You're going to be. So for those just joining the reason I'm in the Las Vegas hotel room is I am here in Las Vegas to promote my book. So I have been going on a bunch of radio

stations at Radio Row. I'm sorry to disappoint some of you that I'm not doing the

show from Radio Row, but they actually shut it down by the time that we were going to do the show.

So it's not like open right now and I wouldn't have been able to do it.

But there's some, I'm trying to post some pictures on

Twitter and some of my appearances and stuff like that but actually the

Wi-Fi where I am in my hotel in Circa is quite a bit better than it is at the radio row, so it's probably easier to actually

stream this to you guys here. Anyway, well, I'm really happy that we have such a huge

crowd for the show tonight. Start off by just talking about how a lot of the

interviews that I did, of course the Kirk Cousins situation would come up for all of them.

And I didn't run into anybody in a half a dozen or more NFL cities that thought it was a good idea for the Vikings to bring back

Kirk Cousins and it just made me think yeah okay no one's no one's gonna think we're

nuts for not bringing him back and most of the comments I got were hey Kirk's a pretty

likable guy right is that true like yeah I guess so he was our media good guy of the

year and has endeared himself to this team but I was also thinking when people were asking me about that,

especially in New England,

because I don't think he's a great fit for the Boston market.

But it just, it sort of struck me that would this even be a discussion if cousins had not turned around his public perception and he did it through legitimate leadership in the locker room which he was empowered to do and had a good relationship

with Kevin O'Connell so it wasn't like something that was made up but he made his public

perception quite a bit different over the last year and a half two years or I guess year and a half worth of football games.

If it had been like at the end of 2021, there would have been no discussion about this as far as him coming back I think I think it would have entirely just been like all right onto the next quarterback

So I'm back a ways in the chat, but I'm going to work my way through for a little while longer.

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