October 26, 2025 • 46 mins
Justin Gaard is back to talk about the Gophers loss vs Iowa. Ryan Burns of Gopher Illustrated joins and gives his perspective on the loss.
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Speaker 1 (00:42):
Everything of the day.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
When the side.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Down, that's the golden time day, the time.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
That team, that's the gold tune of the day. When this, well.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Gopher fans out there, one of the things I know
they look forward to every single Sunday is a Gopher
Football Sunday Brett blakemore produced morning montage with the Golden
Time of Day music, the smooth, smooth vibes going into
a Sunday morning as we talked about Gopher football from
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eight to nine, give you the highlights from the day's prior,
the most important plays, the most electric plays, the most
consequential plays. I know Gopher fans love it because we
can't put it in the podcast anymore because of licensing issues,
and we hear about it every single week. Why didn't
we have the Golden Time of Day montage in Gopher
Football Sunday?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Well, we can't.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
So this is an interesting one today because there will
be no Golden Time at Day montage because there were
really no highlights of which to speak yesterday. Crickets would
be the accurate representation there, Brett, there's the Brett Blake
Moore Morning Montage contribution. Because when you lose forty one
to three, and the game's basically over in the first
fifteen minutes. There's not a lot of opportunity to let
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Brett Blake Moore stretch his producing muscles. This is Gopher
Football Sunday. I'm justin guard. We're in the six to
five to one carpets plus studios. Ryan Burns from Gopher
Illustrated dot Com is going to join me next segment
at eight fifteen, his weekly appearance. I can't wait to
talk to him to get his thoughts on yesterday's route.
In Iowa City at Kinnick Stadium, the Gophers lose five.
I already won to three. They're now five and three overall,
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three and two in the Big Ten, undefeated at home
and winless on the road. We've done crickets before, We've
done intermission music before. If you're new to the show,
what we do the first segment to talk about what
we liked, what we didn't like before we talked to Burnsy.
You can hit the bratch on Brian Kfe and text
line six' four six eighty. Six the only thing that
The gophers executed well yesterday was getting the entire team
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out on the field to wave at the kids and
The children's hospital after the first. Quarter they are the
first team to do, that opposing team to do that years.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Ago they do a great job with.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
That they all get out towards the middle of the,
field they turn, around they, wave and they get a
lot of credit From iowa fans for being that good
at it and being that systematic about it and intentional about.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
It that was.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
It that was the only thing that they probably worked
on during the week that went well. Yesterday everything else
was completely pair. SHAPED a week after looking so, crisp so,
prepared so, physical so on top of, everything it was
the exact opposite. Yesterday The iowa offense controlled the line of.
Scrimmage more on that, later not necessarily. Surprising that's what they.
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Do that's what they're pretty good. At they've got a
great offensive line and they used.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
It.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Yesterday The gopher offense couldn't do. Anything Darius taylor got hurt.
Again we think on maybe the first play from. Scrimmage
the special teams melted, down their defense. Scored other than,
That Missus. Lincoln going into the, WEEK i thought it
was going to be a good. GAME i talked about
it on our pregame show on The FAN i talked
about it on The fox nine pregame. Show both teams
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should have felt really good going into the. GAME i
Know iowa was a huge, favorite BUT i that number
just did not appear right to. Me obviously it wasn't.
Right it should have been much more given how the
game went. Down but just Like nebraska the week, BEFORE
i felt like they were going to play. WELL i
felt like they were going to have a good. Plan
and AGAIN i felt like they should have felt pretty
good about themselves given what happened the week before and
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how Well Drake lindsay's been playing and how well the
d defense played the week. Before both teams were pretty
confident going into, it With iowa Beating Penn state at
home Last saturday, night but only, one unfortunately For gopher,
fans was ready to. Go and what's, INTERESTING i was
thinking about it on the long drive, home which is
longer than you. Think it's closer to five. Hours AND
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i should know that GIVEN i went to school there
for eighteen. Months we spent a lot of time over
the years obsessing over The wisconsin rivalry and worrying about
The wisconsin, rivalry And Barry alvarez And brett. B, Lamane
Gary anderson And Paul christ because the Fact wisconsin won
that rivalry every single year for nearly twenty. Years it
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was a decade and a half That wisconsin owned. It
and because there had Been floyd Of rosedale wins sprinkled.
IN i don't know if we've necessarily focused on this
one as much as we. Should we've lost sight of
this rivalry a little. Bit at LEAST i had because
there were a couple in The Jerry kill. Era there
was obviously the big one With Tommy olsen And Max
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williams and that huge. Route Kirk farrence has absolutely owned this,
rivalry regardless of, coach and it is amazing to just
kind of see the same things play out over and over,
again regardless of how good either team. Is since he
got things going In Iowa, city which was about year,
three he's just owned this. Series my, math which is,
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always as we, know is ALWAYS sus twenty and five
since year, three two thousand and, one the third year
WHEN i think To hawkeys went seven and five that,
season if my research is, accurate and it's just been
really really really really really one, sided and the same
stuff you saw yesterday is the stuff that's just popped
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up for the last twenty five, years where they control
the line of. SCRIMMAGE a quarterback who hasn't been throwing
the ball very well all of a sudden becomes you,
Know Brad, Bankster Chuck long. Reincarnated they find a way
to make you pay on special. Teams even though they
haven't had the crazy number of turnovers this year defensively
that they've had in years, past they find a way
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to not only get you turned, over but they find
a way to score on. Defense with the pick six early,
on then you're completely up against. It you had the
punt return in. It and again other than, that Missus.
LINCOLN i Knew iowa's offense would play better than it had,
played because that's just how it seems to go in this.
Series for whatever the, Reason i've been down there probably
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five six times now where people have been worried about
how the passing game has been or they're having struggles with,
this they're having struggles with. That they're extremely good at
finding the one or two things that you're not good
at and just exploiting it over and over and over.
Again and that was the opening drive yesterday that set
the tone a nine, play seventy five yard, drive a
couple of third down, Conversions Mark kronowski runs in a.
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Touchdown there's a, shocker and they're up seven to, zero
and The gophers were up against it the rest of the.
Day they have a three, Out iowa gets a field,
Goal gophers get the ball, back they throw a pick,
six and that's essentially your. BALLGAME i knew their offense
would play well because they always seem to play well
enough no matter what is going on with their offense
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Before minnesota gets to. Town and, again that spans all
kinds of different. Eras pj's only beating him, Once jerry
beat him a couple of, Times mace beat him a
couple of. Times it's just been the way that this
series has. Gone it also doesn't help when your, quarterback
who's been outstanding and WHO i can't wait to see
play the next handful of years BECAUSE i think he's a,
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dude had his worst game of the. Season i've talked
forever that you have to take shots Against iowa and
you have to live with the. Consequences after the pick,
SIX i, said they may never throw the ball deep.
Again they may never throw it again because that's what
you need to. Do you need to take, Shots you
need to try to find ways to move the ball
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down the field besides just lining it up and running. It,
now WOULD i recommend throwing it into two guys to
a tight, end streaking down the field and a tight window.
THROW i. Wouldn't but that's what the freshman quarterback did.
Yesterday sixteen of twenty eight hundred and nine yards three.
Picks he was sacked four. Times it was his worst
game of the, season and not to be completely, unexpected
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BUT i was thinking it was going to go the
other way because of how well he has played this.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
SEASON i Think drake's a.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
DUDE i think he's going to be a, dude and
hopefully he learns from what happened, yesterday because it wasn't
just the. Picks there were guys open believe it or,
not that he wasn't finding or that he couldn't get
the ball To he was just a little bit off
and then the, pressure of, course doesn't help at. All
the other thing that we absolutely don't like AND i
don't understand, it and we'll talk about it on THE.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Pj Fleck show On, tuesday the.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Punt the kicking strategy To Caden, weechin who's electric and
NOW i think Leads iowa historically in punt returns for
a touchdown passing guy Named Tim. Dwight if you're a
college football, fan you know that's a pretty legendary name
don In Iowa. CITY i don't know why they kicked to.
HIM i don't know why they were kicking to. HIM
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i keep going back to the first game Against buffalo
for The. Gophers they did not Let Coy perrich attempt
one punt. Return he may have gotten one, off but
other than, that it was we're kicking it to the,
Sideline we're kicking it out of.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Bounds you are not going to affect this.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
GAME i thought they played with fire the first time
they kicked it to each in a really low punt
where The gophers weren't able to get their coverage team.
DOWN i think he had an easy ten or fifteen
yard return. There and then obviously the the high punt
that he ends up, catching doesn't call the fair catch
and houses, it and again the place is on.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
FIRE i don't understand. THAT i don't know why they did.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
THAT i don't know why you try to touch the
stove to see if you're going to get, burned because
we know That iowa's views special teams as a weapon
and if you allow them to affect the game that way,
way they're going to do. It and that was really
probably the. Dagger when you score three points the first
touchdowns the. Dagger but that was the one where you just, Knew,
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okay there's no chance they're getting into this.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Game it's going to be a long.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
One, now hopefully nobody gets, Hurt hopefully it doesn't rain too,
hard and hopefully everybody drives safely on their way back
To Iowa, city As iowa has now won for the
twentieth time in the last twenty five. Years hit the
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Six gophers now have four games, remaining starting With Michigan
state Next Saturday Huntington Bank stadium two. Thirty they've Got
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they've got a buy and then a road trip To
oregon on A friday, Night northwestern At Wrigley. Field northwestern
hung With nebraska yesterday at, home no surprise. There they're
going to be a tough, out and then you wrap
it up against The, badgers who played really good defense
from the sounds of it Against oregon yesterday on the,
road but again just couldn't find anything going. Offensively so
the nine win season is taken off the, table probably all,
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realistically because if you win, yesterday you start to think
about that that was the chatter, pregame and obviously that
was not to, be not to. Be so now you
got to make some things happen to get to eight
and hopefully a good bowl game and everything that comes with.
That but, disappointing, deflating buzzkill, dominant a lot of just
just a long day At, kinnick and it happened so
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quickly that it was just one of those days where
nothing went right in the first twenty. Minutes and now
you have to pick up the pieces and find a
way to finish the season strong and find a way
to maybe sneak a win or two out on the
road this, year given you've been so good at. Home
burnsy Next Ryan burns go For illustrated Dot com questions for,
him hit the bratsch On Brian cafe and text line
six four six eight. Six we'll continue to go For
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Football sunday With burnsy when we come. Back welcome, Back
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Gopher Football sunday from the sixty five to One Carpets Plus.
Studios i'm guards. You we're here until nine o'clock two
hour edition Of Sunday.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Sermons.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Today No vikings Football sunday because they had their version
Of Gophers iowa On thursday night In Los angeles when
they lost to The. Chargers hell of a weekend if
you were on The Power Trip vegas trip and you
got to go to those watch parties At tom's Watch.
BAR i hope the booze was flowing between The thursday
night game for The vikings The saturday afternoon game for The.
Gophers not an ideal football. WEEKEND i don't think the
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wild are doing very. Well The wolves lost to The.
Lakers just been a bumper, crop a bumper time to
be A minnesota sports fan this. Week but at least
the weather's turning. Cold if you have a text For
burnsey six four six eighty, six he joins us now
in The Connecticut Water Systems. Hotline we're discussing The gophers
forty one to three loss To. Iowa they're now five
and three, overall three and two in The Big. Ten
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they can't lose at. Home they can't win on the.
Road they've got a home game Against Michigan state Next,
saturday two Thirty. Burns you'll be a part of those
proceedings on the pregame show as. Well good, Morning, ryan
how are.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
You i'm.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Well i'm glad THAT i was able to make the
drive home last, night clear my head and not hit
any deer on the way. Home so that's always a
joy coming up thirty.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Five it came. Up it was coming up roses for me.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Yesterday there were plenty of carcasses on thirty five and
two eighteen and three. Eighty the deer must be. Popping,
YEAH i didn't see a live. DEER i saw plenty
of dead. Ones and it was kind of representative of
HOW i felt about the football performance, Yesterday, like, oh
there's the first defensive. Series oh there's special. Teams oh
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There's Drake lindsay in his worst.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Game it's a.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Goper that's too. Bad where do you want to? Start
where do you want to start with what we saw? Yesterday,
KENNICK i will open the floor to.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You oh, boy that's an outstanding.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
QUESTION i think the crux of this and there's so
much to get into when you get down thirty one
twenty minutes into the, game AND i Guess i'll pose
this back to you WHERE i wrote about after the
game on Goph illustrated Dot COM i had and seeing
an implosion of that magnitude in a twenty minute. Span
it gave me vibes of the two thousand and six
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out bet or was it insight ball When Texas tech
scored thirty one straight to force overtime Against Glenn mason's.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Team, yeah and.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
They just anything that could go wrong did go, wrong, offensively,
defensively special, teams and it just continues the crux of
the issue of they're zero to three on the, road
but that doesn't tell the whole story. HERE i looked
at AND i looked into the least point. Totals they
have been outscored one hundred and ten to twenty to.
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Twenty that's a ninety point. Difference if My tartan high
education is. Correct why do you think that this team
is incapable of showing that they're they're able to Leave
Dinky town and remember how to play a simple game
that is.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
FOOTBALL i, mean there's a lot of things.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
There, first the road is tough and, general, right the
road is all these environments are are. Difficult kennick is
probably right up. THERE i don't. KNOW i don't have
a great answer for you other THAN i can just
say it's hard to win on the, road and we're
all the difference is The Ohio state. GAME i didn't
leave The Ohio state game thinking what was?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
That? LIKE i just thought The Ohio state.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Game Ohio state's really, good and they put it on
them and they continue to play, well and it was
just obvious who the better team.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Was yesterday was the what was? That?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Like what is going on? Here what are they doing with?
This what are they doing with? That why are they doing?
This what's up With? Drake why are you kicking to this?
Guy why are you Letting Mark kronowski? Run he's going
to keep it in the red, Zone he's not going
to hand it, Off, like why can't you turn around
and intercept a passing the end zone as opposed to
making vanderc. Whatever van made the play in the end,
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zone making him look Like Ed hinkle from two thousand and.
Two so yesterday was the, one and obviously cal was completely. Uneven,
right it was. Inconsistencies they would play, Well they wouldn't play.
Well it Was Koy parritch's worst. GAME i GUESS i
just talked for ninety Seconds, burnsy and my answer, IS
i don't. KNOW i think maybe it is just the
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umbrella of for whatever the, reason it's been difficult for
them to find anything on the road this. Year and
what's interesting is they've got another buzzsaw potential road game At,
oregon right because even Though oregon didn't play great, yesterday
you've got, that and then you've got the Wrigley field
game Against, northwestern who's not going to be an easy.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Out so.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
There's a pathway to actually get to eight wins and
be eight and. Four but you got to find a
way to rectify some of these.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Things, yeah unfortunately you do have to still play In.
Eugene but do we get to call Wrigley field a
neutral site? Game and if that's the, instance Maybe minnesota
will have a shot of showing. Up, Yeah Northwestern, chicago
But evanston to Wrigley.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Field's going to be a little bit of A i don't,
know maybe they get caught in some, traffic just like
the rest of.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Us.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
WILL i will, say even with the first twenty minutes
and that's the THING i think we should continue to
drill down. ON i, mean thirty one to, Nothing iowa
hits for the cycle in that how does they how
do they hit for the?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Cycle?
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Right, well you got a passing, touchdown a pick, six
a punt return, touchdown a rushing, touchdown and you got
a field. GOAL i mean they scored in every possible,
way on every possible. Phase and that's the whole crux
of this thing is it comes down to. COACHING i,
mean this team was not prepared to get off the.
Bus they didn't get off the bus until about three.
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Thirty and the unfortunate part ISS cbs kicked off this
game and what would you, say two one, Central, yeah
two forty was the. Kick but when it's the, offense
compounding on the, defense compounding on the special, teams that
comes down to this team wasn't ready to. Play AND
i was in the press conference last. NIGHT i know
it's always the media. Jackals you AND i had never
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asked the tough. Questions we just lob them, softballs.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And he hit them three hundred.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Feet he took, responsibility he says, HE i, mean he
says the things that a head coach should, say BUT
i learned a long time. AGO i hear what you,
say AND i trust what you, do AND i hear
that this team was believed to be ready to. Play
they just had a bad night on a bad. Night
why does this continue to happen In? Kinnick why does
this continue to happen on the? Road why does this
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continue to happen where it's all three phases when it
starts to? SNOWBALL i WISH i had answers for. You
Kirk farns is twenty and five in this. SERIES i
think we were so obsessed with getting a victory Over
wisconsin because remember eight years, ago that wasn't happening very. Often,
right there were teenagers that were taking their driver's tests
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that had never lived in a world Where wisconsin had
Lost Paul bunyan's. Acts and this has, BEEN i would dare,
say more one Sided burnssey regardless of, coach going back
to the final few years of The Glenn mason, Era
Jerry kill obviously got him a couple of. Times pj's
gotten them once and it's almost regardless of what's going
on In Iowa city before The gophers get there or.
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After this is like a, certainty which, is as A gopher,
fan not.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Great AND i can't prove.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
This AND i don't know if you remember the origin
of the who Hates, Iowa we Hate iowa. Chant i'm
pretty sure the streak started whenever that chant, started BECAUSE
i don't remember that chant growing. Up i've always thought
that chant is. STUPID i Know iowa used it last
night and they're social media. Graphic But i'm pretty sure
since the origin of that, chant which is to me,
idiotic The gophers can barely win in this. SERIES i
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can't prove. IT i don't know if you know the,
origin BUT i know it's not. HELPING i know it's
not helping the last quarter. Century NOW i can do that.
Math twenty and. Five, YEAH i was.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Just a young man back then At Eagle Point elementary
when that whole thing.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Started but if you.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Look at why they're twenty and, five, specifically even with
the constructs of last, night they got punched in the
mouth by The iowahaw guys on the offensive indefensive. LINES
i would argue they got punched so far back their
glasses turned into. CONTACTS i, mean both on the offensive
and defensive. Lines you look at you know we talk
about it all the time or pro football, focus not
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the end all be all that has to match your eye,
test has to match a lot of different. Things but
we talked about how The iowa offensive line had been
one of the best in college football coming in and
guess what on those first three drives where they put
up seventeen points and flip the game on its head
and you allowed An iowa offense to do what they've
done all, year which is run the, ball, Run Mark.
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GRONOWSKI i look at what they grated as, YESTERDAY i
WAS i think top of their top six graded, players
five of them in their starting offensive. Lineman on the flip,
side you look At minnesota's defensive. Line If Anthony smith
And Devin eastern And Jalen Logan redding are going to
be in the bottom five of what was graded, yesterday
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you're not going to have a good time or even
on The gopher offensive. Side fifty three rushing, yards fifty
three rushing yards after contact as, well everything was. Earned
just there's too many times yesterday where Even Phil, parker
we had talked about all week coming, up How Phil
parker had been calling games a lot more aggressively because
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he hadn't been able to get home with four man.
Pressures that would mean there's five goph offensive linemen to.
Block and guess What iowa was getting home with, Fours
so they didn't even have to send that, many, RIGHT i,
mean there's just there's so many things that can tell
the story of why they have lost twenty of the
last twenty five, games but yesterday they just did not
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play well up. Front to. Start you mentioned it also
in the opening When Drake lindsay finally has his freshman
moment in start number. Eight you're not going to do
anything with. It so if there was ever a, night
BECAUSE i know your team's silver, linings if there was
ever a night for your freshman quarterback to finally look
like the, freshman it's on a night where everybody else
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decides to not get off the bus as, well and
then you just get thirty one nothing and we're all
looking at each other And i'm looking at you on
the sidelines with your mouth, open and we all were
feeling like that in the.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Present this Is Ryan Burns Gopher illustrated Dot com joining
on The Kinetical Water systems. Hotline it's go For Football,
sunday we're reviewing a forty one three loss To iowa,
Yesterday gophers five and three, overall three and two In
Big ten. Play Michigan state comes To Huntington bank next.
Week let's stick With drake just, erratic, right just. Frazzled
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he Hasn't he's looked poised all season. Long he's looked
accurate all season. LONG i don't love, throwing obviously into double,
coverage BUT i don't necessarily know if you, Know Jamison
gears streaking down the left sideline is my idea of
a good time to try to Beat iowa's. DEFENSE i
don't know what the answer. Is you know, Me I'M
i want to line up shots like WHEN i was
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a school in school At Iowa, city hanging out at
the ped mall and going to the sports column in
malones and trying to get into, brothers Like i'm fine with,
shots but they can't beat. Tequila right for, me they
got to be something a little. Chiller but what was
going On drake?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yesterday, yeah you're talking about tequila.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Shots it felt like Many gopher fans had taken multiple
shots of malort and then unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Tried to watch that.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Game, yeah With, drake it was just from that opening
series where he Misses Javon tracy on a slot page
just overthrows, him and then you mentioned the wheel route
to it Was Drew. Bibber he was never opened at any,
Point and that's essentially one of the first few Times
i've Seen drake see that and say screw, It i'm
still going to throw, it and he paid for it
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with a pick. Six and unfortunately as, well that's also
the same play or the last play we Saw Darius taylor,
on Because Darius taylor had to have been injured on
that play as he got put down to the ground
by An iowa defensive back and then wasn't seen without
his helmet for the remainder of the. Game but For,
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drake even on the third, series we've seen him make
that timing throw to a receiver across the middle ten plus.
Times he airmails. It Kinnick stadium does that to a
lot of different. People they've done that to a lot
of different freshman. Quarterbacks it's just a reminder That Drake
lindsay is, human even for what he was coming into that,
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game complete number sixty two percent of his passes with
ten passing. Touchdowns the one thing that he had done,
really really well was only three, giveaways and then yesterday
alone he had three. Giveaways AND i know that was
something that the head coach talked about after the. Game
we Asked drake about. IT i, mean he was a
little despondent and right AND i mean. Rightfully so it's
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probably the worst game of his career that he's ever.
Played i'm sure he never had a game like that
At Fayett Phil Arkansas High. School so there's a lot
of different things you can kind of look at. That
and if you want to be mad at the offensive
Coordinator Greg harbow for, that absolutely it's his job to
Get Drake lindsay prepared for that. Moment we had Seen
drake largely be prepared for big moments WHERE i thought
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Against Ohio state on the road in front of one
hundred thousand and he was about the only player on
offense that wanted to be ready for the.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Moment.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
Right, so whether it's just a road game mechanic in that,
environment whatever that may, Be drake just he didn't have it,
yesterday and he's a. Freshman it's liable to.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Happen So Jenny dell FROM cbs who IF i was
to do a power rankings of favorite sideline reporters to
work with in my entire, CAREER i Think i'd put
her on the mount rushmore than anybody, cares but just
because she works and she grinds and she tries to
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be helpful to me. Too like there's a lot of
there's a lot of sideline people that are just what
can you give?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
ME i, say it takes a village down.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
There Bernsy, well you said that for many facets of
your LIFE i.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Have we're all one team down. There let's all help
each other.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Out and you Know Jenny, taff you know you dine A,
natives she's up, There Jenny. DELL i bring it all
up because we were all trying to figure out what
was happening With Darius, taylor right and because she can't
came over and, said what's With darius, SAID i don't,
know and they even said it on the. Radio he didn't,
play he hasn't played very. Much BUT i also, said
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The gophers haven't had the ball very. Much they've run
like six. Plays so is this just something that was
in the script or is he? Hurt and then they
finally got the ball back and he, realized, no he's
not going back in. There and she came over actually
much later and, said the only thing we can come
up with, this you, know something happened either on the
first player or the. Interception they you, know they have
five million people that go back and watch all the
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videos to try to figure out what's going. On it's,
amazing really long wind up to say what do we
think happened? THERE i KNOW i didn't get any info
FROM pj after the. GAME i doubt you did as.
Well and how concerning is that now with maybe there
if not first most important, player second most important player
moving into the final stretch run.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Offensively, Yeah that's WHAT i wrote after the game is
if your most important, player which is the, quarterback is
it going to play? Well and then your second most
important play And Darius taylor leaves after four snaps or three,
snaps there's just not a lot you're going to be
able to do In Iowa.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
City For.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Darius this just continues upon what has largely been and
it's unfortunate for, him just a cursed. SEASON i, mean
he gets injured Against Northwestern state on the opening. Drive
missus twenty eight days comes. Back look the. Part last
week we saw finally a fully type of Healthy Darius.
Taylor and now after three snaps Against iowa in a
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place two years, ago he also got. Hurt And i'm
sure that was in the back of his mind where
whatever the twine. WAS i don't know, if, again you
couldn't get injury. INFORMATION i couldn't get injury information after the.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Game we did ask the head.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Coach he, said, Well i'll ask the training staff And
i'll update you guys accordingly this. Week let me tell
everyone listening right now what the injury update will be
tomorrow from the head coach is we will tell you
two hours ahead of time On. Saturday thank. YOU i
mean it JUST i just for stuff like. THAT i
don't think it does the kid or anyone any. Favors
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AND i understand the whole gamesmanship part, Whatever but When
darius just isn't, healthy and he hasn't been healthy this entire,
season it's just a running game that has sputtered and,
spun spun their wheels in the mud the entire. Season
how do you expect them to get much? Done even
When darius went. OUT i saw the running backs drop
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three different. Passes, yeah where the receiving. Corps they didn't
force a single mistackle. Yesterday they also didn't win a
single contested.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Catch the.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Like there wasn't a single part of the offense yesterday
that you can point to and, say, yeah you know,
what that's something we can be excited about and we
can take forward here from the offensive line to the
skill positions To darius getting, hurt to the. Quarterback the
whole thing was just. Diseased AND i MEAN i hate
to kind of prognosticate this way and project, out but
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because we get nothing in terms of injury updates and,
TIMELINES i do wonder if this is a reinjury For
Darius taylor of what he had been battling for most
of the. Season you, were you, know you're a former
high level. Athlete you tell me that all the, time
Former Big ten. Athlete oh, YEAH i mean you often
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say the reinjury my bile is worse than the actual
first time. Injury and if that's the, CASE i do
start to. Wonder With november just around the, corner, here
is this the last we've seen Of Darius taylor until
the bowl. Game i'd love to be proven. WRONG i
hope it was just nothing and he's back From Michigan
state next. Week but because we get no injury information
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out of the head, COACH i don't know what to.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Say you're a former college football. Player you've been in staff,
Meetings i'm, sure or team. Meetings I'm i'm struggling when
you have a return man who is now Surpassing Tim,
dwight who you talked about being a young.
Speaker 6 (30:58):
MAN i can see that you have his autograph jersey
hanging behind, you So i'm well.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Aware i've seen it for, many many.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Years, Well i'll say, this my cousins THAT i met
up with before the, game who are you know From
iowa and Huge iowa. FANS i promise you they Have
Tim dwight memorabilia, Somewhere, okay because that's how legendary that
dude was as An iowa city kid that went to
go play.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
For The hawk.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
GUYS i don't, understand AND i don't know if this
came up with you guys last, night BUT i want
to talk about it On tuesday with. Him how you
what the decisions are when you have a guy that
can wreck a game in the. RETURN i know What
buffalo did To Cooy, perrich which, was we're not going
to let him return any, Right we're going to kick
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it out of, bounds or we're going to kick it
to the. Sideline we're not going to allow him to
impact this game if we have to give up seven
yards of field position because we kick it out of
bounds and it's got to go ten yards further than
maybe we would want it.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
To so be.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
IT i thought they were playing with fire the first
Punt burnsy with that low one that he caught with
no one seemingly within twelve yards of, him and he
just very easily picks up in the first down with his,
legs and then we obviously know about the punt. Return
but again when it's forty one three and everything so,
systematic like we can be nitpicky when everything was, Terrible
BUT i just don't understand the. Logic and why are
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we tempting fate here In, kinnick in the house That
cooper dejene almost built with fair catch shirts all over the,
Place why are we tempting the punt? Return, gods how
much time do you have for me to talk about
Our lord And savior special.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Teams as much as much as you. Want, YEAH i
mean that's an within the. Detonation that was the thirty
one and nothing. Hole you look at five first half
punts For minnesota AND i wrote about this. Afterwards zero of,
them zero of them we're down inside the and none
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of them had net puntyard over thirty. Five do you
know how atrocious that? Is or even the one That
Caden whetchen takes back is a thirty six yard. Punt
think about how bad the punt has to, be and
also within the. Coverage now he took that in traffic
and then he just houses it towards The gopher. Sideline
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but you've even got the one WHERE i don't know
That i've ever seen, this And i've watched some games In.
Kinnick there's also a punt that was not tipped that
ended up fifteen yards into The kinnick.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Stands, yeah that went thirteen.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
YARDS i don't know if the, Punter Tom weston just
said the worst night of his, life like so many
other people probably did for That gopher team. YESTERDAY i
don't THINK. Pj flex's plan was to kick it To Cayden.
WHEATCHEN i really. DON'T i just think that the punter
had a bad, night AND i don't think he played
particularly well last week Against nebraska either with some of those.
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Punts they do have another punter on the roster that
was the starting punter AT ucla last. YEAR i THINK
i would seriously think about potentially going to him next
week Against Michigan state when your Guy Joe rossi comes
back to. Town But Kayden weichen had four punt returns
for eighty yards, yesterday and we're talking about how really
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none of them were field flipping punts which gave him
an opportunity outside of the first, one which was a
low liner for no, reason after no reason that should
be a low liner in the middle of the field
or EVEN i know that this is something That fleck
probably might have hated even more than the punt return.
Touchdown he's talked about it WITH us media jackals that
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he hates hates when they punt near midfield and the
ball goes into the end. Zone had one of those
in there. TOO i, mean there was a trifecta for
the Young Australian Tom weston yesterday and it just it
was just part of it is they have an inability
to be special on special team you've got a kicker
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who is one of four from forty plus yards With
november next, week, Right you've got a return game that
continues to give you absolutely, nothing still waiting on that
return touchdown since twenty. Eighteen and then your punter has
days like yesterday where they don't mirror and compliment the
rest of the. Team but that has been a, long long,
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story and it's been chapter after chapter For Flex Special.
Speaker 5 (35:25):
Teams final couple of minutes With burnsy From Gopher illustrated Dot.
COM i probably should have brought this up, earlier but
AND i want to talk about this on parent. Aspare
but with, ME pj has been interesting this season more
than others in kind of.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Things he's all pined about himself as.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
He's reflecting on the, game AND i kind of want
to pull out the thread or peel back the. Onion
at cal he talked about MAYBE i overthought this whole,
thing talking, about you, know the sleep schedules and practicing
in the middle of the night and how he does
everything for a very intentional. Reason yesterday he talked about
maybe we had too much in maybe some things were too.
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COMPLICATED i don't know what that would even. Mean BUT
i just think it's interesting that he Seemed i'm guessing
he did a lot of reflecting on that long drive,
home like you did and LIKE i. Did it just
seems like he's been more reflective this year because it
used to, be AND i think this is a strength of.
His when things go, bad he's basically, like we move
forward or in the, water this is what we do
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and we'll get it. Fixed like he shows no vulnerability
or weakness this, YEAR i feel like he's like showing
vulnerability a little bit and be, LIKE i think MAYBE
i overthought, it or maybe this was too, Complicated maybe
we had too many things to think about. Today i'm
going to go back and look at. It have you
noticed any of? That or AM i just AM i
just overthinking it and over complicating.
Speaker 6 (36:44):
Things, WELL i often think the older we get you
yourself and myself and flex. IMMUNE i think we spend
a lot more time reflecting upon what just.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Happened we try to find.
Speaker 6 (36:54):
SOLUTIONS i think that's what we try to do Every
sunday morning For mat until nine is try to find solution.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
To a very very tough day In Iowa.
Speaker 6 (37:02):
CITY i think the way that they continue to play
leaves him open to a lot more self. Reflection, sure
where you look at even the last month of, games
from The rutgers game to This iowa, GAME i, mean
there are so many, different little nuanced storylines within all of.
Them where you've, fought you go down fourteen nothing to
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come back Against, rutgers you finally challenge your team to
play with physicality Against nebraska and they outscore him seventeen
and nothing in the second, half program record nine.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Sacks and Then i'm.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
Sure he's thinking to, himself, like we are a, team
A minnesota team with an extra day to prepare to
go Into. Kinnick looks like they didn't prepare at.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
All how does that?
Speaker 6 (37:45):
HAPPEN i don't know how it continues to. HAPPEN i
don't know how they continue to have these giant ebbs
and flows and the lack of, consistency because that comes
down to what this twenty twenty five team. Is where
they're five and, three three and two in The Big
BUT i still don't know what team is going.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
To show up on a given.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
DAY i, mean we can say next week Against Michigan,
state where The gophers open on fan, duel at least
is a four and a half point favorite against a
team that is now zero to five and The Big
ten and just lost To michigan in a very emotional
rivalry game last night In East. Lansing, like they continue
to show up at home and they find ways to
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win at, home and they need to do that against
The Michigan state team that's not very good this upcoming.
Weekend but why do they continue to go from.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
The highs of highs to the lows of?
Speaker 6 (38:35):
Lows why do they go ice hot or excuse, me
ice cold to white. HOT i don't. Know i'm sure
he doesn't, know And i'm sure he's trying to figure
all that. Out and that's one of the THINGS i
asked him after the, game is how do you play
so well at home yet you've been outscored by ninety
points on the. Road and you, know he didn't have
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a great answer, it but he's, LIKE i understand why
you're asking that, question BUT i don't know how to
answer BECAUSE i don't know. Myself, yeah and that's and
that's a fair answer if you don't. Know but that's
got to be one of the. Things as you, said
there's four games. Left two of them are on the.
Road two of them are at. Home you gotta figure
this thing out on the, road Because eugene is What eugene.
Is but that game Against northwestern At Wrigley, FIELD i,
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mean we've seen that game BE i, mean any any
game Against, northwestern as you would, say is a.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Meat, grinder.
Speaker 6 (39:27):
Right that's a game where if you want to have
aspirations of getting to a better bowl, game which is
hopefully going to be something Like, nashville or if you
go eight and four in that, instance where you take
care of business against A wisconsin team that finally put
up a point last, night or This Michigan state team
that's on five plus you beat A northwestern team on
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in a neutral site, game is What i'll call. It
you can still find a way to get To nashville Or.
VEGAS i, mean they had a bad, NIGHT i get.
It but they also got two more home games where
they've been pretty dang. Good so it's it's just, long
woinded answer to, SAY i do think he has been
a lot more thoughtful with things like, that BECAUSE i
think he's been forced to be.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Thoughtful how you can't look at some of the.
Speaker 6 (40:13):
Way that these games have gone and not be affected
by the emotional swings in a positive way or a negative,
way and you got to figure out a way to
find a middle.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
Ground, yeah this has been a wild year to do
this show because last week you're talking about maybe the
best performance by A fleck team in the last three,
years right as systematic and dominant and clinical and locked
in and dialed and details and, relentless and then today it's.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
This it's just like roller coaster is a word for.
It roller coaster is a word for.
Speaker 5 (40:44):
It so now my question is what do you expect
Next saturday Against Michigan state at two THIRTY a game
like you said that they're, favored and they should be
Because Michigan, STATE i, think surprisingly has been very, poor you,
know Given Jonathan smith came in with a lot of,
fanfare right Poach Joe, rossi who's we know what he did?
Here and they've got, money Right Michigan state to go
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find players like they've got a. Lot people might not think,
that but they do and they're in this. Situation so
what do we expect or give us the six days
From saturday rundown on what you expect for next week
or what you'll be looking at this.
Speaker 6 (41:21):
Week, heck they went out and Got Joe rossi from
The university Of, minnesota AND i think they're paying him
like one point five million dollars per. Season And i'm
sure THERE i know from talking with some folks In
East lansing that's not a very popular thing right, now
considering The Michigan state defense has not played very well
In Big ten, play Right they've got a quarterback In.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Aidan, chiles who is.
Speaker 6 (41:43):
If you think we've seen Some Big ten quarterbacks come
in here and, Play i'll say.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
MADDENINGLY i mean he is great, play horrific, play great,
play horrific.
Speaker 6 (41:52):
Play and too many times this year he has not
made the right decisions with the, football taking some bad.
Sacks but this is just A minnesota, team for whatever the,
reason that has played really, well or they're at least
their best football at, Home that's What i'll. SAY i
don't know that they've played really well at. Home they've
played their best football at. Home the other part of
this that we're going to talk about a lot this
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week guards is this is going to Be minnesota's sixth consecutive.
Game it'll Be Michigan state's fifth consecutive. Game both teams
are banged. Up it's probably going to be a little
bit sloppy On saturday knowing, that but this is a
game you got to win to get to number one.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Boiligibility but also you have.
Speaker 6 (42:31):
To be able to beat an zero to Five Michigan
state team that we talk About minnesota just playing in
a very emotional rivalry game last.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
NIGHT i just mentioned.
Speaker 6 (42:39):
It michigan just played Or Michigan state just Played michigan
and they. Gave i'm sure they gave everything that they
had in that. Game and now they got to travel To,
minneapolis where we've seen some interesting games in and Around,
halloween because this game will take place right After, HALLOWEEN
I november. ONE i, MEAN i think you remember that
(43:00):
The Adam weber game LIKE i do as, WELL i
do The Kirk cousins. Game but a two thirty kick
it should be an outstanding afternoon To Diankey. TOWN i,
mean we've been very blessed with this weather where it's
not incredibly.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
Cold they'll be hopefully or in the mid.
Speaker 6 (43:14):
FIFTIES i think it's another great opportunity to enjoy a fall,
afternoon watch Some big ten, football and AGAIN i Expect
minnesota to. Rebound i'm sure there's going to be a
lot of difficult conversations here for A sunday morning breakfast
In Dankey, town because that's what a thirty one to
zero hole twenty minutes into the game should.
Speaker 5 (43:33):
FORCE i look forward to seeing your costume At Huntington
Banks stadium On, saturday and we will talk to you
later this.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Week. Burnsy thank.
Speaker 6 (43:40):
YOU i thought we were going AS K pop Demon hunters.
Together if, not please. Send daughter has a costume you
can borrow if you need. TO i don't know which,
one BUT i do know that it's IT'S i don't
think appropriate for a seven year, old but that's a
whole other.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Podcast thank, You. Burnsy we'll talk to you. Later He's Ryan.
Speaker 5 (43:56):
Burns go For illustrated Dot, com read him AT, gi
follow him At Ryan burney and On. Twitter and don't
forget About Gopher Good Iron, radio which will drop, tonight
as well as The parent Of spare podcast On tuesday With,
Chipskogins bernsy And. Me final segment Of Gopher Football Sunday
final thoughts on the forty one three loss To.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
Iowa whill we Continue Welcome Back final SEGMENT Gop.
Speaker 5 (44:37):
Football, Sunday minnesota loses To iowa forty one to.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Three.
Speaker 5 (44:41):
Yesterday, Iowa i'm not going to do the, math has
beaten their one, Rival wisconsin thirty seven, rip And minnesota
another rival forty one to. Three pretty good year for
them in their trophy. Games pretty good year in their
border battle. Games they've Got nebraska On Black friday coming.
Up nebraska hung on to Beat northwestern, yesterday but just
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a total system failure, Yesterday Kinnick stadium to go first
fall for the third time this. Season they're five and,
three three and two in The Big. Ten they can't
lose at, home they can't win on the. Road and
it's another home game Next saturday at hunting De Bek
stadium Against Michigan, state who is winless in The Big.
Ten And i'll be curious what we see From Drake
lindsay this week in his media. Appearances i'll be curious
(45:24):
what we see From Drake lindsay On, saturday BECAUSE i
think there was everything went wrong. Yesterday everybody was, bad
but that was his worst game as A, gopher And
i'm fascinated to see how he responds BECAUSE i think
he's going to respond really. WELL i think he's a
really good. Player the numbers bear out that he wasn't very.
Good sixteen of twenty eight one hundred and nine yards
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with three. Picks he was sacked four, times and you
just saw so many missed, opportunities miss. Throws none of
the individual opportunities probably would have. Mattered when it's a
systematic beat down like it was. Yesterday there's not one
specific reason why you lose a. Game but he was
not very good, yesterday AND i think that's really the
first time we can say. That AND i want to
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see what he takes from it and learns from, it
BECAUSE i think he's going to be a really good.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
PLAYER i think he's already a really good, player.
Speaker 5 (46:12):
And that was probably the worst game he's had maybe
in five years of his personal.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
Life AND i.
Speaker 5 (46:17):
Would have to imagine he's going to be ready to
go Next saturday and hopefully make sure that that was
a one time. Thing so there you. Go The pig
stays In. Iowa it's been there twenty times in the
last twenty five. Years that series has been almost as one,
SIDED i DARE i say more one sided than The wisconsin, one,
which as we know has evened up a lot here
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in the last couple's. Home that's the unfortunate. News and
we're on To Michigan. State we're on To Sunday sermons With,
barrera a two hour edition. There talk to you a
bumper to bumper at three o'clock tomorrow as.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
Well bye. Everybody
Everything of the day.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
When the side.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Down, that's the golden time day, the time.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
That team, that's the gold tune of the day. When this, well.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Gopher fans out there, one of the things I know
they look forward to every single Sunday is a Gopher
Football Sunday Brett blakemore produced morning montage with the Golden
Time of Day music, the smooth, smooth vibes going into
a Sunday morning as we talked about Gopher football from
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eight to nine, give you the highlights from the day's prior,
the most important plays, the most electric plays, the most
consequential plays. I know Gopher fans love it because we
can't put it in the podcast anymore because of licensing issues,
and we hear about it every single week. Why didn't
we have the Golden Time of Day montage in Gopher
Football Sunday?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Well, we can't.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
So this is an interesting one today because there will
be no Golden Time at Day montage because there were
really no highlights of which to speak yesterday. Crickets would
be the accurate representation there, Brett, there's the Brett Blake
Moore Morning Montage contribution. Because when you lose forty one
to three, and the game's basically over in the first
fifteen minutes. There's not a lot of opportunity to let
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Brett Blake Moore stretch his producing muscles. This is Gopher
Football Sunday. I'm justin guard. We're in the six to
five to one carpets plus studios. Ryan Burns from Gopher
Illustrated dot Com is going to join me next segment
at eight fifteen, his weekly appearance. I can't wait to
talk to him to get his thoughts on yesterday's route.
In Iowa City at Kinnick Stadium, the Gophers lose five.
I already won to three. They're now five and three overall,
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three and two in the Big Ten, undefeated at home
and winless on the road. We've done crickets before, We've
done intermission music before. If you're new to the show,
what we do the first segment to talk about what
we liked, what we didn't like before we talked to Burnsy.
You can hit the bratch on Brian Kfe and text
line six' four six eighty. Six the only thing that
The gophers executed well yesterday was getting the entire team
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out on the field to wave at the kids and
The children's hospital after the first. Quarter they are the
first team to do, that opposing team to do that years.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Ago they do a great job with.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
That they all get out towards the middle of the,
field they turn, around they, wave and they get a
lot of credit From iowa fans for being that good
at it and being that systematic about it and intentional about.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
It that was.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
It that was the only thing that they probably worked
on during the week that went well. Yesterday everything else
was completely pair. SHAPED a week after looking so, crisp so,
prepared so, physical so on top of, everything it was
the exact opposite. Yesterday The iowa offense controlled the line of.
Scrimmage more on that, later not necessarily. Surprising that's what they.
(04:09):
Do that's what they're pretty good. At they've got a
great offensive line and they used.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
It.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Yesterday The gopher offense couldn't do. Anything Darius taylor got hurt.
Again we think on maybe the first play from. Scrimmage
the special teams melted, down their defense. Scored other than,
That Missus. Lincoln going into the, WEEK i thought it
was going to be a good. GAME i talked about
it on our pregame show on The FAN i talked
about it on The fox nine pregame. Show both teams
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should have felt really good going into the. GAME i
Know iowa was a huge, favorite BUT i that number
just did not appear right to. Me obviously it wasn't.
Right it should have been much more given how the
game went. Down but just Like nebraska the week, BEFORE
i felt like they were going to play. WELL i
felt like they were going to have a good. Plan
and AGAIN i felt like they should have felt pretty
good about themselves given what happened the week before and
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how Well Drake lindsay's been playing and how well the
d defense played the week. Before both teams were pretty
confident going into, it With iowa Beating Penn state at
home Last saturday, night but only, one unfortunately For gopher,
fans was ready to. Go and what's, INTERESTING i was
thinking about it on the long drive, home which is
longer than you. Think it's closer to five. Hours AND
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i should know that GIVEN i went to school there
for eighteen. Months we spent a lot of time over
the years obsessing over The wisconsin rivalry and worrying about
The wisconsin, rivalry And Barry alvarez And brett. B, Lamane
Gary anderson And Paul christ because the Fact wisconsin won
that rivalry every single year for nearly twenty. Years it
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was a decade and a half That wisconsin owned. It
and because there had Been floyd Of rosedale wins sprinkled.
IN i don't know if we've necessarily focused on this
one as much as we. Should we've lost sight of
this rivalry a little. Bit at LEAST i had because
there were a couple in The Jerry kill. Era there
was obviously the big one With Tommy olsen And Max
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williams and that huge. Route Kirk farrence has absolutely owned this,
rivalry regardless of, coach and it is amazing to just
kind of see the same things play out over and over,
again regardless of how good either team. Is since he
got things going In Iowa, city which was about year,
three he's just owned this. Series my, math which is,
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always as we, know is ALWAYS sus twenty and five
since year, three two thousand and, one the third year
WHEN i think To hawkeys went seven and five that,
season if my research is, accurate and it's just been
really really really really really one, sided and the same
stuff you saw yesterday is the stuff that's just popped
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up for the last twenty five, years where they control
the line of. SCRIMMAGE a quarterback who hasn't been throwing
the ball very well all of a sudden becomes you,
Know Brad, Bankster Chuck long. Reincarnated they find a way
to make you pay on special. Teams even though they
haven't had the crazy number of turnovers this year defensively
that they've had in years, past they find a way
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to not only get you turned, over but they find
a way to score on. Defense with the pick six early,
on then you're completely up against. It you had the
punt return in. It and again other than, that Missus.
LINCOLN i Knew iowa's offense would play better than it had,
played because that's just how it seems to go in this.
Series for whatever the, Reason i've been down there probably
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five six times now where people have been worried about
how the passing game has been or they're having struggles with,
this they're having struggles with. That they're extremely good at
finding the one or two things that you're not good
at and just exploiting it over and over and over.
Again and that was the opening drive yesterday that set
the tone a nine, play seventy five yard, drive a
couple of third down, Conversions Mark kronowski runs in a.
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Touchdown there's a, shocker and they're up seven to, zero
and The gophers were up against it the rest of the.
Day they have a three, Out iowa gets a field,
Goal gophers get the ball, back they throw a pick,
six and that's essentially your. BALLGAME i knew their offense
would play well because they always seem to play well
enough no matter what is going on with their offense
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Before minnesota gets to. Town and, again that spans all
kinds of different. Eras pj's only beating him, Once jerry
beat him a couple of, Times mace beat him a
couple of. Times it's just been the way that this
series has. Gone it also doesn't help when your, quarterback
who's been outstanding and WHO i can't wait to see
play the next handful of years BECAUSE i think he's a,
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dude had his worst game of the. Season i've talked
forever that you have to take shots Against iowa and
you have to live with the. Consequences after the pick,
SIX i, said they may never throw the ball deep.
Again they may never throw it again because that's what
you need to. Do you need to take, Shots you
need to try to find ways to move the ball
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down the field besides just lining it up and running. It,
now WOULD i recommend throwing it into two guys to
a tight, end streaking down the field and a tight window.
THROW i. Wouldn't but that's what the freshman quarterback did.
Yesterday sixteen of twenty eight hundred and nine yards three.
Picks he was sacked four. Times it was his worst
game of the, season and not to be completely, unexpected
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BUT i was thinking it was going to go the
other way because of how well he has played this.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
SEASON i Think drake's a.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
DUDE i think he's going to be a, dude and
hopefully he learns from what happened, yesterday because it wasn't
just the. Picks there were guys open believe it or,
not that he wasn't finding or that he couldn't get
the ball To he was just a little bit off
and then the, pressure of, course doesn't help at. All
the other thing that we absolutely don't like AND i
don't understand, it and we'll talk about it on THE.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Pj Fleck show On, tuesday the.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Punt the kicking strategy To Caden, weechin who's electric and
NOW i think Leads iowa historically in punt returns for
a touchdown passing guy Named Tim. Dwight if you're a
college football, fan you know that's a pretty legendary name
don In Iowa. CITY i don't know why they kicked to.
HIM i don't know why they were kicking to. HIM
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i keep going back to the first game Against buffalo
for The. Gophers they did not Let Coy perrich attempt
one punt. Return he may have gotten one, off but
other than, that it was we're kicking it to the,
Sideline we're kicking it out of.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Bounds you are not going to affect this.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
GAME i thought they played with fire the first time
they kicked it to each in a really low punt
where The gophers weren't able to get their coverage team.
DOWN i think he had an easy ten or fifteen
yard return. There and then obviously the the high punt
that he ends up, catching doesn't call the fair catch
and houses, it and again the place is on.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
FIRE i don't understand. THAT i don't know why they did.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
THAT i don't know why you try to touch the
stove to see if you're going to get, burned because
we know That iowa's views special teams as a weapon
and if you allow them to affect the game that way,
way they're going to do. It and that was really
probably the. Dagger when you score three points the first
touchdowns the. Dagger but that was the one where you just, Knew,
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okay there's no chance they're getting into this.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Game it's going to be a long.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
One, now hopefully nobody gets, Hurt hopefully it doesn't rain too,
hard and hopefully everybody drives safely on their way back
To Iowa, city As iowa has now won for the
twentieth time in the last twenty five. Years hit the
bratch On Brian kavan text line six four six eight.
Six gophers now have four games, remaining starting With Michigan
state Next Saturday Huntington Bank stadium two. Thirty they've Got
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they've got a buy and then a road trip To
oregon on A friday, Night northwestern At Wrigley. Field northwestern
hung With nebraska yesterday at, home no surprise. There they're
going to be a tough, out and then you wrap
it up against The, badgers who played really good defense
from the sounds of it Against oregon yesterday on the,
road but again just couldn't find anything going. Offensively so
the nine win season is taken off the, table probably all,
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realistically because if you win, yesterday you start to think
about that that was the chatter, pregame and obviously that
was not to, be not to. Be so now you
got to make some things happen to get to eight
and hopefully a good bowl game and everything that comes with.
That but, disappointing, deflating buzzkill, dominant a lot of just
just a long day At, kinnick and it happened so
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quickly that it was just one of those days where
nothing went right in the first twenty. Minutes and now
you have to pick up the pieces and find a
way to finish the season strong and find a way
to maybe sneak a win or two out on the
road this, year given you've been so good at. Home
burnsy Next Ryan burns go For illustrated Dot com questions for,
him hit the bratsch On Brian cafe and text line
six four six eight. Six we'll continue to go For
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Football sunday With burnsy when we come. Back welcome, Back
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Gopher Football sunday from the sixty five to One Carpets Plus.
Studios i'm guards. You we're here until nine o'clock two
hour edition Of Sunday.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Sermons.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
Today No vikings Football sunday because they had their version
Of Gophers iowa On thursday night In Los angeles when
they lost to The. Chargers hell of a weekend if
you were on The Power Trip vegas trip and you
got to go to those watch parties At tom's Watch.
BAR i hope the booze was flowing between The thursday
night game for The vikings The saturday afternoon game for The.
Gophers not an ideal football. WEEKEND i don't think the
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wild are doing very. Well The wolves lost to The.
Lakers just been a bumper, crop a bumper time to
be A minnesota sports fan this. Week but at least
the weather's turning. Cold if you have a text For
burnsey six four six eighty, six he joins us now
in The Connecticut Water Systems. Hotline we're discussing The gophers
forty one to three loss To. Iowa they're now five
and three, overall three and two in The Big. Ten
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they can't lose at. Home they can't win on the.
Road they've got a home game Against Michigan state Next,
saturday two Thirty. Burns you'll be a part of those
proceedings on the pregame show as. Well good, Morning, ryan
how are.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
You i'm.
Speaker 6 (14:02):
Well i'm glad THAT i was able to make the
drive home last, night clear my head and not hit
any deer on the way. Home so that's always a
joy coming up thirty.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Five it came. Up it was coming up roses for me.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
Yesterday there were plenty of carcasses on thirty five and
two eighteen and three. Eighty the deer must be. Popping,
YEAH i didn't see a live. DEER i saw plenty
of dead. Ones and it was kind of representative of
HOW i felt about the football performance, Yesterday, like, oh
there's the first defensive. Series oh there's special. Teams oh
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There's Drake lindsay in his worst.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Game it's a.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
Goper that's too. Bad where do you want to? Start
where do you want to start with what we saw? Yesterday,
KENNICK i will open the floor to.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
You oh, boy that's an outstanding.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
QUESTION i think the crux of this and there's so
much to get into when you get down thirty one
twenty minutes into the, game AND i Guess i'll pose
this back to you WHERE i wrote about after the
game on Goph illustrated Dot COM i had and seeing
an implosion of that magnitude in a twenty minute. Span
it gave me vibes of the two thousand and six
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out bet or was it insight ball When Texas tech
scored thirty one straight to force overtime Against Glenn mason's.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Team, yeah and.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
They just anything that could go wrong did go, wrong, offensively,
defensively special, teams and it just continues the crux of
the issue of they're zero to three on the, road
but that doesn't tell the whole story. HERE i looked
at AND i looked into the least point. Totals they
have been outscored one hundred and ten to twenty to.
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Twenty that's a ninety point. Difference if My tartan high
education is. Correct why do you think that this team
is incapable of showing that they're they're able to Leave
Dinky town and remember how to play a simple game
that is.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
FOOTBALL i, mean there's a lot of things.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
There, first the road is tough and, general, right the
road is all these environments are are. Difficult kennick is
probably right up. THERE i don't. KNOW i don't have
a great answer for you other THAN i can just
say it's hard to win on the, road and we're
all the difference is The Ohio state. GAME i didn't
leave The Ohio state game thinking what was?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
That? LIKE i just thought The Ohio state.
Speaker 5 (16:18):
Game Ohio state's really, good and they put it on
them and they continue to play, well and it was
just obvious who the better team.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Was yesterday was the what was? That?
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Like what is going on? Here what are they doing with?
This what are they doing with? That why are they doing?
This what's up With? Drake why are you kicking to this?
Guy why are you Letting Mark kronowski? Run he's going
to keep it in the red, Zone he's not going
to hand it, Off, like why can't you turn around
and intercept a passing the end zone as opposed to
making vanderc. Whatever van made the play in the end,
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zone making him look Like Ed hinkle from two thousand and.
Two so yesterday was the, one and obviously cal was completely. Uneven,
right it was. Inconsistencies they would play, Well they wouldn't play.
Well it Was Koy parritch's worst. GAME i GUESS i
just talked for ninety Seconds, burnsy and my answer, IS
i don't. KNOW i think maybe it is just the
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umbrella of for whatever the, reason it's been difficult for
them to find anything on the road this. Year and
what's interesting is they've got another buzzsaw potential road game At,
oregon right because even Though oregon didn't play great, yesterday
you've got, that and then you've got the Wrigley field
game Against, northwestern who's not going to be an easy.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Out so.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
There's a pathway to actually get to eight wins and
be eight and. Four but you got to find a
way to rectify some of these.
Speaker 6 (17:39):
Things, yeah unfortunately you do have to still play In.
Eugene but do we get to call Wrigley field a
neutral site? Game and if that's the, instance Maybe minnesota
will have a shot of showing. Up, Yeah Northwestern, chicago
But evanston to Wrigley.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Field's going to be a little bit of A i don't,
know maybe they get caught in some, traffic just like
the rest of.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Us.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
WILL i will, say even with the first twenty minutes
and that's the THING i think we should continue to
drill down. ON i, mean thirty one to, Nothing iowa
hits for the cycle in that how does they how
do they hit for the?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Cycle?
Speaker 6 (18:09):
Right, well you got a passing, touchdown a pick, six
a punt return, touchdown a rushing, touchdown and you got
a field. GOAL i mean they scored in every possible,
way on every possible. Phase and that's the whole crux
of this thing is it comes down to. COACHING i,
mean this team was not prepared to get off the.
Bus they didn't get off the bus until about three.
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Thirty and the unfortunate part ISS cbs kicked off this
game and what would you, say two one, Central, yeah
two forty was the. Kick but when it's the, offense
compounding on the, defense compounding on the special, teams that
comes down to this team wasn't ready to. Play AND
i was in the press conference last. NIGHT i know
it's always the media. Jackals you AND i had never
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asked the tough. Questions we just lob them, softballs.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
And he hit them three hundred.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Feet he took, responsibility he says, HE i, mean he
says the things that a head coach should, say BUT
i learned a long time. AGO i hear what you,
say AND i trust what you, do AND i hear
that this team was believed to be ready to. Play
they just had a bad night on a bad. Night
why does this continue to happen In? Kinnick why does
this continue to happen on the? Road why does this
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continue to happen where it's all three phases when it
starts to? SNOWBALL i WISH i had answers for. You
Kirk farns is twenty and five in this. SERIES i
think we were so obsessed with getting a victory Over
wisconsin because remember eight years, ago that wasn't happening very. Often,
right there were teenagers that were taking their driver's tests
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that had never lived in a world Where wisconsin had
Lost Paul bunyan's. Acts and this has, BEEN i would dare,
say more one Sided burnssey regardless of, coach going back
to the final few years of The Glenn mason, Era
Jerry kill obviously got him a couple of. Times pj's
gotten them once and it's almost regardless of what's going
on In Iowa city before The gophers get there or.
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After this is like a, certainty which, is as A gopher,
fan not.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Great AND i can't prove.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
This AND i don't know if you remember the origin
of the who Hates, Iowa we Hate iowa. Chant i'm
pretty sure the streak started whenever that chant, started BECAUSE
i don't remember that chant growing. Up i've always thought
that chant is. STUPID i Know iowa used it last
night and they're social media. Graphic But i'm pretty sure
since the origin of that, chant which is to me,
idiotic The gophers can barely win in this. SERIES i
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can't prove. IT i don't know if you know the,
origin BUT i know it's not. HELPING i know it's
not helping the last quarter. Century NOW i can do that.
Math twenty and. Five, YEAH i was.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Just a young man back then At Eagle Point elementary
when that whole thing.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Started but if you.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
Look at why they're twenty and, five, specifically even with
the constructs of last, night they got punched in the
mouth by The iowahaw guys on the offensive indefensive. LINES
i would argue they got punched so far back their
glasses turned into. CONTACTS i, mean both on the offensive
and defensive. Lines you look at you know we talk
about it all the time or pro football, focus not
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the end all be all that has to match your eye,
test has to match a lot of different. Things but
we talked about how The iowa offensive line had been
one of the best in college football coming in and
guess what on those first three drives where they put
up seventeen points and flip the game on its head
and you allowed An iowa offense to do what they've
done all, year which is run the, ball, Run Mark.
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GRONOWSKI i look at what they grated as, YESTERDAY i
WAS i think top of their top six graded, players
five of them in their starting offensive. Lineman on the flip,
side you look At minnesota's defensive. Line If Anthony smith
And Devin eastern And Jalen Logan redding are going to
be in the bottom five of what was graded, yesterday
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you're not going to have a good time or even
on The gopher offensive. Side fifty three rushing, yards fifty
three rushing yards after contact as, well everything was. Earned
just there's too many times yesterday where Even Phil, parker
we had talked about all week coming, up How Phil
parker had been calling games a lot more aggressively because
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he hadn't been able to get home with four man.
Pressures that would mean there's five goph offensive linemen to.
Block and guess What iowa was getting home with, Fours
so they didn't even have to send that, many, RIGHT i,
mean there's just there's so many things that can tell
the story of why they have lost twenty of the
last twenty five, games but yesterday they just did not
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play well up. Front to. Start you mentioned it also
in the opening When Drake lindsay finally has his freshman
moment in start number. Eight you're not going to do
anything with. It so if there was ever a, night
BECAUSE i know your team's silver, linings if there was
ever a night for your freshman quarterback to finally look
like the, freshman it's on a night where everybody else
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decides to not get off the bus as, well and
then you just get thirty one nothing and we're all
looking at each other And i'm looking at you on
the sidelines with your mouth, open and we all were
feeling like that in the.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Present this Is Ryan Burns Gopher illustrated Dot com joining
on The Kinetical Water systems. Hotline it's go For Football,
sunday we're reviewing a forty one three loss To iowa,
Yesterday gophers five and three, overall three and two In
Big ten. Play Michigan state comes To Huntington bank next.
Week let's stick With drake just, erratic, right just. Frazzled
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he Hasn't he's looked poised all season. Long he's looked
accurate all season. LONG i don't love, throwing obviously into double,
coverage BUT i don't necessarily know if you, Know Jamison
gears streaking down the left sideline is my idea of
a good time to try to Beat iowa's. DEFENSE i
don't know what the answer. Is you know, Me I'M
i want to line up shots like WHEN i was
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a school in school At Iowa, city hanging out at
the ped mall and going to the sports column in
malones and trying to get into, brothers Like i'm fine with,
shots but they can't beat. Tequila right for, me they
got to be something a little. Chiller but what was
going On drake?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Yesterday, yeah you're talking about tequila.
Speaker 6 (24:02):
Shots it felt like Many gopher fans had taken multiple
shots of malort and then unfortunately.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Tried to watch that.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Game, yeah With, drake it was just from that opening
series where he Misses Javon tracy on a slot page
just overthrows, him and then you mentioned the wheel route
to it Was Drew. Bibber he was never opened at any,
Point and that's essentially one of the first few Times
i've Seen drake see that and say screw, It i'm
still going to throw, it and he paid for it
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with a pick. Six and unfortunately as, well that's also
the same play or the last play we Saw Darius taylor,
on Because Darius taylor had to have been injured on
that play as he got put down to the ground
by An iowa defensive back and then wasn't seen without
his helmet for the remainder of the. Game but For,
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drake even on the third, series we've seen him make
that timing throw to a receiver across the middle ten plus.
Times he airmails. It Kinnick stadium does that to a
lot of different. People they've done that to a lot
of different freshman. Quarterbacks it's just a reminder That Drake
lindsay is, human even for what he was coming into that,
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game complete number sixty two percent of his passes with
ten passing. Touchdowns the one thing that he had done,
really really well was only three, giveaways and then yesterday
alone he had three. Giveaways AND i know that was
something that the head coach talked about after the. Game
we Asked drake about. IT i, mean he was a
little despondent and right AND i mean. Rightfully so it's
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probably the worst game of his career that he's ever.
Played i'm sure he never had a game like that
At Fayett Phil Arkansas High. School so there's a lot
of different things you can kind of look at. That
and if you want to be mad at the offensive
Coordinator Greg harbow for, that absolutely it's his job to
Get Drake lindsay prepared for that. Moment we had Seen
drake largely be prepared for big moments WHERE i thought
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Against Ohio state on the road in front of one
hundred thousand and he was about the only player on
offense that wanted to be ready for the.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Moment.
Speaker 6 (26:04):
Right, so whether it's just a road game mechanic in that,
environment whatever that may, Be drake just he didn't have it,
yesterday and he's a. Freshman it's liable to.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Happen So Jenny dell FROM cbs who IF i was
to do a power rankings of favorite sideline reporters to
work with in my entire, CAREER i Think i'd put
her on the mount rushmore than anybody, cares but just
because she works and she grinds and she tries to
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be helpful to me. Too like there's a lot of
there's a lot of sideline people that are just what
can you give?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
ME i, say it takes a village down.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
There Bernsy, well you said that for many facets of
your LIFE i.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Have we're all one team down. There let's all help
each other.
Speaker 5 (26:48):
Out and you Know Jenny, taff you know you dine A,
natives she's up, There Jenny. DELL i bring it all
up because we were all trying to figure out what
was happening With Darius, taylor right and because she can't
came over and, said what's With darius, SAID i don't,
know and they even said it on the. Radio he didn't,
play he hasn't played very. Much BUT i also, said
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The gophers haven't had the ball very. Much they've run
like six. Plays so is this just something that was
in the script or is he? Hurt and then they
finally got the ball back and he, realized, no he's
not going back in. There and she came over actually
much later and, said the only thing we can come
up with, this you, know something happened either on the
first player or the. Interception they you, know they have
five million people that go back and watch all the
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videos to try to figure out what's going. On it's,
amazing really long wind up to say what do we
think happened? THERE i KNOW i didn't get any info
FROM pj after the. GAME i doubt you did as.
Well and how concerning is that now with maybe there
if not first most important, player second most important player
moving into the final stretch run.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Offensively, Yeah that's WHAT i wrote after the game is
if your most important, player which is the, quarterback is
it going to play? Well and then your second most
important play And Darius taylor leaves after four snaps or three,
snaps there's just not a lot you're going to be
able to do In Iowa.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
City For.
Speaker 6 (28:08):
Darius this just continues upon what has largely been and
it's unfortunate for, him just a cursed. SEASON i, mean
he gets injured Against Northwestern state on the opening. Drive
missus twenty eight days comes. Back look the. Part last
week we saw finally a fully type of Healthy Darius.
Taylor and now after three snaps Against iowa in a
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place two years, ago he also got. Hurt And i'm
sure that was in the back of his mind where
whatever the twine. WAS i don't know, if, again you
couldn't get injury. INFORMATION i couldn't get injury information after the.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Game we did ask the head.
Speaker 6 (28:45):
Coach he, said, Well i'll ask the training staff And
i'll update you guys accordingly this. Week let me tell
everyone listening right now what the injury update will be
tomorrow from the head coach is we will tell you
two hours ahead of time On. Saturday thank. YOU i
mean it JUST i just for stuff like. THAT i
don't think it does the kid or anyone any. Favors
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AND i understand the whole gamesmanship part, Whatever but When
darius just isn't, healthy and he hasn't been healthy this entire,
season it's just a running game that has sputtered and,
spun spun their wheels in the mud the entire. Season
how do you expect them to get much? Done even
When darius went. OUT i saw the running backs drop
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three different. Passes, yeah where the receiving. Corps they didn't
force a single mistackle. Yesterday they also didn't win a
single contested.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Catch the.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
Like there wasn't a single part of the offense yesterday
that you can point to and, say, yeah you know,
what that's something we can be excited about and we
can take forward here from the offensive line to the
skill positions To darius getting, hurt to the. Quarterback the
whole thing was just. Diseased AND i MEAN i hate
to kind of prognosticate this way and project, out but
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because we get nothing in terms of injury updates and,
TIMELINES i do wonder if this is a reinjury For
Darius taylor of what he had been battling for most
of the. Season you, were you, know you're a former
high level. Athlete you tell me that all the, time
Former Big ten. Athlete oh, YEAH i mean you often
(30:19):
say the reinjury my bile is worse than the actual
first time. Injury and if that's the, CASE i do
start to. Wonder With november just around the, corner, here
is this the last we've seen Of Darius taylor until
the bowl. Game i'd love to be proven. WRONG i
hope it was just nothing and he's back From Michigan
state next. Week but because we get no injury information
(30:39):
out of the head, COACH i don't know what to.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
Say you're a former college football. Player you've been in staff,
Meetings i'm, sure or team. Meetings I'm i'm struggling when
you have a return man who is now Surpassing Tim,
dwight who you talked about being a young.
Speaker 6 (30:58):
MAN i can see that you have his autograph jersey
hanging behind, you So i'm well.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Aware i've seen it for, many many.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
Years, Well i'll say, this my cousins THAT i met
up with before the, game who are you know From
iowa and Huge iowa. FANS i promise you they Have
Tim dwight memorabilia, Somewhere, okay because that's how legendary that
dude was as An iowa city kid that went to
go play.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
For The hawk.
Speaker 5 (31:24):
GUYS i don't, understand AND i don't know if this
came up with you guys last, night BUT i want
to talk about it On tuesday with. Him how you
what the decisions are when you have a guy that
can wreck a game in the. RETURN i know What
buffalo did To Cooy, perrich which, was we're not going
to let him return any, Right we're going to kick
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it out of, bounds or we're going to kick it
to the. Sideline we're not going to allow him to
impact this game if we have to give up seven
yards of field position because we kick it out of
bounds and it's got to go ten yards further than
maybe we would want it.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
To so be.
Speaker 5 (31:59):
IT i thought they were playing with fire the first
Punt burnsy with that low one that he caught with
no one seemingly within twelve yards of, him and he
just very easily picks up in the first down with his,
legs and then we obviously know about the punt. Return
but again when it's forty one three and everything so,
systematic like we can be nitpicky when everything was, Terrible
BUT i just don't understand the. Logic and why are
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we tempting fate here In, kinnick in the house That
cooper dejene almost built with fair catch shirts all over the,
Place why are we tempting the punt? Return, gods how
much time do you have for me to talk about
Our lord And savior special.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
Teams as much as much as you. Want, YEAH i
mean that's an within the. Detonation that was the thirty
one and nothing. Hole you look at five first half
punts For minnesota AND i wrote about this. Afterwards zero of,
them zero of them we're down inside the and none
(33:01):
of them had net puntyard over thirty. Five do you
know how atrocious that? Is or even the one That
Caden whetchen takes back is a thirty six yard. Punt
think about how bad the punt has to, be and
also within the. Coverage now he took that in traffic
and then he just houses it towards The gopher. Sideline
(33:24):
but you've even got the one WHERE i don't know
That i've ever seen, this And i've watched some games In.
Kinnick there's also a punt that was not tipped that
ended up fifteen yards into The kinnick.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
Stands, yeah that went thirteen.
Speaker 6 (33:36):
YARDS i don't know if the, Punter Tom weston just
said the worst night of his, life like so many
other people probably did for That gopher team. YESTERDAY i
don't THINK. Pj flex's plan was to kick it To Cayden.
WHEATCHEN i really. DON'T i just think that the punter
had a bad, night AND i don't think he played
particularly well last week Against nebraska either with some of those.
(33:58):
Punts they do have another punter on the roster that
was the starting punter AT ucla last. YEAR i THINK
i would seriously think about potentially going to him next
week Against Michigan state when your Guy Joe rossi comes
back to. Town But Kayden weichen had four punt returns
for eighty yards, yesterday and we're talking about how really
(34:19):
none of them were field flipping punts which gave him
an opportunity outside of the first, one which was a
low liner for no, reason after no reason that should
be a low liner in the middle of the field
or EVEN i know that this is something That fleck
probably might have hated even more than the punt return.
Touchdown he's talked about it WITH us media jackals that
(34:40):
he hates hates when they punt near midfield and the
ball goes into the end. Zone had one of those
in there. TOO i, mean there was a trifecta for
the Young Australian Tom weston yesterday and it just it
was just part of it is they have an inability
to be special on special team you've got a kicker
(35:01):
who is one of four from forty plus yards With
november next, week, Right you've got a return game that
continues to give you absolutely, nothing still waiting on that
return touchdown since twenty. Eighteen and then your punter has
days like yesterday where they don't mirror and compliment the
rest of the. Team but that has been a, long long,
(35:22):
story and it's been chapter after chapter For Flex Special.
Speaker 5 (35:25):
Teams final couple of minutes With burnsy From Gopher illustrated Dot.
COM i probably should have brought this up, earlier but
AND i want to talk about this on parent. Aspare
but with, ME pj has been interesting this season more
than others in kind of.
Speaker 1 (35:40):
Things he's all pined about himself as.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
He's reflecting on the, game AND i kind of want
to pull out the thread or peel back the. Onion
at cal he talked about MAYBE i overthought this whole,
thing talking, about you, know the sleep schedules and practicing
in the middle of the night and how he does
everything for a very intentional. Reason yesterday he talked about
maybe we had too much in maybe some things were too.
(36:02):
COMPLICATED i don't know what that would even. Mean BUT
i just think it's interesting that he Seemed i'm guessing
he did a lot of reflecting on that long drive,
home like you did and LIKE i. Did it just
seems like he's been more reflective this year because it
used to, be AND i think this is a strength of.
His when things go, bad he's basically, like we move
forward or in the, water this is what we do
(36:24):
and we'll get it. Fixed like he shows no vulnerability
or weakness this, YEAR i feel like he's like showing
vulnerability a little bit and be, LIKE i think MAYBE
i overthought, it or maybe this was too, Complicated maybe
we had too many things to think about. Today i'm
going to go back and look at. It have you
noticed any of? That or AM i just AM i
just overthinking it and over complicating.
Speaker 6 (36:44):
Things, WELL i often think the older we get you
yourself and myself and flex. IMMUNE i think we spend
a lot more time reflecting upon what just.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Happened we try to find.
Speaker 6 (36:54):
SOLUTIONS i think that's what we try to do Every
sunday morning For mat until nine is try to find solution.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
To a very very tough day In Iowa.
Speaker 6 (37:02):
CITY i think the way that they continue to play
leaves him open to a lot more self. Reflection, sure
where you look at even the last month of, games
from The rutgers game to This iowa, GAME i, mean
there are so many, different little nuanced storylines within all of.
Them where you've, fought you go down fourteen nothing to
(37:22):
come back Against, rutgers you finally challenge your team to
play with physicality Against nebraska and they outscore him seventeen
and nothing in the second, half program record nine.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Sacks and Then i'm.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
Sure he's thinking to, himself, like we are a, team
A minnesota team with an extra day to prepare to
go Into. Kinnick looks like they didn't prepare at.
Speaker 2 (37:43):
All how does that?
Speaker 6 (37:45):
HAPPEN i don't know how it continues to. HAPPEN i
don't know how they continue to have these giant ebbs
and flows and the lack of, consistency because that comes
down to what this twenty twenty five team. Is where
they're five and, three three and two in The Big
BUT i still don't know what team is going.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
To show up on a given.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
DAY i, mean we can say next week Against Michigan,
state where The gophers open on fan, duel at least
is a four and a half point favorite against a
team that is now zero to five and The Big
ten and just lost To michigan in a very emotional
rivalry game last night In East. Lansing, like they continue
to show up at home and they find ways to
(38:26):
win at, home and they need to do that against
The Michigan state team that's not very good this upcoming.
Weekend but why do they continue to go from.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
The highs of highs to the lows of?
Speaker 6 (38:35):
Lows why do they go ice hot or excuse, me
ice cold to white. HOT i don't. Know i'm sure
he doesn't, know And i'm sure he's trying to figure
all that. Out and that's one of the THINGS i
asked him after the, game is how do you play
so well at home yet you've been outscored by ninety
points on the. Road and you, know he didn't have
(38:56):
a great answer, it but he's, LIKE i understand why
you're asking that, question BUT i don't know how to
answer BECAUSE i don't know. Myself, yeah and that's and
that's a fair answer if you don't. Know but that's
got to be one of the. Things as you, said
there's four games. Left two of them are on the.
Road two of them are at. Home you gotta figure
this thing out on the, road Because eugene is What eugene.
Is but that game Against northwestern At Wrigley, FIELD i,
(39:20):
mean we've seen that game BE i, mean any any
game Against, northwestern as you would, say is a.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Meat, grinder.
Speaker 6 (39:27):
Right that's a game where if you want to have
aspirations of getting to a better bowl, game which is
hopefully going to be something Like, nashville or if you
go eight and four in that, instance where you take
care of business against A wisconsin team that finally put
up a point last, night or This Michigan state team
that's on five plus you beat A northwestern team on
(39:49):
in a neutral site, game is What i'll call. It
you can still find a way to get To nashville Or.
VEGAS i, mean they had a bad, NIGHT i get.
It but they also got two more home games where
they've been pretty dang. Good so it's it's just, long
woinded answer to, SAY i do think he has been
a lot more thoughtful with things like, that BECAUSE i
think he's been forced to be.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Thoughtful how you can't look at some of the.
Speaker 6 (40:13):
Way that these games have gone and not be affected
by the emotional swings in a positive way or a negative,
way and you got to figure out a way to
find a middle.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
Ground, yeah this has been a wild year to do
this show because last week you're talking about maybe the
best performance by A fleck team in the last three,
years right as systematic and dominant and clinical and locked
in and dialed and details and, relentless and then today it's.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
This it's just like roller coaster is a word for.
It roller coaster is a word for.
Speaker 5 (40:44):
It so now my question is what do you expect
Next saturday Against Michigan state at two THIRTY a game
like you said that they're, favored and they should be
Because Michigan, STATE i, think surprisingly has been very, poor you,
know Given Jonathan smith came in with a lot of,
fanfare right Poach Joe, rossi who's we know what he did?
Here and they've got, money Right Michigan state to go
(41:06):
find players like they've got a. Lot people might not think,
that but they do and they're in this. Situation so
what do we expect or give us the six days
From saturday rundown on what you expect for next week
or what you'll be looking at this.
Speaker 6 (41:21):
Week, heck they went out and Got Joe rossi from
The university Of, minnesota AND i think they're paying him
like one point five million dollars per. Season And i'm
sure THERE i know from talking with some folks In
East lansing that's not a very popular thing right, now
considering The Michigan state defense has not played very well
In Big ten, play Right they've got a quarterback In.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Aidan, chiles who is.
Speaker 6 (41:43):
If you think we've seen Some Big ten quarterbacks come
in here and, Play i'll say.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
MADDENINGLY i mean he is great, play horrific, play great,
play horrific.
Speaker 6 (41:52):
Play and too many times this year he has not
made the right decisions with the, football taking some bad.
Sacks but this is just A minnesota, team for whatever the,
reason that has played really, well or they're at least
their best football at, Home that's What i'll. SAY i
don't know that they've played really well at. Home they've
played their best football at. Home the other part of
this that we're going to talk about a lot this
(42:13):
week guards is this is going to Be minnesota's sixth consecutive.
Game it'll Be Michigan state's fifth consecutive. Game both teams
are banged. Up it's probably going to be a little
bit sloppy On saturday knowing, that but this is a
game you got to win to get to number one.
Speaker 2 (42:29):
Boiligibility but also you have.
Speaker 6 (42:31):
To be able to beat an zero to Five Michigan
state team that we talk About minnesota just playing in
a very emotional rivalry game last.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
NIGHT i just mentioned.
Speaker 6 (42:39):
It michigan just played Or Michigan state just Played michigan
and they. Gave i'm sure they gave everything that they
had in that. Game and now they got to travel To,
minneapolis where we've seen some interesting games in and Around,
halloween because this game will take place right After, HALLOWEEN
I november. ONE i, MEAN i think you remember that
(43:00):
The Adam weber game LIKE i do as, WELL i
do The Kirk cousins. Game but a two thirty kick
it should be an outstanding afternoon To Diankey. TOWN i,
mean we've been very blessed with this weather where it's
not incredibly.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
Cold they'll be hopefully or in the mid.
Speaker 6 (43:14):
FIFTIES i think it's another great opportunity to enjoy a fall,
afternoon watch Some big ten, football and AGAIN i Expect
minnesota to. Rebound i'm sure there's going to be a
lot of difficult conversations here for A sunday morning breakfast
In Dankey, town because that's what a thirty one to
zero hole twenty minutes into the game should.
Speaker 5 (43:33):
FORCE i look forward to seeing your costume At Huntington
Banks stadium On, saturday and we will talk to you
later this.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
Week. Burnsy thank.
Speaker 6 (43:40):
YOU i thought we were going AS K pop Demon hunters.
Together if, not please. Send daughter has a costume you
can borrow if you need. TO i don't know which,
one BUT i do know that it's IT'S i don't
think appropriate for a seven year, old but that's a
whole other.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Podcast thank, You. Burnsy we'll talk to you. Later He's Ryan.
Speaker 5 (43:56):
Burns go For illustrated Dot, com read him AT, gi
follow him At Ryan burney and On. Twitter and don't
forget About Gopher Good Iron, radio which will drop, tonight
as well as The parent Of spare podcast On tuesday With,
Chipskogins bernsy And. Me final segment Of Gopher Football Sunday
final thoughts on the forty one three loss To.
Speaker 1 (44:12):
Iowa whill we Continue Welcome Back final SEGMENT Gop.
Speaker 5 (44:37):
Football, Sunday minnesota loses To iowa forty one to.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
Three.
Speaker 5 (44:41):
Yesterday, Iowa i'm not going to do the, math has
beaten their one, Rival wisconsin thirty seven, rip And minnesota
another rival forty one to. Three pretty good year for
them in their trophy. Games pretty good year in their
border battle. Games they've Got nebraska On Black friday coming.
Up nebraska hung on to Beat northwestern, yesterday but just
(45:03):
a total system failure, Yesterday Kinnick stadium to go first
fall for the third time this. Season they're five and,
three three and two in The Big. Ten they can't
lose at, home they can't win on the. Road and
it's another home game Next saturday at hunting De Bek
stadium Against Michigan, state who is winless in The Big.
Ten And i'll be curious what we see From Drake
lindsay this week in his media. Appearances i'll be curious
(45:24):
what we see From Drake lindsay On, saturday BECAUSE i
think there was everything went wrong. Yesterday everybody was, bad
but that was his worst game as A, gopher And
i'm fascinated to see how he responds BECAUSE i think
he's going to respond really. WELL i think he's a
really good. Player the numbers bear out that he wasn't very.
Good sixteen of twenty eight one hundred and nine yards
(45:45):
with three. Picks he was sacked four, times and you
just saw so many missed, opportunities miss. Throws none of
the individual opportunities probably would have. Mattered when it's a
systematic beat down like it was. Yesterday there's not one
specific reason why you lose a. Game but he was
not very good, yesterday AND i think that's really the
first time we can say. That AND i want to
(46:07):
see what he takes from it and learns from, it
BECAUSE i think he's going to be a really good.
Speaker 1 (46:10):
PLAYER i think he's already a really good, player.
Speaker 5 (46:12):
And that was probably the worst game he's had maybe
in five years of his personal.
Speaker 1 (46:16):
Life AND i.
Speaker 5 (46:17):
Would have to imagine he's going to be ready to
go Next saturday and hopefully make sure that that was
a one time. Thing so there you. Go The pig
stays In. Iowa it's been there twenty times in the
last twenty five. Years that series has been almost as one,
SIDED i DARE i say more one sided than The wisconsin, one,
which as we know has evened up a lot here
(46:38):
in the last couple's. Home that's the unfortunate. News and
we're on To Michigan. State we're on To Sunday sermons With,
barrera a two hour edition. There talk to you a
bumper to bumper at three o'clock tomorrow as.
Speaker 1 (46:49):
Well bye. Everybody
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