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Speaker 1: Stop pe Mersage, analyst for the Minnesota Vikings Audio Network,

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Speaker 1: joins us from Twin Cities Orthopedic Performance Center. That's where

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Speaker 1: nine to noon will be tomorrow, and in fact, I'm

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Speaker 1: about twenty five hours from now. Viking's head coach Kevin

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Speaker 1: O'Connell will be chatting with us via x's and o's.

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Speaker 1: The analysts inclusion. Nine to noon is provided by Sue

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Speaker 1: Cup Manufacturing and Sue.

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Speaker 2: Cup dot Com.

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Speaker 1: Pete just a an open ended question here, just off

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Speaker 1: something Nordon and I were just discussing. Do you do

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Speaker 1: you think the Vikings should have a more put more

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Speaker 1: focus on a rushing attack or is that too broad

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Speaker 1: of a question to just lay it out like that

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Speaker 1: without context?

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Speaker 2: And good morning, Good morning, all right.

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Speaker 3: So it's a balance, right, and we know we've had

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Speaker 3: we've had the opportunity to watch this offense now for

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Speaker 3: a number of years and you were talking about it earlier.

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Speaker 3: Just what it was like the first year that Kevin

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Speaker 3: O'Connell's here. We threw the ball sixty two percent of

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Speaker 3: the time. I mean, that's our idea, that's that's our

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Speaker 3: identity and offense, that's what Kevin O'Connell does that's what

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Speaker 3: this offense does. Is there aggressive, they attack, they get

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Speaker 3: down the field. That's what makes us unique. So the

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Speaker 3: question is what the It's the process then, so as

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Speaker 3: you are developing this young quarterback, Okay, this is where

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Speaker 3: we want to be, this is eventually what we want

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Speaker 3: to get to, this is what we do.

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Speaker 2: What's the best way of getting there? Is the best

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Speaker 3: Building a trying to build an unstoppable road game along

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Speaker 3: you know what I mean along the way, do we

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Speaker 3: change our identity for a while and say, okay, we

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Speaker 3: need to run the football. There's no question that running

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Speaker 3: the ball more is going to help JJ McCarthy right now.

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Speaker 3: Short term, it's going to help them long term, I

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Speaker 3: don't know, but short term yes, because it's a lot

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Speaker 3: easier for a younger quarterback just turn around and hand

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Speaker 3: the football off. So that balance between run and pass.

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Speaker 3: We again, it's like, we know what our our identity

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Speaker 3: get there in the fastest way? And you know, yes,

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Speaker 3: I mean in the short term, running the football is

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Speaker 3: I mean we outrush Baltimore on a per rush basis,

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Speaker 3: which is which is crazy. We also had more yards

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Speaker 3: the football too by over a yard, so you know

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Speaker 3: it's there. It's the question of what kind of balance

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Speaker 3: do you want and are we going to completely change

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Speaker 3: the identity of this offense so we can build back

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Speaker 2: Passing game type of an offense.

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Speaker 3: And that's I guess that's the that's the development question,

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Speaker 3: and it's not an easy one to answer.

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Speaker 1: So off that and off what we've seen through everything

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Speaker 1: through nine games, well that, I mean, the Vikings absolutely

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Speaker 1: will win the next one. Why because like off the

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Speaker 1: really would be surprised on the Bear? You know, the Bears.

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Speaker 1: I like the Ravens more than I like the Bears,

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Speaker 1: But uh, nevertheless, if that happens, I'm not going to

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Speaker 3: What about you, it's definitely schizophrenic. I mean, there are

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Speaker 3: there are a couple of things that that that bothered

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Speaker 3: playing at home should be you need to build an

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Speaker 3: that's tough. You know, these Bears, they're believing now. They've

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Speaker 2: So they're believing.

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Speaker 3: This isn't the Bears team that you know, you keep

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Speaker 3: I expect him to play better, man, I mean, thirteen penalties,

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Speaker 3: Right, So everybody needs to know snap count everybody and

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Speaker 3: takes a long time to build that. It's not easy

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Speaker 2: They make it look to run that operation.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I think the demand to running the operation

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Speaker 3: Shouldn't You shouldn't waiver on that one as far as

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Speaker 1: Pete Bursua, journalist for the Minnesota Vikings Audio Network and KFAM.

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Speaker 1: Thanks to suit Cup Manufacturing and sue Cup dot Com.

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Speaker 7: You know, it wasn't all negative yesterday, Pete, and just

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Speaker 7: fun moments of the game. And I just wanted your

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Speaker 7: festivities yesterday.

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Speaker 1: This is the one hundred ninety ninth regular season game

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Speaker 1: for Harry the hit Man. Still going strong, isn't he?

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Speaker 6: Pete?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: Can I Lamar Jackson goes under center for I felt okay?

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Speaker 2: So I felt I felt awful about that.

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Speaker 3: Why well, here's the thing, and this could be this

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Speaker 3: could be my mistaken I haven't a chance. Talked to

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Speaker 3: Paul Bob, but he mentioned Ben and as soon as

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Speaker 3: as soon as Paul talks that because he talks to

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Speaker 3: Abbott and says, I'm you know, I'm gonna go to

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Speaker 3: as I hear Paul say I'm going to go to Ben,

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Speaker 3: I just turned my brain off and I start looking

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Speaker 3: to Ben. And then I hear him ask. I hear

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Speaker 3: you know the old saying, you assume something, you make

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Speaker 3: sitting there going I'm waiting, and I'm waiting. I'm like, hey,

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Speaker 3: Ben's not answering, what the hell? And I'm thinking where

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Speaker 3: it's like weird, Yeah, did he not hear it? And

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Speaker 3: then I'm thinking maybe I should jump in, And by then,

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Speaker 3: you know, obviously we're three four seconds into the awkward silence.

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Speaker 3: And so my apologies to UPA and all the listeners

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Speaker 2: That's what you wanted, right, that's what you want.

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Speaker 1: I want you to Gnorido could not stop texting me

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Speaker 1: during the game, by the way.

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Speaker 2: After it happened.

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Speaker 1: Why, Because we're a family and surrogate brothers and cousins

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Speaker 1: tease each other. In fact, if you just jumped into

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Speaker 1: nine to noon on this Monday, what are we talking about? Well,

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Speaker 1: a moment from early in the game yesterday. This is

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Speaker 1: the one hundred ninety ninth regular season game for Harry

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Speaker 2: Still going strong, isn't he?

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Speaker 6: Pete?

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Speaker 2: I love it. That might have been. That might have

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Speaker 2: been my best commentary I've ever done.

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Speaker 7: I'm like Lamar Jackson, jump five down. Well, then the

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Speaker 7: next after the next playoff. Sorry about a minute ago there, Paula. Anyway,

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Speaker 7: Justice Hill.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's uh and and let's make it fight to

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Speaker 1: fairness and duo act with Pete and I because there

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Speaker 1: are things that have taken place that this is an

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Speaker 2: And you know, we neither one.

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Speaker 1: Of us are team employees, but you know we're We

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Speaker 1: travel with the team, we stay with the team. We

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Speaker 1: the push off on Jamison Williams. Thank you, Jamison Williams

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Speaker 1: push off. We're inside Ford Field. They kept showing the

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Speaker 1: they did it three times, and I freaked out, and

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Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, I'm basically I didn't say, hey,

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Speaker 1: detroit Lyons ops in house, ops, you frauds, but I'm like,

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Speaker 1: you guys are frauds. Well, you just show the right

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Speaker 2: So I lost my mind a little bit on that.

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Speaker 2: Two weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: And yesterday we had a Roquan Smith moment where I

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Speaker 7: Would you like to hear it.

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Speaker 1: The way Gilmore went Gilmore on Justin Jefferson and two?

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Speaker 2: And I felt bad about this.

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Speaker 7: What's that full doing?

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Speaker 2: Were you kidding?

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Speaker 2: I mean it was a mile away from the ball. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I lost my mind.

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Speaker 1: Oh, there's the loop kit. Here comes Miles Price to

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Speaker 1: ago he had five kick returns for thirty three per

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Speaker 1: and like Nordo said, he busted one for ninety and

439
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Speaker 1: change to the house, but thirty seven brought it back. Now,

440
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Speaker 1: if thirty seven doesn't do what thirty seven does, he

441
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Speaker 1: doesn't get to the house, so that all plays into it.

442
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Speaker 1: But still the ones that counted five of them for

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Speaker 1: thirty three per So the undrafted kit from Indiana is again.

444
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Speaker 1: Raising kids has its challenges personally and professionally, but there

445
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Speaker 1: also are rewards, and there are rewards that are great

446
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Speaker 1: for those who want to go bytes. I tried to

447
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Speaker 1: quote a song by Prince called The Latter and I.

448
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Speaker 2: Messed it up.

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Speaker 7: Oh vikes bites, Thank you thousand hills. If we were

450
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Speaker 7: doing Nordo's numbers, Yeah, okay, Nordo's numbers. Here's a number

451
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Speaker 7: from the game that is interesting, John Bonus and company.

452
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Speaker 7: Tom Zone coverage. You guys do terrific work. Thank you

453
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Speaker 7: Zone Coverage. If I was going to do a number,

454
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Speaker 7: and I know I'm trying hard. Team loss yesterday, Teams

455
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Speaker 7: four and five, Kid QB throws a pick. Maybe you

456
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Speaker 7: should have just run for the first down. Kid throws

457
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Speaker 7: another pick and j Justin Jefferson falls down and it's

458
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Speaker 7: Humphrey and it's easy. Okay, a lot of negative things.

459
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Speaker 7: Totally get it. However, in his first start, JJ McCarthy

460
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Speaker 7: was sacked three times. In his second start, he was

461
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Speaker 7: sacked six times. Oh, hurts his ankle, he's gone forever.

462
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Speaker 7: Comes back. We got to golf a handful of times.

463
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Speaker 7: They got to our guy a handful of times. Need

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Speaker 7: the kid to take fewer sacks yesterday? Just one sack.

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Speaker 2: One sack of a kid. Can I provide some context? Yeah.

466
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Speaker 1: The Baltimore Ravens entered the game with eleven sacks time

467
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Speaker 1: for second fewest in the national Football League.

468
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Speaker 2: Next it was eleven to the gaps.

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Speaker 1: I mean seeing that that's just again when we crack wise,

470
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Speaker 1: when we get a little on the negatory side, that's

471
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Speaker 1: because we are talking out things on our therapeutic devenport

472
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Speaker 1: of love. That's age old with nine to noon or

473
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Speaker 1: ten to one just for fun. Yes, that's what we're

474
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Speaker 1: doing off kind of like what you just said there,

475
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Speaker 1: and that further frustrates yours truly and probably the con

476
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Speaker 1: when you recognize that sacked one time. However, at halftime

477
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Speaker 1: it's ten to nine, and I mean, you know, I'm

478
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Speaker 1: going to my chill spot at halftime. Got you know

479
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Speaker 1: somebody walks in there every single week with whom I

480
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Speaker 1: and we chat. We got everybody with the Bikings Audio Network,

481
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, wow, they're playing really really well in

482
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Speaker 1: all facets of the game, all facets of the game,

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Speaker 1: all fastest. And then they played the second half, and

484
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Speaker 1: they played the second and now we're using Diana Ross

485
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Speaker 1: and the Supremes with sta in the name of love,

486
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Speaker 1: and we got a litany and a laundry list of

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Speaker 1: things that need to stop.

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Speaker 7: Okay, let me try one more thing, just a positive

489
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Speaker 7: moment and it was early, and it'll get lost in

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Speaker 7: the shuffle. That fade to Naylor. If one of the

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Speaker 7: high if one of whoever your version of the highest

492
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Speaker 7: of the high end at the position is in the

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Speaker 7: league when they make that throw, if it's Colin Worth

494
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Speaker 7: in primetime, or it's potentially sweet Nectar down on the

495
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Speaker 7: fox in case, if it's Dan Miller, and yes, sir

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Speaker 7: from the analyst, you're saying good.

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Speaker 1: Things about this Gala Williams this year Minnesota one of

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Speaker 1: one on third down, two receivers right, three left, empty backfield,

499
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Speaker 1: McCarthy wearing the nine, facing a four man rush.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna pay left.

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Speaker 5: To Dalen Naylor cut at the forty, then a raven

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Speaker 5: blue and tackle, stiff park by Dler at the thirty,

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Speaker 5: Follos to its twenty quins to the ten down at

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Speaker 5: the five, hey sixty two yard catch and run by

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Speaker 5: the speedy Dylan Naylor.

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Speaker 7: What nice trimming. Whoever put those highlights together yesterday, we'll see.

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Speaker 6: Then.

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Speaker 2: I got pissed off from the third quarter because he

509
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Speaker 2: never was in the game.

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Speaker 7: He's raight case good.

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Speaker 2: Where was he?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 8: I mean?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so anyway, well.

515
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Speaker 7: I mean he led the team and catches yesterday five

516
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Speaker 7: for a buck twenty four in that late score. Another

517
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Speaker 7: nice throw let toe tapper backside of the end zone.

518
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Speaker 7: Not every throw the kid QB made yesterday was a disaster.

519
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Speaker 7: Not every decision he made put the team in peril,

520
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Speaker 7: specifically early and then in well you had again you

521
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Speaker 7: had to dig deep and the producers trying hard. There

522
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Speaker 7: were good moments yesterday from number nine that we must

523
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Speaker 7: appreciate and then now just need to see fewer of

524
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Speaker 7: the sales, more of the good moments. Against Chicago and

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Speaker 7: you're five and five.

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Speaker 2: If they run on that third and one, they win

527
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Speaker 2: by twenty one. I always love that one. That's the

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Speaker 2: bottom line.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's so much that took place in all

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Speaker 1: the whole game, all the plays and everything, just at

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Speaker 1: one moment they run on that third and one. I

532
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Speaker 1: always loved that one. They went by multiple score. See

533
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Speaker 1: you laughed, Yes I did. That's what nine to Noon

534
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Speaker 1: is here to do. The surrogate young Parker Fox just

535
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Speaker 1: walked into the studio all negative and everything off the

536
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Speaker 1: Vikings game, and we cracked that joke and the kid smiles.

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Speaker 1: It is one big therapeutic inport of love. We're all

538
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Speaker 1: on it right now, we're all outstretched, we're all trying

539
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Speaker 1: to make each other laugh before we beat the Bears.

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Speaker 7: And as we continue to move on through Nine to Noon,

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Speaker 7: pumped up to talk about Gophers at Oregon this weekend,

542
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Speaker 7: looking for more positivity.

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Speaker 1: And it's PJ Fleck, coach of the team, who joins

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Speaker 1: nine to Noon Weekly And that's next. PJ Fleck, he

545
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Speaker 1: is coach of the Golden Gophers football team. He's nice

546
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Speaker 1: enough to join this radio show with yours, Shirly, Paul

547
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Speaker 1: Allen and Parker Fox joins for this part of the

548
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Speaker 1: conversation and a marathon segment at eleven and the Pj's

549
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Speaker 1: Golden Gophers back off of BBE and first they get

550
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Speaker 1: seventh ranked ore agaon in the Ducks out Eugene Way

551
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Speaker 1: and the head coach joins us. Now, PJ, Paul Allen

552
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Speaker 1: and Parker, what was good for you and the gang

553
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Speaker 1: during the bye time?

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Speaker 4: And good morning, Hey, good morning to you as well, Pa,

555
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Speaker 4: thanks for having us on the show.

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Speaker 8: Good morning the Parker. You know the big thing we

557
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Speaker 8: wanted to hit on our three things.

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Speaker 4: We wanted to continue to get our football team as

559
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Speaker 4: healthy as possible and that's mentally, physically and emotionally. Our

560
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Speaker 4: guys work really hard, sacrificed a lot always in the

561
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Speaker 4: training room and they're here constantly, So get everybody a

562
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Speaker 4: little bit time away refresh, but then also keep them

563
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Speaker 4: really healthy when we practice. Get a lot of the

564
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Speaker 4: young guys reps too. It was more of a process audit,

565
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Speaker 4: how are we doing, where are we at after six

566
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Speaker 4: straight games? What do we have to get better at?

567
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Speaker 4: Systematic approaches, offense, defense, special teams, kind of do an

568
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Speaker 4: audit of ourselves, and then you go back and number

569
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Speaker 4: three was all about response. We just got to continue

570
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Speaker 4: to respond here down the stretch. Played some really good

571
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Speaker 4: football teams, done really well at home on the road,

572
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Speaker 4: played some really good defenses and top five defenses in

573
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Speaker 4: the country, and I got to find a way to

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Speaker 4: play a little bit better on the road.

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Speaker 8: A great challenge for us this week going out to Eugene, Oregon.

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Speaker 1: And there are two on the road with Oregon and Northwestern.

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Speaker 1: Then Bucky is here to close things. Like PJ just

578
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Speaker 1: intimated or referenced, the Gophers are six to zero at

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Speaker 1: Huntingdon Bak Stadium this season, and that six game winning

580
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Speaker 1: streak at home is the longest since winning the first

581
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Speaker 1: six there in twenty nineteen, and that season is also

582
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Speaker 1: the last time the Gophers won their first six home

583
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Speaker 1: games in a season. PJ overall sixty four and forty

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Speaker 1: two and nine seasons with the Gophers, and that's a wonderful,

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Speaker 1: wonderful record. Now you get undoubtedly a very tough Oregon team.

586
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Speaker 1: These Ducks allow one hundred and twenty six passing yards

587
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Speaker 1: a game, Holy cow, which is tops in FBS. What

588
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Speaker 1: makes that rush and cover for Oregon so stout?

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Speaker 4: Well, first of all, they're just really really talented. They've

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Speaker 4: They've done a great job of acquiring some of the

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Speaker 4: best talent in the country. I think that's you know,

592
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Speaker 4: that's that's not a secret to anybody. But it's another

593
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Speaker 4: thing to have the talent. It's another thing to develop

594
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Speaker 4: and coach the talent and get all that talent playing.

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Speaker 8: Really well together.

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Speaker 4: I think that's what Dan Lanning is really really good at.

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Speaker 4: He deserves a lot of credit not just for the

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Speaker 4: type of team he has, but connecting that team. They

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Speaker 4: play so well bottom up, top down. They're very well connected.

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Speaker 4: They play and sink as eleven is one, but they

601
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Speaker 4: are very very very good. I mean this is probably

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Speaker 4: when you look.

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Speaker 8: At the teams. Some of the teams we played.

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Speaker 4: We played at top five defense, number one defense in

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Speaker 4: Ohio State. We played top five defense in Iowa, and

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Speaker 4: then a top five defense again here at the Oregon

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Speaker 4: and they have a lot of things in common. I mean,

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Speaker 4: they work really well as all eleven. They got a

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Speaker 4: lot of experience, they're really really talented, they tackle well,

610
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Speaker 4: their twitchy, they're all long, they can all run. But

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Speaker 4: this is a tremendous challenge for us, and then again

612
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Speaker 4: we haven't handled that necessarily well at times. But we've

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Speaker 4: got to continue to grow up, continue to mature, and

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Speaker 4: continue to find ways to do the simple things way better.

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Speaker 2: So it's going to be back with you this morning.

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Speaker 9: Obviously, I'm curious from a scouting standpoint, you and Oregon

617
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Speaker 9: both just played Iowa. How much do you and your

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Speaker 9: staff look at specific games like that and compare them

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Speaker 9: or is that something only really us fans kind of

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Speaker 9: like to do.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think it's a little bit more of a

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Speaker 8: fan piece.

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Speaker 4: We were out of that game so fast, I mean

624
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Speaker 4: within eight offensive plays, I think we were.

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Speaker 8: Down twenty four to nothing. So I mean you're talking.

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Speaker 4: There's everything that could have went wrong went wrong, and

627
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Speaker 4: it went wrong so early that I think it's really

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Speaker 4: hard to even look at that tape and say, Okay, well.

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Speaker 8: Here's what we did well.

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Speaker 4: Here's what we didn't do well, because it was really

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Speaker 4: bad really quickly, and really good for them really quickly.

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Speaker 4: So but when you do look at it, you look

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Speaker 4: at more matchups, Parker, you look at more of the

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Speaker 4: individual matchups because you do assess the talent of both teams.

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Speaker 4: You do have breakdowns, you do have depth charts, and

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Speaker 4: then you break that down in terms of a personnel standpoint,

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Speaker 4: and I think you take those things. But again, I mean,

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Speaker 4: there's a really good football team. There's a really good

639
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Speaker 4: team that we're playing. It's one of the best teams

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Speaker 4: in the country for a reason, and we're going to

641
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 4: have to play really.

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Speaker 8: Really well.

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Speaker 1: PJ Flag, coach of the Golden Gophers football team, joins

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Speaker 1: nine to now, your quarterback Drake Lindsay in the very

645
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Speaker 1: formative stages of not only his collegiate career, but who

646
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Speaker 1: knows where it'll go from there during the course of

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Speaker 1: your elongated head coaching run, PJ. Whether it's here Western

648
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Speaker 1: Michigan when it comes to raising the gifted. So Drake

649
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Speaker 1: clearly is gifted, but just like so many who start

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Speaker 1: at a high level at that key position, experience is

651
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Speaker 1: required to work through things.

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Speaker 2: What's that like?

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Speaker 7: Like?

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Speaker 1: What are some head coaching keys when you have gifted

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Speaker 1: players who are making mistakes because they lack experience getting

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Speaker 1: through that.

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Speaker 8: We got to love to fail.

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Speaker 4: And I know that sounds crazy, but we define failing

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Speaker 4: as growth and fail you're as quit.

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Speaker 8: Those are two different words.

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Speaker 4: We need our players to want to fail. Our job

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Speaker 4: as coaches is to get him to fail and get

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Speaker 4: him to respond to that sailing constantly. And I think

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Speaker 4: that's what Drake's really good at. On Sundays, you can't

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Speaker 4: really tell with Drake whether we won or lost. He

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Speaker 4: just wants to grow. I think I said this last

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Speaker 4: week and Pam, I'm not sure if you heard me

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Speaker 4: talk about this, but you when you talk about playing Drake,

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Speaker 4: when you're playing a freshman as a head coach, you

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Speaker 4: make a decision, and whether that's a rookie or whether

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Speaker 4: that's a freshman, you make a decision as a head

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Speaker 4: coach to play a really young, inexperienced player.

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Speaker 8: You know, there's going to be highs and lows.

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Speaker 4: Now the fans might not agree with that or want that,

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Speaker 4: but there's going to be some really good moments and

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Speaker 4: there's going to be some really really hard moments. But

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Speaker 4: you can't get the steps. The steps to becoming an

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Speaker 4: elite player are the steps.

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Speaker 8: And so you can't get those steps.

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Speaker 4: You got to go through those, and you better be

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Speaker 4: prepared with that as a head football coach and the

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Speaker 4: starting quarterback. When you go through that, there have to

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Speaker 4: be an understanding that this is going to happen. But

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Speaker 4: when we have those times, the response is going to

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Speaker 4: be critical. And I've absolutely loved Drake's response, and that's

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Speaker 4: what shows me he's going to be such a great

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Speaker 4: player is because of his response that it's not a

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Speaker 4: reaction based on what society thinks, it's based on an

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Speaker 4: internal response that he has that he's going to grow,

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Speaker 4: change and get.

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Speaker 8: Better with time.

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Speaker 1: Hey, PJ, how is recruiting going? And how much can

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Speaker 1: you discuss because I'm playing off the social media machines

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Speaker 1: here seeing like this person's at a game and this

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Speaker 1: person commits or the verbals or all that, Like, how

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Speaker 1: it seems like it's going really well, but I don't

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Speaker 1: want to put you in a weird spot.

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Speaker 2: How much can you discuss?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's interesting with recruiting because somebody asked me how's

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Speaker 4: recruiting going, I said, we last me in three years,

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Speaker 4: and then I'll tell you how it went, because you

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Speaker 4: never really know. But I do think this is one

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Speaker 4: of our bestest, not the best class we put together.

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Speaker 4: Even over the last week, seven commitments and committed to us.

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Speaker 4: We are really busy in the bye week with recruiting,

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Speaker 4: and I thought our staff did a really good job.

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Speaker 4: I don't think anybody talks or the program. I hate

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Speaker 4: to use the word sell the program, but that's the

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Speaker 4: way I have to describe it. That more than the players,

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Speaker 4: and our players do such an outstanding job of talking

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Speaker 4: about play our program.

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Speaker 8: Talking to people about this is exactly what it is.

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Speaker 4: I mean, if you're up for this, great, If you're

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Speaker 4: not up for this, don't come here. And our players do.

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Speaker 8: Such a great job.

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Speaker 4: But I think this is probably our best class you've

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Speaker 4: ever had when you look at it from top to bottom,

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Speaker 4: and that's where you want to be, you know, nine

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Speaker 4: years into your tenure here and our staff and players

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Speaker 4: deserve a lot of credits to that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Now this potentially is a dumb question, but when

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Speaker 1: when you Okay, so they're still in high school. So

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Speaker 1: I mean, is it like a fore gone conclusion it's closed,

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Speaker 1: or do you still have to sweat a little bit

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Speaker 1: until we actually get them here?

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Speaker 2: Oh no, we have.

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Speaker 4: Twenty three days till signing days, so absolutely you're going

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Speaker 4: to sweat all the way to getting there and then

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Speaker 4: the portal opens and then you got to look at that.

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Speaker 4: So there's a whole point of that in early January now,

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Speaker 4: which is a two week window, which is only one

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Speaker 4: window now, which helps. But you just ever know how

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Speaker 4: that shapes up with your football team and who comes

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Speaker 4: after him. So we all know that kind of goes

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Speaker 4: on in college football, and we got to do everything

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Speaker 4: we can to I think, what's what we do. We

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Speaker 4: create a great experience for people who want to be

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Speaker 4: a part of that life program on the field, off

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Speaker 4: the field, and takes a special person to want to

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Speaker 4: be a part of that. And instead of just chase

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Speaker 4: a logo or chase money.

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Speaker 1: So part of being a college coach these days legitimately

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Speaker 1: is also constantly recruiting within your walls, making sure those

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Speaker 1: you want to stay, emphasis on those you want to

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Speaker 1: stay stay right.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I wouldn't even call it recruiting. I think it's

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Speaker 4: just creating an experience from top to bottom academically, athletically,

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Speaker 4: socially and spiritually that people don't want to trade for something,

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Speaker 4: and simply that we create an experience that for the

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Speaker 4: majority of the time we have one of the top

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Speaker 4: protension rates in the country that players really like being

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Speaker 4: a part of.

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Speaker 8: Are we perfect?

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Speaker 4: No, But I think that when you create an experience

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Speaker 4: that really is a little different than most collegiate experiences

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Speaker 4: right now, I think it gravitates to your players and

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Speaker 4: allows them to say, I could be the best person

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Speaker 4: I could be and play and make money and do

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Speaker 4: it all, and I don't have to go risk that

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Speaker 4: and go somewhere where maybe I'm being sold something that's

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Speaker 4: not necessarily true. So I think we do a really

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Speaker 4: good job of still creating a collegiate experience in this

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Speaker 4: new NIL portal slash if you want to call it

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Speaker 4: professional like type atmosphere.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the conversation. My brother safe travels well chat

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Speaker 1: next week, all.

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Speaker 8: Right, look forward to it. Robot Kaimago Gophers is go by.

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Speaker 2: Thanks yes, Sir, Seal Letter. PJ.

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Speaker 1: Fleck, coach of the Golden Gophers football team. Weekly nine

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Speaker 1: to noon pea box sticks around. We mix up the

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Speaker 1: topics after that