. See you tomorrow at five thirty
to nine.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
Oh you Abdabo, keep smiling, be careful, please take care
of yourself. Hell y'all,
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