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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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gonna bed and look around beat, I'll kick killing us and.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We'll call it a day.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
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said all about the things money rooms.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
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Speaker 1 (00:50):
Brother? All right, here's the very latest via nine to
(01:32):
Noons page turning Tuesday endeavor. It's mad producer and yours
truly Paul Allen at Twin City's Orthopedics Performance Center and
the head coach of the Minnesota Vikings, Kevin O'Connell is
here in two hours. Minds, bodies and souls need to
be right for the eleven am today, ladies and gentlemen,
the latest part of the latest.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Ben is back.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
We're not talking about Ben Gesling, but he will be
here at ten o'clock today. Is the scribe covering the
team for the Star Tribune. Ben is back, ted in.
Ben Simms Pilford from the Pack returns to Twin Cities
Orthopedics Performance Center, where he was discovered in shrewd fashion
as a college free agent from Baylor in twenty twenty three.
(02:16):
He can play, and hopefully he can help. But this
probably also means things are negative with Josh Oliver. Yeah,
that'll be a topic with Kevin O'Connell at eleven o'clock today.
Face change is required right now. The head coaches here
in two hours. The latest. McCarthy and Brosmer were seen
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at practice yesterday and that purple clouded Warrior Carson Wentz
has hit injured reserve and is done for the season.
If the one too, the rest of the journey is
one kid into another kid, are we good with that?
If the one too, the rest of the journey is
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one kid into another kid, are we good with that?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And good morning and good morning, good with it.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Given the circumstances of what has transpired, we thank Carson
Wentz for what he offered us on the field, the
warrior and the iron man that he is. I've been
begging for JJ season to start. I did that pre
I did that during camp. Now I'm begging for it
to resume and so very happy to see number nine
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back on the field. I assume PA, with the way
that they operate, there will be a Desmond ritter. There'll
be some waiver wire related bit that takes place to
round things out, But given everything that's transpired, we have
to be good with it.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
One kid into another and let's go.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
The head coach loves both of them, and that topic
will come up today with Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
JJ just stay healthy, be on the field, play, let's
see it bike.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yep, the Carson wentz to injured reserve and what's next
plan with the kids? Both those top come up today
at eleven o'clock with the head coach. Face changes may
be required. All right, here's the latest nine to noon
is unfurled on a or unveiled or uncovered or has
been revealed to us on a page turning Tuesday endeavor
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at the Minnesota Vikings Egan Facility known as TCOPCA. You
know we here's the latest. Christian Darisaw, Brian O'Neil, Andrew
van Ginkel, all at practice yesterday, all right, seventy one,
seventy five and forty three, all at practice, fifty eight
and eighty four.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
We're not fifty eight and eighty four.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
We're not yours truly is guessing the former fifty eight
being Jonathan Grenard plays. It's a guess, but I guess
he plays in this game against the Motor City kitties,
So that potentially gives us the opportunity to have the
likes of sixty one, ninety three, ninety seven, fifty eight,
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forty three, you won all out there at the same time.
That was the original plan. Damn it. Nine to noon
wants to see it face. Changes may be required, but
we want to see that.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Are you kidding me? If we go full strength? Are
you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
If we're sitting here and I'm sitting on the couch,
you're in the stadium well at Ford Field and we're
doing Van Ginkelestyle.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I've been waiting to see him for weeks again.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I mean, just think about how we're talking about all
these big timers, from the full speed to the nine
or ten snaps whatever it was for number seventy one,
mister darrisaw to being full speed yet again, and Grenard,
the hardest working member of the Vike's defense, getting twisted
up a little bit the other day and now maybe
getting back on the field right away. We need all
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hands on deck for these kiddies, and that would be
amazing if we get to see him in full force.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And the Motor City, the Motor City kitties, well they're
part of the latest. Nine to Noon is here in
second to none journalistic fashion, providing the very latest with
Minnesota Vikings football because we are in the belly of
the beast. We are at Twin Cities Orthopedics Performance Center.
When they flicked the lights on in the field house
(06:10):
about fifteen twenty minutes ago, Nordo and I were walking
down the super Highway and we wanted to peek in there,
but we were thinking maybe we would see I don't know,
Brett Favre or John Skelton Skelton or yeah, just somebody
limping around in there, so we uh is Josh Rosenville.
Josh rosen Face changes were required. There have been several
(06:34):
face changes already today. But we're here with the latest,
the very latest from nine to Noon, and that includes
it's the Lions and they're off a bye oh goodie.
The Lions are expecting the returns of safeties Kirby Joseph
and Brian branch oh Good neither played in last game.
(06:54):
And by the way, in case you missed it, here's
the latest stud defensive town alien McNeil returned.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Last game and made the difference, and.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
He debuted October twentieth in a blowout win versus Tampa Bay.
Didn't play a ton but was great. He tipped a
pass of the line of scrimmage and I think it
may have led to an interception. That's the latest with
the Motor City Kitties, arguably the best safety tandem in
the NFL. Kirby Joseph and Brian branch out against the Bucks.
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Both expected to return Sunday at noon, and Alien McNeil
got that race under his belt, then he got a
buy to think about it.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And then now we.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Get Alen McNeil and DJ Reider with Aiden Hutchinson and
Nordo's guy Roy Lopez with those nice safeties back there.
That's the latest on the kiddies.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, the latest is going to you know, as you
mentioned changing our face on many things. We have to
change our face a bit, not just on what we
expect this weekend, heavy underdogs to these kiddies at Ford
Field and what is what the challenge is in front
of us and a healthy Lamar then you can play
the schedule game. Looking ahead to the Ravens, you have
Ben Johnson trying to be new school Detroit with Swift
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and Manungai, which is more fun to say than probably
it is to play, but all the same, changing our
face and the expectations. You know how excited I am
for this game, man, I'm excited to get to get
another piece of the puzzle in terms of what we
may have at the quarterback spot.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Super weird.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
We got a guy you know, in Agony playing through
things the way that Carson did, and we have our
kid QB and what the expectation was for him into
twenty twenty five playing out teams three and four.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Everyone's hurt. The whole thing's weird.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
But we are finding our way back to health, finding
our way back to the names that we really liked
on the roster in August in July, and we're gonna
get a chance starting this Sunday to see a more
complete project of what Kevin O'Connell wanted to unveil opening
night at Soldier Field.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
That's going to be sweet. It's scary with all the
names you've mentioned.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Alee McNeil, by the way, just rocked that O line
for Tampa in his return. He's a difference maker. Aiden's
fantastic and healthy. We get all of that a and
they can run the heck out of the ball so
our team needs to be better.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Our team needs to get better.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
But that's part of the fun part of loving this
team and looking forward to them each week, is they
have a chance to be better on Sunday at Ford Field. However, however,
things unfold with the kiddies.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
And with Tend to Play and nine to noon courtesy
of Bob Seeker music Immortality and that sweet ballad called
turn the Page, we went to page turning yesterday on
some facets of Minnesota Vikings football that we're working on
our very last nerves. Face changes required here in the
(09:49):
ve and Vikings Entertainment Network and the TCO Radio Studio.
Emphasis are on were working on our last nerves because
we turned the page we did. So what's on the
what's on the next page, what's on the subsequent pages.
Let's let's cast the gaze to what the next few
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pages may look like.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
With tend to Play on on the on the.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Previous page, the last page we all took in. A
monster named Scott Mattlock was savaging some of our main
characters in said story. But we got out. We got
out of Englewood alive, and not many do we got
out of Englewood alive despite the Scott Mattlock monster trick
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eating up some of our main characters in the twenty
twenty five story. So what's on the next page? Pages zap,
close circuit to Kevin O'Connell, Close circuit to JJ McCarthy.
Assuming you're the quarterback this weekend nine to noon, has
a request? Yours truly has a request. But I think
Norda will be on board target justin Jefferson at least
(11:02):
ten times in this upcoming game. Oh yeah, I mean
every single, maybe every double, certainly every single, and a
fair amount of doubles, just like just like Nordo and
I like our burgers, all singles and all doubles. Just
throw it to him, baby, and let's turn that frown
(11:23):
upside down.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Have you ever had a triple cheeseburger? I think Wendy's
had like a triple at one point.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I originally had an in and out line crafted in there,
but took it out because I don't think you like
in and out. I've had it a couple of times.
It's fine, but we like singles and doubles.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Do I look like I've turned down food any stretch
in fifteen years? All right?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Three?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
To two.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Singles and doubles with Jefferson, how about at least ten targets? Yeah,
I mean, if you're gonna lose, and you may not lose,
but you're an eight and a half nine point dog
and the kiddies are really good, I mean, let's go down.
If our best is required, If being at our best
is required, well, part of your best is Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
It is.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So that means whether it's going down with the ship
based change required or actually recognizing eighteen can win fifty
to fifties in doubles.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
About ten targets for Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I love that too, because I don't know if Liber's
got like a stat tracker bit going about the vikings
in the red zone.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Red zone woes have been.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Tough lately, and I think there was something Jefferson in
the red zone this year has like four targets, Like
it's some obscenely low and bad number.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Given number eighteen, right, he's had to change his face.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
So as we change our face and turn the page
number nine to eighteen potentially equaling six. However, that math
equation worked on the State Fair sweatshirt.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, that has to be in play. Starting at four field.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
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Speaker 2 (13:48):
Thank you for the marathon segments.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
If next page, next page pages of this story. Yeah,
if ninety seven, ninety three, he's sixty one, fifty eight,
forty three and fifty one. If Hargrave Allen, Who's starting
to play pretty well by the way, Jonathan Allen's becoming
a handful, If Hargrave, Allan Redman, Grenard van Ginkel, and
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Cashman all are active, change don Rolofsky's face, show Dan
Orlovsky who we love? What the vision for the roster
looked like, let's just start here. What if Tate Rattledge
wants nothing to do with Jalen Redman?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
What if he doesn't? What if he does anything of
the roster?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Now?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Dan, oh, what the rookie? What about the rookie getting dominated?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
And uh and Graham Glasgow has been no bargain at center.
So I mean, what if the interior of like getting
your groove back in a division collision in a place
that you've struggled to win in recent years, you got
all the healthy bodies. You think Orlovsky's going to be watching.
I think he will be watching. I think he'll be
impressed on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
So we don't know what the next page or pages
look like. We don't know what is going to unferl
in this two zero two five story.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Thus the what if is in play.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Like there's the previous page, and if we turn the page,
which we have, and yet what if Tate Ratlitch rookie
from Georgia wants nothing to do with Jalen Redmond. Maybe
that's part of the story. What if they have to
play Javon Hargrave forty plays? What if they have to
play him double what he's been playing because you just
can't take him off the field.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Because he's too good, because he's back, because he's a veteran,
and he worked his way in and suddenly faces were
changed in the locker room. Yep, and it was a
completely different thing. This feels like turning the page.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
It's a little bit like Choose your Own Adventure novel
in some ways love it. Where, Okay, make this decision.
Do I go into door number one, turn to page fifty,
Do I go into door number two, turn to page
seventy five and either find your way through to glory
or you fall off a cliff and you have to
turn back and then try the try the thing again.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
That's the that's the again.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
It's changing your face on expectations where this team needs
to be better. And as we see more of those
numbers that you mentioned, re entering the fold, re entering
being options on Sunday, well, just being part of the chat,
just being part, just being freaking available. That's what's exciting
about this game against the Lions. This team needs to
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be better and they have the chance to be better.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
What if what if Andrew Van Ginkle, What if he plays?
What if he jumps a quickie to Jamior Gibbs and
House is it for his sixth career defensive touchdown?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
He's Andrew v. Ginkole.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I've completely lost that's on the next page. I'm completely
lost it with avg But he's played in two games.
I think he was in the game the was it
the Bengals game for like eight snaps in Atlanta?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
At played eight snaps? I think it last.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I mean, that's a that's an incredible that's a high
value proposition. What's he going to do when he plays
forty Let's get him back in there? No, I again,
the if he jumps a route at Ford Field, I
will be jumping up and down, eating a slice of
pizza at the radio station watching with Abbott and his
drop foot and the whole thing. Super pumped. We need
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forty three back, man, We need that guy back. What
a difference maker he is and and that could be
on the next page.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
What are some things or thing.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Mad producer at map producer one via the X machine.
If you are so inclined to follow as nine to
noon does, what are some things mister Nordo or Thing
Nordo wants to see on the next page.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, I got, I got a few different things.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
If I if again, if I was choosing my own adventure,
and I and I and I got the right answers.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I was looking for a few pop in my head.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Uh. For first one is going to be stopping the run,
and that plays into you talking about all the right
namesotentially being back at practice and what Orlovsky had kind
of deemed a the most disappointing roster or something like
that to paraphrase.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
In the NFL.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
One of the disappointing parts of this roster we can
focus on the QB all day has been the defense,
where into the buy you're talking about one of the
more efficient defenses in the NFL the last two games.
The bottom's fall falling out, and whether it's Kamani Vidal
or what you saw from a perfect passer rating, you're
getting it from all angles here. But the basis of this,
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specifically with gibbson Montgomery and then you're looking at King
Henry and Lamar and you're looking down the road here.
I just want to I want to see what Flores
can do to adjust. We're always talking about, Hey, what's
Kevin O'Connell going to do to adjust here and running
third and short, etcetera, ETCeteras. How about b flow adjust
and now he's going to have some of his prize
possessions back and available on Sunday. One of those things
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it would be, I want to see how they adjust
to to really clamp down against the run with with
some time running backs on our schedule. I would also
I'd flip that. Then I would flip it to running
the ball more effectively. And there's game script and we
got tackle issues and health issues.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Glower totally get it.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Aaron Jones wasn't in the mix on IR for a stretch,
but I look at two games. I look at the
Bears game, in the Browns game Bengals game was too weird,
but that they ran for like a buck seventy in
that game. The commitment to it in close score line games,
and the commitment that Kevin O'Connell had specifically in the opener.
I want to get Jordan Mason in the mix. He
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led the running in Carris and then you saw almost
just defiantly, Kevin O'Connell's like, yeah, I get it. You
got Malie Collins, you got Garrett Miles, Garrett, but I
don't care. We're going to run. We need to to
be effective and that commitment. I love seeing it in
those two particular games. I want to see that. And
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then my last thing for you, Pa, and in this
if I'm writing my own book, I'm going to see this.
Starting in Detroit, I want to look and see JJ
McCarthy the signs of being a bit more decisive and aware.
Thank you, Quicker. Release the growth arc. That's what these
final ten games are really about. Want to win every game.
We want to bounce way back in a big way
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in the division contention. We want to play games in
late January. We want to hoist to Lombardi. We want
to do all of those things. Really, I think in
the true real crux of what's in front of us
for the next ten games is let JJ grow, let
JJ throw find eighteen so we know what we have
from the kid QB. So that's really just signs of life,
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signs of growth, signs of Evolution from mister McCarthy.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
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(21:00):
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have described Ben Gasline. He joins at about ten oh three.
That's when some of the Minnesota Vikings related conversation will continue,
and you know from here for the Minnesota Vikings from
this three and four, we tend to go as a
as a long shot, no doubt. You know before I'm
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not going to make a prediction. I'm just going to
lay out what I believe the reality of the rest
of the year to be. And do note your announcer
is saying as a long shot Minnesota Vikings as a
long shot. To win the NFC North, you have to
sweep Detroit and you have to sweep Green Bay. It's
come to you got to go four and oh against
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two of the best five teams in the NFL. A
drama and ferral Sunday at noon from the Motor City
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I couldn't find peacock and B I fell asleep.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Well, I was locked in.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I don't have peacock either, so I was following via
social media. I'm kind of refreshing X, I don't have peacock.
I'm not going to get peacock. Appreciate the league trying
to be on every single streaming platform that has ever
freaking existed. Grady was on the car. I wish I
could have seen it, but I'm not getting peacock. It's
not happening.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I think the question could be answered easily like this, Paul.
Here's what happened to the Wolves last night. Anthony Edwards
is out two weeks with a hamstring. Yeah, that's now joker,
Jamal Murray and their best players played and.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
We got dusted. Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
What I was gathering though, is I think Jamal Murray
had one of those third quarters of the ages like
he just I think he exploded.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I think he had like forty five points or so.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah, And I saw it at one point I was
checking in and it was Yeah, he was in the
high thirties and I think he may have had twenty
plus points in the third quarter alone. A so the
defensive damn broke. Just kind of seeing that, it's an
interesting kind of what do the Wolves look like with
Anthony Edwards. You've never had to ask that question before.
I've seen that bounced around and kind of that that
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posed via social media and some reporting on the team
and such, and through one, I mean, very game leading
into the half and then by the time I checked
back in at.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
The end of the third, I think they were down eight.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
So third quarter in issue for a team that has
done a lot of work over the last couple of
years to come out of breaks hot and heavy. So
we got got by the Nugs last night, which the
Nugs are good. The Nugs are good, and Aaron Gordon
didn't have fifty and Christian Brown couldn't help out Conn
in LFL, but Jamal Murray was hot last night.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
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You know, I walked in and security personnel helping me out,
and I wonder because I forgot this was in my bag.
You think the security guy found it weird that I
just have some beef tallow from a thousand Ills.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
What does beef tallow that's just fat. You just cook
with it, Okay, it's all rise.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Drive around with it in oil or something, put your
finger in it like peanut butter, and just eat it.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Oh that seems aggressive, but it's just it's been in
my backpack for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I forgot it was in there. Mm hmm. So that's
running through the machine. What is that guy doing with
beef tallow? Well, it's terrific, so cook with it if
you can.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Maybe they thought you were one of the cooks. I
were heading up to the third floor to the cafeteria
because the food here's elite.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
It is elite.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Indeed, Ben Simms, I was just talking with with Brett
blakemore down the line over the course of the break.
He's missing Ben Simms no longer a member of the
Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Well he should.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
At one point the Vikings missed him because he left
Minnesota and was signed.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
By the Green Bay Packers SA.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Special Teams guy, you know, third back into the roster.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Tight end did have a touchdown a couple of seasons
ago for the Green and Gold. But welcome back.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Ben Simms offers them the other shoe dropping, which is
I believe it was an ankle for Josh Oliver and
potentially such that that he would not be available for
this kiddies game. Ben Simms were hoping that he can
jump in and potentially help early and often for the
Purple at Ford Field on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Aint no doubt.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
And when I when I heard about this, got moderately
excited because I liked to Ben when he was here
and see for the Green Bay Packers, I thought, you know,
I initially thought, without reading the story, that he was
one of those take from the practice squad bits.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
But then you quickly look.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
At the roster for the Green Bay Packers in a
league where jumbo packages are becoming on Vogue, are becoming
en slash on Vogue. Here's what I mean. They the
Green Bay Packers have a tight end on their active
roster named John Fitzpatrick. Now he doesn't play as much
as Tucker Craft, who's the bomb, or Luke Muskgrave who's
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a little bit of an underachiever from where he was taken,
but he's still pretty good. But they got this John
Fitzpatrick six seven two sixty two. I see what you're
doing here, Matt Laflour. You're setting things up for December
for the jumbo packages with Fitzpatrick and the extra offensive lineman.
Why because the before chatting with Kevin O'Connell today at
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eleven o'clock and all things that that Nordo and I
have chatted about really for the last week two weeks
back to the Pittsburgh game, the jumbo package approach to
offense is becoming. It's it's spreading league wide where teams
are using an extra offensive lineman more than they ever have,
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or beefeating tight ends or monster fullbacks like Scott Matlock.
That this is starting to emerge as more than a
change up with within team schemes. So it was like
Fitzpatrick or Sims. They opted to keep Fitzpatrick. I know
they like Sims, and I know the people here like Sims.
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But Ben got cut because of this beefeeder named John
Fitzpatrick bite s by Sykes bite.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
To that end, You've been talking about it for a
couple of days, whether it's Dan Skimmer Skipper upcoming, Dan
Skipper of the Lions going jumbo, or Fred Johnson against
the Eagles, Fred Johnson extro lineman for the Eagles. If
it is becoming in vogue with the head coach of
the Minnesota Vikings ever consider going jumbo when he gets
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all the numbers back, And.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Who would it be?
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Pa?
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Would it be Joe Huber justin school, Michael Jurgens. Maybe
a beefeeding tight end. I don't have Ben Simms's stats
in front of me. I know your sex not befeeding
per se either.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
As Sims either A Sims.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
So we need Oliver, we need we need Oliver back, certainly,
But could you ever foresee the Vikings going jumbo more
often to follow suit?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I think it's been talked about with the trading deadline approach,
the trade deadline approaching, keep your eyes and ears on
the Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Titans, Oh, Tennessee, Tennessee and specifically oli Udo.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Here comes oli Udo right back into the mixes the
extra offensive lineman fifth year from Elon, fifth year from Elon.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I don't know what season he's in at this point, bites, bites.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
But from an offensive lineman standpoint, here the last time
I recall the Vikings kind of quasi consistently using that
extra offensive lineman man, it was it was the It
might have been twenty twenty. When did they play at
Baltimore against Lamar twenty twenty one, twenty one or twenty two, okay,
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around there was the day hit Man came a bit
day of the game, bying them had to Debutiam had
a pick and a sack on Lamar Jackson. He had
a pick and a sack on Lamar. Nice debut, my brother.
Did they go to ot that game?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
But in that game, Blake Brandell was the extra offensive
lineman a bare amount of plays. So it's difficult to
think jumbo package extra offensive lineman here, with all due
respect and a face change may be required at the
end of this statement, it's very difficult to conceive that
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when you have no idea which offensive linemen they're going
to play, how long they're going to play in just
the upcoming game.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Under the pretense that all the numbers were back at Brandelly.
It's a different combination conversation in that regard. Although maybe
we need Brandell, it's center. That's a tough thing.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Well, fair amount of the public thinks they should just
look the other way on Ryan Kelly's concussions and just
make him the extra offensive lineman and just bang into
beefeaters without a in the world.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
That's just how it works.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
I would prefer Ryan Kelly makes health decisions. Let's just
say paramount given the recent concussion woes that that the
Veteran Center has had said final.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Bike bite, bike bite, bike bite. It was announced yesterday.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Pa Carson wentz kind of learning more, you know, coming
out of the buy rumblings about a shoulder injury. What's
going on with that. He's still ready to rock. He's
going to play through it against the Eagles, and we.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Watched that game.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
There was a vast regression, not you know, for a
guy that's never had necessarily pinpoint accuracy. Clearly something was
different in that Eagles game. It continued to find its
way into the Chargers game on a Thursday night. News
coming out yesterday that Carson's been put on IR and
we'll be having shoulder surgery torn labram. I think there
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was a fractured shoulder socket potentially a dislocation as part
of all this initially as well non throwing shoulder as
it was.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
He is gone into the open.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
But it's kind of your thoughts on you know, surprising
is not really the way to put it, but how
they handled it and just kind of how he handled it,
and now his season is over as JJ McCarthy is
set to return to practice.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Well, it's not that my opinion really matters on a day.
The head coach of the Minnesoesota Vikings is going to
be with the radio show for twenty five minutes, Ben Geslin,
who covers the team for the Star Tribune, He'll be
here at ten o'clock, and I'll offer more than Brian Ralston.
He's on the horizon and we don't want to be
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late for that, you know, I'll just I don't know
how much, like I think Carson may speak tomorrow. So again,
if Carson Wentz does a press conference tomorrow, it's going.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
To be great hearing from him exactly.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
What he was going through and what led to this
whole thing from a guy who, by the way, when
he tore his ACL at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum,
I don't know if he was completely straight with the
injury and like how much it hurt because he went
back in the game with a ripped up ACL and
lcl I believe did he throw a TD in a
game the Eagles were trying to secure the one seat.
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They were playing for the one seat and he threw
a touchdown pass in that game. So playing through adverse
pain related situations is in this guy's DNA and the
from what I understand, and then you know, maybe others
have reported on it his injury, what was more about
pain tolerance and really couldn't worsen if he played. But
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that's just what you're hearing from me, hearing it from
other people. You'll hear from the head coach at eleven
today and we will get into that topic and Carson
Wentz tomorrow. So I think that's the best way to
land the plane on Vike's Bites with that individual topic.
The expectation is McCarthy will be the starting quarterback this
weekend at Ford Field.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Vike's Bites provided by thousand Ills Lifetime Grazed Grass.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Fed around the Corner Minnesota Wild with a twenty five
year celebration this evening. It's against the Peg and the Jets.
Brian Ralston Minnesota Wild Immortality. He joins us next on
KFAM Happy now to be joined by Minnesota Wild Immortality.
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Brian Ralston spent seventeen years in the NHL three with
the Minnesota Wild and this is part of the Wilds
twenty five year anniversary celebration which starts tonight versus the
Winnipeg Jets, Wild dot Com. If you want to get
If you want to get tickets for this that include
the package includes a Marion Gabrick bobblehead and autographs from
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the likes of Marion Gabrick and or Pierre Marc Bouchard.
Stuff on VEU and Brian Ralston who join Now? Brian,
it's Paul Allen.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
How are you? How are things fantastic? How are you good?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Nice chatting with you man. Thanks for making time not
only now but tonight. And and you know, Pierre Marc
Bouchard joined the radio show yesterday and I kind of
started asking him the same thing. Uh, this stage of
your life, how is this stage of your life post
your excellent playing career going?
Speaker 5 (36:25):
It's going great. I mean I think I spent seventeen
years in the National Hockey League and basically my kids
have dictated my life after I've you know, done playing.
So you know, my kids have went through hockey and
you know they're onto playing ones playing minor pro right
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now in the American League and another one that's playing
junior hockey. So I spent a lot of time in
youth sports and uh, coaching and doing that those kinds
of things and a kind of it's snowballs, you know,
chasing your kids around the car, driving your kids around
the country.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
All right, So like you know, from two to three
three is decades ago when you started playing hockey and
you were coached all the way through your career Man
New Jersey and Boston and Jacques Lamier, stuff like that.
When you coach, when you coach kids at no matter
the age, what well, what like, what's your approach because
twenty let's say, twenty twenty through twenty twenty five, twenty
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fifteen through twenty twenty five a lot different than when
you started, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (37:35):
Yeah, I mean I think the coaching now in youth
sports is way better obviously than when we.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
We grew up.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
You know, we have a lot of any a lot
of NHL guys around the whole country are involved in
youth youth sports into helping kids. And you know, your
approach is being professional and you know, tea them the
game and trying to teach them the right way to
play the game and and continue to help them with
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their skill development and uh, you know and obviously, we
follow USA Hockey model as much as we can, and
uh so a lot has changed. There's a lot more
out there for coaches and development. So I think it's
for the better for sure.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
And and you know, I'm not sure he still does it.
My my my daughter graduated from Holy Family High School
in Victoria, Minnesota, and you know, she's a couple of
years removed from that. But when I used to go
to the UH go to the girls hockey games, I
think Stefan Vayu was was an assistant coach for you know,
either the girls team or the girls and boys team.
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So that you know that that's something that he continues
to do now.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Off what you just said.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
And you know, with with Pierre Mark Bouchard joining yesterday,
it you know, when I was preparing for it, knowing
you were coming up today, Man, you guys had a
great thing. You and Pierre Marc Bouchard had a great thing.
As I recall, he was kind of your handy, dandy
helper with some of these goals, right he was.
Speaker 5 (39:13):
He was a big part of it. He had tremendous vision.
He was one of the best passes that I've played.
I played with over my seventeen years. So he played
a big role in my success in Minnesota and arguably
my best years of my career. So he was an
excellent player. You know, you look at it and you
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look at you know, their babies at the time. You know,
Brent Burns and Miko Koivu and excellent obviously had excellent careers,
but you know, at the time, we were just starting
out and they had all those good draft picks. But
you know, you see how difficult it can be to
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get everybody at the right aid age in order to
compete for the Stanley Cups. So obviously Miko and those
guys were young, obviously had great careers, and it's very
interesting to look back and and you just noticed different
things about the game.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
The the Brian Ralston slap shot was that of immortality.
People used to ask him a lot of questions about
it when he played here. I probably should know this answer,
but I don't, so I'm just going to save it
for Brian with that with that big time slap shot. Man,
when when did you know legitimately you could unfurrow bombs
because that's what they were.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
Well, you know, early on when I played in the
American League with Robbie Vittorik and the Albanie River Rats.
Early on, I was playing on the point on the
power play. So it's something that uh, you know, I
always had a pretty good shot. I think it's inherent,
but you know, I was at an early age I
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was giving those opportunities on the power play to play
defense and and I really did it my whole career.
So and in playing for Jacques Lamaire early on in
my career definitely helped me, h my defensive game and
being responsible defensively because you come out of school and
you're a big time offensive guy and that's not necessarily
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you know what it's going to be in the National League.
So having played for him was was huge for the
longevity of my career.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
And Brian Ralston is our guest seventeen years in the
NHL three with the Minnesota Wild Wild in Winnipeg this
evening Wild dot Com for a special bobblehead and anniversary
celebration tickets Wild dot Com, Gabby Bobblehead autograph, stuff like
that available tonight Wild dot Com. And and you know
it's mentioning. You know that that you you coach or
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have coached with with with your with your slapper with
with your slap shot. What what's the training for that
or is it just part of the gift, Because like
I would imagine you know that that you've coached kids
or seen a lot of players who they all want
to do that slap the puck as hard as you did.
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But not everybody has that gift, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (42:17):
No, absolutely, it is a gift for sure. And you know,
you see different players that are special in the National
League and those are those are gifts. And when you
get gifts, you have to you have to work extremely
hard to stay on top of it. And if you're
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lucky enough to get, you know, gifts, I think you
owe it to yourself and all it to the people
around you that to to maximize those gifts with hard work.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Uh. Just a few to close here with Brian Ralston.
If I happen to see you tonight, I'll give you
fifty dollars if if you can answer this question.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Correctly, you ready?
Speaker 1 (43:03):
Yeah, Brian wore the sea all three seasons here. He
was a captain all three seasons here. Now your first
season five and six, there were five captains including you,
can you name the other four.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
Oh god, probably not well, I mean, what what what
am I barely well?
Speaker 5 (43:25):
Okay, here the well when when Jacques was there, we
had a floating sea. So he used to change months
at a time, okay, to to give different guys a C.
And I think he used.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
It as motivation a little bit.
Speaker 5 (43:44):
And uh, you know, if you had a really strong
monkey month, you got the C. But uh no, I'd
be curious to hear who they were.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
All right, Well, one guy's last name rhymes with Tuba,
Philip Cuba, Philly Cooba with wonderment. And then you had
Willie Mitchell. You had Wes Walls.
Speaker 5 (44:11):
All right, yes, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
With this floating sea.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
And I apologize for not remembering this guy, Alex Henry.
Alex Henry wore the sea that year. Who's Alex Henry?
Speaker 5 (44:23):
Yeah, that's not a surprise. He was a kid that
worked extremely hard, was kind of a guy that was
up and down from the miners to the NHL. And
great guy and well deserved.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
One of those names. Wes Walls, somebody I greatly admire.
He playing with Wes Walls. You know, of all the
players with whom you played for seventeen years, I mean
he was the ultimate scrapper, Puck Battles, just just tough
as nails, right, he was, and.
Speaker 5 (44:58):
I'm looking forward to see in him today. But uh, yeah,
he was. He and he's super intense guy. Uh, you know,
really a great team guy. I can't say enough about him.
He was awesome and he was another guy. You know,
a lot of guys got opportunities on those original teams
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for the while that had been playing in the minors
and made you know, made the best of it and
and made themselves a career out of it. So it's
kudos to those guys that that worked extremely hard and
uh and made nice careers in the National League.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
Lastly, Uh, Brian, what what was it like playing with
Bill garn You played with him in New Jersey and Boston.
Speaker 5 (45:46):
Yeah, Billy was Billy Uh special player, special player Like I.
I came in as a rookie to the New Jersey Devils, uh,
and Billy had established himself maybe one or two years
maybe before I went in. So yep, I've known Billy
a long time and he took me under his wing
and made a big difference in my career, and I
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ended up playing with him again in Boston. So we
have a long history for sure, and you know I'm
and his wife and so there's a long history there
between Billy and I.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
Enjoy the evening, my brother, and thanks for the time
on the radio and coming back for the twenty five
year anniversary tonight.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Have a wonderful day. Okay, yeah, thank you, see you.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
But Brian Ralston three years with the Minnesota Wild, and
we have the twenty five year anniversary bobblehead ticket package for.
Speaker 2 (46:42):
The Wild this evening.
Speaker 1 (46:43):
They also have anniversary celebrations November fourth, I think it's
against Nashville, then one in late December, one in late January.
But tonight, the ticket package includes a Marion Gabrick bobblehead,
plus the uppertunity to get autographs from the likes of Pierre,
Marc Bouchard, Marion Gabrick, Brian Ralston, Stefan Vayu. That's at
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a special pregame signing and the Wild this evening are
going to unveil the twenty fifth anniversary sweater, the jerseys
for the first time, paying abbage to the team's inaugural season.
You're going to take a peek at those sweaters at
shop dot NHL dot com. Second hour begins with the
scribe chatting about the Minnesota vikings.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
Ben Gesling joins nine to noon next
Why don't you give me half the money you were
gonna bed and look around beat, I'll kick killing us and.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
We'll call it a day.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Can you repeat the part of the stuff where you
said all about the things money rooms.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Because I have got r roob so many roobspeed no rooms,
jams quare vikings? Amen?
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Brother? All right, here's the very latest via nine to
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Noons page turning Tuesday endeavor. It's mad producer and yours
truly Paul Allen at Twin City's Orthopedics Performance Center and
the head coach of the Minnesota Vikings, Kevin O'Connell is
here in two hours. Minds, bodies and souls need to
be right for the eleven am today, ladies and gentlemen,
the latest part of the latest.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Ben is back.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
We're not talking about Ben Gesling, but he will be
here at ten o'clock today. Is the scribe covering the
team for the Star Tribune. Ben is back, ted in.
Ben Simms Pilford from the Pack returns to Twin Cities
Orthopedics Performance Center, where he was discovered in shrewd fashion
as a college free agent from Baylor in twenty twenty three.
(02:16):
He can play, and hopefully he can help. But this
probably also means things are negative with Josh Oliver. Yeah,
that'll be a topic with Kevin O'Connell at eleven o'clock today.
Face change is required right now. The head coaches here
in two hours. The latest. McCarthy and Brosmer were seen
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at practice yesterday and that purple clouded Warrior Carson Wentz
has hit injured reserve and is done for the season.
If the one too, the rest of the journey is
one kid into another kid, are we good with that?
If the one too, the rest of the journey is
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one kid into another kid, are we good with that?
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And good morning and good morning, good with it.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Given the circumstances of what has transpired, we thank Carson
Wentz for what he offered us on the field, the
warrior and the iron man that he is. I've been
begging for JJ season to start. I did that pre
I did that during camp. Now I'm begging for it
to resume and so very happy to see number nine
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back on the field. I assume PA, with the way
that they operate, there will be a Desmond ritter. There'll
be some waiver wire related bit that takes place to
round things out, But given everything that's transpired, we have
to be good with it.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
One kid into another and let's go.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
The head coach loves both of them, and that topic
will come up today with Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
JJ just stay healthy, be on the field, play, let's
see it bike.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Yep, the Carson wentz to injured reserve and what's next
plan with the kids? Both those top come up today
at eleven o'clock with the head coach. Face changes may
be required. All right, here's the latest nine to noon
is unfurled on a or unveiled or uncovered or has
been revealed to us on a page turning Tuesday endeavor
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at the Minnesota Vikings Egan Facility known as TCOPCA. You
know we here's the latest. Christian Darisaw, Brian O'Neil, Andrew
van Ginkel, all at practice yesterday, all right, seventy one,
seventy five and forty three, all at practice, fifty eight
and eighty four.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
We're not fifty eight and eighty four.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
We're not yours truly is guessing the former fifty eight
being Jonathan Grenard plays. It's a guess, but I guess
he plays in this game against the Motor City kitties,
So that potentially gives us the opportunity to have the
likes of sixty one, ninety three, ninety seven, fifty eight,
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forty three, you won all out there at the same time.
That was the original plan. Damn it. Nine to noon
wants to see it face. Changes may be required, but
we want to see that.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Are you kidding me? If we go full strength? Are
you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
If we're sitting here and I'm sitting on the couch,
you're in the stadium well at Ford Field and we're
doing Van Ginkelestyle.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
I've been waiting to see him for weeks again.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I mean, just think about how we're talking about all
these big timers, from the full speed to the nine
or ten snaps whatever it was for number seventy one,
mister darrisaw to being full speed yet again, and Grenard,
the hardest working member of the Vike's defense, getting twisted
up a little bit the other day and now maybe
getting back on the field right away. We need all
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hands on deck for these kiddies, and that would be
amazing if we get to see him in full force.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
And the Motor City, the Motor City kitties, well they're
part of the latest. Nine to Noon is here in
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Minnesota Vikings football because we are in the belly of
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When they flicked the lights on in the field house
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about fifteen twenty minutes ago, Nordo and I were walking
down the super Highway and we wanted to peek in there,
but we were thinking maybe we would see I don't know,
Brett Favre or John Skelton Skelton or yeah, just somebody
limping around in there, so we uh is Josh Rosenville.
Josh rosen Face changes were required. There have been several
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face changes already today. But we're here with the latest,
the very latest from nine to Noon, and that includes
it's the Lions and they're off a bye oh goodie.
The Lions are expecting the returns of safeties Kirby Joseph
and Brian branch oh Good neither played in last game.
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And by the way, in case you missed it, here's
the latest stud defensive town alien McNeil returned.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Last game and made the difference, and.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
He debuted October twentieth in a blowout win versus Tampa Bay.
Didn't play a ton but was great. He tipped a
pass of the line of scrimmage and I think it
may have led to an interception. That's the latest with
the Motor City Kitties, arguably the best safety tandem in
the NFL. Kirby Joseph and Brian branch out against the Bucks.
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Both expected to return Sunday at noon, and Alien McNeil
got that race under his belt, then he got a
buy to think about it.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And then now we.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Get Alen McNeil and DJ Reider with Aiden Hutchinson and
Nordo's guy Roy Lopez with those nice safeties back there.
That's the latest on the kiddies.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, the latest is going to you know, as you
mentioned changing our face on many things. We have to
change our face a bit, not just on what we
expect this weekend, heavy underdogs to these kiddies at Ford
Field and what is what the challenge is in front
of us and a healthy Lamar then you can play
the schedule game. Looking ahead to the Ravens, you have
Ben Johnson trying to be new school Detroit with Swift
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and Manungai, which is more fun to say than probably
it is to play, but all the same, changing our
face and the expectations. You know how excited I am
for this game, man, I'm excited to get to get
another piece of the puzzle in terms of what we
may have at the quarterback spot.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
Super weird.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
We got a guy you know, in Agony playing through
things the way that Carson did, and we have our
kid QB and what the expectation was for him into
twenty twenty five playing out teams three and four.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Everyone's hurt. The whole thing's weird.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
But we are finding our way back to health, finding
our way back to the names that we really liked
on the roster in August in July, and we're gonna
get a chance starting this Sunday to see a more
complete project of what Kevin O'Connell wanted to unveil opening
night at Soldier Field.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
That's going to be sweet. It's scary with all the
names you've mentioned.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Alee McNeil, by the way, just rocked that O line
for Tampa in his return. He's a difference maker. Aiden's
fantastic and healthy. We get all of that a and
they can run the heck out of the ball so
our team needs to be better.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Our team needs to get better.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
But that's part of the fun part of loving this
team and looking forward to them each week, is they
have a chance to be better on Sunday at Ford Field. However, however,
things unfold with the kiddies.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
And with Tend to Play and nine to noon courtesy
of Bob Seeker music Immortality and that sweet ballad called
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ve and Vikings Entertainment Network and the TCO Radio Studio.
Emphasis are on were working on our last nerves because
we turned the page we did. So what's on the
what's on the next page, what's on the subsequent pages.
Let's let's cast the gaze to what the next few
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pages may look like.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
With tend to Play on on the on the.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Previous page, the last page we all took in. A
monster named Scott Mattlock was savaging some of our main
characters in said story. But we got out. We got
out of Englewood alive, and not many do we got
out of Englewood alive despite the Scott Mattlock monster trick
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eating up some of our main characters in the twenty
twenty five story. So what's on the next page? Pages zap,
close circuit to Kevin O'Connell, Close circuit to JJ McCarthy.
Assuming you're the quarterback this weekend nine to noon, has
a request? Yours truly has a request. But I think
Norda will be on board target justin Jefferson at least
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ten times in this upcoming game. Oh yeah, I mean
every single, maybe every double, certainly every single, and a
fair amount of doubles, just like just like Nordo and
I like our burgers, all singles and all doubles. Just
throw it to him, baby, and let's turn that frown
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upside down.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Have you ever had a triple cheeseburger? I think Wendy's
had like a triple at one point.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I originally had an in and out line crafted in there,
but took it out because I don't think you like
in and out. I've had it a couple of times.
It's fine, but we like singles and doubles.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Do I look like I've turned down food any stretch
in fifteen years? All right?
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Three?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
To two.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Singles and doubles with Jefferson, how about at least ten targets? Yeah,
I mean, if you're gonna lose, and you may not lose,
but you're an eight and a half nine point dog
and the kiddies are really good, I mean, let's go down.
If our best is required, If being at our best
is required, well, part of your best is Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
It is.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
So that means whether it's going down with the ship
based change required or actually recognizing eighteen can win fifty
to fifties in doubles.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
About ten targets for Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
I love that too, because I don't know if Liber's
got like a stat tracker bit going about the vikings
in the red zone.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Red zone woes have been.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Tough lately, and I think there was something Jefferson in
the red zone this year has like four targets, Like
it's some obscenely low and bad number.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Given number eighteen, right, he's had to change his face.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
So as we change our face and turn the page
number nine to eighteen potentially equaling six. However, that math
equation worked on the State Fair sweatshirt.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, that has to be in play. Starting at four field.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
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Speaker 2 (13:48):
Thank you for the marathon segments.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
If next page, next page pages of this story. Yeah,
if ninety seven, ninety three, he's sixty one, fifty eight,
forty three and fifty one. If Hargrave Allen, Who's starting
to play pretty well by the way, Jonathan Allen's becoming
a handful, If Hargrave, Allan Redman, Grenard van Ginkel, and
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Cashman all are active, change don Rolofsky's face, show Dan
Orlovsky who we love? What the vision for the roster
looked like, let's just start here. What if Tate Rattledge
wants nothing to do with Jalen Redman?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
What if he doesn't? What if he does anything of
the roster?
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Now?
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Dan, oh, what the rookie? What about the rookie getting dominated?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
And uh and Graham Glasgow has been no bargain at center.
So I mean, what if the interior of like getting
your groove back in a division collision in a place
that you've struggled to win in recent years, you got
all the healthy bodies. You think Orlovsky's going to be watching.
I think he will be watching. I think he'll be
impressed on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
So we don't know what the next page or pages
look like. We don't know what is going to unferl
in this two zero two five story.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Thus the what if is in play.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Like there's the previous page, and if we turn the page,
which we have, and yet what if Tate Ratlitch rookie
from Georgia wants nothing to do with Jalen Redmond. Maybe
that's part of the story. What if they have to
play Javon Hargrave forty plays? What if they have to
play him double what he's been playing because you just
can't take him off the field.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Because he's too good, because he's back, because he's a veteran,
and he worked his way in and suddenly faces were
changed in the locker room. Yep, and it was a
completely different thing. This feels like turning the page.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
It's a little bit like Choose your Own Adventure novel
in some ways love it. Where, Okay, make this decision.
Do I go into door number one, turn to page fifty,
Do I go into door number two, turn to page
seventy five and either find your way through to glory
or you fall off a cliff and you have to
turn back and then try the try the thing again.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
That's the that's the again.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
It's changing your face on expectations where this team needs
to be better. And as we see more of those
numbers that you mentioned, re entering the fold, re entering
being options on Sunday, well, just being part of the chat,
just being part, just being freaking available. That's what's exciting
about this game against the Lions. This team needs to
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be better and they have the chance to be better.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
What if what if Andrew Van Ginkle, What if he plays?
What if he jumps a quickie to Jamior Gibbs and
House is it for his sixth career defensive touchdown?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
He's Andrew v. Ginkole.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
I've completely lost that's on the next page. I'm completely
lost it with avg But he's played in two games.
I think he was in the game the was it
the Bengals game for like eight snaps in Atlanta?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
At played eight snaps? I think it last.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I mean, that's a that's an incredible that's a high
value proposition. What's he going to do when he plays
forty Let's get him back in there? No, I again,
the if he jumps a route at Ford Field, I
will be jumping up and down, eating a slice of
pizza at the radio station watching with Abbott and his
drop foot and the whole thing. Super pumped. We need
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forty three back, man, We need that guy back. What
a difference maker he is and and that could be
on the next page.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
What are some things or thing.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Mad producer at map producer one via the X machine.
If you are so inclined to follow as nine to
noon does, what are some things mister Nordo or Thing
Nordo wants to see on the next page.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Yeah, I got, I got a few different things.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
If I if again, if I was choosing my own adventure,
and I and I and I got the right answers.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
I was looking for a few pop in my head.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Uh. For first one is going to be stopping the run,
and that plays into you talking about all the right
namesotentially being back at practice and what Orlovsky had kind
of deemed a the most disappointing roster or something like
that to paraphrase.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
In the NFL.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
One of the disappointing parts of this roster we can
focus on the QB all day has been the defense,
where into the buy you're talking about one of the
more efficient defenses in the NFL the last two games.
The bottom's fall falling out, and whether it's Kamani Vidal
or what you saw from a perfect passer rating, you're
getting it from all angles here. But the basis of this,
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specifically with gibbson Montgomery and then you're looking at King
Henry and Lamar and you're looking down the road here.
I just want to I want to see what Flores
can do to adjust. We're always talking about, Hey, what's
Kevin O'Connell going to do to adjust here and running
third and short, etcetera, ETCeteras. How about b flow adjust
and now he's going to have some of his prize
possessions back and available on Sunday. One of those things
(18:54):
it would be, I want to see how they adjust
to to really clamp down against the run with with
some time running backs on our schedule. I would also
I'd flip that. Then I would flip it to running
the ball more effectively. And there's game script and we
got tackle issues and health issues.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Glower totally get it.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Aaron Jones wasn't in the mix on IR for a stretch,
but I look at two games. I look at the
Bears game, in the Browns game Bengals game was too weird,
but that they ran for like a buck seventy in
that game. The commitment to it in close score line games,
and the commitment that Kevin O'Connell had specifically in the opener.
I want to get Jordan Mason in the mix. He
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led the running in Carris and then you saw almost
just defiantly, Kevin O'Connell's like, yeah, I get it. You
got Malie Collins, you got Garrett Miles, Garrett, but I
don't care. We're going to run. We need to to
be effective and that commitment. I love seeing it in
those two particular games. I want to see that. And
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then my last thing for you, Pa, and in this
if I'm writing my own book, I'm going to see this.
Starting in Detroit, I want to look and see JJ
McCarthy the signs of being a bit more decisive and aware.
Thank you, Quicker. Release the growth arc. That's what these
final ten games are really about. Want to win every game.
We want to bounce way back in a big way
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in the division contention. We want to play games in
late January. We want to hoist to Lombardi. We want
to do all of those things. Really, I think in
the true real crux of what's in front of us
for the next ten games is let JJ grow, let
JJ throw find eighteen so we know what we have
from the kid QB. So that's really just signs of life,
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signs of growth, signs of Evolution from mister McCarthy.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
It would be really super special for nine to noon
tomorrow Wednesday at the six five to one Carpus Plus Studios.
Be really sweet if when you get a Minnesota Wild
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he of the Slapshot Immortality ILK. He joins it about
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Ralston joins at about nine to forty five. Then we
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have described Ben Gasline. He joins at about ten oh three.
That's when some of the Minnesota Vikings related conversation will continue,
and you know from here for the Minnesota Vikings from
this three and four, we tend to go as a
as a long shot, no doubt. You know before I'm
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not going to make a prediction. I'm just going to
lay out what I believe the reality of the rest
of the year to be. And do note your announcer
is saying as a long shot Minnesota Vikings as a
long shot. To win the NFC North, you have to
sweep Detroit and you have to sweep Green Bay. It's
come to you got to go four and oh against
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two of the best five teams in the NFL. A
drama and ferral Sunday at noon from the Motor City
Davy on your Audio Leader FM one hundred point three
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I couldn't find peacock and B I fell asleep.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Well, I was locked in.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I don't have peacock either, so I was following via
social media. I'm kind of refreshing X, I don't have peacock.
I'm not going to get peacock. Appreciate the league trying
to be on every single streaming platform that has ever
freaking existed. Grady was on the car. I wish I
could have seen it, but I'm not getting peacock. It's
not happening.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I think the question could be answered easily like this, Paul.
Here's what happened to the Wolves last night. Anthony Edwards
is out two weeks with a hamstring. Yeah, that's now joker,
Jamal Murray and their best players played and.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
We got dusted. Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
What I was gathering though, is I think Jamal Murray
had one of those third quarters of the ages like
he just I think he exploded.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
I think he had like forty five points or so.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Yeah, And I saw it at one point I was
checking in and it was Yeah, he was in the
high thirties and I think he may have had twenty
plus points in the third quarter alone. A so the
defensive damn broke. Just kind of seeing that, it's an
interesting kind of what do the Wolves look like with
Anthony Edwards. You've never had to ask that question before.
I've seen that bounced around and kind of that that
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posed via social media and some reporting on the team
and such, and through one, I mean, very game leading
into the half and then by the time I checked
back in at.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
The end of the third, I think they were down eight.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
So third quarter in issue for a team that has
done a lot of work over the last couple of
years to come out of breaks hot and heavy. So
we got got by the Nugs last night, which the
Nugs are good. The Nugs are good, and Aaron Gordon
didn't have fifty and Christian Brown couldn't help out Conn
in LFL, but Jamal Murray was hot last night.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
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You know, I walked in and security personnel helping me out,
and I wonder because I forgot this was in my bag.
You think the security guy found it weird that I
just have some beef tallow from a thousand Ills.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
What does beef tallow that's just fat. You just cook
with it, Okay, it's all rise.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Drive around with it in oil or something, put your
finger in it like peanut butter, and just eat it.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Oh that seems aggressive, but it's just it's been in
my backpack for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
I forgot it was in there. Mm hmm. So that's
running through the machine. What is that guy doing with
beef tallow? Well, it's terrific, so cook with it if
you can.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Maybe they thought you were one of the cooks. I
were heading up to the third floor to the cafeteria
because the food here's elite.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
It is elite.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Indeed, Ben Simms, I was just talking with with Brett
blakemore down the line over the course of the break.
He's missing Ben Simms no longer a member of the
Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
Well he should.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
At one point the Vikings missed him because he left
Minnesota and was signed.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
By the Green Bay Packers SA.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Special Teams guy, you know, third back into the roster.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
Tight end did have a touchdown a couple of seasons
ago for the Green and Gold. But welcome back.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Ben Simms offers them the other shoe dropping, which is
I believe it was an ankle for Josh Oliver and
potentially such that that he would not be available for
this kiddies game. Ben Simms were hoping that he can
jump in and potentially help early and often for the
Purple at Ford Field on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Aint no doubt.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
And when I when I heard about this, got moderately
excited because I liked to Ben when he was here
and see for the Green Bay Packers, I thought, you know,
I initially thought, without reading the story, that he was
one of those take from the practice squad bits.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
But then you quickly look.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
At the roster for the Green Bay Packers in a
league where jumbo packages are becoming on Vogue, are becoming
en slash on Vogue. Here's what I mean. They the
Green Bay Packers have a tight end on their active
roster named John Fitzpatrick. Now he doesn't play as much
as Tucker Craft, who's the bomb, or Luke Muskgrave who's
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a little bit of an underachiever from where he was taken,
but he's still pretty good. But they got this John
Fitzpatrick six seven two sixty two. I see what you're
doing here, Matt Laflour. You're setting things up for December
for the jumbo packages with Fitzpatrick and the extra offensive lineman.
Why because the before chatting with Kevin O'Connell today at
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eleven o'clock and all things that that Nordo and I
have chatted about really for the last week two weeks
back to the Pittsburgh game, the jumbo package approach to
offense is becoming. It's it's spreading league wide where teams
are using an extra offensive lineman more than they ever have,
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or beefeating tight ends or monster fullbacks like Scott Matlock.
That this is starting to emerge as more than a
change up with within team schemes. So it was like
Fitzpatrick or Sims. They opted to keep Fitzpatrick. I know
they like Sims, and I know the people here like Sims.
(29:14):
But Ben got cut because of this beefeeder named John
Fitzpatrick bite s by Sykes bite.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
To that end, You've been talking about it for a
couple of days, whether it's Dan Skimmer Skipper upcoming, Dan
Skipper of the Lions going jumbo, or Fred Johnson against
the Eagles, Fred Johnson extro lineman for the Eagles. If
it is becoming in vogue with the head coach of
the Minnesota Vikings ever consider going jumbo when he gets
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all the numbers back, And.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Who would it be?
Speaker 5 (29:48):
Pa?
Speaker 3 (29:49):
Would it be Joe Huber justin school, Michael Jurgens. Maybe
a beefeeding tight end. I don't have Ben Simms's stats
in front of me. I know your sex not befeeding
per se either.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
As Sims either A Sims.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
So we need Oliver, we need we need Oliver back, certainly,
But could you ever foresee the Vikings going jumbo more
often to follow suit?
Speaker 1 (30:11):
I think it's been talked about with the trading deadline approach,
the trade deadline approaching, keep your eyes and ears on
the Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Titans, Oh, Tennessee, Tennessee and specifically oli Udo.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
Here comes oli Udo right back into the mixes the
extra offensive lineman fifth year from Elon, fifth year from Elon.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I don't know what season he's in at this point, bites, bites.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
But from an offensive lineman standpoint, here the last time
I recall the Vikings kind of quasi consistently using that
extra offensive lineman man, it was it was the It
might have been twenty twenty. When did they play at
Baltimore against Lamar twenty twenty one, twenty one or twenty two, okay,
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around there was the day hit Man came a bit
day of the game, bying them had to Debutiam had
a pick and a sack on Lamar Jackson. He had
a pick and a sack on Lamar. Nice debut, my brother.
Did they go to ot that game?
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Don't know.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
But in that game, Blake Brandell was the extra offensive
lineman a bare amount of plays. So it's difficult to
think jumbo package extra offensive lineman here, with all due
respect and a face change may be required at the
end of this statement, it's very difficult to conceive that
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when you have no idea which offensive linemen they're going
to play, how long they're going to play in just
the upcoming game.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Under the pretense that all the numbers were back at Brandelly.
It's a different combination conversation in that regard. Although maybe
we need Brandell, it's center. That's a tough thing.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Well, fair amount of the public thinks they should just
look the other way on Ryan Kelly's concussions and just
make him the extra offensive lineman and just bang into
beefeaters without a in the world.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
That's just how it works.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
I would prefer Ryan Kelly makes health decisions. Let's just
say paramount given the recent concussion woes that that the
Veteran Center has had said final.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Bike bite, bike bite, bike bite. It was announced yesterday.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Pa Carson wentz kind of learning more, you know, coming
out of the buy rumblings about a shoulder injury. What's
going on with that. He's still ready to rock. He's
going to play through it against the Eagles, and we.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Watched that game.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
There was a vast regression, not you know, for a
guy that's never had necessarily pinpoint accuracy. Clearly something was
different in that Eagles game. It continued to find its
way into the Chargers game on a Thursday night. News
coming out yesterday that Carson's been put on IR and
we'll be having shoulder surgery torn labram. I think there
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was a fractured shoulder socket potentially a dislocation as part
of all this initially as well non throwing shoulder as
it was.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
He is gone into the open.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
But it's kind of your thoughts on you know, surprising
is not really the way to put it, but how
they handled it and just kind of how he handled it,
and now his season is over as JJ McCarthy is
set to return to practice.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Well, it's not that my opinion really matters on a day.
The head coach of the Minnesoesota Vikings is going to
be with the radio show for twenty five minutes, Ben Geslin,
who covers the team for the Star Tribune, He'll be
here at ten o'clock, and I'll offer more than Brian Ralston.
He's on the horizon and we don't want to be
(33:36):
late for that, you know, I'll just I don't know
how much, like I think Carson may speak tomorrow. So again,
if Carson Wentz does a press conference tomorrow, it's going.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
To be great hearing from him exactly.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
What he was going through and what led to this
whole thing from a guy who, by the way, when
he tore his ACL at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum,
I don't know if he was completely straight with the
injury and like how much it hurt because he went
back in the game with a ripped up ACL and
lcl I believe did he throw a TD in a
game the Eagles were trying to secure the one seat.
(34:13):
They were playing for the one seat and he threw
a touchdown pass in that game. So playing through adverse
pain related situations is in this guy's DNA and the
from what I understand, and then you know, maybe others
have reported on it his injury, what was more about
pain tolerance and really couldn't worsen if he played. But
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that's just what you're hearing from me, hearing it from
other people. You'll hear from the head coach at eleven
today and we will get into that topic and Carson
Wentz tomorrow. So I think that's the best way to
land the plane on Vike's Bites with that individual topic.
The expectation is McCarthy will be the starting quarterback this
weekend at Ford Field.
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Fed around the Corner Minnesota Wild with a twenty five
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Brian Ralston Minnesota Wild Immortality. He joins us next on
KFAM Happy now to be joined by Minnesota Wild Immortality.
(35:30):
Brian Ralston spent seventeen years in the NHL three with
the Minnesota Wild and this is part of the Wilds
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Winnipeg Jets, Wild dot Com. If you want to get
If you want to get tickets for this that include
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the likes of Marion Gabrick and or Pierre Marc Bouchard.
Stuff on VEU and Brian Ralston who join Now? Brian,
it's Paul Allen.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
How are you? How are things fantastic? How are you good?
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Nice chatting with you man. Thanks for making time not
only now but tonight. And and you know, Pierre Marc
Bouchard joined the radio show yesterday and I kind of
started asking him the same thing. Uh, this stage of
your life, how is this stage of your life post
your excellent playing career going?
Speaker 5 (36:25):
It's going great. I mean I think I spent seventeen
years in the National Hockey League and basically my kids
have dictated my life after I've you know, done playing.
So you know, my kids have went through hockey and
you know they're onto playing ones playing minor pro right
(36:45):
now in the American League and another one that's playing
junior hockey. So I spent a lot of time in
youth sports and uh, coaching and doing that those kinds
of things and a kind of it's snowballs, you know,
chasing your kids around the car, driving your kids around
the country.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
All right, So like you know, from two to three
three is decades ago when you started playing hockey and
you were coached all the way through your career Man
New Jersey and Boston and Jacques Lamier, stuff like that.
When you coach, when you coach kids at no matter
the age, what well, what like, what's your approach because
twenty let's say, twenty twenty through twenty twenty five, twenty
(37:29):
fifteen through twenty twenty five a lot different than when
you started, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (37:35):
Yeah, I mean I think the coaching now in youth
sports is way better obviously than when we.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
We grew up.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
You know, we have a lot of any a lot
of NHL guys around the whole country are involved in
youth youth sports into helping kids. And you know, your
approach is being professional and you know, tea them the
game and trying to teach them the right way to
play the game and and continue to help them with
(38:05):
their skill development and uh, you know and obviously, we
follow USA Hockey model as much as we can, and
uh so a lot has changed. There's a lot more
out there for coaches and development. So I think it's
for the better for sure.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
And and you know, I'm not sure he still does it.
My my my daughter graduated from Holy Family High School
in Victoria, Minnesota, and you know, she's a couple of
years removed from that. But when I used to go
to the UH go to the girls hockey games, I
think Stefan Vayu was was an assistant coach for you know,
either the girls team or the girls and boys team.
(38:48):
So that you know that that's something that he continues
to do now.
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Off what you just said.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
And you know, with with Pierre Mark Bouchard joining yesterday,
it you know, when I was preparing for it, knowing
you were coming up today, Man, you guys had a
great thing. You and Pierre Marc Bouchard had a great thing.
As I recall, he was kind of your handy, dandy
helper with some of these goals, right he was.
Speaker 5 (39:13):
He was a big part of it. He had tremendous vision.
He was one of the best passes that I've played.
I played with over my seventeen years. So he played
a big role in my success in Minnesota and arguably
my best years of my career. So he was an
excellent player. You know, you look at it and you
(39:35):
look at you know, their babies at the time. You know,
Brent Burns and Miko Koivu and excellent obviously had excellent careers,
but you know, at the time, we were just starting
out and they had all those good draft picks. But
you know, you see how difficult it can be to
(39:57):
get everybody at the right aid age in order to
compete for the Stanley Cups. So obviously Miko and those
guys were young, obviously had great careers, and it's very
interesting to look back and and you just noticed different
things about the game.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
The the Brian Ralston slap shot was that of immortality.
People used to ask him a lot of questions about
it when he played here. I probably should know this answer,
but I don't, so I'm just going to save it
for Brian with that with that big time slap shot. Man,
when when did you know legitimately you could unfurrow bombs
because that's what they were.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
Well, you know, early on when I played in the
American League with Robbie Vittorik and the Albanie River Rats.
Early on, I was playing on the point on the
power play. So it's something that uh, you know, I
always had a pretty good shot. I think it's inherent,
but you know, I was at an early age I
(40:59):
was giving those opportunities on the power play to play
defense and and I really did it my whole career.
So and in playing for Jacques Lamaire early on in
my career definitely helped me, h my defensive game and
being responsible defensively because you come out of school and
you're a big time offensive guy and that's not necessarily
(41:22):
you know what it's going to be in the National League.
So having played for him was was huge for the
longevity of my career.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
And Brian Ralston is our guest seventeen years in the
NHL three with the Minnesota Wild Wild in Winnipeg this
evening Wild dot Com for a special bobblehead and anniversary
celebration tickets Wild dot Com, Gabby Bobblehead autograph, stuff like
that available tonight Wild dot Com. And and you know
it's mentioning. You know that that you you coach or
(41:53):
have coached with with with your with your slapper with
with your slap shot. What what's the training for that
or is it just part of the gift, Because like
I would imagine you know that that you've coached kids
or seen a lot of players who they all want
to do that slap the puck as hard as you did.
(42:13):
But not everybody has that gift, you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (42:17):
No, absolutely, it is a gift for sure. And you know,
you see different players that are special in the National
League and those are those are gifts. And when you
get gifts, you have to you have to work extremely
hard to stay on top of it. And if you're
(42:38):
lucky enough to get, you know, gifts, I think you
owe it to yourself and all it to the people
around you that to to maximize those gifts with hard work.
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Uh. Just a few to close here with Brian Ralston.
If I happen to see you tonight, I'll give you
fifty dollars if if you can answer this question.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
Correctly, you ready?
Speaker 1 (43:03):
Yeah, Brian wore the sea all three seasons here. He
was a captain all three seasons here. Now your first
season five and six, there were five captains including you,
can you name the other four.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
Oh god, probably not well, I mean, what what what
am I barely well?
Speaker 5 (43:25):
Okay, here the well when when Jacques was there, we
had a floating sea. So he used to change months
at a time, okay, to to give different guys a C.
And I think he used.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
It as motivation a little bit.
Speaker 5 (43:44):
And uh, you know, if you had a really strong
monkey month, you got the C. But uh no, I'd
be curious to hear who they were.
Speaker 1 (43:52):
All right, Well, one guy's last name rhymes with Tuba,
Philip Cuba, Philly Cooba with wonderment. And then you had
Willie Mitchell. You had Wes Walls.
Speaker 5 (44:11):
All right, yes, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
With this floating sea.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
And I apologize for not remembering this guy, Alex Henry.
Alex Henry wore the sea that year. Who's Alex Henry?
Speaker 5 (44:23):
Yeah, that's not a surprise. He was a kid that
worked extremely hard, was kind of a guy that was
up and down from the miners to the NHL. And
great guy and well deserved.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
One of those names. Wes Walls, somebody I greatly admire.
He playing with Wes Walls. You know, of all the
players with whom you played for seventeen years, I mean
he was the ultimate scrapper, Puck Battles, just just tough
as nails, right, he was, and.
Speaker 5 (44:58):
I'm looking forward to see in him today. But uh, yeah,
he was. He and he's super intense guy. Uh, you know,
really a great team guy. I can't say enough about him.
He was awesome and he was another guy. You know,
a lot of guys got opportunities on those original teams
(45:20):
for the while that had been playing in the minors
and made you know, made the best of it and
and made themselves a career out of it. So it's
kudos to those guys that that worked extremely hard and
uh and made nice careers in the National League.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
Lastly, Uh, Brian, what what was it like playing with
Bill garn You played with him in New Jersey and Boston.
Speaker 5 (45:46):
Yeah, Billy was Billy Uh special player, special player Like I.
I came in as a rookie to the New Jersey Devils, uh,
and Billy had established himself maybe one or two years
maybe before I went in. So yep, I've known Billy
a long time and he took me under his wing
and made a big difference in my career, and I
(46:07):
ended up playing with him again in Boston. So we
have a long history for sure, and you know I'm
and his wife and so there's a long history there
between Billy and I.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
Enjoy the evening, my brother, and thanks for the time
on the radio and coming back for the twenty five
year anniversary tonight.
Speaker 2 (46:29):
Have a wonderful day. Okay, yeah, thank you, see you.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
But Brian Ralston three years with the Minnesota Wild, and
we have the twenty five year anniversary bobblehead ticket package for.
Speaker 2 (46:42):
The Wild this evening.
Speaker 1 (46:43):
They also have anniversary celebrations November fourth, I think it's
against Nashville, then one in late December, one in late January.
But tonight, the ticket package includes a Marion Gabrick bobblehead,
plus the uppertunity to get autographs from the likes of Pierre,
Marc Bouchard, Marion Gabrick, Brian Ralston, Stefan Vayu. That's at
(47:07):
a special pregame signing and the Wild this evening are
going to unveil the twenty fifth anniversary sweater, the jerseys
for the first time, paying abbage to the team's inaugural season.
You're going to take a peek at those sweaters at
shop dot NHL dot com. Second hour begins with the
scribe chatting about the Minnesota vikings.
Speaker 2 (47:29):
Ben Gesling joins nine to noon next
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