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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, you just got to go to tugging on the
heart strings to begin a nine to noon. You work
your root for you're at the stadium, you're watching, you're
listening to the audio network. You get through it, go
to bed, wake up. Here comes Monday and then the
con gets us with the missed opportunities patented Monday Morning
montage and just starts talking on the old heart strings again.

(00:23):
Well that one stung me. What about everybody else? Let
me think about it. Raven's loss, I was like eight
fall starts. Really, I mean whatever, Let's watch Finchy smash
Sacramento Falcons and no touchdowns in the home openerh Now

(00:46):
McCarthy needed the first start at home. Get it at
a time, nerves, I don't know, it's late, it's late
in the evening. We'll be okay, Ay, roj a rog
and the Steelers. We're in Ireland with England next on
the docket. It's early in the trip. Everything's the bomb
with this blessing pints on me for every table in

(01:08):
the pob ninety nine bottles of beer on the wall,
ninety nine bottles of beer. Eagles they're the champs and
they're just better and more poised at this part of
the equation that chargers Thursday night so ridiculous on many levels,
with the Scott Mattlock trick and our head coach being

(01:29):
portrayed as a as a barbarian sacrificing humans for profit.
Spend an hour the next day in studio with mad
producer and it's the weekend at eleven fifty five. I
guess we're okay. Yesterday yesterday, and that was a division game.

(01:51):
Those are our very favorite, aren't they?

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Beloved?

Speaker 1 (01:56):
They are our favorites, and we generally win them unless
it involves the color Honolulu blue, generally being back to
twenty twenty two, Yesterday was going to end just like
the first one against beloved BJ. Get way back in

(02:20):
the race, make a move on the far turn, or
run them down at the wire, even even the slate
at Nickel and Nickel on the lambo. You know it
absolutely can be argued the team wearing all purple yesterday
had no business winning as they entered the final quarter.

(02:42):
As they entered the final stand zone, but then frustration
and head spinning became fun and joy and glee and wow,
how did that happen? Kind of like a bunch of
them in twenty twenty two. Remember that year Buffalo Merry

(03:05):
Christmas Vikings fans, Greg Joseph, you know, very much like
the first place Chicago Bears and how they win them
this year. However, as Nordo so adroitly put on fanline yesterday,

(03:28):
this has become a choose your own venture odyssey each game,
each half, each quarter, Urry, hurry, step right up what's
behind this curtain? Choose your own emotional adventure, and prepare

(03:49):
to get that blood flowing. Some examples include, but are
not limited to, our race, our race, step right up,
swing from our trap. We can do that with the
league's high enders being schemed open for around two hundred
passing yards and being missed, and adventures seeking fans getting

(04:14):
up to chair and plopping back down in the chair
with a big fat ug. He was open. It would
have been a big play, It would have been a
needed hit. Instead, the trapeez broke, we came crashing to
the ground, and that adventure odyssey has come to a
conclusion with collective broken backs.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Want to climb Mount Everest? We can do that too.
Here are the rules.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Get down, multiple scores, traverse and scale the treacherous mountain,
get right to the top for the social media selfies,
and wham, some abominable snowman named Dev Duverney gets to
push you off the top and you go toppling to

(05:04):
quite possibly your snowy doom. Wait this twenty twenty five
Minnesota Vikings Choose your Own Adventure odyssey also includes what
could lead to a career on the silver screen. There
you get to play the part of a villain for
ninety percent of the flick, only to shed the suit

(05:28):
and out pops the superhero to save the day as
the quarterback of that role. That means with Choose your
Own Adventure, the baby game offers the opportunity to face
immense pressure, crack at times because you're so new to

(05:50):
the endeavor and adventure, break some hearts along the way
and in villainous fashion, only to save the damsel in
distress at the end of the story, and you're right
off happily ever after, Happily, ever after. Nine to Noon

(06:13):
doesn't want to choose adventure, odysses anymore. No, nine to
noon does not want to choose adventure odysses anymore. We
don't want to walk a balance beam across the Grand
three to two. We don't want to walk a balance
beam across the Grand Canyon one adventure and then get
a chance to sing with all the greats in Motown

(06:33):
and actually hit all the right notes and win the game.
Here's what we want, and it's off a talk back
yesterday on Vikings fanline. The guy just nailed it right
on the head. It's the synchronicity, or the lack thereof.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Tell l.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
L consistently lacking the sink, the sink, the sink is
on fire, consistently lacking the sink, not circling the drain
of a sink and about to head down the twenty
twenty five NFL season drain, lacking the sink as in synchronicity.

(07:22):
Think about it. Offense rolls defense banged up in Leaking
Scott Matt Locke, though defense deals the show, Addison Howkinson, Jefferson, Jefferson,
and all of them either missed an opportunity or we're
way overshot or whatever. Then when the defense starts sacking

(07:45):
the unsackable in Caleb Williams, Myles Price gets loose on
a long punt return and JJ McCarthy, in cold blooded fashion,
guides them to what's supposed to be a game winning touchdown.
Coverage makes Duverney look like the real Devin as in

(08:06):
Hester and Santos walks off on us. Harry step right up.
It's a choose your own adventure odyssey. Or so says
the con The twenty twenty five Bears have become the
twenty twenty two Minnesota Vikings.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
They're just gonna.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
Win all of the pressure field games, I guess, and
credit to them the work Ben Johnson has done with that.
Quarterback Caleb Williams doesn't take many sacks, runs when he's
supposed to, and generally doesn't make the foolish throws we
witnessed a bunch last year. I mean, he's no Bob
Avellini yet, but he's getting there. He's the toughest quarterback

(08:48):
to bring down since Ben Roethlisberger played.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Yes, and he is. I might even have said it
to Captain Cool yesterday.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
Talkbacks around nine forty the analyst at ten, and he
left the stadium pissed off. The Sultan gets run twice
this week? All right with that? Stop Sultan gets run
twice this week, today and Friday.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
All right with that? I'm cool that I love sinny.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yeah, the Sultan gets run twice this week, today at
eleven thirty five for the Border battle, and again Friday
at the Feast Buffalo Wild wings Blaine into the next adventure,
which takes place at Lambo Field. Her urry step right up.
My mind was so scattered after that thing. Yesterday I

(09:44):
was chatting with some players and a coach in the
locker room about something Golden Go First football coach PJ.
Fleck said nine to Noon about their quarterback, Drake Lindsay.
That's his freshman quarterback. So he's a kid at a
time like McCarthy during the grime and through the mistakes
and miss players and missed opportunities, et cetera, largely due

(10:06):
to inexperience. PJ once said, you can't skip the steps.
You can't skip the steps.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yes, we.

Speaker 1 (10:18):
Nine to noon, and we all want McCarthy to be
above average or high end right now, and at times
for sure he has been. But the nine to New
mantra with him and from a couple of dads or
do and I raising kids personally and professionally, well.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
That can be challenging. That can be challenging, can it,
Daddy O?

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Raising kids can be the greatest blessing and the biggest
challenge of your.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Life personally and professionally. You cannot skip the steps. Aaron
Jones agreed with this bit that I stole from PJ
in the locker room yesterday. Aaron Jones agreed and is
all in on the kid this bit that I stole

(11:09):
from PJ Fleck. You just can't skip the steps. It's
all part of the equation to get to what you
believe will be a high end equation or elite, as
the coach of the Golden Gopher says, that's what you believe,
or you don't draft said asset where you drafted said asset.

(11:30):
And with this individual position, more than anything potentially in
all sports, you cannot skip the steps. DJ Hockinson was
all in on the stolen bit too, So I texted
PJ when I got to my car after the dramatic
l and wrote, quote, thinking about you as I leave

(11:53):
USBs with McCarthy, you just can't skip the steps. But
dang talk tomorrow, which would be today at ten forty five,
I'm listening to fan line pull into the Gatta jeast.
PJ wrote back, Hey, hey, you leave me on red

(12:18):
and he wrote pa can't ever skip the steps on
the way to elite Kobe MJ. Montana, Rice doesn't matter.
Own your scars, they are reminders of the battles you lost,
which create the winning of the war. How about that,

(12:45):
Own your scars, they are reminders of the battles you lost,
which create the winning of the war.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
RTB. Skull. Then he continued, say all.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
They want about him, he led them down the field
twice when they needed him. Most incredible response. Not many
of the fortitude to do that exclamation point he does
exclamation point exclamation point. Time and experience will create a

(13:19):
better result more consistently.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
I mean, okay, now, look the con stung. Everybody's stung.
Nobody wants to hear that I'm stung.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Nobody wants to hear any suggestions for out or nobody
wants to hear you can't skip the steps.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
Well guess what.

Speaker 1 (13:40):
I don't care, because it's fact you can't skip the
steps when it involves this position. PJ joins at ten
forty five today, after that text yesterday, I'm like, okay,
now I want to run through a wall and lay
on a sword for the five start. Kid with the
curly hair who is ten days younger, my daughter. As

(14:02):
tumultuous as it is for almost all of them who
choose to play that position, You just cannot skip the
steps if they are to get where they and those
who empower him believe he is going to go. As

(14:24):
tumultuous as it is for almost all of us, and
certainly for them who guide and teach and preach and lead,
and the one who chooses to play the position, you
just can't skip the steps that are transpiring right now.

(14:45):
Let's rap as in the weekend wrap provided by Hoffman
Cooling and Heating owner Scott Hendricks was that the game
yesterday and had some sweet seats by the end zone
where Addison seemed to win the game but the kick return.

Speaker 2 (15:02):
Anyway, great chatting with you, Scott.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Sorry about I'm sorry about the l and thanks for
picking up the weekend wrap Hoffman Heating dot Net. The
Wolves got beat Saturday night by the team from the
mile Get High City.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
Turnover on that play and they called it for a
travel as he went up and then came down with it,
you'll gets to a cutting Peyton Watson.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
He stuffs it through for two.

Speaker 4 (15:30):
Wolves might be out of gas four forty left to
play in the game. It's a ted point Denver lead.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
Edwards has been better, might have gone over eight from
three and that Saturday night tilt. And there's a vibe
with with our hol right now. I feel from afar
that I'm quasi not digging and if we can remember,
I will open it up for hot debating discussion at
some point today or maybe this week. Ooh might do

(15:58):
that with pea Fox in the on a lour Cooper
flag is at target Target Center tonight.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Well that's cool.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
Julius Randall should eat him up for forty. So everybody,
let's how well Wild played Vegas last night? And the visitors,
well they went broke.

Speaker 5 (16:20):
Zucarello, Harry's in back to Poldia trive tipped why by
artsnecd Frouck fifteen seconds to go in overtime, So Corrello
up top Boldie one touchback, Cuperelo cross past Caprice, Carrille.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Capriso is stuck in night. How the Wild would it
redo it?

Speaker 5 (16:39):
Over time?

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Our beloved Wild has not have not lost in regulation
in almost two weeks, and finally got beloved Bus, finally
got Gus Bust into the winter circle for the first
time in a couple of weeks. Carolina's here Wednesday, and
then the Christmas Colors hit the road for pert near

(17:01):
a week and right up to Turkey Day to the
NFL with the Hoffman Cooling and Heating weekend rap saw
Sam the main Man. Three two we can wrap Hoffman
Cooling and Heating. Sam the Man may have lost some fans.

Speaker 6 (17:22):
Donald lifts his leg to call up a silent count
snap against Pe down in last time. Now it breaks down,
hit jump past, he fronzen away again. Intercepted on the
Rams out the right side at midfield.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Alight takes it away with t wi La.

Speaker 7 (17:39):
Four interceptions in midnight mode.

Speaker 6 (17:43):
They turned Sam Donald into a pumpkin at Soapi Stadium.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
Four of them, four of them, you say, four picks
against the Rams.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Trip on this.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
Even though Sam the Man, who undoubtedly lost some fans,
had problems with the big spot game yesterday, he didn't
get sacked one time the Rams gop come on. The
Rams bludgeoned him nine times last January in Arizona. Zero

(18:16):
sacks come on happened zero, the same number of touchdowns
he threw in his biggest game, Clucking with the Chickens
take that Richard Sherman, that Broncos Chief game.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
They'll snap placement, kick all the way and it is good.

Speaker 8 (18:42):
They don't block this one like last year in Kansas City.
Then on the final play of the game, the Denver
Broncos have beaten the Kansas City Chiefs by a final
score of twenty two to nineteen.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Okay, okay, okay, okay, everybody's slow down.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Bon Nix is the bomb. Bon Nix is the bomb.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Shake sacks days Calm goes for two ninety five and
no picks against immortality.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
That would qualify as the bomb.

Speaker 1 (19:12):
Pretty good for the second year, guys, twenty eighth start.
That's as in bo Nicks second year in the NFL
twenty eight stars gotten pretty good, hasn't he?

Speaker 2 (19:22):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (19:22):
Holy cow. Nordo's Broncos are nine and two and pronger
with a ponytails. Chiefs are five and five, and while
five and five probably has Chiefs Kingdom and that fan
base all wound up. Shoot, we pay hard cash for
that five and five around here. I always love that

(19:43):
one and a spine and a spine tingling went at
the wire like yesterday should have been. We take that
five and five around here. What do you complain about Pronger? Yeah,
I know Pronger, cue the hot take talker on ESPN.
I'm looking forward right now. No, they went a different direction.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
They went.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Is the Chief's reign officially over? I thought it was
going to be. Are the Chiefs going to miss the playoffs?
Nine to Noon doesn't care if the Chiefs miss the playoffs.
We are football dads watching a respected staff raise a kid,
and that requires all of our focus and patients as

(20:28):
fans recognizing you just can't skip the steps en route
to what we hope is immortality. Lions and Eagles, Lions
and Eagles.

Speaker 9 (20:40):
And here they are, and the Lions aren't leaving the
offense out for fourth and goal. It is a mindset
and a mentality that Dan Campbell has, he wants his
guys to have.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
He believes over time. Go ahead to Ross Tucker downs.

Speaker 9 (20:55):
We'll pay off the ball Topurt down a goal from
the four trips right, single man left, golfhle brin seat
Rabbis short motion takes the staff back to pass rust
coming crows at the ends, in complete, and the Eagles
turn away the Lions again.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
The Lions are all for four on fourth.

Speaker 9 (21:14):
Down and they come away with nothing.

Speaker 1 (21:17):
You know, the old defending champs, the e A G
L E S Eagles. They lost two fifts of the
Mill Creek Moving Company during the game. And still one
who beats the Eagles for all the money? I mean,
it ain't like an OKAC type statement, but who beats
the Eagles for all the money?

Speaker 3 (21:38):
Meanwhile, I mean it's rams Eagles in the NFC title
game and you're on your own after that.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
That's very very fairly stated.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Meanwhile, beloved BJ's former team, Beloved BJ's former team is
looking up at his bears in the standings and that
can't be going over well with all who loved allons
in the d not good for all of them. That's
all super special, and we're officially happy for and say

(22:08):
good for all of them, like Arizona quarterback Jacoby Brissett,
who completed forty seven passes in a game yesterday.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
That's a National Football League record.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
And we're happy for the Miami Dolphins, very very happy
for the Dolphins, who now have as many wins as
the Minnesota Vikings l And good for Shador Sanders who
finally got to play and almost beat the Rough and
tumble Ravens. Problem is his yards per attempt was two
point nine. He threw a pick and of course was

(22:38):
sacked twice despite limited action, which is perfect and analogous
given in his two years at Boulder he also was
sacked ninety eight times. L So there's that big bad
dog right there, big bad dog right there, speaking of
big fat uggs. Devin DuVernay, Oh, a briiker kicking it

(23:01):
to the east side of the US Bank Stadium boom,
A shorter kick by design DuVernay from his own three
heads right, five, ten, fifteen, twenty.

Speaker 7 (23:10):
It's a nice block from Blackwell Eric Wilson trying to
running down with blue record and just blockwell, make that
Devin DuVernay out of bounds, deepened biking's territory. Devin DuVernay
with a cold blooded return of fifty seven yards.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
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(24:12):
Tech and timber Tech dot Com Nordo producers and I'm
Paul Allen. Back after this Green Bay Jeff the name, Jeff.
What does that do for you with the Green Bay packers?
Probably nothing? And that's okay, Jeff, And I mean like

(24:34):
Jeff Haffley, Jeff the Lightsky Well the lights g Jeff
our lights guy from Eden Prairie to Chaska to chan
Hassen and every town in between.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Jeff the lights guy. You're familiar, right, sure?

Speaker 1 (24:48):
YEAHR knows Nordo and I I've known him for a decade,
about a decade, all right, quality worker and handyman. Occasionally
provides some wood for the announcers fire place and those
cold winter nights.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
Jeff, Oh yeah, don't leave home without him. I love
Jeff G.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
All right, now, how about this got my lights up
early this year, by the way, No, that's that was
by design by him, so he could capitalize on more
lights in November and December and other neighborhoods. Neighbors, there's
a pa in capitalism.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
I'm good.

Speaker 3 (25:25):
I'm in favor of it. He's good at what he does, Jeff,
don't leave home without him, all right? How about this?

Speaker 1 (25:30):
So I come home yesterday after the al and Frosty,
Santa and Missus Claws were illuminated on my porch. And
I'm telling you the truth there really, so I don't
I don't have much left from my mom, who died

(25:50):
in two thousand and six, but I have three stand
up figures, each of them about four feet tall, of Frosty,
the Snowman, Santa and Missus Clause. And those memories are
in the neighborhood of sixty years old.

Speaker 2 (26:11):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
So they were displayed on the balcony of Private Hill
apartments adjacent to Washington, d C. And Oxen Hill, Maryland,
which overlooked Rosecroft Raceway and Miles Spier's house. So that's
how long that I've had those. And my mom had
those and she left them behind, all right.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
But Flora. Were you a second floor or a third
floor guy?

Speaker 1 (26:35):
Well, after yesterday's game, I was thinking twenty at Flora,
and I was hoping for Devin Duverna to push me.
You know, it's create your own adventure and that odyssey.
So old people and old decorations get tired. Those things
haven't worked for two years, all right? Those stand up?

(26:56):
The stand up Frosty, Santa and Missus Claus. You see,
there was a short in Frosty's lighting. Missus Claws was
missing two brackets, and Santa had rust in all the
wrong spots. They hadn't worked in two years, hadn't displayed
them in at least two years. They were out of
the Christmas chat. So I roll home a couple hours

(27:18):
after the l and there they are, right is Christmas Day, illuminated,
cleaned and looking beautiful. Jeff repaired them. Jeff the packers fan. Wow, Well,
now ringcams are cool. Ring cams can be cool, all right.

(27:40):
Jeff decided to repair them and get them going at
the precise time his packers closed with Josh Wiley and
he's skipping around on my porch when Santo's walked off

(28:02):
on the Minnesota Vikings.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Sure got the things in his ears. He's got.

Speaker 9 (28:12):
His ears.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
No, no, no, he has us in his ears.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
He's looking at Wiley on his phone. Ringcams are cool
because they got time stamps. So well that creates a conflict. Well,
well we're gonna get to that conflict momentarily. I mean
that took place right when I got home. I mean
he must have darted out of there, and he's a
Packers fan. He decided to repair them and get them

(28:39):
going again because of time stamps. Nearly the exact time
Josh Wiley beat the giants or excuse me, the the
Packers beat the giants, and was skipping around on my
porch when Santos walked off on the Minnesota Vikings ringcam,
huge smile, green and gold, glee and absolutely no purple pain.

(29:08):
Is this cause for dismissal? And having somebody else do
our lights?

Speaker 2 (29:14):
There?

Speaker 3 (29:18):
So there's the conflict. That is the conflict. There is
a conflict here here? Is is it cause for dismissal?
Because if I'm out, you're out? It is kind of
a team thing, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
I mean, yeah, I generally would like to think it is.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
I mean, if you're out, my price probably goes up
one hundred and fifty percent.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Well, let's look at it this way.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
I mean, you're a lot better now than you were
in your fifth show, rude, So I mean.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
I've waited a long time for this. I'm a boot
you to the side, now.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
You kidding me? It's five shows. Everybody's all over you.
So he give him some time. Okay, we can't skip
this step, remember the Adrian interview. Though we can't skip
the steps. HEDJ Toss. That's true.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
I hope he's not mad. Or read that text on
the radio.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
The.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
Heart that he showed going out of his way to
repair those ornaments.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Right, but he made it like you came home to
a Christmas with stockings full of coal, And I want
to fix the brackets up in missus Claus. You got
to get up in there and I want to fix
those brackets. I'm going to fix the short and Frosty's wiring,
and I'm going to scrape off the rust that's on

(30:35):
Santa so it's illuminated beautifully, just as your mom had
it six decades ago and fifty nine years ago when
you were born. Paul Allen, I think it's net neutral.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
The good that he did, combined with the then dancing
on the proverbial grave of said football team on the
porch of the Vikings announcer. I think those two cancel
each other out. I mean, the the only alternative is

(31:10):
maybe getting you know, extra icicles, making it a little
more difficult for him to get to the lights.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
You could be petty. I'm happy what he did.

Speaker 1 (31:18):
If I didn't see on the ring cam the timestamp
of when the Packers win right in front of when
Santo's walks off the things in his ears, He's listening
to the vast and number expanding Viking's audio network on
kfa N. He's smiling with glee and joy as Santos
puts a freaking dagger in our hearts.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
He's thriving in your misery. He's thriving in the misery
and doing so for profit.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
We've done a lot of that over the course of time.
I ain't paying you for that. By the way, if
you're listening, Jeff, you did that on your own volition.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
But this maybe this is different. It might be different.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
This might be the last season, This might be the
last year that we use the lights. Guy, But you've
maintained a solid friendship with many enemies over the course
of your time.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Like the one who lives next to me, Cotton, John,
the Packers fan with the Gilbert Brown gnome, and he
rolls out last night and I'm taking out the trash
about after being home for about an hour and he stops,
puts the window down. Packer loving Cotton is kind of
like when both of our team's got a lot of
work to do. Okay, look here, don't freaking appease me.
You're super happy this team washed. Your quarterback sucks when

(32:27):
it comes to big spots, and good luck with that
deal you gave him.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
I always, but I'm sorry. I didn't. I'm sorry, See John,
I didn't say that. I didn't mean it. I'm just
card right now, thriving in other people's misery.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
It makes us imperfect, It isn't right, but there's a
feeling that emanates from it.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
I think you keep I think you keep working with them. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Likewise, friends close, great enemies closer. And when the Vikings
go to Lambeau preach that a week from today, breach
that and find a way again is beyond all levels
of comprehension at this point, with a weird four and
sixteen that isn't disciplined, it's weird and bad, and then
it's elite for moments. If the Vikings go to Lambou

(33:10):
and get a victory next week, add some lights to
the tree, Add some lights to the tree.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
I'm going to buy a root of and purposely break
the lights and put it on your doorstep, and then
fix the lights and your ring caam and I'm going
to be filled with smiles and glee and ringcam packers
Packers Fan on my porch.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
And as the Packers and Vikings find themselves in the
third and fourth place in the division, we get that
all dance on porches with ringcams and commiserate together.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
Packers Fan on my porch. Duvernet gets loose and Packers
Fan is smiling and laughing like Doug grow onward. Need
to beat them over there Sunday, don't we we do well?
They can be had. Should be a humdinger. I'm really
into our division games this year, but this Vikings run

(34:02):
has been Nordo's pick your Adventure odyssey. And the next
the ride takes us to talk back down, which I'm
quite sure will be super special.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
You're listening to nine to No.

Speaker 10 (34:25):
I agree with the idea that we need to let
the kid grow at quarterback. What's going to happen happens.
What I don't understand is why nobody is calling out
the defense. It seems game after game we have people
in second and very long, third and very long, and
it almost always seems to be a first down. Also,

(34:46):
I know we're playing a lot of zone, but how
do is there not a viking within two yards when
the guy makes it.

Speaker 1 (34:54):
A couple of things here first, thanks for the talkback.
Appreciate you not only listening to nine to noon, but
listening to KFA, n IF and or when you do.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
My friend Nordo and I are not going.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
To go down the road of zone or man or
the whole old dontel dia dribe the Donatel narrative, and
they're always so far away from that corners. Okay, I
mean what do they do right after the snap? I mean,
I have no idea. We don't look for that. We can,
but I don't. I can't answer the zone question. Yeah, the.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Third and I don't know.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Twenty one's third and eighteen's and there's Loveland and they're
in the Atlanta game. No, the Cincinnati game, there was
Chase Brown, you know, before the blowout was on. It
was a third and a million defense playing out of
its mind good and Chase Brown like pushed Vikings for
a first down. So you understand what you're saying. With
the handful of examples in that individual scenario that's taking

(35:49):
place this year, it's very, very difficult. I don't have
the team stats in front of me.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
I know my.

Speaker 1 (35:57):
Analysis of this is going to be right, but it
doesn't mean that the over arching opinion or take would
be right. But it's difficult for me to get down
on one side of the ball when the other side
has it like two thirds of the game. Yeah, when
the time of possession, it's at one point the Vikings
were killing the Bears in time of possession well first

(36:21):
quarter and then Burstich in the second half was like eh,
I mean a favorite, fondest memory of that time of
possession lead because now the Bears are up by like
eight minutes on the time of possession, like eight minutes,
Holy cow.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Yeah, the Vikings had actually kind of dominated it until
that Manungai drive.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
I mean that was brutal.

Speaker 3 (36:41):
Yesterday, man, you watched it twice that was a fifteen
play seventy four yard drive, eight and a half minutes
off the clock. Yeah, they had that ten play drive
that was an as bad five minutes in the third quarter.
But yeah, that's when when the worm turned on possession
and you're dead on. I mean the Bears had nineteen
more plays on offense too. It was like seventy four
to fifty something. Same thing, same thing happened week one.

Speaker 1 (37:03):
I think we only had forty seven plays week one,
something like that, forty seven or forty nine excuse.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
Me, seventy three to fifty four. It was nineteen more plays.

Speaker 8 (37:10):
Geez.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
We actually outgained them more play per play offensively. But
when you don't have the ball and to that point
like in a vacuum, yes, it's super frustrating. You get
that fumble, you don't fall on it, but it's that
massive loss. And then I think the very next play,
it's I mean, terrific throw from Caleb. We have to
give him some credit here.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
Loveland to a dounza, Oh a donza. We were going
left to right.

Speaker 3 (37:34):
We had the fumble, it's second or third and long,
it had to be second, and then he gets and
they end up converting the first down because it was
like third and one or two. Yeah, but the Loveland bit,
I mean, my goodness, the third and fourteen it's like
a seven yard catch and then somehow he threads the
needle yep, between Hitman and Mattelis.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
Well see that.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
But overall grand scheme, I mean, hey, we're gonna give up.
We're gonna give up nineteen points to the Bears on
our own. Go win the freaking game.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
The analysis of it quick twitch from me top of
the head from yesterday. If we want to discuss defense,
is misstackles there. But again, I mean like Jalen Redman
had some arm tackles late in the game that they
were running through. I mean, he's playing big people get tired,

(38:23):
and he played and they played so much in that
second half because of the offensive. L's that we're transpiring
that there were mistackles that can't happen. Okay, you don't.
You're not supposed to miss tackles, whether you're tired or not.
So yeah, they missed. They missed too many tackles yesterday
and that was quite frustrating to yours truly.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
Le'll rattle through some talkbacks here free iHeartRadio app.

Speaker 11 (38:44):
Hey Paul Nordo. Look, I'm gonna sound like a broken
record here, but I think it needs to be reiterated.
JJ McCarthy's only twenty two years old. He's only played
in five NFL games so far. We as a fan
base need they give him time and patience because not
every quarterback develops at the same rate. The rest of
the season could very much look like it did yesterday.

(39:05):
But if we stick with it and keep the faith,
then who knows he might be rewarded down the line.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
Hashtag faith Radio.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
That's what nine to Noon is all about, has been, is,
and will be all about. The facts are the facts,
and while what was laid out there via the talkback
is a recognition that you cannot skip the steps en
route to what the organization believes is going to be.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
High end.

Speaker 1 (39:34):
High end is franchise quarterback high end. High end is
drafting one in the top ten high end is taking
one in what was supposed to be and kind of
is starting to look like one of the better quarterback
drafts in the history of the NFL, or at least
the last twenty years.

Speaker 9 (39:50):
But the.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
Road and the journey it can be arduous but the
reward is great at times for those who want to go.
And we're five through it. So the Lions game happened.
So did the two picks yesterday. So did the work
on the what should have been the game winning drive.

(40:14):
Quarterback had a lot to do with that. Quarterback had
a lot to do with the Addison pass right hash
front left of the end zone, tough pass. Quarterback also
had a lot to do with the pick six to
Nashaun Wright week number one. It's the fifth game, and
if you know, Richard Sherman, cornerback Immortality put a tweet

(40:35):
out yesterday with which I took umbrage, and I rarely
will respond to stuff like this, but it's like I
saw in Alan Robinson tweet, former wide receiver, former bear
being like did nine play today or something like that?
All right, Like I said a week and change ago,
the nine bit sucks, And I don't care who likes it.

(40:55):
If McCarthy, I don't care if JJ likes it. The
nine bit sucks. And there are reasons that I said
that the way I said it, and without identifying some
of the tentacles off the tenet of the nine bit sucks. Well,
it's starting to Beretford a little bit, because when things
don't go well, you're gonna get stuff like that. So

(41:17):
personally speaking, if I'm surrogate Dad, I'll eliminate the nine bit.
They'll all forget about it, and hopefully he does. Secondly,
Sherman was like, he's paraphrasing. I'm not you know, I'm
old enough to remember when I put this tweet out
saying you got an elite play caller O'Connell and the quarterback,
ain't it blah blah blah, And then I'm like, man,

(41:40):
I got a lot of respect for your NFL career, man,
but that's so shortsighted and there was more to it.
I don't know if he wrote back, because I haven't
looked at it since I put the set list down.
But that's happening. All that's happening right now.

Speaker 3 (41:53):
Well, people want to confirm if if you looked into
a draft and you're like, yeah, I don't know. I
like this player more now and ways it's almost becoming
instinctual that while we want this player to be bad,
we want you know, if you love JJ McCarthy, bo
Nicks must be awful and vice versa.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
If you liked the Oregon kid.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
You're saying, see, they're nine and two and this nine
thing in Minnesota is a complete disaster and we need
to cut them. I just think there's a lot of
this is how I saw it two years ago, and
in some ways, you're almost even as a Vikings fan,
you're almost trying to will this thing into the dumpster,
just for in some ways of being affirmed for you

(42:35):
your pre draft opinion of a player big time perfectly
stand it sucks.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Hit us with one more talkback.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
And I don't know how stack you are in Vikes bites,
but if we have room to play some there, that
would be cool. We'll find room for you today because
a lot of them came in.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
We only have so much time.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
We're the only radio show I believe at FM one
hundred point three KFA and the plays talkbacks talking about
the core four, not fan line. They play lot, which
is cool. So therefore we want to get in as
many as we can today and during the course of
the weekend.

Speaker 10 (43:05):
You're there.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
All right, here's a negative one.

Speaker 12 (43:09):
Keep trashing on Donald or pa JJ will never be
the quarterback Sam Donald is Sam Donald is way better
And I was right on the draft, I said the
Vikings should take Bonix called Bonnicks way more after it
than McCarthy. Bigger body, thicker, sturdier. He's built like an

(43:30):
NFL quarterback. JJ's too skinny, slack brows, young, too skinny.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
Y'all don't know football all right? Oh, I don't want
to handle that one.

Speaker 8 (43:41):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (43:42):
I like the voice. I love I love the talkback,
captivated by it. The y'all don't know football is I
guess that's subjective. You know, I didn't realize Bear Bryant
still was alive and knew how to use the free
iHeart audio talkback. Bear, Paul bear Bryant, thank you very

(44:03):
much for the talkback. And Sam Darnold right now is
better than JJ McCarthy. What did everybody think of Sam
Darnold third overall picking a draft five starts into his career.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
Oh, that's right. He got kicked out.

Speaker 1 (44:18):
Of New York for being one of the biggest top
five busts in the history of the National Football League,
or at least the Paul Bear Bryants of the world.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
Told us, heck, what did they think of him? In
March of twenty twenty four, when Vikings fans heard he
was joining the team.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
Well, then he went to Carolina, and Sam, man, how
in the heck can you not elevate Ian Thomas and
Robbie Anderson?

Speaker 2 (44:40):
You bust?

Speaker 1 (44:42):
Well, then he comes here and we win fourteen, and
then we get to the biggest regular season game in
the history of the National Football League, and he misses
five receivers in the end zone to get the one seed.
The old line protected, the receivers ran their routes and
he missed them. Then he got sacked nine times next week.
But that's I'm not going to put all that on Sam.

(45:04):
So let's fast forward Darnold Kat's ass of the Cappuccino
Capitol right biggest game of his Seahawks career against the
La Rams, the team to beat in the division. He
throws four interceptions against zero touchdowns. Who doesn't know football, brother,
Because the worst of the worst are the ones that

(45:28):
get you right to the most exciting moment. And then
in this Choose your Own Adventure odyssey, that's when the
trap door opens and we all pummel to our aquatic
due
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