1 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:18,599 Speaker 1: Headed to the Vikings and Eagles game this Sunday. Go 2 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: find our street team on the plaza outside of the 3 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:23,239 Speaker 1: US Bank Stadium and ask us how you can enter 4 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:25,920 Speaker 1: for your shot at Papa Murphy's game day meal deals 5 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 1: for a year. Check out kaffean dot com Keybord Calendar. 6 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,560 Speaker 2: For all the details. 7 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 3: It's a Friday Football Beast edition of the Bumper to 8 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 3: Bumper Program. 9 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 2: It's also a. 10 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:44,560 Speaker 3: Let's Praise the Geezers edition of the Bumper to Bumper Show. 11 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:49,519 Speaker 3: As well, as we alluded earlier in the show, old quarterbacks, 12 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 3: old pictures, old columnists, legendary musicians. McCartney, of course, is 13 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 3: in town tonight, and we're down to our final hour 14 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,399 Speaker 3: of trying the to realize the dream of getting Paul 15 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:05,440 Speaker 3: McCartney on the show. 16 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:08,240 Speaker 2: Still doesn't look optimistic, Guardsy, Is that. 17 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:13,080 Speaker 4: Correct the US Bank Stadium from where I'm standing at 18 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 4: Huntington Bank, And no, it does not unless he calls 19 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 4: the hotline in the next forty minutes. 20 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 5: Yeah, well does he do? 21 00:01:18,560 --> 00:01:18,959 Speaker 2: The thing? 22 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 3: Wasn't the legend that often Mick Jagger? Could you know 23 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 3: he could just show up in a hotel, lobby bar, 24 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 3: you know, like a half a mile from wherever the 25 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 3: Stones were staying or he was staying. You just never knew, right, 26 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:35,800 Speaker 3: he just could be there just hanging for a little bit. 27 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:39,320 Speaker 3: Do we know whether McCartney does that or is McCartney 28 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:41,679 Speaker 3: such that he can't even afford to do what Mick 29 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:42,400 Speaker 3: Jagger does? 30 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 4: I don't know, because didn't Mick Jagger he does record 31 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 4: stores too. Didn't he run through like Electric Fetus one 32 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:52,240 Speaker 4: time which people saw him there? Yeah, that's what I 33 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:54,200 Speaker 4: would do if I were those guys, I would do 34 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 4: that too, and just wander around and you know, talk 35 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,080 Speaker 4: to because you're not no question, it's not announced, so 36 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 4: there's not going to be any crazy crowd. You're just 37 00:02:01,800 --> 00:02:03,840 Speaker 4: going to a store. You're just training an errand it's 38 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 4: not in out and four in town. 39 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 5: It'd be great. 40 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:09,839 Speaker 3: How many Husker fans will we have tonight at the 41 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:11,519 Speaker 3: original Bank at Huntington. 42 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 5: I think we'll have quite a few. Yeah, they usually 43 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:16,239 Speaker 5: travel pretty well. 44 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:19,240 Speaker 4: I would imagine having put a number on it, maybe 45 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 4: ten thousand, you know, it's probably something like that. 46 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:23,440 Speaker 5: A lot of Husker fans live here too. 47 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 2: Are we selling out? We're close to it? 48 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:28,760 Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they're pretty close. I think they're pretty 49 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 5: close even to beautiful Saturday, it probably would have been 50 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 5: sold out. 51 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:34,239 Speaker 4: Yeah, if it was a Saturday, I think it would 52 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 4: be sold out for sure. Fridays are a little weird, 53 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 4: but I would imagine we're pretty close if we haven't 54 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 4: gotten there. But I'd say probably seven, eight thousand, ten 55 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 4: thousand somewhere in that. 56 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,040 Speaker 5: That'd be my guest. They usually travel pretty well. 57 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 3: How when's the last time, especially given the fact that 58 00:02:52,919 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 3: I think pj's tended to win over the Huskers the 59 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,919 Speaker 3: last time we've hosted Nebraska and have been as much 60 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:00,960 Speaker 3: as seven and a half or eight points underdogs. 61 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:03,680 Speaker 5: Good question. I don't know. 62 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 4: It would have had to Yeah, it probably would have 63 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 4: had to be early in Nebraska joining the Big Ten, 64 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 4: which was Jerry Kill era, So probably twenty eleven, twenty twelve. 65 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:16,760 Speaker 5: I don't remember who was favored. 66 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 4: The last time they played was the season opener two 67 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 4: seasons ago here, and I don't remember who was favored 68 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 4: in that game. It ended up being I think thirteen 69 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:26,080 Speaker 4: to ten on a walk off field goal in the 70 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:26,760 Speaker 4: final play. 71 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:28,359 Speaker 5: But yeah, it hasn't happened often. 72 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:31,119 Speaker 4: It's been weird as the line started at five five 73 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:33,519 Speaker 4: and a half for Nebraska went up to about nine, 74 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 4: and then in the last year or so it has 75 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 4: been bet down to about seven. So Nebraska, as I 76 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:40,560 Speaker 4: was telling you earlier, they always get kind of a 77 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:43,600 Speaker 4: Dallas Cowboys point bump almost no matter who they're playing. 78 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:47,560 Speaker 4: I think a lot of people just bet Nebraska. But 79 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:51,000 Speaker 4: the analytics showed that Nebraska should be, you know, a 80 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 4: decent favorite tonight. 81 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 5: So we'll see if that actually pans out. 82 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 2: All right, can we? 83 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 3: So their big shot running back is one of us, right, 84 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:04,480 Speaker 3: Holy Angels, Minneapolis, Emmit Johnson. We've talked about it during 85 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 3: the week. You know the story too well, that this 86 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 3: team is not handling the run, actually handling the run, 87 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:14,200 Speaker 3: I think even worse than the Vikings are at this point. 88 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:18,160 Speaker 3: So I assume that's a priority. Tell me about what 89 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 3: we know about Emma Johnson, what kind of runner he is, 90 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,320 Speaker 3: and how dangerous that part of it might be, because 91 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:27,239 Speaker 3: I thought this is really more of a passing team anyway, 92 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,719 Speaker 3: But it sounds like Emma Johnson. In fact, I think 93 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:32,920 Speaker 3: last week didn't rush for like one hundred and seventy 94 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 3: seven yards, so they must Nebraska must be doing everything. Well, 95 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 3: what do we know about Emmett Yeah. 96 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 4: Offensively, we'll just say they are kind of passing team, 97 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:43,400 Speaker 4: but it's not what you would think when they have 98 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 4: a high profile quarterback. 99 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:48,280 Speaker 5: They're very dink and dunk. They're very short passes. 100 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:55,680 Speaker 4: Let the receivers make people miss the spreadulution powers. 101 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 6: To a t. 102 00:04:55,440 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, and their quarterback Royal is completing about seventy six 103 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 4: percent of his passes, but they're going for about seven 104 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 4: yards on average, and his wide receivers have one thousand 105 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 4: yards after the catch. He has sixteen hundred passing yards 106 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:09,880 Speaker 4: so far this season. One thousand of those have come 107 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 4: after the catch for the receivers. So they're not they're not, 108 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:15,039 Speaker 4: you know, they have explosive plays and explosive players, but 109 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:17,159 Speaker 4: it's not because they're just lining up and taking deep shots. 110 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 4: They're much more like we say, the power of completions bit. 111 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 4: But Johnson very quick, very elusive. And that's why it's 112 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:26,040 Speaker 4: scary really with all their skill position guys, because. 113 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 5: The Gophers haven't tackled well. 114 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 6: Now. 115 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 4: Early in the week we mentioned we mentioned the Cashman 116 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,280 Speaker 4: comment about the Vikings saying we're just too much leakage 117 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 4: where you have a guy wrapped up for a three 118 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:36,799 Speaker 4: yard game and all of a sudden, it's six or seven. 119 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:40,159 Speaker 4: That's been the Gophers for sure, and that's the biggest 120 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,680 Speaker 4: issue they have, not they're they're approaching about sixty misstackles 121 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 4: in the Power four games, which if that happens again tonight, 122 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:49,039 Speaker 4: that's where they do put up forty points on you. 123 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 4: And they've scored, you know, pretty much against everybody this year. 124 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 4: Their defense, I don't think has been quite as good. 125 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:57,039 Speaker 4: But they're just a really efficient offense. They've got, you know, 126 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 4: an old head coach, Dana Holgerson who's their offensive coordinator now, 127 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:03,720 Speaker 4: and Rayola is running the system really at a really 128 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:05,719 Speaker 4: really high level and spreading it around. They have four 129 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:09,800 Speaker 4: receivers with at least twenty catches, which the Gophers by reference, 130 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 4: have won. So they've got a lot of different ways 131 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 4: to beat you. 132 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 2: All right. 133 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 3: So in terms of it's been well documented, the Minnesota 134 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,719 Speaker 3: running game is not what it we're accustomed to under PJ. 135 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:22,359 Speaker 3: So what do you see? I mean, you got your 136 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 3: number one running back back. Is he the same? How 137 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:28,919 Speaker 3: much of it is is that he's not quite there 138 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:32,119 Speaker 3: for whatever reason. How much of it is he's getting 139 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:33,840 Speaker 3: hit almost as soon as he gets the ball. 140 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd say seventy five percent. That in twenty five percent. 141 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 4: Darius I put a lot of this on the offensive line, 142 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 4: and he's had, you know, he had, you know, one 143 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 4: opportunity last week to kind of break one. I think 144 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 4: he kind of slipped. That might be because he's rusty. 145 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 4: I don't know, but they're just not getting enough push. 146 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 4: They're just not getting enough. They're not being physical enough. 147 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 4: They're getting beaten up front. Their short yardage game all 148 00:06:56,839 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 4: season has not been very good. Third and one, fourth 149 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,479 Speaker 4: and one, third and two and two. They're basically in 150 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:04,280 Speaker 4: the thirty percentile for converting, which at a time was 151 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 4: the worst in the Big Ten. I know it was 152 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 4: last week. I can't imagine anybody's gone lower than them. 153 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 4: They just haven't been able to figure out the offensive 154 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 4: line stuff. And then you know, two of the Big 155 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 4: Ten games, they got down double digits so early that 156 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 4: they kind of had to abandon the run. They couldn't 157 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 4: waste any time trying to figure out if they were 158 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 4: going to be able to establish it. 159 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:23,480 Speaker 5: I think they thought they. 160 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 4: Would run the ball better last week, A lot of 161 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:28,560 Speaker 4: people had against Purdue. But once they got down, they 162 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:30,760 Speaker 4: got down ten and they wanted to. They had to 163 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 4: go with what they know they can do, which is 164 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:34,800 Speaker 4: put the ball in Drake Lindsay's hands and try to 165 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 4: get things going. That way ended up working just in 166 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 4: the nick of time for them to salvage the win yesterday. 167 00:07:40,640 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 4: But a lot of it, a lot of things have 168 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 4: been working against the running game, obviously Taylor being hurt 169 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:47,360 Speaker 4: for one, the way the games have unfolded too. But 170 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 4: part of the reasons that they've been down so early 171 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 4: is because they haven't been able to establish the run 172 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:53,720 Speaker 4: at the beginning and move the ball. But I put 173 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:56,600 Speaker 4: a lot of it up front, and they've mixed guys around. 174 00:07:56,680 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 4: They haven't really mixed new guys in, they've moved guys 175 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 4: around that are already on the offensive line in different positions. 176 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:04,800 Speaker 4: I think they might try that again tonight. We'll see, 177 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:07,120 Speaker 4: But they have to find a way to run the 178 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 4: ball enough, and Nebraska might be the team to do 179 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:10,840 Speaker 4: it against their allowing. 180 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,119 Speaker 5: Five yards of perry or more so far, Traa. 181 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:15,440 Speaker 4: So you'd like to think you got to get it enough, 182 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 4: because as much as you know I like Drake, it's 183 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,160 Speaker 4: just a big ask to throw everything on him every 184 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:21,760 Speaker 4: single game. 185 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 5: You got to give him a little bit of release somehow. 186 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that. 187 00:08:24,520 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 3: I think that might have caught up with him last 188 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 3: week at times too. Chris writes, if the Gophers repeat 189 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 3: the eighty four to thirteen beat down in Nebraska tonight, 190 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 3: would grim still blame the loss on the officiating. 191 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 5: If Nebraska repeats it? Yes, Well, it depends when do 192 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,280 Speaker 5: the calls happen, If they happen early, I'm important. 193 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:48,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, there's a lot that we're leaving out there 194 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:51,200 Speaker 4: that hypothetical. Well, see, I did did you hear that 195 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 4: I had to call him Sherol Reeve in the I. 196 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:55,240 Speaker 5: Think it was the Ohio State game. No, I had 197 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:56,680 Speaker 5: to call him Herol Reeve at one point. 198 00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a little of the night. There were 199 00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 4: a couple of bad calls in the first half, like it, 200 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:04,080 Speaker 4: and he never got throwing nuts on the air. And 201 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 4: so I did a sideline report and then threw it 202 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:07,320 Speaker 4: back to Cheryl Reeve because why not? 203 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 2: How did he take that? 204 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 5: I think it was. I think he understood where I 205 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:13,319 Speaker 5: was coming from. 206 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:16,280 Speaker 2: Okay, he wasn't. He didn't put that's good. 207 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 5: No, definitely not. 208 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:18,720 Speaker 2: That's it. 209 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 3: The famous long long time ago when I was working 210 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:25,720 Speaker 3: in Dallas. It was the eighty five Bears year and 211 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 3: the Bears come to Dallas. Bayless Skip Bayless was writing 212 00:09:30,200 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 3: a column. He was a colleague of mine at the 213 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 3: Start Tribute or Start Commune. It's the Dallas Morning News. 214 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:37,199 Speaker 3: And I don't know if he wrote a prediction column 215 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 3: that the that the that the Cowboys were going to 216 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:41,440 Speaker 3: upset him, or he just said it. 217 00:09:41,760 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 2: Maybe it was both, I'm not sure. 218 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 3: And early in that game the Cowboys missed on it. 219 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:50,680 Speaker 3: What it would have been like about a seventy yard 220 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:55,920 Speaker 3: touchdown pass right ball was just slightly overthrown, and Bayless 221 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:58,720 Speaker 3: was trying to tell people that could have changed everything. 222 00:09:58,720 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 2: That was my way in the game. 223 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 3: I think the Bears won it like fifty five to nothing, 224 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:06,000 Speaker 3: and I can still remember Gary Myers, who was another teammate, 225 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 3: walking up to Bayless in the press box, and you 226 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 3: think it might. 227 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:13,559 Speaker 2: Have been fifty five to seven. Skip. If if Tony. 228 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 3: Hillick caught that touchdown pass, Bayless did not appreciate that 229 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 3: at all, so same kind of same deal. 230 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 5: We'll never know. They didn't hit it. 231 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 2: He might have changed the whole thing. But the Bears. 232 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 3: Bears are not a good comfort behind team. Then who's 233 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 3: to say, all right, we'll enjoy tonight. You got good weather, 234 00:10:27,880 --> 00:10:30,560 Speaker 3: weather seemed. I think it's great. I don't think I 235 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:33,319 Speaker 3: see some clouds to the west, but I don't think 236 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 3: there's any rain in the forecast, so. 237 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 5: It shouldn't be Yeah, it looks awesome. 238 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:38,200 Speaker 2: This should be good. 239 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 3: All right, thanks for checking in. We'll talk next week. 240 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 3: Thanks Gurchy guards. He will be a part, of course, 241 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:46,719 Speaker 3: the Vikings pregame, which we'll start at five o'clock. That's 242 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 3: why we are out early today. We've got Ben Gesling 243 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 3: for the latest Vikings developments. In fact, we'll get to 244 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,240 Speaker 3: some of those developments as confirmed earlier today by the 245 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 3: head coach before we chat with Ben. 246 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 2: And then as I mentioned, we wrap up at five. 247 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:14,320 Speaker 1: Off the bye week, the Vikings will look to the 248 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 1: ground to the Philadelphia Eagles this Sunday at noon. Catch 249 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: every touchdown, every sack, and every game changing play right 250 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:22,640 Speaker 1: here on the audio home of the Minnesota Vikings Football 251 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:25,080 Speaker 1: kfe Ann and go on the goal, go with the 252 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:29,079 Speaker 1: free iHeartRadio app. And on the goal with the free 253 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. 254 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 3: All right, we are indeed back until well, Ben, guess 255 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:37,480 Speaker 3: I'm going to join us in about ten minutes. Today, 256 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:38,839 Speaker 3: I want to take a look at a few texts 257 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 3: that have come in as we prepare for him. Speaking 258 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:48,720 Speaker 3: of Geezers six or five, one guy writes, I'm not 259 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 3: sure you can call him a geezer yet, but the 260 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:52,079 Speaker 3: current favorite in Vegas to win the Oscar for Best 261 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:54,360 Speaker 3: Supporting Actor is sixty five year old Sean Penn for 262 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 3: his role in One Battle after Another. I've seen the 263 00:11:56,760 --> 00:12:01,920 Speaker 3: film and can attest that his performance is outstanding. Yeah, 264 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:04,679 Speaker 3: I don't know what the dividing line is when it 265 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:10,000 Speaker 3: comes to geezerdom, although as young as this whole culture 266 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:13,640 Speaker 3: seemed to be getting, that probably would be considered ancient, 267 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:17,120 Speaker 3: even though it's really not as ancient as it once was. 268 00:12:17,720 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 3: Who is Carl picking for the Vikings game? I'm pretty 269 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 3: sure he picked on an no brainer, the Eagles to win. 270 00:12:24,480 --> 00:12:29,199 Speaker 3: I think I understood him accurately there three to two. 271 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:31,079 Speaker 3: Oh guy, why do you allow this clown on a 272 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 3: Minnesota radio station. We do get some of those, not 273 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 3: as many lately, but occasionally get people whose sensibilities are 274 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:43,000 Speaker 3: offended by our willingness to continue to share radio time. 275 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:44,680 Speaker 2: With one. 276 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 3: Karl Gerbschmidt, I mentioned last night at the start of 277 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:55,040 Speaker 3: the show, the quarterback duel as it turned out, between 278 00:12:55,360 --> 00:12:59,959 Speaker 3: Joe cool Flacco of course, and Aaron Rodgers. I did 279 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 3: see the video after. I think it was rogers last 280 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:06,079 Speaker 3: touchdown pass. He probably got knocked down by one of 281 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 3: his linemen, and celebration did not take that all that well. 282 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 3: I was also told that he got mad at a 283 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:16,439 Speaker 3: I think his running one of his running backs, accusing 284 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 3: basically the player of this was the flea flicker attempt. 285 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:25,719 Speaker 3: And I thought what I read was that Rogers was 286 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 3: angry because he was acting as if that wasn't the 287 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:30,920 Speaker 3: call and the running back had blown it. But I've 288 00:13:30,920 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 3: read elsewhere that indeed that was the call, and Rogers 289 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 3: either missed it or did not want to acknowledge it. 290 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:38,480 Speaker 3: So there's always you know, I had said to Guardsy 291 00:13:39,440 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 3: yesterday that I thought this was a much more less tense, 292 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 3: more loosey goosey a Rodge than we're accustomed to helping 293 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 3: people helping jackals attach their microphones to the other microphones, 294 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 3: that doesn't fall off the stage, all. 295 00:13:57,120 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 2: That kind of good stuff. 296 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 3: But you saw, despite his success yesterday, a lot of 297 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 3: crankiness in his part too, so I don't know that 298 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:05,760 Speaker 3: you'll ever take all of the get off my lawn 299 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 3: off or out of Aaron Rodgers. But he looked pretty 300 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:13,920 Speaker 3: damn good to me last night. The game before, what 301 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:18,800 Speaker 3: I'd seen was a lot of safety stuff, a lot 302 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:23,800 Speaker 3: of short passes. Again, there's power and completions, we know that, 303 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 3: but what I saw in that game yesterday was I 304 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 3: think he completed I'm pretty sure you completed a third 305 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 3: and twelve or third and sixteen for a touchdown. And 306 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 3: we haven't seen that Aaron Rodgers in a while. 307 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 5: Now. 308 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 3: I grant Steelers looked awful again defensively, that has to 309 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:43,080 Speaker 3: be factored in. But I thought it was a great 310 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 3: quarterback matchup. And I sorry I was doing more of 311 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 3: the projecting about what that form of a Rodge might 312 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 3: have been here. 313 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:57,200 Speaker 2: I got the quick. 314 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 3: Retort, well, if we had, if you would have been 315 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:01,520 Speaker 3: working with art offensive line, they would have killed him 316 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 3: the first two weeks, which sounds good and there might 317 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 3: be some truth to it. But he's the master getting 318 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 3: the bottle of his hands quickly. And I think a 319 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 3: lot of Vikings fans are. They're in defense mode and 320 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 3: they are doing whatever they can to diminish contributions and 321 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 3: accomplishments from any other quarterback that the Vikings might have 322 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:27,560 Speaker 3: had while they wait for their guy, JJ McCarthy to 323 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 3: indeed return. And so now official. If you've not heard, 324 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 3: no surprise, We had already pretty much told you this 325 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:39,680 Speaker 3: on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday that Carson Wentz would 326 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:42,720 Speaker 3: start in this game. The head coach made it official 327 00:15:42,840 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 3: just after two o'clock. And to me, the more tantalizing 328 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 3: nugget is that McCarthy will not be the backup quarterback either. 329 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:56,640 Speaker 3: Guarzi's guy, Max Brosmer will be the backup and McCarthy 330 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:03,080 Speaker 3: will be the emergency quarterback. And I we're going to 331 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:06,200 Speaker 3: talk to Ben about whether we're getting we're starting to 332 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 3: get close to the point where there's some concern about 333 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:12,600 Speaker 3: just the recovery ability of this guy. I mean, that's 334 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 3: another form of ability. There's availability, there's ability, there's availability, 335 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:24,800 Speaker 3: there's durability, and there's recoverability. How quickly can you bounce 336 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 3: back from whatever you have? And some players have the 337 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:34,920 Speaker 3: knack to do that and perform well with injuries. And look, 338 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 3: that's not at the top of the list with JJ 339 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:41,560 Speaker 3: McCarthy but it's an important facet of how we evaluate players, 340 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:44,400 Speaker 3: and certainly how we evaluate quarterbacks, is how quickly can 341 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 3: you bounce back. I still do worry about He just 342 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:52,240 Speaker 3: looks slight to me. He just does not look very strong, 343 00:16:53,720 --> 00:16:55,880 Speaker 3: and I do worry that that might catch up with 344 00:16:55,960 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 3: him as well. Bottom line is, it's when's his team 345 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:02,600 Speaker 3: this week? It gets likely it'll be Carson Wentz's team Thursday, 346 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 3: and then at that point that's where it really gets interesting, 347 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:09,520 Speaker 3: because if you don't play McCarthy when the Vikings return 348 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:12,879 Speaker 3: to action in Detroit the following a week from the 349 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:17,639 Speaker 3: following Sunday, then you'll know something is up. If you 350 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 3: follow a story like we like to do on this show, 351 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 3: these quarterbacks sagas often simply, I guess you could say, 352 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:33,200 Speaker 3: reveal themselves. They take care of themselves. If Wentz struggles, 353 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:35,840 Speaker 3: it'll be easier to say it's time to go back 354 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:38,360 Speaker 3: to McCarthy and give him a chance to really take 355 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:41,119 Speaker 3: the reins of this team. If Wentz plays well and 356 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:44,240 Speaker 3: they beat the Eagles, he's playing against the Chargers. If 357 00:17:44,280 --> 00:17:47,520 Speaker 3: he plays well and the Vikings beat the Chargers, I 358 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:51,119 Speaker 3: think he deserves to play again, and I'll keep putting 359 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:53,800 Speaker 3: it off until he gives me a reason to go 360 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:56,160 Speaker 3: back to the other position. I've been around too many 361 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 3: teams and too many coaches for me to think that 362 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:01,399 Speaker 3: the Viking are going to move away from that just 363 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,840 Speaker 3: because the original plan was we got to get him 364 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 3: playing time and experience this year. The Vikings, once they 365 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:13,679 Speaker 3: made the decision to build on what took place a 366 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:17,119 Speaker 3: year ago add more talent, they opened the door as 367 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:20,720 Speaker 3: far as I'm concerned, to the possibility that if the 368 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 3: guy they want to hand the ball off to is injured, 369 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:26,159 Speaker 3: they're going to have to keep playing the games with 370 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:28,480 Speaker 3: whoever can help them win. And if that player helps 371 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:30,920 Speaker 3: them win or is not considered part of the problem, 372 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,119 Speaker 3: you're going to keep playing him. This coaching staff, we 373 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:37,639 Speaker 3: heard it from Alec Lewis yesterday. This coaching staff, this 374 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:40,640 Speaker 3: general manager has two They they all have too much 375 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:43,400 Speaker 3: to lose at this point to just cavalierly throw away 376 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:45,359 Speaker 3: a season and say, well, if we have to lose 377 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 3: games to get McCarthy up to speed, we will do 378 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:53,239 Speaker 3: so willingly. I just don't think that works. Remember, this 379 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:58,040 Speaker 3: staff does not have a single playoff victory. That's going 380 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 3: to start being noticed pretty soon, even with gaudy regular 381 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 3: season records. So we'll see how it goes. We'll see 382 00:19:03,080 --> 00:19:05,920 Speaker 3: what happens on Sunday, and we'll come back and get 383 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:09,119 Speaker 3: the injury update not just at the quarterback position, but 384 00:19:09,240 --> 00:19:12,680 Speaker 3: at several other spots with our guy Ben Gestling. 385 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:13,320 Speaker 6: He is next. 386 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:21,520 Speaker 1: It's Purple Friday here on the Fan, and we've got 387 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,720 Speaker 1: your tickets into Sunday Nights Showdown with Philly. Be caller 388 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:27,120 Speaker 1: number eleven right now to win a pair of tickets 389 00:19:27,160 --> 00:19:29,400 Speaker 1: to see the Vikings take on the Eagles this Sunday 390 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:29,959 Speaker 1: call now. 391 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 3: Br indeed, wrapping up the program early today because Vikings, 392 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,439 Speaker 3: I should say, go for a pregame show will start 393 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:48,959 Speaker 3: at five o'clock this very evening. We'll have a one 394 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:53,160 Speaker 3: hour edition to Sunday Sermons on Sunday leading into Vikings Eagles. 395 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:56,240 Speaker 3: That's where our next guest will be Ben Gestling, joining 396 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 3: us via the Connecticot Water Systems hotline. Ben brought to 397 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:05,639 Speaker 3: you by Stand Heating and Air Conditioning. I'm looking at 398 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,480 Speaker 3: a piece. It looks like this is from New York 399 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:16,040 Speaker 3: Post about an appearance by the by Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer. 400 00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:21,280 Speaker 3: He was on in Boston ninety eight point five the 401 00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:25,480 Speaker 3: Sports Hub, and the subject was Drake May, who, after 402 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 3: some struggles last year, seems to be emerging right in 403 00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 3: his second season. Here's what they claim Breer said regarding 404 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:39,479 Speaker 3: what the Minnesota Vikings offered to move up to get 405 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 3: Drake May. He says the Vikings offered the Patriots the 406 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:49,160 Speaker 3: eleventh pick, the twenty third pick, a twenty twenty five 407 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:53,040 Speaker 3: first round pick, as well as some pickswaps. 408 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:54,440 Speaker 2: Later on to move up. 409 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 3: Now, I think you know very well just how interested 410 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:03,920 Speaker 3: and fascinated by Drake May, Koc and the Vikings were. 411 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 3: Do those specifics align with what you remember? Does that 412 00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:08,920 Speaker 3: sound about right? 413 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:09,600 Speaker 1: Or what do you. 414 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:13,919 Speaker 3: Remember about that period? I guess I gotta pot him 415 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,680 Speaker 3: up there? Did you now we got him? 416 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:16,280 Speaker 5: You hear us? 417 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 2: Okay? 418 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:21,400 Speaker 3: Now no, we don't have uh, we don't unfortunately have. 419 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 2: Mister guestling. So we'll see. 420 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 3: Uh. Kara's working the phones right now to get a 421 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 3: tink a ticket giveaway going, and we'll try. 422 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,320 Speaker 2: Let me try Ben again, Ben, can you hear us? Okay? 423 00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,000 Speaker 6: Now? Yeah? 424 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,879 Speaker 3: Yeah, unfortunately we couldn't. Yeah, we we weren't getting you 425 00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 3: on our end. 426 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:44,040 Speaker 6: Okay, Well, I'll go into my uh. I I had 427 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 6: started a very profound and ribbing answer on Drake May. Yes, 428 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:51,679 Speaker 6: I uh, take one is unfortunately lost to history, but 429 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:53,359 Speaker 6: attempt to recreate it. 430 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 3: The best you can get that summon up that same 431 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 3: emotion if at all possible. 432 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:00,479 Speaker 5: As hard as that is, Yeah, you know it's always hard. 433 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,880 Speaker 6: For the second time, that's true. I can do now. Yeah, 434 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 6: I do think that is about right in terms of 435 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 6: what they were looking to send to the Patriots in 436 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:13,120 Speaker 6: those negotiations. I think when they made them move up 437 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 6: to get back into the first round in twenty twenty 438 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:19,680 Speaker 6: four to get that second first round pick, I always 439 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:24,280 Speaker 6: thought that was with the idea that they could trade 440 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,160 Speaker 6: that pick if they wanted to move up get Drake May. 441 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,040 Speaker 6: I think the thing they wanted to avoid the whole 442 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:32,879 Speaker 6: time was having to give up three years worth of 443 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:34,879 Speaker 6: first round picks. I don't think they wanted to be 444 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:38,600 Speaker 6: without a number one choice for three years if they 445 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,159 Speaker 6: made a deal. So I think part of their thinking was, 446 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:43,960 Speaker 6: let's try to send two of those and then send 447 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:47,160 Speaker 6: this year's. It would have been twenty twenty five when 448 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,360 Speaker 6: I said this year, that's what I mean. It would 449 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:51,560 Speaker 6: have been the twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five 450 00:22:51,560 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 6: first round picks, but they would not have had to 451 00:22:53,359 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 6: part with another one a further year into that quarterbacks contract. 452 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:02,120 Speaker 6: So yeah, I think that is about right. And obviously 453 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,840 Speaker 6: the Patriots decided we don't want to do it. We 454 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:06,920 Speaker 6: want either more than that, or we're going to sit 455 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:09,200 Speaker 6: and pick the guy that we are going to take 456 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,760 Speaker 6: it number three. And I think the way Drake May 457 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:13,760 Speaker 6: has played this year shows you why they had to 458 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,119 Speaker 6: kind of fat in him. I mean he has I 459 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 6: think the benefit of he's had the benefit of time. 460 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:23,639 Speaker 6: He has done a little bit last year, but the 461 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 6: way he's played he certainly looks like the answer at 462 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,040 Speaker 6: that position. I mean that is revitalized that franchise in 463 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,480 Speaker 6: a pretty significant way. And you see a lot of 464 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:33,480 Speaker 6: why the Viking has liked him as much as they did. 465 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 6: Ultimately probably in the end why the Patriots said, you 466 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 6: know what, we're going to stick and pick, and it 467 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,000 Speaker 6: certainly looks like that has paid off to them at 468 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:42,399 Speaker 6: this point. 469 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 3: It speaks to a subject you and I have explored 470 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:50,159 Speaker 3: and I've explored elsewhere on this show pretty much all summer, 471 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:55,399 Speaker 3: to the unfairness that JJ McCarthy is going to have 472 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 3: to live with is already living with, and it's definitely 473 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:01,200 Speaker 3: going to have to live with now whenever he comes back, 474 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,080 Speaker 3: right because he's not. 475 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:05,480 Speaker 2: He's not. I don't care what the fans say. 476 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 3: He's not going to be given because of the infrastructure 477 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:15,119 Speaker 3: of the team itself, the opportunity to struggle quite as long, 478 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,919 Speaker 3: quite as often as you say Drake May did a 479 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,239 Speaker 3: year ago. The Patriots were in a position a year 480 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,880 Speaker 3: ago where they knew they weren't really going anywhere, even 481 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:25,040 Speaker 3: though I'm sure the head coach wanted to win because 482 00:24:25,040 --> 00:24:26,199 Speaker 3: he was on his way going to be on his 483 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,320 Speaker 3: way out the door and he was fired. But the 484 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 3: fact is they knew, right all right, we're not going anywhere, 485 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:34,639 Speaker 3: So let's throw him out there. He's our best option 486 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:37,679 Speaker 3: right now and see if we can get him to 487 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 3: the other side so that by the time you get 488 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:42,440 Speaker 3: back this year he's starting to feeld a little bit. 489 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 3: McCarthy is not going to have that luxury, whether he 490 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:45,800 Speaker 3: deserves it or not. 491 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:47,520 Speaker 5: No, he's not. 492 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:51,800 Speaker 6: And that has always been the tricky balancing act of 493 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,520 Speaker 6: this where you have a team that is set up 494 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:57,600 Speaker 6: to win now and I think this is kind of 495 00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 6: part and parcel to the way the Vikings have done 496 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,919 Speaker 6: things for long time. Not an organization that wants to 497 00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:07,400 Speaker 6: drop into these deep valleys and say let's amass all 498 00:25:07,440 --> 00:25:10,720 Speaker 6: of these high picks from years of being bad and 499 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,960 Speaker 6: then you kind of go at it and say, now 500 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,320 Speaker 6: we've got our foundation, we can build the thing back up. 501 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:20,080 Speaker 6: It has been trying to win while keeping the roster refreshed, 502 00:25:20,119 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 6: and that is a difficult thing to do. There's a 503 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:23,840 Speaker 6: reason you don't see a lot of teams do it, 504 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 6: but it has been very much I think the way 505 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 6: the Vikings have got about it for most of the 506 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 6: Will's ownership of the team over the last twenty one years, 507 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 6: and certainly in the fourteen years I've been covering the team, 508 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 6: that's been the way they've typically gone about it. So 509 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,440 Speaker 6: it does in this type of situation put people in 510 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 6: a tough spot, with a young quarterback on tough spot, 511 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,520 Speaker 6: I should say, because you're not necessarily talking about this 512 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,600 Speaker 6: long development period where there are no stakes to it. 513 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 6: You can still develop them, but it does come at 514 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 6: that time where you're also trying to win. And I 515 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 6: think what they have hoped to do is put enough 516 00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,680 Speaker 6: piece around him that if he's at least playing kind 517 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:07,800 Speaker 6: of sufficient starting caliber quarterback level, you don't have to 518 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 6: necessarily the best in the league. But if you can 519 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,400 Speaker 6: get representative play from him, they're going to be good 520 00:26:13,440 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 6: enough everywhere else to make it count. And I think 521 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 6: that's still very much the hope when he gets back. 522 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,840 Speaker 6: But yeah, there is no doubt it is a unique situation. 523 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:23,919 Speaker 6: It is not when you see a lot of teams 524 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,479 Speaker 6: go through and some of that was I suppose they 525 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:29,560 Speaker 6: had so much success with Sam Darnold last year while 526 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,480 Speaker 6: they're waiting on JJ McCarthy to recover from that injury, 527 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:35,360 Speaker 6: that it changes the expectations. But that is where they are, 528 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,920 Speaker 6: and I think it makes it a unique line for 529 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:40,440 Speaker 6: them and him to have to walk. 530 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 3: You know, I think it sort of became academic this week, 531 00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 3: did it not? As the week went on, Yeah, and 532 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 3: McCarthy was limited in practice, and you have the head 533 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:51,680 Speaker 3: coach on record saying he's got to have a full 534 00:26:51,720 --> 00:26:54,879 Speaker 3: week of practice. Whatever debate we want to have or 535 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,320 Speaker 3: think we should have regarding who should be starting at 536 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 3: the position, how quickly it became immateial, right, It all 537 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 3: became academic. That mclearly McCarthy is not ready to play, 538 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 3: and that there is no other choice other than I guess, 539 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:14,440 Speaker 3: you know, opening the door to Brozmer playing if indeed 540 00:27:14,760 --> 00:27:18,040 Speaker 3: Wentz is favoring that shoulder or he gets re injured 541 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 3: in that area. 542 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,520 Speaker 2: If you're not ready to play, you're not going to play, correct. 543 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, I think that's it. And I think when 544 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,840 Speaker 6: he came out on trying to lost track of my 545 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,120 Speaker 6: days on Wednesday, when he talked and said, it's not 546 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,240 Speaker 6: one hundred percent, it's getting there, but it's not there. 547 00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,560 Speaker 6: I mean, Kevin O'Connell has been pretty clear that he's 548 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,720 Speaker 6: not going to play unless he's fully recovered from that thing. 549 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:46,480 Speaker 6: And the whole idea of the emergency quarterback thing this week. 550 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,800 Speaker 6: I know, if he were to get in there, you know, 551 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:52,800 Speaker 6: that could be the one loophole to that, But in general, 552 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 6: they're not going to put him in that situation. I 553 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,080 Speaker 6: think it's it's unlikely enough that they end up in 554 00:27:58,320 --> 00:28:00,399 Speaker 6: the spot where they need the emergency thing. I'm not 555 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:03,200 Speaker 6: sure it's worth spending a ton of time be laboring, 556 00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:04,879 Speaker 6: Oh is he healthy enough for that or is he 557 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:06,800 Speaker 6: not helping enough for the other stuff. I think the 558 00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,439 Speaker 6: fact that he's not one hundred percent yet is the 559 00:28:10,480 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 6: main reason he's not starting. You're not going to see 560 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:16,160 Speaker 6: him go back out there when that is still the case. 561 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,240 Speaker 6: And I think when he said that on Wednesday, it 562 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 6: made it pretty clear this is how it's going to 563 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 6: go this week. 564 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:27,000 Speaker 3: So we got into the subject yesterday about timetables and 565 00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,719 Speaker 3: you know, high ankle sprains are problematic. We get all 566 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,960 Speaker 3: of that, but when you know, you mentioned the statement 567 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:37,120 Speaker 3: that was the alarm bell to me was the player himself. 568 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:38,920 Speaker 3: And you know, I'm not asking the player to lie, 569 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,200 Speaker 3: But when the player itself says I'm not one hundred 570 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 3: percent and it's annoying, and the head coach is calling 571 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 3: the injury unique, then I'm start you know, then I 572 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 3: start wondering, well, is there more going on here? And 573 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:54,920 Speaker 3: internally might there be any sort of frustration that it 574 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,080 Speaker 3: is taking this long? Because we're now I think today 575 00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,440 Speaker 3: is day thirty three. I had my math all wrong. 576 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,320 Speaker 3: Last week had him out six weeks, So that's not 577 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,160 Speaker 3: possible because he played obviously the second week. 578 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 2: But yeah, we're coming up on to me close to 579 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,880 Speaker 2: where you're going. Well, now this is lingering the more 580 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:11,640 Speaker 2: than we thought. 581 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,760 Speaker 3: What do you think the internal feeling is on that 582 00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 3: and does that have anything to do with what seemed 583 00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,280 Speaker 3: like a more tense version of koc as the week 584 00:29:21,320 --> 00:29:21,600 Speaker 3: went on. 585 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 6: Well, I think the tension was he has been I 586 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,600 Speaker 6: think bothered by this idea that, well, it's not a 587 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,360 Speaker 6: real injury. So when he said the unique thing too, 588 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,600 Speaker 6: I think that was yes, part of that. He used 589 00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,520 Speaker 6: the word unique, the word he really wanted to have there, 590 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,720 Speaker 6: kind of as a clapback, probably to people with the 591 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,120 Speaker 6: fact that he said it's a real injury. I see that, Okay, 592 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 6: got much by his intention of trying to say, no, 593 00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,280 Speaker 6: this is a real thing. And I think you know, 594 00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,880 Speaker 6: the conversations I've had there have if it's not real. 595 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:03,200 Speaker 6: They have spent enough on MRI's that I would not 596 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,320 Speaker 6: imagine you're sending a bill to a doctor for that, 597 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:09,320 Speaker 6: if you're trying to do it for a fake injury. 598 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 6: I mean that they have done. I mean you're not 599 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:14,600 Speaker 6: You're not doing that. It's a real injury. They have 600 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:16,720 Speaker 6: treated it as such, and I think the fact that 601 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:20,360 Speaker 6: they've done the number of exams they've done with it 602 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 6: is further evidence of that. And they frankly have to 603 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 6: be lying on the injury report if if it was 604 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 6: so some of that, I think he has been bothered 605 00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:31,320 Speaker 6: by that. Uh you know, that conspiracy theory that's crept 606 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 6: up a lot, and this idea that he is lying about, 607 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 6: the idea that being a real injury has, you know, 608 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,600 Speaker 6: given him a little more edge probably. I think some 609 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 6: of those comments that he made this week are with 610 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,560 Speaker 6: regard to that. So as far as internal expectations of 611 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 6: any of this stuff taking too long, I don't really 612 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,800 Speaker 6: get that sense. I think it's something that they want 613 00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:01,320 Speaker 6: to get resolved. I know he's annoyed with it, and 614 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:03,440 Speaker 6: he talked about, you know, if I could cut my ankle, 615 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,520 Speaker 6: if I'd go out there and play, and certainly that's 616 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:10,640 Speaker 6: not going to happen. But the general idea of do 617 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:13,440 Speaker 6: you put him out there now versus thinking about the 618 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:15,480 Speaker 6: fact that he's twenty two and you want her to 619 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,680 Speaker 6: be the quarterback long term? There is that tension because 620 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,600 Speaker 6: I know, I know he wants to go, and I 621 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:23,120 Speaker 6: know they want him to be available. But you're not 622 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,320 Speaker 6: talking about a guy that's thirty four years old or 623 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,240 Speaker 6: you know, thirty eight years old or something like that. 624 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 6: You are trying to get him a to a point 625 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,240 Speaker 6: where he's healthy that there's not going to be some 626 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,520 Speaker 6: kind of bigger issue, and be to the point where 627 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:40,040 Speaker 6: he is feeling strong and trusting that ankle and knowing 628 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:41,880 Speaker 6: he can do what he wants to do and drive 629 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:43,880 Speaker 6: off of it and be able to make plays on 630 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:45,520 Speaker 6: the run. I mean, all of those parts of his 631 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,800 Speaker 6: game depend on that back foot being strong. So I 632 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 6: think a lot of what they're dealing with is just 633 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,280 Speaker 6: the fact that it's a long timetable. I mean, ankles 634 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:57,600 Speaker 6: are tricky in part because they just they don't get 635 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,000 Speaker 6: a lot of blood flow. I mean anything in our feet. Abay, 636 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:02,560 Speaker 6: he's ever had a foot or ankle injury knows that 637 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 6: it take a long time to heal, just because you 638 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,200 Speaker 6: don't get as much circulation as that part of your body, 639 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:11,000 Speaker 6: and it makes it a longer recovery process. So you 640 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,520 Speaker 6: kind of end up in these spots where it takes 641 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,800 Speaker 6: a while, and especially at playing that position in that 642 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,600 Speaker 6: particular foot. I think as another layer to the whole 643 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,959 Speaker 6: thing why it requires some patience, even if it's frustrating 644 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:24,320 Speaker 6: to have it. 645 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:24,920 Speaker 5: Is there. 646 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:29,080 Speaker 3: Do we get any sense about Wentz's shoulder in that, 647 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 3: I mean, is it sort of like he's one shoulder tweak, 648 00:32:35,520 --> 00:32:40,680 Speaker 3: We're one shoulder tweak away from Max Brosmer being the quarterback. 649 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,959 Speaker 3: Or is he seemingly come back pretty strong from this thing, 650 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,920 Speaker 3: because it feels like all the emphasis or much of 651 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 3: it has been on on on JJ. But what do 652 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:53,760 Speaker 3: we know about the extent of the injury, the shoulder injury, 653 00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:55,800 Speaker 3: how he can be it can be protected, or whether 654 00:32:55,840 --> 00:33:00,479 Speaker 3: that's a real concern regardless of McCarthy's condition going into Sunday. 655 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:03,040 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a good point. I mean we've talked to 656 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 6: macarthy all week. But yes, Carson Wentz came out of 657 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 6: that game. I think that shoulder was pretty banged up 658 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,120 Speaker 6: coming out of it. He played with the harness in 659 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,280 Speaker 6: the second half of it. But the fact that he 660 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,800 Speaker 6: was a full participant every day this week, I think 661 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 6: it's a good sign. I mean, they did not have 662 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,280 Speaker 6: any day where they had to limit him because of it, 663 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 6: So I think they've been able to manage it to 664 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:27,200 Speaker 6: the point where he should be able to do everything 665 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:28,640 Speaker 6: you want to do. And he said, you know, some 666 00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:30,840 Speaker 6: of it's a matter I need to slide and need 667 00:33:30,840 --> 00:33:32,840 Speaker 6: to take a little better care of my body as 668 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,480 Speaker 6: I go through it, But no, I don't think he'll 669 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:38,560 Speaker 6: be limited by anything with where it stands. I mean, 670 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,440 Speaker 6: you're always because it's your left shoulder. It's the front 671 00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:44,120 Speaker 6: side when you're throwing, and it is possible to get 672 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,560 Speaker 6: hit there, and you have to figure out what you do. 673 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,560 Speaker 6: You know, can you put it in a harness again? 674 00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,000 Speaker 6: Can you figure out of the ways to manage the pain? 675 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 6: I mean, people could figure out what I mean by that. 676 00:33:55,840 --> 00:34:00,440 Speaker 6: It is something that they'll have to worry about if 677 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,600 Speaker 6: it gets if it takes another big shot, you know, 678 00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,920 Speaker 6: if he has to figure out a way to get 679 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,160 Speaker 6: through the game. But overall, I think the way he's 680 00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,560 Speaker 6: gone through the week, he should be in a pretty 681 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 6: good spot to start. It didn't seem like it was 682 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,520 Speaker 6: something that limited any of the work he did this week. 683 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:17,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, that seems fair. All right. 684 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:21,480 Speaker 3: So among the rest of the injuries, well, give me 685 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:23,640 Speaker 3: a sense of who you think will start along the 686 00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:24,680 Speaker 3: offensive line. 687 00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:29,279 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I think Donovan Jackson will be back. The 688 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,040 Speaker 6: fact that he did not have an injury status today, 689 00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:36,080 Speaker 6: I think it's excuse me, it's significant because I think 690 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:39,840 Speaker 6: he had played relatively well at that left guard spot 691 00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:42,720 Speaker 6: to this point. I would expect he is back on Sunday, 692 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,360 Speaker 6: and then Blake Brandell starts at the center once again. 693 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,600 Speaker 6: Michael Jorgen still questionable coming back from the hamstring, and 694 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:52,440 Speaker 6: I think Brandell played well enough that they will say 695 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:54,919 Speaker 6: let's stick with it, and they announced he will start, 696 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:58,440 Speaker 6: and I think part of that is because he played 697 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:00,799 Speaker 6: well with Carson Wentz and it gives you a little 698 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,479 Speaker 6: more size against that Eagles defensive line. When you're talking 699 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:08,799 Speaker 6: about Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis in the middle of it. 700 00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:10,560 Speaker 6: It is a lot to deal with when you have 701 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:13,160 Speaker 6: those two tackles, and Brandell gives them a little more 702 00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:16,920 Speaker 6: size against those guys. And then obviously Will Fries is healthy, 703 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,600 Speaker 6: and then Brian O'Neill will be the kind of the question. 704 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,960 Speaker 6: He's questionable for the game. He said today that if 705 00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:24,919 Speaker 6: he plays, he'd had to play with a brace. He's 706 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,960 Speaker 6: had a fairly big brace on that knee this week. 707 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:31,359 Speaker 6: So I would be a little surprised if they say 708 00:35:31,440 --> 00:35:33,880 Speaker 6: let's go out and do it this week, especially knowing 709 00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:36,520 Speaker 6: that you have a short week, the turnarounds a little tougher. 710 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,400 Speaker 6: I wouldn't be surprised if they say they're going to 711 00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:43,680 Speaker 6: wait on that one, but at least as healthy as 712 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,279 Speaker 6: they are right now. I mean Ryan Kelly is on 713 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:50,040 Speaker 6: the injured reserve list with concussions. But otherwise, if you 714 00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,160 Speaker 6: look at kind of their best case scenario, they should 715 00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:54,560 Speaker 6: have a lot of it. I think it's going to 716 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,160 Speaker 6: be healthier than it's been. O'Neill would be, at least 717 00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:58,440 Speaker 6: as I see it at this point. Kind of the 718 00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,280 Speaker 6: big question going into Sunday. It may be justin school 719 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:05,600 Speaker 6: there again at right tackle, but from Jackson to Brandell 720 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:07,960 Speaker 6: to Fries and then of course Christian Dearris on the 721 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:10,400 Speaker 6: left side, they should be healthier than they've been to 722 00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:10,759 Speaker 6: this point. 723 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:12,120 Speaker 3: All Right, we all got about I think about a 724 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:17,560 Speaker 3: minute left. I have officially picked nebrask could have beat 725 00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:21,440 Speaker 3: the Gophers tonight, and the Vikings to beat the Eagles 726 00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:24,560 Speaker 3: on Sunday at high noon. Will I regret the ladder 727 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:25,680 Speaker 3: of those two picks? 728 00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:28,239 Speaker 6: You know, I went back and forth on this. I 729 00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,120 Speaker 6: initially was going to pick the Eagles, but I think 730 00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:33,120 Speaker 6: the Vikings recovery from some of these injuries has been 731 00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:36,080 Speaker 6: better than what the Eagles have had this week. I 732 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,239 Speaker 6: mean Landon Dickerson, their guard, was a full participant today, 733 00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:41,840 Speaker 6: but he's still questionable. Jalen Carter's had the heel injury 734 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:43,840 Speaker 6: this week. He said he's good to go, but I 735 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:45,880 Speaker 6: think the Eagles have had some caution with that. So 736 00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:48,480 Speaker 6: neither of these teams have been very good at stopping 737 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,640 Speaker 6: to run, and I think the Vikings probably will do 738 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,160 Speaker 6: it a little bit better, especially with Blake Cashman back. 739 00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,239 Speaker 6: I think that's a big deal for them as well. 740 00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,600 Speaker 6: So I actually did pick the Vikings in this one. 741 00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:01,080 Speaker 6: And Yeah, much as I I hate to say it, 742 00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,000 Speaker 6: I think you're going to be right on the Gophers 743 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:05,080 Speaker 6: today too. I was at the homecoming game. I think 744 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:08,279 Speaker 6: they're going to have trouble defensively being able to keep 745 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:11,120 Speaker 6: things where they want them, and it won't be you know, 746 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:13,360 Speaker 6: nineteen whatever year that was, nineteen. 747 00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:15,000 Speaker 5: Eighty three or eighty four to thirteen. 748 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:16,640 Speaker 6: I think Nebraska wins that tonight. 749 00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:16,920 Speaker 5: Yeah. 750 00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,960 Speaker 3: Nebraska is weird, you know. They they can every time 751 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,560 Speaker 3: you think they're breaking through, then they turn around and 752 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:23,799 Speaker 3: lose a game they're not supposed to. 753 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, but I still think that's the way it might go. 754 00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:30,960 Speaker 3: And are you in the group that believes that whence, 755 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:35,000 Speaker 3: unless it's a disaster On Sunday he's likely to start Thursday, 756 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:36,960 Speaker 3: just again because it's such a quick turnaround. 757 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,759 Speaker 6: Yeah, I am. I think unless he gets hurt, or 758 00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:43,080 Speaker 6: unless there's something that's a major disaster, like you said, 759 00:37:43,280 --> 00:37:46,040 Speaker 6: I think he starts. I mean, I'm sure McCarthy would 760 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,400 Speaker 6: love to play in that game. Apologies to Amazon that 761 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,960 Speaker 6: you don't think the McCarthy versus Harball yese necessarily, But yeah, 762 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,480 Speaker 6: I think it's wentz Thursday night, barring anything terribly weird 763 00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:54,960 Speaker 6: on Sunday. 764 00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,520 Speaker 3: Thanks as always for the help. We appreciate you. We'll 765 00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:01,160 Speaker 3: talk next week. Thank you, Ben all right, Ben Guestling's 766 00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:05,000 Speaker 3: standard heating and air conditioning brings us Ben to it, 767 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,759 Speaker 3: brings Ben to you each and every week. You're hearing 768 00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:12,000 Speaker 3: the music early the Spinners because we're done for the 769 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:16,440 Speaker 3: Gopher pregame show. Guardsey and Company are coming up next 770 00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:20,319 Speaker 3: Gopher's Nebraska. I'll be back with a one hour edition 771 00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:25,320 Speaker 3: of Sunday Sermons at nine o'clock after Gopher football Sunday 772 00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:27,480 Speaker 3: as well. Thanks for watching, thanks for listening, enjoy the 773 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:28,960 Speaker 3: evening and we will talk then. 774 00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:40,480 Speaker 6: What you say you