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today, no vowels The initials for game five oh three letters the letter N
and a letter T N T. Yell out your name, your name is
your buzzer. Pronounce the answer correctly. Here we go, Tom Pella,
Serol, Marty Geller, Mark Parrish Sauce in Hawk Game five oh three initials
NT let's go number one. Clue number one can be connected to an individual
or a group. Clue number two this involves a level of superiority. Clue
number three can be connected to arts and academics. Clue number four This is
an achievement and level of excellence. Clue number five this is one or earned
Clue Clue number six. College sports teams attempts to all times sauce was first
national title? That's right? Second back national title? Yeah way, I
want to go there. Whatever, Paul, your name's Paul, going for
the all time wins record if he just wins today. Paul leads game five
oh three one nothing right behind him right below. Here's number two of T.
Clue number one can be considered slightly informal. Clue number two connected to
rejection or refusal. Clue number three is a response huck yep, no thanks,
that's right, no thanks, wonder one? All right? Song has
one? Hawk has one. Here's number three of n T. Clue number
one is considered first initial primary. Clue number two is connected to regions or
communities. Tom yep native tongue, God Jesus native Tom. Every time Tom
he gets one or two where you're like, how do you? That was
the one already the native tongue that was crazy wow dot com Tom Tom Pello,
Serra, the NFL network on the board, he has one. Hawk
and Sauce have one as well. Here's number four of n T Clue number
one often connected to pressure. Clue number two is a person. Clue number
three, one of the words is a body part, mark, yep,
nose tackle, that's right position that sported. Of course he dies, Yeah,
I know it's basketball. See. Honestly, almost everybody today is phenomenal.
Almost look at me. I'm not. Everybody except for the goat Marns
has uh has one. Everybody else has one. Here's number five again.
Clue number one connected to the Austrian Empire. Clue number two connected to a
rock band from Sacramento, California. Clue number three connected to a twenty and
seventeen Benedict Cumberbatch historical drama. Clue number four born in eighteen fifty six,
died in nineteen forty three. Clue number five he has a two thousand and
six connection to David Bowie. Final clue Clue number six, iconic innovator and
inventor famous Mark oh Man. We're gonna need an insta replay on that one.
I think it was me. I don't think it was me. We
definitely need an int I can't believe they so long. Yeah, well,
good clues, Corey. You got a good pose that will pull it up
in a second. I feel like I definitely can an inventor famous Mark more
time that one. Yeh yeh yeh mm hmm yep, iconic innovator and inventor
famous Mark oh Man. You can barely hear me. I know, I
didn't even realize how hunk Paul's lou Paul went a second. I think Hawk
is second. I think it goes Paul Hawk and then Parish. Yeah,
I heard hawk, and I was definitely after him. All right, go
for it? Is it Nikola tesla? Dang? How nervous where all of
us that sauce was not gonna pronounce second nikola anyone? But still, I
mean they it ends in an a. I assume it's pronounced nikola, but
who knows either way. We're gonna go with that because that's exactly what's spelled
as well. Sauce. You're on the board with two time you should chump
more off and he's never this nice to Damn, I don't like to be.
I can't believe, I can't. I had no idea. Yeah,
that's the one I didn't get. Sacramento, California. Yeah, that's why
I'm mad. Yeah, Okay, they have some whalers, right bangers?
What you give? Alright? Uh? Sauce has two, Hawk Parish and
Tom Pelosi each have one. You gotta arney. Here's number six, number
six of NT clue number one wasn't first. Clue number two considered foundational.
Clue number three often studied Arnie New Testaments, the New Testament, and everybody's
on the board. All right, it'll slow today with with six items to
go, this is about as close as you can get without this album.
Sauce has two, everybody else has one. Here's number seven of n T
clue number one. Usually not a company your recollection. Clue number two,
most commonly connected to kids. Clue number three can feature thrashing mark Yeah,
night terrors, Oh wow, very pis. Parish ties the old game up
with night Terrors. Sauce has two, Parish has two, everybody else has.
Here's number eight of NT clue number one has value or significance. Clue
number two can sometimes be a person mark national treasures. That's right, that's
a national it's one of that's it. You wrote that one down. Maybe
you were sitting. Tell me I was, but wow, Parish Mark takes
the lead with four to go. Everybody's still mathematically in this, but he
got the last two of the Parish takes the lead with three. Sauce has
two, everybody else has one. Here's number nine of NT. Clue number
one can involve movement clue number. Clue number three features muscles or groups of
muscles. Clue number four can feature blinking. Clue number five. This is
involuntary Tom, Tom was first nervous, Tick nervous. You got a split
second on the first one. Tom got you by a split second on that
one. Ahead Twitch called You're on the right path, all right, everybody's
still in this. Let's go, Parish, you have three go here,
Tom calla Sera and Sauce just one back with two, and then Hawk and
Martin's absolutely still in this. With three to go, they each have one.
Here's number ten of NT. Clue number one connected to a Continental Army
General. Clue number two involves predators. Mark, Mark Nashville, Tennessee that
one, and if Parish is off, I can sneak that one by him
all day long. But he was waiting for it today. He didn't fall
forward today. Who all right? That mathematically eliminates talking Marning, But keep
playing. Here we go. Tom needs the last sauce. You need the
last two to force a tie. One of the two of you has to
run the table. Parish going for the win. Everybody else trying to help
out Mark, Here we go. Number eleven of n T clue number one,
not exclusively but often connected to red, white and black clue number two,
most commonly displayed in rectangular form, Clue number three. This involves a
lack of permission Hawk no trespassing. Mark wins. Nice job that we're outstanding.
The whole group was sick. Those were great. You guys were awesome.
All right, Mark locks up win number forty five. But just here's
number twelve of NT Clue number one can come in a variety of colors.
Clue number two often appear at conferences or events. Marnie ye name tag Mars.
That was freaking good too. Parrish got four. Everybody else got to
you guys. Job. That was fun. Corey. I liked those initials.
It's rare when all people were impressive. Yeah that was great. Only
somebody is bad, but all five of you were sick. That was outstanding,
even you, I mean you games in history ever I had to it
cannot have happened very often for everybody across the bordes. I don't know.
It's a good point, multiple correct an all five get on the board,
that's a good point. Somebody listening is going to their spreadsheet right now.
Well all over that probably there was somebody got you think that can clue that
native tongue? Native tongue? That was great. That was my mind.
Made a couple more of those. But that yea one in the middle like
that too, where I was like, wow, well when you have a
kid that had oh nose tackle maybe Yeah, that was That was a patch
by me. Yeah, I was. I was very exciting to get that
with all these football mines in here. Yeah, that was good. That
was good. Market sounds like we're just a couple of weeks away from having
you read a sponsor read but not today body today. But I'm excited to
have them back. Yeah, in the glory is that right? Yes?
All right, man? That was I was. That was. I still
can't believe how how long it took us to get Nickel a tesla like that.
That that that was said five minute instant replay, and I still was
going dictated nothing nothing, man. I actually had Nashville, Tennessee written down.
That and night Train the only two things I wrote down. And as
soon as you said predators, I was like, oh, here it is.
And on the second clue, Marns, I also, oddly enough had
night Train. I was sitting on that one too. Real. Yeah,
we were a lot of yeah, man, Mars between Tuesday and last night.
Was it worth coming in twice this week? An hour and a half
asleep? Well, I thought I'd be a little more loopy today, but
I'm crazy the other day day this was? This was a week you were
you were firing some boys. Yeah, you don't normally fire on Tuesday,
groggy, Yeah, weird? All right? How you feel? Tom?
All right? Could have been better? Yeah? You know, I'll always
have a native tongue. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was waiting on
nipple twist. Yeah. I was going to ring it and say nasty tea
words. If the clue had been me breakers for next time. Man,
all right, so there you go. Now we transition away from the initials
and back to dot com Tom, because we don't always need to have you
here, buddy. So what's next for you? I know Marn's got the
All Star breaks, so she's got like a week off, no Wolves for
a week or so. But what happens post Super Bowl In the world of
an NFL reporter, give me your next handful of months next week and a
half. I'm here geting ready for free agency and whatnot. Combine leave for
that next Sunday. That's Indianapolis for a week, then one more week prior
to free agency. Free agency moves extremely fast. It will be dominated by
trades this year because there's not a ton of like A level names that are
free agents. And then after you get past like Thursday of free agency week,
it's kind of, you know, calms down a little bit. Here.
There's always some stragglers. There's always a handful of veteran players who are
either going to be traded or cut, and so you're dealing with those while
you're on a beach somewhere in June. But yeah, I get through free
agency owners meetings end of March. Draft is end of April in Detroit.
Can't wait for that. And then yeah, then it's a fun time.
A couple of questions outside the realm of the vikings, Ay, were you
surprised that Belichick didn't get hired. I was only surprised because it was so
far down the line with the Falcons in terms of, you know, talking
to Arthur Blank regularly. He was doing a lot of research, really getting
ready to set up the program, and then you know, the rug got
pulled out. The Falcons just you know, they did their background like everybody
else on Belichick, and you know what happened in New England. And I
think that it's complicated when you're talking about hiring a seventy two year old who
you know, everybody reduced it to power. It's not about power, it's
about Bill. Belichick has set things up to win the same way since like
nineteen ninety one in Cleveland. It's always going to be this how you structure
it. We're not going to have a true GM. It's going to be
these are the parts that are going to need to be in place operationally.
This is how we work. And you're buying into that we're going to blow
up everything we know about ran an NFL franchise on the football side for like
two to three years. Like, it's a hard proposition for teams to get
their head around. So there was really only one team that you know,
rose up here for Belichick, and obviously the Falcons didn't ultimately hire and they
went with Raheem Morris instead. I do believe Bill Belichick will be somewhere in
the NFL in twenty twenty five, and that'll be one of the you know,
driving storylines of this entire season. Hard question perhaps for you to answer,
knowing what you do for a living. How is not giving you betting
vice hawk? I thought we covered that the first two hours. I like
my satin sheets. Oh how well betting? Oh oh, I'm sorry.
Around the league, satin sheet, stop on that for a second. I
like to be able to slide out of bed in the summer. Don't they
just kind of like stick to your body. That's a great feeling. Uh
yeah, I like to feel like a subway sandwich man. That's not the
sheets fault. I'm gonna miss that next week. It's been great this week
around the league. How is quasi perceived if you know and are willing to
answer. I think that. I mean, people don't know Quays as well
as they do other gms just because of you know, his background, and
then two years is not a lot of time to judge a general manager off
of we know that he's aggressive. I mean, I think that's the number
one thing in terms of you know, trades and not being scared to deal
within the division. You know, the Hawkinson trade or the draft trade that
Brad Jamison Williams to Detroit. So you know, he's part of kinda and
if he hears me say this, he'll be annoyed. But like the new
wave of gms where you're you're just kind of approaching things from more of an
analytics standpoint as opposed to appear scouting standpoint, this is a huge offseason.
I think that this is you know, again, you don't want to judge
a GM off of two three years or one offseason, but this is we're
talking about the quarterback, the superstar receiver, your best player, and a
top pass rusher that's about as big as it gets. And you're also constantly
walking this line of the wolfs never want to go full tear down they always
want to try to compete while they're building, and you know they've talked about
the competitive rebuild. This is this is as big as it gets. It's
gonna be interesting to see how it plays out. Do you guys mind if
I keep going people like John Clayton. Let's just say John Clayton. Okay,
when I think of the NFL, I think of John Clayton. He's
been doing essentially the same job for a very long time. Is this a
dream job? And can you see yourself doing this for the rest of your
life? Well, first of all, when John died last year, that
was like gutting to me because he's like one of the great guys in the
industry and somebody who when you're a young reporter coming up, would always be
the one to like. You know, he'd interact with anyone had no ego
to him. That sucked, you know, hearing that he had passed away.
But yeah, I mean, you know, his job, Like I
stor remember running to John in like the Marriott restaurant bar after a forty nine
Ers game that was at night, so it's like one in the morning and
he's in there with stacks of papers. I'm not joking you like six inch
stack of papers with every team's salary cap. It was going through individually,
updating every player. He was tracking the cap himself, which you know,
obviously there's like programs, websites and things for that. But John was so
into the work aspect of it, and he loved to have like granular conversations
about roster building and the cap and players. You know, he was super
into it with loved it. He'd absolutely you know, that was his make
that and his wife were you know, that was that was his life.
And yeah, I mean for me, I think I do a lot of
different stuff, Like we did the Insider Show this year, and I'm optimistic
that's going to be returning in the future. You never know when the sunset
your show at the end of the season, how that's going to come back.
But that was super fun. You know, I love doing the hosting
aspect of it, and you know, the news stuff definitely wears you out.
Hawk I'll say that, like the you got to have a certain level
of, as Pete Carol would put a competitive stamina of. You have good
days and bad days. Some days you miss the scoops, some days you're
on a roll. And you have to be willing to like ride that roller
coaster. There's other people who are really good at this job too, So
if there are any ever anything that drove me away from it, it would
be just like not wanting to, you know, be at a kid's birthday
party and having some trade break and wanting to, you know, crawl into
a hole. That part's not fun, but like the winning part of it's
a lot of fun. So that's you know, It's kind of like being
an NFL coach. He went eleven games, You probably had a pretty good
season, but still you lost six and you got washed out in the division
round. You're not on top. The difference is there is no super Bowl
title. Nobody hid into a trophy because you were the best reporter that year.
You just kind of have to go, like, I think I was
pretty good and then move on with your life. Some people have to be
extremely happy just getting into the first round. Right, how dare you?
I know, I just wanted to see if you had checked out? Next
question, how much money do you make? I couldn't think of anything else
to ask. I'm sorry, I was not a question I remember wrong,
Lay, Let's ask it differently. Was Clayton driving a Lamborghaine. Clayton was
so I know, there's like, you know, the Slayer ad that everybody
has seen, one of the classics of all time. He did not.
In fact, you know, my I knew John pretty well to my knowledge,
never had a ponytail, certainly not like a full on mullet thing down
his back. Now. He was like a you know, a pretty I
won't say he's a normal guy because he was an ab norm He's a quirky
guy. But he was like very positive and you know, I love to
talk about a lot of different stuff, like yeah, would you know,
invite me to lunch and it would be like just your standard run of the
mill like sports bar. Like that was John, no one of us.
They were not pretentious or anything. He was great. It makes me on
on a serious level of the salary question. Though you're income fluctuate. Though
you just said you had a show and then it got sunseted, but you
have other jobs. You're not just a salaried employee of NFL network. I
have a contract that I get paid a certain amount to do whatever they tell
me to do at that time. Really, like you're hosting a show or
you're not, and that you don't get paid extra for that. I think
that my salary on the contract negotiated last year to go really deep in the
weeds on a question I was not anticipating answer for my name. It's based
on the idea that I would be hosting that show. Oh, got it,
got it? Got it? Another phone? What's what's your old phone
number? Can we call the sieve? Great Annie or bit? Let's call
her old number? Say the same number. Then she texted me saying,
Hey, I got the new phone. I'm like, who is this?
Yeah? Yeah, I'm so happy for that. You're the best. It's
the best. Yeah, I'm so happy to see you. Sure have me,
guess I appreciate that. Thank you very much. Glad to be here,
glad to let Parish get a win. I appreciate you back. I
hope to return during the off season. Here, let's do it. I
gotta get back on the w show. Only Paul Rudd only knows one of
us. That's pretty cool in itself. Betty knows Parish. He probably does,
yeah, and he probably watches Marnie on NBA TV and stuff when she's
on there. So nobody watches that. No, oh, just checking up
your pantents. Congrats Parish, nice win Mars. We'll see you next week.
Yeah yeah, yeah, all right thanks to dot com Tom, Tom
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