Jonathan Greenard Talks Vikings/Lions w/ The Power Trip

Vikings LB Jonathan Greenard makes his regular Power Trip appearance and talks about a big win in Detroit and a tough test on Sunday with Lamar coming to town

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Jonathan.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
To hear how are you? I'm great, I'm great, great.
How's it about? To do it?

Speaker 3 (00:08):
Good? Good?

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Do you let your family watch Wheel of Fortune? Because
they added a category called what the fun? And I'm offended.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
I actually I used to be the one watching, uh,
Will of Fortune all the time, so yeah, they may
join it, but I was definitely want to watch them
all the time growing up.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Man, I love game shows.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Part of the reason I was single for most of
my twenties, I watched a lot of Game show Network.
Do you reason part of the reason was I was
addicted to Game show Network? Jonathan, Do you have a
famous favorite a game show of all time?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Between Family Feud and Will Force? And they're they're definitely
up there. But I mean, if if it gives you
any hope, I mean, my wife accept me as a
video gamer, so there may be a little bit of
hoping there some some if it was back there, so uh,
she did not notice she was getting into maring a
full fledged gamer on our hands.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
See if it's so, there's no turning back. Now.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
What games do you play or.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Did you play?

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Say it again, what games did you play or do
you play?

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Initially man, I was a big sports game with all
of the Maddens, all the NBA two k's, and then
now obviously I played the Call of Duties. And I mean, honestly,
if you think of a think of any game most
times and everybody that's pretty popular, I'm pretty much playing it.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Who's the who's the best gamer on the team.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
That's tough man. Shoot Byron Murphy's up there, shoo Jets
is up there. He can he can play some two
k's good. A little bit. I heard, uh, me and
Byron we always played Call of Duty, so I can
see that even this playing, I mean it was that's
some pretty solid gamers. I like this. I like to
take the cake when it comes to the Madden and
the you know, the the n C double A stuff

(01:41):
and uh, you know, the Call of Duty. I can
let somebody else second rank for that. But yeah, we
got a good, good bit of Jonathan.

Speaker 5 (01:48):
Uh stay with me for a second. It's long wait
to get through a question. But I'm doing my best here.
When I was high school football player, there was only
one person on the entire team that can snap the
ball to the punter and it was me. And I
was terrible at it, and I hated it, and I
did I did probably twenty times my senior year, and
I did it badly about ten of those twenty times.
The worst part was that every time I did it badly,
every person in America it felt like saw me do

(02:10):
it poorly. And I was very embarrassed when you jumped
off sides on that short time and everybody in America
is watching that play and you're the one that jumped
off sides. How does that feel?

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Yeah, I mean it doesn't feel the greatest. But in
the day, I couldn't just sit there and cry about it.
So it's like people wanted me to beat myself up. Yeah,
it definitely can't happen, but yeah it is what it is.
One of my first normal last time. So definitely keep
we gotta keep playing ball well.

Speaker 5 (02:37):
And not a hard count too. I mean, that was
a crazy hard count that he did. Pete Burschich was
talking about that on the broadcast, that GOP's really good
at that, can't.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
I mean, it is more so on me than them. Honestly,
I knew the situation, but I just took a gamble
thinking that they are right, they're fourth and five. That
of course they could get the philod and get a
first down. But I'm not thinking they're gonna go out
like that. I'm thinking they're gonna least try to run
the play in, be a man and try to score.
But but I get it. I'll take the punity if
they want to take a little short route. They still
left with three points from their driving, so I'm not worried.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
And to Chris's point, and I'm not just defending you, Jonathan,
you were the one that jumped the most off side,
but if you go back and watch that play, almost
the entire defensive line jumped, so like whatever Golf did,
it definitely worked. But you were just the one on
the end that everybody saw.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
I mean, you gotta think, man, they can call penalties
on us for, you know, making the signal to shift
our d line, and they think like we're calling their plays.
But the quarterback and center they can do a dummy
count and flash their hands, snap their head up super
fast that this They're not trying to draw us off
sides either, So it's supposed to go both ways. But
at the end of the day, listen, it's the game

(03:46):
we played, so they can do all that stuff. But
we're gonna be the ones to get called, So I'm
not worried.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah about you lining up and jumping up sides there.
It's felt like a lot of the this week's game
plan had you. You had a lot of opportunities to
roam in their backfield. It felt like that you were
not being asked to be dropped back or you know,
be a safety back there you were, you were. You

(04:11):
got to play behind that defensive line on a pretty
regular base or behind the offensive line on a pretty
pretty regular basis. Is that you get more excited about.
Are there certain responsibilities that you have from week to
week that you get more excited about than other weeks?
Are certain game plans that you get revd up about?

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah? I mean yeah, you probably get. You get a
little feeling in a subtlidge may see a massive you like,
but you know, you get those opportunities and you get
to kind of dictate that whenever you're you know, in
the win column or a plus five hundred column. But
we were going into three and four man, we were
below the five hundred belt man, So honestly, I didn't
care what we had to do or what I had
to do. I was just gonna do whatever it took

(04:49):
for the tain to win. Honestly, So even if we
had a little match up out there that we liked,
we understood a game plan and where we wanted to
attack those guys. So that's what the selflessness part come in,
where we got a lot of guys on the team
that do that and understand and listen, it ain't always
about you. It's about just trying to win the game.
And I think that's we had a good plan to
execute it well and a lineback to see it off
of the boys. So they won that matchup. So we

(05:10):
got a dub Jonathan.

Speaker 4 (05:11):
Last week, you played a quarterback where you know where
he will be this week. Lamar Jackson is all over
the field. He breaks contain a lot. What is the
game plan going into this week against a quarterback that
is not going to be just sitting there in the pocket.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Well, first we got to stop the run. I think
when we stop the run, that'll be able to get
us to you know, a situation where he can be
a third and long and we now we can kind
of pin our ears and call some things up. But
the state continues to get you know, a favorable match
up on their side as far as the favorable third
down with the third and short, when they're on ahead
of the stix with third and five or something like

(05:48):
that, that's when he really becomes dangerous because not only do
you have to worry about, you know, him throwing it
into a certain window. I mean, he can eas to
take it off running for not just those five yards,
we can make it even longer. So stuff like that
is gonna be keep our victories just stopping that run
so we can try to get him in those starting
long as much as possible. It gives ourselves the best.

Speaker 6 (06:06):
Sense and nardog as fans watching at home, it is
really fun when we get a little bit of a
peek behind the curtain, and the vikings will often post
on social media, like Kevin O'Connell's post game speech from
the locker room and throwing out the game balls. And
this week there was video that we got to see
of JJ McCarthy coming into the locker room right after

(06:29):
the game for the first time, and the first thing
he did was run right up to you and chest
bump you. Can you just describe the amount of energy
slash intensity that JJ plays with and the way that
he brings it out in other people, plays with and
celebrates with.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, I gotta tell everybody man, Jada guy, it says
a guy that's hard not to root for. I mean,
when he does all the things the right way, treatment rehab,
you know, all the adverse see his face, and he
doesn't switch up the tother person. He is still come
and ask how you doing? Genuinely. I said that last
timmer when I was in before the people asked about him, like,
he genuinely cares about how you how you're doing, And

(07:10):
he just had his son, so we always been talking
back and forth. I'm always asking how a little man doing.
You know, Romans. I got a nephew named Roman as well,
so seeing how he's just growing up man and and
handling everything, and obviously he sees it all. He hears
it all, and he may not try to pay attention
to it all, but he definitely knows what's going on.
He knows the outside knows just speaking, you know, you know,

(07:31):
meet sous out there saying we're gonna get beat fifty
five or whatever it is. At any day we did
see the play man, We're all gonna ride with that
and understand that we got a change full of underdogs,
so we're not used to being the top dogs all
the time. And I think that we're working to be
sustaining that success and understanding what comes with that. But

(07:51):
having underdogs is always going to be that, you know,
the little catalyst for us to be able to push
through the on type of.

Speaker 1 (07:56):
The games material.

Speaker 5 (07:59):
Yeah, j it's like Christmas, you just gave us the
best proper.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
I don't know, I don't know he was a fan
of us now, I don't know. I'll just I know.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Saw how badly are the Ravens going to beat the
Vikings on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (08:12):
I don't think going to say fifty five whatever it
became that maybe our good Look.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Fifty they're gonna lose.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
I rather say, and that's what that take that.

Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah, they'll lose fifty five to ten?

Speaker 2 (08:25):
How many how many yards?

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Well, how many times will Lamar Jackson run right past
Jonathan Grenard say?

Speaker 2 (08:31):
One hundred times?

Speaker 5 (08:35):
No?

Speaker 4 (08:35):
Sorry, every time?

Speaker 2 (08:36):
Every time?

Speaker 4 (08:37):
Okay, my gosh, that.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
Is that, dude, you're the best. Good luck man. It's
Lamar's gonna it's it's gonna be unbelievable. He's a he's
a tough guy to catch obviously, but hopefully you get
your hands on him a couple of times. Good luck, man,
talk to you next week.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Oh wait, thank you so much, going.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
Thanks. That's the five to ten Yeah, Watson burn material.
They heard it, I mean Sam Newton probably told them.
Probably Sam, Sam, somebody who was like Sauce said fifty
five to ten.

Speaker 5 (09:05):
Ton't look on your face, Sauce not lost, like the
teeth are coming up, and saying this paper looks sick,
except like this paper.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
That you have.

Speaker 5 (09:17):
Yeah, my god, that was the greatest moment of all time.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
That was Sauce aid, fifty five to whatever I deserve
that man, Man five, nineteen.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Twenty.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
But you two enjoy this beautiful day.