Jonathan Greenard on The Power Trip

Jonathan Greenard calls in to The Power Trip ahead of this weekend's division collision with the Lions

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Real quick.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Jonathan Gernard, Minnesota Viking is on the phone with us
right now. Do you have any bad blood with Tom Pelasaro? Jonathan?
Do you have anything you need to say to NFL Networks?

Speaker 1 (00:09):
To no man?

Speaker 3 (00:13):
From what I see, he's always only giving everybody the update,
so I'm always looking at stuff or following his name
on the social media. So no shot. Ot, there you go.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
I'll got ankle, Jonathan.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Are you good to go this week? Let's get something
here for sure? Yeah, I know I'm not missing it.
Come on with the joy. I'm not missing that.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Thank you, Tom.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
We'll you next week, buddy, Thank you, Yes, good luck
with that haircut you.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Tom Pella Saro.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
Jonathan Garnnard joins US Weekly. He's the best, Jonathan. Do
you have you ever had a weird running with a
media member? Ever had any bad blood even going back
to college or beyond.

Speaker 3 (00:50):
Blood? Probably some like weird interactions, but uh, if anything,
you probably seen me before, probably on social is probably
like maybe, uh, I guess getting the record straight real
of anything. But nah, I never had any bad encounters because,
as we know, you got to have a good relationship
with him order for them to kind of keep talking
good about you in a sense. So I just try
to keep on a little level plan for a level,

(01:12):
surface level relationship to make sure we're all good.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Jonathan Penney Sewell is probably the best right tackle in football.
What's your scouting report on him?

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Yeah, as you just said exactly that, I mean literally, uh,
if not one of the if not the best right
So I go out there, I mean outside of you know,
Brian O'Neil over here for show. But but I think
that he's a good athlete, man, dynamic athlete, big big
body guy who can move his steed get out of space.
They do a good job with him. But yeah, man,
it's gonna be a game because obviously physicality is are

(01:44):
one thing and I think that's that's what he does
really good. And I think that's the next part that
we got a match on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
These games with Detroit are always find The ones in
Ford Field are always fun as well. This week you
finally get a look at your other side of the
field and see Van Ginkel lining up as a full participant.
How much does that help you and how good you
feel to have him back.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Yeah, it's always great to get your brother out there.
But specifically getting on what he can do for the
team and obsolutely does in the game. Man, he's he's
a game worker. I think that he asked another dynamic
element to having to deal with both of us, you know,
Dallas being in there too. So now we get our
three headed monster back. So we're we're We're excited. Man.
I'm excited to see him back being with the guys

(02:25):
and see him out there in practice and stuff like that.
So I'm excited to be doing Sunday.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
Was it essentially impossible to not have a ton of
respect watching Carson Wentz battle last Thursday through all that pain?

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Oh yeah, I mean we already know that Cross is
gonna give a one hundred ten percent no matter what.
I see him do that at other teams, So I
knew exactly what we were getting when we signed him.
So definitely much respected to shout out to Carson as
he's uh as he put literally everything on the line
for it. So that's that's that's our guy.

Speaker 4 (02:53):
You ever had a moment like that where you had
to fight through a ridiculous amount of pain but you
didn't come out of the game.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, I mean I feel like every every athlete well,
every player has done that for sure to some extent. Man,
I think that it's a part of the game. You're
going to get nick and bruises, and you're going to
be feeling a lot of things, but just the sheer
will if you wanted to win and be there for
your teammates. It's hard to kind of you know, uh,
you know, make a decision in that moment to hey,
do I sit out, do I do this and that?
So we're all going to be playing until we literally

(03:19):
get drug off the field.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
You know, I don't know anything about being an NFL player,
even a college football player, but I do see from
the outside. It's just a fan. The different coaching styles.
When we're talking about a KO and Dan Campbell, how
would how do you prefer to be coached somebody who
seems to be you know, I'll just say, like this,
Dan Campbell talked about biting people's knees and his opening

(03:42):
press conferences. Is that is there any kind of coaching
you prefer? Does it even matter to you?

Speaker 3 (03:48):
It really kind of doesn't matter. I can understand where
you like get it from, like you know, kind of
having the leader of you know, a guy who you
would say, is more grittier, a different style. I guess
the way he talks are conveys and to the media
or to his players. But overall it's about just the intention.
When I see on the field and practice, like how
you go back to the days and practice, how are
you trying to get your guys to kind of move

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with a certain mantra? And I think that with Ko,
I mean, he may be kind of like the like
even you woul think he's sound like an even killed guy,
you know, you know, laid back, kind of quieter, you know,
obviously still aspired to this, so we all know that.
But Ko's no slops And I think that just because
it's not more animated that you would see the other coaches,
I think that he can kind of give you a
little bit of everything.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
You know.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
He can be the guy who can kind of just
let the players do their thing and not really say much.
And he also be the guy can be in your
face if he has to be that, you know. But
majority of the time he has guys on the team
already that are professionals that don't really have to have
that done to them for them to get them going.
But I think either coaches soud as well. You see
that coach Campbell has done the mazing job over there
turning that work around and having those guys bought in too.

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So it's just a matter of what It's a matter
of what type of players you have on that team.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
How much of your mindset changes knowing that this is
a team that will go go forward on fourth down
with about any distance at about any point in the field.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, no, that's a huge thing. I think that that's
just why you got to continuously don't give up any
place at all. I mean, it's all about getting hats
to the ball and let them get a little extra
yard where it should have been a tackle for loss
or maybe a tackle for three yards and it turns
into seven yards and not you know, starting three or
fourth and three as opposed to you know, fourth and ten,
you know what I mean. So, just the little stuff

(05:27):
like that. The leaky yards are a big deal with them.
They definitely take advantage of that, and they like their offensive,
like their scheme, which how can you not honestly, so,
I definitely see them as a challenge to definitely make
sure that we continuously knock them back and don't let
them get anything for them to get kind of that
confidence to so that they can do that.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
Jonathan Grennard, Minnesota Vikings joins the Power to your morning
show every week. Jonathan, We've asked you a lot about
quarterbacks in the past, and specifically JJ McCarthy, and you've
said a lot of times, you know, like, look, that's
not my side of the field, that's not.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
What I worry about. They do what they did.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
But do you obviously see him in practice. This is
McCarthy team. He's going to start on Sunday. But we
got a little glimpse of Max Brosemer just for a
second at the end of last Thursday's game. What have
you seen through you know, a couple of months now
of getting to know Max Brosmer. What is he like
in practice and what is he capable of doing if
he ever gets a shot?

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Yeah, I definitely. You know, Max is a fellow Georgia kids,
just like Jue and myself, so he always had a
love respect for me. But Max has been great. He's
been on the scout team doing the looks for us
on our on our side of the ball for a
good bit. So I've seen it and even I've seen
it in camp him making great throws obviously, and being
able to be the sitesive and things like that. Him

(06:35):
and JJ pretty much always talking and kind of picking
each other's brain. And Max is a lot matured than
a lot of people don' understand too. It's not like
you're just your younger kid who's just crueless about anything.
He's very articulate, knows the systems pretty well, can kind
of grasp a lot of things. So I think just
having a guy like that on the team who is
supporting his well in that supporting world, supporting roal, excuse
me to JJ, it definitely helps him out. And I

(06:56):
can see that he's very beneficial. So whenever he gets
a chance or whatever, you know, God forbid, if he
has to come in there and whatever circumstance it is,
he's gonna do his job. We always, uh you know,
preach that next man up mentality anyway, so for him
to be ready and uh, you know, I always have
that confidence. We definitely are excited to have him, you know,
as another option as well.

Speaker 4 (07:13):
All right, go get that ankle healthy, good luck against Detroit,
and we'll talk to you next week.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
Man.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
Appreciate ch'all have a good one. Thank you