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3:18Also a member of the Frost who won an overtime against Toronto yesterday and beloved Taylor had a goal and a couple of assists and an assist on the OT game winner. So a golden time of day unfurls about an hour from now in studio nine to noon with Taylor Heise and Parker Fox. From the fighting state of Utah, the original co-host of the Friday football feast, Paul Charchin joins us. Good morning, Paulie. How are you? Good morning. I am 93% less flimmy than I was at this time on Friday. So doing doing well. Thank you very much. So we a little more detail than you probably need it. Well, that's okay. We we started to talk back theme. Today might use it a little more this week. It's it's it's simple. It's got some low hanging fruit to it. But but I want to hear what your take on it is given you follow the NFL and the Vikings as closely as you do. So you know, Rashon Gary's been traded. You know, Eric Wilson's back in the mix.

4:19Yeah. You know, Ivan Paste Jr. probably is back in the mix with all that said. All right. And you know the names of the players who reportedly will be released. Make the Vikings better into 2026. How do you make the team better with free agency, this quarterback situation and and and and marble of a Charchin. Good morning. Hi. Good morning. I'm going to give you a couple of angles on that. One is not that sneaky. I think at least to this listening audience, but might be nationally. My favorite running back value that you can go get to pair up with Jordan Mason is the same kid who torched the Vikings in week number four. And I think if we're not for that, people would not be would be less aware in our listening audience about just how good Kenneth Gainwell is. Paul. Mm-hmm. Any any any catches it. You remember that Pittsburgh game. Yeah. That's right. I remember against the Vikings. He went when six for six in that game.

5:22As a receiver rolled up 134 total yards in that game. Yes. And is part of their one to punch was very, very good. He is much more of a slasher than what we get out of Jordan Mason, who's more of a North South power runner. And I think would be I think he would be an outstanding addition. But I'd love to have Kenneth Walker. Well, sure. I'd love to have Kenneth Walker. I just don't think that we're going to be able to land Kenneth Walker financially. So instead Kenneth Gainwell to me is an affordable solve at a position of need. That means you don't have to go spend, you know, like a day and a round four draft pick on a running back to help solidify the one to punch that you want to have in your backfield. So what do you think? Well, Kenneth Gainwell. I like it. Gainwell is one of the two that that I've kind of had on my radar for about a week and a half, two weeks with Gainwell, but about a month with a wide receiver,

6:22Jawan Jennings, who I think is cost effective and is the kind of guy with his physicality is a locker room leadership. And just who Jawan Jennings is overall as a player. I think Jawan Jennings will be a cool ad here. But nine to noon in the listening audiences incredibly shocked that we lay out, make the Vikings better. And you immediately go to offense is there. Is there like with with with all the quarterbacks that we hear about and recognizing the veteran quarter back to be signed here, assuming it happens will need to play close to the veteran minimum with with all that known. Who do you like and why? And I do have a corner back that I want to recommend as well. But let's go to let's stay with quarterback. Give it to us first. The details of a guy. All right. The corner back I want to target is Kansas City cornerback Jalen Watson.

7:25Well, he's he's somebody that we we talked about on fantasy football weekly lot because he was somebody you had to be worried about when your team went up against the against the chiefs. He in 511 coverage snaps last year Jalen Watson allowed zero touchdown passes. Come on. None. And Trent McDuffy was the one A back there. But quietly Jalen Watson was the one B and he too was really good. And I'm just I'm a I'm a big fan of his. I think he I think he can be somebody that significantly helps the team. Very physical excellent tackler as well. And we know that we know our corners have to be able to tackle in this in this game because they get left on islands a lot. You you can't you you have to be able to wrap up if you're going to give up that pass. By the way, also just a 58% completion rate on balls thrown at Jalen Watson this year. So he is my preferred cornerback ad that would also take off a position

8:27that you would otherwise need to spend a day a day one or day two pick on to get younger there. Watson, I believe just 25 years old. So yeah, that's that's my sneaky cornerback play. What do you think about Jalen Watson? Well, it it adds up with the trade of Trent McDuffy. I like him a lot. Subsequently, the contract that he just got from the Los Angeles Rams. I know the name, not super familiar with with the game. Yeah, I'm just I'm worried about the amount of cash in mold in that one charge. I mean, kind of the idea, especially you just saw the four and what was a four and one 24 and 125 something like that for McDuffy. And and Watson already kind of a month. Yeah, it's yeah, he's the highest McDuffy's highest paid corner and NFL history out there in L.A. Whoa. Yeah, I don't know. You mentioned Watson. I loved gain. Well, most of most of how I've handled this. I don't want to call it dumpster diving per se, but certainly not top tier. I mean, linder bomb. You saw the money that Conor McGovern just got to stick with the bills. I think it was

9:29four and 52. So linder bomb is going to be the most coveted dude among free agent centers. So, you know, I'm looking at like cave maze from the panthers. Or you mentioned, you mentioned Jalen Watson as a corner. I'm wondering if Tredevius white a decade into his career has something left or about Dean or Eric. I'm trying to figure out how to pronounce Noah Igbenogne. Good luck with that during the Friday. Don't don't don't don't learn how to do that. No, you nailed it. But before I throw a couple of ideas at you, Charge, I did want to backtrack to what P.A. asked you in terms of this this quarterback kerfuffle, this conundrum, this dilemma with with several veterans that the Vikings potentially could add thanks to the dime of other teams with all that dead money and guaranteed stuff hanging out there. Who suits your fancy? I know we had we had mentioned kind of shooting the bleep a couple of weeks ago talking about like Derek Carr and that kind of thing, but who's hot on your mind as as teams will start releasing guys in a

10:31couple days. And this affords you the opportunity to stamp it and say, Zach Wilson is a zero of 10. What are these idiots doing? And he's never ever going to succeed in the national football league because maybe, and you know, this is ingest, maybe it's Zach Wilson for the veteran minimum and he goes for 30 touchdowns and nine picks. Oh, man, what a story that would be. As if Jets fans aren't having unraveled enough over the same darn little dissension, right? If we pulled that off, well, the two big names are Kyler Murray Intua. I'd love to talk those through with you. Here's your case for Kyler Murray coming to the Vikings. So let me start here, Nordeau, the eight. During Kyler Murray seven years in Arizona, he missed 30 games for the Cardinals. Would you care to guess how many of those 30 games the Cardinals won without Kyler Murray in those seven years? 18. I would guess you said 30 games he missed. I'm going to say they won like six or

11:37seven games. Five. So, you know, point being, you know, this isn't all on Kyler Murray, right? You know, putting other guys in, although Jacobi Preset looked very comfortable in that offense in a way, honestly, Kyler Murray didn't last year. But, you know, the Cardinals are broken organization. It's possible. Nobody was going to succeed a quarterback, given the, you know, the coaching, the tools and the players that around him now did have some pretty good receivers to throw to over Kyler Murray's career through to Larry Fitzgerald, Deandre Hopkins, Christian Kirk, Zach Hertz, Marquis Brown. If Marvin Harrison Jr. counts as good him too. So it's not like he had no help, but, you know, I just think the middleing results we got from Kyler Murray might have just been organizationally. I don't know that anybody would have been great there. And he really wants to play for the Vikings. You know, he, you can see where he would like to have a Sam Donald like Reclamation season. So that part would make sense. And I'm, I'm convincing myself that we could do

12:39it. But one of the things that worries me, and you guys tell me, is this, how much of this worries you with, with Kyler Murray? He's been almost entirely like a 90% shot gun quarterback. You know, Koc is, is not, he's, he's an under center guy. He's like, I think roughly in the 50, 60% under center for his quarterbacks. That's a stylistic change that I would like to believe Murray could do. But I don't know, that does worry me a little bit. And his improvisational styleings doesn't feel like Koc either. So I'm, I'm starting to warm up to the idea of Kyler Murray, where do you guys stand on Kyler? My, my, my stance on him is I, if that's the decision they make, then I'm open to it. And for all the reasons that you've just stated, it's, what is this thing going to look like? The improvisation, the, do we have to sign a five, 10 center so Kyler can see over him? All of those things that play into it. The, the, if that's the decision they make, that tells me that there is such a lack of confidence at this stage that Jay-Jee MacArthur is ready

13:43to rock to the point where they would effectively put Kyler in a spot to take hold long term of the starting position in Minnesota. And I have to, at this stage and lieu of other information, I have to also trust Kevin O'Connell that if he brings in Kyler Murray, he knows about all the scrambling. He knows about the decision making and all the potential inadequacies of Kyler Murray. And he believes that either one way or another that Kyler can find a way to be a little more efficient in this offense, or Kevin O'Connell would be open to some of that improvisation, to some of that raw athleticism and talent that Kyler undoubtedly has. So if Kevin O'Connell makes that decision, I actually am intrigued and kind of excited to see what the hell that thing would look like. I personally, I'm intrigued now in a move based offense because I mean, we all know this. Kyler going on five and seven step drops and being made to stay in the pocket is not going to happen. I mean, you can preach it to him all you want is not going to

14:44happen. But when he breaks the pocket because he's so gifted running and now he's starting to slide more and get out of bounds from what I understand and potentially not take as many running related injuries as he has. Well, Addison and Jefferson down the field trying to figure out where Murray's going to go with the run. Well, yeah, that intrigues me greatly. Toa does not intrigue me. His team is going to walk away from $125 million just to be rid of him. That's a concern. The Murray's, Murray's also, they're also walking away from a lot with Murray too. But toa, you add in any play could be the last of his career, literally. You've got all the predilection for dumb offs that say that's a real concern. It doesn't have just sort of like that, that fire in his belly, that will to win that you really want out of that quarterback position. I just don't, I just toa to me does not, does not look like these a, a reclamation project that's likely to hit. I don't, I'm not saying you couldn't win with

15:48him and that KOC couldn't get wins with him. You know, I, I want to believe they could, but I just don't see a scenario where you're signing toa to his next big contract because things went so well in his first year in Minnesota. Yeah, I tend to agree with you there, Charge. What, what do you think of Geno Smith? Okay. Okay. I don't want him as my starter. Okay. I'll start there and presumably we've already got our backup in JJ McCarthy. So I don't, I don't, I don't have, I don't have any interest in Geno. It feels like, you know, somewhere between Seattle and Las Vegas is the real Geno. Seattle was such a good, well coach team with surrounded by good players and a good organization that I think made him look better than he really was. Then he goes to Las Vegas and it's the exact opposite. Nothing around him is any good. They trade away his best wide receivers and, you know, it rock powers has hurt all year. The organization's putrid and disease and he looks way,

16:49way worse than Seattle. The truth is probably between those two, but I don't want, I don't want to find out on our dime here at which version rat. And I think he's going to enter his 14th season right now. So I just, again, that's another guy. I just, I don't see, even if things go well, it doesn't feel like there's a future where you're signing Geno Smith to his next Vikings contract if you sign them to one here. But similar, the way we were talking about Kyler, Charge, if they go that Geno route, if they go aging veteran route, doesn't that tell you that, hey, we, we need, we still need some cooking and some simmering and some growth from the kid, but that JJ McCarthy is still certainly the long term plan. Wouldn't that tell you that if if Geno Smith rolls in here, who by the way, Seattle has a terrific organization. No doubt about it. Don't, don't we have some, some good things that a quarterback could work with a Geno Smith. And at this stage of his career, maybe he's got, we have some assets that could allow Geno to flourish. Well, okay, maybe, but again, it feels like all you're doing is put a 2026 Band-Aid on it.

17:56I would rather go with honestly, even to a, and especially Kyler, just for the age of differential, because if those guys are good at their age, it would make sense to make them the next quarterback for the Vikings as well. And you know, at this point, I think we, I think reasonable people can agree, nobody's writing off JJ McCarthy, but we also can't put ourselves in a position we have to depend on him turning it around. You know, I think he's just found money at this point. If it works out and it turns out he's great, well, fantastic. Now, you don't want to give him away, but at best, you can't count on it. You have to treat JJ McCarthy as found one. All right, all right, church. Move that on from Geno. Hey, as you're looking at things, and at 11 o'clock, we start hearing, at some point in that 11 AM hour, we'll begin to hear people signing deals, et cetera. Are you focused more on a Ryan Kelly retired? We need an answer there. Can't be brandal in a draft pick. We got to find a free agent. Are you more focused maybe on a hardgrave and Allen didn't work out here last year. We're moving on. Well, what does the

18:59depth look like on the defensive front? Where are you peaking around at the Vikings depth chart and kind of starting to rank or provide maybe a little more, a little extra focus as free agency starts to lift off to make the Vikings better? Interior defensive line and center huge huge topics here. The center gets real thin, real fast. We remember, it might be that the third best free agent center is Austin Schlotman. There's not a lot of help coming at that position. I don't think, but there's a lot of familiar names at defensive tackle that are potentially available here, and this will be part of the challenge. DJ Reader, Tim Settle, Dayquan Jones. Do you want the 93rd year of Kaleis Campbell? There's going to be at least, how about Kaleis Tonga coming back? After a super ball trip, we didn't think much of him here, but he played a lot of

20:02downs for the Patriots last season. I think those are going to be, if you asked me to pick a position that will be addressed early by the Vikings in free agency, I think it's going to be interior defensive line. Do you guys agree? Are you with me on this thinking? No, I tend to agree with you. I liked John Franklin Myers cat from the Broncos 15. It's like 14 or 15 sacks the last two seasons. We got Javon Hargrave putting out on X that interior delinement can't get sacks in the Flores system, but I like. Dolvin Tomlinson could come back. I mean, look at these names. This is, this is an awful time and in some respects for a team that's trying to get cheaper and younger. You mentioned DJ Reader, Shelby Harris is out there. P.A.'s favorite player, Larry Ogan Joby is available. Sheldon Rankins. We can get you out ward back. Hotty. Hotty ward back to the mix for the Minnesota Vikings. A lot of a lot of late career dinner circuit names becoming available these days, charge. Yeah. Now, what are we doing at safety? I mean,

21:08you know, I don't know if Harrison Smith has tipped his hand to the organization so that they know how to the degree to which they need to prioritize safety. Obviously, it's not public yet. And Harrison is not obligated to make a decision, but boy, it would be nice if Harrison Smith decided to let the organization know where he's leaning right now so they can make, they can make a decision one way or another and know if they need to go land a Cameron Curle or a Kobe Bryant or somebody, you know, somebody else at the safety position because that's another spot that is that is rather thin all of a sudden. Draft feels like safety and draft. I think Cam Curle recently re-signed with the Ram, so take him off the board. I'd put it in 90 to 95% that that Harrison's going to retire. But let me, let me, let me ask you this question. The Chicago traded DJ Moore to Buffalo and their good center retired at a very young age,

22:08then they traded for Garrett Bradbury, the Bears. Is this the team to beat in the NFC North next season? Yeah, it feels that way, doesn't it? Let me calm. You know, so they had the luxury of being able to trade DJ Moore and it's because look what they did in their draft. They hit on Roma Dunesay, Luther Burton and Colson Loveland, hit on all of them. And when you have the luxury of three, you know, 23 year old guys that all look like they're NFL caliber and some in maybe, maybe awesome at their position, then you have the luxury of moving on from your 29 year old wide receiver DJ Moore and the bills of course are just trying to keep their window open for Josh Allen and trying to stay relevant here and they haven't been able to solve wide receiver at all. So they kind of overpay Bears get a second rounder, they get out of $40 million in guaranteed money. And DJ Moore was not needed on this team anymore. So that gives, you know, that spreads around 100 more targets for Dunesay and Burton and Colson Loveland. I mean, the Bears,

23:12they've got clearly a very good coach. They have an ascending offense and now they, you know, they get another great, they get another high pick in a draft by giving up players that they didn't need, you know, much like much like they did with with young to Carolina. So it just feels like a little bit of the the rich getting richer in Chicago and, you know, now they got an opportunity to get even better and they're nailing the draft picks and that it just makes such a big difference when you've got young talent on your team like they do at a position. And yes, I'm jealous right now. Time for two more PA and charge. Do you have a Viking? Do you have a vix at 18 player to stamp yet? Or do you still need to do work? No, I do have a vix at 18 avion terrell the cornerback for Clemson is kind of is where I'm sitting right now. You get somebody with not necessarily elite ball skills, but really good covered skills. Nine passes defended last year actually use it. He can

24:16be physical despite only being 5 11 190 can be physical good tackler. That's, you know, that's from on right now is the team needs cornerback help as they as this team has for like, I don't know 15 straight years. Cornerback help is where is where I'm going right now. How about you guys? Do you have you have early early picks at 18 for the Vikings? Teenerman, them in Oregon. What about you? Yeah, I'm on them right now given the safety. I mean, what I want to see the Vikings do because there's about 65 free agent safeties is I would like to see them bring in a safety and as many as are available that should probably push the push the dollar amount down. And then I want them to go hard after after a guy in April and that might be there's some defensive tackles. PAs mentioned Peter Woods a couple different times. I don't know if 18s the spot to get them, but but similarly on the defensive front, if we can get one of these old timers and then address that with one of our first couple of picks in April as well. I'd

25:19feel really, really good about those moves by Brazinski. Chargy. Last one. You left the key. All right. Last year you left key. Will you have some form of fantasy football business venture a new or do you call it an HOF career? I hope I do. I've got it's I can't talk about anything that I'm doing right now, but I'd like to I'd like to believe that we're still having a lot of fun and doing doing fun stuff next next football season as well. It's just there's there's just a lot of things in motion right now as we are six months away from the season, but thank you for asking that you care. I appreciate that. Understandably. And you know what else is in motion? All those Utah jazz games you're probably watching out say George way right? That would be your your mammoth right here. This is mammoth country knows it and mammoth wild. I think playing playing today or tomorrow, correct? Yeah, insane Baltimore. Yes. Yeah. The the mammoth has former and you

26:23probably know this has former go for Logan Cooley and and Cooley is going to play with the US in the 2030 Olympics. He wears 92 and is easy to spot Logan Cooley. Make him your favorite player, all right? Deal. We'll do that. Thank you, my man. It's great talking to both of you again. Let's let's be friends more often if you would. Likewise, my brother. I have a good week. Paul Chargium nine to noon into the second half of the presentation. Some more make the Vikings better talk back around the corner. If we have them and gold medal radio at 11 o'clock Taylor Heisee in studio with fiance Parker Fox. It's not. I heard in Tik Tok have come together to create something new. I love it. Where the world of Tik Tok meets your playlist. Three words that will change your life. I heard Tik Tok radio. The biggest hits across I heard radio. What's trending for you on Tik Tok? Tell me a sound that's better than this. Plus Tik Tok's most influential creators all in one place. Don't miss the debut of I Heart Tik Tok radio tonight at 10 right here on your radio and on the

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31:43I mean continually upgrading or fortifying a moving companies never a bad idea. I trust the moving company when Daris all plays all the games and Donovan Jackson left guard I'm cool with that likewise with the right guard center situation needs to be figured out so maybe that was the maybe that was the crux of the matter and the right tackle is still quite good too when it comes to the next veteran quarterback to join the covenant got a text during the Paul Charchin conversation from a texture whose name will not be released. Toa as in tongue of I Loa toa is Waterford crystal beautiful but extremely delicate and breakable I always love that one thank you for that and I'm also I'm I'm also reminded that just just because we're not seen or hearing a lot about Mac Jones with the San Francisco 49ers

32:46I mean that that that doesn't mean that that's a zero yeah for the Minnesota Vikings just just because we're not hearing about it or what would go into it things like that and since he's under contract with the team it would be a trade which means it's not a it has to be figured out Wednesday afternoon type of thing either yeah correct but now the I mean I understand what what my man will say and be at the talk back and like all the names and Kyler and the Miss games and Geno Smith near the end who knows what Cuzz buzz is going to need to make who knows what Aaron Rogers has up his tattered sleeve this off season but this isn't a forever thing so like with Kyler Murray if if Kyler Murray is the Minnesota Vikings starting quarterback in 2026 you want him to go lights out you want him to put the team in a precarious position where they now are either forced to pay what what it would take to keep that quarterback who jumped out of his skin

33:49or they got to deal with letting him go and moving forward with McCarthy I think I maybe maybe I'm wrong on this with what happened post Darnell so Darnell for the most park goes lights out you sack the bunch but it's a good season for the for the purple yeah sadly lose to the ramps you let him go I don't think you let Kyler go if he blows up in 2026 if he goes lights out and this is a double digit win team he looks terrific yep oh my goodness he blew this game for us in early October but he was hammering on things and he's going three touchdowns no picks 300 yards in December then I think that that ends the whole conversation which I'm not and you know I'm not I'm not I'm not if Kirk cousins somehow ends up here as that guy I'm I'm not negative on that now if he goes lights out I mean it if Kirk goes eight of 10 you win double digit games maybe when a playoff game well that's not a three year eight zillion dollar deal correct I mean that

34:52that's kind of the best situation if it works is cousins and the cousins kindness working with the kid yeah yeah I'm still not I can't like Kirk ain't going to come here unless he starts all right but at like age 37 into the season and this is somebody of whom I'm very fond so ain't the easiest thing to say but has he earned the right at this stage of his career to make that demand and if if Kirk cousins demands to start in 2026 what other teams will give him that opportunity okay so maybe the New York Jets does he want to be a jet do you want to be a jet do you want to put Laverneas calls on a series of double moves I just I don't see it that way so it's still very complex very confusing I'm not eliminating the Mac Jones portion of the equation but like I said atop the show it just feels like somebody has to be near the veteran minimum

35:57Mac Jones ain't near the veteran minimum but to get him you would trade somebody that is making a fair amount I would imagine so then that would come off it's just confusing and it just needs to end one thing I would do I would trade Jordan Addison for a player or a pick and I would sign Jalen Naylor as the two Jordan Addison has proven he is a problem off the field and he's going to want a giant bag bigger than what Naylor is going to get today trade Addison sign Naylor that that's a great talkback all right it's a great talkback at least for me you know to to from the opinion stating business doesn't mean it's right as my opinion Jordan Addison's better than Jalen Naylor all right he's a better player yeah so you don't have to worry about Jalen

36:59away from things the way you do Jordan and that comes with all due respect but it just has proven itself out over the years so now if you trade Jordan Addison and I think if he gets that fifth year option because it was a first round pick they decide that and may maybe yeah I think that's like $18 million that's a lot so like my man said there all right trade Jordan re up Naylor okay I'm cool if they do that but the team that would be trading for Jalen for Jordan Addison well they would have the same questions how much can I trust him how much are we going to have to pay do I got to do that fifth year option and do I have just whiting off the field right so that's it's not exactly the greatest bargaining position in which to be but but they're I mean Kyle Shanahan if he if he could fit it in that's the kind of guy that

38:00would move on Jordan Addison and you know it's it's would they move on Addison or be hesitant because they're just going through the IU Kayu Kayu Kayu because wow leaving the building good question I see they'll see Brandon Brandon got hurt well Brandon got weird and then Brandon got hurt and then Debo Samuel who from what I understand was kind of a big brother to Brandon IUK well then he left and then everything went pear shaped then they kick Brandon off the team but IUK unless I'm forgetting something I the off the field stuff sleeping in a car just just all of that I've just it's sleeping in a car IUK is mercurial yeah IUK can be enigmatic but I just don't know if like worrying about that kind of stuff with IUK is the situation for the 49ers it's probably I just in any team that the leverage or the bargaining position is just

39:01purely the capital I mean you could move you you know the same way the Cowboys are trying to figure out what the what the Packers couldn't getting the best out of Rashon Gary the team that makes the trade thinks that they can solve that problem that leads you down a road where you're trying to get rid of a problem but but that that mercurial or oddness to to just unpredictable nature of Jordan Addison that that's going to whatever you think that the reason what do you think you're going to get a second rounder or Jordan Addison right I don't I don't think you what the according to the tweet machine from the Minnesota Vikings ex-account oh Jalen Redmond the Vikings have tender Jalen Redmond's contact contract for 2026 nice Greg Peters Vikings dot com writes the Vikings Monday announced they have placed the exclusive rights free agent tender on Jalen Redmond the move is one of the easier decision for Minnesota brings Redmond back for 2026 with an eventual opportunity for a longer term deal Redman

40:06was deservedly dubbed at the defensive lines unsung hero in Vikings dot com's position recap in January the designation follows in plain nearly 800 defensive snaps at a 62 tackles six a quarterback hits 12 TFLs and a forest fumble couple of fumble recoveries five passes defense in 2025 I like that a lot about Jalen Redmond because Jalen he's not super tall but to get that amount of passes defense from a defensive lineman that's a fat number especially especially given his stature or or it's not like you know it's not like we're talking about Kyle I mean it's not like we're talking about a shorter defensive lineman running around but he's not as tall as some others just think big ticket Kevin Williams he ain't tall like that Kevin was elite at passes defense so Jalen Redmond back in the mix Eric Wilson back in the mix

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46:24a grand casino arena kevin faulness to hurt their zack halverson on the calls and coverage on the fan dandy ryan providing all the analysis terrific work by those guys to the pro team i was good times bad times over the weekend starting with the good for the minnesota wild in vegas get ahead make here bounce it along it's a two on one making a three on one terracenco dropped it back this purge and took a return pass pay scars Vladimir terracenco beach mid five hole and the wild with some insurance laid its for one minnesota and believe it was four to the final but uh on sunday a battling back even taking the lead at one point i think it was neco stern with a shorty it goes to a shootout and well mckinnon did his thing he's the mckinnon now another chance to win it for the whole town avalanche he's won for three on the season it'll pick up the puck darting in mckinnon right through the shoot slows the pace down and starts make the mckinnon wins it for colorado speed again jamming on the brakes

47:28snap the club side and the app survived the wild's third period push yeah they lose uh in the shootout and they still get the points of five of six points to the last three games you dig all that yeah uh now they come home for four straight cool chat you had with bruce budraw that'll be podcastable shortly after the show during the nine a.m. hour love hearing from the former wild coach in terms of how he sees this team but uh sadly with eighteen to go it's not it's not about being resigned to it but you can basically let's let's watch cool stuff let's go beat the mammoth and flyers this week etc but it's the stars it's the stars there's a couple against the stars little tune ups a little heat check maybe before that series the only thing really we don't know at this stage is whether we're headed to Dallas or their headed to Saint Paul for game one it feels like uh march 21st in april 8 those are the key dates saturday the 21st Dallas is here and uh the wild is are at Dallas april 8 for those tone setting games uh hinds these pk just off going 18 of 18 leading it for the uh men's Olympians

48:36it was fantastic yesterday i think colorado was on five power plays went over five not preferred uh to uh put McKinnon on on power plays we we all know that but nevertheless they got out of it alive and with budro and when you podcast this it one of the one of the one of many interesting answers from NH on that work and a former wild coach Bruce budro during the nine twenty today was the the tricking nature of getting new players specifically when you have a handful like the wild do getting integrating them with what already is good now nordo just said you know we uh the wild they come home to play charges mammoth tomorrow night box in the box Friday from trium where they do morning skates in Saint Paul that's thursday with the philly flyers in town but the five the five points out of six available they came against the Tampa Bay lightning

49:38with couture off vagus with ikel and colorado with McKinnon i mean that ain't nothing but good news right there and the wild absolutely can beat the colorado avalanche in a seven game series gotta get by Dallas first super tricky to the Minnesota timber walls a sleepy saturday at target center rolled that early lead still at a seven point lead midway through the second and then orlando they seem to two to close the first half and they just really have not stopped since pain that's to his total is that twenty six yeah Desmond Bain led the visiting orlando magic with 30 points on saturday polo been caro went for twenty five and you know outside of i mean the 34 you get from ant he came out dealing very early in the affair but other than that you got Julius rando with some struggles don't they all for six yeah from deep in that game it was out the lunch you you get to you get midway through the second quarter and it was like I don't think they have it

50:42today so still third spot in the west a lot of good things to look forward to but this time of year especially given you talked with with Chris Finch last week and the quote early on from him that I really liked and talking about consistency and things that he he found that they were finding their focus that there there was there was some urgency that he was seeing and in some really good recent games did not did not see that on saturday by any stretch of the imagination they give whooped one nineteen ninety two then they head out next up the lake show tomorrow yeah they're at the lakers tomorrow evening that's a late one on mbc I believe at lakers at clippers the next game they got golden state later in the week they come home next week I think there's a fourth one in that equation maybe on the road but like the wild we're in super deep stretch here a Desmond bane for my taste officially has become the Christian Kirk of the NBA because when the jack win um

51:42who signed Kirk Jaguars yeah the Jaguars signed Kirk to this massive free agent deal 18 or 20 a year yeah and I mean everybody from Minneapolis to Maui just chided the Jaguars for the move they made and he ended up living up to the hype and earning the money at least a year same with Desmond Bane I mean I think four first round picks might have been given up for him three or four and like everybody was teased in the magic just how dumb they were for doing what they did go ahead and watch him play this year I mean Bane with a resurgent Suggs a resurgent Anthony Black when he's healthy a bank hero has some star doing and they're without fron's Wagner right now who will come back before the end of the year so Orlando has gotten itself good and Bane has a lot to do with that where the focus was I can't believe how much he gave up for him all right let's play the games and see how it impacts the team it's it's helped them immensely well Bane's terrific

52:43I loved him when he was with the Grizzlies but it was kind of you're giving up that and then maybe at the time they thought there was a little more a little more potential with Cole Anthony they give up four unprotected first Cole Anthony your guy Contavia is called well Pope you love that and and it's working out for the magic you mentioned it they they are indeed a playoff squad and well Memphis is in the rebuild mode to the NFL you you hit on this earlier still waiting for 11 a.m. when the tampering period officially begins and we start seeing some some deals and some numbers and some some contracts being consummated but locally Rashon Gary goes to the Dallas Cowboys for a fourth round 2027 pick two years left on that deal salaries of 18 and 21 locally Ivan pace and Jalen Redman you mentioned that at the end of last segment both were signed to well Jalen was an exclusive tender not exclusive or a low tender for Ivan pace so the Vikings have the chance to match or refuse any offer sheet that pace gets from another team Eric Wilson gets

53:49three and 22 and a half 12 and a half of that's guaranteed look at us amateur capologists we are it's basically a two and 12 million dollar deal or two and 12 and a half for Eric Wilson so we absolutely nailed that Garrett Bradbury was traded to the bears over the weekend and now he'll be the the answer to Drew Dolman in the center of their particular moving company Conor McGovern four and 52 to stay in Buffalo to a tongue of ILOA released by the dolphins post June 1st not sure what that means but the dolphins are eating 99 million split over the next two how about this Ian Rappaport posted on X earlier this morning quote the Texans and stand out guard yeah adding room yeah have some creed the terms yeah on a three year thirty seven and a half really young out like keep taking that low hanging fruit on Ingraham while he keeps getting paid what stand out I mean it's yeah standouts ridiculous I didn't I didn't watch all of his games no no but here's the deal is teams that started in room win about 75% of the time and he has

54:54something to do with that so I'm not sitting here saying that Randall McGann you'll left the covenant here I'm just saying he's doing things better than what visually we can occasionally yeah well a fair amount see him getting pushed back into the backfield get some really rough moments in the playoff game the one in New England with Milton Williams opposite him but nevertheless it's either P.K. Barnum was right and a sucker is born every day or adding rooms better than people think yeah he had similar numbers to what he had his final year of Minnesota three hundred and some more snaps the season so really at the least maybe stabilized and more consistent maybe in his first year with Houston the ESPN NFL machine is all over Atlanta I'm investigating to a tongue of ILOA seeing that now too and um Daniel Opsky I mean it's 11 Dan it's new in your time 11 art I mean he's just sitting back waiting to go with collar Murray to the

55:56Minnesota Vikings so I don't know if that's I don't know if that's like the 11 a.m legal tampering oxymoron bit now but uh man um or loft skis opinion he's not breaking news guy but he just somehow he's just like convinced it's gonna happen and finally uh also on a Vikings no Ryan Kelly announced his retirement after 10 seasons over the weekend feels like in caution issues and not being able to get on the field that that kind of added up so he's hanging it up uh stinks to see someone's career end in regard to health related issues uh one year in Minnesota so we can't necessarily harken back to all the great memories of Ryan Kelly but best of luck in retirement yeah and from a financial perspective I believe it's eight or nine million dollars that will be uh uh available for the Vikings Ryan didn't get to know him super well last year but I got it I have two quick skull stories involving Ryan Kelly I'll never forget whoo first and foremost outside of the team hotel in Dublin I think that's when he got need in the

56:58head um I you know I don't like I'm not sitting there eaves dropping on every word of people's conversations I'm just telling you I left that hotel to go get something e he was having the most heartfelt conversation I believe with his wife and some family members you know about what had happened that day and it was just sad and I just like I knew something sad was transpiring right there secondly didn't do any of the dry buys after wins with Ryan Kelly until the end of the season then we did them like two consecutive games and he was so happy to talk about uh Brian O'Neal and Will Fry's and the career he's had and so thankful for the opportunity he was just cool man so unfortunate um unfortunate to have your career end on a note like that where you know unlike some others like Jack Greenway Harrison Smith probably so so on and so on you you you want to leave on your own terms can't imagine these are Ryan's terms but I think 10 years a decade

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