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Is it a big deal that the Vikings GM took two weeks of paternity leave during training camp?

It's being scrutinized in the wake of his release as the GM of the Minnesota Vikings.

800636-1067 is the number. All right, let's bang out some of these calls here. Let's go to our guy Mark in Largo. Mark, what's up, buddy? Hey, what's up, guys? Hey, Mark. That's a BS excuse. And I'm going to tell you why. What do you mean? Well, it's a business excuse to fire him.

First of all, you should have did it a month ago. That's the way you felt. They didn't fire him for that. They're just kind of kicking him on the way out. They're kicking him on the way out. Okay. He's had a good, the man has had a good GM record, okay? and when you have a good GM record,

you're trying to validate.

If you didn't want to work,

if you're going to say he was a pain in the butt to work with, say that. Just say it. Just say he was a pain in the butt to work with. Get on fraternity leave. Man, you're going to have all these feminist females come up and start saying, so what are you saying? Him doing a couple of, man. We don't need that right now. Who cares? Just say if you didn't like him or if he was a jerk to work with him, say that. No, Kate's right. It's because they drafted JJ. It didn't work out. They got, you know, let Sam walk. And that brings me to another point. And that brings me to another point. I think Kevin O'Connell is in more trouble than what people give him credit for.

Because Big E.M. is not going to do everything without Kevin O'Connell saying, okay, let's go ahead and do it.

Okay, let's go ahead and do it.

Okay, let's go ahead and do it.

Because if everybody can remember correctly, after Minnesota won that big game last year, I think it was against Green Bay in 24.

Everybody was parading Sam O'Donnell.

Kevin O'Connell was sitting on the side like he didn't want to be a part of it.

I don't know that that's true.

I think they wanted him, but they didn't want to give him the big, big bucks.

No, no, here's what I heard. We had Scott Turner on last week. And Scott said on his show that Minnesota offered him the same amount of money that Seattle did. He offered him the same amount. But he wasn't stupid. He knew they drafted Donald and eventually. Draft to McCarthy. Yeah, McCarthy.

Then he knew eventually they were going to have to play him. So he preferred Seattle. He preferred Seattle because he said, I could go there. I'm still young enough. I could play eight or ten years and be the guy. Here, I'm always going to be looking over my shoulder, waiting for them to shove the first round picket. Right. Anytime he struggles, he knew that... In Minnesota's defense, they did offer him, according to Scott, the same amount of money.

Here's a couple of people that have tweeted us from David.

If you're making millions of dollars a year doing one of 32 jobs like that in the world,

you're expected to work crazy hours and sacrifice some family time.

Work a 60 to 80K year job and no one will care.

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