Vikings G Dalton Risner - The Faith & Goal Podcast w/Paul Allen

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Episode Transcript

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Must be done. Then here's thehost of faith and Gold, the voice
of the Minnesota Vikings, Paul Allen, and faith and Goal forty one is

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in the air. And when Isay on my nine to noon k fan
show the spirit in the building thelast couple of years is palpable and terrific.
Of course, faith and goalers andor Christians know the reference is that
of the Holy Spirit. You know, when the Minnesota Vikings were thirteen and
four in playoff bound, the spiritwas terrific. The Holy Spirit always there,

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but the spirit in the building wasterrific. They just finished seven and
ten and the spirit of emotion inthe locker room after the finale was that
of losing a massive game like aplayoff game or something. And this is
a seven and ten team. Thoseguys just love each other, ma'am.
And in my last two years beingnext to this team calling games have been

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two of my absolute favorite of allthe years that I've called. I mean,
sure, the seven and ten fourquarterback trick is not preferred, it's
how they handled it. The fingerpointing and backstabbing, an obsession with what
others make or do or or notdo it. That was eliminated for the
most part, and it's just amazingthat there's prayer at twin Citi's Orthopedics Performance

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Center in hallways, the field house, the locker room, also chapel nights
before games, and just an awesome, awesome collection of Christians roaming that building.
Just love it and just love thema recognition God's will is supreme.
The purpose frequently is undefinable, butis not to be second guest. That's

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what the Bible teaches. I becamecloser with many of them through prayer,
chapel, and of course the HolySpirit. People like ty Chandler, Lewis
Sene, Brian Flores, Garret Bradbury, Kirk Cousin, c J Ham,
cam Binham, Harrison Phillips, defensiveassistant Lance Bennett, personnel Guy Ryan Grigson,

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Nick Mullins, Nick Muse, JoshOliver, Ben Ellison, Tyler Williams,
the executive director of Player Performance,Josh Hankst who runs a strength and
conditioning and much more, and severalothers I missed those prayers and inspirational chats
already. Another to join the Covenantwas offensive Lineman Dalton Roisner, a four

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year starter for the Denver Broncos.Reisner joined the team week two, waited
a month to play, then start, did every game the rest of the
way. That man glows God andshared with me after the season ender at
Detroit, this has been the mosttrying year of his life. He's like,

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quote, nobody wanted me. Mymom tried to commit suicide, and
it's been very difficult for my marriageand personal life. End quote. Only
cow Reisner is a Christian, solet's comfort him and hear his story.
Faith and goal starts now Faith andGoal. Hey, A pleasure praying with

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you all season. Man. Ijust I'm really thankful God put you in
Minnesota, Dalton. I'm so gratefulthat me and my wife were in Minnesota.
The times here, the memories madeeverything about the organization and the people
that I've met, including yourself,with such a blessing. I'm not trying

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to talk too much with a questionthat you didn't ask, but God knew
what he was doing bringing me inWhitney to Minnesota, and man, was
it a blessing and a redemption storywithin itself. So thank you, buddy.
Being able to pray with you beforeevery game always calmed my nerves,
always reminded me who I was,what I was and what I was worth,
and get kept that fighting spirit mebefore games. So thank you so

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much. Funny. The memories withyou this year will be memories I carry
for a long time. The HolySpirit is a powerful force and off that
you know when it's God, JesusChrist and the Holy Spirit, the Trinity.
Was there a time in your lifeChristianity just overtook you and overtook anything
in your life? And if so, what was that? Oh man,

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When you believe in Jesus Christ andyou can attest to this and so many
people can, is your faith Christianity? The Holy Spirit will take over in
so many different and sometimes when weleast expect it. And I was doing
an interview yesterday and I said,sometimes when you just get punched in the
mouth and something that you least expecthappens to you, those hardest times in

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your life are the times when yougrow and the one true person. If
if us humans could choose, wewould never choose to go through adversity,
because adversity sucks. I would neverchoose to go through what I went through
with my family this last year.I would never choose to not be picked
up in free agency and not getthat dream contract and all that. Like,

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I would never choose that. Butwhen those things hit me and those
things happen, that's when God goesto work the most. God knows us
better than we know ourselves. Godhas plans and a hope for our future
that's bigger than we could ever imagine. Sometimes in our young mind, we
think, I know what's best forDalton, I know what's best for me,

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and I know when it's right forme. And guess what if it
were me, I would do thingsso much differently. I would be instant
gratific, all right. I wouldlike this now and I deserve this now.
I'm just so glad that we havea God, a savior, Jesus
Christ, someone that died on thecross for us in that loves us so
much that they know God, theHoly Spirit Jesus, they know what's best

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for us. They know when it'sbest for us as well. And I
know that's kind of long winded,but the Holy Spirit, Christianity, my
faith is so important to me andit takes over my life in so many
different areas all the time. Icould tell you story after story where I
felt like they took over. Butyeah, that happens in life a lot.

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The locker room in totality after theLions game, all right, I
mean it's a seven and ten season, and you know it was a three
percent chance that you guys would makethe playoffs even if you beat the Lions
and it didn't happen. And theemotional wherewithal of that locker room, quite
honestly, after a season with alosing record is something I've never seen in

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all the years I've called Minnesota Vikingsfootball. And as I said before you
came on the like on my kFan radio show, I'll say, the
spirit in the building is as goodas I've ever seen. On Faith and
Goal, i would say the Holyspirit in the building is as good as
I've ever seen in all my yearscalling Minnesota Vikings football. And and you

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have a lot to do with that. And you know after that Lions game,
Man, when I sit down,I sat down next to you and
put my phone in front of you. We nearly cried together when you told
me how difficult this year has beenfor you. And let you landed here
week two, so let's begin there. When you told me nobody wanted you

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what does that mean? Well,first of all, yeah, man,
that was awesome moment after the Lionsgame. Glad that we were able to
reconvene and chat more today. Andby that is a lot of teams want
of me in the NFL. Alot of teams. I'd say up to
sixteen differents wanted me and they allbut now that the seasons over is awesome

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because I can talk about this,But they all wanted me for you know,
not the contract that I wanted.It was you know, leading minimum
with some incentives. It just wasn'tjust wasn't what I wanted. And I
think that was because of how lateit was in the process. And yeah,
there were offers way back in Marchand April that were better, but
I felt like my work was better. So that's the whole story within itself.

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If I could go back, maybeI'd take one of those offers,
because waiting it out ended up notworking for me. But you know what,
it did work for me because that'swhat God had written and that's what
led me to Minnesota. That's whatled me to starting eleven games as in
Minnesota Viking and my fifth year inthe NFL being the best year in the
NFL for me, and I'm sograteful for that. But what I meant

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by that was I had played fouryears in Denver Paul, and I felt
like as a four year starter wassixty two games ineath my belt going into
free agency all the articles, whateveryone was saying is, you know,
a Dalton risers one of the topthree, and I never got that big
contract offer and a lot of otherguys were getting getting paid and I just
felt like that dream of getting pickedup for that contract just didn't happen for

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me, and I felt like everyonethere was a million different things. Some
people were saying it was because Iwasn't as good as I thought I was,
or some people were saying it wasbecause I injured the year with the
injured elbow, or some people weresaying it was because I pushed my quarterback
last year at one of not thebest moments for me, and I let
my emotions get the best of me. And I know I'm not perfect,
but it was just hard because Ididn't really know what was going on or

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why it was going on, andI tried to find answers, but I
couldn't really get them. So whenI got here in September, and I
had waited, and I had toldteams no because I didn't like the offer.
They had gotten to a point whererosters were set, people were going
into the season, and I feltlike I was just thrown away and tossed
to the side. Some may say, well, that's not true, because

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you know you told them no backin March or April. Well, you
know I did. But it stillfelt like I still felt like just the
NFL didn't value me like I believedin myself or even close to how I
believed in myself, And along withthe stuff going on in my family,
it just felt like two really importantpillars in my life, football and family.
I was really just crumbling down ontop of me things that I had

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relied on and loved since I canremember in my life. And that was
really, really hard. So Ithink the reason I got emotional about talking
about being picked up by the MinnesotaVikings, I'll be honest with you.
It wasn't the contract I wanted,It wasn't the timing I wanted in the
second week of September, it wasn'tthe dream come true. But if I

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could do it all over again,I want to change a thing because God
knows what he's doing. I've workedall things for good. Me and my
wife are closer to Jesus into eachother, and we would have been if
we got it. Got the perfectcontract back in March and been one of
the top three agents. We mademore memories here and built such a stink
and testimony to some of the hardesttimes in our life when we had to

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rely on Jesus and really stand trueto what faith means because of Estimately we
went through. So yes, Ididn't feel like anyone wanted me, but
coming here to Minnesota, God knewhe was doing with that redemption story.
Pa. The only time in mytwenty two calling Vikings games I've cried after
a football game was after the twothousand and nine NFC Championship game when we

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lost a really emotional game at NewOrleans and Brett Farv hugged me in the
locker room after the game, man, And you know, it was a
very tearful, emotional locker room witha lot of young players like Sidney Rice,
Percy, Harvin, Adrian Peterson justreally looking up to Brett. And
I'd never seen anything like Brett Farvthat nine season he was here and when
he hugged me, man, itrendered me to tears until after this Lions

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game when when you and I weresitting next to each other and I almost
broke down in bald Man when youtold me that your mom tried to commit
suicide. And when you told methat, I just I found I don't
know if I said this there,but I want to say it here that
I'm just super sorry that you,your wife, and your family are dealing
with that. I can't even imaginethe difficult, mental and heartfelt times you're

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going through right now. Dalton.Well, you know, I really appreciate
you saying that. Pee at thesame time, the battle that my mom
has been going through is so muchgreater than you know the pain for me,
even though it has been hard.But you know, I just want

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to publicly say that, you know, mental health, depression, addiction things
are really real, and a lotof people out there know that they're real.
But there's some people that still don'tknow how real they are, and
they still believe that you know,those aren't diseases, but they are,
and it has really gotten the bestof my mom, The same mom that

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you know told me who Jesus was. She told me who Jesus was.
She was taking me to church,she was Sunday school. She was telling
me I was loved, I wasenough by this man named Jesus, this
guy that died on the cross forus. And she's the one that did
that. And she's at a pointin her life where, you know,
us count here in Minnesota. Wehaven't been able to be as close with
her. But her and my fatherdid get a divorce. They're marriage for

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thirty years. That's very, veryhard on a family. You know,
I got four brothers as five boys. Life was, life was, It
was the perfect going up. Youknow, you got all these brothers and
mom and dad been married forever andthey got married at like eighteen years old,
and they stuck it out through thehard times and we were broke and
had snakes in our house and Chris'spresident dropped off on our doorstep. And

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they got they grinded, and theydid everything right and they raised kids the
right way, and they worked hardand defeated a lot of odds and did
it while being committed to each other. And when when a marriage like that
ends really hurts the family. Andwe just we just continue to have to
let Jesus be in the middle ofour family because that's that's the one true

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king that can bring you know,everyone together. Because there's obviously a lot
of different opinions on how things wentdown, and the addiction with my mom
has been really, really hard forher, and I think it's something that
she continues to battle with and fightand obviously it's led to times where you
know, I shared with you afterthe game and that's very very close to

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my heart and hard stuff to talkabout, and you know, me,
my wife, uh, we're thereto witness some of that and that that
that's stuff that you don't you don'tjust forget about and makes you realize how
precious life is. And the hardestpart about it is is you know that

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all that was going on while Iwasn't getting picked up. So you can
imagine why I am so passionate abouthow much of a redemption story this year
was, because I mean, youknow, in life, you know,
my wife and Jesus come first,and Jesus comes first and then my wife,
but family and football are pretty closeto right after those two, Like

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they are very important to me asthey are to you and as they are
to millions of other Americans across thisworld. And I'm not just a fan
of football. I play it.This is my career, this is my
livelihood. I came from a oneA school where I called college teams every
Saturday for three hours. I wentto fifteen camps the summer. I didn't
have schools coming through to find outwho I was. The reason I share

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this is because football is very importantto me. I worked very hard to
be where I'm at. I'm nota five star ESPN Top three hundred guy.
That's not me. I wasn't draftedfirst overall. I wasn't drafted in
the first round. Like man.I have had to grind to get to
where I'm at. Jesus Christis hadto bless me. A lot of people
have had to help me. Andthat football dream came crumbling down. Well

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after being a starter for four years, I saw it slipping away. I
questioned if I was going to playagain. I questioned if I was going
to be a starter in this leaguewhen I first showed up to Minnesota,
because I was on practice squad forthree weeks. All the while where I
feel like the family's broken up.I don't know how healthy my mom is
worried about is the last time Italked to are going to be the last

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time. I'm worried about how myfather is doing. I'm worried about my
brothers. And it's been so ongoingthat I haven't talked about this part of
the first time I've talked publicly aboutsome of those things, and I feel
like it's really a part of mystory and my testimony, me and my
life, both of ours, andI think it's important that I'm able to
share it and show everybody that it'sokay if you're going through this, and

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you're not the only one, ifyou know someone in your family, or
this is what's happening to your family, whether it's divorce, whether it's addiction,
whether it's suicide, Like, theseare real things that are really,
really hard, and as a man, it takes a strong man to be
able to talk about it. Itdoesn't take a strong man to bottle it
up. And I know that Iwent on and on there, but those

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things have been really hard. That'swhy I was so grateful for what we
were able to accomplish this year.I say we because me, Whitney and
Jesus are a threefold courts, justlike it says an Ecclesiastics four twelve,
and we believe in that threefold court. And man, man, I just
want to give high fives around thehorn to my wife and Jesus and you
and people in our lives that stuckwith us because it was there were some

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dark times, but we knew Godwould bring us out and he sure did,
man in a big way. It'sa boy and his mom, I
mean. And my mom died intwo thousand and six and I still miss
her to this day. Dalton,is there is there anything? Is there
any more you or we the listenersare myself can do to help your mother?

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Oh? Man, I just prayfor her. Man. My mom
is like I told you guys,She's was always the one growing up that
that said that the type of peoplewe were, the type of men that
her boys grew up to be,was much more important than what we would
be. And she always has beenmore proud of me for who I am
as a man than who I amas a football player. And she's an

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amazing person. She just she's hadthis, she's had this looming over her
where she's continuing to fight it andI just pray all the time for her,
that that Jesus continues to fill herheart and remind her how loved and
worthy she is, no matter what'shappened in the past, no matter what
people may say, what may happen, you know, I just she just

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deserves more love and she she's veryhard on herself. And I think the
more and more prayers that are sittingtowards Mama Reisner and for for Jesus to
overtake her heart and fill her withthat presence and that joy that we know
he has is what's most important.So I surely appreciate you to ask a
man, and we're not going togive up. We're not going to give

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up. We're going we're going tocontinue a fight. We're going to continue
to push through and give it toGod because we know he's the one true
potter. There's this song and youneed to listen to a pa it's called
More Like You by Todd Gelbert andit is incredible. It's a ten minute
song actually is kind of like asermon within the song, and it talks

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about there's one true potter in thisworld. There's a ton of potters,
right, there's a ton of pottersthat'll make a pottery everything. But there's
only one true potter that can makesomething out of nothing. You can give
him play that has been burnt,has been turned to dust, that has
crumbled on the ground, and hecan make it into something. A lot

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of potters, most every other pottercan't look at it and say it's unusable.
I can't use it. It's tooburnt, it's too dry. It
needs this, it needs that.There's one true potter that no matter how
broken you are, no matter howdestroyed you are, how messed up you
are, there's one potter that canmake you into something, even if you
feel like nothing. And I listento that song all the time because my

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mom and a lot of other peoplein this world, they think that they
are unusable, and they think thatthey are so broken and too far gone
that they aren't loving, that theyaren't worthy. We want to know.
The one amazing thing about the Saviorthat we follow is that he loves us
no matter how broken we are.He uses us no matter how broken we

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are. He always loves us nomatter how far away from him we get.
And that's what makes him so special. He doesn't care if Dalton wakes
up and prays to him all yearin twenty twenty four, and Joe from
the street, off the street doesn'tpray to them, all to us,
but he loves us the same.He's matter works type of God. In

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fact, I do. It's intoa chapel before the Detroit Lions game.
I seem to remember someone, Oh, yeah, it was you talking about
It's not about works. Act isjust about believing in him. It's just
about believing in Jesus Christ, whathe did for us on the cross,
and his father and the always spirits. So I appreciate you, man' that's

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very nice to you to say.It was an unbelievable honor to do chapel
for the players and coaches and staff. And you know, like I said
when I began, man, today'smy fifty eighth birthday, and God has
given me the greatest birthday gift I'veever received, the opportunity to share what
I love most, the Bible anda belief in Jesus Christ with you guys.
And then we just took off andI just really really enjoyed it,

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and I'm glad you did. Nowtell us about your wife, Whitney and
I assume it was her. Isaw you hug before the Lions game before
you and I prayed with those twoLions fans. Yes, sir, that
was That was my wife, mycolor wall whiley. But her name is
Whitney. I made her Whitney Reisneron June nineteenth, twenty twenty two.

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So we're coming up on our secondyour anniversary here in twenty twenty four,
which is really crazy to even say. Whitney. Marie is from Chula or
Chilla Coffee, one of those two. She's kind of in between both Missouri,
which is about six hours south ofwhere we're not here in Minneapolis.
So during by week we drove downsix hours south and saw her family and

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she grew up in Missouri. Littlebasketball player, you know, I played
multiple sports, ended up playing basketballfor Hay State University. Her dad the
soybean farmer. Her mom's a teacher, has an older brother as well.
When she played at Fort hay State, I played at Kansas State. So
I saw this curly haired girl comeplay at Kansas State, and away we

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went. Man. I tried totry to talk to her, but she
was taken at the time, andyou know it give me some time,
but God finally gave me an openingto try to win her over, and
that's what I did, and Ithink we have. I think we officially
met in twenty nineteen in the summer, So I think we're coming up on
my five or six years of knowingeach other, but knowing of each other

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probably seven seven years. And asI tell you, this timeline is crazy
how quickly time flies. But meand Whitney did long distance my rookie year
in the NFL and continue to dateand eventually getting inkates in my third year
going into my third year in theNFL, and like I said, married
in twenty twenty two. She's mybest friend. She's an amazing person.

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She owns her own jewelry business calledWawi's Jewelry. She also has from TikTok,
which a lot of people knew herfor with. I think she has
over a million followers on and posta lot of game day stuff And she's
definitely the one person that I cansay has always been there for me throughout
my ride in the NFL, atgames, not missing the game, using

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money that she works hard to makefrom her jewelry business to travel to watch
me and support me. And gethotels and flights and nick memory and obviously
she coordinates when everyone comes to townand getting them sideline passes and postgame passes
and watching the game. And tosum it up, she's my best friend.
And you know, I said thatin the locker room this year.

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I also believe as a man it'simportant to be vocal about how do you
feel about your wife. There's toomany people out there that want to downplay
that they don't want to go homewith their wife and all this. Well,
guess what. On the opposite,I love going home to my wife.
She's my best friend, man,love her to death. She's twenty
five years old. I'm twenty eight, so she's a few years younger than

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me. She just turned twenty fivein December. I can keep on rolling.
But yeah, those are a lotof facts about my wife. Dalton.
Your faith is so strong man,and I just recognized that the first
day I met you on the sidelineat US Bank Stadium. And you are
a vulnerable man. Yet work ajob requiring physicality and mashing on man,

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the defensive lineman, linebackers, whatever. How do you mesh that? How
do you make that work? Beingsoft hearted and vulnerable in nature, yet
violent and physical professionally. It's agreat question. I have always believed that
there's something called a switch. It'ssomething my dad taught me at a young

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age, and I believe as aChrist's father and someone that loves Jesus,
it's very important for me to beunapologetically Dalton. I just did exit beatings
yesterday with a bunch of the Vikingstaff and players, and one common thing
the hospital yesterday is how I broughtto the table just who Dalton was this

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year, and I was just meand I didn't wasn't anybody that I wasn't.
I came into a very hard situationwhere I came in here and they
had an entrenched left guard that beenhere for four years. And I could
have been someone that I wasn't,or tried to act like someone I wasn't,
or overcompensated to do whatever this year. But I was just I was

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just me the whole year. AndI think that that is so important when
it comes to loving Jesus and tryingto set an example, because Paul,
I don't I don't want to haveto talk to someone about a Bible verse
or beat him over the head ofthe Bible to tell him about Jesus.
I've always told myself that, andit says in the Bible even that people
should be able to see a differencein you. People should be able to

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walk on the sideline, watch metalk, watch the way I carry myself
and say something's different. I wantto know that Jesus guy that he knows.
So you ask about that side ofme, and that side of me
is just who I am. I'msensitive, I love, I wear my
heart on my sleeve. I'm vulnerable. I believe in being who Dalton is.

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I don't believe in being someone I'mnot. Most guys that are have
a beer and play in the NFLand are often the wmon. They like
to drink beer. They like theirdogs, and I like to go hunt.
I hate beer. I like catsmore than dogs, and I don't
want to go hunting. I wouldrather get a massage. So guess what,
I'm not going to be anyone thatI'm not. I'm okay. I

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love who I am and how Godcreated, But when it's time to play
football, that goes away. Youdon't have to be an a hole on
the field and cuss and not bea rep representation of Jesus because I believe
that you should. Still, thatdoesn't mean that I have to be friendly
and telling everybody I love them.There's a time to play football, and
when I step on that field,the switch goes off. And that's my

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job. That's how I put foodon the fight for my family. That's
how I represent my last name.That's how I use my platform to impact
others in a positive way. That'show I use my platform to show Jesus
to the world. And I needthat platform to do a lot of those
things. I think it's very important. So when I step on that field,

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I realize how important it is.It's not a game. It's not
for fun. No matter what peoplethink, it's not a game. It's
not for fun. You can havefun and after you can say that was
a fun game, but it isa job, and I take that job
very seriously. It is not justfor fun. It's not just a game.
I sorry, I said it threetimes, but I take it seriously.

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Think of Minnesota Viking starting at leftguard from the Minitial banking is a
job and it means a lot tome. And zero point one point zero
zero zero zero one percent of wellgets to do it. I know that
point zero zero zero one percent awhole new percentage I don't even know is
actually a starter. So I takeit very, very seriously, and I

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guess that's how I separate it iswhen you take it so seriously and you
view it that way. There's atime to have fun and be who you
are and when you're doing your joband that's your career and that's what you've
dreamed of since you're a kid.It's time to be Dalton, who's going
to be physical and try to movea man from point A to point B
against his will in the run game, or keep a man from getting to

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my quarterback in the past game.I you know, with the with the
chapel Saturday night before the Lions game, with the theme being trust and trust
in the Bible, and you knowwith tewod Peter one verses sixteen to twenty
one, that was the a topicfor the preach. But you know,
I went through some other passages andI went through one and not only was

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it the first passage that really bowledme over four and a half years ago
from the Gospel of Matthew, butyou know, and looking at you when
I was going through it. Ijust I know it hit you hard.
And after Sunday, when you andI had that locker room chat, I
was thinking about that passage in yourmom It's chapter eleven Versus twenty eight to

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thirty in the Book of Matthew,and it goes, come to me,
all who are weary and burdened,and I will give you rest. Take
my yoke upon you and learn fromme, for I am gentle and humble
in heart, and you will findrest for your souls. For my yoke
is easy and my burden is light. Now I pray that for your mom

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my, ma'am. I mean withthe addiction, she's weary, she's burdened,
and she's heavy laden. And indeed, in Jesus she will find rest
for her soul. And how aboutthis, He didn't let God did not
let the evil of addiction and orsuicide ended for her. That's big.

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He protected her. Man. Doesshe realize that that she was protected by
him and not permitted to die whenshe did what she did? Well,
man, it's you're so right thatverse. Come all who are weary,
and I will give you rest inpeace. Put your yoke upon me.

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In a nutshell. I think ofthat versus I'm your protector, I'm your
sake. So you're tired, andyou're scared, and you're weak, and
you don't know what to do.Come to me, come to your dead,
Let me give you a hug,Let me tell you I love you?
And Wow, how awesome is itthat we of a god that's like
that? How incredible is that thatwe have something and someone to believe in

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that there's nothing that we can doto earn more of his love, and
there's nothing more that we can doto lose his love. You can't lose
his love and you can't earn it. It's just there. Yeah, we
live. We live in a worldwhere I have to earn my coach's respect
every day and I have the chanceof losing it. I have to earn

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the world's respect or I could losethe world's respect to be a starter in
the NFL. But we have agod that doesn't And I want my mom
to remember those things. I can'ttell you that, I for sure know
that she does, Paul. Imean I can tell her that I remember
telling her that I remember saying,because if you really want to know,
man, it's it's it's a crazytestimony. It was. It was blizzarding

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in April, and me and Whitney, we have spent a lot of our
first year of our mare really pouringin to my mom and she needed it,
and God later on our hearts todo. So. There were some
of those nights where you know,you just want to enjoy time with your
wife. And I was leaving mypastor's house from a church in Denver called

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Plum Creek. It's an amazing pastor, Pastor Doug Miller, and we had
dinner with him that night. Andthis was in April. I remember the
Baltimore Ravens called that day and we'retalking about how the Baltimore Ravens called and
just enjoying dinner. It was blizzardingin April and we were going home and
Whitney said, we haven't heard fromyour mom. I think we need to

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go see her. She's in anapartment ten minutes down the road. We
tried to get her a place whereshe could live close to us, and
I said, no, just gohome tonight, right, just go home.
I just want to go home withyou. She said, we need
to go check on your mom.Something's telling me, you need to go
check on her. It's usually abouta ten minute drive. It's about thirty

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minute drive because of the snow.And we walked in on her trying to
commit suicide, both of us.Both of us saw it, and if
we had it, she wouldn't behere. I'm not talking. I'm not
trying to make me and my wifeseem like to hear. What I'm trying
to say is Jesus is real.Jesus speaks through us. Jesus spoke to

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my wife. Jesus wanted my momalive. And I tell her that said
Mom. There is no other explanation. There is no reason that we had
to go. There's no reason thatthat Whitney forced us to go that night.
Because Jesus has a plan for you, and Jesus loves you. And
I will always repeat that to her, and I hope that that thinks,

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and maybe it has. But hehas a plan for her, and he
loves her so much. And it'sjust cool to sell that story, even
though it's such a hard story totalk about, just because I feel like
it just it reveals God and hislove and his plan. I can't wait
to meet Whitney. I can't waitto meet your mom. And I assume

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you live in You're you're from Wiggans, Colorado and you played for the Broncos.
Do do you live in Colorado?Like in the off season? Well,
you know, I was drafted toDenver, so I had a house
there. This last free agency period, we didn't really know where to go,
so we just stayed there until Minnesotapicked us up. So I'm technically
a free agent again, so we'regoing to go back to Colorado be based

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out of Parker, Colorado, whichis where we have our house, and
unfortunately have to hinder free agency.See again, unless the Minnesota Vikings try
to resign me, which would beawesome. I'm going to say that again,
which would be awesome. That butyou know, that's where we're going
to be out of until we seewhat we're going to be for season.

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Is is Parker close to Bolder becausemy daughter goes to school in Boulder?
Oh heck yes, go Buffs baby. Parker is probably an hour and fifteen
minute. Oh that's great, Alps. Yeah, it's about It's a little
bit southeast to Boulder, about hourand a half. Not too bad.
Yeah, it's my favorite place togo in the world, you know,
since you started going to school theretwo and a half years ago. If

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you're ever in Colorado, you hitme up. I saw you when we
were in Denver, and I haveto give you props. You looked like
a full on Colorado dude. Iremember seeing you with your daughter and you
had the cap on and you justlooked like you belonged in Denver. I'm
like, this guy got the swag, man, So I'll give that.
Yeah, I get back there.The radio station and the iHeart family is

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nice enough to let me do doradio shows from Koa, just just just
outside of Denver, So I'll dosome radio shows there and I get back
there this time of the year generallythree, four or five times. So
it's a cinch that I get upto Parker, you get down to Boulder,
and that we see each other.And I mean, if you know,

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it's like the Bible teaches is,you know, we do the best
we can to not worry about tomorrowbecause we have enough going on today.
But if I were to pin youdown, man, and an answer of
I don't know is fine, doyou think you'll be here next season?
Because I really really hope you areman. I can tell you this,

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I want to be and I amconfident in saying that I want to be
in Minnesota. The only reason Ihave to give you I don't know is
because I mean, with how freesencywent last year. I mean, I
was in fantasy for seven months.I mean, I wish I knew.
I know the Vikings, I knowthe Vikings like me, but I think
that there's some bigger guys on theroster that are more of a priority.

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And I think rightfully so Kirk Cousins, Justin Jefferson. I mean, those
are those are some really you knowstaples in the Minnesota Vikings team that I
think they need to get figured out. So I don't know, I mean
I hope so I want to bea part of what they have going here.
I think it honestly depends on ifthey get Kirk done, what their

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plans are there, if they getJustin done, what their plans are there.
And there's a lot of guys thatare kind of ending up their contracts
with the Vikings this year. SoI guess what it depends on is how
well do they think I played andhow much do they really value me?
Do they have their guy eye ona guy in the draft. Do they,
you know, want to get adifferent free agent or do they think
that I'm a good fit. Andthat's really what I'm waiting to find out.

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And most likely if I get toMarch and I haven't heard from them,
then it's probably a good sign thatthey're not planning on keeping me,
and it'll be no hard feelings.I'll always be blessed with this year.
But I'm crossing my fingers that Ihear from them before then. Dalton Reisner,
I love you, ma'am, andthank you for trusting me and letting
me in. And it's a pleasureto call you. It's an honor to

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call you friend. Man, it'san honor to call you one. Bro.
I know you've got a busy day, so well, I'll send you
a text and we'll chat later.But thank you so much for doing this
with me and talking about Jesus andthis is great stuff to talk about.
And also, please hit whenever youget some time. I'd love to be
able to get a copy of thisor segments of it or whatever it is.

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Man, say and honor. Yeah, it's a cinch. Thank you,
brother, See you later, Loveyou Dalton Reisner on Faith and Goal
forty one, produced by Eric Northquistand I'm Paul Allen. Thank you very
much for listening.