December 12, 2025 • 45 mins
Hour 2 of the Friday Football Feast the boys do there weekly fantasy segment IHoP. Then we play some interviews that PA did yesterday with some Vikings players that are Texas natives about what this game vs the Cowboys means to them.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Then Welcome back Buffalo, Wild Wings, Plymouth.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
It is the Friday Football Feast five and eight Vikings
Sunday Night Football. Now, we had a deviation last segment
where we were talking about college football and your beloved Bama.
Another deviation from the vikings at least well until we
get to PA's choice.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
We call it I Hoop.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So it's a fantasy segment that we started doing in
honor of Paul and Paul Charchy in which he texted
us earlier this morning, he's listening to this show. This
was the closest you could basically walk her charge could
to the Friday Feast each and every year. It was
his favorite location. But in honor of Paul, we do
a fantasy segment. So it's simple enough. It's just touchdowns,
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six for pass or receiving or rushing and then four
for passing, etc. But we just pick a player each week,
we add up the points and then we see what's what. Now,
last week was super awesome because Scott Fish kind of
in the Paul Charchy and Fantasy Football Weekly Covenant. He
runs a foundation and it's called Fantasycares dot Org.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Sir.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
This is actually a charity and it's so cool. You
think about how how much money we'll throw into a
twenty dollars league, fifty dollars league, hundred dollars league. And
what he started doing years ago was was finding ways
to Hey, if everyone throws ten bucks into the kitty,
we can support this charity at the end of the league.
So while we're all having fun watching our favorite players
and teams, there's a charity element to it. And last week,
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two weeks ago, black it was last week.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Last week, they're all blending together, they're all bleeding that.
It's five and a fatigue, five and a feast.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
But Scott Fish said that courtesy of fantasycares dot Org,
he would like to support the I Hop segment and
as part of that, for every point each of us scores,
not just the winner at the end of the season,
but each point, all of a score over the course
of this year, Fantasy Cares is going to offer fifty
dollars to the charity of our choice, fifty dollars per point,
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per point. And so you have Kyrie, the Kyrie Jackson Foundation,
which is which is what Alec Lewis is supporting. I
have feed my starving children. That's an organization I love
to support. And then and then Phho's Second Harvest Heartland for.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
His and Second Harvest Heartland is the reason Chris Finch
joins nine to noon weekly and I told the story
excuse me last week just more quickly. When Nordo and
I first met Finch, it was at the State Fair
like five years ago. And you know, Chris and I
are about the same age, both from the East Coast,
both love the NBA.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
So Chris and I hit it.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Off immediately, and he's like, oh, come on the radio
show every single week if you want. And I'm like, okay,
that that feels like I got to go around the
sales staff and ask for fifty large and then he
let me know, no, I'm on the board for Second
Harvest Heartland.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Let's just talk about that occasionally. We're good.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
So so earlier this week, I told Chris on the
radio about Fantasycares dot Org and my group is Second
Harvest Heartland. I'm winning with fifty four points, Alex has
forty two, nor Do has forty and that Fantasycares dot
Org is putting up fifty dollars per point. I mean,
he just got me right off and said whatever number
you finished with, Paul.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I will match. Wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
So like my number right now is a twenty seven
hundred dollars, so they're fifty four hundred dollars and we're
we're at seventy three hundred dollars between three of us
with four weeks to go. So about the only mistake
I made Tuesday with the finch Chef and Fantasycares dot
Org is I asked him off the cuff, all right, well,
then you get to pick a receiver this week. I
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caught him off guard. I mean, he's like, you know,
I said, but you can't pick Eagles man, it's his
favorite team. So he said, all right, George Pickens. I'm like, god, no,
he did it. Yeah, that's special.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
They're playing the Vikings, so I need to root for
him to amass a lot of points for I hop Meanwhile,
all of us want the Vikings to win. But in
honor of Finchy, we're gonna keep George Pickens as my
wide receiver, even though there are others that I probably
would use, and I certainly wouldn't use a cowboy, but
Finchy's gonna match whatever I finished with for second Harvest Heartland,
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Nordo's Feed my Starving Children, and Alan is the Kyrie
Jackson Foundation. So that's the bit I hop in honor
of Paul Fantasycares dot Org. Once again, thank you very
much for that. Nordo goes first, and who are you
gonna take? And why well?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Hold on just the quick aside here on Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
If George Pickens does find his way into the end zone,
is it dak you know, fake to Javonte Williams looks off,
XYZ finds Pickens in the end zone? Is it touchdown Cowboys?
Or is it touchdown Cowboys?
Speaker 5 (06:11):
It's touchdown Cowboys. George Pickens just scored his second touchdown.
The Vikings still lead by six, and Finchy trade for
Kobe White right now?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Okay, I love that.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I'll get back on the KFA in Minnesota. Vikings audio
network driven by.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
The athletic I like that.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
If Vikings fans get paid and Pickens can get second
Harvest Heartland paid, then everybody's a winner for me and
feed my starving children. This week, gentlemen, we are supporting
one Muka Nkua and Nordo already has generated two grand
for feed my starting.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
I mean that's even just being in last a couple
of touchdowns out of it, that's still too grand, right there, man,
that's cool.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, being in last thinks though, I need to do
better for feed my starving children.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
And Pooka Nakula is.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Going to do it at home on Sunday afternoon against
the Lions.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I know that DeVante is getting a lot of the touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
This is an opportunity for exp with that uber injured
backside of Lions defense. Yeah, Pooka, his scoring comes in bunches.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
You saw it.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Get He went back to back twice earlier this year
in touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
He had two touchdowns last game. Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
And the reason I say that this is an opportunity
for explosives, I think DeVante really just owns inside the
twenty the weight he downs in the low red wade.
I like Pooka finding his way in once or twice
on Sunday against.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
The Lion And for us viewing it from Afar with
Alec and I both both in Texas, nor to back here,
we will be thinking, you're ready, go on and Pooka.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Pooka, Pooka to your satisfied.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Whatever it is, it's a do it by beat.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
You gotta be very pressed, old school saw. I wasn't
gonna try it started with two hours.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
If you want to be along with the ban Pooka
Nakoula for Man producer Alec Lewis, go ahead and tickle
the fancy.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Who do you like?
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I feel like I if I was doing this, if I.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Was smart, I would just look up, like who are
the highest projected receivers?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
And you're smart? But I don't do that.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I just pick somebody that I feel is going to
work this week.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I'm taking Jacoby Myers. Jacoby Myers. Well you know this
is for charity.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Yeah, Jacoby Myers acquired by the Jacksonville Jaguars right at
the deadline. He scored three touchdowns in three straight weeks,
and he's been huge for that offense. You know this, Pa,
I have been on the Jaguars since the summer. Like
I remember we had a conversation at the TCO Performance
Center where I said it was like, if you could
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take a team's over under this year, it would be
the Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I remember that.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I really liked them, and I feel like Jacoby Myers
has given them a lot offensively. Again, three touchdowns in
three straight weeks.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, so, and that's my pick.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
In fairness though being high on the Jags and all
that and joking, this is your second Jag that you
have taken in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
They're playing the Jets, right.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I don't think the Jets have an interception this year
on defense?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Well done.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
They also they played man Aaron glenn Is like stuck
in nineteen ninety nine, where like he just wants to
play man coverage the whole game and it just that
just can't It just doesn't happen, right, franchise, And you
guys know, Liam Cohen, Trevor Lawrence had maybe the best
game of his career last week.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
So I'm kind of betting on that.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Their O C Grant Yudinsky, the way I if mine.
He's he's definitely done a good job early on there,
but he's recovered from the Duval.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I think he's recovered from that.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Well, he was gonna take a lot to recover from that.
But their OC Grant Yudinsky used to be in the
Vikings building. Grant was a valued member of the past design.
He's brought a lot of the passing wherewithal down to
Jacksonville and Duval and so Jacoby.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Myers is my pick, my selection per Chris Finch.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
George Pickens wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys, Go Georgie
and h I got Pickens. Jacobe Myers goes the way
of alec Lewis and pook it. You're satisfied for Eric Nordquist.
Fantasycres dot org. Support it if you're so inclined. It
supports the Friday football feast. And and we we kind
of are in unison with with adoration for things like
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this and do certainly Vikings football.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Is Jay Ward going to be lining up across from
George Pickens?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Well, I'm not privy to share that information, mister alec Lewis.
I'm looking for Fabe to shut him down.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Let's just say.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
You've watched practice in the last couple of days and
you may or may not have seen the defensive alignmentlake.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Did you hear did you hear x's and o's or
listen back to any part?
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yeah, I listen to most of it. Eleven o'clock on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah, listen to most of you started the conversation, Jar.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Jay Ward Nubb the sack that's five and a radio
start your you were.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Asking him to begin the conversation about jay Ward acquiring
a sack. He brought baby in Moreau's defense, and I'm thinking,
I mean, holy cow, we are at the I mean,
it's not nothing again like that, I.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Want to show the crowd went from there.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Well, yeah, then you guys got into nine and I
was like, I went and I leaned forward to.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
My chair, like, all right, this is highly entertaining.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Were you were you surprised by that that you saw
so much jay Ward specifically, yes, certain packages playing corner
or being in that spot, and you know burst its
earlier in the week he's talking about like converting safeties.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
This looked a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
This looked like that was actually an intentional spot where
Isaiah Rodgers is on the wrong side of the white
line waiting for his chance to come in and nickel
in other spots.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
That's what it felt like.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Jay Ward was essentially like the boundary cornerback, which was interesting. Now,
I will say this, there was a lot of pre
snaped shenanigans.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Going on in that game.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Like there were like Chaz Chambliss would run out there
and then not be in the game.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Tavier Thomas mistake, and I know what was happening. There's
the TV time he's playing.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yeah, they're they're playing like a pre snap, you know, disguise,
But I don't know what the deception like. Do I
think Cliff Kingsbury was shaking in his boots because Chas
Chambliss is running out.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
To the number I got in and take baits out.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Yeah, like, oh my goodness, how am I possibly gonna
recover here?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
He probably was shaking.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
In his boots because Brian flour is running cross dog
blitzes up the middle.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Either that or after he got fired from the Cardinals
he went to Thailand by himself for two and a
half months and he found himself missing that.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It was that Chris Thomason, by the way, the you know,
I consider myself, I mean you just you have kids,
you have families, real life, fun life doing radio and
stuff like.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I feel like I have a fair amount of bandwidth.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
But when you were doing exces no speaking to the
coach and after we get through Morow we get to
nine and the memes and all that, I think it
was towards the end talking about the TV timeout thing,
like I'm just pictured like as the head coach, like
he's got all these things that he's dialed in on
on a week to week basis. He's even thinking about
taking l's during TV timeouts because the defense can have
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as many people out there as they want.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I don't want you offense can't.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
I don't want to run the risk of being like
the Tennessee Titan sideline analyst and getting kicked out of
the chatter off the charter.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
So we'll just land the plane on this one like this.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
That's not the first time any of us have heard
about this time out runout to the numbers thing, and
I think we're going to see it and hear more
about it on Sunday night. Why because the TV timeouts
are longer. It's pushing the envelope. It's something you can
do to counter and a dramatic advantage other teams have
with their huddles.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Well, he's got thoughtful answers, But this was like a
passionate nineties It was clearly not the first time it's
been engaged in. Oh no, because it was a passionate
ninety seconds. Like, this whole thing sucks.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
So did it surprise you at all? With Jay Ward?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
I mean It's like when you know it's he blitzed
in who they played before, Green Bay Baltimore. Okay, so
he blitzed our Chicago. He blitzed in a game and
almost got there.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
So then I'm like, all right, well in the game
depth chart, I got to have some sack intel. Like like,
for Jay Ward, he doesn't have an NFL interception, so
if he picks one off, you'll hear. His last interception
was twenty twenty two against Mississippi State at LSU. First
interception three years something like that.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Well, I wanted to.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Do the same thing with the sack, and so then
I looked back through LSU no sacks. I look back
cole Quit County High School in Georgia and found the
game logs.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Took me about fifteen no sacks.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
That's an insane So finally in apple U, So finally,
and in Appleton after after our buses got to the hotel,
I found Jay and I said, when's your last sack?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Man? He goes, I've never had one. I go what
middle school?
Speaker 5 (14:40):
He goes, No, never, I've never sacked a quarterback in
my life. So that's what I was sharing with O'Connell
I'm in a radio to distract before the before the
the inevitable. Well, the nine bits sucks. Yeah, let's talk
about that.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
It does.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Well, what what if we when we get to do
vikings Christmas? So we write the twelve days and ja, hey, whatsacod?
How about that?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I love that for running high crosses.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
That's why, that's why I look on you, because that's
what happened last week off the radio, when you started
a bit and now all of a sudden, it's like
five Measlee when no.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Alex, we write the song?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Okay, no, but I will say I was shocked when
jay Ward was out there in the first nap of
the game playing quarterback. I do think he adds a
level of explosiveness in the secondary that this team has needed.
What about the ability to tackle, well, I mean that's
critical and I'm not trying to get negative, but this
team has struggled with tackling all season long.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
So I mean most of that has taken place when
the defense has been on the field way way, way
too long. And that's a fair point too, but it
has been a common thread, for better or for worse.
But just to close here on Isaiah Rodgers, Nordon said
something earlier that that I forgot to bring up earlier
in the week, and you said it like Ward's in
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and Rogers on the sideline. Okay, now when we're in Seattle,
I mean he got pulled. Okay, he got looked like that. Yeah,
I mean they like I put my headphones on Flores
and again, I want to stay in the charter chats
and we'll just stop sharing right there. But no, he
got pulled in that game. But now it's become a
thing where he's coming out every so often. He's our
best corner this year. Like, like, why Isaiah Rodgers is
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he is? I mean it's not about most highly rated
race in the history of the Kentucky Derby, but like, but.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Like, why is he getting pulled out?
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Well, the tackling, the tackling there were there were in Seattle.
There were four miss tackles and that was early in
the game. But here's the thing I'm gonna say. In
the Bears game on the edge, Isaiah Rodgers had a
real tough collision and believe it, like he had to
go to the medical after.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
So part of me wonders if the following week.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Hit comet high he didn't hit him.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
The right way, and Isaiah took the worst of him. Yeah,
and he even went still as he hit the turf.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
It was kind of surprising, so part of yeah, you're right,
it was so part he was wondering the following week
is the tackling because he's trying to, you know, guard
against that type of situation happening again. Now, I mean
that's always the question with some of some of the
undersized corners like him. You can have the speed, you
can have the toughness, you can have ball skills, but
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are you willing to run up and hit And in
this day and age, when the ball is finding the
sideline as much as it is, it's a pivotal point
of the game, pivotal pivotal.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Point in defense.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Yeah, and and the way the Cowboys play, they're gonna
get the ball to Ceedee Lamb and George Pickens in
space and it is gonna be an incumbent upon those
guys Byron Murphy, Jay Ward, Isaiah Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
If those guys.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Aren't tackling on the edge, we are not gonna have
an enjoyable night at at and T Stadium in that
press past.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Okay, So to land the plane on wide receivers as
part of UH in honor of Paul our ihop segment
Fantasycareers dot org.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
We don't need really any form of explanation here why
because we don't have time. But I want to hit
you guys with this anyway, because generally, like with our
fantasy with our baby fantasy game, if it's tight ends,
and we'll talk about tight ends around the NFL running backs,
same thing, stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Well, this is a wide receiver.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
So I'm gonna lay out five wide receiver names and
if you could have them right now for for your
favorite team, how would you prioritize them? And here are
the names wide receivers. Who is the best and why?
And then just do your best to rattle off the list.
Here are the five Jefferson, Jamar, Chase, Jackson Smith, and
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Jigba Puka till you're satisfied and ceedee lamb those five.
Who's first, Alec, Who's the best and why?
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Justin? Okay?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
You okay? And so you got Justin one?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
How do you go? Two? Three, four? Five? Man?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
It's so tough. Probably probably Chase, Probably Chase. Then I
I might honestly.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Are you offended either one of you if somebody puts
Chase ahead of Jefferson.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Not really, no, no, no. I will say though Justin Jefferson. Yesterday,
Ben Gaestling starts being tweeted the quote. Justin was asked
about leadership, and he gave this incredible off the cuff
quote like at and I just justin the maturity level
all year. I don't think you're gonna find anybody in
the NFL who at that level, who can display this
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amount of maturity.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Amid this situation, he didn't speak to the media after
the Seattle game. You were put on trial and Covenant
Court for having a significant problem with it.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I didn't have a problem with it. It was notable.
It was notable.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
It is It was notable because of how we're not guilty,
because of how much he does with the media.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
For him not to do something was notable for sure.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
But I'd say, well, you got the exact let's go trifecta,
superfecta and pent effecta.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Justin Chase, I might go c D. Frankly, I'd go
pookah wow CD. I like what about Jackson Smith? And
great is you get flummoxed by Flora Smith and Jigba
is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I also think that he's a product of what they're
trying to do offensively with Ubias offense and the best utilization.
That doesn't mean he's not awesome, right, I mean, justin
Jefferson statistically with Kirk in this offense has been pretty
good at Darnold last year. I just think McVeigh uses
Puka in every possible way, in every possible scenario, and
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he could block and and he is absolutely a physical
I mean he's a thoroughbred.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
He's tough to bring down. I think Pukah is the
third best of that group, So is Smith and Jigba.
So is CD.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Well, what about I mean I feel like what about
Amen ro Is he not in that man?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I thought about it.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Yeah, Common Rods pretty good numbers wise. I think he
would be. I think if you put Amen Ross Saint
Brown with these five, he would go sext What about
Jalen Naylor? Naylor, I think he's in a match race
with Cavante Turbin or twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
What about Ryan Floornoy?
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Look, he gets on the field, assuming Dallas, do you
think CD is gonna play this week?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
He is? He's playing all right.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
I don't know how because he got concussed in the
game and did the fencing position and now all of
a sudden he's already out of the concussion protocol, which
I've wondered all year. It feels like the protocol is
kind of less a protocol.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
That it's like a yeah, you're good. I don't really
understand how that's working, but whatever.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
This is like picturing your favorite are trying to determine
your favorite yacht?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Yeah, like, all five of these are terrific.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
So to say that, hey, CD is fifth and try
to drag on him, I mean, CD's awesome.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Awesome came out of that Jefferson draft too, which I
do believe is the greatest wide receiver draft in the
history of the NFL. So that's some context for that too.
But who could damn man? Who could beat you up
in the running game? Now that you mentioned that? All right,
when we return some locker room related drive bys involving
some Texas natives, and what is going to be like
going back to Dallas? Who we got here? We got
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Donovan Jackson, Miles Price, Ben Simms, Did you get Drake?
Now they're they're about seven. I talked to and we'll
play those back around the corner from Buffalo Wild Wings
in Plymouth.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
You're listening to the Friday football Feast.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
M.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Hey.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Yesterday yours Shirly opted to go to uh some of
Viking's practice and hang out in the locker room with
the likes of Alan Lewis and Ben Geslin and some
of our very favorite people. And I have my traps
with me, and I walked around finding a bunch of
Texas natives on the Minnesota Vikings and asked them, beginning
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with Donovan Jackson, left guard. Growing up in Texas. Donovan's
from Cyprus. You know, what's this America's team vibe?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Like?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Is it just nauseating? Is it overbearing? Is it still
America's team? And by the way, how hard you getting
hit for tickets for this game? Given you from Texas?
We begin with Donovan Jackson here it is Donova Jackson,
Cypress Texas native. Growing up in Texas? What did the
Cowboys mean to the state? And when you're growing up,
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whether you're a Cowboys fan or not, and you have
America's team just like always throwing at you and stuff,
what's that like being a Texas native?
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Yeah, you know, growing up it was my grandparents' favorite team.
So obviously, like Thanksgiving and all those days was we're
watching the Cowboys game. And obviously in the state, man,
the Texans are more of a newer French. For the
longest time, everyone's a Cowboys fan, and so it was
huge in the state. Obviously, I played in the Cob
Bowl a lot of times and college was able to
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experience at and T Jerry's world all that it's and
so it's it's huge, man, it's really exciting.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
And where is Cypress Texas compared to like Dallas?
Speaker 8 (24:16):
Uh, Cypress Texas is thirty minutes outside of Houston, and
so people think it's close.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
It's not.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
It's not close. It's all Houston's five hours from Dallas.
So but it's still close enough to make that drive.
So it's still it's still pretty relevant.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
But being even closer to say San Antonio, Houston or whatever.
I mean, America's team, Dallas Cowboys, it's just everywhere in
that stay right.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
Yeah, you know, They're obviously been a very popular organization,
popular brand for a long time, and so it just
resonates with everybody in that state.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Lastly, how hard are you getting hit for tickets for
this game?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (24:51):
Pretty hard. I mean I already already told my parents
to handle it. I told them to make people, make
other people buy the tickets. Is that tickets are not cheap,
They're not free. I think a lot of people have
that misconception that they just give us free tickets. That's
not true. So but I do have a lot of
people coming. It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Ben Simms Texas native. In fact, Ben Simms is from
San Antonio. So for the tight end, how long did
you live in Texas? And when it comes to the
Cowboys and the entire state of Texas, San Antonio, Houston, whatever,
and America's team which was forced down our throats for
so many years, Just what do you think about that whole?
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Aurum born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, went to
high school in San Antonio, and I went to Baylor
University for college. So I've been in Texas kid, my
whole life. Coming here three years ago, you know, it's
kind of I've never been to the Midwest. I've never
experienced it, I guess, so to speak. So the last
several years of my life has been full of it.
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But you know, growing up in Texas, like our Texas
high school football US Texans would say, we love to
brag about it, but we just think that's kind of
how it is, you know, having you know, that sort
of culture around the Friday night lights and all that stuff.
So football in Texas always huge, and you know, you
always there was always more Cowboys fans than there were
Texans fans in the state. But I can never tell
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you why, so.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Ben with the America's team vibe, which maybe may or
may not be the case now, but I mean it
was a big time branding, a thing created by Jerry Jones.
And you know, Jerry Jones done a lot of great
things for the NFL. But but growing up in Texas,
did you notice maybe elementary school, middle school, even high
school that because the Dallas Cowboys are so big in Texas,
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people pick sides. They're kind of like, I either want
to go with the flow or I want to fly
right into the face of it.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
That's right. That's It's kind of seems out either you're
born into it or you're not. It kind of feels
like for most people. For me personally, like growing up,
I was never a huge Cowboys fan. I just enjoyed
watching the game, and you know there were some teams
around the league that you know you always watched on
Sundays and same with college. But you know, i'd say
from a fan base standpoint, you know, they probably have
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one of the largest fan bases, uh maybe in the world.
You know, they're they're known for uh you know, being
an America's team and uh, you know, Jerry Jones is
built quite a quite an empire, I guess, so to
speak over there, so uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Lastly, how hard are being a Texas native? How hard
are you getting hit for tickets this game?
Speaker 6 (27:23):
You know, I was with another team to start the year,
so I uh we uh we played, Uh we played
in Dallas on Sunday night earlier in the year, so
we're actually even staying at the same hotel. So uh
we actually kind of knocked some of that out. As
far as friends and family wanted to come to the game,
they came to the first one. Thanks, but yeah thanks pa.
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Ben Sims tied in for the Minnesota Vikings. Kind of
an impromptu uh drive by Xavier Scott just real quick
a couple of this a Fordhood, Texas native here, how
long did you first and foremost with vershan Lee, did
I cut off your conversation because if I did, I apologize?
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Good so XAVI or fort Hood, Texas? How long did
you live there? And where's fort Hood like compared to Dallas?
Speaker 7 (28:07):
It's about I would know with the Austin I can't
remember exactly where there's from Dallas, but I have family
still still in Dallas to day.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Okay, So whether it's you or your family, you know,
just the.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Dallas Cowboys America's team branding vibe is how it started.
Can't necessarily say that's still the case now, but you
still hear about it. Did you notice at any point,
you know in Texas, like when it comes to the
Cowboys that the team is so popular in that state,
people would like pick sides. They either want to go
with the flow and I'm a Dallas Cowboys fan or
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they want to fly in the face of it and
like like a team that plays them.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yeah, how does I say?
Speaker 7 (28:42):
It makes it like a like a fifty to fifty
like people either choose they're either all in the Cowboys
or all in against them. But that kind of is
in the favor of the Cowboys when it comes to
just the population because if they have to be performed
and they're good.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
So do you still have family and friends there?
Speaker 8 (28:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (28:56):
I have one of my good friends. He still still
don't have the family down there as well.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
So you, unlike maybe Donovan Jackson and some others up
chatted with you, probably aren't getting hit super hard for tickets.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Oh no, no, not at all.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
Yeah, no, I actually have a couple of people. It's
not too crazy though, not than me. Say what say
New Hampshire's better than me?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Max Brosmer wants you to say New Hampshire is better
than Maine?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Can you do that? I can't do that because it's
not true. I don't lie. So and now look, I
don't want who won tears? Three years in a row,
two ears in a row.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
You come here talking about the Cowboys and civil war
breaks out.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I'm one in one.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
So we gotta figure out how we're gonna get that tiebreaker.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Thank you, Max, Max Brosman not a Texas native, thank you?
Alrighty a wide receiver kicking punt returner Miles Price a Dallas,
Texas native. How long did you live in Dallas and
with the Dallas Cowboys? Well, first, how long did you
live in Dallas. Oh my life twenty three years Okay.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Perfect, this unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
So the Dallas Cowboys, you know, self proclaimed America's team.
Not necessarily sure that's the case anymore because of the
social media and you know, it's the other teams and
popularity and stuff, but nevertheless that branding of being America's team.
Growing up in Dallas, what what do the Cowboys mean
to the entire state of Texas?
Speaker 9 (30:19):
Everybody love a cow you got okay, you got most
who love the.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Cowboys, And if you want a Cowboys fan, you hate
the Cowboys.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
Everybody who the Cowboy player you're against them. But my
whole family, almost my whole family are all Cowboys fans.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
So growing up in Texas, is it fair to say, like,
whether you're in elementary school, middle school, high school, whatever,
that you're gonna get people who live in Dallas and
are from Texas. They're either going to go with the
flow because that's their favorite team, or they're gonna be
kind of football counter culture and be like, no, too
many people like this team. I'm actually going to be like,
let's say a forty nine Ers fan or a Packers
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fan or a Vikings fan, you know.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Yeah, No, that's exactly how it is. You're either with
the Cowboys or you're the hate train. You're you're a
part of the hate trade. Like some of my family.
Speaker 9 (31:04):
I got the family whom Philly fans they hate the Cowboys,
not even from Philly.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Well, Dallas and Philadelphia. Like I grew up in Washington, DC.
So like when it was the Redskins, like Redskins and Cowboys. Man,
that was when I was growing up. That was everything. Well,
now that's not necessarily the case anymore with like the
Commanders or the WTF, WFT whatever it was. But when
it was Redskins and Cowboys, I mean, that was it.
But now it's like Eagles Cowboys.
Speaker 9 (31:30):
Right, that's exactly what it is, Eagles versus cowboy or
you got your Green Bay vers for Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
You definitely got those two. All right?
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Last one, and I'm asking everybody from Texas the same question,
how hard are you getting tagged for tickets?
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Being the Dallas Texas native.
Speaker 9 (31:48):
Gosh, look, I had to put my phone on mute.
I just stopped answering at this point. I'm like, man,
I can't help all y'all. I can't help everybody but
it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Right, But think about it.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
I mean, not only would you be bringing Vikings fans
into AT and T Stadium, but you'd be bringing more
Miles Price fans to get loud in the stands for
a kicker punt return touchdown.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Think about that.
Speaker 9 (32:09):
Listen when I say I legitimately have probably over two
hundred and fifty people who's coming, like that's simply going
because some of them, yes, the Cowboys fans, but mainly
because like they love me. Like so, I have so
many people that's gonna be at the game.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
All right, A couple of things here, A nine to
noon needs to have a microphone in front of Miles
Price more frequently.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah, he's fantastic, so good and so open.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
But secondly, there are some Vikings getting stuck for some
ticket prices for this game. But that's cool because that
means Purple and Goal will have some representation at AT
and T Stadium seven to twenty for the Boom on
kfan coming up this Sunday. So the Texas Natives are
excited to go back home, they generally are.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
They can I ask you something dun kind of off topic.
You mentioned Vikings fans and attendance. How dominatingly Cowboys is
the home environment at Dallas Stadium, and clearly that.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Would depend on the opponent.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
But in terms of just not always a fan bases
because I don't hear the roar right when I'm watching
those games, despite knowing that this thing is a freaking colisseum.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
It's Lambeau s Okay, now Lambo's but Paul Americana. But
it's not the loudest fan base in the history of
loud fan bases.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Well, they're all puke and outside the fleet Farm Gate's
usually what has happened.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Or their cheeks are frozen to those aggressive bleachers they
just refuse to remove.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
But it's a great crowd. It's a very dedicated crowd.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
It's more of a roar or like kind of a
den den than it is like Arrowhead or Seattle. M
and T Bank in Baltimore is the sneakiest for loud crowds,
and they're on you because they're close to the bench
and stuff.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I think that's how it's built too.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I've only been there for Army Navy games, but that
place is loud as bleep man.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
Yea.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
When they just the sound in the way that it
hits and ounce. It's cool stadium.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
We'll see like US Bank State with the footprint on
which they built it. It's not very big, so like
it more. Instead of going back and out on a
big piece of land, it goes up. So they're kind
of kind of overhanging on level three at and T
Stadium like Lambeau. I mean, they've got a big footprint there,
So it's just a massive, massive stadium. That's a Sunday
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at seven twenty and nine to noon continues from Buffalo
Wild Wings and Plymouth for the feast after this. Now
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around the corner eleven five or so, we are going
to dust off something we debuted last week called Covenant Court.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
I am the judge.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
You everybody here Buffalo Wild Wings, Plymouth, you are the jury.
The prosecutor is Eric Nordquist and a standing trial. I
under certain charges that were pretty egregious last week, not
so much this week. Is Alec Lewis of Anniston, Alabama.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I gotta be honest, I had I would be an
awful district attorney or prosecutor because I think my record
was terrible.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
If you have come last week, if you have committed crimes.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
In the way that we're talking about. You want to
go up against me, I'm afraid you're going to get
off scott free today.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Remember what the record was, Did you feel right, marketing director?
The answer is yes, he will be there this evening.
So that's coming up around the corner. And it's off
of victory where you shut somebody out listening to the podcast,
reading the tweets, reading the stories at the Athletic. It
took a lot longer than it did last week to
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assemble the discovery required to I.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Feel like I was pretty positive.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Well, we'll find out about that about ten to fifteen
minutes from now.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
A lot of stretching, potential jury manipulation in covering part
of recent attempt. You can just bring a bag of
cash to a juror in a big spot trial and
try to get them to go the other way. So
I don't have much cash today, ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
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Speaker 5 (36:09):
But or free subscriptions to the Athletic, I mean that
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Speaker 3 (36:14):
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Speaker 5 (36:17):
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Speaker 2 (36:23):
By thousand Hills lifetime grazed grass fed beef, and one
that was left on the proverbial cutting room floor.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
I'm curious of your opinions on this. It's Vikings Cowboys
Sunday Night. Which team do you think we'll have more
sacks in the game?
Speaker 3 (36:38):
And why? And here?
Speaker 5 (36:40):
And I'm gonna lay it out like this. The Vikings
have thirty three into this game. The Cowboys have twenty nine.
Dak has been sacked twenty two times through thirteen games.
McCarthy's been sacked twenty four times through seven. Now, I
mean the Darrisaw piece in this matters. So let let's
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say he plays. So let's put Darisaw in the mix.
So we got our best versus theirs. Yeah, we have
all the full time members of the Minnesota Movie.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Company and they need guiton right. Yeah. Yeah, he's been
d n P two days in a row. And if
they don't have him, their backup is is in the ILK.
It's Nick Nate Thomas, Yeah, something like that. But he's
in the ILK of justin school.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
Okay, school, just caught his second sight from Plymouth.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
And anyway, so who has more sacks and why I.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Would take the Cowboys to have more sacks in this
game than the Vikings. And I'm saying the Cowboys are
going to create more sacks in.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
The game than the Vikings. What about quick fire JJ?
Now I quick fire JJ? Okay, quick fire JJ would
be great.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
To see again, Well, technically that's not a sack, it's
just a loss of too.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
I will say Jadeveon Clowney, his availability is going to
be a important in the calculus. But Quinnin Williams, Kenny Clark,
Dante Fowler they have I mean they're they're rookie Donovan
as aakus he is a pretty good player, so I'll tell.
And then JJ McCarthy has just taken more sacks than
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I feel comfortable. Deck has been really good this year
against the blitz That doesn't mean he's gonna be good
Sunday night against.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
The Vikings Blitzes.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
But I would pick the Cowboys to create more sacks
in the game from a quarterback per sective more than
anything else.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Yeah, I'm currently in a spot where I would have
to agree with that, And part of it is super
low hanging fruit with the fact that you know, last
week we saw I think what are real measurable steps
that JJ McCarthy took, uh, predicated on the run game.
Dig that, and when we're defending Docs, after Alec defends himself,
we'll talk maybe about what we can do on the ground.
Speaker 7 (38:50):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
But but I think overall over the course of that
entire game, Uh, I'm just I just believe that what
we're seeing defensively from the Cowboys, albeit eber Flus's bunch
nothing special. Statistically, I think JJ hits the turf probably
more times than Dak does this week.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
Now with the with the offensive game plan that was
taken by O'Connell and the Vikings last last game, it
is do we believe that will be the same approach,
and actually do we believe it should be required to
be the same approach against a defense that I mean,
I'm not going to say it's completely analogous to Washington,
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because you know, when you hear me say human nature
gets to win, I mean human nature won against the
Commanders when the wheels touched down at MSP. That's not
going to be the case with the Cowboys on Sunday night.
You'll get more of an effort fueled by the crowd.
But nevertheless, it should the should the game plan approach
that was taken last week almost be required this week?
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Yeah? I think so.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
And what I when you ask that question, that means
heavy personnel and early downs, running the football with some
play action off of it, and then lay downs making
picture as clear as possible for JJ.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
When he has to drop back pass. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
Yeah, I that to me should definitely be the plan. Now,
what I will say is it's much easier for that
to continue to be the plan. If you lead fourteen
zero in the football game. Yep, you maintain your ability
to run the ball. You you know, you put the
defense on your heel heels, you create turnovers defensively, which
helps your offense.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
So like for me, yes, that should be the plan.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
But being able to stick to that is going to
be all predicated on how the early part of the
game goes.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Well. The interesting part about that, though, Alec, is the
fourteen zero matters and in the end you win thirty
one nothing On that nineteen play drive they had I
think it was ten touches by the running backs and
then you had to scramble for a third down conversion
by JJ McCarthy. So early in that game, even to
get to the fourteen zero, you had, in some ways
by KO standards, a very unique commitment to absolutely no
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matter what we're handing it off to Mason. I think
they're out of the seven six or seven first downs,
five of them were runs, and so there was the
commitment that got you there, which I think does need
to persist. And just think about how different that game
could have been too if in creating that great third
down picture that JJ wasn't converting what we saw the
third and eight, the third and nine, the tight ending
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clue is huge. That's where I would deviate from the
game plan and just wonder. I like the commitment to
run and all of that, but what maybe a wrinkle
or two is put into the spot this week where
we actually are trying to stretch it with number eighteen
a little bit more versus what we saw the tight
end heavy moments that led to production in the Commander's game.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
The other thing I will say, and I've taken some
clack for saying this.
Speaker 4 (41:41):
I didn't feel like, wait until this segment, I didn't
feel like the passing concepts on Sunday against the Commanders
were really any different than the concepts that they tried
to have JJ throw in Green Bay. The difference for
me was the Commander's defense is really porous, and JJ
McCarthy was accurate on.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
The concepts that he had.
Speaker 4 (42:03):
So there's been so much made about Kevin O'Connell finally adapted.
He final Oh, I really felt like the Packers game
plan was, you know, let's create as many runaways quick
reads as possible. It just even in that game, JJ
McCarthy struggle a little bit to see the field beat
decisive and be accurate. So for me, as much as
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the plan, like, can JJ McCarthy just be accurate again
and decisive as much as anything else.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
The answer is obvious because he.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
Was free free ball and the headset was a little
quieter on Sunday. Maybe there weren't six variants to a play,
maybe there were just two.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
So I think in terms of adaptation, I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
I think that, you know, in terms of what we're
trying to accomplish on these plays, it looked very similar.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
Sought the kid was a little faster and TJ.
Speaker 4 (42:53):
Hockinson said yesterday he was asked about the early part
of the game, He's like, yeah, you know, it was
a little routes on araish. That's that's what it was earlier,
routes routes on air ish meaning like practice like that's
that's kind of yes, and.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
That's what it felt like with the commanders.
Speaker 4 (43:11):
So I will be curious now again this is not
it does smell great wow, to not take away to
not take away from JJ McCarthy. He was more decisive
and he was accurate, and those qualities need to be there.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
Still coming weekend.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
But I will be curious with Matt Eberflus, their defensive
coordinator who makes me laugh usually when I listen to him,
Matt Eberflus, I will be curious, is he heeding JJ
McCarthy up? Is he playing off? Are they playing match coverage?
What does that look like? Progression? I'm just kidding, whatever
you gotta say, But I look, it starts with the accuracy.
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It starts with the accuracy and the decisiveness from JJ.
Speaker 5 (43:51):
Yeah, no doubt or like I said Donordo last Monday,
maybe the ruse, maybe the the long con here is
O'Connell knew Washington had succumbed to human nature when the
wheels touched down to MSB. So I'm gonna go ahead
and put this on tape, and I'm gonna throw that
thing ninety percent of the time on national television, and
(44:12):
damn it, Joey Jefferson's getting twenty targets. Whether he likes
it or not.
Speaker 4 (44:16):
You and I both know that that would warm his
heart splendidly to be able to do that Sunday night,
to air it out, to have the passing concepts deep
over the middle, high crosses, screaming, in breakers, running, that's
what they would like to nine put.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Forty points on the board, twenty five minutes of possession,
four play drives.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
And it was like, there are a couple of things
you can't overstate having the five offensive linemen and Ryan
Kelly had a dang good game. Ryan O'Neal was great,
great in the game. Those guys move people in the
run game. And I thought the backs ran really well,
like Aaron Jones and Jordan Mason. The vision was good,
the burst was good. So you know, it's not gonna
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be as easy against Kenny Clark and Quinn Williams and
Dante Fowler and Donovan Azerakus, so getting a push early
will be critical.
Speaker 5 (45:03):
They played like a team that looked like it had
heard or knew. You know what, We don't really want
to have the worst home record in the history of
this organization. Yeah, we really don't want to lose nine
in a row and we have the longest losing streak
in the history of the team. I mean, it had
a pop to it, there's no doubt about its historical Here.
Coming up around the corner something called Covenant Court from
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Buffalo Wild Wings Plymouth. It's the Friday Football Feast on KFAS.
Then Welcome back Buffalo, Wild Wings, Plymouth.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
It is the Friday Football Feast five and eight Vikings
Sunday Night Football. Now, we had a deviation last segment
where we were talking about college football and your beloved Bama.
Another deviation from the vikings at least well until we
get to PA's choice.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
We call it I Hoop.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So it's a fantasy segment that we started doing in
honor of Paul and Paul Charchy in which he texted
us earlier this morning, he's listening to this show. This
was the closest you could basically walk her charge could
to the Friday Feast each and every year. It was
his favorite location. But in honor of Paul, we do
a fantasy segment. So it's simple enough. It's just touchdowns,
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six for pass or receiving or rushing and then four
for passing, etc. But we just pick a player each week,
we add up the points and then we see what's what. Now,
last week was super awesome because Scott Fish kind of
in the Paul Charchy and Fantasy Football Weekly Covenant. He
runs a foundation and it's called Fantasycares dot Org.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Sir.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
This is actually a charity and it's so cool. You
think about how how much money we'll throw into a
twenty dollars league, fifty dollars league, hundred dollars league. And
what he started doing years ago was was finding ways
to Hey, if everyone throws ten bucks into the kitty,
we can support this charity at the end of the league.
So while we're all having fun watching our favorite players
and teams, there's a charity element to it. And last week,
(03:00):
two weeks ago, black it was last week.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Last week, they're all blending together, they're all bleeding that.
It's five and a fatigue, five and a feast.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
But Scott Fish said that courtesy of fantasycares dot Org,
he would like to support the I Hop segment and
as part of that, for every point each of us scores,
not just the winner at the end of the season,
but each point, all of a score over the course
of this year, Fantasy Cares is going to offer fifty
dollars to the charity of our choice, fifty dollars per point,
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per point. And so you have Kyrie, the Kyrie Jackson Foundation,
which is which is what Alec Lewis is supporting. I
have feed my starving children. That's an organization I love
to support. And then and then Phho's Second Harvest Heartland for.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
His and Second Harvest Heartland is the reason Chris Finch
joins nine to noon weekly and I told the story
excuse me last week just more quickly. When Nordo and
I first met Finch, it was at the State Fair
like five years ago. And you know, Chris and I
are about the same age, both from the East Coast,
both love the NBA.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
So Chris and I hit it.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Off immediately, and he's like, oh, come on the radio
show every single week if you want. And I'm like, okay,
that that feels like I got to go around the
sales staff and ask for fifty large and then he
let me know, no, I'm on the board for Second
Harvest Heartland.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Let's just talk about that occasionally. We're good.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
So so earlier this week, I told Chris on the
radio about Fantasycares dot Org and my group is Second
Harvest Heartland. I'm winning with fifty four points, Alex has
forty two, nor Do has forty and that Fantasycares dot
Org is putting up fifty dollars per point. I mean,
he just got me right off and said whatever number
you finished with, Paul.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
I will match. Wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
So like my number right now is a twenty seven
hundred dollars, so they're fifty four hundred dollars and we're
we're at seventy three hundred dollars between three of us
with four weeks to go. So about the only mistake
I made Tuesday with the finch Chef and Fantasycares dot
Org is I asked him off the cuff, all right, well,
then you get to pick a receiver this week. I
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caught him off guard. I mean, he's like, you know,
I said, but you can't pick Eagles man, it's his
favorite team. So he said, all right, George Pickens. I'm like, god, no,
he did it. Yeah, that's special.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Cool.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
They're playing the Vikings, so I need to root for
him to amass a lot of points for I hop Meanwhile,
all of us want the Vikings to win. But in
honor of Finchy, we're gonna keep George Pickens as my
wide receiver, even though there are others that I probably
would use, and I certainly wouldn't use a cowboy, but
Finchy's gonna match whatever I finished with for second Harvest Heartland,
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Nordo's Feed my Starving Children, and Alan is the Kyrie
Jackson Foundation. So that's the bit I hop in honor
of Paul Fantasycares dot Org. Once again, thank you very
much for that. Nordo goes first, and who are you
gonna take? And why well?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Hold on just the quick aside here on Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
If George Pickens does find his way into the end zone,
is it dak you know, fake to Javonte Williams looks off,
XYZ finds Pickens in the end zone? Is it touchdown Cowboys?
Or is it touchdown Cowboys?
Speaker 5 (06:11):
It's touchdown Cowboys. George Pickens just scored his second touchdown.
The Vikings still lead by six, and Finchy trade for
Kobe White right now?
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Okay, I love that.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
I'll get back on the KFA in Minnesota. Vikings audio
network driven by.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
The athletic I like that.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
If Vikings fans get paid and Pickens can get second
Harvest Heartland paid, then everybody's a winner for me and
feed my starving children. This week, gentlemen, we are supporting
one Muka Nkua and Nordo already has generated two grand
for feed my starting.
Speaker 5 (06:43):
I mean that's even just being in last a couple
of touchdowns out of it, that's still too grand, right there, man,
that's cool.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Yeah, being in last thinks though, I need to do
better for feed my starving children.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
And Pooka Nakula is.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Going to do it at home on Sunday afternoon against
the Lions.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I know that DeVante is getting a lot of the touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
This is an opportunity for exp with that uber injured
backside of Lions defense. Yeah, Pooka, his scoring comes in bunches.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
You saw it.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Get He went back to back twice earlier this year
in touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
He had two touchdowns last game. Uh.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
And the reason I say that this is an opportunity
for explosives, I think DeVante really just owns inside the
twenty the weight he downs in the low red wade.
I like Pooka finding his way in once or twice
on Sunday against.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
The Lion And for us viewing it from Afar with
Alec and I both both in Texas, nor to back here,
we will be thinking, you're ready, go on and Pooka.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Pooka, Pooka to your satisfied.
Speaker 5 (07:40):
Whatever it is, it's a do it by beat.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
You gotta be very pressed, old school saw. I wasn't
gonna try it started with two hours.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
If you want to be along with the ban Pooka
Nakoula for Man producer Alec Lewis, go ahead and tickle
the fancy.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Who do you like?
Speaker 6 (07:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (07:58):
I feel like I if I was doing this, if I.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Was smart, I would just look up, like who are
the highest projected receivers?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
And you're smart? But I don't do that.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I just pick somebody that I feel is going to
work this week.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
I'm taking Jacoby Myers. Jacoby Myers. Well you know this
is for charity.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Yeah, Jacoby Myers acquired by the Jacksonville Jaguars right at
the deadline. He scored three touchdowns in three straight weeks,
and he's been huge for that offense. You know this, Pa,
I have been on the Jaguars since the summer. Like
I remember we had a conversation at the TCO Performance
Center where I said it was like, if you could
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take a team's over under this year, it would be
the Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I remember that.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I really liked them, and I feel like Jacoby Myers
has given them a lot offensively. Again, three touchdowns in
three straight weeks.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, so, and that's my pick.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
In fairness though being high on the Jags and all
that and joking, this is your second Jag that you
have taken in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
They're playing the Jets, right.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I don't think the Jets have an interception this year
on defense?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Well done.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
They also they played man Aaron glenn Is like stuck
in nineteen ninety nine, where like he just wants to
play man coverage the whole game and it just that
just can't It just doesn't happen, right, franchise, And you
guys know, Liam Cohen, Trevor Lawrence had maybe the best
game of his career last week.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
So I'm kind of betting on that.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
Their O C Grant Yudinsky, the way I if mine.
He's he's definitely done a good job early on there,
but he's recovered from the Duval.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I think he's recovered from that.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Well, he was gonna take a lot to recover from that.
But their OC Grant Yudinsky used to be in the
Vikings building. Grant was a valued member of the past design.
He's brought a lot of the passing wherewithal down to
Jacksonville and Duval and so Jacoby.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Myers is my pick, my selection per Chris Finch.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
George Pickens wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys, Go Georgie
and h I got Pickens. Jacobe Myers goes the way
of alec Lewis and pook it. You're satisfied for Eric Nordquist.
Fantasycres dot org. Support it if you're so inclined. It
supports the Friday football feast. And and we we kind
of are in unison with with adoration for things like
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this and do certainly Vikings football.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Is Jay Ward going to be lining up across from
George Pickens?
Speaker 5 (10:23):
Well, I'm not privy to share that information, mister alec Lewis.
I'm looking for Fabe to shut him down.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Let's just say.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
You've watched practice in the last couple of days and
you may or may not have seen the defensive alignmentlake.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Did you hear did you hear x's and o's or
listen back to any part?
Speaker 7 (10:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yeah, I listen to most of it. Eleven o'clock on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah, listen to most of you started the conversation, Jar.
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Jay Ward Nubb the sack that's five and a radio
start your you were.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Asking him to begin the conversation about jay Ward acquiring
a sack. He brought baby in Moreau's defense, and I'm thinking,
I mean, holy cow, we are at the I mean,
it's not nothing again like that, I.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Want to show the crowd went from there.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Well, yeah, then you guys got into nine and I
was like, I went and I leaned forward to.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
My chair, like, all right, this is highly entertaining.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Were you were you surprised by that that you saw
so much jay Ward specifically, yes, certain packages playing corner
or being in that spot, and you know burst its
earlier in the week he's talking about like converting safeties.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
This looked a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
This looked like that was actually an intentional spot where
Isaiah Rodgers is on the wrong side of the white
line waiting for his chance to come in and nickel
in other spots.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
That's what it felt like.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Jay Ward was essentially like the boundary cornerback, which was interesting. Now,
I will say this, there was a lot of pre
snaped shenanigans.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Going on in that game.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Like there were like Chaz Chambliss would run out there
and then not be in the game.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Tavier Thomas mistake, and I know what was happening. There's
the TV time he's playing.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Yeah, they're they're playing like a pre snap, you know, disguise,
But I don't know what the deception like. Do I
think Cliff Kingsbury was shaking in his boots because Chas
Chambliss is running out.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
To the number I got in and take baits out.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Yeah, like, oh my goodness, how am I possibly gonna
recover here?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
He probably was shaking.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
In his boots because Brian flour is running cross dog
blitzes up the middle.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Either that or after he got fired from the Cardinals
he went to Thailand by himself for two and a
half months and he found himself missing that.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It was that Chris Thomason, by the way, the you know,
I consider myself, I mean you just you have kids,
you have families, real life, fun life doing radio and
stuff like.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I feel like I have a fair amount of bandwidth.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
But when you were doing exces no speaking to the
coach and after we get through Morow we get to
nine and the memes and all that, I think it
was towards the end talking about the TV timeout thing,
like I'm just pictured like as the head coach, like
he's got all these things that he's dialed in on
on a week to week basis. He's even thinking about
taking l's during TV timeouts because the defense can have
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as many people out there as they want.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
I don't want you offense can't.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
I don't want to run the risk of being like
the Tennessee Titan sideline analyst and getting kicked out of
the chatter off the charter.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
So we'll just land the plane on this one like this.
Speaker 5 (13:14):
That's not the first time any of us have heard
about this time out runout to the numbers thing, and
I think we're going to see it and hear more
about it on Sunday night. Why because the TV timeouts
are longer. It's pushing the envelope. It's something you can
do to counter and a dramatic advantage other teams have
with their huddles.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Well, he's got thoughtful answers, But this was like a
passionate nineties It was clearly not the first time it's
been engaged in. Oh no, because it was a passionate
ninety seconds. Like, this whole thing sucks.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
So did it surprise you at all? With Jay Ward?
Speaker 5 (13:47):
I mean It's like when you know it's he blitzed
in who they played before, Green Bay Baltimore. Okay, so
he blitzed our Chicago. He blitzed in a game and
almost got there.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (13:58):
So then I'm like, all right, well in the game
depth chart, I got to have some sack intel. Like like,
for Jay Ward, he doesn't have an NFL interception, so
if he picks one off, you'll hear. His last interception
was twenty twenty two against Mississippi State at LSU. First
interception three years something like that.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Well, I wanted to.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Do the same thing with the sack, and so then
I looked back through LSU no sacks. I look back
cole Quit County High School in Georgia and found the
game logs.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Took me about fifteen no sacks.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
That's an insane So finally in apple U, So finally,
and in Appleton after after our buses got to the hotel,
I found Jay and I said, when's your last sack?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Man? He goes, I've never had one. I go what
middle school?
Speaker 5 (14:40):
He goes, No, never, I've never sacked a quarterback in
my life. So that's what I was sharing with O'Connell
I'm in a radio to distract before the before the
the inevitable. Well, the nine bits sucks. Yeah, let's talk
about that.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
It does.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Well, what what if we when we get to do
vikings Christmas? So we write the twelve days and ja, hey, whatsacod?
How about that?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I love that for running high crosses.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
That's why, that's why I look on you, because that's
what happened last week off the radio, when you started
a bit and now all of a sudden, it's like
five Measlee when no.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Alex, we write the song?
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Okay, no, but I will say I was shocked when
jay Ward was out there in the first nap of
the game playing quarterback. I do think he adds a
level of explosiveness in the secondary that this team has needed.
What about the ability to tackle, well, I mean that's
critical and I'm not trying to get negative, but this
team has struggled with tackling all season long.
Speaker 5 (15:37):
So I mean most of that has taken place when
the defense has been on the field way way, way
too long. And that's a fair point too, but it
has been a common thread, for better or for worse.
But just to close here on Isaiah Rodgers, Nordon said
something earlier that that I forgot to bring up earlier
in the week, and you said it like Ward's in
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and Rogers on the sideline. Okay, now when we're in Seattle,
I mean he got pulled. Okay, he got looked like that. Yeah,
I mean they like I put my headphones on Flores
and again, I want to stay in the charter chats
and we'll just stop sharing right there. But no, he
got pulled in that game. But now it's become a
thing where he's coming out every so often. He's our
best corner this year. Like, like, why Isaiah Rodgers is
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he is? I mean it's not about most highly rated
race in the history of the Kentucky Derby, but like, but.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Like, why is he getting pulled out?
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Well, the tackling, the tackling there were there were in Seattle.
There were four miss tackles and that was early in
the game. But here's the thing I'm gonna say. In
the Bears game on the edge, Isaiah Rodgers had a
real tough collision and believe it, like he had to
go to the medical after.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
So part of me wonders if the following week.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Hit comet high he didn't hit him.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
The right way, and Isaiah took the worst of him. Yeah,
and he even went still as he hit the turf.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
It was kind of surprising, so part of yeah, you're right,
it was so part he was wondering the following week
is the tackling because he's trying to, you know, guard
against that type of situation happening again. Now, I mean
that's always the question with some of some of the
undersized corners like him. You can have the speed, you
can have the toughness, you can have ball skills, but
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are you willing to run up and hit And in
this day and age, when the ball is finding the
sideline as much as it is, it's a pivotal point
of the game, pivotal pivotal.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Point in defense.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Yeah, and and the way the Cowboys play, they're gonna
get the ball to Ceedee Lamb and George Pickens in
space and it is gonna be an incumbent upon those
guys Byron Murphy, Jay Ward, Isaiah Rodgers.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
If those guys.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Aren't tackling on the edge, we are not gonna have
an enjoyable night at at and T Stadium in that
press past.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Okay, So to land the plane on wide receivers as
part of UH in honor of Paul our ihop segment
Fantasycareers dot org.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
We don't need really any form of explanation here why
because we don't have time. But I want to hit
you guys with this anyway, because generally, like with our
fantasy with our baby fantasy game, if it's tight ends,
and we'll talk about tight ends around the NFL running backs,
same thing, stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Well, this is a wide receiver.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
So I'm gonna lay out five wide receiver names and
if you could have them right now for for your
favorite team, how would you prioritize them? And here are
the names wide receivers. Who is the best and why?
And then just do your best to rattle off the list.
Here are the five Jefferson, Jamar, Chase, Jackson Smith, and
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Jigba Puka till you're satisfied and ceedee lamb those five.
Who's first, Alec, Who's the best and why?
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Justin? Okay?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
You okay? And so you got Justin one?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
How do you go? Two? Three, four? Five? Man?
Speaker 4 (18:54):
It's so tough. Probably probably Chase, Probably Chase. Then I
I might honestly.
Speaker 5 (19:01):
Are you offended either one of you if somebody puts
Chase ahead of Jefferson.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Not really, no, no, no. I will say though Justin Jefferson. Yesterday,
Ben Gaestling starts being tweeted the quote. Justin was asked
about leadership, and he gave this incredible off the cuff
quote like at and I just justin the maturity level
all year. I don't think you're gonna find anybody in
the NFL who at that level, who can display this
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amount of maturity.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Amid this situation, he didn't speak to the media after
the Seattle game. You were put on trial and Covenant
Court for having a significant problem with it.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
I didn't have a problem with it. It was notable.
It was notable.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
It is It was notable because of how we're not guilty,
because of how much he does with the media.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
For him not to do something was notable for sure.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
But I'd say, well, you got the exact let's go trifecta,
superfecta and pent effecta.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Justin Chase, I might go c D. Frankly, I'd go
pookah wow CD. I like what about Jackson Smith? And
great is you get flummoxed by Flora Smith and Jigba
is unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I also think that he's a product of what they're
trying to do offensively with Ubias offense and the best utilization.
That doesn't mean he's not awesome, right, I mean, justin
Jefferson statistically with Kirk in this offense has been pretty
good at Darnold last year. I just think McVeigh uses
Puka in every possible way, in every possible scenario, and
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he could block and and he is absolutely a physical
I mean he's a thoroughbred.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
He's tough to bring down. I think Pukah is the
third best of that group, So is Smith and Jigba.
So is CD.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
Well, what about I mean I feel like what about
Amen ro Is he not in that man?
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I thought about it.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
Yeah, Common Rods pretty good numbers wise. I think he
would be. I think if you put Amen Ross Saint
Brown with these five, he would go sext What about
Jalen Naylor? Naylor, I think he's in a match race
with Cavante Turbin or twenty nine.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
What about Ryan Floornoy?
Speaker 5 (21:05):
Look, he gets on the field, assuming Dallas, do you
think CD is gonna play this week?
Speaker 3 (21:10):
He is? He's playing all right.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
I don't know how because he got concussed in the
game and did the fencing position and now all of
a sudden he's already out of the concussion protocol, which
I've wondered all year. It feels like the protocol is
kind of less a protocol.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
That it's like a yeah, you're good. I don't really
understand how that's working, but whatever.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
This is like picturing your favorite are trying to determine
your favorite yacht?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Yeah, like, all five of these are terrific.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
So to say that, hey, CD is fifth and try
to drag on him, I mean, CD's awesome.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Awesome came out of that Jefferson draft too, which I
do believe is the greatest wide receiver draft in the
history of the NFL. So that's some context for that too.
But who could damn man? Who could beat you up
in the running game? Now that you mentioned that? All right,
when we return some locker room related drive bys involving
some Texas natives, and what is going to be like
going back to Dallas? Who we got here? We got
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Donovan Jackson, Miles Price, Ben Simms, Did you get Drake?
Now they're they're about seven. I talked to and we'll
play those back around the corner from Buffalo Wild Wings
in Plymouth.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
You're listening to the Friday football Feast.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
M.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Hey.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Yesterday yours Shirly opted to go to uh some of
Viking's practice and hang out in the locker room with
the likes of Alan Lewis and Ben Geslin and some
of our very favorite people. And I have my traps
with me, and I walked around finding a bunch of
Texas natives on the Minnesota Vikings and asked them, beginning
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with Donovan Jackson, left guard. Growing up in Texas. Donovan's
from Cyprus. You know, what's this America's team vibe?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Like?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
Is it just nauseating? Is it overbearing? Is it still
America's team? And by the way, how hard you getting
hit for tickets for this game? Given you from Texas?
We begin with Donovan Jackson here it is Donova Jackson,
Cypress Texas native. Growing up in Texas? What did the
Cowboys mean to the state? And when you're growing up,
(23:37):
whether you're a Cowboys fan or not, and you have
America's team just like always throwing at you and stuff,
what's that like being a Texas native?
Speaker 8 (23:46):
Yeah, you know, growing up it was my grandparents' favorite team.
So obviously, like Thanksgiving and all those days was we're
watching the Cowboys game. And obviously in the state, man,
the Texans are more of a newer French. For the
longest time, everyone's a Cowboys fan, and so it was
huge in the state. Obviously, I played in the Cob
Bowl a lot of times and college was able to
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experience at and T Jerry's world all that it's and
so it's it's huge, man, it's really exciting.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
And where is Cypress Texas compared to like Dallas?
Speaker 8 (24:16):
Uh, Cypress Texas is thirty minutes outside of Houston, and
so people think it's close.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
It's not.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
It's not close. It's all Houston's five hours from Dallas.
So but it's still close enough to make that drive.
So it's still it's still pretty relevant.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
But being even closer to say San Antonio, Houston or whatever.
I mean, America's team, Dallas Cowboys, it's just everywhere in
that stay right.
Speaker 8 (24:39):
Yeah, you know, They're obviously been a very popular organization,
popular brand for a long time, and so it just
resonates with everybody in that state.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Lastly, how hard are you getting hit for tickets for
this game?
Speaker 4 (24:51):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (24:51):
Pretty hard. I mean I already already told my parents
to handle it. I told them to make people, make
other people buy the tickets. Is that tickets are not cheap,
They're not free. I think a lot of people have
that misconception that they just give us free tickets. That's
not true. So but I do have a lot of
people coming. It's gonna be fun.
Speaker 5 (25:09):
Ben Simms Texas native. In fact, Ben Simms is from
San Antonio. So for the tight end, how long did
you live in Texas? And when it comes to the
Cowboys and the entire state of Texas, San Antonio, Houston, whatever,
and America's team which was forced down our throats for
so many years, Just what do you think about that whole?
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Aurum born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, went to
high school in San Antonio, and I went to Baylor
University for college. So I've been in Texas kid, my
whole life. Coming here three years ago, you know, it's
kind of I've never been to the Midwest. I've never
experienced it, I guess, so to speak. So the last
several years of my life has been full of it.
(25:51):
But you know, growing up in Texas, like our Texas
high school football US Texans would say, we love to
brag about it, but we just think that's kind of
how it is, you know, having you know, that sort
of culture around the Friday night lights and all that stuff.
So football in Texas always huge, and you know, you
always there was always more Cowboys fans than there were
Texans fans in the state. But I can never tell
(26:12):
you why, so.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Ben with the America's team vibe, which maybe may or
may not be the case now, but I mean it
was a big time branding, a thing created by Jerry Jones.
And you know, Jerry Jones done a lot of great
things for the NFL. But but growing up in Texas,
did you notice maybe elementary school, middle school, even high
school that because the Dallas Cowboys are so big in Texas,
(26:37):
people pick sides. They're kind of like, I either want
to go with the flow or I want to fly
right into the face of it.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
That's right. That's It's kind of seems out either you're
born into it or you're not. It kind of feels
like for most people. For me personally, like growing up,
I was never a huge Cowboys fan. I just enjoyed
watching the game, and you know there were some teams
around the league that you know you always watched on
Sundays and same with college. But you know, i'd say
from a fan base standpoint, you know, they probably have
(27:04):
one of the largest fan bases, uh maybe in the world.
You know, they're they're known for uh you know, being
an America's team and uh, you know, Jerry Jones is
built quite a quite an empire, I guess, so to
speak over there, so uh yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Lastly, how hard are being a Texas native? How hard
are you getting hit for tickets this game?
Speaker 6 (27:23):
You know, I was with another team to start the year,
so I uh we uh we played, Uh we played
in Dallas on Sunday night earlier in the year, so
we're actually even staying at the same hotel. So uh
we actually kind of knocked some of that out. As
far as friends and family wanted to come to the game,
they came to the first one. Thanks, but yeah thanks pa.
(27:44):
Ben Sims tied in for the Minnesota Vikings. Kind of
an impromptu uh drive by Xavier Scott just real quick
a couple of this a Fordhood, Texas native here, how
long did you first and foremost with vershan Lee, did
I cut off your conversation because if I did, I apologize?
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Good so XAVI or fort Hood, Texas? How long did
you live there? And where's fort Hood like compared to Dallas?
Speaker 7 (28:07):
It's about I would know with the Austin I can't
remember exactly where there's from Dallas, but I have family
still still in Dallas to day.
Speaker 3 (28:14):
Okay, So whether it's you or your family, you know,
just the.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
Dallas Cowboys America's team branding vibe is how it started.
Can't necessarily say that's still the case now, but you
still hear about it. Did you notice at any point,
you know in Texas, like when it comes to the
Cowboys that the team is so popular in that state,
people would like pick sides. They either want to go
with the flow and I'm a Dallas Cowboys fan or
(28:37):
they want to fly in the face of it and
like like a team that plays them.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Yeah, how does I say?
Speaker 7 (28:42):
It makes it like a like a fifty to fifty
like people either choose they're either all in the Cowboys
or all in against them. But that kind of is
in the favor of the Cowboys when it comes to
just the population because if they have to be performed
and they're good.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
So do you still have family and friends there?
Speaker 8 (28:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (28:56):
I have one of my good friends. He still still
don't have the family down there as well.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
So you, unlike maybe Donovan Jackson and some others up
chatted with you, probably aren't getting hit super hard for tickets.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Oh no, no, not at all.
Speaker 7 (29:10):
Yeah, no, I actually have a couple of people. It's
not too crazy though, not than me. Say what say
New Hampshire's better than me?
Speaker 5 (29:17):
Max Brosmer wants you to say New Hampshire is better
than Maine?
Speaker 3 (29:22):
Can you do that? I can't do that because it's
not true. I don't lie. So and now look, I
don't want who won tears? Three years in a row,
two ears in a row.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
You come here talking about the Cowboys and civil war
breaks out.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
I'm one in one.
Speaker 7 (29:34):
So we gotta figure out how we're gonna get that tiebreaker.
Speaker 5 (29:38):
Thank you, Max, Max Brosman not a Texas native, thank you?
Alrighty a wide receiver kicking punt returner Miles Price a Dallas,
Texas native. How long did you live in Dallas and
with the Dallas Cowboys? Well, first, how long did you
live in Dallas. Oh my life twenty three years Okay.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Perfect, this unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
So the Dallas Cowboys, you know, self proclaimed America's team.
Not necessarily sure that's the case anymore because of the
social media and you know, it's the other teams and
popularity and stuff, but nevertheless that branding of being America's team.
Growing up in Dallas, what what do the Cowboys mean
to the entire state of Texas?
Speaker 9 (30:19):
Everybody love a cow you got okay, you got most
who love the.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Cowboys, And if you want a Cowboys fan, you hate
the Cowboys.
Speaker 9 (30:27):
Everybody who the Cowboy player you're against them. But my
whole family, almost my whole family are all Cowboys fans.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (30:33):
So growing up in Texas, is it fair to say, like,
whether you're in elementary school, middle school, high school, whatever,
that you're gonna get people who live in Dallas and
are from Texas. They're either going to go with the
flow because that's their favorite team, or they're gonna be
kind of football counter culture and be like, no, too
many people like this team. I'm actually going to be like,
let's say a forty nine Ers fan or a Packers
(30:54):
fan or a Vikings fan, you know.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Yeah, No, that's exactly how it is. You're either with
the Cowboys or you're the hate train. You're you're a
part of the hate trade. Like some of my family.
Speaker 9 (31:04):
I got the family whom Philly fans they hate the Cowboys,
not even from Philly.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Well, Dallas and Philadelphia. Like I grew up in Washington, DC.
So like when it was the Redskins, like Redskins and Cowboys. Man,
that was when I was growing up. That was everything. Well,
now that's not necessarily the case anymore with like the
Commanders or the WTF, WFT whatever it was. But when
it was Redskins and Cowboys, I mean, that was it.
But now it's like Eagles Cowboys.
Speaker 9 (31:30):
Right, that's exactly what it is, Eagles versus cowboy or
you got your Green Bay vers for Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
You definitely got those two. All right?
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Last one, and I'm asking everybody from Texas the same question,
how hard are you getting tagged for tickets?
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Being the Dallas Texas native.
Speaker 9 (31:48):
Gosh, look, I had to put my phone on mute.
I just stopped answering at this point. I'm like, man,
I can't help all y'all. I can't help everybody but
it's crazy.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Right, But think about it.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
I mean, not only would you be bringing Vikings fans
into AT and T Stadium, but you'd be bringing more
Miles Price fans to get loud in the stands for
a kicker punt return touchdown.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Think about that.
Speaker 9 (32:09):
Listen when I say I legitimately have probably over two
hundred and fifty people who's coming, like that's simply going
because some of them, yes, the Cowboys fans, but mainly
because like they love me. Like so, I have so
many people that's gonna be at the game.
Speaker 5 (32:26):
All right, A couple of things here, A nine to
noon needs to have a microphone in front of Miles
Price more frequently.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
Yeah, he's fantastic, so good and so open.
Speaker 5 (32:34):
But secondly, there are some Vikings getting stuck for some
ticket prices for this game. But that's cool because that
means Purple and Goal will have some representation at AT
and T Stadium seven to twenty for the Boom on
kfan coming up this Sunday. So the Texas Natives are
excited to go back home, they generally are.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
They can I ask you something dun kind of off topic.
You mentioned Vikings fans and attendance. How dominatingly Cowboys is
the home environment at Dallas Stadium, and clearly that.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Would depend on the opponent.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
But in terms of just not always a fan bases
because I don't hear the roar right when I'm watching
those games, despite knowing that this thing is a freaking colisseum.
Speaker 5 (33:15):
It's Lambeau s Okay, now Lambo's but Paul Americana. But
it's not the loudest fan base in the history of
loud fan bases.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Well, they're all puke and outside the fleet Farm Gate's
usually what has happened.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
Or their cheeks are frozen to those aggressive bleachers they
just refuse to remove.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
But it's a great crowd. It's a very dedicated crowd.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
It's more of a roar or like kind of a
den den than it is like Arrowhead or Seattle. M
and T Bank in Baltimore is the sneakiest for loud crowds,
and they're on you because they're close to the bench
and stuff.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
I think that's how it's built too.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
I've only been there for Army Navy games, but that
place is loud as bleep man.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
Yea.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
When they just the sound in the way that it
hits and ounce. It's cool stadium.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
We'll see like US Bank State with the footprint on
which they built it. It's not very big, so like
it more. Instead of going back and out on a
big piece of land, it goes up. So they're kind
of kind of overhanging on level three at and T
Stadium like Lambeau. I mean, they've got a big footprint there,
So it's just a massive, massive stadium. That's a Sunday
(34:19):
at seven twenty and nine to noon continues from Buffalo
Wild Wings and Plymouth for the feast after this. Now
(34:44):
around the corner eleven five or so, we are going
to dust off something we debuted last week called Covenant Court.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
I am the judge.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
You everybody here Buffalo Wild Wings, Plymouth, you are the jury.
The prosecutor is Eric Nordquist and a standing trial. I
under certain charges that were pretty egregious last week, not
so much this week. Is Alec Lewis of Anniston, Alabama.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I gotta be honest, I had I would be an
awful district attorney or prosecutor because I think my record
was terrible.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
If you have come last week, if you have committed crimes.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
In the way that we're talking about. You want to
go up against me, I'm afraid you're going to get
off scott free today.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Remember what the record was, Did you feel right, marketing director?
The answer is yes, he will be there this evening.
So that's coming up around the corner. And it's off
of victory where you shut somebody out listening to the podcast,
reading the tweets, reading the stories at the Athletic. It
took a lot longer than it did last week to
(35:45):
assemble the discovery required to I.
Speaker 3 (35:49):
Feel like I was pretty positive.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Well, we'll find out about that about ten to fifteen
minutes from now.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
A lot of stretching, potential jury manipulation in covering part
of recent attempt. You can just bring a bag of
cash to a juror in a big spot trial and
try to get them to go the other way. So
I don't have much cash today, ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (36:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (36:09):
But or free subscriptions to the Athletic, I mean that
for those here at Buffalo Wild Wings Splimouth.
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I mean that's be enough stuff right there.
Speaker 5 (36:17):
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Speaker 2 (36:23):
By thousand Hills lifetime grazed grass fed beef, and one
that was left on the proverbial cutting room floor.
Speaker 5 (36:29):
I'm curious of your opinions on this. It's Vikings Cowboys
Sunday Night. Which team do you think we'll have more
sacks in the game?
Speaker 3 (36:38):
And why? And here?
Speaker 5 (36:40):
And I'm gonna lay it out like this. The Vikings
have thirty three into this game. The Cowboys have twenty nine.
Dak has been sacked twenty two times through thirteen games.
McCarthy's been sacked twenty four times through seven. Now, I
mean the Darrisaw piece in this matters. So let let's
(37:00):
say he plays. So let's put Darisaw in the mix.
So we got our best versus theirs. Yeah, we have
all the full time members of the Minnesota Movie.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Company and they need guiton right. Yeah. Yeah, he's been
d n P two days in a row. And if
they don't have him, their backup is is in the ILK.
It's Nick Nate Thomas, Yeah, something like that. But he's
in the ILK of justin school.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
Okay, school, just caught his second sight from Plymouth.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
And anyway, so who has more sacks and why I.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Would take the Cowboys to have more sacks in this
game than the Vikings. And I'm saying the Cowboys are
going to create more sacks in.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
The game than the Vikings. What about quick fire JJ?
Now I quick fire JJ? Okay, quick fire JJ would
be great.
Speaker 2 (37:49):
To see again, Well, technically that's not a sack, it's
just a loss of too.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
I will say Jadeveon Clowney, his availability is going to
be a important in the calculus. But Quinnin Williams, Kenny Clark,
Dante Fowler they have I mean they're they're rookie Donovan
as aakus he is a pretty good player, so I'll tell.
And then JJ McCarthy has just taken more sacks than
(38:17):
I feel comfortable. Deck has been really good this year
against the blitz That doesn't mean he's gonna be good
Sunday night against.
Speaker 3 (38:22):
The Vikings Blitzes.
Speaker 4 (38:24):
But I would pick the Cowboys to create more sacks
in the game from a quarterback per sective more than
anything else.
Speaker 2 (38:31):
Yeah, I'm currently in a spot where I would have
to agree with that, And part of it is super
low hanging fruit with the fact that you know, last
week we saw I think what are real measurable steps
that JJ McCarthy took, uh, predicated on the run game.
Dig that, and when we're defending Docs, after Alec defends himself,
we'll talk maybe about what we can do on the ground.
Speaker 7 (38:50):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
But but I think overall over the course of that
entire game, Uh, I'm just I just believe that what
we're seeing defensively from the Cowboys, albeit eber Flus's bunch
nothing special. Statistically, I think JJ hits the turf probably
more times than Dak does this week.
Speaker 5 (39:05):
Now with the with the offensive game plan that was
taken by O'Connell and the Vikings last last game, it
is do we believe that will be the same approach,
and actually do we believe it should be required to
be the same approach against a defense that I mean,
I'm not going to say it's completely analogous to Washington,
(39:27):
because you know, when you hear me say human nature
gets to win, I mean human nature won against the
Commanders when the wheels touched down at MSP. That's not
going to be the case with the Cowboys on Sunday night.
You'll get more of an effort fueled by the crowd.
But nevertheless, it should the should the game plan approach
that was taken last week almost be required this week?
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Yeah? I think so.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
And what I when you ask that question, that means
heavy personnel and early downs, running the football with some
play action off of it, and then lay downs making
picture as clear as possible for JJ.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
When he has to drop back pass. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
Yeah, I that to me should definitely be the plan. Now,
what I will say is it's much easier for that
to continue to be the plan. If you lead fourteen
zero in the football game. Yep, you maintain your ability
to run the ball. You you know, you put the
defense on your heel heels, you create turnovers defensively, which
helps your offense.
Speaker 3 (40:24):
So like for me, yes, that should be the plan.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
But being able to stick to that is going to
be all predicated on how the early part of the
game goes.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
Well. The interesting part about that, though, Alec, is the
fourteen zero matters and in the end you win thirty
one nothing On that nineteen play drive they had I
think it was ten touches by the running backs and
then you had to scramble for a third down conversion
by JJ McCarthy. So early in that game, even to
get to the fourteen zero, you had, in some ways
by KO standards, a very unique commitment to absolutely no
(40:55):
matter what we're handing it off to Mason. I think
they're out of the seven six or seven first downs,
five of them were runs, and so there was the
commitment that got you there, which I think does need
to persist. And just think about how different that game
could have been too if in creating that great third
down picture that JJ wasn't converting what we saw the
third and eight, the third and nine, the tight ending
(41:17):
clue is huge. That's where I would deviate from the
game plan and just wonder. I like the commitment to
run and all of that, but what maybe a wrinkle
or two is put into the spot this week where
we actually are trying to stretch it with number eighteen
a little bit more versus what we saw the tight
end heavy moments that led to production in the Commander's game.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
The other thing I will say, and I've taken some
clack for saying this.
Speaker 4 (41:41):
I didn't feel like, wait until this segment, I didn't
feel like the passing concepts on Sunday against the Commanders
were really any different than the concepts that they tried
to have JJ throw in Green Bay. The difference for
me was the Commander's defense is really porous, and JJ
McCarthy was accurate on.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
The concepts that he had.
Speaker 4 (42:03):
So there's been so much made about Kevin O'Connell finally adapted.
He final Oh, I really felt like the Packers game
plan was, you know, let's create as many runaways quick
reads as possible. It just even in that game, JJ
McCarthy struggle a little bit to see the field beat
decisive and be accurate. So for me, as much as
(42:24):
the plan, like, can JJ McCarthy just be accurate again
and decisive as much as anything else.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
The answer is obvious because he.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
Was free free ball and the headset was a little
quieter on Sunday. Maybe there weren't six variants to a play,
maybe there were just two.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
So I think in terms of adaptation, I agree with you.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
I think that, you know, in terms of what we're
trying to accomplish on these plays, it looked very similar.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
Sought the kid was a little faster and TJ.
Speaker 4 (42:53):
Hockinson said yesterday he was asked about the early part
of the game, He's like, yeah, you know, it was
a little routes on araish. That's that's what it was earlier,
routes routes on air ish meaning like practice like that's
that's kind of yes, and.
Speaker 3 (43:10):
That's what it felt like with the commanders.
Speaker 4 (43:11):
So I will be curious now again this is not
it does smell great wow, to not take away to
not take away from JJ McCarthy. He was more decisive
and he was accurate, and those qualities need to be there.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
Still coming weekend.
Speaker 4 (43:28):
But I will be curious with Matt Eberflus, their defensive
coordinator who makes me laugh usually when I listen to him,
Matt Eberflus, I will be curious, is he heeding JJ
McCarthy up? Is he playing off? Are they playing match coverage?
What does that look like? Progression? I'm just kidding, whatever
you gotta say, But I look, it starts with the accuracy.
(43:48):
It starts with the accuracy and the decisiveness from JJ.
Speaker 5 (43:51):
Yeah, no doubt or like I said Donordo last Monday,
maybe the ruse, maybe the the long con here is
O'Connell knew Washington had succumbed to human nature when the
wheels touched down to MSB. So I'm gonna go ahead
and put this on tape, and I'm gonna throw that
thing ninety percent of the time on national television, and
(44:12):
damn it, Joey Jefferson's getting twenty targets. Whether he likes
it or not.
Speaker 4 (44:16):
You and I both know that that would warm his
heart splendidly to be able to do that Sunday night,
to air it out, to have the passing concepts deep
over the middle, high crosses, screaming, in breakers, running, that's
what they would like to nine put.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Forty points on the board, twenty five minutes of possession,
four play drives.
Speaker 4 (44:33):
And it was like, there are a couple of things
you can't overstate having the five offensive linemen and Ryan
Kelly had a dang good game. Ryan O'Neal was great,
great in the game. Those guys move people in the
run game. And I thought the backs ran really well,
like Aaron Jones and Jordan Mason. The vision was good,
the burst was good. So you know, it's not gonna
(44:54):
be as easy against Kenny Clark and Quinn Williams and
Dante Fowler and Donovan Azerakus, so getting a push early
will be critical.
Speaker 5 (45:03):
They played like a team that looked like it had
heard or knew. You know what, We don't really want
to have the worst home record in the history of
this organization. Yeah, we really don't want to lose nine
in a row and we have the longest losing streak
in the history of the team. I mean, it had
a pop to it, there's no doubt about its historical Here.
Coming up around the corner something called Covenant Court from
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