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And it's Thursday, which means Sage Football Wisdom, our journeyman quarterback friend, Sage Rosenfell's, Vikings quarterback in 2009 and part of 2010 before Brad Childress awkwardly walked up to him and told him, no, you're not going to be here anymore.

Sage, what does the Vikings the that's not what he said

to me what did he say he said you know now we brett's come back a second year what would you

like to do for next for for this year oh he gave me a choice like would you ask to trade you

or cut you do you want to stay here like what would you like to do and And I said to him, I would love to stay here again, make another run at this thing. My kids love the school, love the area. I really enjoyed last year. I'd, you know, be happy to be Brett's, you know, backup. And I got traded like within days after that. That's what I happened. He misheard you.

He said trade me right bleeping now and he said, no, I love it here.

I promise he did not call me either.

That was Rick Spielman who called me and traded me.

A man of his word, yes.

It is what it is.

It is what it is, which is the opposite of one of my other former coaches who I left to come up to Minnesota,

of what Mike Zimmer said about him yesterday in that press conference that obviously, I think,

has been some news with the Vikings that's different than the players, that this coach,

who's not even really

a coach in a sense right he doesn't have a exact job per se uh but it seems like his influence and

kevin stifansky's play calling and however they put it together up there uh seems to be winning some

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