Speaker 1: Sitting down. I'm a shotgun play action cutsens on a
Speaker 1: deep drum. Here's a deep shop to step on dicks,
Speaker 1: and it's not to the twenty fifteen ten seventy five
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Speaker 1: xs and os with Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer on
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings Radio Network. Now from the TCO Studios
Speaker 1: in Egan. Here is the voice of the Viking, Paul Allen.
Speaker 1: XS and o's on the Minnesota Vikings Radio Network is
Speaker 1: underway and I'm Paul Allen, joined by Minnesota Vikings head
Speaker 1: coach Mike Zimmer. The third regular season game is at
Speaker 1: US Bank Stadium. It's this noon against the Oakland Raiders.
Speaker 1: And Raiders defensive coordinator his name is Paul Gunther. He
Speaker 1: coached the linebackers for coach Zimmer at Cincinnati Sunday. Oakland
Speaker 1: is here. So let me ask you this, with the
Speaker 1: way he does it and the way you do it,
Speaker 1: is this potentially the most mugging of the A gap
Speaker 1: ever to take place in the history of the NFL.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt there'll be a lot of mugging in
Speaker 1: the A gaps Paul. Paul's a very good coach and
Speaker 1: he uh, you know, the system and scheme that they're
Speaker 1: running is very very similar to what we run. So
Speaker 1: so do you see a lot of the twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer not necessarily back to Cincinnati or when you
Speaker 1: started here, but do you see a lot of you
Speaker 1: in what he's trying to do with the Raiders defense?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, there's a lot um you know, and
Speaker 1: everything's evolved obviously since then with a lot of things
Speaker 1: that that we do and some of the things that
Speaker 1: they do, I'm sure, but um, he's going to try
Speaker 1: to give you different looks. They've got some very good players.
Speaker 1: You know, Vantes Perfect was with us in Cincinnati. He's
Speaker 1: playing very very well. You know, they got Conny at
Speaker 1: corner who's going and matching. They're the best receiver who
Speaker 1: they believe is the best receiver, you know, And then
Speaker 1: there'll be a lot of um uh mugging of the
Speaker 1: A Gapps and then dropping out. Then they'll try to
Speaker 1: bring different pressures. They'll try to get Perfect on the
Speaker 1: back uh in in protection and so uh you know,
Speaker 1: that's just kind of how Paul's always done it with
Speaker 1: Vontz Berfect their middle linebacker. When when you took a
Speaker 1: chance on him out of Arizona State University, what led
Speaker 1: you to taking that chance? And then what do you
Speaker 1: think of his career? Well, quite honestly, Marvin Lewis UH
Speaker 1: was the one that UH said, you know, we need
Speaker 1: to try this guy. He was a really good player.
Speaker 1: He had thirty seven personal foul penalties in college though,
Speaker 1: And so I was not, you know, the the biggest
Speaker 1: UH advocate for it, but um, but when he was
Speaker 1: there with me, he played very well. He was not
Speaker 1: Um was not a dirty player. Uh he was, but
Speaker 1: he was very violent, physical, he reads things quick, Um.
Speaker 1: And I think he's had a really good career. He's
Speaker 1: back down his weights down now. He had a Tennessee
Speaker 1: to get a little heavy towards his latter years in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: and and it's really showing up on tape. And he's
Speaker 1: really the one that's in charge of that defense because
Speaker 1: he's very smart and he's very good communicator, and he's
Speaker 1: played in that defense now for many years. I remember
Speaker 1: Lamarca's joiner was Saint Louis and the La rams As.
Speaker 1: I think definitely a safety, maybe a free safety or whatever.
Speaker 1: But he's there nickel now right right, And uh, he
Speaker 1: was nickel for the Rams as well. But he'd go
Speaker 1: from safety to nickel very quick, very athletic, smaller size guy,
Speaker 1: but sees things very well, and he'll he'll be a
Speaker 1: really tough matchup for us in the slot. So here
Speaker 1: we are on Wednesday evening. I would imagine these sour
Speaker 1: feelings from the Green Bay game are gone. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: time to move on. You know, we have the twenty
Speaker 1: four hour rule, but it was it was rough there
Speaker 1: for a couple you know, a couple hours or days
Speaker 1: or something like that. But yeah, we have to move on.
Speaker 1: We can't let one lost mate become too And you know,
Speaker 1: there were so many positives in the game and then
Speaker 1: we had enough negatives that we ended up losing the
Speaker 1: football game. Yeah. Yeah, you lost the game, end of
Speaker 1: the equation. That's what matters most. But they didn't score
Speaker 1: on eleven consecutive possessions. I mean, you have to feel
Speaker 1: great about that. Well we did so, you know, as
Speaker 1: I said, we had to make some adjustments. We did that. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, as funny Rogers came up to me at
Speaker 1: the end of the game and I was actually walking
Speaker 1: away and I hired somebody Mike Mike Mike, and he
Speaker 1: came up to me and said, you know, I really
Speaker 1: respect what you do and you know, and I said
Speaker 1: to him, you know, you're we're a really tough guy
Speaker 1: to defend. But you know that was nice that, you know,
Speaker 1: because he saw in the game that we made adjustments
Speaker 1: and the things we were trying to do with against him. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, because he's a smart guy and he's a
Speaker 1: terrific player. So so you put a plan together and say,
Speaker 1: for whatever the reason, plans A, B, and C aren't working.
Speaker 1: Um do do do you ever find that during the
Speaker 1: course of the game that I don't want to say,
Speaker 1: scrap everything, but you're almost like drawing up things on
Speaker 1: the fly. Well, we have enough things in our package
Speaker 1: that we can go to something else. And uh, I
Speaker 1: think that's the beauty of being able to do that. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know, we're constantly making in game adjustments. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, a coach told me one time, the first quarter,
Speaker 1: you do your game plan. The second and third quarter
Speaker 1: you you are making adjustments to your game plan. In
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, you're you're just trying to win a game. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you embrace the prep part of your job, analyzing
Speaker 1: and trying to find weaknesses in the opponent? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. Um, I think that's that's a fun part
Speaker 1: of it, you know, trying to figure out, okay, well,
Speaker 1: how can we affect their best players? How can we
Speaker 1: affect their best plays? Um? You know, but then you're
Speaker 1: looking at their best players all the time too, and
Speaker 1: you know you're not looking at your best players. So um,
Speaker 1: you know there's there's a little give and take. Tuesdays
Speaker 1: are always really hard because of the game plan. You know,
Speaker 1: you grinding, grinding, grind, and then you grind Wednesday night
Speaker 1: and grinding again on Thursday. It seems from a far
Speaker 1: mic like Trey Waynes is off to a pretty good start.
Speaker 1: Does that bear to say? Yeah, I think Trays played
Speaker 1: played well. Uh if I recall he had one ball
Speaker 1: thrown on him early in the game, but the rest
Speaker 1: of the day he had a really nice game and
Speaker 1: that tackled well, Um, you know we're going to continue
Speaker 1: continue to need him to move forward that way. Well,
Speaker 1: would you ever consider having Trey Wayne's track a number
Speaker 1: one receiver the way you have roads? Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's possibility. Um, whether he's tracking one or two, it
Speaker 1: wouldn't really wouldn't matter. Um. You know we've had him
Speaker 1: go the opposite of Xavier sum So Um I think,
Speaker 1: uh yeah, I think he's more than cable of doing it.
Speaker 1: Win Ball has two sacks. How important is him, uh,
Speaker 1: not getting double teams and getting the pressure he's getting
Speaker 1: to what you overall want to do defensively, Well, it's
Speaker 1: huge because you know, with our with our two ends,
Speaker 1: we have to be able to push the pocket. And
Speaker 1: because a lot of times these ends are getting to
Speaker 1: the level of quarterback and then they start to step up.
Speaker 1: And if we can get continue to get push with
Speaker 1: those two inside guys, they have a chance to reap
Speaker 1: the benefits really because guys are paying so much attention
Speaker 1: to the ends. You know, you know, I certainly know
Speaker 1: you don't want to rank players one through whatever. But
Speaker 1: with Daniel Hunter and his rushing and his rush integrity
Speaker 1: and keeping contain and run defense just the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Has he developed truly into one of the best overall
Speaker 1: defensive players in the NFL. Yeah, you know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: Paul about the best players in the NFL. We love him.
Speaker 1: He's a great kid. He works real hard. He's obviously
Speaker 1: very very talented and does his job every week. And
Speaker 1: so I would say he's a very very good player.
Speaker 1: And we hope that he continues to just continue to
Speaker 1: get better. And if someone else ranks him the best,
Speaker 1: and so be it. Dalvin Cook, what what is with Dalvin?
Speaker 1: What about his game is even better than maybe even
Speaker 1: you thought. I'll tell you what. He's running with a
Speaker 1: lot of physicality. Uh, you know, the never give up
Speaker 1: runs that he has are are truly something to see.
Speaker 1: You know, he he'll get hit five, six, seven times
Speaker 1: and keep going and figure out how to gain some
Speaker 1: more yards and um make make guys miss tackles and
Speaker 1: run through tackles. And I think that part, to me
Speaker 1: is even because I knew he was explosive, I knew
Speaker 1: he had great feed, I knew he he could catch
Speaker 1: the ball well, but that part, the physicality of the
Speaker 1: way he runs, is pretty done good. How do you
Speaker 1: think this running game? A running game like this specifically
Speaker 1: will help you guys in November and December. Well, I
Speaker 1: hope it helps us all year. But uh, you know,
Speaker 1: when the weather starts to get bad and you're playing outdoors,
Speaker 1: that obviously is important that we can control the temple
Speaker 1: of the game, the momentum of the game, and really
Speaker 1: the time of possession as well. Yeah, I guess, I
Speaker 1: guess I'm more thinking when when bodies and minds get
Speaker 1: broken down in that final month, because people are tired,
Speaker 1: and here we come here, here, you guys come just
Speaker 1: mashing on people, you know. Yeah, and that's a possibility.
Speaker 1: You know. I felt like, you know, we had them
Speaker 1: tired at times in the ballgame because of the things
Speaker 1: we're doing offensively. Well, Well, when you get Mike Hues
Speaker 1: back eventually, where do you think he'll help most? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, Mike, he's been working at Nickel, he's been
Speaker 1: working at corner Um. You know, there's some things that
Speaker 1: you know, we can possibly do with him because of
Speaker 1: his talent and because he's an intelligent guy. So I
Speaker 1: think we have a chance to move him around in
Speaker 1: different places. We might be able to play a little
Speaker 1: bit more dime um, you know, as we as we
Speaker 1: continue to move forward here, does does John Gruden have
Speaker 1: a style of offense like the John Gruden way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a West Coast It's a West Coast offense. He's
Speaker 1: gonna give you a lot of shifts in motion. Um,
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna have his trick plays in there. Uh.
Speaker 1: I've played him many times in the past. Uh. But
Speaker 1: he wants to have a physical style running game. He's
Speaker 1: got an outside zone running game, and then the play
Speaker 1: actions off of it where he's trying to get guys.
Speaker 1: He'll you know, he might bring in three times it
Speaker 1: ends and really try to throw the ball deep. Yeah,
Speaker 1: or are you the last one? Are you noticing with
Speaker 1: Derek Carr second year with Gruden and in the system,
Speaker 1: is he's sharper than he was last year? Yeah? Much?
Speaker 1: I think you know, he's really impressed me. The way
Speaker 1: he throws the ball. He's got a great deep ball,
Speaker 1: he gets the ball out of his hand fast, he
Speaker 1: moves away from pressure in the pocket, he can run,
Speaker 1: and I've been really impressed watching montape the things that
Speaker 1: he's able to do in the command that he has
Speaker 1: in the offense, being able to check and change plays,
Speaker 1: which he's doing quite a bit at the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: So hopefully our crowd is very loud when he's out there.
Speaker 1: Good luck this weekend. Thank you. Mike zimmer Head, coach
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Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings wide receivers coach Drew pet Sing. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the show And what got you into football back in
Speaker 1: the day? Appreciate Paul. You know, growing up, I was
Speaker 1: a huge fan grow up in My parents were diehard
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills fans, So some of my earliest memories are
Speaker 1: watching them lose those four Super Bowls, which was tough
Speaker 1: as a young child, and I think you just kind
Speaker 1: of fall in love with the game. It was something
Speaker 1: I always wanted to play from a very young age
Speaker 1: and got the opportunity to when I got into middle
Speaker 1: school and loved everything about it and couldn't get enough
Speaker 1: of it, and continued through high school and into college.
Speaker 1: Had a couple injuries and kind of got me into
Speaker 1: coaching something that kept me around the game, and saw
Speaker 1: it as a really a passion more than a career,
Speaker 1: and then realized you could do both and kind of
Speaker 1: stuck with it. What was it like coaching outside linebackers
Speaker 1: at Yale? It was a lot of fun. That was
Speaker 1: my first job, kind of running my own meetings, being
Speaker 1: able to game plan, being the meeting room in that way.
Speaker 1: So it was a great opportunity. And those kids, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of them are not NFL bound, that's not
Speaker 1: what they play the game for. They're there because they
Speaker 1: love the sport. They're extremely bright kids. They worked very hard.
Speaker 1: So from a coaching perspective, was a lot of fun
Speaker 1: work with him. The rivalry with Harvard, what's it like,
Speaker 1: It's like no other rival in sports. It's it's a
Speaker 1: really really unique game to be a part of all week.
Speaker 1: I mean, the president of the college is coming to practice.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you go from getting you know,
Speaker 1: eight to twelve thousand people to sixty five thousand packed house.
Speaker 1: It's all over TV and you know, all of a sudden, TV, cameras, media,
Speaker 1: it's a whole different world that you dealt with. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the other nine or ten weeks of the year, and
Speaker 1: it's a lot, a lot of fun. What do you
Speaker 1: know about this name? Gary Fenzick. Gary Fenzick played at Yale.
Speaker 1: He was part of the eighty five Bears with Doug Plank.
Speaker 1: He was one of the safeties. So like eighty five Bears,
Speaker 1: one of the Great Defenses history of the NFL Fensick
Speaker 1: and Plank. Fensick might have been Harrison Smith before Harrison
Speaker 1: Smith was Harrison Smith. That's a pretty impressive name. I
Speaker 1: will say this. I one, I need to clean up
Speaker 1: on my history a little bit. And two, I was
Speaker 1: on both sides of that rivalry. Yeah, I was. My
Speaker 1: first job coaching, was a intern at Harvard WOA, and
Speaker 1: so I've won that rivalry game and lost it. So
Speaker 1: if I say, what do you know about Matt Burke,
Speaker 1: that'd be easy. Yeah, that's all Isaiah Kazvinski. Yep. Now
Speaker 1: I will concede when it comes to Yale football history
Speaker 1: and researching this. I mean, you know, there may be
Speaker 1: some four point zeros making seven fifty a year working
Speaker 1: in big buildings in big cities. The old football list
Speaker 1: wasn't full of the most luminaries in the history of
Speaker 1: the NFL. Drew Petsing, If you did not work in football,
Speaker 1: what would you be doing? Oh? I studied math and
Speaker 1: econ at Middlebury College, So probably something in finance at accounting.
Speaker 1: Both My parents are CPA's numbers have always been something
Speaker 1: that come natural to me, something that I enjoy, So
Speaker 1: probably something in that regard, and so nearly as well
Speaker 1: as I do this hopefully, so when Chad Beebe goes
Speaker 1: sixty one to Lambeau, it's very easy for you to
Speaker 1: go forty one, forty two, forty three to forty five
Speaker 1: down to the thirty twenty and ten, right, I can
Speaker 1: count like a pro. Yeah, yeah, very good at that.
Speaker 1: Speaking of that run with Chad Beebe, fantastic throw by
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. So many things because you know, you working
Speaker 1: with the offensive staff or coaches period, you guys break
Speaker 1: it down from so many different angles that the public
Speaker 1: either chooses not to follow or doesn't see, you know,
Speaker 1: so people will focus on certain things that are right
Speaker 1: in front of them. But like the quarterback on that
Speaker 1: throw to bb he nearly was down and he hit
Speaker 1: him in stride. Oh yeah, that it was an absolutely
Speaker 1: amazing play by Kirk. I mean, when the pocket starts
Speaker 1: to collapse like that, we have a there's a play design.
Speaker 1: He's trying to go through a progression and the first
Speaker 1: second maybe not open, and he's trying to create some
Speaker 1: time for himself as he steps up in the pocket.
Speaker 1: You know, you make a decision. You see a guy
Speaker 1: make a decision and you react in a split second
Speaker 1: and make that kind of throw in that kind of
Speaker 1: moment was really important for us. Kevin Stefanski the offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator quarterbacks coach. Last year, most of the season you
Speaker 1: were his assistant. So you and Kevin have known each
Speaker 1: other very well for for several years. What do you
Speaker 1: enjoy working with Kevin? I think the big thing is
Speaker 1: his passion for the game of football. He's always looking
Speaker 1: for new plays, new systems, new ways to do stuff
Speaker 1: to make us difficult to defend. And part of that
Speaker 1: is just learning the game as a whole. And you're
Speaker 1: studying defense, and we constantly are conversations about things that
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with our game. You know, You're
Speaker 1: looking at other games around the league, things that other
Speaker 1: teams are doing, trends that are taking place. So it's
Speaker 1: those conversations in that relationship that I really value. Honestly,
Speaker 1: does he ever become emotional positively or negatively? Oh, that's
Speaker 1: ever one. I'm sure he's gotten mad at me when
Speaker 1: I've said something stupid. If we're gonna be honest, I
Speaker 1: can't remember specifics, but I'm sure I've crossed the line
Speaker 1: and said something I shouldn't have and he barely showed
Speaker 1: a hint of mad, which to me means you know,
Speaker 1: but no, He's a very even killed guy, which I
Speaker 1: think makes him in a very effective coach because I
Speaker 1: think players respond to that. It's important in the heat
Speaker 1: of the moment that you have someone you can trust
Speaker 1: that is making a good rational decision at all times,
Speaker 1: and that really aids him in his process as wide
Speaker 1: receivers coach. What have you appreciated about the addition of
Speaker 1: Gary Kubiak, I mean just his knowledge of the game,
Speaker 1: not only from an X is an O standpoint, but
Speaker 1: a player management standpoint, a leadership standpoint. So many things
Speaker 1: that he brings to our offense and our team that
Speaker 1: are invaluable that maybe don't show up on a statuet,
Speaker 1: but that have such an impact on how and why
Speaker 1: we do things. This is Drew Petsing wide receivers coach
Speaker 1: for the Minnesota Vikings, Vikings and Raiders this weekend at
Speaker 1: a noon US Bank Stadium pregame on the flagship ten
Speaker 1: Vikings Radio Network eleven Wide receiver Stefon Diggs is an
Speaker 1: emotional player. How does his emotions positively or negatively impact
Speaker 1: the way he plays. Yeah, I think it's a very
Speaker 1: fine balance because to one extent, if you have no emotion,
Speaker 1: you're not going to go out there with full speed,
Speaker 1: full bore every play, you know. So some of his drive,
Speaker 1: some of that emotion is what motivates him. It's what
Speaker 1: pushes him to be the type of player he is
Speaker 1: and to make those type of plays and to make
Speaker 1: those unbelievable catches, to come down hard and get the
Speaker 1: block done in the run game. But unfortunately, there's another
Speaker 1: side to that point, and we saw it a little
Speaker 1: bit in Green Bay, and that's when it starts to
Speaker 1: hurt the team. And those are things that we can't do.
Speaker 1: And he knows that and we know that, and that's
Speaker 1: something that you got to consistently work on because there
Speaker 1: is that line you talk about and you need some emotion,
Speaker 1: but too much when you're taking your helmet off after
Speaker 1: touchdowns is going to hurt the team. We can't do that.
Speaker 1: We mentioned Chad BB earlier. Let's go back a year
Speaker 1: and a half. Is just for a second stream your
Speaker 1: consciousness from the moment he got here at rookie camp
Speaker 1: didn't even have a name on the back of his jersey.
Speaker 1: Above that twelve to where he is now the progression
Speaker 1: of Chad BB What has impressed you. I think the
Speaker 1: biggest thing is, and you saw it the first day
Speaker 1: he got here, is how difficult he can be to cover.
Speaker 1: I mean the first time he goes out and runs
Speaker 1: a route or tries to get himself open. He has
Speaker 1: such a natural feel for how to separate, how to
Speaker 1: create that space, as you saw in the game, and
Speaker 1: it's one of those things that just continues to show
Speaker 1: up over and over and over again. And then the
Speaker 1: way he works at it, you know, he never was
Speaker 1: deterred or never stuck by where he was on the
Speaker 1: depth charter. How he got here, that wasn't important to him.
Speaker 1: What was important to him was improving his craft, getting
Speaker 1: better at the game of football, and being a positive
Speaker 1: member of this team. And I think he's really done that.
Speaker 1: How competitive is Adam feeling? As competitive as there is
Speaker 1: a human being on this planet. If we're walking to lunch,
Speaker 1: he's gonna try to beat you to the Door's it's
Speaker 1: that simple. With rookie wide receiver BC Johnson, what have
Speaker 1: you noticed from Bc in the preseason, mostly, if not always,
Speaker 1: playing with Mannion or Sloater or maybe Browning or whomever
Speaker 1: to BC Johnson practicing now hoping to get into a game,
Speaker 1: but always having to stay sharp. Yeah, and that's a
Speaker 1: big part of his role, and everyone's role on the
Speaker 1: team is to know your role, your responsibilities along with
Speaker 1: the players around you, because if you're not a starter,
Speaker 1: you don't necessarily know who you're going in the game. Four.
Speaker 1: If a certain guy goes down or a certain guy
Speaker 1: gets tired, you could be in at that position or
Speaker 1: the other position. And if you don't have a complete
Speaker 1: understanding of that game plan, you can't go out there
Speaker 1: and play, and it's going to show up in practice.
Speaker 1: So hey, I'm going to throw you in here at
Speaker 1: you know on this play, next play could be a
Speaker 1: different position. Show me that you know the game plan,
Speaker 1: that you've worked at it. And he's done that and
Speaker 1: it's it's been impressive. What can you share with us
Speaker 1: about Oakland's defense? Very very tough Unium. You know they
Speaker 1: take their emotional leadership from Vontes Berfect in the middle there,
Speaker 1: who came over I believe as a free agent this season.
Speaker 1: Played him in Cincinnati. Coach Zimmer coached him in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: knows him very well. So they are a unit that
Speaker 1: plays with a lot of energy, a lot of passion,
Speaker 1: very sound football team that knows exactly what they want
Speaker 1: to do and how they want to do it. So
Speaker 1: it's a it's a good unit. The last one and
Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator, Paul Gunther, worked under Mike Zimmer in Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: So when when you're deep diving Oakland's defense, do you
Speaker 1: see a lot of Zimmer's defense in what Gunther wants
Speaker 1: to do. Oh, there's no doubt about it. And having
Speaker 1: coach Zimmer here is a resource is huge for us offensively.
Speaker 1: He's a great guy to pick his brain and ask
Speaker 1: questions about, Hey, why are they doing this? How are
Speaker 1: they going to adjust to that because in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways that is his defense. Now there's certain things
Speaker 1: they do differently over time as things adjust, but it's
Speaker 1: really it's really fun to see and it's hard. It's
Speaker 1: a good system and it's a good defend it's well run.
Speaker 1: Great job. Best to luck this weekend and on behalf
Speaker 1: of the Vikings Radio Network, we would like to thank
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Speaker 1: back in nineteen eighty six, before craft brewing was even
Speaker 1: cool some of brewing companies, Marks dot Rude set out
Speaker 1: in Saint Paul, Minnesota to make craft beers inspired by
Speaker 1: old world brewing traditions and ingredients. More than thirty three
Speaker 1: years have passed since he first brewed our flagship Some
Speaker 1: at Extra Pale Ale and it's safe to say he
Speaker 1: pretty much nailed it. A classic English style pale ale
Speaker 1: featuring caramel, biscuity, malt, and a balance citrus hop fight.
Speaker 1: Somebodypa continues to win awards and refresh beer drinkers across
Speaker 1: the Midwest. A pioneer and craft beer, somebody Epa has
Speaker 1: been brewed locally and independently since nineteen eighty six.