November 25, 2025 • 8 mins
Vikings LB Jonathan Greenard gives an injury update talks about his squad's recent struggles
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jonathan Grennard, do you know anything about the birthing of octopuses?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I do not. Unfortunately I don't either.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
We just learned. We just learned that the men die
right after they mate and the females die right after
their eggs hatch. So you can take that to the
locker room the day and tell everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Oh wow, just every man for himself that yes.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, So how are you feeling, because man, we got
optimistic last week when we had you on that you
were going to play on Sunday, but obviously it wasn't
good enough to go on Sunday against the Packers. How
are you feeling and what's the update there with your shoulder?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Man, Sometimes you know, I just get a little ahead
and I get very confident, obviously with Green Bay. So
I wanted to be in there, but just wasn't ready.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Man.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I thought it just had to go through another another
week of trying to get it right, just a little
bit more serious, and you know, at certain points that
I thought, but overall, I'll be back. I'll be better.
Just got to still take a day by day to
see how we're doing this week.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
How is the morale of the team.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
A couple of days after the loss to Green Bay.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I mean, look, nobody likes losing. I think ultimate if
you to find anybody in there that's just stuper bright
and just status of where we are, then then they
got the right the wrong mindset.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
But we know it's still football games that we know
we still got to go out.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
There and take care of business. And it's a great
opportunity obviously with you know Seattle this upcoming week. Sam's
out there, they're playing goodball. They're very very good team,
obviously leaving the division over there in the NFC West.
But like, if anybody think like me, which I know
gods to think like me, man, it's another opportunity. I
feel like we're just not gonna lay down just because
of what the record may say or whatever. The opportunity
(01:40):
is kind of falling out with the situation situation that
we're in.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
But I don't see a soaking I don't see anybody.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I mean, we're obviously pissed, but I think it's gonna
be more being pitched to channel it in obviously to
play ball. I handle our business, So just gonna go
into day by day and obviously just geted for his
next opportunity.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Jonathan, I'm not sure what your history with with concussions is.
Hopefully you've had none or just very few, But people
are out there questioning concussions, and those of us who've
never played the game at a high level or any
level don't really know what it's like to feel a concussion.
We've heard that JJ started noticing his symptoms on the
plane on the way home. Is that something you've ever
ever experienced before?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Not that I've known. I mean, like I said, gods
are different. I can't speak for the next guy that
feels X, y Z symptoms, but it often it can
come from many different ways, so it can happen at
any point in time.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So for him to feel it.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
In I'm not I mean, I wouldn't be surprised I was,
to give him to what. We just played the game,
so but yeah, I mean I haven't personally felt it,
but I just know that everybody else is different.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
How do you feel about Dallas Turner in these last
couple of games when when you've been out, obviously he's
had a bigger role with you on the sidelines.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, baltlin Man.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
D two whenever he gets opportunities is making the most
of it. Play more physical, more decisives. You know, as
you can see, I think the main thing is showing
on him right now is just power in his hands.
He's just shocking guys and used to putting hands on guys.
So you see the sack this past week where he
just stabs a guy right through his chets and falls
off into a good sack.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
So he's just picking up all the knowledge.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
He steady, just staying. Of course, you know, obviously you
know he was gonna have a bigger role, were not
knowing that I was going to play.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
But I'm just loving where he's at.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Man, he's just going to continue to just rob with
the opportunity that's getting and continue to put his best
for Ford and the best stuff on him. So I'm
loving no Doc.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
There are some really special places to play in the NFL.
Lambeau Field is one of them, where your team just played.
Now you're going to Seattle. What is your experience with
that stadium and the noise level and the frantic fans
that the Seahawks can bring.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, last year we were just there and we're.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Gonna take that same mindset.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
It's gonna be obviously ugly weather possibly excuse me, or
whether it's just probably cold weather. So whatever we get, man,
we are we're prepared for. I'm not gonna switch not up. Man.
I feel like we went in there with a great
mindset last year to going to knowing that they're a
good offense and we had to stop to run and
just do the same things we have to do every week. Obviously,
take it up or not, but the twelve man is
allowed place. Man, I have a lot of respect for
(04:08):
that place. You know.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Obviously we caught it during the range, so we didn't catch.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
It during like I guess a night game or something
of like a big, big, you know environment. But it's good, man.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
We went in there handle business once last year.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
We're gonna come with the same mindset to go that
is needs what to do, what needs to be done
in the housome environment. Gets a very good team.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
This Sunday, you're facing Sam Darnold this year, this week,
and you know there's a teammate last year. You're trying
to come up with the defensive schemes to you know,
foil him a little bit. Just having a player facing
a player like that who you've seen day to day,
you've seen them up close. Does that give the defense
any extra advantage when facing them when devising that game plan?
(04:48):
Do you think?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I think?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I mean, ultimately, we like our scheme at the end
of the day.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Period, so it's kind of like it doesn't really.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Matter who's there. Would just know that like for certain quarterbacks,
and it's gonna be obviously be harder because you have
a lot of more athletic quarterbacks. I think Saim is
an athletic quarterback. Obviously, he's not like your You're Caleb
Williams or something like that, or you know, you're you're
exclusively mobile quarterback. He can move a little bit, and
I think he has a lot more athleticis than people
get him credit for. But noing, we just have to
(05:16):
do what we have to do on our side, you know,
just make it uncomfortable. Any quarterback you make it uncomfortable,
they can give us a better chance to have a
bad erric bro he holds him to the ball for sacks,
So we just know we just got to put some
pressure on him. We know we got to just get
him uncomfortable because when he's in rhythm, he's one of
the best in the league. And obviously you see the
stats show that he's a crazy arm very smart, knows
the game. But we just have to make him uncomfortable, man,
(05:38):
and definitely go after him for sure.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Looking at the quarterback who might play for us this week.
If Max Brosemer is our starting quarterback because of the
concussion protocol, what do you know about this kid? And
tell me what you think about his demeanor?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yeah, well, Max is a Georgia kid. I think I
alluded to that, alluded to that a long time ago,
So he's always gonna be good in my book. I
know he's a he played at Minnesota here and the
stuff that we've seen for him during camp, obviously we
know that. We see why we brought a guy like
him in. You know, the arm sound is there. Just
a smart kid, understand football really well, mature for his age,
and obviously he's just a good guy. So whenever you
(06:12):
can get meet a guy like that to understand football.
And then obviously he's our scouts team quarterback at times,
giving us certain looks for the guys during that week,
and man does to kill it every single week.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So Ko always has a quarterbacks ready to go.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
They're always died and I think everybody on this team
whenever they're watching their position, obviously waiting for the opportunity
they died in. So Max is a perfect guy to
to obviously, you know, lead us if that, if that
does come to it. But like I said, I'm just
finding that news out of like about JAJ last night,
like y'all, So I don't know what's gonna happen at
this point, but I just know that with Max there
obviously as a backup, if that does come to it, Man,
(06:48):
we'll ride with him.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
As somebody who's obviously from college to college to to
Houston to Minnesota, people are waiting around for our young
quarterback for things to click for him. For you, do
you have a specific moment maybe in college, maybe in Houston,
maybe here in Minnesota, were things as a pro clicked
for you, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Yeah, probably for me.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
It didn't really click for me until.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
About my last year in Houston. My fourth year, I
had a bit and spurts of you.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Know, inconsistent play where I feel like I did did good.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I had about a sax my second year in the league,
and you know, it started to feel like it was
clicking in but just the inconsistency of injuries, and you
know my play, I wasn't consistent by putting the same
thing on film that you know everybody notices around film.
I wasn't doing that consistent enough, and I think it
takes time.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
It took time.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I still had to understand and understand who.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I was as a person and how the tarp of
the person.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I was as a player in order for me to
form who I wanted to be in this league and
kind of be comfortable with comfortable with that. So I
think that's part of the game. You're gonna have some
good games, to have some bad games. It's just me
as a defensive end. I'm not going to be highlighted
as much because the football doesn't touch my hand every
single time. So it's tough.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Man.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Nobody likes losing. We all understand that that we don't
like that, but we also understand that nobody's going on
the field with the mindset to lose, and nobody know
are we okay with that? So when these things happen, man,
it's just about weather in the storm. And obviously it's
a reactive game, so you only control whatever happens. You know,
within that couple of seconds. But after that you have
to just keep going. So we know we wish we
(08:20):
had a lot of plays back across the entire season.
I bet everybody has that, But when you're the quarterback,
obviously it's gonna be magnified and it's just that's just
the way it goes. But ultimately, we're still gonna rode
with whoever they put they put in there. I'm still
rived with Jay if obviously he's up this week. If
if it's Max, we're gonna ride with him.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
But I just know it's.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Gonna take time for things to happen. Obviously, just got
to be more patient others. But the one thing that
we don't have in this game is time. So it's
just one of those things we just got to keep
pressing through. We're gonna find the answer. But but but
but for damn sure, I'm gonna be putting my vesteel
forward and this team will be ready to play on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
All right, good luck with your shoulder, have an awesome Thanksgiving,
and good luck against the Seahawks. We'll talk to you
next week.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Man
Jonathan Grennard, do you know anything about the birthing of octopuses?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
I do not. Unfortunately I don't either.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
We just learned. We just learned that the men die
right after they mate and the females die right after
their eggs hatch. So you can take that to the
locker room the day and tell everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Oh wow, just every man for himself that yes.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, So how are you feeling, because man, we got
optimistic last week when we had you on that you
were going to play on Sunday, but obviously it wasn't
good enough to go on Sunday against the Packers. How
are you feeling and what's the update there with your shoulder?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Man, Sometimes you know, I just get a little ahead
and I get very confident, obviously with Green Bay. So
I wanted to be in there, but just wasn't ready.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Man.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I thought it just had to go through another another
week of trying to get it right, just a little
bit more serious, and you know, at certain points that
I thought, but overall, I'll be back. I'll be better.
Just got to still take a day by day to
see how we're doing this week.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
How is the morale of the team.
Speaker 5 (01:01):
A couple of days after the loss to Green Bay.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I mean, look, nobody likes losing. I think ultimate if
you to find anybody in there that's just stuper bright
and just status of where we are, then then they
got the right the wrong mindset.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
But we know it's still football games that we know
we still got to go out.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
There and take care of business. And it's a great
opportunity obviously with you know Seattle this upcoming week. Sam's
out there, they're playing goodball. They're very very good team,
obviously leaving the division over there in the NFC West.
But like, if anybody think like me, which I know
gods to think like me, man, it's another opportunity. I
feel like we're just not gonna lay down just because
of what the record may say or whatever. The opportunity
(01:40):
is kind of falling out with the situation situation that
we're in.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
But I don't see a soaking I don't see anybody.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I mean, we're obviously pissed, but I think it's gonna
be more being pitched to channel it in obviously to
play ball. I handle our business, So just gonna go
into day by day and obviously just geted for his
next opportunity.
Speaker 6 (01:56):
Jonathan, I'm not sure what your history with with concussions is.
Hopefully you've had none or just very few, But people
are out there questioning concussions, and those of us who've
never played the game at a high level or any
level don't really know what it's like to feel a concussion.
We've heard that JJ started noticing his symptoms on the
plane on the way home. Is that something you've ever
ever experienced before?
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Not that I've known. I mean, like I said, gods
are different. I can't speak for the next guy that
feels X, y Z symptoms, but it often it can
come from many different ways, so it can happen at
any point in time.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
So for him to feel it.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
In I'm not I mean, I wouldn't be surprised I was,
to give him to what. We just played the game,
so but yeah, I mean I haven't personally felt it,
but I just know that everybody else is different.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
How do you feel about Dallas Turner in these last
couple of games when when you've been out, obviously he's
had a bigger role with you on the sidelines.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, baltlin Man.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
D two whenever he gets opportunities is making the most
of it. Play more physical, more decisives. You know, as
you can see, I think the main thing is showing
on him right now is just power in his hands.
He's just shocking guys and used to putting hands on guys.
So you see the sack this past week where he
just stabs a guy right through his chets and falls
off into a good sack.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
So he's just picking up all the knowledge.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
He steady, just staying. Of course, you know, obviously you
know he was gonna have a bigger role, were not
knowing that I was going to play.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
But I'm just loving where he's at.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Man, he's just going to continue to just rob with
the opportunity that's getting and continue to put his best
for Ford and the best stuff on him. So I'm
loving no Doc.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
There are some really special places to play in the NFL.
Lambeau Field is one of them, where your team just played.
Now you're going to Seattle. What is your experience with
that stadium and the noise level and the frantic fans
that the Seahawks can bring.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, last year we were just there and we're.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Gonna take that same mindset.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
It's gonna be obviously ugly weather possibly excuse me, or
whether it's just probably cold weather. So whatever we get, man,
we are we're prepared for. I'm not gonna switch not up. Man.
I feel like we went in there with a great
mindset last year to going to knowing that they're a
good offense and we had to stop to run and
just do the same things we have to do every week. Obviously,
take it up or not, but the twelve man is
allowed place. Man, I have a lot of respect for
(04:08):
that place. You know.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Obviously we caught it during the range, so we didn't catch.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
It during like I guess a night game or something
of like a big, big, you know environment. But it's good, man.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
We went in there handle business once last year.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
We're gonna come with the same mindset to go that
is needs what to do, what needs to be done
in the housome environment. Gets a very good team.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
This Sunday, you're facing Sam Darnold this year, this week,
and you know there's a teammate last year. You're trying
to come up with the defensive schemes to you know,
foil him a little bit. Just having a player facing
a player like that who you've seen day to day,
you've seen them up close. Does that give the defense
any extra advantage when facing them when devising that game plan?
(04:48):
Do you think?
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I think?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I mean, ultimately, we like our scheme at the end
of the day.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Period, so it's kind of like it doesn't really.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Matter who's there. Would just know that like for certain quarterbacks,
and it's gonna be obviously be harder because you have
a lot of more athletic quarterbacks. I think Saim is
an athletic quarterback. Obviously, he's not like your You're Caleb
Williams or something like that, or you know, you're you're
exclusively mobile quarterback. He can move a little bit, and
I think he has a lot more athleticis than people
get him credit for. But noing, we just have to
(05:16):
do what we have to do on our side, you know,
just make it uncomfortable. Any quarterback you make it uncomfortable,
they can give us a better chance to have a
bad erric bro he holds him to the ball for sacks,
So we just know we just got to put some
pressure on him. We know we got to just get
him uncomfortable because when he's in rhythm, he's one of
the best in the league. And obviously you see the
stats show that he's a crazy arm very smart, knows
the game. But we just have to make him uncomfortable, man,
(05:38):
and definitely go after him for sure.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Looking at the quarterback who might play for us this week.
If Max Brosemer is our starting quarterback because of the
concussion protocol, what do you know about this kid? And
tell me what you think about his demeanor?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yeah, well, Max is a Georgia kid. I think I
alluded to that, alluded to that a long time ago,
So he's always gonna be good in my book. I
know he's a he played at Minnesota here and the
stuff that we've seen for him during camp, obviously we
know that. We see why we brought a guy like
him in. You know, the arm sound is there. Just
a smart kid, understand football really well, mature for his age,
and obviously he's just a good guy. So whenever you
(06:12):
can get meet a guy like that to understand football.
And then obviously he's our scouts team quarterback at times,
giving us certain looks for the guys during that week,
and man does to kill it every single week.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
So Ko always has a quarterbacks ready to go.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
They're always died and I think everybody on this team
whenever they're watching their position, obviously waiting for the opportunity
they died in. So Max is a perfect guy to
to obviously, you know, lead us if that, if that
does come to it. But like I said, I'm just
finding that news out of like about JAJ last night,
like y'all, So I don't know what's gonna happen at
this point, but I just know that with Max there
obviously as a backup, if that does come to it, Man,
(06:48):
we'll ride with him.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
As somebody who's obviously from college to college to to
Houston to Minnesota, people are waiting around for our young
quarterback for things to click for him. For you, do
you have a specific moment maybe in college, maybe in Houston,
maybe here in Minnesota, were things as a pro clicked
for you, if you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Yeah, probably for me.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
It didn't really click for me until.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
About my last year in Houston. My fourth year, I
had a bit and spurts of you.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Know, inconsistent play where I feel like I did did good.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
I had about a sax my second year in the league,
and you know, it started to feel like it was
clicking in but just the inconsistency of injuries, and you
know my play, I wasn't consistent by putting the same
thing on film that you know everybody notices around film.
I wasn't doing that consistent enough, and I think it
takes time.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
It took time.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I still had to understand and understand who.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I was as a person and how the tarp of
the person.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
I was as a player in order for me to
form who I wanted to be in this league and
kind of be comfortable with comfortable with that. So I
think that's part of the game. You're gonna have some
good games, to have some bad games. It's just me
as a defensive end. I'm not going to be highlighted
as much because the football doesn't touch my hand every
single time. So it's tough.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Man.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Nobody likes losing. We all understand that that we don't
like that, but we also understand that nobody's going on
the field with the mindset to lose, and nobody know
are we okay with that? So when these things happen, man,
it's just about weather in the storm. And obviously it's
a reactive game, so you only control whatever happens. You know,
within that couple of seconds. But after that you have
to just keep going. So we know we wish we
(08:20):
had a lot of plays back across the entire season.
I bet everybody has that, But when you're the quarterback,
obviously it's gonna be magnified and it's just that's just
the way it goes. But ultimately, we're still gonna rode
with whoever they put they put in there. I'm still
rived with Jay if obviously he's up this week. If
if it's Max, we're gonna ride with him.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
But I just know it's.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Gonna take time for things to happen. Obviously, just got
to be more patient others. But the one thing that
we don't have in this game is time. So it's
just one of those things we just got to keep
pressing through. We're gonna find the answer. But but but
but for damn sure, I'm gonna be putting my vesteel
forward and this team will be ready to play on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
All right, good luck with your shoulder, have an awesome Thanksgiving,
and good luck against the Seahawks. We'll talk to you
next week.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Man
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