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Speaker 1 (00:00):
With Pete Bursich, analyst Vikings Radio Network joining me now,
and of course he did a couple during the bye week,
which I appreciate. You can search on YouTube Pete Bursich
five six all one word or Eye in the Sky
but the Eye in the skypot video podcast that he
does via YouTube. With these breakdowns, Pete, I've already I've

(00:22):
already got two different directions that I want to go
in this conversation and with my thought process with Philly
around the corner. But I do want to start here
the team out of the by team getting healthy. Just
what happens during a bye week when so many people
are down. Man, we're trying to open practice windows. We're

(00:43):
hoping Cashman's back, Van Ginkle in this neck. We know
about the kid QB's ankle, the running back Aaron Jones
might be back. Like how in some ways despite it
being a break How hectic or chaotic can it be
during a week like that where everybody's hurting and trying
to get healthy.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Well, I mean that's that's kind of what during the
bye week. You just let everything go, let everybody go,
You do it. You know, you have a little bit
of work to do. But it's not until today, maybe
even tomorrow, that you really start to take a look
at those guys to see if they are ready to
come back. And you have to because today starts the

(01:26):
game planning for Philadelphia. Right. They may started a little
bit because they played on Thursdays, so you had a
couple extra days to look at everything. But for the
most part, you've got to know who's going to be
in there. You got to know who's going to be healthy,
and so you know, those decisions will be made here
over the next couple of days. And do we need

(01:46):
all of them? Yes, we need every You know, you
need every single one of those guys because this is
that stretch of games that are going to come quickly
because you've got to play Philadelphia and then turn around
and play a short week and go off to California.
So you need your rest. And again, you got to
get those bodies back. They're they're important, right, I think, Alex.

(02:09):
I mean, I think Van Ginkl is a huge part
of the of the defense in the run in regards
to the run and just how he plays the outside
tackle position. So I think he'll be a big plus.
And then you know, obviously Cashman would be as well,
especially going against a team like Philly who's lost a
couple in a row and they're gonna want to get

(02:29):
back to their roots, right, They're gonna want to get
back to on the road, simple football. I would just
expect to see a lot of Saquon Barkley on Sunday.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, what was that game in London? It just kind
of felt like Kevin O'Connell. I don't want to say
it was a complete coaching performance that that's not the
right way I'm looking at it, but just learning about
what he has and potentially what he'll have to continue
working with out of the buy, hoping we get some
good news next couple of days on the health as
we just talked about.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
But it felt like he was exhausted, Like that was.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
You know, that was maybe one of the harder coach
maybe that's the way to put it.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Did it feel like maybe that was one of.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
The more difficult or challenging coat you know, individual games
that Kevin O'Connell has coached as the headman for the Vikes.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Uh, yeah, I would, I think so. I guess that's
kind of that's a lot of what I tried to
I did point out in the in the videos, it's
just you know how that you know what the feeling
was going into that football game. Me with being down
three offensive linemen, You're going against one of the better
fronts in the you know, in the NFL, and to
come up with the running game, you know, was it

(03:41):
I mean, was it Emmitt Smith and the Cowboys back
in the nineties. No, But for what we had and
what we were able to put on the field, those
you know, those guys played very well. Joe Huber played
as well as he could. He's going against Malie Collins,
one of the are passed, one of the best I

(04:01):
think interior pass rushers in the league at this time,
and held up very well. They ran some traps, they
did a lot of different things. I think the tight
end stepped up, both PJ. Hogginson and Josh Oliver. You know,
Will Fries I think had a very very good game
as well. So the guys that you needed to step
up did Minus the two fumbles, it would have been

(04:24):
I think a much better day on the ground. But
just you could you could pick out and you can
feel and you can see and in the passing game,
in the running game, specifically things that the offense did
that coach O'Connell and West Phillips did to make things
work right, the specific types of runs maybe something that

(04:47):
we haven't seen, you know. And also in the passing game,
getting the ball to Justin Jefferson and on that end
seeing just you know, Justin Jefferson one on one with
any corner. He Carson Wentz are developing a nice little
rapport and Carson Wentz is starting to just get in
the back shoulder fade and start doing some things, you know,

(05:07):
TC Tampa two. You got JJ running out, Justin Jefferson
run down the middle of the field. You was, you know,
you're gonna throw them the football and let Jefferson make
a play, and he did a few times. So that, Yeah,
to keep those guys positive on the road in a
foreign country for an entire week, knowing you having to
fly bodies out just to get enough guys in the room.

(05:30):
You know that that part of it, I think is
pretty remarkable and shouldn't be overlooked. Especially you know that
that that game dealers. Historically, the difference between going two
and three and three and two is a twenty eight
percent better chance of making the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (05:46):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
I when I saw that number, I was I was, yeah,
it was I was amazing. It's it's some If you're
three and two, it's right around it's fifty percent, and
if you're two and three, it's like around twenty two.
And I guess in hindsight, I didn't know that going
into the game, But in hindsight, you're like, Wow, that
puts us in a much better in a much better

(06:10):
position going into this next stretch of games.

Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, and you know, without even knowing that stat though,
just feeling the urgency of what needed to take place.
And you mentioned you mentioned justin Jefferson. By the way,
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Speaker 1 (06:41):
Sue Cup Manufacturing brings you Pete with us nine to noon.
Thank you Sue Cup Manufacturing for Monday morning. Bursich, you
mentioned justin Jefferson and when we have the Eagles coming
to town and we were talking to I just think
the Eagles are their own worst enemy, where it feels
like they're the most talented team in the NFL. But
just how the big personalities can connect and come together

(07:02):
and find some form of cohesion. It's it's really hurt
him the last couple of weeks, but Justin Jefferson, whether
it's the seven different qbs that have thrown to him
the last handful of years, maybe even more potential quarterback
Carosselling taking place, him stepping up in moments and just
effectively calling game like Carson, just get it within five

(07:24):
feet to me, I will make the freaking catch. There's
no way we're losing to the Browns. I'm just impressed
when you see how some other big personalities in the
NFL comport themselves and handle adversity. Justin Jefferson just rises
to the occasion every damn time. It's it's so awesome
to watch number eighteen.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah it is. And and well, we've seen kind of
a slow start. I think to a season go you know,
going in I think going into this one three and
twenty six yards to the first four games, that's gonna
be closer the five hundred now a couple. Yeah, it's been.

(08:06):
I'm sure it's been frustrating for him, right, it's frustrating
for him because he has a different guy throwing them
the football, had a couple of different guys throwing them
the football. But you know, I Forgate, for Jefferson, it's
what can you control? You can't. You can't control who's
that quarterback, right, you can't. There's nothing you can do
about that. You have to play the hand that you're dealt.

(08:28):
And to that point, again, that's you finally saw Carson Wentz.
I think have a lot more confidence in his ability
to throw on the outside to JJ. I mean the
back shoulder fade and that final drive for twenty one yards.
I mean that he knew he was throwing. He knew

(08:48):
he was throwing that football there. And I guess so no,
I guess. My point in all this is is game
planning is important. It's gonna win you some downs. It's
gonna you know, you know, you row cam Akers in
and you get a you get a touchdown pass on
a on a wildcat. Look, but at some point somebody
has to step up right and when the vice teams needed,

(09:12):
I mean, if you just look at the great plays
that were made Jefferson was responsible for most of them,
and you got to continue that. And he's you know,
he's gonna have another good matchup I think this week.
And Dorry Jackson is is struggling their DBS. I think
as a group are struggling a little bit for Philadelphia.

(09:33):
So those matchups you have to wear out. You have
to take advantage of them, no question they.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
You know, I don't know how much headspace I mean,
I I don't think I've seen like you haven't put
out a specific podcast on it.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
Yeah, I don't. I don't see that O line.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
I do want to get to the Minnesota Moving Company
and maybe that place in the in the part of
this as well. Pete, how much headspace have you put
into the when cut? You know, what does JJ McCarthy
need to do to get back to the feet field.
Is it just merely being one hundred percent We've heard
about kind of the commitment to the plan of full
practice weeks and feeling good on that ankle. Where are

(10:08):
you at with that conversation? As I mean this, this
shoulder injury is no joke for Carson Wentz. So I mean,
do you put a eighty five percent JJ McCarthy in
because of a severe shoulder situation with Carson? Are we
talking about a brozmer cat at home against the freaking
Eagles defense? And Vic Fangio licking his chops? Like, where

(10:30):
are you at with with everything in relation to how
Kevin O'Connell is handling the quarterback position and maybe how
things could play out you know from from this point forward?

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Well, you know, I think you have That's a tough one,
you know, with it depends on how you have to
sit there and really look at how well these guys
are all feeling. And unfortunately we don't know that right,
We don't know if JJ McCarthy is a high ord percent.
I think the health, the health side of it dictates

(11:03):
quite a bit. And the other thing is that you
drafted JJ McCarthy and went into the season expecting him
to be the starter. So at some point you expect
that to be handed back to him or given back
to him to let him develop and let him be,
let him be the future of the franchise. You know,
that's that's that's a tough one because we've seen how
well Wentz has played, He's gotten better, and you know,

(11:28):
it's hit that one a guy at this stage against
this team with the guy with a you know, between
the two, you think Carson Wentz might be a little
bit better equipped just because he's he knows this team,
he's been down this road, he's played. Yeah, obviously he's
a lot more experience. You know, he knows he's experienced
enough to run a shorter, controlled, three step type passing game.

(11:52):
I just think that the offense will have to will
have to change quite a bit, and you're not going
to have the flexibility and game planning if you have
JJ McCarthy back in there. But if he's the healthiest guy,
then yeah, you got to put him back in. And uh,
if it's the two of them again, you have to sit,
sit back and go, all right, we're gonna go with

(12:15):
this guy and a quarterback A and then Brozmer. You
just you just need to be ready. This isn't a
normal just be a backup week. You're gonna get some
snaps during the week and do some different things because
you've got to be ready to have maybe all three
of them in there. Who knows right, And that's the
tough part in order. You just don't know how bad
is Wentz's shoulder. How good is JJ McCarthy's ankle, And

(12:41):
you gotta you gotta kind of go pick one of
the two. You're you know, one of the And that's
why I'm saying the earlier in the week you can
figure out who that quarterback is going to be is
essential because you have all that game planning that you
have to do. Because the offensive look does look a
lot different with McCarthy in there as opposed to Carson Wentz.

(13:03):
Not like a quantum leap in difference, but it's different enough.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
Absolutely, time for a few more here with with you, Pete.
Let me let me lay this out for you. So
I have kind of I put it kind of in
the idea that Andrew Van Ginkle is vital to this defense.
That does not mean that Dallas Turner is a bust.
Both things can be accurate. Where Dallas Turner is growing,
He's done a few good things, but we need Van

(13:28):
Ginkle back. Do you see it that way or how
do you see it where I'm just not necessarily worried
about Dallas Turner per se, but I do feel the
loss of a Van Ginkle being healthy in this lineup.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
And this next thing is quite precarious.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah, And I think a lot of it has to
do with the teams that we played. I mean, the
Pittsburgh Steelers and the Cleveland Browns. It's AFC norse right.
These guys run the football, they're very physical. They throw
an extra offensive linemen, right, they throw you know, Cleveland
throws in defensive lineman to play back. I mean, they're
very it's they're two very physical teams. And so Andrew

(14:06):
Van Ginkle and his ability to uh and then it's
just his feel for holding the edge and playing the
run is what would have been very very helpful. And
I was asked about that about just the running game
and what's going on with defensively, and it's it's kind
of a tough. It's not sexy or glamorous. It's it's

(14:29):
kind of getting a technique and feel for what offenses
they're trying to do. And Quinn, you know, Quinn Shawn
Jenkins was was very very good at kind of taking
the defense one way and then cutting back and going
the other. And he found he found him, he got them,
got himself up on some DBS and we had a
couple a couple of mistackles and that that needs to

(14:51):
improve the question about that, but Andrew Van Ginkle, I
think would would help solidify the running game quite a bit.
And he and the fact that you're saying that doesn't
take anything away from Dallas Turner. He's at an opportunity
in the last couple of weeks to play quite a bit,
and he's played. I think he's played pretty well for
the most part. And they get one of his better

(15:11):
games against Pittsburgh, so he's improving. Uh, but yeah, you
need you need that guy back, You need you need
forty three back in the mix, I think to help
show up that run. And if you get Cashman in
there as well, I mean, those two bodies right there
should will I mean, they will make a difference, and
that little bit of difference can go a long way.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
Do you think do you think Blake Brandell kind of
played himself into a spot where he's just going to
be the center until I mean, I don't know what
the status in the health situation is with Ryan Kelly
being on IR and Michael Jurgen's got his shot at
it wasn't particularly elite.

Speaker 3 (15:49):
And then he also got hurt.

Speaker 1 (15:51):
Is is this, Uh, did Blake Brandell the Wally pip
on this thing and uh and find himself into a spot.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah. I think he played well enough that you can
put him back in there and and not be uh panicked.
I mean, anytime a guy plays a position for the
first time, you know, you you're gonna panic a little
bit ter, You're gonna worry a little bit. But no,
I think he did. He did a pretty good job. Uh.
He's a big body, right, And it's it's kind of

(16:22):
like we had a saying back in college with h
with guys that would come in and then they would
be defensive linemen and they would last there for a
little bit, and then they go to the O line,
and then you can't make it on the O line
and you go to the bus line because you're getting
you know, you're on your way out. So uh, Brandella
is making that that trend closer to the center. Now
he is the center. So I think that it's you'll

(16:44):
see a lot more guys go from guard to center
than you will from center to guard or from guard
to tackle. Uh, you're right in the mix. You're you know,
you usually have help. It's very difficult to isolate a
center and pass rush lookout putting five men on the
line of scrimmage, that kind of thing. But Brandell, I

(17:06):
think Brandell did a good job. He's again, he's big.
You can't coach big, takes up a lot of space.
I thought he had a pretty good day, did some
good things. And you know, with Bryan Kelly next to him,
and hopefully Donovan Jackson getting back, I don't know what
his schedule is if we're if he's indeed going to
be going to be missing again. Then you're talking about

(17:28):
you know, Joe Hubert being back in there and Jordan Davis,
Jalen Carter, you got some you got some big bodies
coming up this week, so well it's going to be
another battle in the interior.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Yeah, just last thing for you then, and it's a Monday.
You haven't even put the full depth chart together, the
work that you put in. It's names and numbers, et cetera,
and some stats and just it's it's early week. But
just top of head, just one thing you're thinking about
with with Philly in town this weekend. We've seen them
kind of implode the last couple of weeks. Start four

(18:00):
know they've lost too straight, but just what what are
you thinking about in terms of our squad and uh
in Philly at us Bank Stadium for a noon or
on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
We're gonna need the crowd right that we need that
we need that advantage. So you know when teams like
phil when you see teams like Philadelphia struggle like they are,
it's going to be about getting back to getting back
to the basics right And for them, I think offensively,
it's going to be running, you know, running the football,
and that's why you know Van Ginkle is so important

(18:33):
to get back in there. They're going to I think
they're gonna lean pretty heavily on on Saquon Barkley, not
try to make it a game where Jalen Hurts is
just going to drop back because he wasn't even pressured
much against the Giants late in the game. The Giants
that pass rush kind of wore out on them. But
the Vikings can consistently rush the passer and and they're

(18:54):
gonna see film for the last couple of weeks the
teams being pretty successful on the ground. Uh So I
would assume that they're going to go back, you know,
they're going to go back to the to the running
game quite a bit. And then defensively, you know there
they got some struggles on the outside and that's why
it's on the outside of that defense, I think, and
that's why it's who plays quarterback for us is going

(19:16):
to be so imperative.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
Hey, thanks for your time this morning, my man.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Have an awesome week, and just looking forward to hearing
you sitting shotgun with Pa on Sunday for an actual
normal timed game as part of the NFL schedule. My goodness. Hey,
Keg's and eggs sounds cool. It's not that cool when
you're getting Rogers and I just want to I like
noon football games makes life easier.

Speaker 3 (19:39):
I think, Well we get.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
One and then we got to go out to LA
for Thursday, so you get one to come on, I.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Mean, just give us, I mean, just give us a break. Goodell.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
Thanks as always, man, I'll talk to you again soon.

Speaker 2 (19:51):
All right, all right, Nor'll thank you see you later.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
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All right, we'll go here, all right, per what crazy
day in the NFL as slate that didn't really look
all that exciting. The Broncos early on struggle with the
hapless Jets, that was a weird one. A backup quarterback
Jacob Brissette keeps the Cardinals alive and kind of gives
the Colts all they can handle. But the Colts eventually
win the game. I want to talk about I'll just

(23:46):
seeing the Cowboys lose. I forgot about that loss. That's
terrible for them. As Lions chiefs, we all, you and
me both want to see the Lions lose. That's good
news for everybody. But the brawl at the end, there
was fighting and of course the usual suspect and branch
punching somebody in the face. Mask just kind of a

(24:07):
weird game where it seemed like the Chiefs just had pomentum,
and it also kind of delved into who could go
for it for fourth down more especially in the first half,
because the Lions almost forced you to go for it,
and it does make the game more exciting. But I'm
happy to see the Chiefs pull out and get the
win there three and three and Rice is on the
way back.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
Yeah, it's kind of crazy.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
I mean, you mentioned Brian Branch, super talented player, but
there is a little bit of an attitude there, you see.
Well that might just be part of that defense in
what Campbell is putting together in Detroit.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
I like Brian Branch.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah, he kind of walks by and tries to I mean,
wasn't it Juju Smith Schuster. I believe Scott after him
a little bit, or at least that's what kind of
started the whole bit. Is Branch kind of struts by
or makes contact with Mahomes. Yeah, I'm watching this in
bed as I'm trying to fall as, so I had
like one eye open, but I think it was Branch either.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
Brushes or he's stiffed, like Mahomes is kind of putting
his hand out like good game, and he's.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
He just totally ignored totally ignored it, right, Okay, Yeah,
so I don't know.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
I mean, they just lost.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
I don't see like you're making Branch to sound like
he's an inherently bad or dirty player. I like the kid,
So yeah, the Bls, the Brawls, stink Chiefs, feeling good
about themselves, Lions with an opportunity then, you know, I
don't know how much does it play into it where
you know they found a way to best them a
couple of years ago. I think that was at Arrowhead

(25:34):
as well. I don't know, I don't really read. That
just feels like attitudes flying high. I mean, that's just
that's just kind of what it feels like to me.
No big deal. There is a big deal from a
divisional standpoint to knock down the Lions just a peg.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
There's still foreign two.

Speaker 1 (25:49):
You feel because of the tie, like you're you're one
of those guys. You're one of those if the playoffs
started today type of people. Yes, where I mean that
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Speaker 3 (26:14):
Just sit together if the playoffs started today. Oh Jardan
loves a division champion.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
You love doing that, You absolutely love doing that.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
It's probably part of your.

Speaker 1 (26:24):
Most recent episode of Packer Review with Dave Sinekan. It
makes a cameo. I just I love how muddy this
division is. And we got a tough one in front
of us with the Eagles. But just you know, even
even the Bears Bears in Washington this evening, I believe,
you know, obviously go Commanders, That's that's clear and obvious,

(26:45):
hoping that they knock them to two and three. But
I mean, just crazy how things have panned out now
the Niners, man, they're playing with house money right now.
They lose yesterday. This mac Jones thing will have an
expiration date on it. The Seahawks want to see them,
you know, in just again, three teams at four and
two in the in the af in the excuse me, AFC,

(27:07):
NFC West cards on the grind, and now this Kyler
thing popping up.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Jacoby Brissette can only take you so far.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
NFC East potentially becoming more interesting now that the Commanders
are healthy, but the Cowboys have nothing and it's it's
cool right now, doesn't this feels like soak in this
Jackson Dart cam Scataboo thing while you can. They are
going to lose games in embarrassing fashion in twenty twenty five.

(27:35):
There's nothing magical happening. Just from a pragmatic football fan standpoint,
They're great for the sport, They're super entertaining. The personality
mix there is awesome love that and Jackson Dart's fun
to watch in this bowling ball in Scataboo's super cool.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
So I dig it, I just the tin.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
The wheels are going to fall off that thing and
Dave All will be probably looking for a new job
within the next year or so. But man, it's just
it's super muddy in the NFC.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
Again.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
That's kind of what I take away from that game
is the way that I looked at the Chiefs and
just kind of the downturn.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
Everything is so hard.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
It feels like for them to find themselves over the top,
and it probably is going to be that way all year,
but they still find their way to the finish line.
And again, just a game behind a Chargers team that
is incredibly injured right now Broncos team still coming together,
still growing. You mentioned the struggles they had against the Jets,

(28:34):
who are zero and six. Aaron Glenn, by the way,
hoof that is a problem in New York.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
It's the Jets.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
So I guess maybe that's just what we came to expect. So,
but cool, cool weekend of games.

Speaker 4 (28:45):
Number two, The Wild did not have a cool weekend
of games because the home opener did not go anything
to play on a seven to four l to Columbus.
They go again tonight at Grand Casino Arena. They get
through Dowdy and the Kings the Lions. We still haven't
see what the lines are gonna look like tonight. I'd
imagine there'd be some shake up because the first line

(29:05):
was great. They produced every single goal of the Wild scord. Yeah,
everyone else not so much. So you have to not
assume but hope that maybe Boldie goes on the second
line to kind of spread the love a little bit.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Well, what's the philosophy behind that?

Speaker 1 (29:18):
You potentially ruin or change chemistry, right, But I mean potentially,
But I think Capriceov is good enough to where if
he has you know, Eck and Tarasenko, he could still
produce okay, And I think you're better off letting capriceof
do the work on the top line and maybe let
a really balanced rossy Boldie and you know who.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
Knows, maybe Ogrin let me dream, you know, a y're of.
But I don't think that's what they're gonna do. But
that's that would be my diagnosis. What do you think
of the game tonight against Drew Dowdy, who hates caprisof.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
Well, I'll be honest, it's it's very surface level for me,
just two games into the season and still trying to
get a grasp of what they do have outside of
that that high flying line right now? Man, so you
heard with Gore to open the show, just Tarasenko just plodding.
Where are you going to get without Zucarello and now Storm?
Although Sturm never really going to be relied upon as
a goal scorer. I know that I'm just speaking strictly

(30:11):
on roster depth at this stage, but the without Zucarello,
where are you going to get the goals? Where you're
gonna get the goals outside of that line as you
just laid out, and it's got to be the Tarasenko type.

Speaker 3 (30:23):
So Fiala's going to come in here.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Fiala is full of you know, vigor and and they're
going to be an absolute challenge. They're just kind of
a cool team. I kind of love. Whether it's I mean,
I don't it's not like, you know, I'm interested in
going up against McDavid on a nightly basis, but just
the just those West Coast teams, man, whether it's it's
the Kings, the Oilers to an extent because of some

(30:47):
goaltending issues that they've had historically, Like these are freaking
over games, like these are seven eight, nine goal games
that's not preferred, like giving up seven and putting fifty
shots on Elvis, not finding your way through. You did
have some power play goals, which is sweet, but uh,
but it's just gonna be It's gonna be an enjoyable game.
But Tarasenko would be one of the people that I'm

(31:08):
specifically watching. I just want to know if you still
got it, that's all I have it. Let's let's do
this because I know you put some playoff baseball and
some stuff, some bits into the mix as well, So
we will revisit this during the final hour. Because I'm
kind of pumped. You're a Braves fan, I'm a I'm
a Twins fan and both in adul drums.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
Right now.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
I'm loving the brew crew Man, and it's I mean,
it's tough. It's gonna be daunting against the Dodgers. I
think Game once tonight, and I'm sure Rob Manfred is
just super excited.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
Hey, let's have a Brewers Mariners World Series.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Although cal Raleigh big Dumper found his way with a
solo shot I think last night in Game one of
the Alcs over the Blue Jays.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
But different things, just a hunk a metal. Anyways, the
world series trophies, what does it matter? That's all that.
That's all that it matters.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
But I do want to revisit some some non Viking
centric top maybe sometime in the final hour. But next,
let's let's pause. Let's get to PJ. Fleck, head coach
Gophers football. He's going to be with us next nine
to noon. Aother fan fan, welcome back Nord to win
for PA on a Monday nine to noon and joining
us now head coach Golden Gophers football.

Speaker 5 (32:18):
P J.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
Fleck, Gopher's congratulation, congratulations coach on the homecoming w and
finding your way past Burdue Purdue on Saturday night.

Speaker 6 (32:27):
That was awesome, Nordal, I appreciate man, thanks for having
us back on the show. It was a big win
for us thanks to our entire crowd had great having
over two hundred plus a lumbback for homecoming. I think
that was really really special for us and just a
great atmosphere. And we found enough, found enough plays and
our playmakers stepped up and made those plays in the
critical moments to find a way to win. So we

(32:49):
knew we're going to be in a lot of one
possession games this year, and so far, so good with
two and ohero and one possession games within the league,
and know that there's gonna be a lot more around
the corner.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
Yeah, And that's kind of how I framed it up.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
I'm an outsider, you're an insider, but I like to
make things simple in terms of it felt like in
some ways that was like a test of will where
your squad just wanted it more, you found the answer
in the end and grinding your way to a victory.
Is it fair to sum it up or maybe that's
just too simplistic.

Speaker 6 (33:18):
Well, if you look at the stat sheet and you
took away the turnover margin. You look at it, you're like, Okay,
maybe Perdue won that football game, But then you throw
the turnover margin in there, and we win that four
to one, right, which is a huge statistic in the game.
And then I thought our players and our best players
played their best in the biggest moments during that game
when we needed it the most, whether that was Coy's

(33:40):
pick six or Carry Brown's interception, or Jonson McMillan's play
at the very end to end the game, and Drake
Lindsay's fourth down run, or James and Gears touchdown, our
special teams, s field goals. All of our guys did
what they had to do. Sometimes as a fan or
in the media or even as a coach, you look
at it through this, okay, idealistic and perfect world. It's

(34:02):
not gonna be that way. You've got to look at
it through a real world and real realistic lens, and
they're gonna get they get paid. We're all scholarship too,
they're fighting for wins. Their three losses leading up to
ours was all by ranked teams, so they were a
really good football team who could score at will. I
loved how our guys just continue to stay in there.
They stayed resilient, found a way at the end to

(34:23):
make one more play than produce. So we're very very
glad to be one to ohero and have moved on
to Nebraska.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
Well that's awesome.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
Man as is becoming custom Parker Fox in studio on
Mondays and here he is joining the chat.

Speaker 5 (34:36):
Parker Hey, coach, congratulations on the wind, super fun environment.

Speaker 3 (34:40):
Awesome to be there.

Speaker 5 (34:41):
I just want you to talk about your guy, Corey Perrich,
obviously the athlete he is, but talk about the mental
toughness of a kid who hasn't had an interception all year,
had a bunch of success early in this freshman year.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
How do you stay the course?

Speaker 5 (34:54):
How do you stay mentally locked in when you're not
making the exact plays you want to defensively, but then
you make the big one you bring to the house
to win the game on homecoming.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
So just talk about his mental toughness.

Speaker 6 (35:05):
Yeah, Marker. It's so interesting because like I think, in basketball,
you can kind of like one person out of the
five can kind of take over the game and just
keep shooting and then eventually the fall. In football, you're
part of one of eleven, right, and so I think
that what happens is when a person's not making plays
they think they should, or they're comparing stats from a

(35:26):
former year or a past year, they some people can
press and some people can go try to make a play.
And I thought a cow all of our playmakers were
trying to make a play instead of being within the
system and allowing the players to come to you and
then when they do make the appropriate play. And I
thought over the last few weeks, our big time players

(35:47):
have done that. They've allowed the players to come to
them with they stayed within the scheme, and then naturally,
you're a great athlete, so those plays are going to
be made, and when they present themselves, you got to
go make it. But if you start going above and
be on a circle on outside the scheme, that can
really hurt the football team and derail you a little
bit schematically and then give the opponent an advantage. But

(36:09):
I just love his preparation. I love his resolve and
his resiliency coming back from that Kale game. I think
he's played three really good games. And I think everybody
has this. I think I said this in my post game.
That's this superhero type mentality when somebody has a really
good year, they immediately get put in a comic book
and superhero category where good always wins out. They're always

(36:32):
going to make a play and they're always going to,
you know, end the game at USC or UCLA or
pick fix it. And why aren't they? You know, defenses
and offenses are really smart. They're they're made to allow
your playmakers to really not affect the game. And that's
what really good coaches do. But we live in this
like comic book world at times, and then if it
doesn't happen, like what's going on? So our guys are

(36:55):
just stuck to the process. Koy stuck to the process
of improvement, and I'm really proud of for that. So
we got a long way to go. He's got a
lot of development to continue to get better at. But
I do love his commitment to that process.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
Parker, and I know.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
You would prefer every game was like Northwestern State. It's
not a sweat you win by seven touchdowns, et cetera.
But how good did that final drive in the fourth
feel like? Just before the pick six? In fact, fourteen
plays seventy yards nearly seven minutes off the clock. This
was when you needed it, and you needed plays to
be made. I mean that kind of stuff just takes

(37:30):
an opponent soul PJ that kind of drive in the
fourth then you get the pick six like that drive
to be able to cash that in that had to
feel special in the moment.

Speaker 6 (37:40):
Well, it felt really good, especially in the moment. It's
all definitely better after when the game's over and we won.
But we did what we had to do to win
the football game. And I think that that's more than
any other year. I think being at Minnesota, this particular
football team, with this particular confidence conference, with the parody
that's in this league, you have to find a lot

(38:02):
of different ways to win games than just doing X,
Y or Z that you've always done, because everybody's going
to take away what you do well and there's a
lot of parody in the league, and so you've got
to find a way to execute at a high level
and to be incredibly balanced. And I don't mean fifty
to fifty. I mean doing what you have to do
to win the particular game, that particular game, based on

(38:24):
what the game's telling you. And if you look at
our two wins in the league, we had to throw
the ball we had more than we've naturally wanted to
rush the football. Doesn't mean we can't rush the football,
just the game has dictated something a little bit different
than maybe what we thought it was going to dictate.
So we've got to find a way to be more
on the attacking end and us creating the tempo of

(38:46):
the game that our opponent. But I'm really really proud
of that drive. That was a big drive for us,
the four team play drive. That's very difficult to do,
but that's why. That's what you want, and that's what
you look for in practice all offseason and as you
get towards the training camp and then week the week,
you want to be able to execute in those drives.

Speaker 5 (39:02):
Yeah, coach, as we know, and nothing is more important
than the next game. What kind of opponent is Nebraska? Obviously,
you have a really talented running back at EMC Johnson,
Minneapolis native, a good quarterback in Dan Rayola. This is
a night game underneath the lights. What kind of threat
does Nebraska poe is coming into Huntingdon Bank Stadium on Saturday.

Speaker 6 (39:23):
Well, they're a top twenty five team. I mean, that's
the threat that they are. Those rules a phenomenal football coach.
You know, I think somebody on the interview this morning
talked a little bit about their finding themselves. I think
they found themselves. I think they know exactly who they
are and I think that you know, they're one of
the better teams in our league, their top twenty five team.
Rayola has really played a tremendous football over the last

(39:46):
six weeks. And you look at his improvement from last
year this year with coach Olverson, and that just continues
to get better and better. And their defense throws a
lot at you. They blitzed a lot, a lot of
different fronts and coverages. They constantly keep you guessing, and
they've got the athletes to do it. And I think,
you know, coach Rule probably feels as comfortable as he's
ever been with the roster that he's built. And you know,

(40:07):
you'd expect to see that out of a Matt Rule
team on multiple years. This is probably exactly where they
thought they'd be. They're a ranked team and we're gonna
have to be at our best on Friday night.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Thank you so much for joining us this morning. I
know you got you got a busy eleven am hour
kicking off with members of the media, but just congratulations
on the w and looking forward hopefully under the Friday
night lights next Monday we can talk about another win.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Look forward to it.

Speaker 6 (40:31):
Guys, thanks for having us on gold Botskay Maugo, Gophers
and skull Vikes.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
Thank you. That's PJ.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Fleck, head coach Gophers football and it's twenty seven to
twenty the w over Purdue on Saturday night.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
Had to sweat it out a little bit.

Speaker 1 (40:45):
And Parker Fox in studio, thanks for thanks for hanging
out ors you do on Mondays. My man, you you
were at the game and just I'm I'm on my couch,
I'm watching it, so very different perspectives, but it's but
it's homecoming.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
I think PJ.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
PJ mentioned like two hundred plus a lum so you've
been part of many homecomings. You know how these things
work and they're festive and they're fun. It was not
fun watching whatever for a large part of that game,
just trying to figure out how to stop the run,
trying to figure out how to get your own drive going.
This is now, you know, it's kind of becoming a
talker with this team where the Gophers who are coached

(41:21):
by a guy that wants to run the hell out
of the ball, can't run the freaking ball. And then
in a span of really I mean two plays right
touchdown after I think it was was it beers?

Speaker 5 (41:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they did the shotgun celebration of course,
class with the score.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
And then on the back side of it, I think
first play of the next drive, Paris is headed in
for the lead on the pick six.

Speaker 3 (41:41):
Like how quickly that thing changed at Huntington Bank. That
was sweet. Yeah, it really was.

Speaker 5 (41:46):
It was one of those games where it was like, oh, no,
like just I've seen it before. I saw Bowling Green
come and beat us in homecoming I think maybe my
first or second year at the U. I was like, oh,
this is It's just such a fun environment night game.
The lights are bright, like said, two hundred plus a long,
and you want the guys to come out and you
want them to show out and you want them to
have a good game. And Purdue brings the ball in
the field they score it right away, and it's like, oh,

(42:08):
this could be another one of those. Yeah, but I
think you do have to look at the resilience of
this team. Obviously, like you mentioned, this is a as
we've seen PJ Flex team. They want the ground game,
they want to give it to Darius Taylor, and they
want him to run the football. Only fourteen carries for
Darius Taylor thirty two yards, not the going to aggressive performance.
But but then you look at him out of the

(42:28):
backfield six catches for sixty seven Like that's something that
makes a little bit more sense to us when we
think about Darius Taylor. But I do give the defense
a lot of credit. Only allowing three points in the
second half. I think that's kind of what you got
to look at when you're this go for football team,
is how do we win this football game? But we
only gave up three points in the second half.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
You know, it's fine, I mean completely different. You know,
you lose to Purdue. Big ten operation. That has its
negative impact, of course, but that that Bowling Green game,
Now now you got me thinking, because.

Speaker 3 (42:57):
Yeah, sorry to bring that one up. Oh well ten
something like that.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
I think the final was low scoring, but similar in
this game where Bowling Green was doing everything they could,
clomping around to let the Gophers take the game. Okay,
we've tried and it's a cute little operation, but eventually
this big ten operation is going to beat us, and
it just doesn't happen. Perdue, I mean, getting everything they

(43:23):
wanted on the ground. They actually tried to give away
the game and we actually took it this time. I mean,
just the the interceptions. I think maybe it was Carmo
that had a fumble recovery as well, he hit it early.
Just the turnover situation, and then even on that drive
that I mentioned, as good as it was, we love it.
Seven minutes off the clock, it's fourth quarter, it's go time,

(43:45):
and everyone shows up. How about this Demico Kennedy cat.
I think he had two face masks on that particular
drive alone, and so that put him. I mean, they're, like,
I gotta be honest with Perdue, very vikings, like in
their penalties, okay, very undisciplined, and in some ways that

(44:06):
cost them the game. And so the turnovers and penalties.
You know, the college game ain't so different than the
pros in the respect that you have to stay disciplined
and you got to hold onto the freaking football, and
this time our squad took it. I can actually see
some similarities between that and Bowling Green.

Speaker 5 (44:21):
Yeah, it's a very simple game, right, Nordoh it's a
very simple Yeah, there's a lot of things that happened,
And one thing I wanted to highlight that I loved
was I think they got a touchdown in the right
corner of the end zone and the kid on produced
rowing the boat, and you just love to see that
come back and bite you, similar to what Jamar Chase
had in the Packers game Packers versus Bengals game. Oh yeah,

(44:45):
the third down situation, pass breakup and then he comes
and makes it an unbelievable touchdown catch. So you love
to see guys celebrating and then kind of get thrown
back in their face. But like I said, you know,
it's a simple game and you just have to make
simple plays. And I think that's one thing I do
have to give PJ a lot of credit for, as
he had his guys willing to make the simple plays

(45:06):
in the second half and ultimately that leads to a victory.
And as as koy Perrich said in his postgame interview,
yes he made the play, Yes he made the interception.
Yes he has the legs to bring it to the house,
but that's a defensive interception. They're playing a simple zone
coverage quarterback tries to throw it over the top, doesn't
have enough loft, Cooy.

Speaker 3 (45:24):
Parrich goes and makes the play, brings to the end zone.

Speaker 5 (45:25):
So you got to give defensive coordinator a lot of
credit for that, But you also have to give PJ
and Koy, you know, for just being able to make
that kind of play well.

Speaker 1 (45:33):
And that's so I was thinking about it, and like
he said in the col game, and just kind of
referenced a lot of different people, Yeah, grip it right,
like they're trying to make the play and in some ways,
constantly thinking that you have to rise to some supernatural
occasion is is kind of a I mean, it's a
recipe for some form of disaster or at least inaptitude

(45:56):
or mistakes at a fundamental level. I only saw the
TV cop. That was just kind of a bad throw,
wasn't it. I've only seen the one angle that most
people saw. I watched it and it kind of just
looks like he didn't see Koy and he thought he
could just laser that thing in there or kind of
like you said, it didn't have enough loft.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
Yeah, it was kind of just a terrible throw. Yeah,
it was a quarterback.

Speaker 5 (46:19):
I don't I don't know, Coy's got to be there
to make but you're right, you know what I mean
is going to test the person. And we've seen it
enough times nor at all where dbacks will have the
ball in their hands and they just drop it to
the floor. That's why they're not receivers.

Speaker 6 (46:30):
Right.

Speaker 5 (46:30):
We like to make that joke, But but Coy Parritch
is going to make that play nine nine percent of
the time, and then he's got the athletic ability to
bring it to the house.

Speaker 3 (46:38):
So give him a lot of.

Speaker 5 (46:39):
Credit for that, but also a lot of credit to
the defensive coordinator for putting those guys in the right spots.

Speaker 1 (46:43):
And it's kind of crazy. We've talked about this before
with this squad, but it's like, he can't. You just
can't lose that game the other night.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
You can't.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
I mean just the way and and Cal was kind
of a frustrating moment, and Cal was game in that spot.
And even prior, I mean, you are you are in
a position to potentially go take the lead. I believe
you were down by a field goal. I think when
Coy muffs the punt, I think that's what it was.
Seventeen to fourteen they end up losing I think twenty

(47:12):
seven to fourteen, But so that was frustrating.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
You get to buy, you get the chill, and then
you start playing the schedule game.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
It's like just hold hold, serve at home and you're
finding yourself in a pretty good spot in the conference.
You can't lose that freaking game. And that's how it
felt for three quarters. It was kind of like Opening
Night against the Bears for Vikings fans. McCarthy, what are
we freaking doing here? And then three straight scoring drives
and he's NFC Player of the Week and maybe that
sadly made us forget that the other three quarters existed.

(47:41):
But man Drake and just and then Koy with that play,
like needed that w because I think Nebraska is kind
of on their.

Speaker 5 (47:49):
Way up well kind of a trap game, and Purdue,
in a sense, probably the worst Big Ten team you're
gonna play.

Speaker 3 (47:56):
Rutgers might be in.

Speaker 5 (47:57):
That conversation too, But you about Northwestern, well, northwesterns they're solid,
They're really there.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
I think they're a solid football team.

Speaker 5 (48:04):
I have obviously haven't watched enough Northwestern football this year,
but but but a good start for them. They just
got to win at Penn State. Yeah, we know the
struggles of Penn State. They got to win at UCLA.
They've kind of turned Ucla has kind of turned it
around since then. Maybe sure, But but I like that
Northwestern team. And anytime, you know, you have one of
those games where both teams love to run the football,

(48:26):
they want to dirty the ground up, you got to
go to Northwestern at the end of the season. We're
talking about an end of November type of game where
there could be some snow on the ground there on
the lake, you get the wind effect coming off the lakes.
There's a lot of other variables people, Yeah, exactly, a
lot of variables.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
But but I look at this, you know, Gopher schedule and.

Speaker 5 (48:45):
It's like oh Man, Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan State, Oregon, Wisconsin.
All games like none of those are gimmes. Even even
the you know, the Wisconsin game, that's a rivalry game.
That's not a gimme. So you have to find ways
to beat a team like Purdue. And at the end
of the day, Nordo is as we talk enough about
with any sports, it doesn't matter how much you win
by as long as there is a green W next
to that name and the Gophers found a way to

(49:07):
do that.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
Oh that's true. Now I will say this Wisconsin might
be a gimme. Yeah, that one might be a game.

Speaker 1 (49:13):
That's wrong with the Badgers. Now Iowa has a right
to go put thirty seven on them.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
I did not watch that game.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
I mean, apparently Iowa found a guy that can throw
the ball. Okay, So I have not done adequate research
to see exactly what's going on down in Iowa City.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
Wisconsin is just dreadful. I couldn't be happier about it.

Speaker 5 (49:35):
Yeah, it fires me up to And now they have
to play at home against Ohio State and that could
be if you're losing at home to Iowa thirty seven rip,
that could easily sixty rip against Ohio State. So Wisconsin
kind of in a bad position. And they keep paying
their head coach as well, so they know something we don't.
Maybe I don't know what's going on, but to look

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at the Golfer schedule ahead of them that this Nebraska
team that's coming in this is a a really solid
football team. Ye Ryola at the quarterback position, he is
an absolute stud. Throws the ball all over the field.
We've seen all the Patrick Mahomes comparisons obviously not to
that level.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
But then a guy I want to in the comparison
because Rayola himself is all his antics.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
Yeah, so it's it's antics. And I think even like
the similar.

Speaker 5 (50:19):
Haircare style, wears the same sunglasses, the whole it's it's
a little weird when you really dissect it, like when
you really go deep into like the fact that he's
wearing the same sunglasses. He does the same pregame warm ups,
he does the jumps, he's got the same cleats, like
the whole deal.

Speaker 3 (50:33):
It's it's actually kind of odd. Does he yell? I
am him? Probably?

Speaker 2 (50:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (50:37):
I mean, you know, that's kind of the saying these
kids are saying nowadays. Noordo, But a guy I want
to highlight. Emmitt Johnson, Minneapolis kid. I know him well,
he's gonna look to come in here and really go
to high school. He was a private school kid, a
gosh like a Bake or a Breck or some sort
of private school in Minnesota. Small a private school, but

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he's a Minneapolis kid. Was a basketball player as well,
so knew him from that kind of aspect more than
I knew him from the football side.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
Well, I'm gonna I'm absolutely gonna find this. I just
want to know which school that he went to. Holy
Angels Angels think he went to Holy Angels. Yeah, that's right,
that is right. Well, another high end product to come out.
It wasn't that, mister Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald, Holy Angel. Yeah, stud's
coming out of there once a generation, I mean after
if Emitt goes hof. I mean, that's two generations of

(51:30):
high end talent coming out of coming out of Holy
Angels and Richfield. Of all places, you mentioned Northwestern. How
about them getting a coach fired, by the way, I know,
I mean, I crazy.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
So two was it?

Speaker 2 (51:41):
Two?

Speaker 3 (51:41):
Three weeks ago?

Speaker 2 (51:42):
Now?

Speaker 1 (51:43):
Game day is at Penn State because Oregon's in town
and James frank Franklin's yucking it up on the stage
with the guys, and everything's great, and it's a white
out and they've won six or second consecutive prime time
white out games. Everyone's feeling good. They're in the college
football playoff a year ago. I think they just smoked.

(52:05):
Maybe it was Boise State, I forget exactly, but they
want to playoff game and everything's just kind of hunky dory,
and and they lose that game. Oregon's not bad. They
have a right to win, but then to lose, was
it Ucla they lost to the next week?

Speaker 5 (52:20):
I think?

Speaker 1 (52:20):
Right, yeah, and then and then you get beat at
home by Northwestern and now you're fired and the team
and by the way, you know there you can joke
about like golden parachutes, right, Like a CEO finds his
way out of a company and stock options and various things,
and he's just he's off to Aruba, and best of
luck to him.

Speaker 3 (52:39):
He's getting forty nine million, nearly.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
Fifty million dollars and he got fired. Like what an
insane turn of events for Penn State. And Penn State,
by the way, always kind of always kind of third
when don't you call him, you know, kind of third
because it's it's Michigan and Ohio State's world and the
rest of us in the big ten or just and yeah,
we we totally imported Oregon and maybe uscree rise. Yeah,

(53:06):
Indiana went to Eugene, I think, and got the w
over Oregon, didn't.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
I beat them.

Speaker 1 (53:10):
So there's some things that are currently changing and evolving,
not Ohio State. Michigan's got to find their way back
to the top. Oregon's Oregon. But my goodness, what a
turn of events where Franklin twelve thirteen seasons with that team.
You hit me with a stat before we jumped on
air here, Yeah, Pj's legit. The second longest tenured coach

(53:31):
in the Big ten.

Speaker 5 (53:32):
Now yeah, only uh Kirk Farriens is the only one
that's been there longer in the big time crazy.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
That is absolutely insane, kind of special thing.

Speaker 5 (53:40):
Especially to like, you know, every summer, I feel like
we hear Pj's name in oh Ucla drama or somewhere
else's drama or you know, not having the year he
was supposed to have fire drama, and it consistently turns
over Pj's back at the helm leads us to eight
to nine, to ten victories, we win a Bowl game,
like just a consistent approach. And that stat kind of

(54:04):
hit me too, where it's like, holy Hannah, second most
tenured coach in the Big ten eighteen teams. That's saying
something about what you do as a coach, and then
also the relationship and trust in leadership you have from
your athletic director Mark Coyle.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
So and this is I mean, I'm not digging deep
in the weeds here just simply enough six four six
eighty six Bratshawn Bryant KFA and text line Mark Gronowski
is the Iowa Hawkeyes quarterback and via the text messages,
Iowa still doesn't have a QB LOL.

Speaker 3 (54:37):
So okay, my intel was wrong. I thought they found
a guy that can throw.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
But regardless of challenge, a challenge anytime you're facing Farens
and the Hawkeyes Northwestern, they got a guy fired.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
Unbelievable. I love it, changing the face of the Big Ten.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
And in Signetti, I think is the guy's name down
in Bloomington in Indiana, and man, he's going to be
getting some fat cash. And we got p That's what
we got, PJ Flam. They beat Purdue Friday night lights,
Huskers are in town.

Speaker 3 (55:06):
It's gonna be a good one.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
Looking forward to it on Friday evening you're home for
Gophers football. The fan we're gonna pause, and then I
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