Gopher Football Weekly w/ PJ Fleck 10-21-25

Gopher Football Weekly w/ PJ Fleck 10-21-25

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(01:22):
the Nebraska Cornhuskers, as the Gophers did on Friday night
twenty four to six. The final. I have Mike Grim
along with Justin Guard. Hello, j G.

Speaker 6 (01:30):
I had to park at Rosedale and take the shuttle
O over here is a nice little shuttle. Yeah, it's
off to leave a little earlier today to get back
to the shuttle.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Are you done talking trash online to the Nabaska Cornhusker fans?

Speaker 6 (01:41):
Not particularly You've enjoyed it. Yeah, I've enjoyed it. I
haven't acted like we've been there before. Unfortunately, the team
has a twenty four hour rule.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
The sideline reporter does not. He can. I don't have
to think about Ioley. Yeah, no doubt they see what
you created their coach with that big win. Guards he's
an animal now.

Speaker 7 (01:56):
He really is. Yeah, he's tough to contain, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Well, what a win.

Speaker 7 (02:02):
That was a huge win for us? Is it's want
to know you know me?

Speaker 8 (02:05):
We kind of just working these one game championship seasons.
But it was a great win for us. I'm you know,
beating a ranked team in Huntington.

Speaker 7 (02:11):
Bank Stadium again is always really really exciting and so
exciting for our fan base, our supporters, and obviously our players.
So staff worked really hard. I mean that was a short.

Speaker 8 (02:21):
Week, so about twenty five hours a day. They were
in the office, and a lot of them didn't go home,
didn't really see their families much, and completely dedicated themselves
put to get best game plan together to put our
players in position have success. I thought the players played tremendous.
They played incredibly hard, did the small things at a
very very high level, and I think it showed for
four quarters of football, not just one quarter or two quarters,
but four quarters of football.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
And as you always say, there's no guarantees of anything.
But when you and I chatted after practice on Friday,
I could the way, you know, there's coach speak and
then there's like I can tell when you're serious about stuff.
And you said you really liked the game plan. What
was it about the week that you just had. It
seemed to me you had a feeling that you thought
you guys were going to play pretty good football.

Speaker 7 (03:02):
Yeah, watching the film and then game plan in all week.
I felt like if we could establish our run game
and we could get to it really early and be consistent,
we could have really good balance. And again balance, you
know how I am.

Speaker 8 (03:13):
Balance is more can you do what it takes to win,
whether it's run or pass. But I felt like we
could have a really good mix if we got into
some rhythms.

Speaker 7 (03:22):
We were going to have to be able to score
and score early.

Speaker 8 (03:24):
So it wasn't a game like twenty one to three
Ohio State or fourteen nothing Rutgers or ten nothing Perdue.
I mean, he looked at some of our games in
the Big Ten and we've been down really early and
it's changed our game plan really quickly. So we knew
we had to be able to jump on that. We
felt like we had a really good feel for what
they were going to do. They mix it up a lot,
but we got some tendencies which kind of helped us,

(03:44):
which made it a little more vanilla then maybe it
was going to be because of the film study and
well the dedication that our players had into the game plan.

Speaker 7 (03:53):
So felt really good about it.

Speaker 8 (03:55):
We had a really healthy football team and I think
that was really really critical position that we weren't really
healthy at was corner, and I thought some guys stepped
up and had a really big game at that position
as well.

Speaker 7 (04:05):
So it was a really good game for us, a really.

Speaker 8 (04:07):
Good end of the game as well, watching our fans,
you know, run onto the field and nothing gets better
than that.

Speaker 7 (04:13):
That that never gets old.

Speaker 6 (04:15):
A lot was made after the game by you and
a couple of your players about I think the Tuesday
tackling circuit period I was maybe a little longer than usual.
You do that every day, but it was a little
longer that particular day. Take us inside that a little bit.
What went into the decision to say we got to
do this a little bit longer today.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Then how did all that go?

Speaker 7 (04:31):
Well, there really wasn't a decision until we started it.
So there was a time this is this takes you.
I'll tell you a quick story of like what this
felt like.

Speaker 8 (04:39):
And I worked for Greg Gianow at Wreckers and there
was one time that he runed to talk about like
stopping the run. And we have this middle drill, right,
so we're in middle drill. And Jeff Haffley at the time,
he was a corner. He was a dB coach and
I was a wide receiver coach at records, and we're
over there kind of doing like one on one releases
and everything, and they're over there doing middle drill and
the offensive line, defensive line, linebackers and everybody. You know,
it's some run type drill. And usually it lasts like

(05:02):
five minutes. We're like, all right, we're kind of doing
one on ones and releases, and next thing, you know what,
to ten minutes.

Speaker 7 (05:06):
And then I went to twenty minutes.

Speaker 8 (05:07):
And coach Afley and I, who's the defensive coordinator for
the Packers, Now we're looking at it. You're like, what
do we do? We're just going to keep doing what's
on the script. Literally, it went for about an hour
and fifteen hour and twenty minutes of middle drill. That
was all coach did. And we were down there just
doing one on one releases for an hour in fifteen
twenty minutes. But the point got across. Now we did
not do it for an hour and twenty minutes, but

(05:29):
it was the emphasis of Okay, this usually takes three
to four minutes.

Speaker 7 (05:32):
We go through this pretty quick.

Speaker 8 (05:34):
And I just kind of stood there and just watched
and everybody's waiting to rotate, and I'm like, we're not rotating.
So it wasn't a plan thing. Okay, it wasn't something
I told the staff I was going to do. It
was just I'm going to do it to prove the point.
That's something that you kind of hold as a hit
football coach that you're you're making a point now tackling convention.
Don't think like we're just putting our players in harm.

(05:54):
This is tackling on pads like big launch pads and
like high jump pads, and you know there isn't hitting
each other's hitting bags. But if you're doing your tackling convention,
so you're you're biting the ball, you know, head on tackle,
you're working on that, you're working on the wrapping roll
from the side, you're working on the sweep the ankle
from behind. So you're working on all these tackling drills
and then you rotate. Instead of rotating every one to

(06:15):
two minutes, we just rotated every ten minutes.

Speaker 6 (06:18):
So was there a point where they realized what you
were doing? Like you watch her to take us through
because you obviously realized that when coach Ciano did it.

Speaker 8 (06:25):
Yeah, I mean anything you do that's off the norm.
These players understand turned out. Yeah yeah, it's it's like
one degree change of temperature and they know it, you know.
So they're sitting there looking at you, but the offense
is waiting to start group and install, so the offense
is all on that side. I just kept telling them
just keep just keep warming up, keep warming up.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Coach Callahan and Coach Kaylor were like you and the
halfley probably in that thing.

Speaker 8 (06:46):
They were, but Coach Callahan's always begging for more individual time,
like with his players, so like he loved it. That
was Coach Callahan would prefer that every single day if
we just gave him thirty to forty minutes just to
be with the old line.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
And maybe that helped too, right because they got individual
work and they were blown opened some big holes.

Speaker 8 (07:03):
I mean, I'm not going to start that rumor because
then all of a sudden, we're gonna think we're gonna
have to do that every single time, and then it
loses its effect, you know.

Speaker 7 (07:09):
But I thought the guys.

Speaker 8 (07:10):
Handled it really well and it wasn't Again, it's not
a punishment, there's nothing negative about it. Just you get
what you emphasize and we have to emphasize the small
things here, and so we're going to emphasize the small
things to do to have it done successfully, simple and
simply successful. And I thought they did a really good
job of understanding the point of the week, and we
tackled way better. Two of our mistackles that we had.

(07:30):
We still had like thirteen miss tackles total for a game,
I think it was somewhere around there, but.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Two of.

Speaker 7 (07:37):
A lot of those came in two plays.

Speaker 8 (07:39):
One of them was one of the running back kind
of going all over the place, and then was Railo
going all over the place. But besides those two plays,
I thought we tackled really well.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Yeah, And I think that was part of guards He
was probably headed that way in terms of the importance
of tackling because JG in the pregame was bringing up
the idea that their receivers were like, what was it
a thousand yards after the catch?

Speaker 6 (07:56):
Thousand yards after the catch the rail it was sixteen
hundred yards for the season in a thousand of them,
where after the receivers caught it.

Speaker 7 (08:02):
Yeah, so that was a throw it right, Yeah, a
bunch of screens.

Speaker 8 (08:05):
They throw a bunch of footballs on slants and let
They have really good wideouts who are really really athletic
and fast, so they do everything they can to game
plan them in space.

Speaker 7 (08:13):
So once they get the.

Speaker 8 (08:14):
Ball they have some space, it breaks some tackles, they
run away from people.

Speaker 7 (08:17):
When you watch the film leading up to our game,
I mean.

Speaker 8 (08:19):
They might be some of the most explosive wide receivers
and then one of the most explosive offenses in the
entire Big Ten. And you know, I was really proud
of our defense for not allowing a touchdown that was
really really big.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah. One of the receivers went back to back weeks
with I think it was a fifty plus yard screen
pass touchdown and then a sixty yard or Michigan against
Michigan State and then against Maryland was at Turner or
Hunter I think maybe the number thirteen for them, and
pretty much you held those guys in check, even like
there was probably underrated. Bowden has to come in for
a couple of plays, right, because McMillan gets done. They

(08:50):
throw at him twice, and one he makes a great
open field tackle and two he's in pretty good coverage
on a long pass play because I'm sure they're looking like, Okay,
here comes this guy that hasn't played much, let's attack him.
And he answered the bell.

Speaker 7 (09:04):
Yeah, I mean, we guys to step up at that position.
That's why we brought jb in.

Speaker 8 (09:08):
And you know, we got some guys banged up at
that position. And I thought guys have really answered the bell.
And in terms of one coverage, because we're going to
talk about our sacks at some point, how many sacks
we have, but.

Speaker 7 (09:17):
That all stops top that starts top down.

Speaker 8 (09:20):
You have to have a leak coverage on the back
end for that to even happen, because they're really good
at getting the ball out, really good quarterbacks scrambling, creating
the second play. But I thought our corners and safeties
did a really good job from the top down. Of again,
you're not perfect. You know, they missed a thrower too,
but that happens in coverage. But I thought for the
most part, our guys covered really well and then they
tackled really well. I mean, so Kwan Bryant was our

(09:41):
leading tackler and he's a corner, so you could tell
they did everything they could to funnel their run game
towards our edges, which meaning that the corners are going
to have to be in there, be physical and make
the play. And I thought jb had some really good tackles,
had some nice tackles. Obviously he's a Kwan Bryan, our
corner had some really nice tackles and led our team.
So I was really please with the next right step

(10:01):
in our development.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
I want to talk about the sacks now you mentioned it.
A lot of guys had a lot of sacks right nine.
It's the record going back to nineteen seventy seven.

Speaker 6 (10:10):
What was different from week to week because you were
around the Purdue quarterback a lot, just weren't able to
bring him down. Against Nebraska, you were around him a
lot and were able to bring him down.

Speaker 9 (10:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (10:19):
I think that the whole point of the week was
to condense the pocket somehow, some way, you know. I mean,
Rail is so good at finding just a little hole
and then escaping out of the pocket, running and running
on the run and throwing.

Speaker 7 (10:30):
He's so athletic. You saw what he did.

Speaker 8 (10:32):
I mean he threw the ball to his left hand,
everybody and threw it very accurately as he just got
we grabbed his right arm and just threw it with
his left arm. I mean, I couldn't throw the ball
hit George right now if I threw it with my
left hand. He's so athletic. So we had to do
a really good job of kind of boa constricting that
offensive line. They did a really good job on the edges.
We didn't rush past the level of the quarterback, We

(10:54):
condensed the pocket, we shrunk the running lanes, and I
thought we did a really good job of getting to him.
And I know he felt us because there were times
that we were kind of close to him and you
could see him move and disrupted the entire timing of
the play down the field and got his eyes more
on our guys than keeping him down the field.

Speaker 7 (11:10):
And that was the whole point.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, nine sacks. As JG mentioned, they came in averaging
forty one points a game, and they didn't score a touchdown.
You held him to a couple of field goals, So
tip of the cap, Danny Collins. I know you talked
about him yesterday and your news briefing about you know,
you know what he's meant and how big of a
game plan he put together.

Speaker 8 (11:31):
Yeah, I mean, it's all about development of the players
and the coaches. You know Danny Cowens is a really
young guy. He's been around this system for thirteen years.
He's learned from a lot of different co coordinators, and
people always say, like, what's he likes. He's kind of
a combination of Rossie and Head of the Men, kind
of put together. And I think that nobody really knows
what I mean when I say that, but schematically I do.
In terms of the attention to detail, the fundamentals, the technique,

(11:54):
the ability to put pressure on the quarterback, stop the run,
and the way we do it. They all had their
unique flavor, but it's still similar to the same system
that we've always had.

Speaker 7 (12:05):
They just get to put their fingerprint on it.

Speaker 8 (12:06):
But Danny's such a hard worker and he's so committed,
and I know he's really young, but this guy's a
limit for his career because he works so hard at
his job and his craft, and the players love him.
He's so good in front of the room, and he's
so good coaching those safeties, and he's really developed, and
I think one of the best coaches I've ever had,
not just a coordinator. I'm talking just as a position
coach as well. Just watching from where he was and

(12:28):
seeing This complete growth in thirteen years from really a
student coach to a defensive coordinator in the Big Ten
is really impressive.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, no doubt about it. All right, let's take our
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Play action and now it's a broken play and a sack.
You had no one to throw to Anthony Smith and
for Minnesota, that's their first sack since the Rutgers game.
To throw Royola twenty of time.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Now the pocket collapses and Kevin Eastern drags him down
back at the fifteen yard line and they will force
a field goal attempt.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
Second sack of the night for the Golden Golphers to
throw is Roola. He's hit and sacks Carter Men's the
first man there. Then he got some help from his
fellow teammates looking left. Now comes off that Reid hit
and sacked by Man's He drag him down.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
His second sack tonight back at the eighteen, and.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Minnesota has sacked the Braska four times straight drop. Pressure
comes from the left side.

Speaker 3 (19:15):
And Anthony Smith lads the sack all the way back
at the eleven yard line.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
Royola wants to throw all the blitz comes. Pressure comes,
stepping out of the.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Pocket, hit and sacked back in Minnesota's territory. The loss
of eleven Jackson Howard third down in five to of
eight are the Huskers.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Here's the blitz and he's it.

Speaker 3 (19:36):
Drops back at the clown Kingsbury, cross the running back
and then crush the quarterback. Seven sacks. Blitz comes, Pressure
comes dropped him Jackson Howard. In fact, he almost took
a knee. I don't even know if Howard hit him.
He just hurtled right there, hits a sack back to

(19:56):
the thirty six, hits fourth in a mile.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Here's Ryola again. Let's if they can get a sacked
on it. Pressure comes hit.

Speaker 9 (20:02):
How there it is.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
It's a sack.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
Smith and Mix met him.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
Malwatchie crunch sack.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
There. It is a nine all nine secks. We went
a little long on the AVR remos. You did actually
all all nine sacks school record, and most of the
reason I did is as guards he loves listening to
the radio announcer, so I do.

Speaker 6 (20:27):
I mean, I could take a great I could take
a cheap shot at you, but I'm not going to.
And I have the benefit of listening live. And I
don't think I told you this in person, but I
did tweet this out. You were on fire on Friday,
Grimmer and I get I get a good game, I
get to listen live and sometimes I'll take my headphones
off and just kind of hear the crowd, like it's
not as fun without you in the in my ear.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
I don't know, so you did. I could be a
mean person, but I'm gonna be vulnerable and be nice
that you're you're you're a great person. You were outstanding
on Friday. Well that was fun, nice Blacks. It's it's
a it's pretty funday. We'll call nine sacks. So yeah,
I thought let's put them all together. It's a little
long on the a VR remix. So now on to
segment three. Ye no, IM just kidding, but you know

(21:07):
what a night. Was there something in the game plan
that you thought you could do. You mentioned compress the pocket,
but your guys were in the backfield really consistently almost
every pass.

Speaker 7 (21:18):
It was based on your call.

Speaker 8 (21:19):
You just said that was the first sack since we
had at Rutgers or something like that.

Speaker 7 (21:22):
You opposite jink stuff. Yeah, a good way. So keep
doing that.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Yeah, I will, I will keep doing that.

Speaker 8 (21:29):
I mean no, I thought we just played harder, we
played faster, we cleaned up our fundamentals and techniques. We
blitzed about the same as we blitz But I thought
it was really good. Now, if you want to see
what our I remember, I told you, I excuse me
to have this little clip right, this little cut up
that says for my funeral. I've told you about that before,
and there's all these little clips of like so when

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people are at my funeral, if anybody anybody comes, then
maybe they won't, but if they do, they'll be able
to watch like my favorite plays, whether it's games or practices,
that show our players how in their heart. If you
ever watch the play that that Matt Kingsbury comes out
of blitz runs over the tailback and then makes the
sack on Dylan Rail. That's violence, like, that's go for
football one oh one, playing defense like.

Speaker 7 (22:12):
That's the expectation. That's one of the best.

Speaker 8 (22:14):
Defensive plays I've seen anybody make because it was just
pure violence, pure how, pure speed, reckless energy, and and
then it not only blows up the running back, he
makes up makes the play and brings Raela down on
a square tackle.

Speaker 7 (22:29):
That that's really really impressive.

Speaker 8 (22:30):
So I think that showed exactly what type of game
it was for us. And if I could pick one
play to demonstrate that, it would be that play.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 6 (22:39):
It was impressive. And I've added that to my funeral
mix too. Yeah, good, very good. The only football player.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
I have a lot of.

Speaker 7 (22:45):
Tennis matches, a lot of andre AGAs on there.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
That's right, there's Acacy at the us ulpen, and there's
Matt Kingsbury blowing up there you go Nebraska, and then
there's home video from Mike Guard on justin Guard's championship match.

Speaker 6 (22:55):
But he said to say, I saw Kingsbury as we
were waiting, you know, kind of to do the post
game thing, and I just kind of looked at him,
you know how you do and you're like, dude, he's
like violence.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
That's all he said, and you just kept walking.

Speaker 6 (23:05):
But good for him, right, I mean, we've talked about
him for years. You talked about the steps that he's
made from a couple of years ago. And to have
a moment like that, I mean, that's one that's going
to be on his funeral real too, you would imagine.

Speaker 8 (23:15):
Right Well, I'll tell you, like, he's at Richard sophomore
and it's taken him two years and a half to
really get to this stand this point.

Speaker 7 (23:22):
Now you just let him loose.

Speaker 8 (23:24):
You know, his family, his dad played big ten football Perdue,
He's got big ten blood in his body. And he
came to us as a developmental player, developmental linebacker, and
we knew that he'd have to develop in the weight
room and really take time in the linebacker stuff. And
he's playing at a really high level right now. And
the great issue we have right now is we've got
five linebackers, six linebackers that are all really good, and
we could rotate them, we could put them at different positions.

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We can have a lot of creativity and versatility and
different packages on defense. And you saw that with Kingsbury.
You've seen that with Wolverine Mason Carrier. They call him
the Wolverine for every reason why you'd think he's Wolverine.
He kind of looks like Huge Jackman.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
Yeah, oh wow, yeah, yeah, lucky guy.

Speaker 8 (24:03):
I'm not sure if that's why they're call him over.
I think he looks like Hugh Jackman. I'm sitting there
thinking they don't even know who Hugh Jackman is, but
they call him the Wolverine. So, but you have these
a lot of these young linebackers, and you look at
like Ethan Stendel coming up in Nate Cleveland and these
kind of guys that are really young, the Emanuel Carlos.
We've got really good linebackers in the program right now.
And I think when you got Mariano sorry Maren coaching
those guys, I mean they always say like you can

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tell who the coach is by how they play. Yeah,
it's exactly right with Mariano and those linebackers, they play
exactly like Mariano.

Speaker 7 (24:31):
They're just better.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
And you think, back, Mariano.

Speaker 7 (24:34):
I can say that I coached, Yeah you can.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
You can say that you're paying them a nice wage.

Speaker 7 (24:38):
Yeah, he's a coaching now. He cares about your career.
Nobody cares about your career. I was talking close to
your book. Yeah, yeah, close of your book. Son.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
You think back, you know, I thought, remembering back, I
thought he had his breakout game against Nebraska, Mariano way
back down there. Remember he had twenty was it twenty
tackles I think or nineteen tackles, something like that, and
then from that point on he was, you know, pretty
dominant in the middle linebacker. So Nebraska, you know, may it
brings out the best in him, But you know, you're right.
You got Girlock, you got Williams, you got Baranowski, you
got I'm gonna forget you mentioned Carmo. Who am I

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missing in there? It's a good group and you're rotating in.
Girlock had a blitz that he didn't land it, but
it curled him the quarterback, right into another guy to
land a sack.

Speaker 7 (25:15):
Yeah, it was good funneling. Call that funneling.

Speaker 8 (25:17):
You want to funnel to somebody else, whether you're set
in the edge, whether you're blitzing, you want to make
sure that you can condense the pocket, funnel it to
somebody else. If you can't make the play, if you
make the play, make the play.

Speaker 7 (25:25):
If not funneled somebody else, and I thought they'd a
really good.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Job of that. Let's talk about the offense now for
a little bit. Darius Taylor really got the thing going
on the seventy one yard run down to the one
yard line. I thought that changed the tone of the
whole stadium. And from that point on, you guys controlled
the football game, not that you weren't in control before,
but that really seemed to liven things up, as you
guess it would. And then once this was one of

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those patented games, I think, once you guys grabbed a
hold of the game, you just controlled the line of scrimmage,
and those I know are special games in your heart
when you can impose your will.

Speaker 8 (25:59):
You're exactly right. I mean, that's that's go for football.
That's our brand of football. That's where we take the
most pride in. I think that's when we're at our
best when we are doing that. And I think I
give a lot of credit to our players. They worked
extremely hard throughout the week. I mean, their their commitment
level was insane to the process, and we said that
we're going to have to do two things way better.
Are fundamentals and techniques we're gonna have to go through

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the roof. And football is a game of inches, I
mean it really is. It's a game of fundamentals and techniques.
So we use the analogy of free throws. So all
week we studied the free throw. You know, the felling drill.
Remember that you had to stand against the wall. And
they were like, I have asked them if they knew
what that drill was. They're like, yeah, I have no
idea what that drills. We've never done that before. Coach,
I'm like, where is the technique of fundamentals and basketball development?

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Right?

Speaker 5 (26:42):
You know, I probably watched a.

Speaker 8 (26:44):
YouTube video of how to do it these days, you know,
But we studied the free throw and Steph Curry and
ninety one percent are higher because of his fundamentals and technique.
And if you wanted to improve, we just got to
do it better. It's the simplest form of basketball. You're
not you can be distracted or you can truly folks
man distracted's man defeated. The free throw really shows what

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type of person you really are. And I thought our
guys really kind of answered that bell. That's why you
see the basketball hoop in the videos and the basketball
as we dive into the crowd. And that's why, because
we studied free throws the entire week and FT was
for free throws fundamentals and technique. And then fun times
when you beat Nebraskets, fun times, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
And then you get a big crowd at a restaurant
for your coaches show the following Tuesday. For sure, right
ninety eight yard driving a ninety yard drive of the
ninety eight yard drive I think was the longest by
yardage for your team period since twenty two and I
think by time it was like the second or third
longest drive in stadium history for the golfers. So that

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pretty well set the tone too.

Speaker 7 (27:47):
It really did.

Speaker 8 (27:48):
I mean, they do tremendous job by their punter pinning
us down inside the two. And you know, you work
on situational football all the time, and you know when
you look at the football field, you break it up.
You know a lot of people know about the red
zone and then they think that's it. There's the there's
a red zone, there's a tight red zone, there's a
goal line in short yardage, and there's the alumni zone,
which is in the middle where all you want us
to throw big passes right in the middle of where
the block am.

Speaker 7 (28:08):
Everybody's got a good view. We call that the alumni zone.

Speaker 8 (28:11):
There's a gray zone, there's a blue zone, and then
you have backed up and coming out. Backed up is
four yard lining in, just like we were on the
minus two, and then coming.

Speaker 7 (28:21):
Out is from the five to the twelve.

Speaker 8 (28:22):
And there's a series of plays that you run and
you got to be really good at them. So the
first goal of backed up is get out of backed up.
And our first run got us out of backed up.
When we picked the number one play of the game
as coaches, what changed the game, it was Darius Taylor's
four yard run on the two yard line. It got
us out of backed up and it got us going.
And then you get to coming out. What the first

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goal of coming out is get out of coming out simple,
and then you can get into all the other zones.
So our guys stayed really true to the discipline of
how we run situational football, how we cut up the field,
and I thought they executed that really well. And then
as we went I mean, we're running, run and running.
Then we throw the ball to Mechi over the and
I thought it was a really good release, really good route,
great ball, perfect location, and a great catch and and

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that got.

Speaker 7 (29:05):
Us moving for sure.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Yeah, and a what a play interesting you know, irony
in that getting out of backed up. If you watch
that play, Darius was really running backwards by the time
he kind of got spun and then he just backpedaled
but forward downfield to gain that extra yards. I think
some guys, you get spun like that, you might take
the tackle. But he literally was back pedaling forward to
get extra yards.

Speaker 8 (29:26):
There's one thing I think Darius Taylor's gotten a lot
better at, and that's that's getting the hard too, the
hard one, the hard three, the yards that aren't there.
A lot of times some backs will always try to
bounce everything to go get a big long run when
nothing's there. Well, really elite backs when nothing's there, Remember,
defenses get paid two and they're onund scholarship, and the
NFL has good defenses, And can you go get you know,

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two yards and there's nothing there and there is a wall,
can you go get six feet?

Speaker 7 (29:52):
You know? Can you move that pile six feet?

Speaker 8 (29:54):
And I think he's gotten way better at that over
the years of learning how to be this elite tailback
and part of that is going to get.

Speaker 7 (30:00):
The hard too.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah, talk real quick before we take the break about
the throw and the catch. Brockington catching Lindsay's throw just
dropped it. I think Darryl said, they call that drop
it in the bucket.

Speaker 7 (30:10):
It was perfect. The kid is so accurate.

Speaker 8 (30:12):
I mean, he plays at such a high level for
such a youngster.

Speaker 7 (30:16):
He really is a special human being.

Speaker 8 (30:18):
Everybody, we have a really good quarterback, really special kid.

Speaker 7 (30:21):
And yeah, you absolutely you know it was a great
call by Greg.

Speaker 8 (30:26):
I mean they're they're putting, you know, seven, eight, nine
guys down in the box and they're doing everything they
can to stop the run. And it's one on one coverage.
And we'd liked our matchup with with Lamechy Brockington.

Speaker 7 (30:35):
And it was a straight call. There wasn't any check.

Speaker 8 (30:37):
It was a straight call, nine to two go, and
and it was a really good throw, really good release,
and everything starts at the release for a receiver, and
Lamechi does a great job creating space, great vertical release,
good vertical step, good meat grinder did a great job
with his hands and eyes, doing it late and keeping
his feet inbound, so defendered.

Speaker 7 (30:53):
Really didn't have a chance based on the technique.

Speaker 8 (30:55):
Again, the fundamentals and the technique ran in the route,
kept his shoulder square. It was really really nice to
see all that come together and what a great pitch
and catch.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
All right, very good. We will take a break. We'll
keep talking about the big win. We'll look ahead to Saturday.
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the little house keeping there. I'm back to Minnesota beating Nebraska.
In that win, you mentioned the crowd, the crowd getting
out onto the field guards. He was able to avoid it.
You were able to avoid it a little bit in
terms of, you know, trying to stay out of traffic.
But it is kind of fun, right the students, what
the heck? If they want to rush the field, let

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them rush the field and enjoy themselves as a college
football fan.

Speaker 8 (32:31):
That's what it's about. I mean, it's a ranked team.
I mean, I don't blame them, right, I mean.

Speaker 7 (32:36):
Did anybody watch the BYU Utah game?

Speaker 2 (32:40):
That was late?

Speaker 8 (32:40):
Okay, that's pretty late. Everybody's like, now we're in bed. Yeah,
we were tired, but BYU was higher ranked than Utah,
and BYU beat Utah at home to a less ranked
team in store in the field. No, I mean, I
mean provo. Entire provo was on the field. That's what
the college experience is all prout. When you're playing a
ranked team at home, when you beat them, I think

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that's kind of like just standard operation there.

Speaker 7 (33:05):
And I love it.

Speaker 8 (33:06):
Because every single person there got a moment memory to
go storm the field. I mean, our student body goes
to class, they have a job, you know, they're in
a fraternity or sorority. I mean they don't get the
experience our football players get on a daily basis.

Speaker 7 (33:19):
So when they come support.

Speaker 8 (33:20):
Us and they make that environment like that, absolutely, I
mean absolutely, that's warranted, and that's what college football and
college athletics is all about. I mean, I'm just glad
the Big Ten doesn't ever rule, because I would have
a real hard time supportant not doing it because we're
getting fined.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Yeah, I'd have a real hard time. And you talked
after the game about never taking wins for granted, and
I've talked even on podcasts with some of your players
about it, and it because I watch I know how
much work you guys put into it, both coaches and players,
and just to just to say, well, we got our
job done and that's it. With all that work. I mean,
it'd be like Guargie working all year at the radio

(33:57):
station getting big ratings, gets the big bonus in that
back and enjoy that bonus. Right, I'm sorry, what yeah, anyway,
but you got to enjoy it. Don't take it for granted.

Speaker 8 (34:07):
Yeah, you have to enjoy those things. When you come
in our locker room, it doesn't matter who we beat.
It is a celebration. And I made a promise to myself.
This is thirteen years ago. Around this time, I was
one nine as a head football coach, youngest head coach
in the country, thirty two years old. Couldn't buy a win.
It's a very different phrase now. I used to be

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very frowned upon. But we couldn't. We weren't very good.
I wasn't very good coach, Like, we just weren't very good.
And I made a vow that if we ever win ever,
I mean, whatever your religions are, I prayed and said,
you know, like, have we ever win, like, I'll never
take it for granted, and then we won. Not to
say that's because I prayed, but that's what I was praying.

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For like, I'll never take it for granted. We won
one game that we want one and eleven. You would
have never known against UMass in Foxboro Stadium with about
seven people in this and you would have no idea
that we just didn't win the super Bowl, like the
way we celebrated that one win at Western.

Speaker 7 (35:06):
Michigan our first year.

Speaker 8 (35:07):
One win, that's it, And I think every this is
my opinion. I think every coach should go through a
year like that because once you go through a year
like that, you're never going to have a bad experience
in a locker room because you're gonna never take it
for granted. It's really hard to win, really hard to win.
Look at the teams around the country. It's hard to win,
and it's even harder to win a high level. And
when we do, you got to create that moment memory.

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So when you win, that's the job one and oh
and if we get to one and oh, we'll handle
all the things about what we didn't like on Sunday,
whether we win or lose. That's for Sunday Saturdays for
the team and the boys, man, like we're going to
celebrate that thing. For the coaches, the job is to
be one and oh and if we get there, heck yeah,
we're going to celebrate it.

Speaker 7 (35:47):
We're going to make a true cut in it. And
we're never going to take it for granted ever.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
Ever. And in this case, you mentioned wins are for Saturday.
In this case it was Fridays. Now you get Saturdays
on during the season and a bye week where there's
nothing going on. How good of a feeling is it
to get the hay in the barn so to speak,
on Friday night and then just to kick back and
watch everybody else worry about things on Saturday.

Speaker 8 (36:10):
There's nothing like it. And everybody's like, well, what did
you do with your day off? I said, well, heether
not watch football. That's what you do. That's when you're
a football family. That is what you do. And it's
so fun because when your wife loves to watch football
like you do. I mean, you have your best friend
already and you get to watch the game and watch
everybody else stress out for the.

Speaker 7 (36:30):
For the you know, three and a half hours on
game day and watch the game sequentially. Heather and I
went on a bunch of walks. I mean, man, it
was really exciting.

Speaker 12 (36:39):
Man.

Speaker 7 (36:39):
Imagine we're getting older, that's for sure. What do you
like doing?

Speaker 5 (36:43):
We like going on walks, love walks.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
Yeah, go ahead, go ahead.

Speaker 6 (36:49):
The former San Diego State radio sideline reporter Kevin O'Connell
was at the game on Friday night, which I thought
was cool. People don't know he did my job for
San Diego State. He went on and actually furthered his career.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
Hope for you.

Speaker 6 (37:02):
Yeah, I'm still here fifteen years from now.

Speaker 7 (37:05):
You got a future kid.

Speaker 6 (37:06):
Yeah, he took a few different steps on his journey.
But that's pretty cool to have the Vikings head coach
standing on the sideline in a by the way, an
old Goldie hoodie. That is the coolest old Goldie. That's
pretty cool to have him. And then of course Bros.
Murk because he's at like every game, it seems like
just hanging out on the field, you know, watching ball.
And I can confirm Chaos appreciated that. Drake lindsay to

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Lamechi Brockington touchdown as well.

Speaker 7 (37:28):
Yeah he did.

Speaker 8 (37:29):
Kevin's become a really good friend. This is what I
love about Minnesota. Is what I love about Minneapolis. I
love the relationship the Vikings are allowing us as Gophers
to have with them, because I think the NFL team
really dictates that whether they're allowing that to happen or not.
Kevin has been tremendously gracious to us and our staff,
very open to us from the minute he.

Speaker 7 (37:50):
Walked in here.

Speaker 8 (37:51):
Then him and I have just built a really good
relationship that goes even beyond football. And I have a
ton of respect for him, the type of coach he is,
the staff he has, how he does it, and who
he does it with, And it's so cool to have
him come support us. I didn't ask him to be there,
He did that on his own. Shot me a text,
Hey you mind if I come to the game, And
the biggest thing we had to deal was like where
do you want to be? You know, like you want

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to be up in the suites? Do you want to
be on the field? Like where do you want to be?
He was like the hardest question we had to figure out.
But knowing Kevin, like I know Kevin, you wants to
be in the action. He wants to be down on
the field, as you can tell, that's where he does
his best work. But you know, having Brozemer there too,
it's just really special and there's not a lot of
teams in the country that have what we have, that
have a relationship with their NFL team like we have
in our Big Ten team and our university team, and

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I think.

Speaker 7 (38:35):
That's really healthy for the city.

Speaker 8 (38:37):
We have a lot of the same fans, and I
think that's really really important that the head football coach
of the National Football League team in the city and
in the state Minnesota Vikings did not go to the
University of Minnesota but supports us.

Speaker 7 (38:48):
And our players and our staff.

Speaker 8 (38:50):
That is really really unique, and I think he's just
a tremendous, tremendous leader in this community and in the state,
even beyond football.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
Yeah, And it looked like he was having fun down
there at one point. I saw I rewatched the TV
broadcast last night, and I don't know they were he
was looking at the review, you know, the Oh he
was in the game. I mean he was in. Yeah,
it was great.

Speaker 6 (39:10):
There was a fourth and one, I think on your
forty eight and he's like, is that ours are?

Speaker 2 (39:13):
There is forty eight? Yeah, you got a punt. He's like,
you gotta kick it, Like he was locked in. I
had one year on Graham, one ear on the POC
for a while.

Speaker 6 (39:19):
Because I mean an NFL head coaches, they're talking to Brosseman,
I'm gonna listen. Yeah, right, he got an opportunity to
learn a few things, so it was awesome. Yeah, but
he was locked in.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
And even back to what you talked about, I remember
look Rosemore obviously put down great tape. I mean, he
was going to make the NFL one way or the other.
But I think they both talked about the fact that
it all started at Pro Day where they've had this long,
extended conversation, right, like, was that last year the year before.

Speaker 8 (39:41):
Well, think about it, because koc saw saw Brosemor throw
the year he got here before he played for every day,
grew for our Pro Day. So Kevin got a chance
to come out, Coach Oconna a chance to come out
like he always does it our Pro Day, and got
a chance to see Max a year you know, right,
like truly removed from New Hampshire and they the year
before he actually played for us, he got a chance

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to see him throw. So he actually got two Pro
Days to watch Max perform. And I think that that
probably helped, you know, And I'm just really thankful that
Max is around and Max is here and you know,
just working really hard, and you know, obviously in the NFL,
just got to wait for your opportunity to come and
then when it does, you got take advantage of it.
Whenever that is, you don't get to dictate that, You
just get to dictate.

Speaker 7 (40:21):
How hard you work.

Speaker 8 (40:21):
And it must have been really unique having that football
coach and his you know, backup slash third string quarterbacks
standing next to each other on the sideline watching a
Gopher game. I can't imagine the conversations back and forth,
you know, or like KOC when you're on the field.
That's as close as you get to the NFL, right,
and you got to feel like you want to like
call the place. What you don't know is he called

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every play. You guys just don't know.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
That's great.

Speaker 8 (40:45):
He had his own earpiece that was really tiny in
his ear He was talking to Drake.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
The whole time.

Speaker 7 (40:49):
You ever watch he touches his cheek.

Speaker 8 (40:50):
That's the signal, you know, to start just kidding, just
kidding everybody, just kidding. He did not, but it was
really cool to have him down there.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
I got nothing else AOC, No, I don't.

Speaker 6 (41:01):
I did have one more, but I was going to
take a cheap shot about Brian Flores calling for the
the nine sacks, but I didn't.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
I just went right by it. Well and then I
went back to it. Now we'll talk it. Yeah there, yeah,
now it's terrible. Good. Well, would you like to go
find a good sparking parking spot on Camp? I would?
It's time got oover over to the mall. I gotta
get back to Rosedale. Very good, All right, sounds good.
Guardgie's off. We got one segment left. We'll talk about
the Floyd of Rosedale and the big battle coming up
Saturday in Iowa City. That's all straight ahead. Let's go
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the game broadcast and the presentation inside the stadium celebrated
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like to thank the following participating sponsors, bag Country Farm Credit,
Minnesota Biofuels Association, Minnesota Corn Growers Association in Minnesota, Pork Poor,

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Speaker 5 (43:29):
Go Gophers.

Speaker 9 (43:33):
I think you.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
Frig get it out, Lead it up, Welcome back. It's
Go for a Football Weekly with PJ. Fleck. It's our
final segment here. We're at the Tipsy Steer in High
Pines again. Quick reminder next week we're on campus, so
on the radio but not in person. We want to
thank Dan Robotham on site engineer Michael Tackett has been
our producer today, Paul Rovnack from Gopher Communications and Garrett
Turnoff and Chandler Bunning from Gopher Football for making this

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all happen. And thanks to the great wait staff here
at the Tipsy Steer in High Pines. Crowded room here
today and they did a great job. Let's give them
a round of applause as well. All right, it's Bacon week.
Floyda Rosedale on the line. You talked a little bit
yesterday about the challenges that this Iowah Hawkeye team bring

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and you think about it. Both teams five and two,
both teams three and one border rival Floyda Rosedale on
the line two thirty National TV. It's going to be
a fun Saturday to us all about.

Speaker 8 (44:32):
I mean, that's Big ten balls, that's traditional Big Ten football,
one hundred nineteenth meeting between the two teams, and just
very very grateful to be a part of it for
our ninth year. It really is a special robbery and
our guys had a really good day of practice today.
They've been fully committed to it, and I know Iowa
was the same way, and they're really really talented. It's
kind of just plug and play. And I mean that

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in the most respectful way. I know there are rivals,
but it's hard to ignore the success they've had, especially
with Kirk and being twenty seven years and becoming the
all time winning his Big Ten coach in the history
of the Big Ten. I mean, that's what an accomplishment, right,
The consistency and the cultural sustainability and success, I mean
that is I don't think you'll ever see it again.

Speaker 7 (45:12):
I don't think you'll ever see.

Speaker 8 (45:13):
That again in college athletics, in college football. I think
that'll never happen again. And it's a credit to him.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
You think back to he's twenty seven years as the
head coach. He was there for eight years as an assistant.
He started in Iowa City as the offensive line coach
in nineteen eighty one, forty four years.

Speaker 7 (45:32):
So definitely has his house paid off?

Speaker 2 (45:34):
Yeah, yeah, I think he's probably onto a different house.
And there was a stop. There was a stop in between.
He coached at Maine and he was with the Browns
for a minute and the Ravens I think. But anyway,
the point is you talk about cultural sustainability, if there's
any program that has it, you think about Kirk Ferrence
started in Iowa City as an assistant in nineteen eighty one.
I think that's about the year you were born. It

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was nineteen eighty well one, Yeah, you were one. But
that's that's I mean, that's that's a long time. And
that's that's part of what the key to their deal is.
You say, it's a there's a way about Iowa goes
about its business and they know the type of player
they need and can recruit and develop. And they've had
some success.

Speaker 7 (46:16):
They've had a ton of success, and it's impressive to watch.

Speaker 8 (46:18):
They're really talented, you know, Obviously they're going to run
the football, but they've added a different element with their quarterback,
and now he's a runner as well, so he can
throw it like a quarterback, but he's really like a
tailback with his legs. I mean, he's pretty thick kid,
big kid, and you know, they've always been really good
at running the football by handing it all, but now
you throw him in the element and he start to
watch their games, they're having a lot of success because

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he's breaking sixty seventy yard runs left and right. So
it's not only just the running backs you got to
deal with. You got to do with him defensively. It's
it's just the same in a good way. I mean,
that's that's what I mean. That's the same. I mean,
that's what they do. And they all look like the
guys last year and the year before that and the
year before that, but they're just different faces. They play
really solid defense, they into making illegitimate throws and forced turnovers,

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and they're really really good. So we have a lot
of respect for them and what they do and how
they do it. But we got to find a way
to play our best football better than we did last
week to be one to know in Kinnick.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
I remember, well, yesterday you mentioned that it's a hard
place to play, and maybe in your time you recalled
the two thousand and six game that you were the
GA at Ohio State you went in there. I looked
up nineteen ninety nine Northern Illinois played at Kinnick Stadium,
and you know what that was. I think Kirk Ferance's
first year, that was his only win. Speaking of winning
one game and now you're welling them, yeah, I started, Yeah,

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you should you should tell him. He always right. You
had two catches in that game for seventeen yards. I
also noticed that that's a heck of a game the
head of the game. Two catches seventeen yards.

Speaker 7 (47:45):
It shows the speed, you know, yeah, really the style
of my game. You know, two catches for about eighty
or about eight and a half yards per catch, now.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
A heck of a stat that's a that's a good run.
That's a good run right there. And I looked at
the box score this morning. Their special teams coach LeVar Woods,
I think scored a defensive touchdown in that game as well.
So there's a lot of connections there. Was that your
first experience at Kinnick and part of what that opinion
has been formed on.

Speaker 7 (48:12):
It was and then you know, I just I don't know.

Speaker 8 (48:15):
There's always been an attachment to Iowa with where I've been,
I mean, Western Michigan University, and I don't want to
bring that one up. That one was very good. That
was not another good experience at Kinnick.

Speaker 7 (48:24):
I think we got beat by sixty. Oh yeah, yeah,
see life's pretty good.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
Yeah yeah, beautiful. Well, hey, you got the last time
you played there, you got the wins. Let's have a
repeat performance on Saturday.

Speaker 7 (48:36):
You got it all right, ro the most skuy Bogo Gophers.
Well see yall in Iowa City.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
There he is the head coach of the Golden Golphers. Again,
thanks to everyone for listening to thirty. The kickoff We'll
take are at twelve thirty on Saturday. This has been
Gopher Football Weekly with PJ. Fleck from lear Field.

Speaker 1 (48:58):
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Speaker 2 (49:11):
Common Man, common Man, No Show, Peple, Solid Plan said,
we can't alp.

Speaker 5 (49:17):
A secret approach will fail to in it's time for
common man, com man, common man, charge the houseworks like
no one can what shoot?

Speaker 7 (49:30):
Where we play?

Speaker 2 (49:31):
Don's nonsense.

Speaker 5 (49:32):
I'm back to day to day man. It's time for
common man.

Speaker 19 (49:41):
Why should anybody aspire to be a common man? An
average man? Do you realize what it means to be average?
That means you're the best of the lousiest and the
lousiest of the best. Now, if we demand more and
more for producing less and less while the have not
nations and courage and inspire and indeed require hard work
and maximum effort. If we deify the common man while

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they encourage and reward the uncommon ones, well, the end
result of such a lopsided race as that is too
obvious to require elaboration.

Speaker 5 (50:43):
You've got to be kidding me.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Just keep badly, They just keep badly, They keep badly.

Speaker 9 (50:55):
Okay, Yeah, Rosie, very funny, very funny.

Speaker 4 (51:40):
Who is it is?

Speaker 3 (51:42):
Vivaldi?

Speaker 4 (51:43):
Who is it is?

Speaker 2 (51:45):
Rochmaninof I know nothing nothing.

Speaker 9 (51:50):
I'm kind of n asking who.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
He can stick it up your butt?

Speaker 3 (51:58):
What upleaseful?

Speaker 5 (52:14):
You don't know nothing.

Speaker 13 (52:20):
He's the clown from Brown, He's the fourth in the north.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
This is the common man. Dan Cole.

Speaker 20 (52:32):
Should turn on my mike, unprepared on a turn, unapologetic, unapologetic,
that's what we are.

Speaker 5 (52:37):
The grum begins in five. Actually three five sounds like
more than four two to one.

Speaker 20 (52:42):
Greatest good afternoon in act akadak and dak dak act
here in yours, I'm the common man, Dan Cole, Radio dinosaur,
le Librea tarpet, cold dead rigamortis Leyden or at least
fossilized here until two truncated version head coach, soon to
be Big Game World Champion Minnesota Vikings about one fifteen
or so. The legendary Mark Rosen will join us at
about two o'clock. Quarterback controversy continues to swirl the wild

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finally get off to They call it get off the Schneid.
I hope I didn't say something I'm not supposed to
me that's politically incorrect nowadays.

Speaker 5 (53:09):
They beat the New York Rangers. The World the World
Series is all said.

Speaker 20 (53:14):
It's the soon to be World Series champion LA Dodgers
taking on the Toronto Blue Jays. I wonder if Rosen
will root for Toronto like he did Edmonton, because he
likes Canadian teams golphers others receiving votes. Minnesota Timberwolves begin
their season tomorrow night against Portland. With all those topics
to get to, I'm not sure where to begin, So

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let's spin the wheel of top.

Speaker 5 (53:39):
Yeah, well, if it comes up on common day of Bolton,
which I don't forget world because it doesn't happen to
day off and commons golf.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
I did play why the game is played out?

Speaker 5 (53:50):
Rors I played? I played in a I wouldn't call
it a steady rain.

Speaker 20 (53:55):
It didn't start to rain until the back now, which
was really the front nine, because I played the front
nine twice.

Speaker 5 (53:59):
I shot where'd we play presspect ad, Wedgewood and Woodbury?

Speaker 2 (54:03):
Where'd you hit it on one? Right up the god
second shot, I hit.

Speaker 7 (54:07):
A seven iron onto the green.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
Then what I two?

Speaker 5 (54:10):
Pott four not par incredible?

Speaker 9 (54:12):
You know what I did?

Speaker 20 (54:13):
Actually, I played the front twice and I got identical
scores in the ball. Each shot went almost exactly where
they did on the first time around. I went par bogie, bogie, bogie,
par par bogie par the only oh no on seven
the second time. Now you're familiar with Pruswick, right, yeah,

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so I again for the second time today, I pushed.

Speaker 5 (54:37):
My t shot over to the right where the maintenance
building is.

Speaker 20 (54:41):
This time I got all in there. This time I
got all the way down to where the little grassy
swale is. And I occasionally tried this, and I decided
to There's a little a little alley between out of
bounds right and trees left where you can just hit
a straight shot all the way down the right side,
so that you you you avoid all the trees on

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the left, and then you've got to look at the green,
even though you might have trees in front of you.
I hit a perfect six iron down that uh, down
that little alley there and flip the wedge up to
about two feet and made the putt for povert. Then
I doubled nine, but it was okay. I'm I'm I'm
in the process of rebuilding my swing. I think I've
told you that before. I'm now instead of doing a

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sway turn, I'm doing strictly a turn. It's a work
in progress. But when I do hit the ball, well,
it goes farther, it goes straight, or sometimes I even
draw it. So it's the first day of the rest
of my life. So I was very excited about it
and season is about to come to a close.

Speaker 7 (55:44):
I think tenabe.

Speaker 20 (55:45):
I mean it's possible we could play into early November,
mid November, November, even late November.

Speaker 5 (55:50):
Sometimes we play into December. We'll just have to wait
and see.

Speaker 7 (55:57):
If that is the case.

Speaker 9 (55:58):
I wanted to.

Speaker 20 (56:01):
Direct your attention and let me see if I can
find it, because I had it right on the top
of mine.

Speaker 7 (56:06):
You might want to hit the music.

Speaker 9 (56:11):
I thought I had it on the top of.

Speaker 5 (56:13):
My prep paty, which wasn't very thick today.

Speaker 7 (56:16):
To me, I'm very disappointed in you.

Speaker 20 (56:23):
It was basically a complaint, okay, a complaint against the
program director, and I guess in indirectly well, a complaint
against you as well.

Speaker 7 (56:42):
Complain in the program director by airing the ten of Fizgerial.

Speaker 20 (56:44):
Well, yeah, I guess is basically what they what they
actually said. This was sent to Chad Abbott, and oftentimes
Chad Abbot will get emails from listeners generally their complaints
very rarely do do does He received compliments in regards
to the grum but this game from I don't know who, right,

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I'll just leave his name out. His name is Joe
and he writes wow off of a bye week and
commons where thought Vikings were your fans, number one listeners.
Great management decision. So he thought on Thursday and Friday,
I should have been here with the Vikings coming off
of eye WEEKNDS. Nobody's more insightful and plugged into the

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Vikings than I am. Right, and you know, I took
it as a compliment and a complaint. You know that
he would like to have had me there. But I
did respond to him like I always do, when I said,
it's faith, family, fair ways, frequency, and football in that order.
And so baby brother Peter, who I created from my loins,

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my my youngest boy, he goes to the Ohio State
University and he came back for fall break and I
wanted to spend time with my son. Oh and so
that's where the faith family. And then he likes to golf.
So we combine family and fairways.

Speaker 9 (58:14):
Is what we did.

Speaker 5 (58:15):
And so I appreciate that he wanted me