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Speaker 3: That talkback, that pressed me a little bit. Yeah, just

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Speaker 3: quick clitch Philadelphia Vikings, McCarthy and Wentz both healthy. I

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Speaker 3: think it's Wentz, do you? But is that what you

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Speaker 3: want it to be? I'm not asking for a prediction. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: see the want part for me or what I think

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Speaker 3: is right, And just I can't get there simply because

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Speaker 3: I just don't know enough about the whole thing. And

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Speaker 3: like the dedication to the McCarthy plan, which is a

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Speaker 3: dedicated plan, But like I said, does it have to

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Speaker 3: start in that one?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 1: I so yes.

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Speaker 2: My want is that McCarthy is healthy, McCarthy is ready

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Speaker 2: to work from a platform to build from and we

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Speaker 2: can finally get to see him. That's my want and

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Speaker 2: that's going to remain that while I continue to root

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Speaker 2: and appreciate what Carson's bringing, but the key for me

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Speaker 2: and while none of it to that Talkbacker's point, I

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Speaker 2: do agree McConnell's offered nothing definitive on it, but there's

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Speaker 2: so much that you can't be definitive on in terms

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Speaker 2: of the health of the O line, health of the kid.

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Speaker 2: Where I'm going with this now, and that's why I

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Speaker 2: was going more predictive than what I want is that

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Speaker 2: O'Connell from the beginning until the kid QB is going

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Speaker 2: through full weeks.

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Speaker 1: Of practice or a full week of practice.

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Speaker 2: That the rhythm is good, and that I believe I

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Speaker 2: can put him in a position to play his best

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Speaker 2: and that he's ready to do so. You know that's

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Speaker 2: going to be part of the recovery conversation, which is

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Speaker 2: not definitive.

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Speaker 1: Then that's what.

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Speaker 2: Leads me down a road of he was unable to

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Speaker 2: get a ton of a ton of quality reps in

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Speaker 2: practice in London this week. You do have the buy

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Speaker 2: so you're gonna be messing around a little bit on

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Speaker 2: the field and you're gonna find some stuff. But to

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Speaker 2: then just jump in he's fully healthy, fully practicing into

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Speaker 2: the Philly game. I have a hard time believing that

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Speaker 2: at this particular point. So I think he's mum on

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Speaker 2: it because it provides inflexibility because of this crazy turnstile

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Speaker 2: affair we've seen at the offensive line. Because wild Carson

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Speaker 2: Wentz has not quote unquote lit it up or gone

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Speaker 2: lights out per se. He's made mistakes along the way,

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Speaker 2: he's also provided that poison that calm at that spot.

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Speaker 2: So for me, when the kid is fully healthy and

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Speaker 2: he's fully practicing, best of luck to Carson Wentz. I

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Speaker 2: need to see number nine in there, and I love

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Speaker 2: how you laid that out.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if after San Francisco beat the La

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Speaker 3: Rams it was an upset to it's so vibe from

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Speaker 3: a point spreads down to give me mac Jones. By

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Speaker 3: the way, Yeah, remember remember what his real first name is, mccorkyl.

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Speaker 1: Is it mccorkyl. Remember he's mccorkyl. That's right, mccorkyl. Jells mccorkyl.

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Speaker 3: So mccorkyl, okay goes lights out like part of a

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Speaker 1: And I don't corkyl.

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Speaker 3: I don't recall anybody asking Carson this, and if they have,

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Speaker 3: I've missed it. But McCorkle was asked after the game

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Speaker 3: because Purdy, you know, with a toe like out out played. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: did his best, but his best was second best, sat out.

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Speaker 3: Mccorkyl plays. Mccorkyl goes lights out. I saw that quote

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Speaker 3: you're talking about. Yeah, I mean, how about that thing.

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Speaker 3: I mean that is so one or two of ten

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Speaker 3: of what everybody in this world says about situations like that.

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Speaker 3: He's pushed on it and he's like, I was brought

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Speaker 3: in here to be Rock Perdy's backup. And if I'm paraphrasing,

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Speaker 3: and if Nick level Shanny believes it's brought Brock's ready to.

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Speaker 1: Play, well, I'm his backgup. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So, and he even went on to praise Brock that

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Speaker 2: he's the guy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Carson Wentz is that guy. Carson is that guy?

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Speaker 3: Because that is the right authentic viy not I answer.

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Speaker 3: I was brought in here to back up the kid.

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Speaker 3: If they feel the kids ready to go. I'm the

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Speaker 3: backup and I'm here to help him the best I can.

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Speaker 3: But if you need a little nine for nine to

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Speaker 3: win the game to the guy going from the outhouse

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Speaker 3: to the penthouse, I'm your hucklebar.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think, and I didn't hear his entire presser.

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Speaker 2: I was living in clips, like I guess many of

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Speaker 2: us do on social media.

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Speaker 1: Was fad line along yesterday? It was long?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because I listened early and then I mean

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Speaker 3: just it's so long to get everywhere in London. It

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Speaker 3: takes so long. And then we get to Stanstead, that's

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Speaker 3: the airport from which we departed.

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Speaker 1: I'm in the in this customs line. I'm like, hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna listen to Fanler.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna get to the listen line or the free

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Speaker 3: iHeart audio app and see what was going on. And

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Speaker 3: I think it was Ron talking about a brief encounter

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Speaker 3: he had with Quinn Shawn Judkins and pretty much taught

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Speaker 3: him everything he knew about running the ball. Ron, I'm

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Speaker 3: just kidding. Hopefully you smiled, but you guys were still on.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, damn, it's these boys are going long on

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Speaker 1: Well, there was there was a lot too.

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Speaker 2: There was a lot to break down, and it is

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Speaker 2: into the bye week, so a couple of weeks, and

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Speaker 2: this this quarterback conversation, it was part of the kind

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Speaker 1: At least for a stretch. Yeah, where I kind of

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Speaker 2: Carson Wentz said something I think very similar to what

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Speaker 2: you were talking about with Mac or mccorfury, where it

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Speaker 3: Like, why don't you just stop, Let's just play back

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Speaker 3: the entire press conference at ten at ten thirty three,

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Speaker 3: then replay it at eleven thirty three for those who

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Speaker 3: missed it, and then we can all hear it properly

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Speaker 3: for talkbacks tomorrow for the con.

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Speaker 2: I think I think his was I've spent so many

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Speaker 2: years looking forward. I'm not doing that anymore, that I'm

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Speaker 2: just living man.

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Speaker 1: In this moment. Man's kind of what he said.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's really relishing and having a blast with with

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Speaker 2: this opportunity.

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Speaker 1: However short lived or long lived, it'll be Man. I

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Speaker 1: want you to meet him.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna when we get back to the Tuesdays at

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Speaker 3: Twin Cities Orthopedics Performance Center, I'm gonna work hard with

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Speaker 3: Spearfish and that staff to see if we can get

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Speaker 3: Carson to stop buy he can do a little drive

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Speaker 3: by first.

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Speaker 1: Six to eight minutes to sit. You'll just love him.

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Speaker 3: I mean he's I mean, he grew up listening to

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Speaker 3: the fan in Bizmarck. He's got He's like one of

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Speaker 3: those hockey guys we come across at box in the

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Speaker 3: box where it's like, hey, why is that guy staring

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Speaker 3: at us like this? Oh, it's because when he was

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Speaker 3: seven and his dad was driving him to hockey, he

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Speaker 3: was listening to Vikings games on the radio or listening

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Speaker 3: to kfa N. Yeah, that's sweet. And Carson's one of them. Man,

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Speaker 3: He's just so genuine. You'll absolutely love him. McCarthy is too. McCarthy.

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Speaker 3: You haven't met JJ yet, have you? I haven't met JJ.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna do this.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna be a twin Citi's Orthopedics Performance Center a

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Speaker 3: week from Tuesday. Well, QB Covenant, Yeah, let's I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: have Spearfish, we get bros.

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Speaker 1: We're in there too. We're going to get all three

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Speaker 3: And then what we're going to do is I'm going

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Speaker 3: to have you cut it up and we're individually going

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Speaker 3: to replay all of them. Oh, I love that very

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Speaker 3: tweet about it.

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Speaker 1: Bikes bites. Did you want to put did you want

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Speaker 1: to put a bow on? What you tease? Last segment?

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Speaker 1: Favorite play from yesterday? Bikes bites.

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Speaker 3: Well, the analyst is around the corner, so's let's include

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Speaker 3: him in the mix, because I know he's listening right now.

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Speaker 3: You have your favorite play, I do because you told

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Speaker 3: me off air. I have my favorite play and I

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Speaker 3: haven't told people what it was, but I've said I

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Speaker 3: have one on air. And we'll see what the analyst

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Speaker 3: has to say about a favorite play from yesterday because

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Speaker 3: my play is of the quirky nature. Okay, but it's

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Speaker 3: not Acres throwing to Oliver Now. Now that thing bears

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Speaker 3: conversation too, because again, when you're embedded with that covenant

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Speaker 3: a quarter century calling games for this team, but like

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Speaker 3: that Carson Schwssinger, So I probably went to that all

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Speaker 3: twenty two True media thing, laying in my bed fifteen

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Speaker 3: times to memorize numbers and body types, and man, I

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Speaker 3: watched so much brown stuff, and you know, just because

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Speaker 2: Well, and they got rookies all over the place trying

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Speaker 2: to make plays. Well, this schwssenger, So I'm gonna be

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Speaker 2: an elite football mind. So I'm gonna watch him.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go over to the facility and formulate an

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Speaker 3: quite good against the run. Next guy fast, pretty good

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Speaker 3: against the run. Nobody talked about his past coverage, as

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Speaker 3: has Jim Schwartz, defensive coordinator for the Cleveland Browns, learned

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Speaker 3: with I think he's forty nine biting on that Acre's

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Speaker 3: on that play? Oliver was his and that's why it

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Speaker 3: was wide open. Yeah, So you just learned little things

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Speaker 3: like that that we think are cool and they factor

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Speaker 3: into favor plays. Well, it's probably my favorite play. Do

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Speaker 3: you think, I mean, of all the things, I've been.

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Speaker 1: Waiting for that for three years. By the way, Well,

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Speaker 1: and that's what I was curious about.

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Speaker 2: Like, of course, Aaron Jones goes to IR, we need

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Speaker 2: in showtime. Is back in the mix come showtime. It

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Speaker 2: feels like at least half the reason that Ko brought

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Speaker 2: Cam Acres back is because he's had this play sitting.

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Speaker 1: He need had to dust it off. But he's like,

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Speaker 1: at some point.

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Speaker 2: I swear together with the Rams, I swear to you, Cam,

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Speaker 2: I've been promising this to you, and you've been promising

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Speaker 2: this to me for half a decade. Yeah, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: pay this thing off at some point. Yeah, and we

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Speaker 2: got it in London yesterday. Well, God's cartoon character me.

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Speaker 3: All you got to do three years ago is say,

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Speaker 3: at one time, go to YouTube and watch cam Akers

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Speaker 3: passing montage at Florida State. Oh okay really yeah, So

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Speaker 3: I've had it memorized for a long time and they

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Speaker 3: Pete Bursuge, analyst for the Minnesota Vikings Audio Network. I

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Speaker 1: We've known each other.

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Speaker 3: For quite some time, but you know, when you're embedded,

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Speaker 1: Pete? How much?

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Speaker 5: I mean? We got to see a horse literally blow up.

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Speaker 3: It was amazing when that horse fell and we all

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Speaker 1: I always loved that one.

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Speaker 5: It's one of the great it was.

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Speaker 3: So like the Jefferson salad and getting to the creutons

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Speaker 1: I love that play. It was my favorite.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you have to you have to come away being

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Speaker 5: gotta go look back and to see is it a

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Speaker 5: personnel things I'm gonna just get destroyed off the line

439
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Speaker 5: of scrimmage. I don't necessarily think that's the case, per se.

440
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Speaker 5: I think it's it's a tweak that technique wise or

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Speaker 5: alignment wise, or something that the defense is going to

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Speaker 5: have to do to, you know, to address that. But

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Speaker 5: then again, I mean, when our offense is where it's

444
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Speaker 5: supposed to be, we're putting up points, right teams, aren't

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Speaker 5: teams that right now have the patience and the time

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Speaker 5: and the scoreboard to be able to run the football.

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Speaker 5: You look at the teams that we have coming up,

448
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Speaker 5: I don't know if we're going to see that as much.

449
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Speaker 5: We're going to start seeing some really good quarterbacks here

450
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Speaker 5: pretty soon, and they're gonna want to throw the football.

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Speaker 4: So I think.

452
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Speaker 5: That that part of the defense is really is going

453
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Speaker 5: to get flipped. Right now, we're a great pass defense

454
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Speaker 5: and run defense. We're struggling. I see that flipping just

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Speaker 5: out of just out of the fact that the teams

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Speaker 5: that we play coming up.

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Speaker 3: Very well laid out Pete Bersich, the analyst, the Vikings

458
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Speaker 3: win despite being minus two in the turnover differential minus

459
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Speaker 3: two and the take give. Teams that are minus two

460
00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,960
Speaker 3: generally win games about fifteen to twenty percent of the time.

461
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Speaker 3: The Vikings overcame that Carson wentz nine of nine in

462
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Speaker 3: the game winning drive, including the final three to Jordan Addison.

463
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Speaker 3: The veteran was at his best when his best was required. Now,

464
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Speaker 3: you being a former coach for nearly half decade as

465
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Speaker 3: a linebackers coach for the Bikes, Jordan Addison skips a

466
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Speaker 3: walkthrough and was bench the first quarter. What does that

467
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Speaker 3: indicate to a team when a coach disciplines one of

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Speaker 3: the very best players.

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Speaker 5: That enough enough, you know what I'm saying. His suspension

470
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Speaker 5: the first three weeks of the season cost this team

471
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Speaker 5: quite a bit. And they they made some moves, they

472
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Speaker 5: did some things. There was there was It wasn't like

473
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Speaker 5: a situation where Addison just wasn't there and we just

474
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Speaker 5: went on with our you know, went on. You kind

475
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Speaker 5: of go on with your life, almost like if you're

476
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Speaker 5: missing a running back and you have a backup or

477
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Speaker 5: you know, or whatever it was. It made this team

478
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Speaker 5: do some things. It was a big deal. And I

479
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Speaker 5: don't know exactly. I haven't heard exactly or officially exactly

480
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Speaker 5: what went on, but it required it required that, it

481
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Speaker 5: required a public this like, I don't want to call

482
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Speaker 5: it it's discipline. I don't want to call it a

483
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Speaker 5: you know. I mean, obviously the entire world knew something

484
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Speaker 5: was up because he wasn't playing. He didn't play the

485
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Speaker 5: first quarter and then he gets back in, So that

486
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Speaker 5: is that's kind of like I got to embarrass you

487
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Speaker 5: a little bit. You know, I have to do it.

488
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Speaker 5: I have no choice but to, you know, embarrass you

489
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Speaker 5: here a little bit. And the thing with Jordan Aison

490
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Speaker 5: again is how he responded, and that's why I have

491
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Speaker 5: hope for him to be able to turn this thing

492
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Speaker 5: around and just stay out of trouble. Is what you know,

493
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Speaker 5: what he did and when he got out there, he

494
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Speaker 5: made a difference. And obviously at the end of that

495
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Speaker 5: game he made a difference. And I guess you can

496
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Speaker 5: look at that and have him say, well, that means

497
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna do something again, because when I go out there,

498
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Speaker 5: I make things happen. At the same time, I really,

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Speaker 5: I really hope that he got the message. Listening to

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Speaker 5: Justin Jefferson in his comments after the game, I mean,

501
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Speaker 5: that just proves to you how much Justin isnt matured

502
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Speaker 5: and how invested he is in being a leader on

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Speaker 5: this team and taking a guy under your wing.

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Speaker 3: Pete, give me your best forty five seconds on our

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Speaker 3: last question, is Isaiah Rodgers just amazing? I mean in

506
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Speaker 3: what not only in watch calling the when we call

507
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Speaker 3: it live, but then watching it back. You should do

508
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Speaker 3: an eye in the Sky YouTube bit on him, and

509
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Speaker 3: here's why he rarely, if ever, is on the wrong

510
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Speaker 3: side of a completion. What does the analyst think?

511
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Speaker 5: He's playing unbelievably well and unless you're throwing, you know,

512
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Speaker 5: deep seven rounds a six foot six tight end, he's

513
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Speaker 5: pretty much made every play it to come his way. Yes,

514
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Speaker 5: I agree with you. He's playing very very well. Ball

515
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Speaker 5: skills meaning when the ball is the fifty to fifty

516
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Speaker 5: balls and those things, he's always right there. I think

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Speaker 5: Isaiah Rodgers he's playing more consistently than Byron Murphy Jr.

518
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Speaker 5: Is right now. And not that Byron Murphy Jr. Is

519
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Speaker 5: not playing well. He's playing. He's playing very well.

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Speaker 1: I got you just that.

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Speaker 5: Isaiah Rodgers is so steady, man, he's playing very well.

522
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Speaker 3: Your best fifteen seconds on this your YouTube channel I

523
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Speaker 3: in the Sky or Pete Bursage Eye in the Sky.

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Speaker 2: What is it?

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Speaker 1: Pete Versage fifty six? Is that like the tag? Okay?

526
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a tag yep?

527
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Speaker 3: So via YouTube bind that because Pete does second to

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Speaker 3: none film breakdowns of some off the beaten Path Minnesota

529
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Speaker 3: Vikings related situations with the Eye in the Sky.

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Speaker 1: Does that return this week? You have anything up your sleeve.

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Speaker 5: That I have to figure out. I got to figure

532
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Speaker 5: out what it's going to be. I think you just

533
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,840
Speaker 5: gave me a good idea, so I might just have myself,

534
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Speaker 5: you know, a topic the next week. It'll be next week,

535
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Speaker 5: I'll have one definitely taking a deep deep dive on

536
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Speaker 5: the Philadelphia Eagle.

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Speaker 3: Sweet thank you the analyst. All right, thanks for the

538
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Speaker 3: fun for the last week and a half. Appreciate you

539
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Speaker 3: and we'll talk next week, all right. Yes, Pete Bursag,

540
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Speaker 3: chnalyst for the Vikings Audio Network at Pete Bursage via

541
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Speaker 3: x if you would like to learn more.

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Speaker 1: PJ.

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Speaker 3: Fleck, coach of the Golden Gophers football team, joins us

544
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Speaker 3: a weekly and that'll be around the corner and there

545
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,840
Speaker 3: will be a co host for that who just walked

546
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Speaker 3: into studio, Young Parker. Parker Fox is going to be

547
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Speaker 3: with us for a couple of segments, including with PJ.

548
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Speaker 3: And that's next your home for Golden Gophers football. And

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Speaker 3: we also welcome former Gophers basketball player Parker Fox into

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Speaker 3: the equation along with PJ. Flex, coach of the Golden

551
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Speaker 3: Gophers football team.

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Speaker 1: PJ. It's Paul Allen.

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Speaker 3: This is our second conversation during the year because of

554
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Speaker 3: Monday night football and European travel and everything, and man,

555
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 3: I just I miss chatting with you on a weekly basis,

556
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Speaker 3: and I'm sorry about Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Have you.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever been to Dublin or London, because I

559
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Speaker 3: bet you and Heather would love the action and diverse

560
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Speaker 3: culture and the food options.

561
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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's good to have you back in the States, PA,

563
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Speaker 4: So it's good to have you back, good to have

564
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Speaker 4: our conversations back, you know what. Heather and I've never

565
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Speaker 4: been to Dublin, but we've been to London. We love London, yeah,

566
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Speaker 4: And we've been in Paris and Italy and we absolutely

567
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Speaker 4: love Europe. And one of the things I love about

568
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Speaker 4: going out there is, you know, it's just a completely

569
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Speaker 4: different culture than America, as we know, but I think

570
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Speaker 4: it makes you feel really, really small, and I love

571
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Speaker 4: that piece. I think sometimes we get involved in our

572
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 4: lives and get caught up in our lives and we

573
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Speaker 4: think everybody's noticing and everybody's following, and that can put

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Speaker 4: you in this little corner. And when you go overseas,

575
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Speaker 4: I mean, besides the NFL, right, and a lot of

576
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Speaker 4: people know the NFL, but a lot of people don't

577
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Speaker 4: know college football over there as much, and so we

578
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Speaker 4: love to go over for the for the for the

579
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Speaker 4: soccer and for the culture. And really nobody knows really

580
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Speaker 4: who you are, and you start to see life in

581
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Speaker 4: a global form, and I think it really kind of

582
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Speaker 4: gives you perspective of your life and how big the

583
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Speaker 4: world really is and sometimes how insignificant, like our issues

584
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Speaker 4: and problems are. So but love going over there. And

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Speaker 4: that's all Browser has been talking about this morning. He's

586
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Speaker 4: actually over here in our building the day off. He's

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Speaker 4: over here.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome.

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Speaker 4: Falcking ball with it.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome.

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Speaker 3: And your your your answer was awesome too, I mean,

592
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Speaker 3: authentic as usual. But my second question involved Max Brosmer,

593
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Speaker 3: who I've gotten to know quite well over the last

594
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Speaker 3: month and a half and I absolutely adore. But the

595
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Speaker 3: Ohio State game started at twelve thirty in the morning,

596
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Speaker 3: London time, and I couldn't stay up for it. Old

597
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Speaker 3: people got tired. But I sat by Max Brosmer on

598
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Speaker 3: the bus to the stadium Tottenham Hotspur yesterday and he

599
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Speaker 3: was quite saddened over the loss. And man, he just

600
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Speaker 3: really cares about your squad. But you know, I know

601
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Speaker 3: Ohio State ranked number one, bunch of a bunch of

602
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Speaker 3: draft picks to be all over the place. You guys

603
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Speaker 3: just ran into a buzz saw, didn't you.

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Speaker 4: Well a few things one our players went in there.

605
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Speaker 4: We had two penalties, we didn't turn the ball over.

606
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Speaker 4: We only gave up one sack. When I went back

607
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Speaker 4: to watch the film, PA, I wanted to see, like,

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Speaker 4: oh we beat ourselves, Oh we made this mistake. Oh

609
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Speaker 4: we blew that coverage. It wasn't that way. And there

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Speaker 4: are times you walk into and you play a really

611
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Speaker 4: good football team who plays exceptionally well that day, and

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Speaker 4: Ohio State did and unfortunately their ex was better than

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Speaker 4: our o and they played better than us that day.

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Speaker 4: But the score makes it. It covers all the other

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Speaker 4: stuff up. I mean, we had tight coverage in a

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Speaker 4: few instances where they made a big play. There were

617
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Speaker 4: times we just got beat in one on one coverage.

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Speaker 4: There were times that, like I said that, you know,

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Speaker 4: we weren't able to to play just man demand. Other

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Speaker 4: than that, though, when you look at the discipline of

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Speaker 4: our football team, you the culture of our football team, mamhard.

622
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Speaker 4: They played the last feel will block. You would have

623
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Speaker 4: thought it was for the for the game, and our

624
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 4: guys played incredibly hard all the way to the end.

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Speaker 4: There are no moral victories. We just played a really

626
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Speaker 4: good football team who played really well. And again I

627
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Speaker 4: wanted to go into that saying, you know what, we

628
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Speaker 4: beat ourselves and I'm not going to insult their intelligence

629
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Speaker 4: or insult their their ability to be really really good,

630
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Speaker 4: because I'm not going to do that to them because

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Speaker 4: they deserve that type of credit. I mean, they we

632
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Speaker 4: got into a fight, they beat us up, We'll lick

633
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Speaker 4: our wounds, we'll respond, we'll learn from it. But it

634
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Speaker 4: wasn't like we played horrifically bad. We just couldn't do

635
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Speaker 4: some things and it happened to be that night for

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Speaker 4: us unfortunately.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Pjay so off that when when you say, quote,

638
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Speaker 3: we got our butt kicked and will be better for it,

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Speaker 3: end quote. My question would be, in what ways does

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Speaker 3: one find serendipity from that Saturday night at the horseshoe.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's iron sharpening iron. I mean, we played pretty

642
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 4: disciplined football, but then you look at the fundamentals and

643
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,680
Speaker 4: the technique. Well, if we can do that fundamentals and

644
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 4: technique every single week, but we can do it again

645
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 4: competition that's not as good as Ohio State, then we're

646
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 4: going to be really good as we keep moving forward.

647
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Speaker 4: To be a great winner, Pa, you got to learn

648
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Speaker 4: how to lose, and you can hate losing, but you

649
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,440
Speaker 4: got to be good at losing, because if you're really

650
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Speaker 4: good at losing, you'll respond to all the information that

651
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Speaker 4: comes your way and you'll want to get back out

652
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Speaker 4: there and you'll want to be able to respond. We

653
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Speaker 4: showed him that the Perira fight from UFC, the one

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Speaker 4: back in March where he gets beat and then the

655
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Speaker 4: one he just beat the guy up with elbows in

656
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Speaker 4: the first round after a minute and a half and

657
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Speaker 4: he got his title back. He could have wiled them

658
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 4: in a self pity and he could have cried about it,

659
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 4: couldn't touted about it, could have blamed complainant and deflected.

660
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,440
Speaker 4: But he learned how to lose when he didn't lose much,

661
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 4: so he learned how to lose. He responded, got the

662
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 4: fight in October and went out there and beat him

663
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Speaker 4: in the first minute and a half. So you don't

664
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Speaker 4: have to like losing, nor should you like to lose

665
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 4: if you're competitor, but you've got to be good at it,

666
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 4: and you've got to know how to be able to

667
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 4: dissect that all that information, feel back the onion and

668
00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 4: get better at the core things you can get better

669
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Speaker 4: at and control the controllable.

670
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Speaker 5: Love it.

671
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Speaker 6: Hey, coach Parker Fox here, you know you always preach

672
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Speaker 6: the importance of response within your program. What does this

673
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:18,600
Speaker 6: week look like leading up to an important homecoming Saturday

674
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Speaker 6: night game?

675
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, produce a really good football team. They've

676
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 4: played really three good Power four teams, so you can't

677
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 4: measure the score where at one point all three of

678
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 4: those are ranked and some of them still are ranked.

679
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 4: So you know, we've got to be We got to

680
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 4: play better than we did last week. But we've got

681
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,840
Speaker 4: to take the information that came from Ohio State, right,

682
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 4: the attention to detail, the discipline. We got to take

683
00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,360
Speaker 4: the fundamentals and technique and really sharpen those things. And

684
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 4: then we your coaches, got to continue to put our

685
00:33:44,120 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 4: best our players in the best position so they can

686
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 4: be successful with the schemes and the game plans we

687
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 4: put forth, whether that special team's offense or defense, and

688
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 4: then allow our players to play really fast. It's gonna

689
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 4: be a great atmosphere produce a really really good football team.

690
00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 4: Was really a tremendous quarterback who's playing at a very

691
00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 4: high level and typical produce, score a lot of points,

692
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 4: score them often, and can be explosive of any point.

693
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Speaker 6: You Know, one thing I greatly appreciate about you and

694
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:12,000
Speaker 6: your recruiting strategy is how your program is a life program.

695
00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 6: How important is homecoming to you? And roll the boat culture?

696
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 4: Well, I think it's everything. You know, people make this

697
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 4: world go round, People set up where we're going to be.

698
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 4: We all need somebody to get to where we're need

699
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 4: to go. You know, we have forty players here when

700
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 4: we had our alumni homecoming week when we first got here,

701
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 4: and that was very low. We're over two hundred this

702
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 4: weekend of former players, not just over our last nine years,

703
00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:38,040
Speaker 4: but talking about from the two thousands. We're talking about

704
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 4: from the nineties and the eighties, and we're celebrating the

705
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 4: nineteen sixty national championship with Bobby Bell and have a

706
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 4: lot of those guys back. And I think that the

707
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:47,839
Speaker 4: main thing of that was is when I first got

708
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:49,800
Speaker 4: hired Mark Coyle. So what are we missing here at Minnesota.

709
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:52,080
Speaker 4: It's a cultural sustainability, whether that was me or I

710
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 4: hired somebody else. That was my opinion. In Minnesota, seven

711
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,359
Speaker 4: head coaches in fourteen years prior to us, where when

712
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 4: you're in alum you have a hard time. You're grasping

713
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 4: at straws because every time you grab a straw, that's

714
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 4: straw gone, then somebody leaves. So it's hard to have

715
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:10,359
Speaker 4: this connection personally with former players when the VIAD coach

716
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 4: and the culture is changing all the time. Well now

717
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:14,279
Speaker 4: over nine years, whether you played for us or not,

718
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 4: you know what you're getting when you come back into

719
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 4: the building. You know what you're getting when you come

720
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 4: back to games. You know what you're getting when you

721
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,759
Speaker 4: come back for homecoming. And I think that attracts more

722
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 4: and more people by the years.

723
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Speaker 1: PJ.

724
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Speaker 3: Plack, coach of the Golden Gophers football team. Nine to

725
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:32,400
Speaker 3: noon Homecoming at Huntington Banks Stadium is Saturday. Go for

726
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 3: sports dot com for information and or tickets. And you know,

727
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 3: one of many things I appreciate I appreciate about you

728
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,439
Speaker 3: PG on or off the microphone. If we're if we're

729
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 3: mixing it up, is you're not hyperbolic. I mean, there's

730
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,799
Speaker 3: an authentic nature to your responses, whether it's good or bad.

731
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 3: That that I greatly appreciate. And you know, just last

732
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 3: one on something you said after the Buckeyees game when

733
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:57,279
Speaker 3: this resonated with me on that nine hour flight from

734
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 3: from from London last night, when when you said Matt

735
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 3: Patricia's defense is the best you've seen in thirteen years.

736
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 3: Is it because they have NFL caliber players or is

737
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 3: it Matt mixing it up perfectly and in ways generally

738
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Speaker 3: college coaches don't do.

739
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Speaker 4: It's both. It's both. I mean, after that first drive, Pa,

740
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,520
Speaker 4: we didn't see it. We didn't see the same front

741
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 4: at all. Never saw it again, and we'd see, well, kids,

742
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 4: they never say it again. I never saw it like

743
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 4: within that drive. I had never seen somebody mix it

744
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 4: up as much as he mixed it up. And a

745
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 4: lot of times some people are maybe afraid to do

746
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:38,919
Speaker 4: that because you want some consistency and maybe you're looking

747
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 4: at strengths of your team first weaknesses of their team.

748
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 4: I don't know if there's a weakness of that team.

749
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 4: And that's why I said it, because one, they're incredibly deep.

750
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:50,120
Speaker 4: They have draft picks everywhere, offensive, defensively, and special teams.

751
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,000
Speaker 4: But the way they schemed it on defense and the

752
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,239
Speaker 4: way their scheme works with Patricia, it gives a lot

753
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 4: of the NFL defense into college football and you have

754
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 4: to have, i think the right personnel to do that,

755
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 4: and he's got a great combination of both of them.

756
00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 4: And that was a very very difficult week to prepare,

757
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 4: and then not only that, it was a very difficult

758
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 4: week to respond as you're going through that game game

759
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 4: plan wise and adjustments, because you're adjusting the things that

760
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,359
Speaker 4: when you get to the next drive, you're not going

761
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 4: to see it again. So you're somewhat preparing for ghosts,

762
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 4: even with the iPads, even with the film. Now we

763
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 4: knew we were getting man coverage. We just we just

764
00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 4: couldn't create enough separation when we were getting that man coverage.

765
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Speaker 4: But proud of our team for only giving up one sack,

766
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 4: didn't turn the ball over against that defense, and only

767
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 4: had one penalty on offense, so and you know, we

768
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 4: didn't have any we didn't have any pre snap you

769
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Speaker 4: know when you look at a pre snaf pedalty and

770
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 4: that type of that type of atmosphere. To do that

771
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Speaker 4: have low amount of penalties is a credit to our

772
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Speaker 4: preparation and the silent staff cownt and our guys really

773
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Speaker 4: focusing and being disciplined.

774
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Speaker 3: Teaching is and always has been an a topic with you.

775
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 3: So what positives moving forward can you get with the

776
00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 3: Red Shirt press Shman quarterback Drake Lindsay, who obviously is

777
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 3: important because he plays that position and he's good.

778
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:06,240
Speaker 1: His arm talent is terrific.

779
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 3: But like like a loss like that in an atmosphere

780
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 3: like that, moving forward for him, what can you teach?

781
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Speaker 4: It's donuts on a baseball bat, Pa, I mean, that's

782
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:20,000
Speaker 4: really what it is. And the more donuts you can

783
00:38:20,040 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 4: put on that bat, swing it as hard as you

784
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 4: possibly can. When you get to other games, you're gonna

785
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 4: knock those donuts off and the bat's going to feel light.

786
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:30,200
Speaker 4: He's going to constantly get challenged and push. We don't

787
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 4: treat them like a freshman. We don't treat them like

788
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 4: a rookie quarterback. We run an NFL system on offense.

789
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,240
Speaker 4: And he's changing runs at the line, experiment's changing IDs,

790
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,359
Speaker 4: double call and plays, and he's handling himself at an

791
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 4: elite level for what a freshman can do. And we're

792
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 4: going to keep challenging him and every week he's going

793
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 4: to get better and better doesn't mean the productivity where

794
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 4: the numbers will be better every single week. But what's good,

795
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 4: it's going to say, is the experience and the attention

796
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:55,399
Speaker 4: to detail and the growth that he's going to have

797
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,239
Speaker 4: in the run game, in the past game, and the

798
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:01,000
Speaker 4: experience he's going to keep creating, going to continue to

799
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 4: be notches on his belt. And that's what we want

800
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,400
Speaker 4: to continue to happen as we continue to move through

801
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 4: our future with Drake, lindsay, because he is a special talent.

802
00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 4: We know that and it's our job to keep developing that.

803
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 4: And you know, him and Max are sitting in the

804
00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 4: you know, the offensive meeting room right now, just sitting

805
00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:17,319
Speaker 4: in there, sitting in the back on their iPads. I mean,

806
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 4: it's just Max set the groundwork of what preparation looks like.

807
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 4: And I think the Drake is taking it to another

808
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 4: level here. And I think, shoot, I think Max is

809
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 4: here just because he doesn't want Great to outprepare him.

810
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,720
Speaker 4: And look like that, Drake's out preparing Max throughout Max's

811
00:39:31,719 --> 00:39:35,120
Speaker 4: time here. But the relationship between those two is really

812
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 4: special and new one to breakfast this morning to Al's

813
00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,399
Speaker 4: right here on campus, and you know it's It's very

814
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 4: unique for sure that the NFL quarterback of the of

815
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:47,200
Speaker 4: the hometown team is also from the university that's from

816
00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 4: there and has a great relationship with the quarterback that's

817
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 4: actually playing for that team. So very unique.

818
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 1: Situation, beautifully said last one. And you know, and and

819
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: and watching back.

820
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:59,359
Speaker 3: Your press conference on that flight last night, somebody hits

821
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 3: you think the guy's name might have been Andy with

822
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:06,840
Speaker 3: you know, transfer Portal, nil A, Columbus, dinky Town, all that,

823
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:09,399
Speaker 3: and you're like, it's a conversation for a different time,

824
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,359
Speaker 3: which it is here too. But I really felt it,

825
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 3: you know, because after you said that, I got into

826
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 3: the Ohio State two and three deeps and those receivers

827
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:20,239
Speaker 3: you said, you know who are going to be first

828
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:22,880
Speaker 3: round pick? You, I mean, yeah, holy cow, members of

829
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:25,839
Speaker 3: the offensive line, Holy cow. But I got to see

830
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:29,680
Speaker 3: it firsthand yesterday at Tottenham Hotspur with this Quinn Shawn Judkins,

831
00:40:29,719 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 3: who I hadn't watched much of, and then in the

832
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 3: joint practices against the Patriots with Traveon Henderson. I mean,

833
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:40,680
Speaker 3: it's just a it's a different world in certain places,

834
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 3: and you know, I'm not sure college football is doing

835
00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 3: hisself any favors with the way the portal is is

836
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 3: skewing the game, so that really only a handful to

837
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 3: maybe a little more are starting to matter at a

838
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 3: high level.

839
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean?

840
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 4: Well, I know what you mean, and I answered Andy

841
00:40:58,120 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 4: the way I felt that it isn't talk for a

842
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 4: different day and is for a different time in seasons,

843
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 4: not the time to talk about it. But you know,

844
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:06,920
Speaker 4: I mean, look at our right tackle. You know our

845
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,600
Speaker 4: right tackles at Ohio State, and you know we're doing

846
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:13,399
Speaker 4: everything we can to solidify his replacement as we keep

847
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 4: going forward. But that's that's part of college football. And

848
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 4: if you're not willing to adapt or going to get

849
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:22,200
Speaker 4: left behind, we don't change that. We're a life program.

850
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:23,919
Speaker 4: Like Parker said, I'm never going to change that. We're

851
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 4: going to be a life program because I get paid

852
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 4: to win. We get paid to win. But I do

853
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:30,760
Speaker 4: the job because I love to teach. I love to educate,

854
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 4: and sooner or later, like wins will come and go

855
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 4: and there won't be enough wins to keep coaches. Every

856
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 4: coach at some point doesn't make it right. So whether

857
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 4: that's NFL, whether that's college, but we're always going to

858
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:44,719
Speaker 4: be a life program as we continue to look at

859
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 4: how we can adapt to college football. We've always got

860
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:49,439
Speaker 4: to do what's great for University of Minnesota and what's

861
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:51,640
Speaker 4: great for our players, and we'll continue to always do that,

862
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 4: and we'll always look for finding ways to make it

863
00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 4: better every single week so and every single year. So

864
00:41:57,360 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 4: you've got to be willing to adapt, and we're we're

865
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 4: obviously willing to do that and have done that. But

866
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:06,799
Speaker 4: you know that they handle Ohio State. Not speaking for them,

867
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 4: they've done it at a level that suits them, and

868
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 4: they can continue to adapt with the times like everybody else.

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Speaker 4: And they've done it at a very very high level,

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Speaker 4: that's for sure.

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Speaker 3: Well, Stavid, thank you very much. Tear up Purdue and

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Speaker 3: we'll talk soon.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I appreciate it. Rose the book Sky and I'll

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Speaker 4: go go for school bytes. Congratulations this week. See you.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 3: Cee a PJ. PJ Flag coach of the Golden go

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Speaker 3: Fers football team. Great to have him weekly each and

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Speaker 3: every Monday, nine to noon at about ten forty five

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Speaker 3: Parker Fox at Parker Fox two four via X. He

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Speaker 3: sticks around for another segment and we'll get into that

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Speaker 3: around the corner on KFAM,