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Speaker 2: Now a four man rush McCarthy to the end zone and.

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Speaker 3: Yes, John and.

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Speaker 4: Listen, just a n at a time and we're tied.

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Speaker 2: Cat sixteen peas JJ McCarthy. Well done.

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Speaker 5: Riker kicking it to the east side of the US

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Speaker 5: his own three He's right, five ten, fifteen twenty.

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Speaker 2: It's a knife block from Blackwell. Eric Wlison trying to

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Speaker 4: With Bill Record and just blockwell, make that Devin DuVernay

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Speaker 4: out of bounds, deepened Viking's territory. Devin DuVernay with a

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Speaker 6: to noon. And you know off the YouTube depth chart

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Speaker 6: and that was really really cool that you did that.

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Speaker 2: I really enjoyed that.

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Speaker 6: As yesterday's game unfolded, mister analyst, how much on said

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Speaker 6: chart was telling the story of the game we were calling.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think quite a bit of it.

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Speaker 7: I Mean, the Bears in their story on defense continued

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Speaker 7: I mean, we the opportunities that this offense had and

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Speaker 2: Of this football game.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, but yeah, it would have it would have looked

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Speaker 7: giving up a lot of yards six point three play

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Speaker 7: And then offensively, you know, they're the one drive, the

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Speaker 7: In that regard, and I don't think in that you know,

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Speaker 6: They're there, you know in most games, but specifically Vikings

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Speaker 6: Yesterday, the Chicago Bears, like Pete said, were plus fourteen

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Speaker 6: The Bears won that category and they won the game.

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Speaker 6: the turnovers. Yesterday, they lost the turnover battle again and

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Speaker 2: It's yeah, you definitely, It's like anything.

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Speaker 7: We want to dig deeply and find out the problem

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Speaker 2: You guys are professionals.

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Speaker 7: It should this is that should be expected of you,

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Speaker 7: We got to fix this one. I mean, what do

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Speaker 6: Okay, now, offensively, too many gibs, we know that. But

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Speaker 7: Your thoughts, I think a lot of that has to

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Speaker 9: I don't think, Hey, p I thought I was going

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Speaker 7: He didn't get pressured immediately very often. It wasn't as

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Speaker 9: This isn't the first time we've seen it, Pete. During

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Speaker 7: And to your point, Paul, it doesn't take much to

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Speaker 7: That's what training camp used to be. You beat yourself

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a good way to put it, getting the

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Speaker 6: We'll go to We'll go to Appleton hang Out, one

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Speaker 2: I love calling games at the Lambeau Field, being on

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Speaker 6: The place is the bomb. So see you this weekend.

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Speaker 6: We'll see what happens.

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Speaker 2: Right, all right? Sounds good? Man.

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Speaker 10: Talking about the party. Yes he's young, Yes he's played

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Speaker 6: Right, you're right, but that's a choice to be made

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Speaker 6: Noon has shared for many, many years, not just involving

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Speaker 6: But I don't recall the coach saying we're shrinking the playbook.

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Speaker 6: you fast forward six, seven, eight years whatever it is

438
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Speaker 6: he did, what how do you do that?

439
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Speaker 2: Holy cow? Wow? He got a what kind.

440
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Speaker 4: Of a deal?

441
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Speaker 2: Geez wow?

442
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Speaker 6: That's kind of Donald and McCarthy are a little analogous

443
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Speaker 6: here through you know, hopefully without the handling of the

444
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Speaker 6: big games later in life. But there's something analogous here

445
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Speaker 6: that I'm kind of tripping on.

446
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Speaker 9: Well, I would actually say, I mean, I think JJ,

447
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,680
Speaker 9: albeit sadly it's ended up with more losses than wins.

448
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:50,479
Speaker 9: He's actually proved himself in the biggest moments. He decides

449
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Speaker 9: to show up.

450
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but he's doing so with Christian Darisaw, Justin Jefferson

451
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Speaker 6: and Jordan Addison and O'Connell, Colley plays Darnald didn't have

452
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Speaker 6: any of that, So I don't know how analogous it

453
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Speaker 6: is to Darnold's first five with that Jets operation compared

454
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Speaker 6: to the first five here. But there's something, there's something here.

455
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Speaker 6: But you know what I mean, going shipping all in

456
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Speaker 6: five starts into this or leaving and supposedly never coming back,

457
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Speaker 6: even though you'll listen to and or watch the next one.

458
00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 6: But that's fine because you know that's that's what fans do.

459
00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:32,240
Speaker 6: That's what I do. Getting frustrated at something. It I

460
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Speaker 6: forgot what I was going to say, Go ahead, Well.

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Speaker 9: I just I just think there's two things that work here.

462
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Speaker 9: Because you heard it in that talkback. I've seen a

463
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Speaker 9: couple of text messages about it too. Kind of the

464
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:43,919
Speaker 9: idea again, when you move on, you have a roster

465
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Speaker 9: on paper that you believe is built to win. Now

466
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Speaker 9: it may or may not be again using some words

467
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Speaker 9: that are lawski through throughout there, a quarterback independent.

468
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Speaker 6: When you say you, you mean it's a roster. You

469
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Speaker 6: the Minnesota Vikings believe good and can win now can contend.

470
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Viking's not bad. The Viking.

471
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Speaker 9: I'm with you, right, So when when the Vikings set

472
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Speaker 9: that expectation, which you appreciate and respect. They did despite

473
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Speaker 9: the flop in Detroit in the wild card game. They

474
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Speaker 9: did win fourteen games last year. They got some nice

475
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Speaker 9: players on the team, they got some nice coaching.

476
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Speaker 2: We like that.

477
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Speaker 9: We liked the head coach in particular, he's Coach of

478
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Speaker 9: the Year and everyone celebrated wishing that twenty twenty five

479
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 9: would be better. But you have that roster, you invest

480
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Speaker 9: in it the way you do, and I think that

481
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Speaker 9: sets expectations.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So to.

483
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Speaker 9: Your point, nothing has gone right or at least maybe

484
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Speaker 9: according to plan for the most part. But the other

485
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Speaker 9: end of this too, we've been begging the team to

486
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Speaker 9: draft a QB for two plus decades. Well, I'm glad

487
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Speaker 9: you're going down that road because because I think I

488
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Speaker 9: think there's an element of the uncharted here for and

489
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Speaker 9: they did it with Ponder, they did it with Bridgewater,

490
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Speaker 9: but to sadly to no avail Ponder ineptitude Bridgewater, I mean,

491
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Speaker 9: the injury would you have ever ascended It is hard

492
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Speaker 9: to say. We just remember a sad day off in

493
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Speaker 9: August after the great NFC North Debate. Some things changed

494
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Speaker 9: that brought us Sam Bradford in and it was a

495
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Speaker 9: disaster from there altered the course of Teddy's career. We've

496
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Speaker 9: been begging for this and now it's here. Yeah, And

497
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Speaker 9: I just I think there's an uncharted nature to it.

498
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Speaker 9: It need that the coach said that we had a

499
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Speaker 9: good roster. The coach won us, the team won us

500
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Speaker 9: fourteen games. What are we bleeping around with this for it?

501
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Speaker 9: This is a disaster. This is awful, and I think

502
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Speaker 9: there's some impatience there.

503
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Speaker 6: Well, right, And what I was going to say with

504
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Speaker 6: those shipping all in through five or those lead you know,

505
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Speaker 6: going to Richard Sherman on it and bailing and daggering

506
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Speaker 6: an opinion. Yeah, No, you're wrong. Patients are not required.

507
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Speaker 6: This is how it would sound, okay if somebody were

508
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Speaker 6: to talk it out, not tweet it out. No, Paul

509
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Speaker 6: and Nordo, you're wrong. Skipping the steps means nothing. And

510
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Speaker 6: I'm telling you now that I know enough from what

511
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Speaker 6: I've seen, and he does not belong as a starter

512
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Speaker 6: in the NFL or It's what has fairly been said

513
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Speaker 6: while playing the averages over the course of time, but

514
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Speaker 6: specifically the last twenty to thirty years, with through five games,

515
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Speaker 6: ABCDEFG hij we you know, just everything we've talked about. However,

516
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Speaker 6: the conclusive nature of the bailing or bragging loudly is

517
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Speaker 6: analogous to twenty twenty five. It's analogous to all in

518
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Speaker 6: or all out. Oh yeah, and it's loud, and you

519
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:47,120
Speaker 6: either got to be on one side or the.

520
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Speaker 9: Other while sitting on the fence. Doesn't make anybody any money.

521
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Speaker 2: There we go.

522
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Speaker 6: But it's louder now really than it has been in

523
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Speaker 6: a large portion of my life.

524
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Speaker 2: And I'm fifty nine years old.

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Speaker 6: Tell me I'm wrong, six four six eight, tell me

526
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 6: I'm wrong, talkbacks, whatever. It's just everything's loud. Politics would

527
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:09,920
Speaker 6: be the a topic. But everything's so loud that why

528
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:10,920
Speaker 6: wouldn't this be loud?

529
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 2: People care? You know, people care and they get loud, right.

530
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Speaker 2: I just think I think the team set a bar.

531
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Speaker 9: We've been waiting for a long time to draft somebody

532
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Speaker 9: top ten, highly touted quarterback, whisper the whole thing deep

533
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Speaker 9: quarterback draft, sweet roster yep andj The way Jefferson and

534
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Speaker 9: the way that this thing has gone, I just think

535
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 9: has been to choose your own adventure. Every single page

536
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:40,400
Speaker 9: you turned to you are falling off a cliff. That's

537
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,640
Speaker 9: what it feels like this particular season.

538
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Speaker 6: But yes, I mean I think we're in the first chapter,

539
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,159
Speaker 6: say place thirteen years. We're in the first chapter of

540
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 6: a thirteen chapter book, and I've already died four times, right,

541
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Speaker 6: But I mean, clearly there's some form of resurrection that's

542
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,160
Speaker 6: going to transpire during the course of this or some

543
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 6: form of coming back to like because.

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Speaker 2: He will be back to life next week, that is correct. Yes,

545
00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 2: you know what it will be more games.

546
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Speaker 6: It's the Minnesota Vikings, Daniel Jones off to the side.

547
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Speaker 6: And I don't believe Jones would have come back here

548
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Speaker 6: with a not just with the competing for the starting job,

549
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Speaker 6: no matter if you beat the Cold Steel or not.

550
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Speaker 2: I don't.

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Speaker 6: In fact, I feel comfortable that he would not have

552
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:23,240
Speaker 6: come back even for five more million dollars to compete.

553
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:27,120
Speaker 6: He was basically given the job in Indianapolis, and it's

554
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 6: working good for him. You bring Darnold back, you give

555
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 6: him a one hundred million dollar contract. I can't possibly

556
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:37,920
Speaker 6: tell you how loud it would be. Why did you

557
00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 6: draft this guy? How long do we have to wait?

558
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 6: Why'd you do that? Why'd you waste that pick. Didn't

559
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 6: you see the Rams game? Didn't you see the Lions game?

560
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 6: It's going to be freaking loud no matter what happens

561
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 6: that somebody doesn't want it to go that way. So

562
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Speaker 6: that's yeah, it's after the Lions game. I mean aut

563
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 6: almost rather play ten on eleven, quite honestly. And that's

564
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 6: not to short change the skill set of this comeback story.

565
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 6: It's a fantastic comeback story. It's personally speaking, and we all,

566
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Speaker 6: you know, since since we all get our own personal

567
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 6: proclivities that we share in the microphones via six four

568
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Speaker 6: six eighty six, social media or talkbacks, well I'll get

569
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 6: mine too, And that night at Detroit is one professionally

570
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 6: I will never forget the rest of my life. Okay,

571
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 6: So it's with farv in nine another one like that. Yeah,

572
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 6: I'm never gonna forget that. But you know what, he

573
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 6: had done a lot for a lot of people for

574
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Speaker 6: a lot of years before that. So that's being pissed off,

575
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 6: can't wait to see you next year. The other one

576
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:53,800
Speaker 6: is being pissed off. You are who everybody said you were,

577
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 6: and it happened to be at the biggest of the

578
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Speaker 6: big ever to big and that's it.

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Speaker 2: I'll never forget it.

580
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Speaker 6: And you know what, if I own this football team

581
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Speaker 6: and you bring him back his quarterback talking about Sam Darnold,

582
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 6: here's the deal. I'll pay the money because I see

583
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Speaker 6: what you're saying and it probably will be better in

584
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:14,680
Speaker 6: the second year within the system. But if we get

585
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 6: to a big spot and he does that again, you're fired.

586
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 6: So make the choice. What do you want to do?

587
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 6: You want to bring him back and roll the dice

588
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Speaker 6: or do you want to move on to the kid.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that happen, because it didn't. But that's

591
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Speaker 2: how I.

592
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Speaker 6: Look at it, is that one's carred so badly that

593
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 6: you'll pay the money because you think it's best. And

594
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 6: I believe in you, man, that's why I hired you.

595
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Speaker 6: But if that same situation happens again in the biggest

596
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Speaker 6: of the big effort to big, you're fired. Which way

597
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Speaker 6: you want to go? Brother, It's nine to noon. PJ

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Speaker 6: Flack is next Sky. Thank you, Ma f M one

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Speaker 6: hundred point three kfan. Thanks for listening to nine to

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Speaker 6: noon when you do and around this time each and

601
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Speaker 6: every week.

602
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Speaker 2: PJ. Fleck, coach of the Golden Gophers football.

603
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Speaker 6: Team joins us likewise for former Gophers basketball player Parker Fox,

604
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Speaker 6: who sticks around until about eleven thirty. Parker Fox is

605
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Speaker 6: a in studio now to chat with a PJ. Fleck,

606
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Speaker 6: who joins US now from Chicago because his Gophers have

607
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:27,719
Speaker 6: a game this weekend against Northwestern at Wrigley Field.

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Speaker 2: A good morning, PJ.

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Speaker 6: And I would imagine, you know, being a Chicago land native,

610
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Speaker 6: you probably have spent some time watching baseball at Wrigley Field?

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Speaker 2: Is that accurate? And good morning?

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Speaker 3: Good morning Pa and Parker. Yeah, absolutely, I mean I

613
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Speaker 3: was at the game. We had a high school field

614
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Speaker 3: trip that we took and I was at the game

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Speaker 3: whe kerry Wood through twenty strikeouts where it started out

616
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Speaker 3: beautiful day started rating. Everybody left and we had some

617
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Speaker 3: bad seats, you know, I mean Caitlin High School. We

618
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Speaker 3: probably didn't get box seats. But by the time the

619
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Speaker 3: game was over here in the boxes, man, we were

620
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Speaker 3: right down there by the dugout. We had a blast,

621
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Speaker 3: and just so many great memories being around Wrigley and

622
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Speaker 3: especially even college, not even going into the game, but

623
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Speaker 3: driving out to Rigley for a game, being at the

624
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Speaker 3: Cubby Bear and kind of being around. So a lot

625
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Speaker 3: of great memories. And I know, you know, we play

626
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 3: a really good football team coming up at Rigby Field

627
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Speaker 3: in Northwestern and then we're gonna have to be at

628
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Speaker 3: our best.

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Speaker 6: So that so that would that would be the time

630
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Speaker 6: you said carry would So is that Mark Pryor time also.

631
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Speaker 3: Right around that same time? Yeah?

632
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Speaker 6: So it's Ryan Sandberg, Mark Gray, Sean Dunstan, Jerome Walton,

633
00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:41,480
Speaker 6: all those guys, right.

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Speaker 3: All of them. It's fantastic.

635
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

636
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Speaker 3: Oh wow, tremendous time to be a Cubs fan.

637
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Speaker 6: Did you ever watch Harry Carey call Cubs games on TV?

638
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 3: Yeah?

639
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Speaker 6: Pa, Yeah, okay, Well since you did an impression, may

640
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Speaker 6: I do an impression for you of Harry Carey calling

641
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Speaker 6: the double playball on TV?

642
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Speaker 3: Oh I would love it.

643
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 2: Here we go three too, double playball? Samberg.

644
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Speaker 4: Hey, he doesn't say like.

645
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Speaker 6: Second to first out out, He just goes.

646
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Speaker 3: Hey, he was went straight to the right to the

647
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Speaker 3: results man. Harry was the best man. He go right

648
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Speaker 3: to the result.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's iconic.

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Speaker 6: So with regular field, like how do they construct the

651
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Speaker 6: football field? How close is it to the stands? And

652
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 6: like a field conditions, all that intel.

653
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Speaker 2: And all that work that you do before a game.

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Speaker 2: What do you think.

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00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, end zones are really one side, kind of like

656
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 3: right center field when you kind of look at it

657
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 3: and they bring it all the way from the left

658
00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:47,640
Speaker 3: from all the way down, and then the third base

659
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 3: line is kind of the other end zone and they

660
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:52,959
Speaker 3: kind of smash it in there a little bit. You know,

661
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:54,880
Speaker 3: some of the corners are really tight and up to

662
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 3: the ivy. But that's what makes Brigny Field Brigley Field.

663
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 3: The IVY is gonna come into you might come into

664
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 3: play a little bit during game day, so it's just

665
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 3: it's it's part of that. But they've done a really

666
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 3: good job of evolving when they started playing it riddy

667
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 3: because both teams had to be on the same side

668
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 3: at one point, uh if I remember that correctly, And

669
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 3: now they you know, we have normal setups, which I

670
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 3: think they've done a better job of creating more of

671
00:34:18,440 --> 00:34:22,600
Speaker 3: a realistic game day atmosphere for coaches and players when

672
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 3: you have split sidelines before as well.

673
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 2: Keep on, I'm sorry, Well, no, you're fine. That's that's

674
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 2: my bad.

675
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 6: I was the human clipping penalty, not you. When uh,

676
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:34,040
Speaker 6: when did you guys play at Yankee Stadium just a

677
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:34,719
Speaker 6: few years ago.

678
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, a few years ago. Yeah, we were we

679
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:42,320
Speaker 3: played uh uh Syracuse uh in the uh in the

680
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,240
Speaker 3: pinstrikele does it that's play movable?

681
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,000
Speaker 6: I should say so when you play at stadiums or

682
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 6: ballparks like that, uh part, at least for part of it,

683
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 6: the stands, the crowd they're they're super far away from

684
00:34:56,280 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 6: the action, where like when you play at Huntington Banks

685
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:03,400
Speaker 6: Stadium or say Foalsome Field in Boulder, Colorado, where the

686
00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,839
Speaker 6: stands are the closest to the teams on the sideline

687
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 6: I've ever seen in my life. Is does that in

688
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 6: any way impact the game when the fans aren't that

689
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:13,799
Speaker 6: close to the team.

690
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 3: I don't think so. I think atmospheres or atmospheres, everybody

691
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,959
Speaker 3: has a little bit of a different atmosphere. We've played

692
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 3: in multiple baseball stadiums over the years, maybe not this

693
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,399
Speaker 3: particular team, but we played in multiple baseball stadiums, whether

694
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 3: it was the Diamondbacks when we were out in Arizona,

695
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 3: or whether it was again Yankee Stadium, and so we've

696
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,279
Speaker 3: done it before at a lot of different venues, and

697
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,320
Speaker 3: it creates a different environment than its own, and especially

698
00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 3: in its own way, and I think our guys will

699
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:40,839
Speaker 3: definitely appreciate that aspect of it.

700
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,000
Speaker 8: Coach grat you be back with you, Parker Fox here, Darius

701
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 8: Taylor back last week looked healthy against Northwestern? How is

702
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 8: important is it to establish the run with DT and

703
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 8: then kind of vice versa Northwestern around the ball twenty

704
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 8: five plus times? Where do you feel like your run

705
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 8: defense is right now?

706
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, We've got to continue to grow, that's for sure.

707
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 3: We're playing a really good team that's really physical in

708
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 3: northwesterns knowing for their mindset and their attitude and how

709
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:06,919
Speaker 3: hard they play, and they've got a lot of really

710
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 3: good players, and they set the tone with their mentality,

711
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,320
Speaker 3: and we're going to have to play our best football

712
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,720
Speaker 3: game of the year. We need to be playing complimentary football.

713
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,359
Speaker 3: It's not just about the run game, but it's about

714
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 3: complimentary football, about being balanced and doing what's going to

715
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,720
Speaker 3: take to win that football game and setting that early

716
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:23,000
Speaker 3: and playing our best game.

717
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:23,239
Speaker 2: Of the year.

718
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 6: You guys played Oregon quite tough in that second half.

719
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:32,800
Speaker 6: What building blocks potentially were established not only off that game,

720
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 6: but kind of the way you guys played them in

721
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 6: the second half, Well.

722
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 3: There's a lot of good to take from the game.

723
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:39,920
Speaker 3: I know the score is not going to necessarily make

724
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 3: anybody really happy, neither with us. Nobody's work disappointed than

725
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 3: our football team because we went there to win the

726
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 3: football game. That's what I love about this team. They've

727
00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:49,359
Speaker 3: got no problem going in any place and thinking they're

728
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,839
Speaker 3: going to win, now knowing and doing or two different things.

729
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:53,440
Speaker 3: And that's where we've got to close the gap. And

730
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 3: we've got to do the things that are required to

731
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 3: win the games. Do the things that are required to

732
00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 3: start fast, accelerate mental, and finish strong. But that was

733
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 3: a really good football team we played. You got to

734
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 3: give them credit. I'm not taking anything away from them,

735
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 3: but they played pretty flawless and their athletes made incredible plays,

736
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:12,080
Speaker 3: some contested, some not contested. But the quarterback had a

737
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 3: special night, and when he's hot, he's hard to beat.

738
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 3: And they played really, really well on defense. They're one

739
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,400
Speaker 3: of the top five teams after probably tonight or tomorrow,

740
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 3: the probably one of the top five teams in the country,

741
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 3: and that's a tremendous challenge for us, and we're going

742
00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 3: to have to play as good as we've ever played

743
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 3: to be the team like that with them playing flawlessly

744
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 3: and we weren't able to do that. So lots to

745
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 3: learn from about what we can do as we move forward.

746
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:38,840
Speaker 3: And I think our guys came in yesterday and accepted

747
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 3: that type of challenge and responded really well. P J.

748
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:45,839
Speaker 6: Fleck from Chicago Gophers and Northwestern this weekend at rig

749
00:37:45,960 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 6: Lee Field. Just a couple of close here for the

750
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 6: head coach Parker.

751
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 8: Yeah, coach, you know, this is a type of you know,

752
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 8: type of the time in the season where a lot

753
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 8: of guys start looking forward, right, You're looking to get

754
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:56,399
Speaker 8: a certain amount of wins.

755
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 2: They try to play in a bowl game. How much

756
00:37:58,280 --> 00:37:59,520
Speaker 2: is that is on your mind?

757
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 8: And the message that you preach the team versus a

758
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 8: week to week basis, Hey, let's go to Wrigleyfield and

759
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 8: play Northwestern and final way to get one and all

760
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 8: this week.

761
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:08,399
Speaker 2: Yeah.

762
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,959
Speaker 3: I think becoming bow eligible a tremendous accomplishment in twenty

763
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 3: twenty five, especially when you're in the Power two conferences

764
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:16,240
Speaker 3: and there's gonna be a lot of teams who aren't

765
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 3: be eligible who might be used to being b eligible,

766
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:21,759
Speaker 3: whether in the SEC or the Big Ten. And that's

767
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 3: what you get when you have eighteen teams in the

768
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:26,560
Speaker 3: Big ten and sixteen in the SEC. I think it

769
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 3: definitely changes, and you can feel that change of expectation

770
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 3: based on records of fan bases. That's really difficult. So

771
00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:35,959
Speaker 3: obviously one of our big goals was to be itcome

772
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 3: go eligible. We're able to do that for the ninth game,

773
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 3: which is a tremendous feat for us, but we're not

774
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 3: done playing and that would we handle that after Michigan State.

775
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 3: We check that box and now we need to be

776
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:48,239
Speaker 3: one to know in every game that we play, and

777
00:38:48,680 --> 00:38:51,319
Speaker 3: you continue to elevate your bullstock and bull status, but

778
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 3: we want to be the best team we can possibly

779
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 3: be and play our best football as the season winds

780
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 3: down here in November, because that's what you want to do.

781
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 3: This trains you to play champion ship football come November

782
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 3: when it becomes the most important.

783
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:05,840
Speaker 6: Hey, PJ, I appreciate the text. Middle of the afternoon

784
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 6: yesterday I shared. I'm seeing some of the context earlier

785
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 6: nine to noon about JJ McCarthy, the Vikings quarterback. And

786
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 6: you know you can't skip the steps part of the

787
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 6: equation which you've shared here and I'm sure other places,

788
00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:22,200
Speaker 6: but you've shared here about Drake Lindsay and about other

789
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 6: inexperienced situations.

790
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 2: So you know, the reason I texted you.

791
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,239
Speaker 6: When I got to my car outside of US Bank

792
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:32,360
Speaker 6: Stadium was because I stole your bit. You just can't

793
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 6: skip the steps if you think somebody is going to

794
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 6: be really, really good. I stole it in the Vikings

795
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 6: locker room and ran it by Aaron Jones and TJ.

796
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 6: Howkinson and others, and they were in lockstep with it,

797
00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,040
Speaker 6: you know. And these are private conversations, were not private

798
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 6: but off the microphone, and they see all the bad

799
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:52,439
Speaker 6: and good in a way we as fans, don't. They

800
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 6: believe in McCarthy and recognize no matter to be really good.

801
00:39:56,400 --> 00:40:00,080
Speaker 6: You indeed can't skip the steps. So as a co

802
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 6: coach when you scheme them open and they keep getting missed,

803
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 6: yet there's absolutely good in the early part of the

804
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 6: equation for this quarterback, Well, how do you handle it,

805
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 6: you know, with the grimy part of not being able

806
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:15,400
Speaker 6: to skip the steps?

807
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:19,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that. You know, a lot of people

808
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 3: want to live in an ideal world. In a perfect world.

809
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 3: Football is not a perfect game nor an ideal game.

810
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 3: There's there's a real piece of that. And if you

811
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 3: talk to anyone who's really successful and has become successful,

812
00:40:31,880 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 3: they're going to start with all the things they fail.

813
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 3: That that's why we define failing as growth. The only

814
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,440
Speaker 3: way you're going to grow the most is by your

815
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 3: scars and your failing. I played football, I have I've

816
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 3: had multiple shoulder surgeries. I mean, the scars on my

817
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:50,440
Speaker 3: shoulder show a lot of hardship and show what I

818
00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:53,239
Speaker 3: have been through, what I overcame. And I think that's

819
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 3: where the not skipping steps is necessary. Anybody successful, you're

820
00:40:57,719 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 3: going to hear all their negatives. You're gonna hear all

821
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:03,200
Speaker 3: their adverse situations. You're going to hear all the doubt

822
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:06,759
Speaker 3: and the fear and that they overcame. And that's what

823
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,320
Speaker 3: I mean about you can't skip the steps. And because

824
00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 3: anybody successful unless they were just handed everything and it

825
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:17,760
Speaker 3: was generationally handed down. Nobody has had it perfect, nobody's

826
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,319
Speaker 3: had an ideal. And I think the harder you work

827
00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:23,360
Speaker 3: through the adverse situations and the better you respond to

828
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:25,879
Speaker 3: those things make you the player you're going to become

829
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,640
Speaker 3: and will create success down the road, not promised, but

830
00:41:28,719 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 3: give you the best chance. And at the end of

831
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:32,560
Speaker 3: the day. When you look at it, the two drives

832
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 3: to go down the field, there are two touchdown drives, right,

833
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:39,080
Speaker 3: that's pretty impressive to respond that way as a quarterback.

834
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 3: That's hard to do. To get anybody to even do that,

835
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 3: let alone do everything perfect. So taking the next right steps,

836
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 3: not skipping any steps in that process can be frustrating

837
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:53,960
Speaker 3: from an ideal perfect world helicopter view. But the ability

838
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 3: and the resolve and the response and the resiliency to

839
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,400
Speaker 3: just keep moving forward and to keep growing the learning,

840
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:03,320
Speaker 3: that's the key to success in my opinion.

841
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 6: Thanks my brother, tear it up this weekend. We'll talk

842
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 6: next week.

843
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:09,759
Speaker 3: You bet real the bust game. I'm go go for Skulvites. Thanks.

844
00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 2: Yep, see you about p J Fleck nine to noon.

845
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 2: It's eleven o three.

846
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,760
Speaker 6: We'll keep p Fox around chats and basketball and football

847
00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 6: after this