1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,280 Speaker 1: Hey, Vikings fans, Ben Lever here. I'm so excited to 2 00:00:02,320 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: be a new Lifetime member and so are my kids. 3 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:06,519 Speaker 1: They love the tennis, the pick a ball, the basketball, 4 00:00:06,559 --> 00:00:08,719 Speaker 1: and of course the yummy cafe. Check him out at 5 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:14,880 Speaker 1: Lifetime dot life to find a club nearest you. 6 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 2: You're listening to the Minnesota Vikings podcast, Your five and 7 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:21,080 Speaker 2: two Vikings face the four and four Colts on Sunday 8 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:24,759 Speaker 2: Night football at us Bank Stadium, presented by Land o' lakes. 9 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,760 Speaker 2: I'm your host, Tatum Everett. We have an exciting episode 10 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 2: for you guys. Outside linebacker Patrick Jones, the second is 11 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:33,920 Speaker 2: our guest this week. We talked to him about growing 12 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 2: up in a military family, his love of fishing, and 13 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 2: I've never really seen him open up like this before. 14 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 2: I thought it was absolutely fantastic. But you're gonna be 15 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:45,879 Speaker 2: hearing a voice alongside me. I'd like to introduce. If 16 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:48,240 Speaker 2: you're listening to the podcast right now in our radio 17 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 2: partner cafe, and you will recognize him. If you're not familiar, 18 00:00:51,840 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 2: You're in for a treat and not just a track. 19 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 2: And I'm kidding. And just because it's time, yes, so 20 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:00,200 Speaker 2: you might've noticed, I have Paul Meatsace Labor from the 21 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 2: Paratrip Morning Show as a part of the podcast. Thank 22 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:05,120 Speaker 2: you so much for doing this. Yes, of course it 23 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 2: has been great. We have that interview coming up with 24 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 2: Pat Jones and I can't wait. I just thought the 25 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:12,319 Speaker 2: energy between the three of us would worked out really well. 26 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 3: I thought it was great. 27 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 2: He's a really cool guy. 28 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 3: He was excellent. Yeah, wonderful, wonderful young man. 29 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 2: Well, I'm excited to have you on here because I 30 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 2: feel like, in a sense you represent the Vikings fan, 31 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,600 Speaker 2: like you have the fandom of being here, growing up here. 32 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:29,360 Speaker 2: How would you describe your feelings about being a Viking fan. 33 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 3: I love being a Vikings fan, and I think the 34 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:33,760 Speaker 3: thing about the Vikings fan is we don't need to 35 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:35,840 Speaker 3: talk about, you know, what's happened in the past. But 36 00:01:35,959 --> 00:01:40,039 Speaker 3: I think that's what makes Vikings fans so great is 37 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:43,680 Speaker 3: it's a group of people that have yet hopefully soon 38 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 3: but have yet to ever win a Super Bowl. And 39 00:01:45,640 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 3: I think we bond over that where it's like we're 40 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:50,840 Speaker 3: kind of like the Land of Misfit Toys in a way, 41 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 3: where it's like we haven't won, but that's our bit, 42 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 3: Like you don't get to make fun of us that 43 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 3: we haven't won, and I'm mostly talking to my packer 44 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 3: on my packer loving wife, but you just you just can't. 45 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 3: I don't know. We just we bond over being I 46 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:09,079 Speaker 3: don't know, it's kind of like Missouri loves Company in 47 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 3: the way. But we've also had some of the best 48 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 3: seasons of all time. That I got into being a 49 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 3: Vikings fan in nineteen ninety eight. That and I will 50 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 3: die on this hill. That's the greatest football team to 51 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,799 Speaker 3: never win a super Bowl. If the nineteen ninety eight 52 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 3: Vikings win a super Bowl, that will that would have 53 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 3: been considered the greatest NFL team of all time. And 54 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:29,919 Speaker 3: I will tell that, and I will argue with that 55 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:34,680 Speaker 3: like it happened yesterday anywhere anytime, because I'm so passionate 56 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 3: about it, and I just it's it's wonderful to be 57 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 3: a Vikings fan. And I'm not just saying that because 58 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 3: I'm in the TCO building, but I legitimately love being 59 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:46,760 Speaker 3: a Vikings fan. There is nothing better than a football 60 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:49,400 Speaker 3: Sunday that includes a Vikings game somewhere in it. 61 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:52,920 Speaker 2: Now, how do you feel then about living day to day? 62 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 2: Like you look at you know, nineteen ninety eight Vikings 63 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:57,840 Speaker 2: fan Paul Looking at Paul now being able to talk 64 00:02:57,840 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 2: about the Vikings like that must be kind of a 65 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:00,639 Speaker 2: cool like. 66 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:04,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, realization. Yeah, it's uh, it's it's awesome. Like 67 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:06,600 Speaker 3: I'm very lucky in what I do, and I love that. 68 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:10,480 Speaker 3: I my passion for I mean, all Minnesota sports, but 69 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:14,080 Speaker 3: the Minnesota Vikings are there the cherry on top of 70 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:16,399 Speaker 3: all of it, and that makes them great. But like, yeah, 71 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 3: it's a it's a very fun job that I have, 72 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 3: and it includes being passionate and sometimes a little too 73 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:26,079 Speaker 3: passionate on social media about it. But that's what makes 74 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,680 Speaker 3: it great. The passion is what makes football and Vikings 75 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:33,840 Speaker 3: football so good. Nobody is as passionate about football as 76 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 3: they are about like, uh, you know, like field hockey 77 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 3: or something, you know what I mean. 78 00:03:38,440 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 2: I really get that it's so much emotion because there's 79 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 2: so few games and now it's a year round sport 80 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 2: and everyone is just so hyper fixated and dedicated to things. 81 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 2: And and I know that, you know, I don't talk 82 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:53,840 Speaker 2: about this very often because I know that there's a 83 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:56,080 Speaker 2: lot of Vikings fans who hate the Saints, and I 84 00:03:56,080 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 2: get it. But as as as a kid growing up 85 00:04:01,440 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 2: in a fan base that had never experienced the Super 86 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:07,720 Speaker 2: Bowl before watching that happen. I want that for Vikings 87 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 2: fans so bad. 88 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:10,520 Speaker 3: I mean, it would have happened had your teammates. 89 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:13,920 Speaker 2: I'm well aware of all of it, and I I 90 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 2: can't do anything about it for you now. 91 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:19,760 Speaker 3: When we lost, and I say we because as Vikings fans, 92 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 3: we are we it's okay to say we we dedicated 93 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:26,600 Speaker 3: and they if Quazy or one of the wolfs Sir 94 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:28,840 Speaker 3: Kosia walking right now, they would agree we are. We 95 00:04:28,960 --> 00:04:31,479 Speaker 3: can say we because of what we've all been through together. 96 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 3: That's what makes it great. It's like a meeting we 97 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,000 Speaker 3: all volunteer to go to and then we just talk 98 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:38,000 Speaker 3: about how bad it's been, but at one moment, it's 99 00:04:38,040 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 3: going to be great. When that happened, I fell to 100 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:43,040 Speaker 3: the floor and I was I bet. I laid on 101 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 3: the ground for about fifteen minutes. I have a good 102 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,440 Speaker 3: friend of mine who punched like a I think it 103 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:50,520 Speaker 3: was a bottle of wine or something and cut up 104 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 3: his hand. He was so like, that is how passionate 105 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 3: we are. 106 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 2: Vikings fans. 107 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:58,280 Speaker 3: Correct, they're they're they're a pack of strays, but they 108 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:01,360 Speaker 3: are committed to it, and yeah, yeah, nine was tough. 109 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 3: Nine was tough. 110 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 2: But that's the belief in this organization. The love, I 111 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:08,080 Speaker 2: mean and the respect for this organization across the league 112 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:10,720 Speaker 2: is what impresses me the most. Like you said, some 113 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:12,520 Speaker 2: of the best teams that ever been happen. 114 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:14,280 Speaker 3: All the people that showed up in London. 115 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 2: That was crazy. 116 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,640 Speaker 3: That was a home game. I've been lucky enough to go. 117 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 3: I've been to three of them, and the first one 118 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:22,120 Speaker 3: it was the one when they played the Browns, and 119 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:24,040 Speaker 3: it was you know, it was fine, it was great. 120 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 3: There were a bunch of Vikings fans. If you closed 121 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 3: your eyes or you'd never seen us Bank Stadium, you'd go, well, 122 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:33,840 Speaker 3: this is in Minneapolis. That's a home game. That's what 123 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:36,280 Speaker 3: makes a Minnesota Viking fan great, and that's what makes 124 00:05:36,320 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 3: the Minnesota Vikings wonderful. 125 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:38,640 Speaker 4: Yeah. 126 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:42,040 Speaker 2: The trippiest thing was like all of the stadium content 127 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 2: that we normally had was in the stadium this year, 128 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:46,720 Speaker 2: and I was like, this is just so weird. I'm 129 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,839 Speaker 2: hearing and seeing all of the same stuff. It was wild. 130 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:51,640 Speaker 2: But I did want to ask you this one question. 131 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:55,599 Speaker 2: Where were you for the largest comeback in NFL history. 132 00:05:55,839 --> 00:05:58,159 Speaker 4: So I was. I was at my. 133 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 3: Home and my parents had been in town for Thanksgiving 134 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 3: because it was the Saturday after Thanksgiving and it was 135 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:07,599 Speaker 3: my wife was at work, and my mom she cares, 136 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 3: but not like I do. I mean, you'd have to 137 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 3: be really weird to care. As if my mom cared 138 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 3: as much as I do, I would have led with that. 139 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:16,719 Speaker 3: But she she was kind of fainting. And so they 140 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:19,000 Speaker 3: get down and I'm like, Dad, we're gonna watch one 141 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:21,560 Speaker 3: more Drive and then we're gonna move on. It was 142 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 3: a Saturday, it was the only game on. Then they scored, 143 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:28,680 Speaker 3: and you just it was. It was awesome because every 144 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 3: single I think it was Patrick Peterson that said, we 145 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:35,040 Speaker 3: just have to the offense five or seven touchdowns, and 146 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:37,800 Speaker 3: they did it. I was at home, and I have 147 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:40,160 Speaker 3: a couple of friends of mine who left, and it's like, 148 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 3: you can't then say you were there, even if you 149 00:06:42,839 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 3: were there for the first half, you weren't at that 150 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 3: part of the game. But yeah, I was at home 151 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,520 Speaker 3: and I was screaming when the comeback happened. I get 152 00:06:52,080 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 3: I just get into it. 153 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 1: I love it. 154 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:56,599 Speaker 2: I mean everyone loves a good comeback story. I mean, 155 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 2: you're down thirty three points, you come back in the 156 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:02,160 Speaker 2: second half, you make it go to overtime, and then 157 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 2: you went on that field goal, and it's just there 158 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 2: is no proper way to describe emotion. That's why people 159 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 2: watch the game, that's what people care about. 160 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 3: And that was the season where everybody, everybody nationally was like, 161 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 3: they're not as good as they are. They win luck, 162 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 3: they went on luck, they went on so and so 163 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:20,960 Speaker 3: and so and so. But that was the game where 164 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,000 Speaker 3: you're like, they just like they ever. They were perfect, 165 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 3: perfect in the third and fourth quarter, and then people 166 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:31,600 Speaker 3: are like wow, because when they were down, you're like, well, yeah, 167 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:33,520 Speaker 3: this is exactly what we thought it was. That's the 168 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:36,800 Speaker 3: other beauty of football is the first thirty minutes could 169 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:38,920 Speaker 3: be the worst thing in the world, and then the second, 170 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 3: second thirty minutes, it's jubilation. That's what makes it great. 171 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 3: And that's exactly what that was. 172 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be really really interesting to feel the 173 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 2: Colts coming back into the place where that happened. I mean, 174 00:07:50,960 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 2: for me, it's gonna just kind of like bring back 175 00:07:53,120 --> 00:07:56,280 Speaker 2: a lot of memories from that. But this team is 176 00:07:56,360 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 2: obviously a little different. It's not Matt Ryan as the 177 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 2: quarterback anymore you have. 178 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 3: Saturday, isn't the head coach? 179 00:08:02,360 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 2: I forgot? 180 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that he was a temp. 181 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:07,400 Speaker 2: I mean it was like I totally forgot. 182 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 3: It was like a government temp. Yeah. 183 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 2: So it's it's it's a fairly new team. A lot 184 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 2: of may not maybe that people that don't necessarily know 185 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 2: what happened there two years ago. And uh, it's an 186 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:21,840 Speaker 2: interesting situation. Joe Flacco will be getting the start. I 187 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 2: think Shane steik And said he will be starting from 188 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 2: here on out. And uh, you know, the Vikings have 189 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 2: an interesting storyline as well. Hot start five straight, then 190 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 2: lose back to back games in those five day stretch. 191 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:36,439 Speaker 2: How do you feel like this team or how do 192 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 2: you think this team gets back on track? 193 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,559 Speaker 3: Well, I'll say this, when when they lost to the Lions, 194 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 3: and you go, man, that was a something. It's what, 195 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 3: as we said, what makes worse. 196 00:08:46,360 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 2: Than it actually was because it was such a close game, 197 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:51,320 Speaker 2: but you didn't feel but then like it was that club. 198 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you watch them a week later put 199 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 3: fifty five up on whoever they played. They unbel they 200 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 3: have they have played Detroit. The best in Detroit right 201 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:06,200 Speaker 3: now is probably the best team in football and they 202 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 3: barely lost them. And as I said on the air 203 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:11,679 Speaker 3: on Cafe on the Power Morning Show the next day, 204 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:14,200 Speaker 3: I said, there's no such thing in professional sports as 205 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 3: moral victories. That's for kids, and that's for that's not 206 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 3: for adults. Adults don't get moral victories because that's not 207 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 3: how life works. But in that sense, that is something 208 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 3: you could look back on, and they got. They were 209 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:28,679 Speaker 3: just mentally beat up in that game. If they played 210 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 3: the Rams this week or on a Sunday a couple 211 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 3: of days ago, they'd win. It's just that's a tough 212 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 3: team to play against and fly halfway across the country 213 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 3: and all that they were. They are the better team 214 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:48,360 Speaker 3: than the Rams are. They should have won that game. 215 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:51,080 Speaker 3: I think they get back on track this weekend by 216 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:53,319 Speaker 3: just doing what they do best. And as you know 217 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,160 Speaker 3: when we talked to Patrick Jones, and they just get 218 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 3: pressure on the quarterback. Joe Flacco is two years younger 219 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,880 Speaker 3: than I. He's old. He'll just you just stand in 220 00:10:03,000 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 3: the pocket and you get after him. They dodged a bullet. 221 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:07,679 Speaker 3: I think from a sense of like Anthony Richardson and 222 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 3: just the improvisation, you know where Joe Flacco is and 223 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:13,200 Speaker 3: they can get after him. They'll just get after the quarterback. 224 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 3: The crowd will be into it. It's a night game. 225 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:18,120 Speaker 3: Gives a lot of those Vikings fans longer time to 226 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:20,599 Speaker 3: you know, have a couple of adult beverages out in 227 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:21,240 Speaker 3: the parking lot. 228 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 2: But did h help goose the Miller light? Play a 229 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:24,480 Speaker 2: Miller light for. 230 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 3: Why wouldn't you want Miller lite? Miller light? Only right? 231 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:32,679 Speaker 2: And offensively? I feel like they are they just need 232 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,880 Speaker 2: to clean up a couple of the miscues, the penalties, 233 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:39,160 Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell saying as much as press conferences that as 234 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 2: long as they do their jobs, stick to what they 235 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:44,839 Speaker 2: do and know and don't make very like those just 236 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,839 Speaker 2: small miscues that when they add up, become such a 237 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:51,320 Speaker 2: bigger issue for this offense. I think that that's going 238 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 2: to be huge in this game. Unfortunately, they were going 239 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 2: to be moving forward without Christian Dariso, who had that 240 00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 2: season ending injury in the Rams game. But the Vikings 241 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:03,439 Speaker 2: have made a trade for Cam Robinson. They traded a 242 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 2: conditional fifth round pick in the twenty twenty sixth NFL 243 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 2: Draft in exchange for Robinson and a conditional seventh round 244 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 2: pick in the twenty twenty six NFL Draft, you know, 245 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 2: barring him passing a physical, which you know, he's been 246 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 2: playing some of the best football he's been playing so far. 247 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:22,800 Speaker 2: So I think the idea of plugging him into where 248 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:25,360 Speaker 2: Christian Derisi is means that this team has a lot 249 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 2: of confidence in what they can do in the next 250 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:29,720 Speaker 2: ten games. 251 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:32,839 Speaker 3: I think the best part about this trade is this 252 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:36,959 Speaker 3: isn't This is a situation in an NFL where the 253 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 3: top teams, the brand name teams, not that the Vikings aren't, 254 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,200 Speaker 3: but this is the analogy I'm using the forty nine Ers, 255 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 3: the Eagles, those teams that you always expect to be 256 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:49,559 Speaker 3: dominant are having tough seasons. This is other than the Lions, 257 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:53,040 Speaker 3: who the Vikings almost beat. This is a This is 258 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 3: a this is a season where you don't if you 259 00:11:56,080 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 3: when you bring in a guy like Cam Robinson, you 260 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,120 Speaker 3: don't have to switch everybody up. You don't have a 261 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:04,000 Speaker 3: move Brandle the left tackle or Brian O'Neil the left tackle. 262 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:07,120 Speaker 3: This means that they are they think with this move 263 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:10,319 Speaker 3: they can basically keep everything going. As I mean, Christian 264 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 3: Darisaw is maybe the best left tackle in football. That's 265 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 3: not a shot at Cam Robinson. Now, maybe in the 266 00:12:15,520 --> 00:12:17,719 Speaker 3: building it can maybe hear my loud, annoying voice, but 267 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:21,000 Speaker 3: this means that they I mean normally, if they were 268 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 3: two and six, you'd go, I mean, why we give 269 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:26,240 Speaker 3: up any equity? It maybe the third it may be 270 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:28,280 Speaker 3: the fourth pick in the fifth round, even though it's 271 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 3: a fifth round pick, that's a you know whatever. But 272 00:12:30,640 --> 00:12:32,679 Speaker 3: they have decided that this is what they're gonna do. 273 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 3: This is a big trade. You don't normally see left 274 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,559 Speaker 3: tackles traded mid season. 275 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:42,719 Speaker 2: And that means like Cam Robinson, it's actually it was 276 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 2: almost a little bit surprising he was available. I think 277 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:49,719 Speaker 2: he's currently ranked thirtieth a month offensive tackles as this 278 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:52,679 Speaker 2: PFF grade, and I mean that that's saying something is 279 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:54,600 Speaker 2: the way he's playing this year if he can stay healthy. 280 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:57,920 Speaker 2: I really do think this is this is why they 281 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 2: believe in this team, because they wouldn't make this move correct. 282 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 2: They did not think this was gonna this team would 283 00:13:03,679 --> 00:13:03,960 Speaker 2: go far. 284 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:08,640 Speaker 3: And from my in no insider information at all, this 285 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:11,560 Speaker 3: is a situation where this can't be their only move, right, 286 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 3: you'd expect them to make more moves just because they 287 00:13:14,559 --> 00:13:16,719 Speaker 3: think this is a team that put in the right 288 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 3: situation and maybe getting to play one or two home 289 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:22,679 Speaker 3: games at US Bank Stadium can lead them in the 290 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:23,320 Speaker 3: right direction. 291 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, the US Bank Stadium is going to be crazy 292 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,040 Speaker 2: on Sunday Night. And that's what Patrick Jones said as 293 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 2: much when he sat down with us for his interview. 294 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:33,599 Speaker 2: Still to come. We do have Pat Jones here on 295 00:13:33,679 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 2: the pod. You know, he's had a really unexpected journey 296 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 2: to the NFL. We go into that and the Colts game. 297 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 2: You're gonna want to stay tuned for that interview because honestly, 298 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:45,839 Speaker 2: he was just so open and told some stories I 299 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 2: don't think he normally tells. 300 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:47,840 Speaker 3: He was excellent. 301 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gonna want to stick around to the Minnesota 302 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 2: Vikings podcast. 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How is your mini by? After the weekend off? 320 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 4: It was good, It was real good. I got sometimes 321 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 4: just sit back or last get my mind back right reset. 322 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 2: What does relaxation look like to you? 323 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:13,520 Speaker 4: I do a couple different things. Sometimes I tell the house. 324 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 4: Other time I go fishing and go outside. I'm big 325 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:17,520 Speaker 4: on outdoors, so I kind of like to go outside 326 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 4: and do stuff outside. What's your favorite thing to do 327 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 4: other than play football? For the Minnesota Vikings. Like, if 328 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 4: you could have the perfect day, what's the one thing 329 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:27,920 Speaker 4: you would do. I'm a big fishing so I'm definitely 330 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 4: going fishing. I'm definitely waking up going fishing. That's probably 331 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,720 Speaker 4: the first thing I'm gonna do. See, this is weird. 332 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 4: I've been fishing a couple of times. I can't take 333 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 4: the fish off the hook. That's what keeps you for fishing. 334 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:40,560 Speaker 3: And I know that's weird. I'm forty two years old, 335 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 3: but fishing seems great. I just add on to the 336 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:45,720 Speaker 3: patients for it. But there's a lot of people who 337 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 3: love fishing. What makes fishing And I'm asking you in 338 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:50,280 Speaker 3: a curious way, what makes fishing so great? 339 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's something I grew up doing my whole life. 340 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:55,720 Speaker 4: I've really started fishing this out like four years old. 341 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 4: So it's been something I grew up around and just 342 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:00,600 Speaker 4: something I always had just a passion for. And I 343 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 4: think it just teaches you patience and that's big. It 344 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:05,760 Speaker 4: allows you to relax and just be patient, and I 345 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:07,240 Speaker 4: kind of love it. The reason why you love is 346 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:10,040 Speaker 4: cause it's like whenever you're not expecting it, that's when 347 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:12,840 Speaker 4: you go get your biggest fish. And it just teaches 348 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:14,520 Speaker 4: you patience and it's just a life lesson. 349 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:17,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, my dad's a big freshman. I cannot I'm not 350 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 2: set still for that long. It is really remarkable, and 351 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:22,680 Speaker 2: you've added an element into it now where it's like 352 00:16:22,760 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 2: a kind of a zen place for you. You can 353 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:28,080 Speaker 2: watch film if you haven't checked out vikings dot com 354 00:16:28,360 --> 00:16:31,520 Speaker 2: recently our own Lindsay Youung sat down with Pat on 355 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 2: a boat, went out with him fishing with him and 356 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:36,160 Speaker 2: a friend to talk about how you watch film during 357 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:38,520 Speaker 2: it and stuff. How did that, you know, essentially start. 358 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, So I was fishing all the time and I'm like, man, 359 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,040 Speaker 4: let me just bring my iPad one time. And then 360 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 4: I went out there and I brought my iPad and 361 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 4: I'm like, wow, I was really peaceful because we was 362 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 4: out on the river and stuff. So there's no noise 363 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:53,480 Speaker 4: like I might be in my house my dog while 364 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 4: you're running around and stuff, and there's just noise you 365 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 4: could hear like cars driving by. But I just went 366 00:16:57,520 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 4: out there and I'm like, wow, there's no noise. Only 367 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:01,920 Speaker 4: noise I hear probably is like you hear you see 368 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:04,280 Speaker 4: eagles and hear birds and stuff, and it's just peaceful, 369 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:05,760 Speaker 4: just being out there, and it's just something I just 370 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:06,240 Speaker 4: kept doing. 371 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:08,680 Speaker 2: Okay, seeing eagles is something that when I moved to 372 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 2: Minnesota I never had really seen before. I don't know 373 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 2: if you felt the same. It's still like such a 374 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:14,399 Speaker 2: phenomenon of me. 375 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:16,359 Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, Well, I mean there are like you 376 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:18,520 Speaker 3: can't have, like there's some areas for like you get 377 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:20,719 Speaker 3: like a warning because you can't have like little dogs 378 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:23,199 Speaker 3: in the backyard with yeah, because they take them. 379 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:24,400 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. 380 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:26,000 Speaker 2: It's just one of the coolest things to say. 381 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:29,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, but they aren't very friendly, I guess. So what 382 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 3: do I know? Uh? 383 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:31,240 Speaker 4: Did you? 384 00:17:31,560 --> 00:17:33,399 Speaker 2: I know that this is Halloween week when we were 385 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,520 Speaker 2: releasing this was a Halloween, a big holiday for you 386 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:37,439 Speaker 2: guys as a family. 387 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 4: Uh nah, So it's funny you asked that. So I 388 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 4: never even I never celebrate Halloween before in my life. 389 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 4: That's just how I grew up. I grew up in 390 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 4: a Christian household, so my mom and my dad they 391 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:48,960 Speaker 4: just didn't like me doing that type of stuff. So 392 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:51,280 Speaker 4: now that I'm older, that's just something I was kind 393 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 4: of I hading grained as a kid, and that's just 394 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:53,560 Speaker 4: how I live. 395 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 3: Know, which is a great way. I'm with you. I 396 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:58,800 Speaker 3: do not like Halloween. I don't like to be scared. 397 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,159 Speaker 3: I'm not trying to make this, but like if we 398 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 3: could skip past Halloween, especially like adults that are religious. Yes, correct, 399 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,400 Speaker 3: we should start a podcast just you and I. Patrick, 400 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 3: But like Halloween, I don't get. I don't get, like, 401 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 3: why do you want to be scared? Why do you 402 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 3: want strangers? Like haven't we strangers? Stranger danger? 403 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:23,359 Speaker 2: And then we give them candy to get him to your. 404 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:28,639 Speaker 3: It's an odd, odd holiday with you, Patrick. 405 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:30,000 Speaker 2: So is Thanksgiving tops for you? 406 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,040 Speaker 4: I would say Thanksgiving us up there. Christmas is definitely 407 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:36,400 Speaker 4: in the tops. Christmas is definitely big, first off because 408 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 4: my religion, and then second off, it's just the time 409 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 4: you get to just give back to people like my family. 410 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:46,520 Speaker 4: I know my mom she likes to. She had us 411 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:48,119 Speaker 4: doing stuff when we was younger. She would have us 412 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:51,159 Speaker 4: give back to like homeless shelters and like places like that. 413 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 4: On doing the holiday times as just something I kind 414 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:54,360 Speaker 4: of grew up doing. 415 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 3: Well, you were you. That's an exceptional thing to have 416 00:18:57,600 --> 00:18:59,399 Speaker 3: that you should you should be really proud of that. 417 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:01,920 Speaker 3: That's not everybody does. You should be super proud of that. 418 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:03,960 Speaker 3: You were raised very well. I know I just spent 419 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:05,880 Speaker 3: you five minutes ago, but you were raised very well. 420 00:19:06,080 --> 00:19:08,920 Speaker 3: And I mean that's a that's a great quality to have. 421 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:11,360 Speaker 2: And how what I mean, how was the family unit 422 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:12,760 Speaker 2: growing up? What was that like for you? 423 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 4: Oh? We had We always had a close family because 424 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:17,480 Speaker 4: I was a military child, so we moved all over 425 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,560 Speaker 4: the place. I think I went to like nine I 426 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:22,760 Speaker 4: went to like nine different schools before I was like fourteen. 427 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:25,720 Speaker 4: So it was always me, my sisters, and my mom 428 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 4: my dad. So we would like we would get up 429 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:31,840 Speaker 4: and move like every two three years. Sometimes we would 430 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 4: go There was instances where we had to go move 431 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:37,119 Speaker 4: two three times in a year. Uh So it was 432 00:19:37,280 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 4: just well, we all we had. So it was just 433 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 4: a close unit to the football. 434 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 3: What makes a Brian Flores defense so dynamic with all 435 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 3: of you guys rush rush, rushing the passer or not 436 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:51,840 Speaker 3: rushing the passer from a blitz standpoint, what makes that 437 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 3: so complex? 438 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 4: Yeah? First off, I would say it's really a team defense. 439 00:19:56,840 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 4: So like sometimes you might be rushing and rush doesn't 440 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:03,080 Speaker 4: even set up for you to win. So you have 441 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 4: to be an unselfish player to play in it. And 442 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:07,200 Speaker 4: I think that's why our defenses where it's at because 443 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:10,119 Speaker 4: we have a lot of un selfish people, So you 444 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:12,920 Speaker 4: just never know who's coming, and you never know who's going. 445 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:15,920 Speaker 4: So it's just it's just you never really know, Like 446 00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 4: we don't really know until so it's just it's just 447 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:25,000 Speaker 4: one of those things that you can't really uh you 448 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:27,640 Speaker 4: can't really know, like who's gonna go, who's gonna who's 449 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:30,400 Speaker 4: not gonna go, cause you just never you just never 450 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 4: really know. 451 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:34,480 Speaker 3: Like is it easier knowing that you will know where 452 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:37,439 Speaker 3: Joe Flacco is in the pocket or is it easier 453 00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 3: in a weird way, knowing that Anthony Richardson could be 454 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:41,280 Speaker 3: anywhere in the pocket? 455 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:44,879 Speaker 4: Man, it's definitely easier knowing that knowing going against the 456 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 4: station there quarterback. But at the end of the day, 457 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:48,959 Speaker 4: they gonna be out there, so we won't go get them. 458 00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:52,000 Speaker 2: Well and in Flacco this season seems like he's a 459 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:56,159 Speaker 2: little rattled under pressure. Uh, but that offensive line is 460 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:59,159 Speaker 2: so good, probably one of the best you'll see this season. 461 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:01,240 Speaker 2: I mean, what do you see from them on film 462 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:04,240 Speaker 2: and how they're being able to protect their quarterback. 463 00:21:04,359 --> 00:21:06,639 Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, we just had to get out to them. 464 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:08,200 Speaker 4: We're just gonna have to really just like I said, 465 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:09,920 Speaker 4: it's a team, Murch. We're gonna have to rush together 466 00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:11,919 Speaker 4: as a team. We're gonna have to go out there 467 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:13,240 Speaker 4: and we're gonna have to work off each other and 468 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:15,720 Speaker 4: just play real well because you just never know where 469 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:17,400 Speaker 4: the SAT's gonna come from, who's gonna get the sacks. 470 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 4: We're just gonna have to go against their unit together 471 00:21:19,480 --> 00:21:20,560 Speaker 4: and then just beat them. 472 00:21:20,720 --> 00:21:23,199 Speaker 3: It's the best part about playing with than Ginkles. There 473 00:21:23,280 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 3: is at every moment in the game, you possibly might 474 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 3: have to like pass block and like block down the field, 475 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:30,479 Speaker 3: like how quickly do you turn around and go, well, 476 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,119 Speaker 3: now I have to be an offensive player. 477 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,960 Speaker 4: Yeah, when he called his interceptions versus the Jets, Yeah, 478 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 4: I was literally in the middle of my move and 479 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,240 Speaker 4: I just heard the crowd go crazy, and I just 480 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,760 Speaker 4: for some reason, I just knew caught the ball or 481 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:44,920 Speaker 4: somebody caught the ball, so I literally stopped. I was 482 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:46,480 Speaker 4: in the cross shop. I was the middle cross shop, 483 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:49,159 Speaker 4: literally sat down and tried to block the dude and 484 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:51,680 Speaker 4: I just seen running past me, and I'm like, yep, 485 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 4: that's sweet, guys. 486 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:55,359 Speaker 2: I mean it has like that has to provide so 487 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,880 Speaker 2: much confidence to you guys, knowing that he's right there 488 00:21:57,960 --> 00:21:59,159 Speaker 2: and anything can happen like that. 489 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, anything that happened, Like when games out there, like 490 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 4: you know there's a chance you might get the ball, 491 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 4: Like you know there's a chance. 492 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 2: How much fun are you having? Like I know that's 493 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,040 Speaker 2: such a simple question, but it feels like you guys 494 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:12,760 Speaker 2: are just like out there like you were, you know, 495 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 2: in your teenage years. 496 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:16,840 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm having a blast out there. I mean it's 497 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:18,920 Speaker 4: just like even when I'm not making the play and 498 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:20,280 Speaker 4: I see other people making to play, it make me 499 00:22:20,359 --> 00:22:23,240 Speaker 4: so happy, like just because it's all the same energy, 500 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 4: Like everyone's just happy for each other. So when you 501 00:22:25,560 --> 00:22:27,400 Speaker 4: had that type of energy out there, it's just it's 502 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,480 Speaker 4: just it makes it not even so serious anymore. It 503 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,600 Speaker 4: makes it more like you just having fun, like you said, 504 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 4: like like teenagers, Like you're just out there having fun 505 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:36,639 Speaker 4: like and I feel like that's the best feeling. 506 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 3: How good is it gonna be the play in front 507 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:40,240 Speaker 3: of that home crowd on a Sunday night, Oh. 508 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:42,080 Speaker 4: It's gonna be I already know it's gonna be crazy. 509 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:44,760 Speaker 4: It's gonna be crazy. Whenever we're playing for our home crowd. 510 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,639 Speaker 4: It's crazy and Sunday night. This is the first Sunday 511 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:49,919 Speaker 4: night game of the year, so I could just imagine 512 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:52,320 Speaker 4: how packed it's gonna be, The energy, the environment is 513 00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:53,000 Speaker 4: gonna be amazing. 514 00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, they didn't give you guys many primetime games and 515 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 2: then immediately they flex you guys that must have fall could. 516 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:01,159 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, nah. It was definitely excited feeling just to 517 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,520 Speaker 4: get flex and to come out there, know we're gonna 518 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,399 Speaker 4: get a night game. Night games always turned. 519 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:09,160 Speaker 2: The last time the Colts played, obviously is the largest 520 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,680 Speaker 2: come back in NFL history. You weren't act of that game, 521 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 2: so you almost got a fan perspective like, well we had. 522 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,200 Speaker 2: So what was it like being on that sideline watching 523 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 2: that happen. 524 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:19,600 Speaker 4: Yeah, I really wanted to be out there so bad, 525 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 4: but I had the best seat in the house. I 526 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:24,000 Speaker 4: got to talk to the players. I had to be 527 00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 4: out there, tell them what I was seeing and stuff, 528 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:29,440 Speaker 4: and just really get to witness the whole thing, feel 529 00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 4: all the energy and stuff. So I'm just excited to 530 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:33,239 Speaker 4: go out there and be able to finally play them 531 00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:33,640 Speaker 4: this time. 532 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:37,159 Speaker 3: What's it like knowing that you have Stefan Gilmour, I mean, 533 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:39,600 Speaker 3: he's one of the best cornerbacks that's probably ever played 534 00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:40,040 Speaker 3: in this game. 535 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:42,160 Speaker 4: What's it like having him as a teammate. Yeah, it's 536 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 4: it's crazy. Like Steph, he's such a humble dude. Like 537 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,959 Speaker 4: you walked down and talk to him, he'd just be like, Yo, 538 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 4: what up? Pat? 539 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 2: And it's just like. 540 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 4: I'm the year four and I still I'll still be 541 00:23:53,640 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 4: seeing certain players. I was the same way my second 542 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,840 Speaker 4: year when we had Pat Peterson. Yeah, I was like you, Pat, 543 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:04,200 Speaker 4: bro Like, like it's crazy, just even even Harrison Smith, 544 00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:07,120 Speaker 4: Like just being around all these legends, it's just crazy. 545 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:08,399 Speaker 4: It's really truly a blessing. 546 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,240 Speaker 2: Was there a player that you just really admired when 547 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:13,399 Speaker 2: you were when you were growing up? Like, who's your 548 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:13,880 Speaker 2: number one? 549 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 4: My number one player? Growing up? I was a big 550 00:24:16,560 --> 00:24:19,000 Speaker 4: I was a big Patrick Willis fan when I was 551 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 4: growing up. That's like, that was like my that was 552 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:23,840 Speaker 4: like my guy that I liked the I really like 553 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:25,600 Speaker 4: to watch his film and stuff like that, and just 554 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,679 Speaker 4: watch his highlights on YouTube. I watch all his hot 555 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:29,479 Speaker 4: on YouTube, documents and everything. 556 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:33,840 Speaker 3: I might be wrong, I'm guessing, but isn't he and 557 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 3: Mega Tron the two youngest guys to ever go in 558 00:24:36,119 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 3: the Hall of Fame. I think they both retired early. 559 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:41,640 Speaker 3: I think they're the youngest guys to ever go into 560 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:42,120 Speaker 3: the Hall of Fame. 561 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:43,760 Speaker 4: It's crazy you said that, because I used to I 562 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,520 Speaker 4: used to really like Kelvin Johnson too, and I realized 563 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:47,960 Speaker 4: I wasn't playing receiver. 564 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,800 Speaker 2: So that why did you realize that? Pat? 565 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 4: So you wan'na hear funny stories. So, yes, when I 566 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:56,760 Speaker 4: first got to the United States, I was fourteen years old. 567 00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:01,119 Speaker 4: I started playing football my sophomore year school. So I 568 00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,359 Speaker 4: was in the gym just messing around on the football 569 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,760 Speaker 4: coach see me. Uh, he's seen me throw a football 570 00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 4: and he was like, yeah, you canna play quarterback. I'm 571 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,480 Speaker 4: like huh. And then I'm like I might hold up. 572 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,080 Speaker 4: So I had to meet with him at lunch and stuff, 573 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,600 Speaker 4: go quarterback stuff. I was like, yeah, man, eventually it 574 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:18,399 Speaker 4: ain't really work out the way it's supposed to do. 575 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 4: So then I said, I want to play defense. I 576 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 4: don't want to I don't want to get hit. I 577 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:24,479 Speaker 4: want to hit people. So I was a little smaller, 578 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:27,879 Speaker 4: I was like five ten. So then they have me 579 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:29,920 Speaker 4: played safety and I was like, all right, I can't 580 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:31,920 Speaker 4: really get the hand of the safety stuff. I was like, 581 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 4: I won't play linebacker. So then I moved down linebacker, 582 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,919 Speaker 4: A groove got a little bigger, and then I came 583 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,400 Speaker 4: back to the summertime six fol like two, twenty five, 584 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:43,800 Speaker 4: ten and sixfold, and then I eventually found my way 585 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:44,720 Speaker 4: down to defensive it. 586 00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,679 Speaker 3: Just like move, I really started all the way in safety. 587 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,040 Speaker 4: I started quarterback, went all the way to safety, and 588 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:52,080 Speaker 4: then just work my way all the way down to 589 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 4: defensive it. 590 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:56,440 Speaker 2: That's so cool. I can't imagine, Okay, I just I 591 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,119 Speaker 2: have a hard time imagining a growth spurt of like 592 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:02,960 Speaker 2: one year, going from five ten to six four. That's insane. 593 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,439 Speaker 3: It was crazy. That's insane. I mean that changes your 594 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,719 Speaker 3: whole life. Right, If everybody were six ford it sweet, right, 595 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 3: but not everybody's six for it. You can do a 596 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:11,920 Speaker 3: lot of things at six four. 597 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,440 Speaker 2: No, No, that's fair. Well, I'm really glad that you 598 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,399 Speaker 2: did bring up that you were raised in a military 599 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:19,440 Speaker 2: family because we do have the Salute to Service game 600 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,239 Speaker 2: coming up in December. Really excited for that game. I mean, 601 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,359 Speaker 2: when you go out there and kind of realize that 602 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,480 Speaker 2: the league that you play for acknowledges something that means 603 00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:30,480 Speaker 2: it is so close to you. 604 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 3: What is that like? 605 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 4: It really means a lot because, like I saw, I 606 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:36,440 Speaker 4: grew up really most of my life, so I really 607 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,359 Speaker 4: seen how it kind of affects people. My dad was 608 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,639 Speaker 4: in the Navy for thirty years, so when I was younger, 609 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 4: I would my dad, he would be going, he'd be 610 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,680 Speaker 4: deployed sometimes a lot, So it really just kind of 611 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:49,600 Speaker 4: be me, my mom, and my sister's in the household. 612 00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,879 Speaker 4: So it kind of really just it's really big because 613 00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,400 Speaker 4: it supports the families. I feel like the families get 614 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 4: the families go through a lot that people don't really 615 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:01,160 Speaker 4: understand because it's it's just military is a crazy job. 616 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,720 Speaker 4: You get your parents getting deployed and then they see 617 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:05,920 Speaker 4: some stuff out there, and then they come back home 618 00:27:06,119 --> 00:27:08,040 Speaker 4: and they come back to their families. So it's just 619 00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:09,920 Speaker 4: a lot to know that they just support in the 620 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 4: family and is able to support the veterans and the 621 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:13,640 Speaker 4: families as well. 622 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,080 Speaker 2: Yeah. I love that outlook and I love that game 623 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 2: and being able to acknowledge what an amazing sacrifice your 624 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,399 Speaker 2: dad made for us and for the way that we 625 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:25,440 Speaker 2: can live. Well, on that note, Pat, thank you so 626 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 2: much for your time. Best of luck on Sunday. Are 627 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 2: your family going to be able to go? 628 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, family's gonna be here. 629 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:31,639 Speaker 3: Love it. 630 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. We'll have a wonderful rest of 631 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:36,320 Speaker 2: your week. Prep hard. Hope you get a little bit 632 00:27:36,320 --> 00:27:38,639 Speaker 2: of fishing in. But uh, but we can't wait to 633 00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:39,320 Speaker 2: see you on Sunday. 634 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:42,640 Speaker 4: We so appreciated so having me again. 635 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:45,119 Speaker 2: I know you agree with me as well, Paul. But 636 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:48,119 Speaker 2: what a great guy, I mean, Pat Jones is He 637 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,480 Speaker 2: was so awesome, just so many layers to the man, unbelievable. 638 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:53,920 Speaker 3: I'm gonna find him and tell him how impressive he is. 639 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 2: That to him a couple of ye I did. 640 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 3: I like that was great? I thought he is excellent. 641 00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 3: You man, he has five sacks in the season and 642 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:04,760 Speaker 3: he's and this isn't a shot at him. He's like 643 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 3: the third option. He admitted that, Like, he doesn't play 644 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 3: full time and he still has five sacks. It's a 645 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 3: huge accomplishment seven games into the season. He's a very very, 646 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:15,920 Speaker 3: very very good player. Yeah. 647 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 2: I think everyone has had really high hopes and expectations 648 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,439 Speaker 2: for him, and he's really living up to that most recently. 649 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,800 Speaker 2: And I'm excited to see what this defense is going 650 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:25,480 Speaker 2: to do in this Colts game. It's going to be 651 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 2: quite the environment. 652 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 3: It'll be excellent. There's nothing like Sunday or Monday night football. 653 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 2: Right, so, if you're new here, Sunday night football, the 654 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,720 Speaker 2: Vikings are hosting the Colts. It was a noon game, 655 00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 2: it has been flexed to the seven to twenty kickoff. 656 00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 2: It'll be at us Bing Stadium, presented by Lando Lakes. 657 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 2: Give me one thing you're most excited for. 658 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:48,080 Speaker 3: I'm excited to see the offense role and I'm excited 659 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,560 Speaker 3: to see how loud it gets. That's two things, and 660 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:52,760 Speaker 3: he asked me for one. But I'm also excited to 661 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 3: see the pass rush get back on track and get 662 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 3: after the quarterback. 663 00:28:56,160 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm excited to see this team return to form. 664 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 2: I think that you know, that five day stretch was 665 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 2: really tough on them, but they had a little extra 666 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 2: time to you know, rest their bodies, rest their minds, 667 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,360 Speaker 2: get back to their to their stretch of games that's 668 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:12,360 Speaker 2: coming up, which is three straight AFC South teams. I 669 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:15,400 Speaker 2: think that they can correct the situation and get back 670 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:19,200 Speaker 2: to their winning ways before maybe facing some more difficult teams. 671 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,080 Speaker 2: And I think it all begins on Sunday night. 672 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 3: Correct. I agree with everything you said. 673 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, I appreciate that. Welcome well, Paul, thank 674 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 2: you for being on Bikes podcast this time around. Can 675 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,480 Speaker 2: we see you for future episodes? That a little deal. 676 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, if you like me on this, you can listen 677 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:35,760 Speaker 3: to me on the Partrip Morning Show on kfa N 678 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,480 Speaker 3: or the iHeartRadio app. We were on Live five thirty 679 00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:41,800 Speaker 3: to nine. And it's just not my and it's not 680 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:43,200 Speaker 3: just my annoying voice. 681 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 2: No, there's a few other annoying Yes you are will 682 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:46,320 Speaker 2: you said it? 683 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 4: Not me. 684 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,600 Speaker 2: I'm just chazy, all right. Thank you Paul so much. 685 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to the Minnesota Vikings podcast and we 686 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 2: will talk to you guys next week.