December 18, 2025 • 41 mins
Sauce tries to take his shirt off, Dot Com Tom talks Vikings and NFL news
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, Tato, seven's morning.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
So here we are.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
It's almost Christmas. A week from today, it's Christmas? How
about that? A week from today, I'll be fifty five
years old. Ben, it's over, Johnny fifty five in a
week fifty five.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
So high Wave fifty fifty five, Man fifty five?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
What are you gonna do for your birthday? Celebrate Christmas?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I'm going to coconuts. You can't ask me if I
want to go to coconutsers?
Speaker 4 (00:35):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Is that you know that coconutsers?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
He asked me about nine times a day.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I guess that's just mispronounced. You know that rise shirt?
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Yeah, that I currently have on one of the bars
is like coconut thiasers or teasers.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Oh my god, you don't know how How is it spelled?
He doesn't know how to spell teasers?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
How can we see it? How is it spelled? Let's
see it, We show us. Why do you think it's now?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I get it now, I know why you're saying it.
It's yeah, it's a bar, a very famous bar coconut teasers.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
When AJ made the shirt, he just wins, like looked
up all the bars that were popular when Hawk's band
was touring and said, the word is teasers.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
You just thought it was pronounced as it's spelled, But
it's spelled correctly.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
You actually are just joking and not hang on coconuts.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Oh my god, are you trying to Oh you're a
herb's cute.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
On the back.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
Oh my god, coconut teaser. It's spelled incorrectly. Like that's
probably how the bar was. Actually, Wow, how would you
say the palomino?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Hey, do me a favorite before you try to put
that shirt back on? Taking nap because you wore yourself
right out.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
No, it's I don't long story, It's really not it is.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Why is it a long story?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
What what's so long about this story? You just told it.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Because of the splinter in your heel?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Is that is that been rectified yet stolen your foot?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
No it's not.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
It's a different type of splinter.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, you about splinter the rat.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
What's the long story? So yesterday you woke up yesterday
I was at Maynard's doing your game and my wife
goes to bed, so I said, hey, I so I
don't have to come in. So you're all propped up
because she, you know, had her wisdom teeth taking out,
Would you grab a sweatshirt for me out of the
(02:38):
closet in our room and so I can wear it tomorrow?
So I have to open it up, turn the light
on while she and the dogs are sleeping.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
She brought her friends over.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Like, amall, this doesn't fit me?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
No, it's probably a four X, but it doesn't fit well.
And it took me a while, and I didn't want
you guys to see my I got, so I tried
to no matter what I got.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
So, but the headline here is that that is not
a normal sized shirt that you would wear.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
No, I would never wear that. Then why does she
give it to you?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Well?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I think no, I think she was doesn't realize how
rapidly I gained way.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Is it maybe just a subtle note like try to
fit into this as quickly as possible because we're going
to costa Rica.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
You are? We are? I just didn't know if you
and her were No, she is? Yeah, you're right. That
was a worthless story.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Yeah, all my stories are pointless and dumb, So I'm sorry.
Amount of breath taking my shirt off?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
We were in? Was that Nick Madden's office? Where were we?
We were in Barb's office.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
A day or two ago, where Saw starts telling a
story with about six details that everybody knew immediately had
nothing to do with the rest.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Of the story, and he goes, He goes, I'm sorry,
I add too many details. I'm trying to get better
at that.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I'm not.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
We're like, and of course every thing he said was like,
so I went to Costco because I needed rice because
my wife.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
We like rice. We like to eat it for dinner.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
We're like, for God's sakes, we understand how people eat.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
What happened, I'm sorry, I'm trying to get better. I
hadn't too many details.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I like, he talks to you like there might be
a trivia game.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
It sounds like it's an Agatha Christie novel and they're
red Herring sending us down the wrong path.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
And he was eating but he ate rice? Is that normal?
I'm not sure. I'm going to write that down and
save that note for later.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I appreciate because often I'm like, I wonder why his
wife likes rice?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Right, Oh, it's just to survive.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
Yeah, she has to eat. God has got that. We
would probably need to know later on. Yes, painting a
fuller picture for all of us. Maybe not, it's not
relevant today, but it might be relevant.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Oh it's a sweatshirt. Did we think his sweater story
was pretty? I'll actually confused. I mean it was relatively short.
It was relatively short. I wouldn't take it off.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I thought he might have a bron does your does
your wife still have the job row?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Yeah? The job?
Speaker 8 (05:05):
Ra?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
How many days? Two or three days with the job? Ra?
Think today is the last? Say she has to wear it?
Have you ever heard of that?
Speaker 9 (05:10):
Ben?
Speaker 4 (05:11):
The job raw? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
You wear it around your jaw and you it has
like ice packs.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
For after you get your wisdom teeth out on what's
called the job ra? Yeah? We didn't have those things
when I was I got when we were young. No
no job, no job raw. So one more day? Yeah?
Then where does it go? I don't know? The garbage?
What a waste of a job ra? What are you
sticking the freezer? Leaving the freezer? Yeah? Put it on
once in a while, just for a goo over my head.
(05:38):
Wrap it around your sack?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, do that?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I mean, it's not wrong. I'm sorry, I'm not good
at this.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Sauce.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Sauce what would that be called if that's where you
put it.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
A ball bra.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Man a sack stash, A stash sackash.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I don't know, man.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
I like ball brat a literation too, Yeah ball bro, Yeah,
so does Tommy.
Speaker 10 (06:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
That way you don't have to do like cold plunges.
You just get all the benefits just by wrapping those
suckers up in the Yeah ball bra. Yeah there you go. Yeah,
all right, let's two fan five. Let's pay off this tease.
Speaker 10 (06:29):
Time for five on the power Trip builders and remodelers.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Thank you, heys philis Remodelers.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
The coconut teaser that I had before the break Ben
was that Justin Jefferson has one hundred and sixty eight
yards to go to get to a thousand, and it
sounds like KOs does not want to have that come
up short on his watch, doesn't want to be responsible
for an offense.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
I couldn't get just In to one thousand. Can't blame him.
You take this going. Justin's one of the all time greats.
One hundred and sixty eight yards to go over the
next three games. Power trop Betts posted on two I
did in fact check this, but he's pretty good, he's
pretty connected.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yeah, he's pretty connected.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
I believe he said JJ is averaging forty four yards
a game when McCarthy's the quarterback. Three games to go Giants,
what is it? Lions and Packers? Yeah, does Justin Jefferson
get one hundred and sixty eight yards total in these
last three games?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Yes? Yeah, I'm definitely taking the over on that. Take
the over. Yeah, is this week?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
His sauce one of sauces strong takes was this week
is the week he really has to rack it up,
Like this has to be the big week at the three.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Well, yeah, against this defense kind of like we talked about,
like they literally have nothing to play for, and I
don't think their defensive line is going to be as
formidable as it has been in the regular season, like
early in the season. So you should have even with
their offensive line injuries, you should have time to throw
the football. And I think that maybe we should be
putting him in the in the nailor spot, so Naylor's
(07:56):
run the Naylor's running the disc routes and pulling coverage
and leaving Justin Jefferson wide open. Because if we're if
we're now in this quote unquote progression read offense that
everybody is talking about even Kirk Cousins had a great
breakdown of that yesterday. Then don't put Justin on the
deeper routes because it's never gonna get there. Is he
gonna take too long. Put him on the short intermediate
(08:19):
routes that were where McCarthy's gonna see him and get
the ball out quick. So I'm sure that they've already
probably done that.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I bet they are.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
I'm sure they are, But I know I'm like being
really simplistic with it. But if you're like really trying
to get him over that thousand mark threshold, then find
ways like that to give him the ball creative.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Yeah, yeah, last week eight targets, so they wait to
him but only two catches.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Well, and the thing is, he did drop that touchdown.
I'm not I'm not putting any of that on McCarthy
Like I was. I personally was was standing in the
back of the end zone to watch that play unfold.
And he turns his head right when the ball's kept
like still in his hand. It's coming out of his hand,
so he had plenty of time to pick up the
ball from the release, Like, I don't care if that
(09:01):
ball is coming one thousand miles an hour. Like, you're
one of the best wide receivers ever. You catch that
ball and it wasn't from it wasn't from five yards away.
I mean that ball traveled probably twenty five yards to.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Get to his hands.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
So yeah, it's a flat out drop. So I mean
it's not always on McCarthy.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
And McCarthy's seen his receivers have a handful of those.
No pun attended this year, right, Addison's drops and McCarthy passes.
Hockinson has, Jefferson definitely has. They've had a lot of drops.
Hasn't helped, Right, We've said it a thousand times. You
got to help the kid out, especially when he was struggling.
Now that he's playing a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Sure, speaking of jaj, play you some audiocens I loaded
it in JJ Max says the game is finally slowing
down for him.
Speaker 11 (09:41):
Obviously the more reps you see, the live bullets, But
like I talked about, the overall understanding of the offense,
it slows everything down tremendously because you're not using that
extra thinking of you know, the balls snapped, I have
it in my hands, is he running that route? So
it eliminates those split second kind of miscues and processing
that's helped tremendously throughout the year.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
There you go, Yeah, I like it me too well.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
You talk Vikings with Tom Pello Sero in the second
dot Com Tom, thanks for our friends at Bellbank. After this,
more with Ben Lieber. One more segment to go, Power
Trip Morning Show. After this on the Family.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Do Do Do.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, Hey, welcome back Power Trip Morning Show. You know
your little Power Trip Morning Show. I'm gonna talk about
it over and over again because you know why not.
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Hockey Band. We've been leaded about five or seven shows
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Speaker 4 (10:39):
What time will that be?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
We go on to seven thirty on Saturday, December twenty seventh,
Come on out watch it. We'll put together some very
special songs, special set list.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
So that's be fine.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I wonder you should have asked character in the break
if dot Com Tom is with us yet, because he
joins on the old stream yard.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
You know we got him.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
She's good at this. Plus she knows how to work technology.
She gets it.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah, man, he looks like he's gonna curb somebody today.
He does.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
He does. Yeah, he would never do that.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
You think that's true, But it's Christmas time and he
gets very aggravated this time of year.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
I was just thinking, No, you caught me when I
was going, huh, all these years of knowing you Hawk,
and you've never invited me to play with the band.
That's hey, he plays guitar some friend.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Wow. Yeah, he's the guitar player for any remember point.
You know, I nailed it.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
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play guitar.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I'll be wide open on a Saturday, and I bet
you will.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, look at you, the number one dad sipping Tom.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
You've played on stage at First Avenue, correct.
Speaker 10 (11:49):
First Avenue, yep, Seventh Street, Entry, among other places.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
It's pretty cool, pretty pretty, so many places. He's just
like some other places. You know, I got a laundry
list of places. I mean, are you gonna star?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
What would what would top that? In the Twin Cities?
Speaker 10 (12:06):
Like I'm not playing, you know, not like US Bank
versus First ALF.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I'd rather play First Aff.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
No, First ALF is this spot.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, there aren't many places on the planet I'd rather
play than First Avenue.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Yeah. Maybe Red Rocks and that's it. Yeah, that's about it.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
That'd be it.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Have played Red Rocks yet, I've not.
Speaker 10 (12:22):
I've not played Red Rocks. I've been to the Palladium,
have not played there. So Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan there,
but no, I've not not been on stage. But short list, you.
Speaker 9 (12:31):
Know, let's do it together. Tom, how are you and
the yuke? Can you play the ukulele? It's more or
less the same thing. I would just need to work
on my dainty finger work.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Yeah, oh you mean both brother Yeah, I love dainty
finger works.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Yeah. What kind of.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Actra plays on?
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Fender strat?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh you like the strat?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Very cool?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
What do you got?
Speaker 10 (12:58):
I don't know how I could say. I bought it
twenty years ago, same one all the time.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yeah, man, you got a cool pedal or two on
his bicycle?
Speaker 10 (13:09):
Got it?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (13:10):
I got one of those you know, whatever you call him.
I don't even know all the terms, you know, I
just show up in rock.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Yeah, yeah, man self taught. He's a purist, self taught
or not self taught.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah, I never never had a lesson.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Wow, right, all right, let's talk Viking to the Giants.
Let me let me ask you quickly because we don't
need to dwell on it because we just debated it
the last segment and yesterday. But justin Jefferson obviously has
not had his best season, probably a little frustrated, even
though he's been pretty classy about it publicly, trying to
get to a thousand. Do you think he gets to
one sixty eight over these last three games? One hundred
(13:43):
and sixty eight yards to go.
Speaker 10 (13:45):
You'd hope, although the recent weeks would suggest that that's
not a lock by any stretch. They're going up against
one of the worst defenses in the NFL this week
with the Giants. You know, I don't think that, you know,
Kevin and the rest of the coaching chaff are oblivious
to not getting a football as much here.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You know, you're not going to force it to them.
Speaker 10 (14:03):
I mean, they've never been that type of an offense,
but certainly out anticipate they've got some things to try
to get the ball into in justice hands start this week.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
How do you assess Let's just let's forecast, as you
mentioned that the Giants have won the worst defenses. Let's
just forecast that McCarthy goes out and has another really
solid game. How do you look at the last three
games then against those defenses, like is that all part
of the formula or do you look at it like, hey,
(14:32):
the kid is actually starting to figure it out regardless
of the defense he's playing against.
Speaker 10 (14:36):
Well all season, I think if you go back the Vikings,
regardless it was a quarterback, they've beaten up on, you know,
the bad defenses, which is what you should do. They
put up, you know, a bunch of points on on Cincinnati.
Obviously Detroit's been not the best defensively this season, and
obviously they got to win against them. Washington's been terrible.
You're doing what you're supposed to do. You still have
(14:58):
to go out and execute it. Here getting concerned if
they weren't scoring points, you know, on some of these opponents.
Dallas in the you know, in the same boat there
and the Giants is certainly gonna be on that list
as well. When it comes to JJ, I feel like
every week we've talked about this, the entire season, it's
just everybody breathe, let's just see kind of where this
thing goes. And you know, I certainly, you know, keep
(15:20):
seeing people, you know, writing it was such a disaster
and the move and they blew it not bringing back
Darnold or Daniel Jones. And I've been through that many
times in terms of, you know, the efforts, particularly on
Daniel Jones that they made to bring him back. But
you know, this is kind of the JJ McCarthy that
they were they were hoping to see. There's a ton
that they need to work on. Mechanically, you're not going
(15:41):
to do all that at once. But playing his unique,
you know style, he's gone out and he's been effective.
You know, when he's been good, it's been really good.
And so to see him stack a couple of performances
for the first time in his career is certainly a positive.
He's four and four as the starter. I know it's
not been perfect, but you know, for a guy who
(16:03):
has missed a lot more time than he's played still
over his first two NFL seasons, you know, he's had
eight games out there. He got hurt in two of
them and finished off the games, but you know.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Four wins four losses.
Speaker 10 (16:14):
This is kind of just the ride that you're on
with the young quarterbacks. So let's see how he finishes.
If you go and you take care of business against
the Giants, which is not a given. They still do
have talent on that team. They're still playing hard. They
just haven't been able to close out any games. But
if you go take care of business, then all of
a sudden, it's all right. The Lions the Packers in
these last two, both those teams, you know, Penny, whatever
happens to this weekend with Detroit, but both those teams
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probably are going to have a lot on the line
in those games.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
You know, finish strong, play well in your division.
Speaker 10 (16:41):
All those would be, you know, a nice springboard moving forward,
even though I would expect that the constitution of the
quarterback room has altered at least someone in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Tom, We've seen a lot of ups and downs with
Christian Darisod this season. Do you think that with the
status of the team and not being in the playoffs,
do you think they're a chance they shut him down
for the rest of the year.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
They haven't done it yet, Sauce. You know, with Christian Darisaw.
Speaker 10 (17:07):
And I'll choose my words carefully on this, but there's
a lot of times the players when they come off
of significant injuries, and it becomes as much of a
mental thing as a physical thing. And I'm not implying
that his knee isn't having, you know, after effects from
the surgery. However, you know, there's also something to be
(17:27):
said for all right, if I'm not one hundred percent,
do I feel like I can push myself forward. If
you're just getting out there every week and it's a
grind and you don't feel quite right, that can weigh
on people here. And so with Darisaw, this back and
forth that you've seen in terms of he's playing, but
he's not full. Now he's full, now, he got to
ease off him. Now he's out again. That has all
(17:50):
the classic hallmarks of a guy who right now isn't
really confident in his body to get through games. When
Darisaw is on, he's still one of the better left
tackles in the NFL. But you know, from from everything
that I can tell and just watching him play and
knowing the dynamics of these situations, it seems like this
is also you know, Darisaw may have some reluctance to
(18:11):
really continue to push forward, as you said, in a
you know, a season where they're not going to make
the playoffs here if he feels like he's not one
hundred percent, and so everybody's involved in those in those
decisions whether or not he's going to be on the field,
We'll see, does he decide to get back out there
for a couple of division games, does he not play again.
I don't know that it's gonna be a full shutdown
again because he doesn't have an acute injury right now.
(18:32):
He just doesn't feel quite right, and so everybody's gonna
have to make some decisions about whether or not he's
on the field.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Do you have any insight when we're sticking with injuries?
You know, we have Ryan Kelly's banged up again, Brian
O'Neil's banged up again, and we also, you know, everybody
knows the news about JG and mattelis like, are there
other injury concerns that we need to be made aware
of and who do you think is going to be
actually available for this game this weekend.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
It's a good question, because again, you know there's there's
guys who are going to fight through things. You know,
like Brian O'Neil is a perfect example of he's always
going to want to play, He's going to want to
be on the field. But at some point it's like,
is that the best thing for the organization?
Speaker 11 (19:09):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Moving forward?
Speaker 10 (19:11):
To be quite honest, based on where the Vikings are
right now in the standings, I haven't checked on on
those injuries significantly through the course of this week. You know,
certainly again that they're going out there to play. There's
still jobs on the line for players, for other people.
You know, you're still going out and you're trying to
finish strong and what's been a really, really frustrating season
where everything kind of went sideways.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Here.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
You know, we'll monitor, you know, certainly, just see kind
of who's on the field, but I would anticipate anybody
who's healthy, anybody who's one hundred percent is going to
be out there. It's just you know, the Grenards of
the world. It's like, you're fighting through things and at
some point, you know, all right, let's just have the
surgery and let's move forward to twenty twenty six.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
You know, I want to ask you two about Harrison Smith.
I think that, you know, thankfully, he got a lot
of flowers for the way that he performed this last game,
more so just the way that he helped move that
defense around pre snap. But you know, know Pa was
talking about how he's what one sack away from from
he and Rendez barb would be the only two guys
with a number of sacks interceptions. All that being said,
(20:09):
great milestone, it'd be awesome to have that in the
record books. But like, if the season ends right now
and he's he's done, is he's is he a lock
for the Hall of Fame regardless of these like kind
of outrageous numbers that he'd put up with, the would
tire Rendez Barber.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
I try to be as objective as I can, but
I have some bias with Harrison just because I've covered
him his whole career.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I've gotten to know him. You know, he's one of
my favorite guys.
Speaker 10 (20:34):
To catch up with in the locker room or pregame.
You know, in my mind, he's a Hall of Famer
because of the numbers, Like the numbers don't lie. He's
had production unlike most safeties in NFL history. I wrote
a story, you know, back when I was at USA
today and this is probably a decade ago, and the
entire premise of the story was fans media don't have
(20:56):
any idea about safety play because they're the guys who
aren't on the TV, Like you don't know unless somebody's
got a stick, they've got a nickname, they've got funny hair,
they're the honey Badger, Like nobody knows who the safeties are.
Harrison was a really really good player way before people
nationally caught up to the fact that he was a
really good player, which is why it took him a while,
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you know, to make a Pro Bowl. But in terms
of the impact that he's made on the game, talking
to other people about going up against him through the years,
I mean, ask Aaron Rodgers about Harrison. Smith asked the
quarterbacks to me, if I were a Hall of Fame voter,
I'm not. If I were a Hall of Fame voter,
that would be a core part of what I'm doing,
because the bar for the Hall of Fame to me
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has always been were you the best at your position
in your era?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
And for how long?
Speaker 10 (21:45):
Even Philip Rivers where there was a great you know,
debate about Philip Rivers and okay, he's coming back and
playing for the Colts. That's going to kick back. Is
his Hall of Fame timeline, his semi finalist. Now it's
five years. He got to wait five years. I'm like
nothing against Philip, who's a bit of really really good player,
but you know, is he a lot first ballot Hall
of Famer? For how long in Philip Rivers's career did
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you say he's the best in the NFL? He played
in obviously the same era as Peyton Manning and as
Tom Brady. He was in the same draft classes as
Eli Manning, who won a couple of Super Bowls. Philip
never went to a Super Bowl. You know, numbers wise,
he is, you know, in the top ten in a
lot of categories. You know, certainly there's a nur argument
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and I think the Philip probably will be in the
in the Hall of Fame someday, But that's a really
really high bar to clear. You know, with Harrison, I
do think that he clears that bar. I don't think
that there is a lot of safeties in his era.
There might have been ones who were better known than him.
There might be ones who you know, had more ads
and things like that than him. But in terms of
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if you just went around and you actually pulled the
players that guys went against, I don't think you're going
to find a lot of safeties that people would say
better things about, particularly over the link of time that
Harrison has played than Harrison Smith.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Hey, Tom, what's the off season plan for Joe Burrow
and Tua.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Joe Burrow?
Speaker 10 (23:10):
I don't think that there is a plan sauce right now.
You know, the Bengals, for one thing, they don't trade
their guys.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
They don't.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
They just don't. That's not how they operate.
Speaker 10 (23:21):
They don't go and make big deals and you know,
move on from people if someone's upset. I mean, take
Trey Henderson. Trey Henderson requested a trade and was trying
to get out for two years, and they turned down
offers for him, and they never traded him. With Burrow,
you know, if he suddenly became available, would there be interest.
Of course, he'd be the number one trade target in
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modern NFL history. I would anticipate that there will be
some calls to the Bengals about him this offseason, but
it's hard for me to imagine, And Burrow said it himself, yesterday.
It's hard for him to imagine he's not the quarterback
in Cincinnati in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Frustrating year.
Speaker 10 (23:57):
A big part of it comes down to Joe Burrow,
as it's so many recent years, hasn't been on the field.
When your highest paid player, your best player, isn't out there,
it's really really hard to win football games in.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
The NFL with Tua.
Speaker 10 (24:10):
The news yesterday that we broke that they have benched
him and are going to Quinn Yours for the last
several games, that is a strong indication that Tua has
played his last down in Miami. They owe him fifty
four million dollars fully guaranteed in twenty twenty six. I
thought all along, logically the most likely thing, even after
they fired the GM Chris Greer, was to let Tua
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and McDaniel come back in twenty twenty six, let the
new GM evaluate both of them, and then kind of
have the opportunity to start fresh in twenty twenty seven.
But now it doesn't seem to be going in that direction.
This is much more like Russell Wilson at the end
of the twenty twenty three season, where similar timeline benched
in December, and by March they opted to release him.
(24:55):
There was a lot of talk at that time about
can you trade Russ. They'll be talking about can you
trade two? And I would not rule that out. But
if you just take into account the salary cap implications,
it's much cleaner. It's not great, no matter what. Okay,
moving on from a guy who's due fifty four million
fully guaranteed and close to one hundred million dollars total
in dead cap, that's not ideal, no matter what. But
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what the Broncos did was they ate most of the
cap hit in twenty twenty four. Russ is still on
the books on their cap in twenty twenty five, but
they went clean, break, move on, eat the money they
basically paid him to play for the Steelers last season
and now will be off the books entirely in twenty
twenty six. If the Dolphins did the same thing with Tua,
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release him in March, most likely before the third day
of the league year, when another three million dollars to
become fully guaranteed. That what that does is you eat
the bulk of the all the cash and the bulk
of the cap. In twenty twenty six, you push the
additional dead cap into twenty twenty seven, you go and
you get a new quarterback and you start over. I
do think that there's going to be a consideration and
they'll see if they can trade Tua. But remember this,
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there's no such thing as a post June one designation
for trades, and for people who understand what that is,
it's basically, if you release a player after the start
of the league year in March, you can call him
a post June one cut, and come June one you
get cap relief by it pushes some of those cap
hits in twenty twenty seven. That doesn't exist for trades.
So if you trade Tua, whatever money the new team
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doesn't take on all that slams your cap immediately. Un
Plus you wait until after June first to make the trade.
It's just it's messier. It's not impossible. I would say
the most likely scenario sitting here right now is Tua
is released in March, and then the question becomes one,
who is the quarterback in Miami in twenty twenty six.
They'll get a look at quinn Ewers over the next
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three weeks, and then two, where is Tua playing?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Is he a starter? Somewhere.
Speaker 10 (26:47):
Given his concussion history, his injury history, the fact that
he did not play well for most of this season.
He leads the league in air session with fifteen. There's
this particular type of system where he can be effective.
And I certainly could see a world where the forty
nine ers sell high on Mac Jones and bringing tuas
the backup, and then in a year it's like, hey,
he was with Kyle. Now he's healed. You know, that's
(27:08):
that's certainly possible. But but it's a real question in
terms of where Too is playing. If I had to
say right now, especially since they devoted him all the
way to number three, I believe that it's most likely
to has played this last down in Miami.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
And he also let Tom go. Anybody else got a
question for leaving? Thanks, He's always got better things to do, He's.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Got live He's got ye job man, Tom. Do you
have any availability for next Wednesday instead of Thursday? Since
we will not be here on Christmas Day?
Speaker 10 (27:40):
Oh, I'm sure for you Hawk, I can figure it out.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
We'll figure that out, thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, you can find a spot for me on the guitar.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
You know what, I got auditions. I'll let you know
when the auditions happened.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 10 (27:52):
You gotta I gotta try out.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
You got to wear a guest spot. That's right, you
got to try out. Thanks Tom, Thanks Budy. Appreciated Buddy.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Bye bye.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
All right, there he goes.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
That's right. Let me do let me let me give
some love.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Here from Kyle Brugantese his organization this week, the charity
for Bell Bank and the Pay Forward program, Wags and
Whiskers at www dot wagsmn dot org. Wags and Whiskers
Animal Rescue of Minnesota is an animal rescue organization dedicated
saving the lives of homeless animals and educating the community
on responsible pet ownership. Thousand dollars from Bell Bank. Thank
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you Kyle, and thank you Wags Minnesota dot org and
thank you Bellbank. Nominate your charity at cafan dot com.
Just type in the keyword Bell.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
And don't forget.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Wags also as an acronym for wives and girlfriends, right
like the wags of a sports team.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
So these are wives and girlfriends.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Of professional athletes that have you know, beard issues yea,
So they should be shamed.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Do you have an alternate website for me?
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Yeah, you know itall your hands up, we have breaking
Minnesota Timberwolves news.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Don't tell me he's out for the season.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention?
I've just been handed an urgent and horrifying news story.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Hall of Famer Kevin Kevin Garnett is reuniting with the
Minnesota Timberwolves and Links in a new all encompassing role
involving business community efforts and content development, and his long
awaited number twenty one Jersey retirement will also happen.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Okay, Oh that sounds great. I was nervous he was
gonna be in the personnel department. Oh that's great.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
What you just said? You don't want him there? Nope, No,
but he's gonna do great in whatever role you just said.
But what are you gonna do? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (29:40):
All right, welcome back. He definitely deserves his freaking number
in the rafters. Yes, overdue.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Yeah, man, I'm glad to see him makeup. I don't
like bad blood tweeting by yep and Glenn Taylor was
Taylor and somebody.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
Yeah, Glenn Taylor was too busy roasting chickens alive to
put that number twenty one in the rafters.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Yeah, he needs all the fabric he can get, you know.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Yep, now it's time for.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
It's walking by my friends at a Wolf River Electric
and a Wolf River Electric dot com go solar with
Wolf River Electric. The New York Post did a story
on women who find Santa irresistible?
Speaker 4 (30:14):
What now? WHOA? I just have the headline. I don't
know the details like that Santa.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Yeah, but I think just in general, shaft still doesn't walk.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
That's a red flag.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
If if you're really if your gal that you're dating
is really into Santa.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
I'm gonna disagree.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Like if they are asking you to dress up as Santa,
that sounds like daddy ish.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
I can come up with a list of only about
three things I won't dress up ast.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Yeah right, and it ain't Santa.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I'm gonna have questions.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I can think of the one. I'm trying to think
what the other two might think. Yeah, I hope the
one is the one I'm thinking of. If it's if
he didn't make your list.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Now that's the lady, I'm gonna question.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Yeah, you want what man?
Speaker 6 (31:06):
A mega church in Houston apologized after they brought in
real camels for a Nativity event, and one of them
kicked a church goer in the head. Jesus remember remember
when Jesus, Yes, he was also in the Remember yesterday
when we were talking about the Campbell fighting camels, we
were like, are camels mean? Ill tempered? And you know,
We're like, well, they might spit on you. They don't
(31:27):
like you.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
This one kicked somebody in the head.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
You the doctrine.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Yeah, and also with you God, I wish it was
Joel Olstein so bad? Uh, wouldn't that be great? A
bunch of people were having dinner at a thing on
who wrote this? A bunch of people were having dinner
at a fancy restaurant in Wisconsin where.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Name one.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Rocky Rococos You great spot, Well eat repizza?
Speaker 6 (32:02):
Okay, I'd love A bunch of people were having dinner
at a fancy restaurant in Wisconsin whenever that means on
Sunday when a raccoon fell through the ceiling and.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Bit a guest.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah, that happened.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
How does this make the news? That happens every Sunday
at a Wisconsin restaurant? What are we talking about here?
Speaker 1 (32:17):
I've got a news audio of this. This is no kidding,
I really do.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
Rec We don't know how this raccoon got there. It
was quite a large raccoon driving there as this thing
was brawling, kissing, scratching and when it gets really cold,
not uncommon to get these calls for raccoons.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
They did all the right things.
Speaker 8 (32:35):
They got medical care for the person that got bit.
He was taken to the hospital. And I felt like
I owed that to the person that got bit, because
his entire process for his treatment relies basically solely on
do we get this anem or not?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
So they got him.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
I mean that sucks because the guy had just ordered
half priced motsticks after nine pm.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Yeah, yeah, that poor guy. Damn it. What a waste.
I bet that hurts.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
How weird is this? This is how things are? A
change in meets Aus and Christopher.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
Okay, okay, listen, sure you guys saw this yesterday, But
the Oscars are starting in twenty twenty nine, the Oscars
will no longer be on ABC.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
You guessed it, They're going to YouTube.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
Wow, the Oscars will air on YouTube starting in twenty
twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Get spanked? What? Pat? Why would it?
Speaker 5 (33:24):
What?
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (33:26):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Two things mister Z does not like rotten tomatoes and
the Oscars. Yeah, he ranted about this yesterday. Showers Yeah,
a shower.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Yeah. I think he's allergic to water.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Sorry, mister, I don't know why I said that.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
Yeah, true, this is this is creative. You know we're
coming up on season fifty of Survivor. Yeah, so Survivor
is going to hide immunity idols in all fifty states
and then give the country clues to find him.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
There will be one immunity idol in every state.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Do you get to be like on the game if
you find one?
Speaker 6 (34:02):
I think there's a prize or something related to it,
but I don't think you get to be on the
That's sweet chat out on the bit.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
That's Condoms the winner here.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
It is the winners of each state will get a
free trip to la to have some kind of Survivor event.
The grand prize has not even been announced yet. Condoms,
I don't think so. Computer laser maybe maybe maybe, but crack.
This is this is straight out of Michael Scott in
the office. But this apparently actually happened to a driver
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in Toronto's Okay, after he followed his GPS down a
boat ramp into Lake Ontario on Tuesday night. Boom followed
the boat ramp right into the lake.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
How do you do that? Don't you see the lake?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Yeah, you would think so. Maybe it was dark, but
still yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
That's you know Michael Scott did in the middle of
the day and he was like, GPS is telling me
to go and Whit's like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (34:55):
There's a lake there, and he drives right into the
lake standing he had a little chicken. Oh, had a
little chicken.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
Okay, well you can have chicken at TGI Fridays. And
they are getting in on the unstoppable six seven trend.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
This is freezing, man.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
What kids kids meals come free with a dessert between
six and seven.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
For the rest of the month. See embrace six seven. Yeah,
that's funny. You want to ruin it?
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Embrace it?
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Yeah, well said like Facebook. Yeah, we've tried.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
We say six to seven all the time, hoping that
our eleven year old stop using it, and it has
not worked at all.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Yeah, well she doesn't know who you are.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
We're trying to make it as uncool as possible though,
and it's not working. And I think a lot of
parents are trying to do this or to say it
as often as possible.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
So the kids hate it, they still love it. They
don't care. They got tidy whities on.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
Pap A thirty three year old woman Paul, puts your
hand on. A thirty three year old woman from Texas
got arrested after she hid razor blades in loaves of
bread at two walmarts in Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
That's I'd be terrible. Why that's terrible.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
I'm gonna shoot you. And I do love bread, but
I don't love eating razors. All your hands up, razor blade,
lady would hawk.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
She's probably trimmed up.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
And I hope they weren't used razors. Man.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
I hope you guys didn't see this because I want
you to guess. But if you saw it, fine.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Help him pick up women.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
A sixty three year old guy in the UK named
David Purchase, he broke a world record by singing Christmas
songs for how long consecutively?
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Hundreds of thousands, mum.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
World record like seventy three hours, did not stop? Yeah,
didn't lose his voice? Eighty hours, let's hear it? Yeah,
all right, you guys overshot it by a little bit,
but not too bad. Forty two straight hours. He's saying
six hundred and eighty four songs got bron out thirty
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eight songs, thirty eight songs basically cycled through the thirty
eight last Christmas jingle bells.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Something called step into Christmas. I don't know what that means.
It's probably terrible.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Here he is talking about his feet, and let's.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
See how big a blunt I can fit into this one?
Speaker 5 (37:18):
What what is path talking about?
Speaker 6 (37:21):
I never know what percentage of Americans say they will
be asleep for sure by midnight on New Year's Eve
eighty sixty two.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Well, you guys be well, you know for sure I'll
be You got a gig, so you'll be awake.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
I'll be a wake him.
Speaker 6 (37:39):
Louie's gonna be in bed by seven. You're not gonna
make it to midnight, zero chance. I remember last time
I did, forty four percent of Americans say they will
definitely be asleep by the time midnight hits on New
Year's Eve.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Yeah, me and Max are going to hang out.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Well, how do you feel about this one? I may
have been up last New Year's Eve?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yeah, because he was.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
Brand new and my son Yeah, good point.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
In nineteen ninety five, Seinfeld coined the term regifting right,
because Elaine got a label maker from Tim Wattley.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
They no kidding, Yeah, I didn't know.
Speaker 6 (38:11):
Do you remember who Tim Waltley was played by The
Breaking Bad exactly? Brian Cranston was doctor Tim Wattley. So
Elaine got got him a label maker. He hated it,
claimed it didn't work, so he regifted it, and the
word started to be in circulation.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Now that's a word that everybody uses, right, regifting.
Speaker 6 (38:30):
What percentage of Americans say it is at least somewhat
okay to regift forty yeah, forty five, sixty one percent
say somewhat okay, twenty two percent say it's completely okay.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Was it Kurt Bills?
Speaker 4 (38:48):
Yeah? Was it Kurt Bills?
Speaker 6 (38:51):
I think it's okay if you admit that you're regifting it,
like yeah, Look, we get a lot of cool free
stuff from the station once in a while. If I
ever quote gift some of that stuff to somebody else,
I will fully admit I got this for free. I
paid zero dollars, but I think you would like it.
I'm not going to wear it or I'm not going
to use it. I got it for free. I make
it very clear I didn't pay for this but you
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can have it, So that's that's regifting. But it's but
I'm not trying to take credit for something that I
didn't pay for.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Is that makes sense? That's free gifting?
Speaker 5 (39:22):
Though we all got free autographed Chris Cook footballs from Superstar?
Speaker 4 (39:27):
Do you endorse throwing wis I don't believe I regifted that.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Oh we all three got one, right?
Speaker 6 (39:37):
My guess is that year some goodwill was like, why
does this football have random sharpie scribble all over it?
Speaker 4 (39:42):
They're bare chested? Pat? Are you? And last but not least?
Speaker 6 (39:47):
Maybe you heard about this, but Martha Stewart claims that
Nick's starred Jalen Brunson accidentally fractured her toe at the
end of a game back in May.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
She blames her open toe shoes.
Speaker 5 (39:58):
Wow, so he must have stepped on a foot because
she's sitting in front row and she claims that Jalen
bruns and broke her toe would be terrible.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
Yeah, that sucks.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
That'd be very painful. Yeah, it's not as bad as
the splinter and buying your foot.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
By the way, I think I'll be okay. Howard Rosie's toes.
He sits court side.
Speaker 6 (40:15):
Of a lone oh, man, I hope it hasn't happened to
him him yet, cat o day.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
I heard about those seats. I heard about Oh he
definitely did. He did get those.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
Charlie Swanson charges him for those seats, I believe, so, yes,
Oh he wouldn't sit there for free.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Oh that's nice to Charlie.
Speaker 6 (40:31):
Look old school Chris hockey Man would be pumped. We
got a NASCAR driver right now, William Tomorrow he might
be the next big thing. Yep, local kid with a bright,
bright future. Yeah, something like nineteen. That's sweet. So William,
so watch would be on the show tomorrow. He's playing initials.
It'll be fun to meet him, and then we can
just watch that star just sore. Right, let's see him
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be a NASCAR Cup winner at some point, at some
point go to the day ton of.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
Five hundred celebration party. Yeah, not too much to ask.
Speaker 5 (41:04):
All of our actor friends won't put us in movies,
so maybe, uh, William at some point, well when the
Daytona and bring us.
Speaker 4 (41:12):
Down to a party or something. Who that'd be sweet.
So that's tomorrow, and I think we're like, what are
we at one one hundred and six?
Speaker 1 (41:16):
I think I think it's something like one hundred.
Speaker 6 (41:18):
And six thousand dollars tomorrow, So Tommy Olsen tomorrow, Creestal tomorrow,
Marnie tomorrow, Parish tomorrow, mister Z tomorrow, and future.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
NASCAR star Williams Sawallas tomorrow as well.
Speaker 6 (41:29):
Powertrop Morning Show five thirty to nine, nine to noon
is next.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
Hey already have a running Forday
Speaker 1 (41:35):
You rabbit to have a Merry Christmas, baby girl, Thank you, Kara,
Hey, Tato, seven's morning.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
So here we are.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
It's almost Christmas. A week from today, it's Christmas? How
about that? A week from today, I'll be fifty five
years old. Ben, it's over, Johnny fifty five in a
week fifty five.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
So high Wave fifty fifty five, Man fifty five?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
What are you gonna do for your birthday? Celebrate Christmas?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I'm going to coconuts. You can't ask me if I
want to go to coconutsers?
Speaker 4 (00:35):
What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Is that you know that coconutsers?
Speaker 1 (00:41):
He asked me about nine times a day.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
I guess that's just mispronounced. You know that rise shirt?
Speaker 5 (00:47):
Yeah, that I currently have on one of the bars
is like coconut thiasers or teasers.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Oh my god, you don't know how How is it spelled?
He doesn't know how to spell teasers?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
How can we see it? How is it spelled? Let's
see it, We show us. Why do you think it's now?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I get it now, I know why you're saying it.
It's yeah, it's a bar, a very famous bar coconut teasers.
Speaker 5 (01:09):
When AJ made the shirt, he just wins, like looked
up all the bars that were popular when Hawk's band
was touring and said, the word is teasers.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
You just thought it was pronounced as it's spelled, But
it's spelled correctly.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
You actually are just joking and not hang on coconuts.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Oh my god, are you trying to Oh you're a
herb's cute.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
On the back.
Speaker 6 (01:37):
Oh my god, coconut teaser. It's spelled incorrectly. Like that's
probably how the bar was. Actually, Wow, how would you
say the palomino?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Hey, do me a favorite before you try to put
that shirt back on? Taking nap because you wore yourself
right out.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
No, it's I don't long story, It's really not it is.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Why is it a long story?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
What what's so long about this story? You just told it.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Because of the splinter in your heel?
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Is that is that been rectified yet stolen your foot?
Speaker 1 (02:12):
No it's not.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
It's a different type of splinter.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, you about splinter the rat.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
What's the long story? So yesterday you woke up yesterday
I was at Maynard's doing your game and my wife
goes to bed, so I said, hey, I so I
don't have to come in. So you're all propped up
because she, you know, had her wisdom teeth taking out,
Would you grab a sweatshirt for me out of the
(02:38):
closet in our room and so I can wear it tomorrow?
So I have to open it up, turn the light
on while she and the dogs are sleeping.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
She brought her friends over.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Like, amall, this doesn't fit me?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
No, it's probably a four X, but it doesn't fit well.
And it took me a while, and I didn't want
you guys to see my I got, so I tried
to no matter what I got.
Speaker 6 (03:04):
So, but the headline here is that that is not
a normal sized shirt that you would wear.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
No, I would never wear that. Then why does she
give it to you?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Well?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
I think no, I think she was doesn't realize how
rapidly I gained way.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Is it maybe just a subtle note like try to
fit into this as quickly as possible because we're going
to costa Rica.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
You are? We are? I just didn't know if you
and her were No, she is? Yeah, you're right. That
was a worthless story.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Yeah, all my stories are pointless and dumb, So I'm sorry.
Amount of breath taking my shirt off?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
We were in? Was that Nick Madden's office? Where were we?
We were in Barb's office.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
A day or two ago, where Saw starts telling a
story with about six details that everybody knew immediately had
nothing to do with the rest.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Of the story, and he goes, He goes, I'm sorry,
I add too many details. I'm trying to get better
at that.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I'm not.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
We're like, and of course every thing he said was like,
so I went to Costco because I needed rice because
my wife.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
We like rice. We like to eat it for dinner.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
We're like, for God's sakes, we understand how people eat.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
What happened, I'm sorry, I'm trying to get better. I
hadn't too many details.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
I like, he talks to you like there might be
a trivia game.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
It sounds like it's an Agatha Christie novel and they're
red Herring sending us down the wrong path.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
And he was eating but he ate rice? Is that normal?
I'm not sure. I'm going to write that down and
save that note for later.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I appreciate because often I'm like, I wonder why his
wife likes rice?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Right, Oh, it's just to survive.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
Yeah, she has to eat. God has got that. We
would probably need to know later on. Yes, painting a
fuller picture for all of us. Maybe not, it's not
relevant today, but it might be relevant.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Oh it's a sweatshirt. Did we think his sweater story
was pretty? I'll actually confused. I mean it was relatively short.
It was relatively short. I wouldn't take it off.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I thought he might have a bron does your does
your wife still have the job row?
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Yeah? The job?
Speaker 8 (05:05):
Ra?
Speaker 4 (05:05):
How many days? Two or three days with the job? Ra?
Think today is the last? Say she has to wear it?
Have you ever heard of that?
Speaker 9 (05:10):
Ben?
Speaker 4 (05:11):
The job raw? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (05:12):
You wear it around your jaw and you it has
like ice packs.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
For after you get your wisdom teeth out on what's
called the job ra? Yeah? We didn't have those things
when I was I got when we were young. No
no job, no job raw. So one more day? Yeah?
Then where does it go? I don't know? The garbage?
What a waste of a job ra? What are you
sticking the freezer? Leaving the freezer? Yeah? Put it on
once in a while, just for a goo over my head.
(05:38):
Wrap it around your sack?
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Yeah, do that?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
I mean, it's not wrong. I'm sorry, I'm not good
at this.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Sauce.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Sauce what would that be called if that's where you
put it.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
A ball bra.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Man a sack stash, A stash sackash.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I don't know, man.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
I like ball brat a literation too, Yeah ball bro, Yeah,
so does Tommy.
Speaker 10 (06:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
That way you don't have to do like cold plunges.
You just get all the benefits just by wrapping those
suckers up in the Yeah ball bra. Yeah there you go. Yeah,
all right, let's two fan five. Let's pay off this tease.
Speaker 10 (06:29):
Time for five on the power Trip builders and remodelers.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Thank you, heys philis Remodelers.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
The coconut teaser that I had before the break Ben
was that Justin Jefferson has one hundred and sixty eight
yards to go to get to a thousand, and it
sounds like KOs does not want to have that come
up short on his watch, doesn't want to be responsible
for an offense.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
I couldn't get just In to one thousand. Can't blame him.
You take this going. Justin's one of the all time greats.
One hundred and sixty eight yards to go over the
next three games. Power trop Betts posted on two I
did in fact check this, but he's pretty good, he's
pretty connected.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yeah, he's pretty connected.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
I believe he said JJ is averaging forty four yards
a game when McCarthy's the quarterback. Three games to go Giants,
what is it? Lions and Packers? Yeah, does Justin Jefferson
get one hundred and sixty eight yards total in these
last three games?
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Yes? Yeah, I'm definitely taking the over on that. Take
the over. Yeah, is this week?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
His sauce one of sauces strong takes was this week
is the week he really has to rack it up,
Like this has to be the big week at the three.
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Well, yeah, against this defense kind of like we talked about,
like they literally have nothing to play for, and I
don't think their defensive line is going to be as
formidable as it has been in the regular season, like
early in the season. So you should have even with
their offensive line injuries, you should have time to throw
the football. And I think that maybe we should be
putting him in the in the nailor spot, so Naylor's
(07:56):
run the Naylor's running the disc routes and pulling coverage
and leaving Justin Jefferson wide open. Because if we're if
we're now in this quote unquote progression read offense that
everybody is talking about even Kirk Cousins had a great
breakdown of that yesterday. Then don't put Justin on the
deeper routes because it's never gonna get there. Is he
gonna take too long. Put him on the short intermediate
(08:19):
routes that were where McCarthy's gonna see him and get
the ball out quick. So I'm sure that they've already
probably done that.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I bet they are.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
I'm sure they are, But I know I'm like being
really simplistic with it. But if you're like really trying
to get him over that thousand mark threshold, then find
ways like that to give him the ball creative.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
Yeah, yeah, last week eight targets, so they wait to
him but only two catches.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Well, and the thing is, he did drop that touchdown.
I'm not I'm not putting any of that on McCarthy
Like I was. I personally was was standing in the
back of the end zone to watch that play unfold.
And he turns his head right when the ball's kept
like still in his hand. It's coming out of his hand,
so he had plenty of time to pick up the
ball from the release, Like, I don't care if that
(09:01):
ball is coming one thousand miles an hour. Like, you're
one of the best wide receivers ever. You catch that
ball and it wasn't from it wasn't from five yards away.
I mean that ball traveled probably twenty five yards to.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Get to his hands.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
So yeah, it's a flat out drop. So I mean
it's not always on McCarthy.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
And McCarthy's seen his receivers have a handful of those.
No pun attended this year, right, Addison's drops and McCarthy passes.
Hockinson has, Jefferson definitely has. They've had a lot of drops.
Hasn't helped, Right, We've said it a thousand times. You
got to help the kid out, especially when he was struggling.
Now that he's playing a little bit better.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Sure, speaking of jaj, play you some audiocens I loaded
it in JJ Max says the game is finally slowing
down for him.
Speaker 11 (09:41):
Obviously the more reps you see, the live bullets, But
like I talked about, the overall understanding of the offense,
it slows everything down tremendously because you're not using that
extra thinking of you know, the balls snapped, I have
it in my hands, is he running that route? So
it eliminates those split second kind of miscues and processing
that's helped tremendously throughout the year.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
There you go, Yeah, I like it me too well.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
You talk Vikings with Tom Pello Sero in the second
dot Com Tom, thanks for our friends at Bellbank. After this,
more with Ben Lieber. One more segment to go, Power
Trip Morning Show. After this on the Family.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Do Do Do.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, Hey, welcome back Power Trip Morning Show. You know
your little Power Trip Morning Show. I'm gonna talk about
it over and over again because you know why not.
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Hockey Band. We've been leaded about five or seven shows
a year and this is one of them. Tickets available
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Speaker 4 (10:39):
What time will that be?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
We go on to seven thirty on Saturday, December twenty seventh,
Come on out watch it. We'll put together some very
special songs, special set list.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
So that's be fine.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I wonder you should have asked character in the break
if dot Com Tom is with us yet, because he
joins on the old stream yard.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
You know we got him.
Speaker 6 (11:01):
She's good at this. Plus she knows how to work technology.
She gets it.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah, man, he looks like he's gonna curb somebody today.
He does.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
He does. Yeah, he would never do that.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
You think that's true, But it's Christmas time and he
gets very aggravated this time of year.
Speaker 10 (11:17):
I was just thinking, No, you caught me when I
was going, huh, all these years of knowing you Hawk,
and you've never invited me to play with the band.
That's hey, he plays guitar some friend.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Wow. Yeah, he's the guitar player for any remember point.
You know, I nailed it.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I don't even have an excuse all the I'll like,
I'll say this. December twenty seventh, sat Clown Pioneer Place.
You're free, It's a Saturday. Come on down, you can
play guitar.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I'll be wide open on a Saturday, and I bet
you will.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, look at you, the number one dad sipping Tom.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
You've played on stage at First Avenue, correct.
Speaker 10 (11:49):
First Avenue, yep, Seventh Street, Entry, among other places.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
It's pretty cool, pretty pretty, so many places. He's just
like some other places. You know, I got a laundry
list of places. I mean, are you gonna star?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
What would what would top that? In the Twin Cities?
Speaker 10 (12:06):
Like I'm not playing, you know, not like US Bank
versus First ALF.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I'd rather play First Aff.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
No, First ALF is this spot.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, there aren't many places on the planet I'd rather
play than First Avenue.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
Yeah. Maybe Red Rocks and that's it. Yeah, that's about it.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
That'd be it.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Have played Red Rocks yet, I've not.
Speaker 10 (12:22):
I've not played Red Rocks. I've been to the Palladium,
have not played there. So Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan there,
but no, I've not not been on stage. But short list, you.
Speaker 9 (12:31):
Know, let's do it together. Tom, how are you and
the yuke? Can you play the ukulele? It's more or
less the same thing. I would just need to work
on my dainty finger work.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
Yeah, oh you mean both brother Yeah, I love dainty
finger works.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
Yeah. What kind of.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Actra plays on?
Speaker 6 (12:51):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Fender strat?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Oh you like the strat?
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Very cool?
Speaker 1 (12:56):
What do you got?
Speaker 10 (12:58):
I don't know how I could say. I bought it
twenty years ago, same one all the time.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yeah, man, you got a cool pedal or two on
his bicycle?
Speaker 10 (13:09):
Got it?
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (13:10):
I got one of those you know, whatever you call him.
I don't even know all the terms, you know, I
just show up in rock.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Yeah, yeah, man self taught. He's a purist, self taught
or not self taught.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Yeah, I never never had a lesson.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Wow, right, all right, let's talk Viking to the Giants.
Let me let me ask you quickly because we don't
need to dwell on it because we just debated it
the last segment and yesterday. But justin Jefferson obviously has
not had his best season, probably a little frustrated, even
though he's been pretty classy about it publicly, trying to
get to a thousand. Do you think he gets to
one sixty eight over these last three games? One hundred
(13:43):
and sixty eight yards to go.
Speaker 10 (13:45):
You'd hope, although the recent weeks would suggest that that's
not a lock by any stretch. They're going up against
one of the worst defenses in the NFL this week
with the Giants. You know, I don't think that, you know,
Kevin and the rest of the coaching chaff are oblivious
to not getting a football as much here.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
You know, you're not going to force it to them.
Speaker 10 (14:03):
I mean, they've never been that type of an offense,
but certainly out anticipate they've got some things to try
to get the ball into in justice hands start this week.
Speaker 7 (14:12):
How do you assess Let's just let's forecast, as you
mentioned that the Giants have won the worst defenses. Let's
just forecast that McCarthy goes out and has another really
solid game. How do you look at the last three
games then against those defenses, like is that all part
of the formula or do you look at it like, hey,
(14:32):
the kid is actually starting to figure it out regardless
of the defense he's playing against.
Speaker 10 (14:36):
Well all season, I think if you go back the Vikings,
regardless it was a quarterback, they've beaten up on, you know,
the bad defenses, which is what you should do. They
put up, you know, a bunch of points on on Cincinnati.
Obviously Detroit's been not the best defensively this season, and
obviously they got to win against them. Washington's been terrible.
You're doing what you're supposed to do. You still have
(14:58):
to go out and execute it. Here getting concerned if
they weren't scoring points, you know, on some of these opponents.
Dallas in the you know, in the same boat there
and the Giants is certainly gonna be on that list
as well. When it comes to JJ, I feel like
every week we've talked about this, the entire season, it's
just everybody breathe, let's just see kind of where this
thing goes. And you know, I certainly, you know, keep
(15:20):
seeing people, you know, writing it was such a disaster
and the move and they blew it not bringing back
Darnold or Daniel Jones. And I've been through that many
times in terms of, you know, the efforts, particularly on
Daniel Jones that they made to bring him back. But
you know, this is kind of the JJ McCarthy that
they were they were hoping to see. There's a ton
that they need to work on. Mechanically, you're not going
(15:41):
to do all that at once. But playing his unique,
you know style, he's gone out and he's been effective.
You know, when he's been good, it's been really good.
And so to see him stack a couple of performances
for the first time in his career is certainly a positive.
He's four and four as the starter. I know it's
not been perfect, but you know, for a guy who
(16:03):
has missed a lot more time than he's played still
over his first two NFL seasons, you know, he's had
eight games out there. He got hurt in two of
them and finished off the games, but you know.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Four wins four losses.
Speaker 10 (16:14):
This is kind of just the ride that you're on
with the young quarterbacks. So let's see how he finishes.
If you go and you take care of business against
the Giants, which is not a given. They still do
have talent on that team. They're still playing hard. They
just haven't been able to close out any games. But
if you go take care of business, then all of
a sudden, it's all right. The Lions the Packers in
these last two, both those teams, you know, Penny, whatever
happens to this weekend with Detroit, but both those teams
(16:35):
probably are going to have a lot on the line
in those games.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
You know, finish strong, play well in your division.
Speaker 10 (16:41):
All those would be, you know, a nice springboard moving forward,
even though I would expect that the constitution of the
quarterback room has altered at least someone in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Tom, We've seen a lot of ups and downs with
Christian Darisod this season. Do you think that with the
status of the team and not being in the playoffs,
do you think they're a chance they shut him down
for the rest of the year.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
They haven't done it yet, Sauce. You know, with Christian Darisaw.
Speaker 10 (17:07):
And I'll choose my words carefully on this, but there's
a lot of times the players when they come off
of significant injuries, and it becomes as much of a
mental thing as a physical thing. And I'm not implying
that his knee isn't having, you know, after effects from
the surgery. However, you know, there's also something to be
(17:27):
said for all right, if I'm not one hundred percent,
do I feel like I can push myself forward. If
you're just getting out there every week and it's a
grind and you don't feel quite right, that can weigh
on people here. And so with Darisaw, this back and
forth that you've seen in terms of he's playing, but
he's not full. Now he's full, now, he got to
ease off him. Now he's out again. That has all
(17:50):
the classic hallmarks of a guy who right now isn't
really confident in his body to get through games. When
Darisaw is on, he's still one of the better left
tackles in the NFL. But you know, from from everything
that I can tell and just watching him play and
knowing the dynamics of these situations, it seems like this
is also you know, Darisaw may have some reluctance to
(18:11):
really continue to push forward, as you said, in a
you know, a season where they're not going to make
the playoffs here if he feels like he's not one
hundred percent, and so everybody's involved in those in those
decisions whether or not he's going to be on the field,
We'll see, does he decide to get back out there
for a couple of division games, does he not play again.
I don't know that it's gonna be a full shutdown
again because he doesn't have an acute injury right now.
(18:32):
He just doesn't feel quite right, and so everybody's gonna
have to make some decisions about whether or not he's
on the field.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Do you have any insight when we're sticking with injuries?
You know, we have Ryan Kelly's banged up again, Brian
O'Neil's banged up again, and we also, you know, everybody
knows the news about JG and mattelis like, are there
other injury concerns that we need to be made aware
of and who do you think is going to be
actually available for this game this weekend.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
It's a good question, because again, you know there's there's
guys who are going to fight through things. You know,
like Brian O'Neil is a perfect example of he's always
going to want to play, He's going to want to
be on the field. But at some point it's like,
is that the best thing for the organization?
Speaker 11 (19:09):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Moving forward?
Speaker 10 (19:11):
To be quite honest, based on where the Vikings are
right now in the standings, I haven't checked on on
those injuries significantly through the course of this week. You know,
certainly again that they're going out there to play. There's
still jobs on the line for players, for other people.
You know, you're still going out and you're trying to
finish strong and what's been a really, really frustrating season
where everything kind of went sideways.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Here.
Speaker 10 (19:32):
You know, we'll monitor, you know, certainly, just see kind
of who's on the field, but I would anticipate anybody
who's healthy, anybody who's one hundred percent is going to
be out there. It's just you know, the Grenards of
the world. It's like, you're fighting through things and at
some point, you know, all right, let's just have the
surgery and let's move forward to twenty twenty six.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
You know, I want to ask you two about Harrison Smith.
I think that, you know, thankfully, he got a lot
of flowers for the way that he performed this last game,
more so just the way that he helped move that
defense around pre snap. But you know, know Pa was
talking about how he's what one sack away from from
he and Rendez barb would be the only two guys
with a number of sacks interceptions. All that being said,
(20:09):
great milestone, it'd be awesome to have that in the
record books. But like, if the season ends right now
and he's he's done, is he's is he a lock
for the Hall of Fame regardless of these like kind
of outrageous numbers that he'd put up with, the would
tire Rendez Barber.
Speaker 10 (20:24):
I try to be as objective as I can, but
I have some bias with Harrison just because I've covered
him his whole career.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
I've gotten to know him. You know, he's one of
my favorite guys.
Speaker 10 (20:34):
To catch up with in the locker room or pregame.
You know, in my mind, he's a Hall of Famer
because of the numbers, Like the numbers don't lie. He's
had production unlike most safeties in NFL history. I wrote
a story, you know, back when I was at USA
today and this is probably a decade ago, and the
entire premise of the story was fans media don't have
(20:56):
any idea about safety play because they're the guys who
aren't on the TV, Like you don't know unless somebody's
got a stick, they've got a nickname, they've got funny hair,
they're the honey Badger, Like nobody knows who the safeties are.
Harrison was a really really good player way before people
nationally caught up to the fact that he was a
really good player, which is why it took him a while,
(21:17):
you know, to make a Pro Bowl. But in terms
of the impact that he's made on the game, talking
to other people about going up against him through the years,
I mean, ask Aaron Rodgers about Harrison. Smith asked the
quarterbacks to me, if I were a Hall of Fame voter,
I'm not. If I were a Hall of Fame voter,
that would be a core part of what I'm doing,
because the bar for the Hall of Fame to me
(21:38):
has always been were you the best at your position
in your era?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
And for how long?
Speaker 10 (21:45):
Even Philip Rivers where there was a great you know,
debate about Philip Rivers and okay, he's coming back and
playing for the Colts. That's going to kick back. Is
his Hall of Fame timeline, his semi finalist. Now it's
five years. He got to wait five years. I'm like
nothing against Philip, who's a bit of really really good player,
but you know, is he a lot first ballot Hall
of Famer? For how long in Philip Rivers's career did
(22:07):
you say he's the best in the NFL? He played
in obviously the same era as Peyton Manning and as
Tom Brady. He was in the same draft classes as
Eli Manning, who won a couple of Super Bowls. Philip
never went to a Super Bowl. You know, numbers wise,
he is, you know, in the top ten in a
lot of categories. You know, certainly there's a nur argument
(22:27):
and I think the Philip probably will be in the
in the Hall of Fame someday, But that's a really
really high bar to clear. You know, with Harrison, I
do think that he clears that bar. I don't think
that there is a lot of safeties in his era.
There might have been ones who were better known than him.
There might be ones who you know, had more ads
and things like that than him. But in terms of
(22:48):
if you just went around and you actually pulled the
players that guys went against, I don't think you're going
to find a lot of safeties that people would say
better things about, particularly over the link of time that
Harrison has played than Harrison Smith.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Hey, Tom, what's the off season plan for Joe Burrow
and Tua.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Joe Burrow?
Speaker 10 (23:10):
I don't think that there is a plan sauce right now.
You know, the Bengals, for one thing, they don't trade
their guys.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
They don't.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
They just don't. That's not how they operate.
Speaker 10 (23:21):
They don't go and make big deals and you know,
move on from people if someone's upset. I mean, take
Trey Henderson. Trey Henderson requested a trade and was trying
to get out for two years, and they turned down
offers for him, and they never traded him. With Burrow,
you know, if he suddenly became available, would there be interest.
Of course, he'd be the number one trade target in
(23:41):
modern NFL history. I would anticipate that there will be
some calls to the Bengals about him this offseason, but
it's hard for me to imagine, And Burrow said it himself, yesterday.
It's hard for him to imagine he's not the quarterback
in Cincinnati in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Frustrating year.
Speaker 10 (23:57):
A big part of it comes down to Joe Burrow,
as it's so many recent years, hasn't been on the field.
When your highest paid player, your best player, isn't out there,
it's really really hard to win football games in.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
The NFL with Tua.
Speaker 10 (24:10):
The news yesterday that we broke that they have benched
him and are going to Quinn Yours for the last
several games, that is a strong indication that Tua has
played his last down in Miami. They owe him fifty
four million dollars fully guaranteed in twenty twenty six. I
thought all along, logically the most likely thing, even after
they fired the GM Chris Greer, was to let Tua
(24:32):
and McDaniel come back in twenty twenty six, let the
new GM evaluate both of them, and then kind of
have the opportunity to start fresh in twenty twenty seven.
But now it doesn't seem to be going in that direction.
This is much more like Russell Wilson at the end
of the twenty twenty three season, where similar timeline benched
in December, and by March they opted to release him.
(24:55):
There was a lot of talk at that time about
can you trade Russ. They'll be talking about can you
trade two? And I would not rule that out. But
if you just take into account the salary cap implications,
it's much cleaner. It's not great, no matter what. Okay,
moving on from a guy who's due fifty four million
fully guaranteed and close to one hundred million dollars total
in dead cap, that's not ideal, no matter what. But
(25:18):
what the Broncos did was they ate most of the
cap hit in twenty twenty four. Russ is still on
the books on their cap in twenty twenty five, but
they went clean, break, move on, eat the money they
basically paid him to play for the Steelers last season
and now will be off the books entirely in twenty
twenty six. If the Dolphins did the same thing with Tua,
(25:39):
release him in March, most likely before the third day
of the league year, when another three million dollars to
become fully guaranteed. That what that does is you eat
the bulk of the all the cash and the bulk
of the cap. In twenty twenty six, you push the
additional dead cap into twenty twenty seven, you go and
you get a new quarterback and you start over. I
do think that there's going to be a consideration and
they'll see if they can trade Tua. But remember this,
(26:01):
there's no such thing as a post June one designation
for trades, and for people who understand what that is,
it's basically, if you release a player after the start
of the league year in March, you can call him
a post June one cut, and come June one you
get cap relief by it pushes some of those cap
hits in twenty twenty seven. That doesn't exist for trades.
So if you trade Tua, whatever money the new team
(26:22):
doesn't take on all that slams your cap immediately. Un
Plus you wait until after June first to make the trade.
It's just it's messier. It's not impossible. I would say
the most likely scenario sitting here right now is Tua
is released in March, and then the question becomes one,
who is the quarterback in Miami in twenty twenty six.
They'll get a look at quinn Ewers over the next
(26:42):
three weeks, and then two, where is Tua playing?
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Is he a starter? Somewhere.
Speaker 10 (26:47):
Given his concussion history, his injury history, the fact that
he did not play well for most of this season.
He leads the league in air session with fifteen. There's
this particular type of system where he can be effective.
And I certainly could see a world where the forty
nine ers sell high on Mac Jones and bringing tuas
the backup, and then in a year it's like, hey,
he was with Kyle. Now he's healed. You know, that's
(27:08):
that's certainly possible. But but it's a real question in
terms of where Too is playing. If I had to
say right now, especially since they devoted him all the
way to number three, I believe that it's most likely
to has played this last down in Miami.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
And he also let Tom go. Anybody else got a
question for leaving? Thanks, He's always got better things to do, He's.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Got live He's got ye job man, Tom. Do you
have any availability for next Wednesday instead of Thursday? Since
we will not be here on Christmas Day?
Speaker 10 (27:40):
Oh, I'm sure for you Hawk, I can figure it out.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
We'll figure that out, thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Yeah, you can find a spot for me on the guitar.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
You know what, I got auditions. I'll let you know
when the auditions happened.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Appreciate it.
Speaker 10 (27:52):
You gotta I gotta try out.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
You got to wear a guest spot. That's right, you
got to try out. Thanks Tom, Thanks Budy. Appreciated Buddy.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Bye bye.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
All right, there he goes.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
That's right. Let me do let me let me give
some love.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
Here from Kyle Brugantese his organization this week, the charity
for Bell Bank and the Pay Forward program, Wags and
Whiskers at www dot wagsmn dot org. Wags and Whiskers
Animal Rescue of Minnesota is an animal rescue organization dedicated
saving the lives of homeless animals and educating the community
on responsible pet ownership. Thousand dollars from Bell Bank. Thank
(28:29):
you Kyle, and thank you Wags Minnesota dot org and
thank you Bellbank. Nominate your charity at cafan dot com.
Just type in the keyword Bell.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
And don't forget.
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Wags also as an acronym for wives and girlfriends, right
like the wags of a sports team.
Speaker 4 (28:42):
So these are wives and girlfriends.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Of professional athletes that have you know, beard issues yea,
So they should be shamed.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Do you have an alternate website for me?
Speaker 5 (28:50):
Yeah, you know itall your hands up, we have breaking
Minnesota Timberwolves news.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Don't tell me he's out for the season.
Speaker 4 (28:59):
Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, can I please have your attention?
I've just been handed an urgent and horrifying news story.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Hall of Famer Kevin Kevin Garnett is reuniting with the
Minnesota Timberwolves and Links in a new all encompassing role
involving business community efforts and content development, and his long
awaited number twenty one Jersey retirement will also happen.
Speaker 6 (29:25):
Okay, Oh that sounds great. I was nervous he was
gonna be in the personnel department. Oh that's great.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
What you just said? You don't want him there? Nope, No,
but he's gonna do great in whatever role you just said.
But what are you gonna do? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (29:40):
All right, welcome back. He definitely deserves his freaking number
in the rafters. Yes, overdue.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Yeah, man, I'm glad to see him makeup. I don't
like bad blood tweeting by yep and Glenn Taylor was
Taylor and somebody.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
Yeah, Glenn Taylor was too busy roasting chickens alive to
put that number twenty one in the rafters.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Yeah, he needs all the fabric he can get, you know.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Yep, now it's time for.
Speaker 6 (30:01):
It's walking by my friends at a Wolf River Electric
and a Wolf River Electric dot com go solar with
Wolf River Electric. The New York Post did a story
on women who find Santa irresistible?
Speaker 4 (30:14):
What now? WHOA? I just have the headline. I don't
know the details like that Santa.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Yeah, but I think just in general, shaft still doesn't walk.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
That's a red flag.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
If if you're really if your gal that you're dating
is really into Santa.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
I'm gonna disagree.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Like if they are asking you to dress up as Santa,
that sounds like daddy ish.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
I can come up with a list of only about
three things I won't dress up ast.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Yeah right, and it ain't Santa.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
I'm gonna have questions.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I can think of the one. I'm trying to think
what the other two might think. Yeah, I hope the
one is the one I'm thinking of. If it's if
he didn't make your list.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Now that's the lady, I'm gonna question.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
Yeah, you want what man?
Speaker 6 (31:06):
A mega church in Houston apologized after they brought in
real camels for a Nativity event, and one of them
kicked a church goer in the head. Jesus remember remember
when Jesus, Yes, he was also in the Remember yesterday
when we were talking about the Campbell fighting camels, we
were like, are camels mean? Ill tempered? And you know,
We're like, well, they might spit on you. They don't
(31:27):
like you.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
This one kicked somebody in the head.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
You the doctrine.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Yeah, and also with you God, I wish it was
Joel Olstein so bad? Uh, wouldn't that be great? A
bunch of people were having dinner at a thing on
who wrote this? A bunch of people were having dinner
at a fancy restaurant in Wisconsin where.
Speaker 4 (31:52):
Name one.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
Rocky Rococos You great spot, Well eat repizza?
Speaker 6 (32:02):
Okay, I'd love A bunch of people were having dinner
at a fancy restaurant in Wisconsin whenever that means on
Sunday when a raccoon fell through the ceiling and.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Bit a guest.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Yeah, that happened.
Speaker 6 (32:12):
How does this make the news? That happens every Sunday
at a Wisconsin restaurant? What are we talking about here?
Speaker 1 (32:17):
I've got a news audio of this. This is no kidding,
I really do.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
Rec We don't know how this raccoon got there. It
was quite a large raccoon driving there as this thing
was brawling, kissing, scratching and when it gets really cold,
not uncommon to get these calls for raccoons.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
They did all the right things.
Speaker 8 (32:35):
They got medical care for the person that got bit.
He was taken to the hospital. And I felt like
I owed that to the person that got bit, because
his entire process for his treatment relies basically solely on
do we get this anem or not?
Speaker 1 (32:47):
So they got him.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
I mean that sucks because the guy had just ordered
half priced motsticks after nine pm.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
Yeah, yeah, that poor guy. Damn it. What a waste.
I bet that hurts.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
How weird is this? This is how things are? A
change in meets Aus and Christopher.
Speaker 6 (33:03):
Okay, okay, listen, sure you guys saw this yesterday, But
the Oscars are starting in twenty twenty nine, the Oscars
will no longer be on ABC.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
You guessed it, They're going to YouTube.
Speaker 6 (33:16):
Wow, the Oscars will air on YouTube starting in twenty
twenty nine.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Get spanked? What? Pat? Why would it?
Speaker 5 (33:24):
What?
Speaker 4 (33:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 10 (33:26):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Two things mister Z does not like rotten tomatoes and
the Oscars. Yeah, he ranted about this yesterday. Showers Yeah,
a shower.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Yeah. I think he's allergic to water.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
Sorry, mister, I don't know why I said that.
Speaker 6 (33:39):
Yeah, true, this is this is creative. You know we're
coming up on season fifty of Survivor. Yeah, so Survivor
is going to hide immunity idols in all fifty states
and then give the country clues to find him.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
There will be one immunity idol in every state.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Do you get to be like on the game if
you find one?
Speaker 6 (34:02):
I think there's a prize or something related to it,
but I don't think you get to be on the
That's sweet chat out on the bit.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
That's Condoms the winner here.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
It is the winners of each state will get a
free trip to la to have some kind of Survivor event.
The grand prize has not even been announced yet. Condoms,
I don't think so. Computer laser maybe maybe maybe, but crack.
This is this is straight out of Michael Scott in
the office. But this apparently actually happened to a driver
(34:32):
in Toronto's Okay, after he followed his GPS down a
boat ramp into Lake Ontario on Tuesday night. Boom followed
the boat ramp right into the lake.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
How do you do that? Don't you see the lake?
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Yeah, you would think so. Maybe it was dark, but
still yeah.
Speaker 6 (34:48):
That's you know Michael Scott did in the middle of
the day and he was like, GPS is telling me
to go and Whit's like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (34:55):
There's a lake there, and he drives right into the
lake standing he had a little chicken. Oh, had a
little chicken.
Speaker 6 (35:02):
Okay, well you can have chicken at TGI Fridays. And
they are getting in on the unstoppable six seven trend.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
This is freezing, man.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
What kids kids meals come free with a dessert between
six and seven.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
For the rest of the month. See embrace six seven. Yeah,
that's funny. You want to ruin it?
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Embrace it?
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Yeah, well said like Facebook. Yeah, we've tried.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
We say six to seven all the time, hoping that
our eleven year old stop using it, and it has
not worked at all.
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Yeah, well she doesn't know who you are.
Speaker 6 (35:34):
We're trying to make it as uncool as possible though,
and it's not working. And I think a lot of
parents are trying to do this or to say it
as often as possible.
Speaker 4 (35:41):
So the kids hate it, they still love it. They
don't care. They got tidy whities on.
Speaker 6 (35:46):
Pap A thirty three year old woman Paul, puts your
hand on. A thirty three year old woman from Texas
got arrested after she hid razor blades in loaves of
bread at two walmarts in Mississippi.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
That's I'd be terrible. Why that's terrible.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
I'm gonna shoot you. And I do love bread, but
I don't love eating razors. All your hands up, razor blade,
lady would hawk.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
She's probably trimmed up.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
And I hope they weren't used razors. Man.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
I hope you guys didn't see this because I want
you to guess. But if you saw it, fine.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Help him pick up women.
Speaker 6 (36:26):
A sixty three year old guy in the UK named
David Purchase, he broke a world record by singing Christmas
songs for how long consecutively?
Speaker 4 (36:38):
Hundreds of thousands, mum.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
World record like seventy three hours, did not stop? Yeah,
didn't lose his voice? Eighty hours, let's hear it? Yeah,
all right, you guys overshot it by a little bit,
but not too bad. Forty two straight hours. He's saying
six hundred and eighty four songs got bron out thirty
(37:02):
eight songs, thirty eight songs basically cycled through the thirty
eight last Christmas jingle bells.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Something called step into Christmas. I don't know what that means.
It's probably terrible.
Speaker 1 (37:13):
Here he is talking about his feet, and let's.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
See how big a blunt I can fit into this one?
Speaker 5 (37:18):
What what is path talking about?
Speaker 6 (37:21):
I never know what percentage of Americans say they will
be asleep for sure by midnight on New Year's Eve
eighty sixty two.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Well, you guys be well, you know for sure I'll
be You got a gig, so you'll be awake.
Speaker 1 (37:38):
I'll be a wake him.
Speaker 6 (37:39):
Louie's gonna be in bed by seven. You're not gonna
make it to midnight, zero chance. I remember last time
I did, forty four percent of Americans say they will
definitely be asleep by the time midnight hits on New
Year's Eve.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Yeah, me and Max are going to hang out.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Well, how do you feel about this one? I may
have been up last New Year's Eve?
Speaker 1 (37:57):
Yeah, because he was.
Speaker 4 (37:57):
Brand new and my son Yeah, good point.
Speaker 6 (38:01):
In nineteen ninety five, Seinfeld coined the term regifting right,
because Elaine got a label maker from Tim Wattley.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
They no kidding, Yeah, I didn't know.
Speaker 6 (38:11):
Do you remember who Tim Waltley was played by The
Breaking Bad exactly? Brian Cranston was doctor Tim Wattley. So
Elaine got got him a label maker. He hated it,
claimed it didn't work, so he regifted it, and the
word started to be in circulation.
Speaker 4 (38:27):
Now that's a word that everybody uses, right, regifting.
Speaker 6 (38:30):
What percentage of Americans say it is at least somewhat
okay to regift forty yeah, forty five, sixty one percent
say somewhat okay, twenty two percent say it's completely okay.
Speaker 2 (38:47):
Was it Kurt Bills?
Speaker 4 (38:48):
Yeah? Was it Kurt Bills?
Speaker 6 (38:51):
I think it's okay if you admit that you're regifting it,
like yeah, Look, we get a lot of cool free
stuff from the station once in a while. If I
ever quote gift some of that stuff to somebody else,
I will fully admit I got this for free. I
paid zero dollars, but I think you would like it.
I'm not going to wear it or I'm not going
to use it. I got it for free. I make
it very clear I didn't pay for this but you
(39:12):
can have it, So that's that's regifting. But it's but
I'm not trying to take credit for something that I
didn't pay for.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
Is that makes sense? That's free gifting?
Speaker 5 (39:22):
Though we all got free autographed Chris Cook footballs from Superstar?
Speaker 4 (39:27):
Do you endorse throwing wis I don't believe I regifted that.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Oh we all three got one, right?
Speaker 6 (39:37):
My guess is that year some goodwill was like, why
does this football have random sharpie scribble all over it?
Speaker 4 (39:42):
They're bare chested? Pat? Are you? And last but not least?
Speaker 6 (39:47):
Maybe you heard about this, but Martha Stewart claims that
Nick's starred Jalen Brunson accidentally fractured her toe at the
end of a game back in May.
Speaker 4 (39:56):
She blames her open toe shoes.
Speaker 5 (39:58):
Wow, so he must have stepped on a foot because
she's sitting in front row and she claims that Jalen
bruns and broke her toe would be terrible.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
Yeah, that sucks.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
That'd be very painful. Yeah, it's not as bad as
the splinter and buying your foot.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
By the way, I think I'll be okay. Howard Rosie's toes.
He sits court side.
Speaker 6 (40:15):
Of a lone oh, man, I hope it hasn't happened to
him him yet, cat o day.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
I heard about those seats. I heard about Oh he
definitely did. He did get those.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
Charlie Swanson charges him for those seats, I believe, so, yes,
Oh he wouldn't sit there for free.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Oh that's nice to Charlie.
Speaker 6 (40:31):
Look old school Chris hockey Man would be pumped. We
got a NASCAR driver right now, William Tomorrow he might
be the next big thing. Yep, local kid with a bright,
bright future. Yeah, something like nineteen. That's sweet. So William,
so watch would be on the show tomorrow. He's playing initials.
It'll be fun to meet him, and then we can
just watch that star just sore. Right, let's see him
(40:52):
be a NASCAR Cup winner at some point, at some
point go to the day ton of.
Speaker 4 (41:00):
Five hundred celebration party. Yeah, not too much to ask.
Speaker 5 (41:04):
All of our actor friends won't put us in movies,
so maybe, uh, William at some point, well when the
Daytona and bring us.
Speaker 4 (41:12):
Down to a party or something. Who that'd be sweet.
So that's tomorrow, and I think we're like, what are
we at one one hundred and six?
Speaker 1 (41:16):
I think I think it's something like one hundred.
Speaker 6 (41:18):
And six thousand dollars tomorrow, So Tommy Olsen tomorrow, Creestal tomorrow,
Marnie tomorrow, Parish tomorrow, mister Z tomorrow, and future.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
NASCAR star Williams Sawallas tomorrow as well.
Speaker 6 (41:29):
Powertrop Morning Show five thirty to nine, nine to noon
is next.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
Hey already have a running Forday
Speaker 1 (41:35):
You rabbit to have a Merry Christmas, baby girl, Thank you, Kara,
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