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Speaker 2: Pete Versage, analyst for the KFA in Minnesota. Vikings Audio Network,

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Speaker 2: joins us now at Pete Bursage via x and this

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Speaker 2: Pete the kid quarterback, I think is carrying the weight

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Speaker 2: of the world and the burden of the losses. I'm

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Speaker 2: hoping Lambeau was the bottom physically and mentally for him,

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Speaker 2: and maybe it's all up from here.

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Speaker 1: And good morning, good morning.

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Speaker 3: I think you and everybody else, you and I and

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Speaker 3: everybody else is feeling the same way.

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Speaker 1: I mean that what else? What else are we going

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Speaker 1: to do? Right?

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Speaker 3: What else can you do? You made this commitment, You've

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Speaker 3: got to see through it, right. You've got to lean

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Speaker 3: on those that know, because as much as we all know,

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Speaker 3: even though we've seen a lot of football, we don't

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Speaker 3: know everything. We're not quarterback ruse, we're not coordinators, we're

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Speaker 3: not coaches in the NFL. And you know, you have

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Speaker 3: to have faith in those positions and that in what

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Speaker 3: they're saying, and that they see the potential. They they

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Speaker 3: saw enough to draft them, they see they then they're

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Speaker 3: still seeing it and they're working and each and every

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Speaker 3: day trying to get to where the Vikings want to

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Speaker 3: be and where they need to be. And that's what else.

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Speaker 3: I mean, really, what else can you do other than

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Speaker 3: get back out there. I mean, that's this is a game.

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Speaker 3: This is a kind of situation where if you're if

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Speaker 3: you're a player, you want to get back on the.

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Speaker 1: Field as quickly as possible because you.

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Speaker 3: Just want to get that bad taste out of your mouth,

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Speaker 3: the whole thing, and you know, the whole thing yesterday

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Speaker 2: Uh Ohconnle said after the game, the team's margin for

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Speaker 2: airs razor thin, and I think we would happen to

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Speaker 2: agree with that, So yeah, I would imagine that means

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Speaker 2: when you have when you have that punt return l

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Speaker 3: Right absolutely puts it puts pressure on every other position.

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Speaker 1: I mean, think about it.

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Speaker 3: How many postgame press conferences have you heard with a

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Speaker 3: quarterback saying, well, you know, the defense really bailed us

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Speaker 1: Has really bailed me out today.

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Speaker 3: It happens, right, Different parts of the team play and

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Speaker 3: have good days to help elevate the others. That's the

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Speaker 3: whole point of the teams, that's the whole point of

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Speaker 3: specific area and it's a key position, it's not just

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Speaker 3: I mean your core turnback is young. Yeah, the rest

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Speaker 3: of the team has to elevate themselves to make up

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Speaker 3: The Packers were well under their average on offense, but

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Speaker 3: and so that has to continue. You can't afford it.

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Speaker 3: You can't afford penalties. They are drive killers. You can't

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Speaker 2: In a paramutual puzzler. To a certain extent, we had

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Speaker 2: Pete Bursage analyze this talk back? And we've got a

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Speaker 2: He's an e laitue football mind, played in the league,

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Speaker 1: First Hey guys, nice remedian.

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Speaker 4: I'm not even gonna talk about the offense because everybody

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Speaker 4: knows it's absolutely futrid.

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Speaker 1: But I want to talk about the defense.

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Speaker 4: I'm sick of people worshiping Bflow like he is God

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Speaker 4: on Earth and the next head coaching job he's gonna get,

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Speaker 1: I know what it has to do.

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Speaker 4: With the offense and then keeping the defense on the

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Speaker 1: Sorry bye. What do you think, Pete? Well?

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Speaker 3: here's the thing in nothing's ever as good as it seems,

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Speaker 3: it's what you get, right, you get all everybody's no one's.

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Speaker 1: In the reality world.

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Speaker 3: Everybody's either on one polar end or the other polar

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Speaker 3: finding Isaiah Rodgers, I mean, come on, I mean that's

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Speaker 1: All right.

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Speaker 3: Well, Rodgers has been pretty damn good. So there's a

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Speaker 2: Well, the the thirty seven and a half minutes to

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Speaker 3: Think Paul, I'm sorry to interrupt you, but think about this.

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Speaker 3: We've turned the ball over twenty times, right, twenty one

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Speaker 1: Nordo talkback. Hey, it's Richard from Rochester.

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Speaker 5: Hey, it seems like the best coaches can design their

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Speaker 5: is he doing enough to design a game plant around

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Speaker 5: what McCarthy can do or has he already done that

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Speaker 3: You know this, Paul, this is not the offense that

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Speaker 1: It's not It's not the down the field.

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Speaker 3: Because your your identity as an offense has completely changed

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Speaker 3: We we we said this, We've been saying this for years.

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Speaker 1: So here we are, this is where we're going.

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Speaker 3: And now you guess we can sit back and watch

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Speaker 1: This is it's a tough it's a tough situation.

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Speaker 2: Since lastly, since we departed, since we split yesterday and

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Pete.

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Speaker 2: All right, Pa, we have some father son fun coming

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Speaker 2: First, we welcome into the studio the ber guard, about

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Speaker 1: They're both here and at.

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Speaker 2: Least Nordo and I can do is get both you

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Speaker 7: You know, you just can't even make it up. It's uh,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was things of dreams. It was

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Speaker 7: I don't think of all the e Dinah, I still

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Speaker 7: I feel a little like Al Bundy. I used to

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Speaker 1: I got nothing. Chase.

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Speaker 2: First of all, congratulations brother, thank you. But it's just

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you're going to grow, You're going to mature,

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Speaker 2: So we're gonna go hockey than baseball, right then we're done,

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Speaker 9: Here's a hook in an angle, you know, you those

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Speaker 2: So, yeah, does Eric, does every member of the Dina

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Speaker 2: So yeah, and you know, now knowing how the time

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Speaker 8: Man, Yeah, I mean unreal for sure, completely new online

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I couldn't be more proud of them.

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Speaker 2: So the so eric the pro team losing a Lambeau

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Speaker 1: I think it'd be impossible.

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Speaker 1: We've watched the game back. That's great.

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Speaker 7: We talked about every inch of the game. You watched

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Speaker 7: This is fantastic. Texted with the dads and I was like,

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Speaker 1: Like I've watched it back twice. This was like yesterday morning.

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Speaker 1: And all the other dads are like the same, same, right, same, Okay,

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Speaker 2: Because you know when you were a sophomore, Chase, I

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Speaker 8: just trying to get back there to the championship game

437
00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:53,680
Speaker 8: and then you know, to have that performance.

438
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Speaker 1: I did mean a whole lot for me. Hmmm, Holy cow.

439
00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:59,880
Speaker 2: That's the voice of Chase Beorguard, a senior edi Dynah

440
00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:03,920
Speaker 2: High School with a football, hockey, and baseball and his father,

441
00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:07,880
Speaker 2: Eric bureguard general manager Metropolitan Ford, a staple nine to noon,

442
00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,760
Speaker 2: specifically on Mondays for many years. Likewise for the Allen family,

443
00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:15,840
Speaker 2: as my son Derek has driven two cars for Metropolitan Ford,

444
00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:19,600
Speaker 2: I've had two cars from Metropolitan Ford. Likewise, for my daughter,

445
00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:22,119
Speaker 2: she's had one Eric Salt of the Earth and His

446
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:25,639
Speaker 2: son Chase, had six touchdowns on Friday night in winning

447
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:29,840
Speaker 2: the six to a championship over Morehead, and Chase is

448
00:22:29,840 --> 00:22:32,920
Speaker 2: a goalie for the DYNA High school hockey team. His

449
00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:37,159
Speaker 2: teammate Mason West was the title winning quarterback. Are you

450
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,879
Speaker 2: guys close? And was it emotional for not only you

451
00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:44,800
Speaker 2: two but for all the guys knowing even though you'll

452
00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,159
Speaker 2: probably play hockey and baseball together with a fair amount

453
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,960
Speaker 2: of them, but that was your last high school football game.

454
00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,560
Speaker 2: So I mean, I'm not trying to harsh mellow here,

455
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:57,000
Speaker 2: like bring you down from the apex of this accomplishment.

456
00:22:57,720 --> 00:23:01,639
Speaker 2: But still, in age seventeen, man, excellent relationships have been

457
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 2: forged through football. There probably is a little bit of sadness, right.

458
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:07,840
Speaker 8: I mean, yeah, for sure. I think going out on

459
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,040
Speaker 8: top though it kind of, you know, made that a

460
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 8: little bit different. And then but yeah, for sure it's

461
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:14,000
Speaker 8: gonna be weird going to the ring today instead of

462
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 8: the field. I think that's when it's going to start

463
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,119
Speaker 8: to set in a little bit. But I mean, for now,

464
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:21,480
Speaker 8: just because we went out with the championship, I think

465
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 8: that it really kind of, you know, canceled out the

466
00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:25,160
Speaker 8: whole sadness about it being my last.

467
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Speaker 2: Game and Mason West a Chicago Blackhawks draft pick, like

468
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:31,639
Speaker 2: twenty third or twenty fifth something like that. You know,

469
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Speaker 2: I would imagine that there were conversations, certainly not asking

470
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Speaker 2: you to speak for him or his family, but if

471
00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:39,040
Speaker 2: with what you do know and can share, it's like,

472
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,080
Speaker 2: he's really good at hockey, We're going to draft him. Hey,

473
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,720
Speaker 2: is there any chance that, like after your junior year,

474
00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:47,400
Speaker 2: you can just go full throttle in this program juniors

475
00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:49,840
Speaker 2: or whatever it would be next and correct me if

476
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,320
Speaker 2: I'm wrong here, but it's like, nah, we get unfinished

477
00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:56,160
Speaker 2: business here with this football team and other sports. Maybe

478
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,439
Speaker 2: so Mason came back, gave you the full season. Now,

479
00:23:59,440 --> 00:24:03,400
Speaker 2: maybe he's gonna ready for Idana hockey. Maybe not, But nevertheless,

480
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,159
Speaker 2: I thought it was really cool that members of the

481
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 2: Chicago Blackhawks front office, general manager, assistant general manager, the

482
00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:16,240
Speaker 2: whole bit man would come to town to support that kid,

483
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:19,280
Speaker 2: support him in a way where it's like, yes, we

484
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:21,719
Speaker 2: would love to have you, now, get you in our

485
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,120
Speaker 2: wait strength program, the whole thing, but we understand where

486
00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:27,440
Speaker 2: you're coming from with your dogs and with your friends

487
00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:29,800
Speaker 2: and everything. And he died in high school, so they acquiesced,

488
00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 2: they still took him, but like they came to Metropolitan

489
00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 2: Ford I think on a Saturday and like had hot

490
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,959
Speaker 2: dogs and drinks and things like that, just celebrating everything

491
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:43,120
Speaker 2: that was happening. That's just really really cool they did that. Yeah,

492
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,600
Speaker 2: it's a very unique situation. Obviously we haven't had anything

493
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Speaker 2: like this before.

494
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Speaker 7: But to tell you a little bit about Mason, like

495
00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 7: he told all of the NHL like he was coming

496
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,080
Speaker 7: back before the draft so he could hurt your draft stock.

497
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,280
Speaker 7: He said, I'm coming back to play my senior year

498
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:59,400
Speaker 7: of football. And for that, I think every Canada team

499
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:00,840
Speaker 7: took him off their draft board.

500
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,640
Speaker 1: Wow. They just said, well, then you're not serious about hockey.

501
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,479
Speaker 7: He's like, well, no, I'm serious about winning a state

502
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,480
Speaker 7: championship with my boys, and then hockey will be there. Like, well,

503
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,800
Speaker 7: after the dust settles, hockey will still be there. Mason

504
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 7: West and his family is just unbelievable people, the the

505
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:15,800
Speaker 7: nicest people on the face of the planet.

506
00:25:16,040 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 1: That's great.

507
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 9: Speaking of that, I mean you mentioned going to the

508
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,480
Speaker 9: rink today. How long do you continue to revel or

509
00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:25,720
Speaker 9: relish in this moment state title, state champions before you

510
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 9: turn It's like I mean, we might as well just

511
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:29,679
Speaker 9: go win a state hockey title too, now, I mean,

512
00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:31,679
Speaker 9: you just get together with Mason and the guys. Right,

513
00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:34,200
Speaker 9: when do you make that mental shift, Chase.

514
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 8: I mean, it's definitely gonna be tough, but it might

515
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:38,959
Speaker 8: even have to start today like a little bit. I mean,

516
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 8: it's gonna be tough to come back down from the

517
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,360
Speaker 8: high winning the championship, but it's almost like you gotta

518
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,639
Speaker 8: find a time to refocus and locking on hockey. But

519
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:48,200
Speaker 8: you know, in the back of my mind, I always

520
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 8: be thinking about that football season for.

521
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 2: Sure, So I would imagine the Moorhead hockey team's good.

522
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 2: I mean I think there's a col in that plays

523
00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:58,440
Speaker 2: for him, Matt cullin Son. Yeah, and they beat you

524
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,480
Speaker 2: guys in the championship last year, right yep? Okay, it

525
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 2: wasn't the championship. It was the Semis and the Semis. Okay, Well,

526
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,119
Speaker 2: it Chase cover yours places. You don't need to be

527
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 2: here and this is seventeen uh. With the football part

528
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 2: of it, did people at the bank cut loose with

529
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:14,840
Speaker 2: the cake eater's bit and or get after the hornets

530
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 2: like they did in the state high school hockey tournament

531
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Speaker 2: last year. Is that is that actually still a thing?

532
00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 7: Oh, that's a thing. But they didn't win, so it's hard.

533
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 7: It's hard to get honest as much when you lose.

534
00:26:24,359 --> 00:26:27,640
Speaker 7: But their their hockey team beat our hockey team six

535
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:28,160
Speaker 7: to three.

536
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 1: Nice.

537
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 7: Saw some tiktoks out there already. They make a big

538
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:31,919
Speaker 7: deal every time they beat us.

539
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:32,199
Speaker 1: It's something.

540
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,639
Speaker 7: They're they're a big rival. They're they're a great program.

541
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 7: Their hockey is always good. On how many kids calling

542
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,399
Speaker 7: can have in his basement that can still play for him.

543
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,760
Speaker 7: But they're they're they're great. They went a lot and

544
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,360
Speaker 7: their football team was unbelievable. They were I mean, talk

545
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 7: about the talent. All their kids are going to come back.

546
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 7: They get their their quarterback Feenie, he's a stud.

547
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 1: He'll be back. He's a junior. Their running back was

548
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:51,200
Speaker 1: a junior.

549
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 2: Their quarterback was nice when they broke the pocket and

550
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 2: set his feet and got his eyes down the field.

551
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:55,439
Speaker 1: Pretty good.

552
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 7: Yeah, that number one for them. David Mack I think

553
00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:59,280
Speaker 7: he is he can go pretty much anywhere he wants.

554
00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:01,439
Speaker 7: He was he's an absolute study. He had like one

555
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,920
Speaker 7: hundred and I think he had more catches than the

556
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:04,719
Speaker 7: next closest kid.

557
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 2: By like twenty or thirty in the whole state. Wow,

558
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,960
Speaker 2: just sick, silly, were really good. Who Chase, and I

559
00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 2: apologize for not knowing this. Who was the din of

560
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 2: football coach? And how impactful has he been to you?

561
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:19,920
Speaker 2: That's Jason Potts. I mean even in middle school he

562
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 2: was my gym teacher, so I've been knowing him for

563
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 2: a while.

564
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,080
Speaker 8: I remember specifically in like seventh grade, he was like,

565
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:27,159
Speaker 8: kind of I want to see this kid got So

566
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:30,320
Speaker 8: we're like playing football out there at like during gym class,

567
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:31,719
Speaker 8: and you like pull me on his team and had

568
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 8: me run some routes while he's played like all time quarterbacks.

569
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 8: So I guess that was kind of my first try out.

570
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 8: So yeah, he's meant a lot to me. Kind of

571
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 8: throw my high school and middle school career for sure.

572
00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,680
Speaker 2: So due to some people getting banged up during the

573
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 2: course of the game or whatever, Chase wars number one.

574
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 2: And you've played linebacker before, like you said, it's a sophomore,

575
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 2: that's pretty much all you played. Well, you know, I

576
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 2: saw you a couple of times out there in the

577
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 2: second half playing defense. One time you were out wide

578
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,120
Speaker 2: having to play corner maybe for only a play.

579
00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:01,879
Speaker 10: What what was that?

580
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 6: Like?

581
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: It was a little scary, IMCA. I never never played

582
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: corner before and never in practice even.

583
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 8: So all of a sudden, it's like we got a

584
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 8: guy going down with the cramp, and then the corner

585
00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:13,920
Speaker 8: coach and the d coinner pulled me over and there

586
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 8: telling me like what to cover on defense, and I'm

587
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 8: like looking at the side on every play, like, hold

588
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 8: up a number of how far off I'm supposed to be?

589
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 1: Like four yards? Five guards? Yeah? Seven yards? So technique

590
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:24,000
Speaker 1: on the fly.

591
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was trying to figure it out, but uh

592
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:28,080
Speaker 8: think think go too bad. I didn't give up any

593
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:28,720
Speaker 8: big plays, so.

594
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:30,840
Speaker 1: Oh you've played more than one play. I was out

595
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,199
Speaker 1: there for like a whole drive pretty much.

596
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 2: Oh geez, holy cow, last one. Uh not to put

597
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 2: cart before horse here. We got hockey, we got baseball.

598
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:41,880
Speaker 6: Uh.

599
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 2: But nevertheless, when you first Eric, when when Chase graduates, okay, like,

600
00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 2: like what do you hope is next athletic?

601
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 1: Let's say athletically. Uh that's on him.

602
00:28:55,080 --> 00:28:57,520
Speaker 7: That's uh, he's got he's got a few choices, and

603
00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,600
Speaker 7: right I think he's leaning more baseball, but hockey could

604
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 7: still be in the mix. I can't believe a few

605
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 7: football things don't come down the play after last but

606
00:29:04,760 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 7: or after Friday. But it's one hundred percent on Chase

607
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 7: to to do what to do, whatever he feels is

608
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:11,320
Speaker 7: right and take us time to make a decision.

609
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 2: Smart kid, knowing all the baseball schools cal State Fullerton,

610
00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 2: those in the Bible Belt, Florida, Georgia, warm Weather, smart kid,

611
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 2: Chase beure Guard, Right, I mean, is that something you're considering.

612
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.

613
00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 8: It's gonna be super tough, just because you know, I

614
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:30,360
Speaker 8: thought football for sure, I close the door, and then

615
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 8: all of a sudden it's like, well who knows now

616
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 8: after it's a big game. But then right, I mean, yeah,

617
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 8: I've gotten a couple of looks in all three. So

618
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 8: I'm gonna, like I said, I'm gonna take my time

619
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 8: on the decision, and it's gonna be a tough one

620
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 8: for sure.

621
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:44,720
Speaker 2: In your heart, do you do you have one to

622
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 2: just naturally you've always liked more and and this is

623
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:49,880
Speaker 2: with all due respect to those who play football and

624
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,200
Speaker 2: hockey or baseball, but I mean people have favorite you know.

625
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 8: Honestly, I get asked this question a lot, and then

626
00:29:55,800 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 8: my answer is usually just whatever's in season. So, like

627
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,120
Speaker 8: you know, I that's actually like true because I think

628
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 8: like during the football season, like I love football, I

629
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:06,760
Speaker 8: only am thinking about football, and then I'm gonna get

630
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:08,080
Speaker 8: into hockey here and that's all I'm gonna be thinking

631
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 8: about as well. Yeah, then it's like, you know, football

632
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 8: is gonna kind of get in the past a little bit,

633
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 8: and then baseball's gonna be a head and then I'm

634
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:15,760
Speaker 8: gonna get into the baseball and I'm gonna forget about

635
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 8: the other two pretty much.

636
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,240
Speaker 1: So it's almost just whatever's in season for me.

637
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 2: My brother, Congratulations, ma'am. I mean, I haven't known you

638
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,080
Speaker 2: all your life, but you know, I've known you since

639
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 2: middle school and I was super happy for you the

640
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:29,280
Speaker 2: other night. Likewise, for UEB, You're fantastic. Congratulations to you

641
00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 2: guys and everybody on the Dyna Hornets high school football team.

642
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:34,800
Speaker 1: Okay, thanks for having us come on.

643
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 2: I'll come watch some of your hockey games, so give

644
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 2: me a schedule, eb Okay, appreciate you. Eric and Chase

645
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 2: Bjorgard talking about high school immortality.

646
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: PJ.

647
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,760
Speaker 2: Fleck, coach of the Golden Gophers football team, is next

648
00:30:53,520 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 2: nine to noon, Bam. Bam bam, here we go.

649
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:03,120
Speaker 11: PJ.

650
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 2: Black, coach of the Golden Gophers football team, nice enough

651
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:08,760
Speaker 2: to join nine to noon about this time each and

652
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 2: every week the team lost at Northwest. I lost to

653
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Speaker 2: Northwestern or Wrigley Field thirty eight to thirty five, and

654
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Speaker 2: a spine Tangler a battle for the Acts takes place

655
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Speaker 2: here and on KFA and Saturday at three thirty and

656
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Speaker 2: the coach joins us now, PJU. The Wrigley Field experience.

657
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 2: Was it enjoyable despite not winning the game. And good morning, well,

658
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:31,840
Speaker 2: good morning.

659
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Speaker 1: To you, Pa.

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Speaker 10: Thanks for having us on. Yeah, I mean Brigyfield. I

661
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 10: mean especially for our players to be able to have

662
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Speaker 10: the historic venue and sesh and me growing up in

663
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Speaker 10: the Chicagoland area having a chance to be on the

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Speaker 10: field and play a football game. I guess the Big

665
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 10: Ten opponent was really really special for us, and unfortunately

666
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 10: weren't able to get it done. So that gets overshadowed

667
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 10: a little bit with the loss, but we learned a

668
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 10: lot from that and a lot to go apply this week.

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Speaker 1: You're here and I read about this.

670
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 2: Your your defensive coordinator, Danny Collins worked it from the

671
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 2: field and not the booth. What what led to that

672
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Speaker 2: change because that that, you know, I think it's a

673
00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 2: bigger change than maybe some people may think.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, but it was made a little bit more for

675
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Speaker 10: the way the press boxes were. He didn't have necessarily

676
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 10: an advantage of being up there. It was more preference

677
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 10: and the way that the view angle was. Danny felt

678
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:24,320
Speaker 10: like being on the field might even give us a

679
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 10: better advantage because the way that the view was, it

680
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,920
Speaker 10: wasn't exactly given us an advantage from being up there

681
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Speaker 10: like a normal game. So rough I'm down on the

682
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Speaker 10: field and not saying he'll stay down there. But that

683
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 10: was a decision we made, made it for that one

684
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Speaker 10: particular game based on the circumstances of that game, But

685
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Speaker 10: doesn't mean that we're going to make that decision moving forward.

686
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Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I haven't watched much Northwestern football this year.

687
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 2: Do they have some high enders on offense.

688
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Speaker 10: They're really efficient, they're really efficient at moving the football,

689
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 10: they're really good on defense, and you know, but they

690
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,080
Speaker 10: we did we didn't execute at a high enough level

691
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Speaker 10: within the scheme, whether it was personnel, some young personnel

692
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Speaker 10: and also us as coaches. We didn't execute well enough

693
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Speaker 10: to put ourselves in a position to be successful on

694
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Speaker 10: the defensive side of the ball, and we played some

695
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 10: really good defense all year and at times we haven't

696
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 10: and there's a lot of reasons for that. So I

697
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,320
Speaker 10: always break it down whether it's coaching, whether it's scheme,

698
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,120
Speaker 10: or whether it's personnel. It's one of the three, two

699
00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 10: of the three, or all of the three. This one

700
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:24,120
Speaker 10: has a little bit more do it's just coaching. In personnel,

701
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 10: we're playing a lot of young guys right now. Had

702
00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 10: a lot of our starters on defense banged up and

703
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 10: out for that game, especially on the back end, and

704
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Speaker 10: you know, we're just playing some younger guys that it's

705
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 10: it's worth it because it's going to help them develop

706
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Speaker 10: and be better in the future, but definitely hurt us

707
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Speaker 10: a little bit in some key parts that they'll really

708
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 10: learn from and grow from. But that's part of the

709
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 10: developmental program, is the depth piece, and a lot of

710
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 10: our depth is young, and our guys go in there

711
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 10: and they are going to be the future of the

712
00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,760
Speaker 10: program and they're gonna learn from it and really respond.

713
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Speaker 10: So you know, they're really efficient. I mean, they played

714
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Speaker 10: one of the offensive games of the year and executed

715
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Speaker 10: at a high level, even in really tight coverage. So

716
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Speaker 10: you got to take your head off to them too.

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Speaker 2: They executed a high level dre Yeah, their quarterback And

718
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Speaker 2: again I haven't watched them all year. If their quarterbacks

719
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Speaker 2: played a better game, I'd have to see it. But

720
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Speaker 2: your quarterback, Drake Lindsay went for two sixty four to

721
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 2: four and zero picks. What's the take with the steps

722
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Speaker 2: he took with one to go in conference play.

723
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Speaker 10: Oh, he's becoming more and more mature by the day,

724
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 10: confident by the day. He's a better leader than he's

725
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 10: ever been. He's way more mature when you have to

726
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 10: matches you want to and not only that, it's throwing

727
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Speaker 10: people open, you know. I think that's one of the

728
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Speaker 10: things in the NFL that you have to be able

729
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 10: to do that you in college sometimes you can get

730
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Speaker 10: away with the guy open, throw it to the open guy,

731
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Speaker 10: But to throw the guy open. I think that's where

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Speaker 10: we're seeing him evolve constantly, week in week out and

733
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Speaker 10: making huge strides for that. He's poised in all the

734
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Speaker 10: tough situations and the high pressure situations, and I'm really proud.

735
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Speaker 1: Of him for that.

736
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Speaker 10: And he's only taking the necessary steps to be an

737
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Speaker 10: elite quarterback and again not skipping steps. Part of that

738
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Speaker 10: is losing, and I really believe this, and nobody likes

739
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Speaker 10: to lose. I don't like to lose.

740
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Speaker 1: Nobody wants to lose.

741
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Speaker 10: The Vikings don't want to lose. But you have to

742
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:13,919
Speaker 10: learn how to lose. And I think that's what makes

743
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 10: you a tremendous leader is if you learn how to

744
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 10: lose and you're a quote unquote good loser, where you

745
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 10: take that at fuel to be even a better winner

746
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,319
Speaker 10: and lead during the hardest times the best. I think

747
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 10: that's what makes you a tremendous, tremendous football player and

748
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Speaker 10: the best quarterback as possible.

749
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Speaker 2: Tell us Parker Fox, by the way, just rolled in,

750
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Speaker 2: so he's going to jump in the mix here momentarily.

751
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:39,120
Speaker 2: Tell us about Junior Javon Tracy his first first three

752
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Speaker 2: touchdown receiving performance since Rashad Bateman in twenty nineteen.

753
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Speaker 1: Javon Tracy, Yeah, Javon has.

754
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Speaker 10: Come on strong. You know, he's a transfer from Miami,

755
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 10: Ohio and he is a very good player. He kind

756
00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,000
Speaker 10: of reminds me of Elijah Spencer his first year here

757
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,400
Speaker 10: and then Elijah turned into one of the best weapons

758
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 10: I think most reliable weapons in the Big Ten last

759
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 10: yearly on the third down conversion. So Javon, Tracy and

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Speaker 10: I have had numerous conversations. He's played really well all year,

761
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Speaker 10: but I think this is where he's playing his best football,

762
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Speaker 10: and I think that's only going to propel him in

763
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Speaker 10: the next season because that's taking multi year transfers to

764
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Speaker 10: something we take a lot of pride in because we

765
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,240
Speaker 10: can keep developing them. It's a higher level high school player,

766
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Speaker 10: and I think Javon has really learned a ton at

767
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 10: the wide receiver position. His craft is becoming sharper by

768
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Speaker 10: the week, and I'm just really proud of the progress

769
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Speaker 10: he's making. And he had a huge game for us,

770
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Speaker 10: and him and Drake have a great relationship and look

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Speaker 10: forward to that continue to evolve.

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Speaker 1: Hey, PJ. Parker, here back with you.

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Speaker 11: As you kind of know my story being a Minnesota kid,

774
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,640
Speaker 11: I was raised on Better Dead than Red important week

775
00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 11: for me. Fourteen straight losses before you got here, two Wisconsin.

776
00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:49,040
Speaker 11: So that acts found its home in Madison, but you

777
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 11: guys have it back now in Minneapolis. How does it

778
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 11: feel for you to kind of be a part of that,

779
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 11: to see the fans kind of just come together over

780
00:36:57,360 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 11: that acts and how special is it to try to

781
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Speaker 11: win it back to back.

782
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Speaker 1: And keep that thing here at Hunting and Banks Stadium.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, that's a great question, Parker. I think that's what

784
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,960
Speaker 10: makes college football so special are the robbery games and

785
00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 10: the robbery trophies and the tradition and the history and

786
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:14,600
Speaker 10: the pageantry of those robberies. And you know, our job

787
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,359
Speaker 10: is to find a way to be the best team

788
00:37:16,440 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 10: on the field during that rivalry for three and a

789
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 10: half hours, and the robberies really for the fans and

790
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 10: the border battle and all of our alumni and people

791
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 10: who have played in that game, that's what makes it

792
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 10: really special. Wisconsin's continually gotten better every single week. They've

793
00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 10: had one of the hardest schedules in all of America.

794
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 10: They've completely changed what they've done on offense and some

795
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 10: at some point defensively as well, and they're playing some really,

796
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:42,840
Speaker 10: really good football. But as a head football coach, you

797
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 10: hope to especially when we walk into the situation we

798
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,399
Speaker 10: walked into where we hadn't had it for fourteen straight years,

799
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Speaker 10: you want to do something where you can make it

800
00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 10: a rivalry again. And that comes from now the belief

801
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 10: that comes down to the mindset, and once you start

802
00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:59,879
Speaker 10: to do that, it could become a rivalry again. And listen,

803
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 10: we haven't won it every single year, but I do

804
00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 10: think the ribvalry is as healthy as it's ever been.

805
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 10: And as a head football coach, you want to be

806
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:07,960
Speaker 10: able to re establish that rivalry and rekindle that.

807
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 2: With the Badgers defense. How does Wisconsin like to play defense?

808
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 2: Because it looks like they can be stingy at times.

809
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 10: They definitely can be. I think, you know, they're shutting

810
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 10: a lot of high profile, high profile and prolific offenses down.

811
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:27,800
Speaker 10: Over the last few weeks. You know, they won a

812
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,840
Speaker 10: game against Washington, who's got a really good offense. They

813
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 10: just beat a really good Illinois team. They've had two

814
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 10: ranked wins in the last three weeks. I think that

815
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 10: just shows how far they've come and how good this

816
00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 10: team has gotten throughout the course of the year. But

817
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 10: their defense is really stingy. They're really good up front.

818
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 10: Their front seven tackles really well, re establishes a line

819
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 10: of scrimmage on the offensive side, and then they cover

820
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,439
Speaker 10: really well so you don't have a lot of time

821
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 10: back there. They bring a lot at you. They're really

822
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,240
Speaker 10: good at the simple things, and I think their schedule

823
00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 10: that they played has made them a better football team,

824
00:38:59,120 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 10: that's for sure.

825
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,400
Speaker 2: Last couple here for PJ. Fleck nine to noon. The

826
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 2: Badgers are winless on the road.

827
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: Now.

828
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 2: Three of those defeats have been to Alabama, Oregon, and Indiana.

829
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Speaker 1: This and this is PJ.

830
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:12,200
Speaker 2: This is the last time your fan base will see

831
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:15,320
Speaker 2: you guys at home until next year. So I'd imagine

832
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 2: it's important to leave them wanting more and certainly getting

833
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 2: a victory.

834
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: Right well, you always want to do that.

835
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Speaker 10: You want to do that every game, whether it's week

836
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,800
Speaker 10: to week, whether it's year to year, you always want that.

837
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 10: You want that for your fans. Wisconsin wants that for

838
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 10: their fans.

839
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:31,360
Speaker 1: You know.

840
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,919
Speaker 10: The good thing is, you know, we're b eligible again

841
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 10: take COVID out for the seventh straight years, so we're

842
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:39,320
Speaker 10: we're going to have some time to continue to develop

843
00:39:39,360 --> 00:39:40,759
Speaker 10: a lot of the young players we have on this

844
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:43,040
Speaker 10: team in our developmental program, because that's what we are.

845
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,560
Speaker 10: So there's a lot going into our program. There's a

846
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 10: lot coming into our program. We got signing Day coming up,

847
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 10: and not only are we building this year, but it's

848
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:51,960
Speaker 10: also building as we move into the future.

849
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:56,720
Speaker 2: And Wisconsin scored twenty seven Saturday and defeating Illinois Camp Randall.

850
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 2: That's as many points as they have scored in their

851
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:03,759
Speaker 2: previous five games, including being shut out twice. So if

852
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 2: I'm a fan, like with season tickets, traveling to the

853
00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 2: games and everything, I'd be like, major, major bounce back

854
00:40:09,719 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 2: chance here for your defense, wouldn't you say?

855
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:13,279
Speaker 6: Well?

856
00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:14,840
Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean you want to be one to zer

857
00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,800
Speaker 10: against Wisconsin period. You know we're gonna need all three phases.

858
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 10: We're to play really good complimentary football offense, defense, and

859
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 10: special teams, and then also play complimentary within the scheme

860
00:40:24,760 --> 00:40:28,439
Speaker 10: on offense and defense and special teams separately. So that's

861
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 10: the big challenge for us. And we got to go

862
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 10: play our best football game of the year.

863
00:40:31,960 --> 00:40:36,799
Speaker 2: Were you a proud surrogate dad uncle or whatever? When

864
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:41,280
Speaker 2: Rerevins span Ford scored his first National Football League touchdown

865
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 2: yesterday for the Dallas Cowboys, it was a really good moment.

866
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:46,839
Speaker 10: We have it in the background. We were in an

867
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:50,279
Speaker 10: offensive meeting yesterday, but it was it was always in

868
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 10: the every Sunday football is in the background, and we

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Speaker 10: Go Rev just going a touchdown and you know we

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Speaker 10: So the key in anybody's future, in anybody's career, your

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Speaker 10: first NFL touchdown, so especially when you play in that league.

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Speaker 10: So he's We're really proud of him. He's been great

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Speaker 10: comes back and awful lot and he's a great alum,

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Speaker 10: that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you tear it up against Bucky this weekend. We'll

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Speaker 2: talk soon, right, Appreciate with the most guy.

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Speaker 10: I'll go go for school Vikes.

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Speaker 4: Thanks.

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Speaker 2: See you about PJ pla coach of the Golden Gophers

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Speaker 2: football team. Parker Fox sticks around for the next two segments,

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Speaker 2: then the Sultan of Smug About forty minutes from now,

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Speaker 2: this is Wine to Noon.