WEBVTT - Vikings Country Featuring Najee Thompson 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:01.000 In the fan. 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:06.160 It's time for Vikings Country, brought to you by Miller Lyte. 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:10.719 Now here's your host of Vikings Country from KFAN and 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:12.400 the Vikings Radio Network. 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:14.760 Muss out of the shot gun. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.280 I'm third down Cam Jordan got around the right tackle. 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:20.360 Dobbs look sees nothing now he runs out to the left. 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:22.119 He points to somebody, turns No. 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:28.760 Five to the shot touch stop in throgo shots. 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:33.839 Dobbs, with a rushing touchdown, has run Minnesota to a. 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:36.120 Sixteen three three. 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:39.440 That Coops takes the snap out of the shotguns, great drop. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.640 Ruse to the end zone hand touching. 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.519 Takes twenty eight yards touchdown to two. 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:53.000 Jay Hawkinson, while and Jobbs has beaten them by land 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:58.200 and he just beat them by air twenty three three Minnesota. 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:03.800 And that Saba the pads and my waya. 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:08.600 North Carolina staring up the road. Lea Televan, Welcome to 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.280 Vikings Country. We're hanging out here. 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:14.560 I made it down the two Cowboy Jackson Bloomington on 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.959 us with our friends from Miller Lyte, the official beer 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.560 sponsor of the Minnesota Vikings. I'm playing a little Darius 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:25.480 Rucker on this one because he's from the South Carolina, Charleston, 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.040 and also a guy who knows a little something about 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.200 South Carolina is our special guest. 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.479 Number eleven, Nagie Thompson. Hey buddy, how are you better? 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:38.600 Well, well, I mentioned this earlier with the crowd here 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:40.760 as we're doing some giveaways, I'm like, okay, you'll know him. 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:43.240 He's number eleven, and he wears yellow gloves and the 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:45.200 yellow shoes, and every time I'm like, oh, there's a 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.280 flag on the plate, no, which is not getting in. 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.720 Yeah, I love the yellow cleaves. You know, ConA, Minnesota. 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.040 You know, if I had to find something this just 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.600 come on fourth down, just gonna make a stand down 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:00.120 coming into Seattle. Once I made the first tip, well 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:02.320 we know. The yellow cleats was just a signature of things. 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.200 I make sure I have different part of cleats usually 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:07.840 every game at this point. So probably when I go 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.000 back out, probably denyed to tomorrow. What are some more 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:11.480 yellow cleats? I haven't rolled back again. 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.400 So with Darius Rucker in South Carolina, that's where you're 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:21.040 from here, from Boiling Springs, South Carolina, which, by the way, 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.240 I looked it up and it got its name because 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.920 there was a geyser and then it hasn't boiled since 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.360 nineteen ninety and you were born in two thousand, so 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.360 you never really get a chance to take advantage of that. 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.079 Oh yeah, never never even heard of it. 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:36.680 Honestly, first time you're hearing about it. Learned someone new 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:37.639 every day. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.200 So you grow up in South Carolina. 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.720 And it's funny because Darius Rucker is the reason that 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:46.640 we went and took a vacation in South Carolina. 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.480 We went to Charleston. 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:50.960 First and then we went to the Islands after that, 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:56.720 and oh my gosh, absolutely spectacular, beautiful area of the country. 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.720 Oh yeah, if anybody wants the vacation down there is 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:02.160 a really vacation good grow vacation spot. And the beaches 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:05.600 are beautiful down there. The weather's always nice down there regardless. 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.040 Never not too much snow. If it goes there, may ga, 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.480 it's snow for a day. It's going next. 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.639 Right, Yeah, that's well, it's not gonna happen here. 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:15.400 Yeah, learn that, Learn that quick. 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:17.120 Yeah, rookie. 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:21.280 With the Minnesota Vikings here, dude, you can fly down 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.720 the field watching highlights from your stuff and then watching 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.480 the games and doing the Vikings radio network shuff that 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.400 I do. Man, You gotta be like a four to 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:31.519 seven forty guy. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.320 Oh honestly, if you look it up, that's what they 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:36.080 put out there. I said I was the four sevenist, 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:37.600 and I just laughed about it because it was like, 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.080 I'm not No. Four seven guy, and so now. 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.480 Yeah, I honestly thought you're gonna get pissed me. 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:45.760 Oh that's that's exactly what they have out there on 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.760 the field. That's so honestly, everyone got to take a person. 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:50.360 I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna show I'm not No. Four 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.560 seven guy at all. But no, that's that's what they 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:54.160 have out there. 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.480 But that does actually irk you a little bit, right, 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:57.920 Oh yeah, because I'm like, I'm not in the poor 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.600 thing because you look it up and you know track 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.080 track runs right in my background, you know, two time 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.480 state champ, former state stay record holder. 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:09.160 So no, I don't like to be slow at all. Anything. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:13.400 I'm sure to get you going on that one all 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.760 right show, undrafted rookie and then you come up and 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.320 you show up here in Minnesota, and what does that 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:19.520 experience like? 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:20.599 I mean, you're going from. 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:23.080 Georgia Southern and then now all of a sudden, here 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.480 you are in the NFL and you're showing up at 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:28.560 TCO that whole experience. 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:29.880 What what is that like? 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.520 Uh? Basically, you get off the plane. Some fans are 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.159 there when you get off the plane that know you 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:36.719 and you don't know them, and they're like calling your 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:40.680 name and like okay, hey, how you doing and uh. 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:44.240 And then then you get on the bus head to 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:46.560 the facility and you do all the paperwork and everything 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:49.000 and it's like, okay, practice the next day, and then 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.160 you learn really fast that college practice and NFL practice 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.960 is a whole lot faster. And then just from me 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:57.640 come over Toordia Southern, like I'm coming. I'm like I'm 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.719 going against first round picks, you know, second on guys 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.240 like so like I'm like, I'm really here now. It's like, okay, 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:04.880 I gotta step your game up a whole lot more 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.719 to know just barely going through anything, you're going full 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:09.320 speed and you're getting rich all every rep. 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.320 What is it like the first time that you run 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:16.680 into Bryan Flores Cuz he seems intense. 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:21.280 He seems like he is like every time that he's doing. 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.840 Anything, and you're like, oh man, he knows something that 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:26.960 I don't know and it's gonna be bad for me. 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:30.159 When I find out Brian Florenes is actually he's a 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:33.520 real chill guy. He I mean, he gives the intense look. Honestly, 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.680 he's a great guy to be around. Honestly, he's just 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.040 a businessman. You know. He he wants you to get 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:42.000 down to it and make sure here's anything he's perfected. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.160 He wants us to perfect it with him and everything. 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:46.479 And he calls it our defense. You know, he's he 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:48.600 installs it, but he wants us to run in and everything. 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.520 But he's he's a real great guy. You know, he 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.800 gives the intense look. You know when he's serious, you 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.520 know you'd be serious. But honestly, anytime around him, he 0:05:57.520 --> 0:05:59.400 always has a small regardless. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:01.920 You go from thirty six, right was it at thirty 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:03.920 six when you first got here is your jersey numbers? 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:05.880 And then now eleven? How did that trance? 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.360 It was funny? Uh So I was wearing thirty six, 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.240 and then a picture day came up, and then some 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.160 of the rookies was wanting to get number five, so 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:16.919 then Mackay end up getting five, so then eleven was available, 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.120 and then the older guys looked at me, is like, yeah, 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.080 you got to take thirty six off. You look ugly 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:24.120 in that. And so then I was like, you know what, 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:27.200 I'll rock with number eleven because actually josh would tell us. 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.440 He actually he mentioned me getting to eleven. He's like, yeah, 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.000 put him in eleven. Don't let them, don't let him 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.880 keep thirty six. And so so we just went ahead, 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:35.360 went with it. 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.960 I love that number can make you look ugly. 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.440 That well, that's disgusting. Josh was not happening. 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.400 And you and Joshua have become good friends. And I 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:46.200 know this because we're gonna get into that just coming 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.960 up and just fit because I watched when you're at 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.400 TCO and the rookies have to they have to every 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:53.240 once in a while, you. 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:54.800 Know, do some different things. 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.359 They got duties that they have to do as a rookie, 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.880 in one of which is singing, and you had to 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:02.240 do that in front of the team. 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.479 Yeah, so they actually caught me off guard. We knew 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.719 it was coming, but usually you know, we're going order 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:10.880 like draft picks and everything like that, and so they 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:12.800 were like, oh, who's the best and Madden around here, 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:14.600 So everybody's calling my name. I had to play macas 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.920 I'm a Big Gamer. Spend literally most of my time 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.200 outside of football, and I'm on the game twenty four seven, 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.560 so they called me up and so I'm playing Jettas 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.520 and Madden and so we're going and it's like, okay, 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:27.640 I won that game. And the next thing, you know, 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:29.320 they're like, oh, you thought you were done. You're not 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:30.920 getting out of here. So then they're like, oh, now 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:32.800 you got to sing a song. So it's just quiet 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.880 up there. I'm looking at all these new faces and 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.240 all the coaches looking down at me, and it's like, okay, 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.080 I got to pick a song and say, here we go. 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:43.440 So Brett Blakemore, who was running the show back at 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:45.920 the station right now, couldn't be more excited about the 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:47.320 fact that you said you're a big Gamer. 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.520 So he's excited about that. 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:54.440 I watched the video, but it was from Josh Mattelis's phone, 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.400 so I don't even know what the song is because 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:00.520 Mattellas is singing so loud a lot with you. 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:02.200 What was the song? 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.480 The song is when I See You by Fantasia. That 0:08:04.600 --> 0:08:06.160 was the That was the first thing I could think, 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.840 come to mine, you know, just some old school song. 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:10.800 You know, we have some vets in there is like, 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:12.840 let me throw a little throwback for them. 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.960 Yeah, shout out the Josh Mittellos sing, which is kind 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.560 of interesting to me because he is such a great leader. 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.160 We've all heard that, and the guy never comes off 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:23.760 the field for crying out loud. 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.200 How did that relationship become so fast? 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.760 Honestly, it was like, you know, I came in talking 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:33.720 to joshon Tiller's and he was just always just giving 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:35.600 us like little tips here and there. And then it 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.040 was like for when you come to special teams, you know, 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:39.920 when you first go out there trying to get the 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:41.600 field and then like the first couple of reps don't 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.240 go as you expected, and so then he might come 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.160 nit pick with you a little bit. Oh that's trash 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.480 or something like that. And so the preseason games get 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.320 rolling around and it's like, okay, he's like, I better 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.400 see somebody here now. It's like we're here now, you 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.120 can't shy away. So then you know, go make the 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.920 play in Seattle and then come back, you know, make 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:01.040 the play at the Tennessee Titans, and you know from there, 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:04.080 like you know, Josh just came to me and he 0:09:04.240 --> 0:09:07.640 was just Honestly, I feel like he's a great leader 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.680 to me. You know, he's always telling me, you know 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:11.679 what to do, what not to do, like type thing, 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:14.240 you know what to do better, and honestly, like he's 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:15.520 like come up to me, He's like, you know, it's 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:16.880 time to make a play. It's time to make a play. 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:18.800 It's been too long. So that Josh is just a 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:19.280 great guy. 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:23.360 Nigie Thompson is our guest here at Vikings Country with 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.319 Miller Light, the official beer sponsor. 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:26.520 Oh the Minnesota Vikings. 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.040 We're giving away tickets to sit in the Miller Light Lounge. 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.240 Stop on out here. We're in Bloomington at Cowboy Jack's. 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:37.200 All right, you're nicknamed the Flash. I haven't seen that, 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.320 but it makes sense because you know, with your four 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:46.520 nine speed, you get down the field, so you're always 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:48.800 like the first one that gets down the field. 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.959 But when you're a gunner, how much I. 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.120 Mean you just get abused as a gunner getting down 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:55.520 the field. 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:57.200 Oh yeah, I mean at the end of the day, 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.320 you know they're gonna put two guys out there and 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.120 sometime there's four guys back there that you're trying to, 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.280 you know, maneuver through and look through and then you 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.480 got the returner at the end of the day. I 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.920 mean it's fun, you honest. You have to perfect your craft, 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.440 and uh, I played gunner for a long time. That's 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:14.800 where I basically started off in college at so I've 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.440 got thousands of reps at it, and then come into 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:19.800 the league. I faced double teams before I even got 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.200 to the league, so that was a plus. So, you know, 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:23.840 just working on my craft every day. But yeah, you 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:28.400 get abused there, hailed every single play, and like they say, 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.400 you're not getting flags on special teams, so you know, 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.040 going out there, you don't even think to look for 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:34.240 a flag because you're not getting. 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:34.960 It off the air. 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:36.920 You did share something with me because we were talking 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:40.960 about your friends from Georgia Southern and and former teammates 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:45.400 and stuff like that, but you actually called what you're 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:46.480 gonna do in the NFL. 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:48.720 Yeah, when I first came into the when I first 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:50.480 came into college, you know, you come from being comeing 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:53.280 to high school. You're that guy in high school. When 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:54.920 you get to college, you're not always that guy. There's 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.520 always another guy. Uh. And so for me, I had 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.280 to find something to do, and so I went to 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.640 special teams, and I always know the guys like you know, 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:03.320 I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go to the league playing 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.280 special teams, and that's what it is. So for three 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.120 to four years, you know, they just laughed at me 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.600 over and over and over, and then you know, making 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.240 it to reality. Now you see a lot of guys 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.640 now going to do special teams because they understand the 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.400 importance of it is in the league. Because I'm honestly, 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.960 special teams is not really talked about enough at the 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.360 different levels, but when you get to NFL, it's talked 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.400 about a lot. All right. 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.360 Najie Thompson is our guest hanging out here with his 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:32.679 five to nine speed, still getting down the field. 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.360 We got more stuff coming up on the way for you. Here. 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.760 It is Vikings Country and it is powered by our 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.400 friends at Miller like the official beer sponsor all the 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.720 Minnesota Vikings. Also, by the way, she should let you 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:47.760 know Friday football feasts happened every Friday, obviously with Paul Allen. 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.280 It's sponsored by Coors Light. And you can find out 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.480 what locations where to go. You easily do that not 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:55.560 only at caffeand dot com, but you can also do 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:59.440 that at vikings dot com, as well more. 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.400 Coming up on the hold Up. 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:03.959 I'm eating breakfast right now, and you need to hear 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:07.439 about this. Have you ever tried Daily Harvest? My mind 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:11.440 is literally blown. I'm enjoying a strawberry peach smoothie made 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:16.640 with strawberries, peaches, gojiberries, raspberries, and gluten free oats. Wow, 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.560 just wow, it's a fruit explosion. I also got this 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.960 opal from Daily Harvest. So delicious. There's real fruit in 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.880 here and even some veggies. It's not freeze dried or 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:32.800 artificially flavored. Sorry, I just can't believe how delicious everything is. 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:36.000 I want to start every morning like this. Daily Harvest 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:39.760 meals are quick, nourishing, and so flipping good. They're made 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.960 of sustainably sourced fruits and veggies and delivered right to 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.240 my door. You got to get in on this. Go 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.480 to dailyharvest dot com and enter promo code harvest for 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:51.000 up to sixty five dollars off your first order. That's 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.400 dailyharvest dot com promo code Harvest for up to sixty 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:58.240 five dollars off again, dailyharvest dot com promo code Harvest 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.040 for up to sixty five dollars. 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.000 Off to KFA N. 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:07.120 It's time for Vikings Country, brought to you by Miller Lyte. 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:11.719 Now here's your host of Vikings Country from KFAN and 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:14.520 the Vikings Radio Network, Muss. 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.920 Winston on third and three miness he throws lost one 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:26.839 of the right time interspted time. That's the first interception 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.920 of the time Blackman's career. And with Rios picks to 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:37.160 go in the game, it's twenty seven nineteen. Time in Minnesota, 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.440 Saints trying to win three in a row, Vikings trying 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.600 to win five in a row, and Winston goes back 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:45.280 to pass. He's gonna throw one center of the field intercepted, 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:52.000 and the Minnesota Vikings get a hive five Little Zalad 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:53.440 the Bulls catching up. 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:58.560 Bennion Line, Welcome back Vikings Country. 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:00.800 What if Miller like hanging out here in. 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:04.400 Bloomington, Cowboy Jacks, I must what a great crowd we 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:08.000 got here, everybody in Still Nation hanging out getting excited 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.679 about the fact that we just went five in a row, 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:15.040 six and four for crying out loud, and we beat 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:18.480 the Saints. So I think everybody here there's two teams 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:20.760 that you want to beat the most. The Saints and 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.000 the Packers, and so we still have that coming up. 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:27.040 But the Saints, we got the victory there. And our 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.200 special guest here, not Gie Thompson, is hanging out Number eleven, 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:34.200 ladies and gentlemen. Here's the thing, Bud, as you hear 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.560 that with Paul Allen on a call and a couple 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:43.920 of picks, how huge the defense has been in the 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:48.160 last what five weeks. Basically the defense has won some 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:50.120 games for the Minnesota Vikings. 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.800 Oh yeah, we knew, you know, I have to own 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:54.760 three start, and we wasn't worried about the own three 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:56.120 start because you know, you look at the games, there 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:57.640 are one score games at the end of the day. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.480 We knew we just left co plays there. So you know, 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:04.200 the outside they make it was making noise, but inside 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.800 doing we knew we were fine. Like I even said, 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.280 I think I even tweeted like when we're fine, you know, 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.160 teams coming up. We loved our schedule. We know we 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.800 were up for the Grand but lately we knew that 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:16.400 we got to put the defense on our back because 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:18.960 we missed the plays on defense that could have turned 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.680 the game around. For the three start and so you know, 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.840 coach Flores took it to a different level. He took 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.360 it personally. Okay, we got to get some things rolling. 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.080 And then the guys in our room, you know, we 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:30.480 even took it to a different levels. So you know, 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.720 you practice different now and honestly, the results are speaking 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:34.160 for themself. 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:34.400 Now. 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:38.000 Yeah, it's cornerback and then you see Makaya Blackman. 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:42.640 Get that his first pick. You said that the sidelines 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:43.360 went a little nuts. 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.280 Yeah, it was. It was big. You know, he's he's 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:49.000 out there playing here and there, not really not many 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:51.000 reps here and there. He just you know, getting thrown 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:52.680 in the game. Now, so now he's out there on 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:56.040 a big down. And it was for even for like 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.440 the sideline and really just for rookie class because we 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.560 really pulled for each other so for so strong. So 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.040 when each one of us makes a play, you know, 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.680 it just it's just like a different level for us 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.120 see each other, just you know, grinding because we knew 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:09.840 the path that it took to get here, and so 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:11.760 now we're able to make plays on Sunday. Now it's 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:12.360 just even better. 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:13.440 The rookie clash. 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:15.760 We won't say where you live, but you guys all 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:17.640 live in the same kind of neighborhood. 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.000 Yeah, the others ship. Yeah, we're a fair amount. 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:24.040 Of you there. What has that experience been like? 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:25.440 I mean, this is it like a cul de sac 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.560 that you guys are all hanging out and making fun 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:28.400 of someone. 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:29.560 Who doesn't take care of their leaves. 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:31.880 Oh yeah, We really just really pick on each other 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.120 all the time. We just like leaving in the morning, 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:35.560 we're all leading around the same time. 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:36.200 Uh. 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:38.200 Sometimes might just ride with each other in the morning, 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.600 just leave our cars there and just might pull a prank. 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.240 So like on Halloween, I'll come up to Macaw black 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:47.760 Men's house with my costume on and sitting outside with 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:51.160 his ring camera just looking at him crazy. So it's 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.440 just I mean, it's it's all great times and just 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.200 you know, trying to find something different to do outside 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:57.920 of football. Just keep hanging with each other all the 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:00.800 time and just grow the bond stronger and stronger. 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.560 Okay, so you went to Georgia Southern, that's where you 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:06.280 played college ball, and you started off as a wide 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:13.800 receiver and then became a cornerback again with your five 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:17.680 to nine speed. I don't want to offend you. I'm 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:21.000 totally making that up, by the way, way faster. But 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:25.680 do you get offended by when you hear sometimes commentators 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:30.920 will actually say it about how cornerbacks are wide receivers 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:31.800 that can't catch. 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.000 Oh yeah, I mean I was just like, I look 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:36.960 at him. I say, honestly, you can just go pull 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.840 the pull the tape, pull the film because going to receiver, 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:43.440 going to the corner to say we can't catch. Honestly, 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.160 sometimes when we dropped the ball, we practice catching twenty 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.879 four seven. Sometimes just hits the hands wrong and we 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.760 end up dropping it, but you know we practiced. We 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:53.240 probably set twenty four seven. 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:56.520 At the beginning of the segment. 0:17:56.560 --> 0:18:00.440 Also, I had Cole Swindell cranking up there, and Cole 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:05.560 Swindell also Georgia Southern guy. Every single time you see him, 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.560 he's got the GS hat on and you guys are friends. 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:12.040 Yeah, Coach Monde is gonna represent Georgia Southern. You know, 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:15.720 every time he has a concert or just outspeaking, he's 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:17.879 gonna have it on. I met him back in twenty 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:21.040 eighteen when I first got to College Frog Bowl game. 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.280 That's when I had Tyler Bast kicker for Buffalo Bills, 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:26.800 and I played with him. So he actually came down 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:28.080