Gopher Football Weekly w/ PJ Fleck 10-7-25

Gopher Football Weekly w/ PJ Fleck 10-7-25

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Let's see who has it Dinnisoda.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Welcome to Gopher Football Weekly with PJ Fleck, all the
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Speaker 3 (00:32):
Of Gopher Football.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
We go No, No, Here's the voice of the Gophers,
Mike grim and we're.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Off and running.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Welcome to another edition, a Tuesday edition of Gopher Football
Weekly with PJ. Fleck. We are back on location Tipsy
Steer in High Pines in Roseville, and glad to have
you along. JG has his own personal charing section over here,
and it's a full restaurant as usual. Good to see
everybody looking good here and we're going to talk Go
for football for the next hour on the Gopher Sports Network.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's homecoming week.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
We'll preview that Purdue coming to town under the light
six forty technically.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Is the kickoff time.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
And we will take care this weekend at four thirty
jg is always good to see you. You survive the
Ohio State sidelines. I did.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yeah, no security breaches this time. I'm my favorite security
officer and I got along really well.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Now we were good. Yeah, everything's fine. Outstanding, outstanding, Well,
it was. It wasn't the best of nights, I guess
for the Gophers forty two to three. That opening drive, though,
Coach was was it an impressive one seven for seven
for your quarterback and you got points right off the bat.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
Yeah, we'll just talk about the first drive the whole hour.
I think we should do that. Then just keep bringing
it up. We'll talk a little bit more about it.
But yeah, I thought we really started fast. That was
a whole game plan. Come out, start fast, had them
in a lot of different coverages, and I thought Drake
and co Tarbo and our offense dissected their defense really well.
And then they went back to the sideline, put a
lot of people in the box, stopped the run, and

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then played man coverage from there on out. And we
just didn't We weren't able to create enough separation and
give Drake enough time. So you got to give them
a lot of credit. I wanted to go back through
the film. I said this earlier this week, and I
want to go back through the film and be like, Oh,
we played like crap, we stunk. It was really awful.
We beat ourselves. We really didn't. We had two penalties,
that's it. We did not turn the ball over. We

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only gave up one sack. But at the end of
the day, I mean, they're a really good football team.
And that's one of the best football teams that I've
ever seen in thirteen years being a head football coach.
And I always give credit where credits due, and I'm
not exaggerating.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
When I say that.

Speaker 5 (02:35):
I said that about Michigan that year that when Michigan
beat US with Jim Harboughs, I was the best team
that we faced.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
They won the national championship.

Speaker 5 (02:40):
And this is the defending national championship champion, so you
got to give them a.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Lot of credit. But I thought our guys played.

Speaker 5 (02:46):
Incredibly hard all the way through sixty minutes and just
wasn't our night.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
What did they look like in person as opposed to
when you watch on the film kind of mirror those
two for us?

Speaker 5 (02:56):
Yeah, I mean, they're they have all the length in
the world, the strength to size, the depth. You know,
they're two three deep at every position. There is no
holes to their offense, defense or special teams there there
there isn't there's no flaws, right because in this world
you can just you can go out and recruit and
and and nil and and portal and buy a player

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in that spot. And they're really good at doing what
they do. Uh just look at their Their right tackle
used to be our right tackle and he's he's a
tremendous football player and did a great job on our guys.
So but they they were as good as advertised in person.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
You know, we we we said.

Speaker 5 (03:37):
We're going to be bold, we were going to be aggressive,
and I thought we were. You know, we took the lead,
then got to stop and unfortunately had a punt and
on the on the third drive, on the second drive
and then the third drive they scored. So it's unfortunate
that the score got to where the score was. But
when you look at the film, you wouldn't necessarily think
that except for a few explosive plays, but they're able
to dissect you pretty quickly. And when we did go

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man cud or as they ran by us and had
to throw the ball down the field, so we knew.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
That that was going to happen.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
We had a limit as much as it happened, but
unfortunately they were able to score almost at will.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah, and we mentioned the talent that they have. I mean,
there's guys who are going to be first round picks,
second round picks. Like when you look at the film,
almost everybody at some point, depending on when they decided
to move on off that roster of starters is going
to be an NFL draft pick. And those receivers are
certainly first round picks. I mean, tit has a world
class speed and you know, and and that doesn't mention Smith,

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who might be the best in the country, probably is the.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
Best receiver in the country.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
Yeah, there's maybe the first pick overall in the draft,
and maybe a top fifteen pick at wide out. So
and then they also have a tight end that's a
high draft pick. And all their offensive linemen could be
high picks. And they're very old and experienced, and they're
they're really talented. They got a lot of really good players.
I though the quarterback played really really well, but we
didn't do a lot to disrupt them. We couldn't get
enough pressure on them whether we blitzed, and that was

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a whole deal. We couldn't get to them with four
and then if we did blitz, then we were going
to leave holes and gaps in the cover and if
we they did pick it up, they were going to
be able to get some shots. So, you know, I
guys played incredibly hard. I'm really proud of them. There
are no moral victories at all, nor is am I
saying this with moral victory. But you got to look
at the positives in that performance when you get beat
forty two to three, And like I said, I thought,

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they just beat us, you know, pound for pound better
than us on that particular day. And they didn't make
any mistakes. I told you we had two title these
zero turnovers, one sack, but they played almost perfect, you know.
And if we were going to wait for Ohio State
to make all these mistakes, and they're the number one
team in the country for a reason and the defending
national champions, and we were going to have to play
and play really really well get some takeaways which we

(05:39):
didn't get, and it was going to have to go
our way.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
That way from a standpoint early you mentioned that they
you guys had the nice success. I think Drake was
seven for seven on that drive, and then they did
some different things. They went man all that stuff, and
then the passing game kind of I think you through
thirteen passes in the first quarter, six in the second,
and then just four in the third, at only three
in the set in the in the last quarter. Take

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me through how how that all unfolds as the game
is what it is and the scoreboard is what it is,
and your philosophy on trying to get through half two
and the passing game going away.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
We only had three the ball three minutes in the
third quarter, right, So that's one drive and that's basically
sums it up, right, And if we don't execute that,
you're in a punting situation and they just continue to
march the ball down the field. So you know, you
look at it and it's always three different things when
you don't win.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Is it is it? Is it the personnel?

Speaker 6 (06:31):
Uh?

Speaker 3 (06:32):
Is it? Is it the coaching? Or is it the scheme?

Speaker 5 (06:35):
And you look at all three of those things and
you want to be able to pull all that off.
But there are some times I told our team in
the locker room, and you know, I wasn't very happy.
I hate losing, and we're going in there to win
the football game. There is we're at a point that's
where I want our players mind. But sometimes you get
in a fight and you get beat up, and you
got to respond to that fight.

Speaker 3 (06:54):
That's what football's about.

Speaker 5 (06:55):
I mean, there is a violent sport and sometimes you're
on the short end of that fight. And and we were,
and our guys are going to respond this week, and
I feel very confident about that.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
I had a really good day of practice today.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
They came in with the intentionality of getting way better
on Sunday, which I appreciate, and they had great humility
in doing it, and I thought they represented us in
a first class fashion. So besides the loss, there's a
lot of great things to pull from that.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yeah, I wanted to talk about Sunday because we've talked
about Sundays on this show for a long time. When
you say, you know it didn't go, you know how
anybody wanted it to go on Saturday, But you don't
want them coming in, you know, defeated by it or
beaten by it, because you do have to move on, right,
You've got another handful of games through the rest of
the season. So how what was your approach Sunday, Maybe
after you went back and watched the film and watched
it and everything.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, I mean Sunday.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
You can't tell whether we win or lose when you
come in on Sunday because I never wanted to be
result oriented in terms of the teaching, education and response.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Whether you win or lose. Sunday is about growth, period.

Speaker 5 (07:48):
So when you came in on Sunday, it was very
natural for our players to come in. I think guys
were disappointed, you know, and you want them disappointed when
you care and you put so much work in it,
it's a zero some game. Somebody's got to win, somebody's
got to lose. You pour a ton effort in, but
so did Ohio State. And just because you put an
effort doesn't mean that you're gonna win. It doesn't mean
you're gonna play well. Doesn't mean you're not going to

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play well. But on Sundays or for the growth and
the response, and I thought our guys did a tremendous
job coming in with the intentionality of growth and uh
and getting better.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
And I thought they definitely did that.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
You mentioned this yesterday during your news conference. In regard
to Darius Taylor. He got back in some game action,
which certainly was good to see. U sounds like he
was on a bit of a pitch count, depending on
you know, how the game unfolded, and I'm sure how
he felt and what the doctors thought. Much of that
is out of the coaches control. So talk us through
what that was like Saturday and just monitoring when and
how often he could play. And two and I know

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you don't talk a lot about the health of the players,
but how how is he looking for the approaching week?

Speaker 5 (08:45):
He looks really good, you know, I mean, our medical
staff handles whether he will play or not on Saturday.
I don't have I s not only have some I don't
have any control of that. The doctors and the training
staff does. But he was on a pitch count.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
It was going to be.

Speaker 5 (08:58):
It wasn't going to be, Hey, here's how many plays.
It's a workload, and it's a number that is based
on the catapult of what he's ready for. And so
we knew we wouldn't have him for the full game
and the full entirety, but we were going to use
him as much as we possibly could, especially we were
going to space it out depending on how the game went.
And you know, being down fourteen to three pretty quick,
we had we had to use a lot of that

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workload in the first half. So but I'm really thankful
that he got a chance to get out there and
some game experience coming off of that injury. Medical staffs
done a really good job of them.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
So trending upwards, yeah, any any I thought he'd looked
pretty good against a you know, a team that just
doesn't give up many rushing yards.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
Now, they're really stout, they're really good athletic long but
I think he's he's coming back in a in a
in a progressive way, in a positive way. He's got
a great mindset. He works his tail end off, works
in the training room. They're really really talented. And you know,
again they're giving up four and a half points a game.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
They've allowed two touchdowns two in five games.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
It's incredible to me.

Speaker 5 (09:53):
I mean, it's until you experience it, right, It's like,
I think we're even I told Gary we scored three
on the opening and you know, we were joking around
because he was like, man, I thought, definitely we're.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Going to get more than ten.

Speaker 5 (10:04):
You know, like you're starting to think that may maybe
we'll be the first team to score double digits on him,
you know, And but that's kind of how it works.
And they do a lot of different stuff that they
never played the same front back to back, and they're
mixing up coverages, putting in different types of man and
cover two and going in and out of it. They
got a nickel playing on the line of scrimmage and
all of a sudden, ball snapped. He's run to the

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half of the field playing DP half. You can do
that when you have that type of personnel as well.
And they're very good, very skilled, and they're very disciplined.
To do as much as they do and still be disciplined,
it's a credit to them and the coaching staff.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
One quick follow up to on Darius just in general terms,
and I don't know what his percent will be, but
when he is one hundred percent, how does that change
what you guys want to do? And I know you
have good depth at running back and you like the
other guys too, but he is he is pretty special
running back.

Speaker 5 (10:53):
I mean, your best players are your best players, you know,
and nothing can take that away from being your best player.
You can have depth. You can have solid players, to
have guys that are going to do really well. But
there's a reason Darius Taylor's Darius Taylor. We don't have
five Darius Taylor's. There's some schools that do. We have
one Darius Taylor. And if our best player on offense
isn't in there, of course that affects you. It's up

(11:14):
to us to find creative ways to get the ball
to different people and to be really smart with the
football and efficient.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
But he is somebody who can change a game by
touching the football.

Speaker 5 (11:23):
And that's what the NFL is all about, with playmakers,
and that's what really good college football teams arebrout and
when they have great playmakers, it makes things a lot easier. So,
of course he's missed guys who've done a great job
stepping into those roles and really stepping in and stepping
up and doing a really good job. But he's a
phenomenal football player and whenever we get him back, we'll
be thankful to have them.

Speaker 6 (11:44):
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Welcome back, Let's go for Football Weekly. The tipsy steer
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Great crowd here as always, finishing.

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Touches on Ohio State, then homecoming and a lot to
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Speaker 3 (18:19):
Purdue six forty.

Speaker 1 (18:20):
As we mentioned, the kickoff will take here at four thirty.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Let's talk about the offensive line.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
You shifted a few guys up front and then had
some in game subs as well. And I know you're
mixing and matching and trying to find the right combo.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
Can you take us through that a little bit?

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (18:36):
I think that.

Speaker 5 (18:37):
You know, when you look at what we've done offensively
and going into that game plan and what their defensive
line looked like in the front seven, we felt like
we had to shuffle some things up just to give
us the best advantage to protect Drake, and I thought
Coach Callahan and Coach Harbo did a really good job
of that based on their personnel. Wasn't like matching personnel,
but we wanted to make sure that our edges were
really secure because I think Greg Johnson is we continue

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to move, He's a really good player. He can play tackle.
If we ever get in a pinch, he can go
to the tackle. I thought it was a great opportunity
to move in to left tackle, take Nathan to right tackle,
and shuffle around just the guards, and I thought that
we were able to get what we want out of it.
We're going to continue to have those guys keep battling
and fighting and competing because I think we've got three
other guys besides four guys that are solid that can

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continue to compete and can continue to raise the level
of our offensive line play. So you know, in a
perfect world, you'd love to be able to have five guys,
but we don't live in a perfect world. So we've
got seven guys, but what is the right combination? And
it might be week to week as we keep looking
at that, but you know, we put a lot of
attention into.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
It, that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
What have the challenges been short yardage for you this year?
We talked about it.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
I think at halftime of the Rutgers game where he
had the third and one, end of up the fourth
and one, didn't get it. You obviously had the fourth
and one here, it's good to go for it, right
you're down fourteen to three. You want to pick up
that yard Every coach always says we got to get
fourth and one if we go for What have the
challenge has been for you there?

Speaker 5 (19:59):
Yeah, we haven't got it? Those are those are the challenges.
We haven't got a few of them. And you're never
going to be perfect. I mean that's why it's a
little bit of a gamble and a risk. But I'm
going to be bold and aggressive in those situations. I
feel like we should be able to execute a.

Speaker 3 (20:12):
Fourth and one.

Speaker 5 (20:14):
I think getting whenever he comes back in a healthy
Darius back could help, you know. I mean, look at
the fourth and one, I mean, they did a good
job of getting some knock back right off the shelf,
but there is no shelf, and so Darius did all
he could to run his feet and get with it
get the yard, but we weren't able to do it,
and Rutgers, we weren't able to get it. So our
guys have identified it, they know it. Part of changing

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is knowing what you're not executing and why you're not
executing it. So it's just the fundamental technique and going
to get the hard yards. So it's a combination of
O line, tight ends, running backs and then schematically, we've
got to find some other ways to be able to
get some short yardage stuff as we keep moving forward,
which we will so but you know me, I like
to put the ball down, be really aggressive and go

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get a yard. And that's what football's about, and that's
our mentality. So if we're able to do it, we'll
do it. If we're not able to do it, we
have to find a different way of doing it, because
I don't want to change that belief system.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
We hear this often in short yardage too, and I
just ask I don't have any thoughts either way on it.
You've I think lined up under center, maybe more this
year than you have in the past. Some of those
short yardage situations will have not been under center, they've
been just out of the you know, the pistol or
the gun or whatever you want to call it.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
What's the philosophy on that?

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Because you hear some people say, well, you know, now
you're getting the ball deep in the backfield on short yardage,
why don't you just get your six foot four inch
guy quarterback and get him under center and push in
what you guys did some of that last year.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
So how do you look at just strategically.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
From a fourth down and short or third down and short,
How what's the best way to get that yard?

Speaker 5 (21:40):
Well, if it was, if it was easy, every fourth
down in the National Football League and college.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Football be perverted, it would be converted. There be there'd be.

Speaker 5 (21:48):
One hundred percent conversion rates on fourth down. Everybody'd be
ten of ten on third down, and it'd be just lovely.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
And last year, you guys are like ten or twelve
or something, I know, crazy.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
But because we did it last year doesn't mean we're
going to be good at it, you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (21:58):
This year?

Speaker 5 (21:59):
So team's a little bit different. I thought that, you know,
I thought Max has played a ton. He was pretty
good at the quarterbacks. See, he got better at that.
We'll get better at that when we continue to develop
draking it. But those are things you have to get
better at by doing it. I remember USC, we did
it a lot just to get the yard and then
they said we weren't in, and then they said we
were in.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
So that was your That was your you right in
that rest face, saying you loved him.

Speaker 3 (22:24):
I did love him. That was exactly what I said.

Speaker 5 (22:27):
And you know it was so funny if you guys
remember that USC game and everybody thought I was yelling
at the official. In fact, I was giving him a compliment.
I said, I love you right, because I was so
excited about the call.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
You might have mixed one word in there, yeah blank
you know. But but when you go back, Heather's fear.

Speaker 5 (22:42):
Yeah that's the italianator. Yeah, I've learned that all from her.
But we had the official know him, very well known
for years. We had the official here in one of
the previous games and he came up to me and
he's like, you remember me. I said, of course, I
remember you. You know he's like, hey, just so you know,
for Christmas, my wife got the picture of you screaming

(23:03):
at me and framed it and wrapped it. I'm like,
I didn't know what to say, thank you or like you're, well,
he's part.

Speaker 1 (23:10):
Of a meme. And most people think you're you're mad
at the guy right when they see that meme, they
think PJ Flag ninety nine.

Speaker 5 (23:18):
Everybody thought I was just giving him the business right
where I was actually complimenting him. And it's just somewhat
ironic that for Christmas, that's the gift.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
It's a beautiful gift.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
So I'm making an impact.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
You're you're you're a contributor to to just to everything.
Everyone's rolling the boat now with no doubt about it.
He gave us some calls. He did not, Uh, let's
talk about guards you anything left on Ohio State.

Speaker 13 (23:42):
No, Well, you know who I want to talk about everybody, Well,
you know how I want to talk about it is
your punter in all honesty and Tom Weston.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yes, not just because his family's here.

Speaker 5 (23:56):
Tom Weston's mother is here twenty two hours. His girlfriend's
here as well, Our fabulous punter, thank you for allowing
him to come to America and welcome to America.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
It's great to have you here.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
That is a good point.

Speaker 3 (24:10):
This is what Minnesota is like all year round. Yeah,
no doubt.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
They look freezing.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yeah, sweatshirts on the hold. The boy the ball was bouncing.

Speaker 1 (24:19):
Off his foot.

Speaker 5 (24:20):
He's he's incredibly talented and we were just having a
quick conversation over there. I mean, we've got a lovely
family and support. He's he's a gracious kid. He's very empathetic.
The kids love him. He's he's he's really really intelligent,
and he's fun to be around. He's got a great personality.
But you know, he's he's a really good punter. And
the one thing we were talking about is, you know,

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my job has been able to teach him football because
it's one thing to punt, but there's so many situations
that are involved in punting and the punt team, and
it's been really exciting to teach him the game.

Speaker 3 (24:52):
Sometimes I stand back, I can't believe I just.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
Had to teach him that, right, that's the last You
don't really want to be teaching that in the middle
of the season, but like, you got to keep educating him.
Sometimes you forget like he didn't grow up playing football.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
I mean it was aust rules, Australian.

Speaker 5 (25:04):
Rules rugby and all the other things that you play
over there, and some cricket. So it's great you got
cricket and you got Australian rules in rugby, and then
you got baseball here in football, it's got to be
very confusing for everybody.

Speaker 3 (25:17):
But he's done a great job.

Speaker 5 (25:18):
He's been a very not a pleasant surprise, but we
needed him to come through and be a huge impact
on our season and our team, and he has been.

Speaker 1 (25:26):
And flipping the field.

Speaker 4 (25:27):
Underrated, right, I mean underrated fifty plus is that's nothing
to sneeze at.

Speaker 5 (25:32):
Yeah, and you know what he's he's so coachable and
it's so funny because I grabbed him at one of
the punts he had. I think it was oh no,
it was Rutgers and they they brought a shallow and
you know, they only had the returner at thirty five
yards were protecting against the fake and then they'd run
him back and I was like, hey, I got something
for you. He's like, what, I go punt farther. He
kind of looked at me. I'm like, what great coaching advice?

Speaker 1 (25:54):
Punt far.

Speaker 5 (25:54):
See see the returners up close. I just want you
to drive it over his head. He looks at me like, yeah,
that's a really good coaching point. And then the next
time he bombs it over the head, I'm like, I'm
a really good coach.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
You know, unbelievable. What great.

Speaker 5 (26:06):
It's like coaches when they say catch the ball. Yeah,
that is not coaching. That's identifying. That's identifying something wrong.
Just like I identified the ball being short. I was like,
punt it farther. Yeah, I mean, just punt it off
your foot farther.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
Go, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
And I remember it because they were They were like
even thirty yards on a couple of those punts. You know,
it was bizarre. Yeah, I thought the same thing. And
Crawford's still around. Is he helping? I see him at
practice some and on fast Friday.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
And you know some of that stuff.

Speaker 5 (26:35):
He comes by the office here and there, you know,
visits with our players and it comes by here and there.
So I think the players really enjoy him being around,
just like a lot of our former players do. They
come by, want to be around the team, want to
be around, you know, hanging out with our guys in
the building, use the facilities. I think that's really really important.
So you know, he's such a special guy too, so
I just you know, I love having the Australians around.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
Yes, for sure, for sure, it's great, no doubt.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
I don't know if he's allowed to go back home
right now. I think he's trying to get a visa
or something like that to go work.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
So he's stuck here. Well, I know if he's stuck.

Speaker 5 (27:05):
Here, but I think he's working on being able to
get a job here, which is which is which is
always challenging with when you're international.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
All right, Well that gives us a good segue for
after the break. We'll invite you all to stick around
because we'll talk about some more of the former players.
And you've got more than two hundred coming back for
this weekend. It's homecoming. We'll preview Purdue. Lots to talk about,
so stay with us. It's Go for Football Weekly with PJ.
Fleck from Learfield. Well, we did welcome back Mike Grim

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along with Justin Guard and the head coach, PJ. Fleck.
It's the Go for Football Weekly show every week noon
until one live here on many of these go for
radio network stations some era later, So if you're listening
to this later, thank you. We got a few things.
We had Bill McCreevy Junior up here. Good to see
him in the house, and he was trying to get
us to come to his next band's performance, which happens

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to be the night of the Nebraska game.

Speaker 4 (27:59):
So I think we're probably out. I think there's another
fan playing that night. His name is Paul McCartney. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And the are you opening for McCartney? Yeah, he's he's
the opening act. Got okay, and Jim Jim Brewton.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
He's been coming to shows for as long as you
can remember. It's his birthday today, so let's get him
all right, Jim a round of applause as well. You've
probably read many of his books over the years, and
a long time goal for of course, so lots to
talk about.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
Homecoming is always important. You always talk about.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
The football team's role in homecoming is to win the
football game on Saturday, right, and.

Speaker 5 (28:33):
Win the football game. Yeah, that's that's our main job.
I always talk about. It's not to decorate the gym
or bring the streamers or spike the punch like we're not.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
We're not.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
That's not our job. Our jobs to win the game.
So our guys are working really hard. They had a
great practice today, got a really good mindset and the
response mentality playing a really good Purdue football team. Do
not look at their record because they they've lost to
truly three ranked teams. When you look at it, they're
really talented on offense, score a lot of points, great
style defense, and a specialists are playing at.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
A high level.

Speaker 5 (29:02):
So we've got our work cut out for us, that's
for sure.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
And just really.

Speaker 5 (29:07):
Thankful for all but people coming back from homecoming this week,
really excited to see everyone. A lot of former players
coming back to so look forward a great atmosphere at
Huntington Banks Stadium.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
The importance of former players, you got over two hundred.
I know you kind of started some of this. They're
going to be lining the tunnel and just that engagement you've.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
Always talked about.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
I think your term is something along the lines of
bridging the future in the past and make it the
present or something like that. You say it much more
eloquently then you nailed it. Yeah, pretty close.

Speaker 3 (29:34):
Think you just confused me.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah, I don't know, bridging the past something like that.
I see that in the endoor. So that's the banner
that hangs right Yeah, to row the boat. I want
you to put that up. I want you to have
a banger or something, a banner that says something like that.

Speaker 5 (29:46):
No, we do want to be the bridge that connects
the pass to the future.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
And you know we're in the present right now.

Speaker 5 (29:50):
And these guys get to represent Minnesota Golden Gophers no
matter when you played, no matter where you played, no
matter what position you played, all types of alum, whether
you played sports or not. We get to represent you
on a national stage for homecoming this week. And our
players are very honored to do that. And don't take
that lightly and take it very seriously. So you got
over two hundred players coming back, which you know when

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we first got there, we did the same thing and
we had forty players, and now we have over two
hundred from all different generations and different decades and very
excited to have those guys back on campus and be
around our football program.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
Well, for people that are coming to the game, like
Grimmer said, they're going to be in the tunnel. And
then that's about the time I go down as well.
And you might get a fifteen yard penalty for delay
a game because those guys keep the yearbooks open and
they're like loitering in the ends though they're all there
taking pictures and so for people watching, like you'll see
all of them in the tunnel obviously, but they hang
out down there, and you know, I had to yell at.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
A couple Ron Johnson, of course he's loitering.

Speaker 5 (30:48):
But he's take it actually selfies just exactly.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
He's not with any other team mates, just Ron.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
But I do think that's cool though it's like, all right, guys,
it's time to go. This was awesome, but now we
got to go play a game. But it's cool to
just see all those guys down there really not wanting
to leave because they're having a fun time.

Speaker 5 (31:03):
You know what's great about it is we've got a
lot of guys coming back that are playing in the
NFL right now that did play in the NFL. But
it's the guys that didn't play in the NFL, you know,
the guys that are owning their own business right now,
are working in a marketing job or a sales job,
or their teachers or their educators, or they're in med
school going to be a surgeon, like, it's so cool
to get those guys back, and.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
It's fun to watch them grow up. A lot of
them have a.

Speaker 5 (31:24):
Family now they have wife and kids, and you remember
them when they were whatever number they were right, and
then now you start to watch them live their entire.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
Life and see how they've grown as a man.

Speaker 5 (31:34):
And I think that's that's always really special for a
coach because we get paid to win, but I do
the job because I love to teach and educate.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
That's why I do the job.

Speaker 5 (31:43):
And it's so fun to watch a lot of your
players come back who are really like your sons. You
come back and you're really really proud of them, and
it's fun to be around those guys.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
And I know you stay in touch with all kinds
of your former players, but you have to worry about
the football game. So behind the scenes, how many people
are working on making sure all these guys are in
the right spot at the right time and get tickets
and passes and whatever else they need. It isn't as
simple as snapping your fingers.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
I would guess no, not at all.

Speaker 5 (32:08):
Whether it's our operation staff, our recruiting staff, our general manager.
Garrett turnoff Chandler Bunning. Our whole support staff is involved
in that. So we also have recruits on the field,
and we have recruits that we're meeting with prior to
the game. So it's all hands on deck, I promise,
and a lot of people doing a lot of hard
work to make that all run really smoothly for all
of you.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Anything else on homecoming grim, No, I'll move along. I
actually want to move back because we talked about to
Ohio State.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
After the first try.

Speaker 4 (32:35):
No, we talked about the Darius Taylor pitch count, and
it's kind of like a new phenomenon, I feel like
because the Vikings just to this was Christian dearosof people
were watching on Sunday and all of a sudden, Dearrisaw
is not playing and everyone's like, what's going on. Nope,
it was planned. We were going to he had a
lot of snaps last week. Now we're going to take
it easy. Is that a new phenomenon? I think I
thought it used to be like, you're good enough to play,
You're going to go in there and play. But it
seems like there's a lot more science behind I guess

(32:59):
load management for of a better term.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
I think you hit it right on the head.

Speaker 5 (33:02):
I mean, we have way more science and data and
medical information than we've ever had, whether that's with AI
or whether that's with the technology that we have or
the medical technology. So when you have the information, you're
going to respond to that information, because if not, it's
just useless knowledge. If you're not using it to make
it better and make it good and to take care

(33:23):
of those players, then it's pointless. So we have all
that stuff to take care of our players, get them
back on the field healthier, faster, maybe a little slower
if the data says that.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
But I think that everybody's got.

Speaker 5 (33:36):
A lot more data and a lot more technology to
keep track of all that so you can make the
best educated decisions moving forward. That is the health of
all of our players, and that's the number one thing,
is the health, safety and well being of our players mentally, physically,
and emotionally.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
So we have way more data. We need to respond
to that data.

Speaker 5 (33:53):
And I think you see that in the NFL, You
see that in college football an awful lot.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
So isn't as simple as you mentioned the word worklow
on the catapult system that when it's a certain number
for a certain player. Hey, they might be more susceptible
to re injuring or injury or something like that, or
kind of take us through how those numbers. I know
you're not the one collating the data, but you get
the info. So how does that work where let's just
say with deris off, for example, it's like, well, we're
gonna give them a couple series off, or Darius has

(34:19):
a certain number before we're probably going to pull back.

Speaker 5 (34:21):
Yeah, I mean I get told I needed in layman's terms, Yeah,
I needed somebody to explain the data and information to me,
like how many plays? Like, give me a number, right,
because if not, they're like, hey, it's at a three
fifty to four to fifty load. And I'm like, okay, yeah,
I have no idea what that means. Right, you get
paid to tell me what that means, right, because I've
got to adjust it into football terms of how long

(34:42):
you can play them. We felt like we'd get two
quarters out of Darius. So however that looked, we're talking
probably you.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
Know, six to eight plays per quarter.

Speaker 5 (34:52):
So when you look at it, you know, fifteen sixteen plays.
Maybe that's kind of what we thought it would be
on average, and so that's kind of of what we
felt like we could we could have with his load.
I don't know what the Vikings philosophy is. But then
you're also listening to the player, you're listening to the
medical staff. You look up on the scoreboard and you know,
once it was twenty eight to three and thirty five

(35:13):
to three, it was like, all right, well, I'm glad
we pulled them because I would probably would have pulled
them by now anyway. But it's, you know, it's one
of those things you got to listen to the science
and data or why do.

Speaker 3 (35:21):
You have it?

Speaker 1 (35:22):
And Guardgie and you both mentioned the catapult system. Some
probably know what that is, but it is it's pretty unique.
We see it at practice. How do you guys wear
it in.

Speaker 3 (35:29):
The game too? They wear it in the game. Yes,
just explain a little what that is.

Speaker 5 (35:33):
Yeah, I mean it is a and I don't want
this word to get out, but it's it's a glorified
medical tracking device in practice, right, And you could wear
this thing twenty four to seven and it gives you
all types of data, whether it was sleep or how
hard you're working, or you know, your your beats per minute,
all these other things right and give you all this
health safety and medical information. But we keep a monitoring

(35:56):
practice to monitor their workloads, their top speeds, their work
loads versus game workloads in practice, and then we measure
all of that and have running data throughout the entire
year every time they're doing something with physical activity to
know what to give them and when to pull back.
And that's about as good as I could explain it.
I mean, it's a glorified tracking device. It keeps track

(36:18):
of everything that they do medically throughout the practice, and
I think that gives you information to respond to when
you're making practice plans, when you're adjusting certain things for training,
camp or the season. We have also data that comes
out that says, hey, this guy's at risk and getting hurt,
that he could be what we call in the red
where the workload is getting really high, which then you

(36:39):
have to respond to how many reps he's going to
get the next day in practice, or maybe he had
a lot of big workload in the game and you
look at Sunday and you're going to hold him out
of Sunday because the workload's so high. Every single player
on our football team gets evaluated that way. And that's
how you can create and do everything you can as
a coach to keep people healthy and on the field
as long as possible well guards.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
You mentioned there's a bit of a trend there with
with different players both college and NFL. Another trend, and
it's not a trend that's just exploding, but you see
it every now and then. We saw it this weekend.
I know, last week on this show when we were
on campus, we talked about your rule of not, you know,
reaching the football toward the end zone. This week in

(37:20):
the NFL, we see a guy again slow up at
about the eight or nine yard line and at about
the two inch line, thinking he's in the end zone. Why,
I don't know, it's right in front of him, and
he loses the ball and it goes out of the
end zone. And you know, one of the weird things.
One of the first things I thought of is, I
wonder if PJ. Fleck has a drill to show his
guys how to make sure you're in the end zone
before you do anything like that. So you talked to

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your team about some of that stuff that happens.

Speaker 3 (37:44):
And I don't know, you've known me, you've known me
nine years what do you think. I think you probably
have talked to your team about that.

Speaker 5 (37:48):
So we have a rule that you've got to run
through the goal line, through the back line, if you're
not being tackled in the end zone, you got to
run all the way. You'll see our players run all
the way out of the back of the end zone
with the ball. That helps you avoid it, yes, because
if they're two yards short, at least they're eight yards
deep in the end zone.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
And we evaluate all of that.

Speaker 5 (38:09):
You even saw, you know, Trevor Lawrence last night reaching
the ball over on a quarterback sneak that.

Speaker 3 (38:13):
Costs him a touchdown, you know.

Speaker 5 (38:14):
And there's so many that we showed that play that
you're talking about from the Cardinals this morning.

Speaker 3 (38:20):
Yeah, And so there's so.

Speaker 5 (38:21):
Many games that are lost before they can even be won.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
And most games are lost.

Speaker 5 (38:25):
Not one, and most games that are won are lost
less than the other team lost it.

Speaker 3 (38:30):
So we're teaching our players how to go win games.

Speaker 5 (38:33):
And it's very difficult to do that because you've got
to be incredibly disciplined, and you have to value the
ball and maybe you have to do with things a.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Little bit different than other people.

Speaker 5 (38:40):
But That's why when we do reach the ball, everybody
sees a touchdown, everybody's cheering, and I'm furious.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
I am just furious because I know what could have been.

Speaker 5 (38:48):
As a head coach, you're always looking at worst case
scenario and then you're almost working always backwards. And that's
how your life gets screwed up when you're a coach
because you're always looking worst case scenario. You go from
being the most positive guy in the room being a
head coach. Now you're like mister negativity always. You know,
because you're always looking at worst case scenarios. You got
to respond to that. So I think that that is
that is an issue. And I think a lot of

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people want to celebrate before they can get across the line,
and we want our guys celebrating together, not individually. So
it's unfortunate because it happens all the time the Towers
in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
It happens every single week and.

Speaker 1 (39:21):
With you, and I think people know this by now,
We've talked about it many times. You your guys will
never give up the ball unless it's to the referee
or I can practice, managers will come and grab it
and you move on to the next play, and that's
true with touchdowns I've noticed as well, Like I can't
imagine to go for doing that, but you just you
still have to, you know, pound.

Speaker 3 (39:41):
It in their head. Right.

Speaker 5 (39:42):
Well, yeah, I mean the whole saying about the balls.
The ball's the program in our in our culture. So
if you're not emphasizing that and showing those things in practice,
and you're not doing something drastic to get that point across,
then it's just another quote, another saying.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
Right, So balls the program.

Speaker 5 (39:56):
Our players take the ball from the chin position and
hand the ball to a manager in pract this we
stopped practice last week because somebody tossed the ball literally
for me to George. It just tossed the ball and
that's it, and we stopped practice. And you would have
thought that somebody did something horrifically wrong, like horrifically wrong.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
But you can't compromise that. Teams that compromise lose.

Speaker 5 (40:18):
You cannot compromise with yourself, nor can you compromise against
the culture of what we're all teaching, including myself. So
when you start to compromise, you start to fade, and
things start getting to be a little laxadaisical. You can't
create that as a CEO or as a head football
coach or a business leader, Like you can't create that
it's okay, it's okay this time it is or it isn't.

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And once it isn't, then you start to lose all
the things that you've created over the years.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
So it's really important to us. And then when you
see us in the.

Speaker 5 (40:46):
Game, our guys, you know, are handing the ball the
official and it just again it goes back to the.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
Ball as a program. How important that really is.

Speaker 1 (40:52):
I feel like the officials don't appreciate that as much
as they should.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
They sure not.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
You should be giving a call it because you watch
other guys balld are flying all over the place to
turn around.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Pick it up.

Speaker 4 (41:01):
You're guys throwing it at him. Yeah, it's just right
in the pocket every time.

Speaker 3 (41:04):
Do you I have not gotten one? Thank you.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
I was wondering if the ref ever come over like
usually that's what an umpire and then the side or whatever.
We appreciate it, guy, Ye, that's awesome. Yeah, it's easy
for us. Make sorry we missed the hold. Yeah yeah, sorry,
we picked up the flash. Sorry sorry sorry. Jamison Gears
was being molested and they didn't call a penalty on it,
or they did fall a penalty, and then the other
guy talked him out of it. You know, I take
responsibility for sending us down this world.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
The guy with the back turned.

Speaker 1 (41:29):
Yeah, the guy that had no angle whatsoever.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
Exactly. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (41:32):
I didn't understand that one at all. I was not anyway.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Just hand him the ball back better next time.

Speaker 5 (41:38):
Yeah, we must not be doing it enough, you know.
Maybe maybe that's it. No, I've never I've never heard of,
thank you. I wonder why. Yeah, that's interesting. All right,
I'm gonna tell him that this week. Though you guys
don't appreciate us.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Handing football enough absolutely saves them so much, so many steps.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
It really does. I'm going to actually use that. Yeah, absolutely, Guardie.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
Do you have to go find your parking spot? I do,
all right. Well, it's fun having you here for a time,
for sure. It's ah. I'm sure it's been a black
We've got our fourth quarter coming up. To stay with us.
Let's go for Football Weekly with PJ. Fleck from Liar Field.

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Game against Rutgers on September twenty seventh recognize the thirteenth
annual Celebrate ag and Food Day at Huntington Banks Stadium.
Both the game broadcast and the presentation inside the stadium
celebrated the tireless efforts.

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In the agriculture industry.

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We can all be proud of the continued efforts, results
and the talented people that work in these industries to
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Gophers would like to thank the presenting sponsors.

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Visit the University of Minnesota Bookstore, your destination for the
area's largest selection of U of M and Golden Gopher apparel,
gifts and novelties for fans of all ages, from the
latest styles to timeless favorites. It's your one stop shop
for all things Gophers, and when you shop here, you're
giving that because every purchase directly supports the Universe of Minnesota.

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Stop by our campus location.

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Or shop anytime online at bookstores dot umn dot edu.

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Go Gophers in hipines.

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We want to invite you to visit the University of
Minnesota Bookstore for the area's largest selection of U of
M Gopher and Gopher apparel, that is, and gifts and
novelties for fans of all ages, from the latest styles
to timeless favorites.

Speaker 3 (44:21):
It's your one stop shop, and.

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Every purchase directly supports the University of Minnesota. Shop in
store on campus or online at bookstores dot umn dot edu.
We just gave away two twenty five dollars gift cards
from the bookstore, one of the benefits of being here
in person for the show. A couple of other quick notes,
some house cleaning itams. We want to thank Dan robotham
Our on site engineer Michael Tackett is our producer, Paul

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Rovnak and Gopher Sports Communications, and Garrett Chernoff and Chandler
Bunning from Gopher Football. And one quick note homecoming this weekend.
The football game starts at six point forty. We'll take
here at four point thirty. Don't forget the Gopher Garden Party.
That's the pregame fan fest at Huntingon Bank Stadium sponsored
by Huntingdon Bank. Located on Oak Street outside the stadium.
Gopher Garden opens three hours before every home game, including

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this one. Catch the Goper football pregame show, enjoy the
Minnesota marching band and experience all the excitement. One other note,
Nico Medved's team will have a maroon and gold scrimmage
at Williams Arena leading up to the game, So if
you're in the tailgate lots early at two thirty at
Williams Arena, Nico's team will have a little intrasquad scrimmage,
so you can.

Speaker 3 (45:25):
Get a sneak peak.

Speaker 5 (45:26):
Hey just texto, yeah Texas with Nico just a second ago.
So he's he's in the neighborhood. Yeah, you guys are
in our new neighbors. Yeah, neighbors. And then you know
the Big Ten Media Day. I think tomorrow, right, Yeah,
they're off to Chicago.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
I think at Thursday is the is maybe the day
for that, and.

Speaker 1 (45:43):
That's kind of fun. Come out, do some tailgating, go
watch some basketball at two thirty. Players will be signing
autographs after and then across the street to the football
stadium for GOP football and homecoming.

Speaker 3 (45:53):
Exciting time too.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
It's a it's a way for you all to get
to know that new roster, and I know they're very
excited about it. So I think we've covered everything on that.
Let's also chat a little bit. You hit on Purdue
about the fact that they have, you know, their three
losses or all the teams that have been or are
currently ranked in the Big Ten. That's not that uncommon
that you play a bunch of good teams. They come

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in at two and three last week. You know, you
watch that game against Illinois, they fumbled a punt deep
in their own territory. They had a fourth down deep
in their own territory, and so Illinois had the benefit
of a couple of short fields. So what do you
see from the boiler Makers.

Speaker 5 (46:30):
Well, first of all, they're really well coach. Coach Odom
does a tremendous job. Been a head coach numerous places
and had success anywhere he's been. I got a lot
of respect for him, got a chance to be around
him in the offseason, and tons of respect for him.
He's a defensive minded coach. Defense just plays incredibly aggressive offense.
It all runs through their quarterback, Number sixteen, the Brown Kid,

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and he produces everywhere. I mean, he can beat you
with his feet, hit his arm, he throws on the
run really well. Forty five tailback, he's been around the league.
You'll know when you see him. He's been around the
league for a long time. He's got over thirty five
hundred yards. He'd be glad when he graduates. I sure
will be because so hard to bring down and he's
a really gifted tailback. I think he's one of the

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best tailbacks in the Big Ten when you evaluate what
he does, the contact balance, the broken tackles, the type
of game he has. It kind of reminds you of
a little Darius taylor Field because he does so much
in the past game in the run game, they got
four really explosive receivers. You know, they run the ball
really well, and defensively they're they're aggressive. So we're going
to have to play our best game of the year
that we've played up to this point. But I know

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our guys are up for the challenge. But it's going
to be in a really exciting game, that's for sure,
and really really good opponent.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Any good insight from Drew Bibber who was with that
program for a while.

Speaker 5 (47:43):
They've got so much turnover over there, so not really no,
I mean, but we're excited for Drew and he.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
Had a nice game last week. He did he's getting
better for a weeks ago, Yeah, he's.

Speaker 3 (47:51):
Getting better by the week.

Speaker 5 (47:52):
His role continues to get bigger and bigger, and just
excited for him to have that opportunity.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
Well, very good. He is your head coach. Give him
a round of applauses he gets ready for oncoming this Saturday.
Has mentioned it's a six point forty kickoff and a
four to thirty pre game. And one final reminder you
can get your Chick fil A App ready. During this
week's Go for Football, one lucky fan will attempt a
field goal and the Kicking for Chicken challenge Regardless of
the kick, all Gopher fans win. Open your Chick fil

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A App next Monday to resume your free item.

Speaker 3 (48:21):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
We appreciate everyone for coming. Good to see a good crowd,
and this has been Go for Football Weekly with PJ
Fleck from lear Field