and Hello welcome to an emergency purple insider podcast Matthew collar here and joining me a man who is available and excited to talk for an emergency

Podcast from the Pioneer Press jace Frederick jace um you know it's the Royal Rumble is on a lot of people are watching that as we record this it is a Saturday night and I just want to say how much I respect you and

Appreciate you for saying yes like you may cover the timber wolves a lot of the time but you are a

football guy at heart for saying yes let's talk Jim Harball interviewing with

the Minnesota Vikings what is up man I didn't realize the Royal Rumble is on. I'm going to have to dip out.

Thanks for having me on this first two minutes here. But no, they always say the best

availability, I mean the best ability, wow I watch that, the best ability is availability. So that's what I'm bringing to the table here.

Right they didn't say that you have to be able to say the best ability is no no no no

to be available well let's get right into this. I mean so when Jim Harbaw's name was floated because of his

connection with Quasi Adafel mensa my first instinct was to be like, nah, come on.

Like it wasn't even really something that I consider.

Because our perception when they moved on for Mike Zimmer

was, you're going to go with someone young, someone new, someone

fresh, someone that has ideas with analytics and everything else that can get on the same page

with Quasi Adafel Mensa and that those two can grow together like when you hear

Demico Ryan's or you hear Kevin O'Connell you think like yeah that's right

inexperienced people and they could sort of find their way in this world as they build a roster together.

If you hire Jim Harbaw, your franchise is now named the Jim Harbaw Vikings.

Like he becomes the face, the decision maker. the which doesn't mean that that will not win games because it certainly did before in San Francisco, but I'm just surprised because that would be even a consideration for them.

Do you agree with that?

I think the one thing when we talk about like,

oh, you got to go a different direction than Mike Zimmer,

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