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Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: To answer your question and Tommy, I don't think i'd
Speaker 3: be happy.
Speaker 4: So what just happened is I'm normally in here during
Speaker 4: Tommy's confessional in the other room. So I walk in,
Speaker 4: We're bs and about other things, and then Tommy, just
Speaker 4: off the top rope, asks a question that came out
Speaker 4: of nowhere. I'm like, is this how these normally go?
Speaker 4: And they're all like, yes, this is exactly how these go.
Speaker 5: This is it?
Speaker 2: Like Jesus, So I get out of here. All the
Speaker 2: questions like have you ever Oh no, it's so we're worried.
Speaker 4: To be honest to say, it was a smarrior that
Speaker 4: was extremely graphic and something that Chris would not be
Speaker 4: interested in. Tommy goes, yeah, but if you walk up
Speaker 4: a morning, would you be happy or sad?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell you what, Why would I be happy
Speaker 2: about that?
Speaker 3: You heard the whole Corey, I did. The least likely
Speaker 3: part of that whole thing was me being in a club.
Speaker 2: The rest of it could happen sure or that person
Speaker 2: still being there in the morning, and you didn't find
Speaker 2: out at some point.
Speaker 3: At some point, I probably gonna say, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 3: those are testings.
Speaker 2: No one needs to know about this. Okay, quick, follo up?
Speaker 2: What does that make you happier? What a question?
Speaker 4: It wasn't would you would you do it it? Would
Speaker 4: it make you happy or sad?
Speaker 2: If you found that? Anyway?
Speaker 5: Tell me?
Speaker 2: Do you do you go to therapy? No? You probably should.
Speaker 2: That's number one. Number number two because I feel like.
Speaker 4: If you did go to therapy, this is you're testing
Speaker 4: the waters to see what you should say to your therapist.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because years like, no, that's totally normal. That's cool, man.
Speaker 4: But if we're like dear God, then you go to
Speaker 4: your therapy and go partrip.
Speaker 2: Doesn't think that I'm normal, are they right? Yeah? They
Speaker 2: laughed really hard when I asked this question.
Speaker 5: They all wrong with me.
Speaker 2: Anyway, all right, let's talk.
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Speaker 3: let's just talk college football, man. So uh so, what's up?
Speaker 6: Well we have uh it's it's the on the college
Speaker 6: football slite. We'll go back, We'll go to the Gophers
Speaker 6: after this. It's generally kind of a down weekend. Hawk,
Speaker 6: So it's this is we have two regular season weekends left, right,
Speaker 6: so next week yeah, so next weekend, I know, it's crazy.
Speaker 6: So next weekend's the big rivalry weekend go for. We'll
Speaker 6: go for versus our our rivals from the East. And
Speaker 6: then this weekend just a little bit different, right, But
Speaker 6: there's a lot of really important games in terms of
Speaker 6: seeing who's going to get into the college football playoff
Speaker 6: and of course into their conference championships. So the two
Speaker 6: big games on slate really are USC is eight and
Speaker 6: two and there at Oregon number eight.
Speaker 2: That's where college game Day is going.
Speaker 6: And I think right now is what is the points
Speaker 6: spread of meat sauce is at ten and a half Oregon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ten and a half.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so it's one of those games. I think there's
Speaker 6: a lot of points in this game. But USC, which
Speaker 6: is kind of you know, they're eight and two. People
Speaker 6: think a USC win and then they'd beat UCLA next week,
Speaker 6: would get into the College Football Playoff, which probably happens,
Speaker 6: and an Oregon loss would probably keep organ out in Oregon.
Speaker 6: It would be it would finish roughly ten and two.
Speaker 6: So it's if you're the big it's gonna be fun
Speaker 6: for me to watch. If you think of the Big ten,
Speaker 6: then the official I think they're probably they're I think
Speaker 6: they're going to get some home calls at Oregon.
Speaker 2: But it's a game.
Speaker 6: On paper, it looks to be an Oregon w but
Speaker 6: I think I think the reason why Oregon wins I
Speaker 6: think Oregon's a bit better in the trenches than USC.
Speaker 3: Can I say something real quick, just make an observation,
Speaker 3: and this is not a shot at name, but I'm
Speaker 3: just making an observation about the dichotomy in college football.
Speaker 3: If a team like Oregon doesn't make the college football
Speaker 3: playoffs and they're that much better than the Gophers, how
Speaker 3: far away are we?
Speaker 6: I mean, I think we're I think I feel like
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty five, I feel like we're further away
Speaker 6: than I believed at the beginning of the season. I
Speaker 6: think the big here's the good news is it can
Speaker 6: all change in a manner of moments. Yeah, right, And
Speaker 6: I think if you when you know I've talked to
Speaker 6: guards you about this little bit.
Speaker 2: I talked to.
Speaker 6: Andy Greeder from the Pioneer Press last week at the
Speaker 6: airport flying back from from Portland.
Speaker 2: I think the difference right now is when you.
Speaker 6: Look at our recruitment of the Portal and the impact
Speaker 6: of the Portal on the program, I think we've missed.
Speaker 6: And I think if you look at the top teams
Speaker 6: in college football, they've sprinkled in a lot of impac
Speaker 6: hack players that are from the Portal. It's immediate fixes
Speaker 6: and that so that great news is we can go
Speaker 6: make those immediate fixes. But I would start in the trenches.
Speaker 6: That's where I think we've probably lost the most. I
Speaker 6: think if I look at that offensive line, we took
Speaker 6: kids in the Portal that aren't even playing right.
Speaker 2: So we we missed, and.
Speaker 6: You can't miss in the left Yeah, well, we got
Speaker 6: two guys that start for top top fifteen programs.
Speaker 2: Well, Howard as you gonna be a first round pick, right, Yeah?
Speaker 4: No, the tackle for Ohio State Daniels Daniels, Sorry.
Speaker 2: So Daniels.
Speaker 6: So we have Daniels who's a starting tackle at Ohio State,
Speaker 6: and we have Cat O'Connell who's a starting guard at Vanderbilt.
Speaker 6: So so it's about I mean, so you got to
Speaker 6: be better. We got to be better in our evaluation
Speaker 6: of the portal. And I would start with I would
Speaker 6: start in the trenches hot because I think if you
Speaker 6: it doesn't it does you no good when you have
Speaker 6: elite skill players if you can't block and shed blocks
Speaker 6: on the defensive side. So that's that's the biggest thing
Speaker 6: of when I when people ask like, ah, we seem
Speaker 6: far away, and I do think right now, we're far away,
Speaker 6: but it can change fast, im ago and guys, it's not.
Speaker 6: There's plenty of funding here. It's the revenue sharing is there.
Speaker 6: It's about your evaluation of the portal. And I love
Speaker 6: what Kurt Signetty does exactly. Kurt goes gets production, not
Speaker 6: potential production. Is a kid that's in the MAC that
Speaker 6: shows that shows that he can produce at a college
Speaker 6: football level. He's got he's got a lot of catches,
Speaker 6: he's got yards after the catch, he's got a great
Speaker 6: he's an efficient pastor.
Speaker 4: It's kind of like we did with Brozemer, right, he's
Speaker 4: super productive where he was.
Speaker 2: And the other thing though, And I'm not, as Hawk said,
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to be mean. This is going to
Speaker 2: sound mean. You can't look uncompetitive on the road.
Speaker 4: You just can't go into every road situation and lay
Speaker 4: an absolute egg.
Speaker 2: That doesn't help.
Speaker 6: It's not And I think, you know, those games could
Speaker 6: have been played at Huntington Bank, and honestly, I think
Speaker 6: the square the score could have been very similar. You
Speaker 6: can't be that uncompetitive with conference opponents. I mean, I
Speaker 6: don't care if they're you know, and again Ohio State
Speaker 6: might you might talk yourself into that because they're pretty
Speaker 6: darn elite, But.
Speaker 2: It's the Iowa. It's the Iowa. It's frustrate me.
Speaker 6: Is just like even last week I told Katy, I
Speaker 6: guess we needed another week to prepare for Oregon, Like
Speaker 6: you had two weeks to prepare.
Speaker 2: In a.
Speaker 7: Game.
Speaker 6: It's yeah, but you have to like you have to
Speaker 6: have these you have to have a game. It's is
Speaker 6: it coaches, players or scheme and and and right now,
Speaker 6: it's kind of a lot of everything, and and I
Speaker 6: think first and foremost, you got to show a level
Speaker 6: of preparation and execution that's better. The miss tackles last week,
Speaker 6: you know, was it was the guy in for the
Speaker 6: touchdown after he broke fifteen tackles. No, I don't think
Speaker 6: that was a touchdown. He was awarded a touchdown, but
Speaker 6: don't miss fifteen tackles?
Speaker 2: Yeah, flash.
Speaker 4: Do you think in Drake Lindsay's career with the University
Speaker 4: of Minnesota at some point he'll be a top ten
Speaker 4: quarterback in the country?
Speaker 5: Is level?
Speaker 2: I think he is?
Speaker 6: I think, But but he only he only gets through
Speaker 6: with you. He's got everything around him. And that's where
Speaker 6: I get super concerned with the offensive line. At the
Speaker 6: offense line right now, is like, isn't going to get
Speaker 6: him to be a top ten quarterback?
Speaker 4: What do you think he is now? By the way, Uh,
Speaker 4: he's probably thirty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's probably top thirty. But he is
Speaker 2: he is different.
Speaker 6: I mean, you've seen you've seen bits and pieces, but
Speaker 6: a lot of it's gonna be what's around him. We're
Speaker 6: going to talk about the Prep Bowl a little bit
Speaker 6: today when you watch the six to eight state championship
Speaker 6: game tomorrow, Morehead versus a dynam Morehead.
Speaker 2: As a wise requ Morehead as a wide receiver. He
Speaker 2: was at Ohio State last week.
Speaker 6: There's a there's there's talent even in this state that
Speaker 6: would hail that would help Drake Lindsay, right, So you
Speaker 6: got to get the line around him to give him time,
Speaker 6: and then you got to get the playmakers that can
Speaker 6: create separation and and not drop footballs.
Speaker 8: How do they hand how do they handle the portal
Speaker 8: right now at the Gophers, because it sounds like it's
Speaker 8: different at a lot of different places.
Speaker 5: Do they actually have a GM? Yeah, there somebody that
Speaker 5: is like the the GM.
Speaker 6: The GM is handling more of the revenue sharing and
Speaker 6: and and I a little bit.
Speaker 5: And so who's scouting and evaluation.
Speaker 6: There's there's there's a separate people, the separate department. Yeah,
Speaker 6: just like a recruiting staff. So there's a recruiting people
Speaker 6: you have right now. They actually have three parts of it.
Speaker 6: You have someone that's out you know, who's leading the
Speaker 6: efforts with high schools, which is still part of it.
Speaker 6: I will say, I think any college coach in the
Speaker 6: country would tell you it's a less of their focus
Speaker 6: than it used to be. What PJ has done this
Speaker 6: month is he's actually hit the junior colleges really hard
Speaker 6: and he got three kids, I think three that are
Speaker 6: pretty One is the top wide receiver in junior college football,
Speaker 6: which I think that's a good thing to focus on.
Speaker 6: And then you have someone focusing on the portal. And
Speaker 6: the portal is a tough one because you don't really
Speaker 6: know who's in.
Speaker 2: Yet, right you don't that's interested.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, in the next three weeks, we're gonna see
Speaker 6: kids jumping into the portal. And it's such a quick
Speaker 6: dating game because they jump in and that things open
Speaker 6: for about three weeks and then it closes, and so
Speaker 6: your evaluation has to be quick and it and I
Speaker 6: talked to Max Osmu's dad when he came to the Gophers.
Speaker 6: He said, justin we opened up the portal in ninety minutes,
Speaker 6: we had been contacted by fifty schools, ye fifty five zero,
Speaker 6: So then you have to whittle that down to say
Speaker 6: what fits us best. They came out here early because
Speaker 6: they felt it was a good fit. But it was
Speaker 6: a really strong evaluation of each other, like what does
Speaker 6: Minnesota have for Max? What does Max have for Minnesota?
Speaker 6: And you know he fell in love with it, but
Speaker 6: he had other programs similar to Minnesota. Think like a
Speaker 6: Virginia attack of Pittsburgh that we're also interested.
Speaker 2: So you have to be right. And that's my issue.
Speaker 6: When you have cornerbacks an offensive line that came from
Speaker 6: the portal that you gave a lot of revenue sharing
Speaker 6: money to and they're sitting on scout team you missed
Speaker 6: in the portal.
Speaker 2: That's the hardest part.
Speaker 6: And you can't do that, not not here the portal.
Speaker 6: Players have to be starters. They have to be there.
Speaker 6: Their their window to their typical window of eligibilities of
Speaker 6: like a couple of years.
Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, all right, we got we got a break.
Speaker 3: We got to go to HyG Vee with Grenard and
Speaker 3: then we'll in my back said, okay, everybody cool.
Speaker 2: You just take your own flash or what? All right?
Speaker 2: Right now, Tommy, you gotta go or not?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 2: I can say one more, right, he can say too.
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Speaker 5: Said six o'clock.
Speaker 6: Then you'll have you will be watching the one of
Speaker 6: the TVs will have more head eight and four at
Speaker 6: a Dina State champions four.
Speaker 2: That's our squad, would stop it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's my squad who wins and why I've never
Speaker 4: seen him play.
Speaker 6: So I this this. You guys have to watch this
Speaker 6: game because it's going to be an entertaining game. I'm
Speaker 6: helping out Chris Long on the sideline for Channel forty five.
Speaker 2: I would say to the ram two of the best
Speaker 2: quarterbacks in the state.
Speaker 6: So you have Mason West always he's just willing his.
Speaker 2: Team to the state championship.
Speaker 6: I mean they they've won the last three games minnetaka
Speaker 6: Eden Prairie in Forest Lake by a combined four points.
Speaker 2: Wow, this is crazy, right, Which team is that again?
Speaker 2: This is a Dina the hockey player. Yeah, yeah, And
Speaker 2: it's funny.
Speaker 6: We did an interview with the More head coach this
Speaker 6: week and he and you know More at his the
Speaker 6: state defending champion in hockey, and he goes, the cool
Speaker 6: thing about Mason West is how many kids of that
Speaker 6: caliber of a hockey player would actually play football. Because
Speaker 6: in the state, if you're in lead hockey player hockey
Speaker 6: by freshman year, you're like, yeah, football's done, I'm gonna
Speaker 6: focus on hockey. So when he said that and we
Speaker 6: repeated that to the Dina coach. He goes, we have
Speaker 6: four starting football players that are starters on the hockey team.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 6: What Yeah, And as Ben said I walked in, he goes,
Speaker 6: it's because Mason West has has built the expectation.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 8: Yeah, My guest, My guess is that when you're when
Speaker 8: you're stud athlete, who's you know, Michigan State bound, undrafted
Speaker 8: in the first round by the by the Blackhawks. If
Speaker 8: he's like, no, I'm committed to this football team and
Speaker 8: I won't play, and he's been very vocal about that,
Speaker 8: then like Chase Buergard, who's the starting goalie and running back,
Speaker 8: I'm sure. Yeah, he's also like, well, if he's gonna play,
Speaker 8: I'm gonna play. And then if the other two guys
Speaker 8: that start in the hockey team, like, if those guys
Speaker 8: are gonna play, then I'm gonna play. And let's finish
Speaker 8: this thing out, like let's win a state title.
Speaker 6: They were so close two years ago. Yeah, they can
Speaker 6: pull it off this so it will be this will
Speaker 6: be a shootout. This is the team that has the
Speaker 6: football last will win. And I forget the score when
Speaker 6: they played like about a month ago. I think it
Speaker 6: was like fifty literally fifty to forty nine really, So
Speaker 6: this game will have that type of offense, and both
Speaker 6: coaches have said it's not really about stopping the other
Speaker 6: team is it's trying to roughly contain them. But Mason
Speaker 6: West a great quarterback for a DYNA senior NHL draft pick.
Speaker 6: Morit has a kid named Jet Feeney junior Division one quarterback.
Speaker 6: People say he's probably the best quarterback in.
Speaker 2: The stage or he's only a junior.
Speaker 6: And he has a wide receiver David Mack who is
Speaker 6: the top they say, maybe one of the top five
Speaker 6: receivers in the country. Who Ohio State is trying to
Speaker 6: likely have him join them, So that game will be
Speaker 6: an amazing game. I'm gonna take my kind of hometown
Speaker 6: Mori ed Spuds to win that one. And then before that,
Speaker 6: if you remember, we had a Gopher recruit who was
Speaker 6: choosing between Minnesota and Alabama in the re currering process,
Speaker 6: and of course he took Minnesota. So Roman Vass from
Speaker 6: Jackson County Central let's go is right before that game,
Speaker 6: six foot four, probably two forty in moves like a
Speaker 6: wide receiver.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, what position does he play? Everything? Oh wow,
Speaker 2: I think the coach.
Speaker 6: He's been starting since eighth grade, and I believe they
Speaker 6: said he has over ten thousand career yards.
Speaker 3: Hold on what You're allowed to start high school football
Speaker 3: as you are?
Speaker 6: Yes, wow, Jackson County Central four o'clock kick on Channel
Speaker 6: forty five.
Speaker 2: So say there's a high school lineup? Dude, are we
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Speaker 2: Well, of course we all do bet on college football.
Speaker 6: So Ben and I struggle, howk because we said this
Speaker 6: week was kind of a little bit of a garbage week,
Speaker 6: but we love to turn on the TV Saturday and
Speaker 6: watch a bunch of games, and so we we went
Speaker 6: back and forth. Actually kind of this morning, and I'm
Speaker 6: going to take a game that has a lot of implications.
Speaker 6: So we're going to take Ben is taking Oklahoma coming
Speaker 6: off a ginormous upset at Alabama. He has Oklahoma. I
Speaker 6: think it's minus seven and a half. He's taking Oklahoma
Speaker 6: in Missouri, who has a game time decision on their
Speaker 6: starting quarterback. If it's the if it's their experienced quarterback,
Speaker 6: I'm feeling great. If it's not, they put back in
Speaker 6: a true freshman. And so I'm taking a seven and
Speaker 6: three Missouri team plus seven and a half.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's seven and a half.
Speaker 6: Yep, there you go power and so go Tigers. And
Speaker 6: in the Gopher game, I think the Gopher games tricky one.
Speaker 6: I think both teams.
Speaker 5: Are they play this weekend.
Speaker 6: The Gophers actually go to Wrigley Field. Tom he's on
Speaker 6: his way and.
Speaker 2: Driving.
Speaker 6: He probably, I mean, he's not gonna make it, is he.
Speaker 6: But anyways, I don't think.
Speaker 4: He's basically landing in Indiana doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so you know, so again people are probably wondering
Speaker 6: why wrigley Field. Northwestern is in the process of building
Speaker 6: this amazing stadium and I think it opens up next season.
Speaker 6: So they've been out of their stadium for a couple
Speaker 6: of years. They have a they have a on their campus.
Speaker 6: They have kind of a temporary stadium. It's a little
Speaker 6: bit like a high school stand that they've played a
Speaker 6: lot of games. But when the Cubs are done playing,
Speaker 6: they go downtown and play at Wrigley Field. So that's
Speaker 6: why the games are this last this week. Last week
Speaker 6: they played Michigan there. If they did everything they could
Speaker 6: to try to win that game, they lost in a
Speaker 6: last second field goal.
Speaker 2: But these are two teams pretty similar.
Speaker 6: If you look at all the stats, you know, Minnesota's
Speaker 6: offense is number one twenty six out of one hundred
Speaker 6: and thirty four teams in the country in total offense.
Speaker 6: Northwestern is a little bit better at one hundred and five. Defensively,
Speaker 6: both teams ranked kind of in that top forty in
Speaker 6: terms of total defense. You can think of the field conditions,
Speaker 6: the home field advantage maybe kind of favor Northwestern. That's
Speaker 6: why I think Northwestern's minus three and a half. But
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go with my hometown team here, and I
Speaker 6: think Minnesota is gonna find a way and they kind
Speaker 6: of need to to show that you can win on
Speaker 6: the road, and so I'm gonna take my my Golden
Speaker 6: Gophers twenty, Wildcats seventeen.
Speaker 2: Interesting.
Speaker 6: Wow, interesting, You're gonna have to find a way to
Speaker 6: stop a room good running attack of Northwestern. And then,
Speaker 6: just like Corey said earlier, I think we're going to
Speaker 6: see our boy, Drake Lindsay come of age and get
Speaker 6: get a lot more Darius Taylor. That run defense is
Speaker 6: good for Northwestern, but not nearly as good as Oregon.
Speaker 6: So Darius is healthy again, get the running game going,
Speaker 6: finding some balance. But it's gonna be a really, it's
Speaker 6: gonna be a great football game.
Speaker 3: Another Minnesota quarterback just developing him right before.
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Speaker 2: thanks for your time, Thanksgiving brother. We'll see in two weeks.
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Speaker 2: All right, so we're not quite sure.
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Speaker 5: It just has that electrical fire smell.
Speaker 4: We're fine every time we have for like an hour,
Speaker 4: every time we have one of them, Yeah, well, I
Speaker 4: don't know.
Speaker 2: Every time we have one of these.
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Speaker 4: on fire and we were all trapped on this end
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Speaker 2: This audio would live in infamy. Remember when the Pate jokes.
Speaker 4: About the electrical fire smell, and then the whole building
Speaker 4: burnt to the ground and they.
Speaker 2: All died, and it was like that great white bit.
Speaker 4: Sure they thought it was so funny at seven forty
Speaker 4: three in the morning, and then it happened.
Speaker 8: So what would it take for us to throw a
Speaker 8: chair through that window and actually go out the window?
Speaker 5: That would like we would have You have to have
Speaker 5: like this triple pain.
Speaker 2: Ben's strong. He can get a chair through this window.
Speaker 5: See him try? Yeah, you really would like if you do?
Speaker 4: Or what it's life and death, Zachary, He's gonna throw
Speaker 4: you through that window.
Speaker 2: Mark him down for two for the death. This is
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Speaker 5: Think we could do it? I mean you think they would.
Speaker 2: Just aren't we about to change some things up, I
Speaker 2: think up. Yeah, good timing. All right, Let's let's finish
Speaker 2: up a bit from an hour ago. Is the Vikings news, No,
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Speaker 9: looks like there's nobody home last night.
Speaker 2: The place is jumping something, right, I mean I can
Speaker 2: hear that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that last one for sure, because you do it
Speaker 4: like there's times that you kind of half whispered talk.
Speaker 9: And I mean, right now, looks like there's nobody home
Speaker 9: last night, the place is jumping.
Speaker 2: Something.
Speaker 5: I hear it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I get it. Sounds to me like charge
Speaker 2: brilliant man. Look like there's nobody home. Somebody right strong
Speaker 2: with you? Why do you do that? I told you
Speaker 2: not to do it? What's wrong with you? Why do
Speaker 2: you do that? I told you not to do it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know many now he calls you ahead all
Speaker 2: the time. Doubt there is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, see yeah, I remember that famous line from Home Alone.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's great.
Speaker 8: All right, all right, I'll take it. I think he's
Speaker 8: onto something. Yeah, there's it's there. A little bit.
Speaker 5: You got what you got a little little pest.
Speaker 4: Can you ask Elizabeth if he did she if she
Speaker 4: did name him after the cat? Is it a family
Speaker 4: name or something? Where does it come from? We can't
Speaker 4: be related.
Speaker 2: That's a brilliant name, though. I thought you were doing
Speaker 2: the rosy bitch after the Cospice ship. His name was
Speaker 2: Heathcliff Huxtable Fuxtable. Sure, well, how old is he? Like
Speaker 2: five five?
Speaker 4: He's five? Yeah, so he was born after the Cosby
Speaker 4: stuff came out.
Speaker 2: Sure, because that's one of those things.
Speaker 4: If you name him after doctor doctor Huxtable, like fifteen
Speaker 4: years ago, you might be like, let's go with Heathcliff,
Speaker 4: and then all the Cosby news comes out and you're like,
Speaker 4: son of them exactly, I love my animated cat.
Speaker 2: Sure, let's hope it's not Cosby related.
Speaker 7: On The Power Trip presented behind hell yeah, oh yeah,
Speaker 7: yeah yeah.
Speaker 4: One last thing, one last thing. Twin City's lab related. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Elizabeth says a lot, especially you guys talked about the
Speaker 4: garbage pail kids last week, that all these things that
Speaker 4: she was not allowed to do as a kid growing up. Correct, right,
Speaker 4: that her household, her dad's a pastor or something, so
Speaker 4: it was a very like religious like, let's keep the
Speaker 4: let's keep it clean.
Speaker 2: She lets her kids, let's know, the Power Trip Morning Show.
Speaker 2: What is she do?
Speaker 5: That is? Jay?
Speaker 2: I think that's nice.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that is mostly JA.
Speaker 2: Yeah, teach and let them.
Speaker 5: So he gets Jay gets all the credit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, smart Jay.
Speaker 5: Classic Ja.
Speaker 4: Those kids are going to absolutely blend right into society perfectly.
Speaker 2: All right, vikings news. All right, Ben, here's the question
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 5: Okay, what's the question?
Speaker 3: Okay, because I'm going to play some audio from JJ
Speaker 3: McCarthy talking to the pressures.
Speaker 2: Did you hear any of that?
Speaker 8: I saw, I saw some stuff on social media, but
Speaker 8: I did not listen to it come out of his mouth.
Speaker 3: I find it interesting, and I have questions that are
Speaker 3: not critical, They're just questions. Trying to get that out
Speaker 3: of the way right away. Okay, understand where I'm coming
Speaker 3: from here, He talks about his quarterback journey.
Speaker 2: Coming in here.
Speaker 10: I was taught how to play quarterback in a very
Speaker 10: different way, and that's expected going into the league, going
Speaker 10: into any new team, any new system. But at the
Speaker 10: end of the day, you know, it was really just
Speaker 10: the injuries that I felt like, you know, kind of
Speaker 10: took away all those reps in the constant repetition to
Speaker 10: make those a habit and make them concrete. Like KOs
Speaker 10: talks about, I feel like, you know, it's just the repetitions.
Speaker 10: You know, how many times could I go home and
Speaker 10: every time I take the dogs out, I'm getting, you know,
Speaker 10: ten drops each time, Little things like that, where you
Speaker 10: just keep building the reps.
Speaker 2: Okay, what do you need to work on most my posture.
Speaker 10: The way that I'm processing the defense in terms of
Speaker 10: I know what I'm getting, but let the rhythm of
Speaker 10: the play play out. You know, don't be getting to
Speaker 10: that answer too quick, because you know, it's a timing
Speaker 10: and rhythm of the concepts and the defenses and just
Speaker 10: decision making, just understanding, you know, the situation of the game,
Speaker 10: not just the concept that I'm trying to execute. Understand
Speaker 10: you know, like for instance, that first pick last game.
Speaker 10: You know it's four minutes going into half, we're on
Speaker 10: our own side of the territory, and just understand, you know,
Speaker 10: what that risk factors should be and go from there.
Speaker 2: So I'd say those things.
Speaker 3: Do you believe the coaching staff, specifically Ko and the
Speaker 3: quarterback coach.
Speaker 2: Helped me out? McCown yeah, Josh yeah.
Speaker 3: Do you believe they spend a lot of their time
Speaker 3: walking the fine line between letting the kid be a
Speaker 3: football player and teaching them how to be the football
Speaker 3: player they want.
Speaker 8: That's a great question, because it's one that I was
Speaker 8: thinking about myself on the way home from the game
Speaker 8: last week.
Speaker 2: Was just.
Speaker 8: I think this happens with a lot of players, and
Speaker 8: specifically gets magnified when you talk about quarterbacks because there
Speaker 8: is so much fundamental and technique and mechanics built into
Speaker 8: what they do. You don't want to make a quarterback mechanical.
Speaker 8: I think that is the worst thing that you can
Speaker 8: do for a player, is in any player, if you
Speaker 8: make them so formulaic.
Speaker 5: It's the thing that.
Speaker 8: We hated about Kirk Cousins, but it's also the thing
Speaker 8: that made him specifically great. And I was a big
Speaker 8: fan of what Kirk could do because he could rip
Speaker 8: it and you could throw it like like no other.
Speaker 8: But when you're a young quarterback and you're trying to
Speaker 8: sounds like they're trying to build this thing from ground zero,
Speaker 8: you don't want to. You don't want the guy to
Speaker 8: walk up to the line not only have to process
Speaker 8: what's going on in front of him with the defense,
Speaker 8: helps set the blocking protections, maybe change the play, and
Speaker 8: then as he gets the as he receives the football,
Speaker 8: then it's like, okay, one, two, three, how's my right foot,
Speaker 8: how's my arm angle here? How's like do you really
Speaker 8: want any player to be thinking about that? No, you
Speaker 8: want the player to be playing fast. And I think
Speaker 8: that's what he's talking about as far as making making
Speaker 8: everything concrete. When you make your habits and you make
Speaker 8: your fundamentals and your mechanics concrete, you no longer have
Speaker 8: to think about it.
Speaker 5: It's just it is what it is.
Speaker 8: And I do think with him having a lower body
Speaker 8: injury last year that prohibited him from having a lot
Speaker 8: of those reps in practice in game like situations, it's
Speaker 8: taken a much longer for those things to become concrete.
Speaker 8: But I I love your question because I think it's
Speaker 8: one valid. It is, how do how do you, in
Speaker 8: the course of a season in real life bullets on
Speaker 8: Sundays get a player to play free and fast, which
Speaker 8: is the best way to play, to play instinctful but
Speaker 8: yet smart, all the while working on your mechanics.
Speaker 2: I think it's a very difficult thing to do.
Speaker 4: We saw that last year with the Gophers, right when
Speaker 4: they basically said it took a couple of games for
Speaker 4: the coaching staff to just let Brozemer go, Just let
Speaker 4: them go, let's let the harness is off, just let
Speaker 4: them go.
Speaker 2: And obviously the numbers got better and better and better.
Speaker 4: We have seven games left, right, do they just unleash
Speaker 4: him and say, like, look, we got nothing to lose.
Speaker 4: Now we got to let the kid try. What do
Speaker 4: you do differently against the Packers than you've done the
Speaker 4: last five starts with JJ? What do you let him
Speaker 4: quote do and let him go?
Speaker 2: How do you do that? I mean different play calls
Speaker 2: or or like, how do you? I don't know.
Speaker 8: So I wonder if because it sounds like Ryan Kelly
Speaker 8: was a full participant yesterday.
Speaker 2: Yes he was, Yes he was. Yeh.
Speaker 8: If that remains to be true all the way through
Speaker 8: the week where he has no setbacks and he's your
Speaker 8: starting center. Not to say Blake Brandell didn't do a
Speaker 8: great job from the mental side of it. I thought
Speaker 8: he played really well in his absence. But maybe maybe
Speaker 8: part of it is taking a little bit off of
Speaker 8: his plate pre snap. I don't know how you necessarily
Speaker 8: do that, but because because the quarterback is so important
Speaker 8: with this type of system.
Speaker 2: But I do think that there.
Speaker 8: Is a way because people were asking me, like, how
Speaker 8: can we get him to play like he does in
Speaker 8: two minute more for the rest of the game. Well,
Speaker 8: what happens in two minute is there's less checks at
Speaker 8: the line. The defense is not disguising and doing things
Speaker 8: differently because they just have to get set up and
Speaker 8: ready to go, and they have to make sure that
Speaker 8: they're in the right place because the ball is getting
Speaker 8: snapped much quicker.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 8: So that's why a lot of people are like, well,
Speaker 8: why can't we just do two minute offense all the time? Well,
Speaker 8: it's it is predicated by what the defense is doing
Speaker 8: as well. So the reason why a lot of quarterbacks
Speaker 8: play faster in the offenses are more efficient is because
Speaker 8: the defense is not allowed to do the things that
Speaker 8: they're allowed to do. They become much more static and
Speaker 8: you get a munch cleaner read on what they're trying
Speaker 8: to do. So if you can get that from a
Speaker 8: mentality standpoint where you don't have to necessarily overthink what
Speaker 8: the defense is going to do, just let the guys
Speaker 8: go out there and win their routes and do whatever,
Speaker 8: and don't try to always put us in the perfect play.
Speaker 2: Just play the play and if it works, it works.
Speaker 8: If it doesn't, don't make a poor decision in a situation,
Speaker 8: try to force the ball in there. Just take the
Speaker 8: easy win, take the easy check down. Maybe that's the answer.
Speaker 8: And maybe having a guy like Ryan Kelly, who's who's
Speaker 8: a super vet that's really smart, have him handle some
Speaker 8: of the protection, have all the protection stuff, you call
Speaker 8: it out. You're close enough to the line, you'll understand
Speaker 8: what the protection is and where the guys are going
Speaker 8: to go. The running backs are gonna understand where they're
Speaker 8: supposed to go. You just handle what happens post snap.
Speaker 8: Maybe not so much the pre snap stuff. I don't know.
Speaker 5: That's that's a knee jerk reaction.
Speaker 8: And answer to like how you can get him to
Speaker 8: play a little fast check this out.
Speaker 3: I heard Guessling saying his podcast on my way in
Speaker 3: this morning that one of the things that they're hoping for,
Speaker 3: or they were hoping for when he came to the center,
Speaker 3: coming into such a veteran, is he could be the
Speaker 3: guy in the hew the looks of JJ McCarthy goes
Speaker 3: calm the freak down. This is just football. You know
Speaker 3: how to do this, And that's one of the reasons
Speaker 3: they brought him in because that's the kind of presence
Speaker 3: he is.
Speaker 2: Do you buy that at all? Sure? I buy that.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 8: I mean, I think at this point in time, you
Speaker 8: guys like Brian O'Neal should be saying that as well,
Speaker 8: like he's been a round enough players to understand like
Speaker 8: he's he's got that status. He's a leader on the team.
Speaker 8: Justin Jefferson should be saying that Aaron jon did. By
Speaker 8: the way, Aaron j Aaron Jones should be saying that,
Speaker 8: like these guys, guys, you don't just walk in as
Speaker 8: a second year guy and just because you are becoming
Speaker 8: a leader on the team that you automatically assume that
Speaker 8: you're untouchable. I mean, these guys should be coaching this
Speaker 8: kid up and be like, hey man, calm down, take
Speaker 8: a deep breath, get into your you know, get out
Speaker 8: of your headspace, and just play football.
Speaker 2: Super dumb question, because both of these are good answers.
Speaker 4: But I want to know, as a player, which game
Speaker 4: would you prefer to see McCarthy have he's had an interception?
Speaker 2: Okay, an interception.
Speaker 4: Or more in every game he's played, right one, two, one,
Speaker 4: two and two against the Packers on Sunday. Option A
Speaker 4: is let's say he throws for like two twenty a
Speaker 4: touchdown and no interceptions, or does something like Jacoby Brussette.
Speaker 2: No, that's the extreme.
Speaker 4: But let's say he throws for like three seventy and
Speaker 4: three touchdowns but has a pick or two, maybe even two.
Speaker 4: Would you rather see him light it up and move
Speaker 4: up and down the field but make a couple of mistakes, or.
Speaker 8: Would you rather see one really clean game? No, I
Speaker 8: want to see kind of like way we saw him
Speaker 8: in Detroit. You know, I want to see efficiency. I
Speaker 8: want to see him. I want to see him ripping, ripping,
Speaker 8: throws in there. As long as he doesn't throw an interception,
Speaker 8: If he has zero turnovers, we win this game zero.
Speaker 8: And the thing is our defense. We talk about it
Speaker 8: every single week. Why can't we take the ball away? Well,
Speaker 8: it's a it's a factor of this and a factor
Speaker 8: of that, and sometimes it's just luck.
Speaker 5: And you know, we got you got to create your
Speaker 5: own luck.
Speaker 8: But we got to do that without you know, playing
Speaker 8: out of our out of our minds and out of
Speaker 8: our responsibilities and all this other stuff. So like, if
Speaker 8: the defense is not taking the ball away, well we
Speaker 8: can't give the ball away. So I would rather take
Speaker 8: two twenty a touchdown.
Speaker 2: On zero picks. Just a clean game, Just a clean game.
Speaker 4: And maybe that wouldn't I wonder if that would be
Speaker 4: your answer if he hadn't consistently been a turnover machine.
Speaker 4: Because I don't care if you're Patrick Mahomes, right, Brett
Speaker 4: Farve's the all time example. But you need your quarterback
Speaker 4: to gamble. You can't always wait for the safe play, right.
Speaker 4: You got to throw fifty to fifty balls once in
Speaker 4: a while, and you're running as cold as McCarthy is.
Speaker 4: Fifty to fifty balls feel desperate, right, But ultimately, to
Speaker 4: be a winner, you got to gamble once in a while.
Speaker 4: You got to give your receivers a chance, but maybe
Speaker 4: not at the point where, yeah, McCarthy is, well, you know.
Speaker 8: The touchdown that he threw into the end zone or
Speaker 8: the interception he threw in the end zone. I know
Speaker 8: that that's critical situation. Can't give the ball away there.
Speaker 8: I almost can live with that one more than the
Speaker 8: more than the one where he tried to force you know,
Speaker 8: the ball sort of in that on that over route
Speaker 8: where he didn't see the safety coming down and playing
Speaker 8: that flat, Like, dude, you that's a very common coverage
Speaker 8: that you're going to see all the time. Like you
Speaker 8: have to understand that just because CJ. Hamm was in
Speaker 8: the flat, it doesn't mean that that guy's going to
Speaker 8: go down there and snug up on him like he's
Speaker 8: going to see a fullback in the flat and.
Speaker 5: He's going to that's a checkdown, Like why would he?
Speaker 8: So you have to expect that just because the guy
Speaker 8: looks like he's going to be open, this is his
Speaker 8: zone coverage where there's supposed to be somebody there roaming
Speaker 8: that area. So that one was the one that I
Speaker 8: was like, oh boy, like that was a really bad read.
Speaker 8: The one to Addison in the end zone. It's like,
Speaker 8: all right, he just didn't get enough on it. He's
Speaker 8: got to learn it to put if you're going to
Speaker 8: err on the side of caution, you got to you know,
Speaker 8: put that ball in the back of the end zone
Speaker 8: and don't throw it short. Okay, I'll live with that,
Speaker 8: even though it was a more of a dire situation.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 8: But it's the misread on some of these these like
Speaker 8: Cover three, like, you know, just basic, basic coverage things.
Speaker 4: Dumbest trivia question you're gonna hear on sports talk radio
Speaker 4: across the country today, Wow, dumbest. Okay, who has the
Speaker 4: best quarterback rating for the Vikings this season?
Speaker 2: It's the running back?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Acres cam Akers one and fifty eight point
Speaker 4: three perfect prostrating one for one with a touchdown, thank you.
Speaker 2: Out of the other three, rank him one two and three.
Speaker 4: Just passer rating alone one two and three.
Speaker 2: Well brose murg, Well McCarthy, what is her passes? His bros.
Speaker 2: Has thrown eight in the in again the game, Yeah
Speaker 2: he has.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the the game that wentz remember the final game,
Speaker 4: the one that went should have been pulled earlier.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Chargers game. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's he's five
Speaker 2: for eight. This year.
Speaker 8: Okay, well I'll put him number one, then i'll put
Speaker 8: Wentz number two, and then i'll put JJ third.
Speaker 2: Yeah, JJ is third.
Speaker 4: Wentz is number one with eighty five point eight, brozmers
Speaker 4: at a seventy six, and McCarthy's sixty one point seven.
Speaker 2: Yikes, isn't yikes? JJ is the worst.
Speaker 4: In the Yeah, except for Sanders. But Sanders has thrown
Speaker 4: what sixteen passes?
Speaker 2: He's starting this weekend? He sure is, thankl You're welcome, Bryan.
Speaker 8: So I know that there were a lot of miscues
Speaker 8: in this last game with McCarthy, but I will go
Speaker 8: back to say that again.
Speaker 5: If we had what six dropped passes?
Speaker 4: Seven, Yeah, they didn't help him at all, him at all,
Speaker 4: So that sucked.
Speaker 8: You know, we would look at his performance, even even
Speaker 8: though he threw two interceptions. We would look at his
Speaker 8: performance much differently if they only had dropped with maybe
Speaker 8: one of those, especially the one to.
Speaker 2: Ask sixteen thirty two, that's bad.
Speaker 4: If he's supposed to be more like twenty one to
Speaker 4: thirty two, that's better.
Speaker 5: That's better.
Speaker 2: We'll take time. I mean, that's better than sixteen. Sure.
Speaker 8: I mean the thing is, like I understand that when
Speaker 8: they're When it's bad, it's bad. Like when he misses,
Speaker 8: it's like, what happened there? Like how how do you
Speaker 8: not hit the broadside of a barn when JJ's on
Speaker 8: an you know, coming out of his king you throw
Speaker 8: it three feet short or six feet over.
Speaker 5: His head, Like it's not even close.
Speaker 8: So I'm not saying that there's not some criticism there,
Speaker 8: but the receiver's got to help him out to yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Fan five.
Speaker 4: When we come back, a couple of things we haven't
Speaker 4: talked about at all, including Netflix and barbecuing.
Speaker 2: And the wolves win. We haven't mentioned them at all,
Speaker 2: have we?
Speaker 5: Like once?
Speaker 2: Okay, like once there's.
Speaker 4: The wizards, uh Tom pellos there in like twenty minutes
Speaker 4: as well.
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