October 22, 2025 • 46 mins
Extended Vikes Bites audio/chat for most of the hour, with a little "depth chart deep dive" into Chargers, then you'll hear St Thomas AD, Dr. Phil Esten, discuss the University's new arena set to open on Friday!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
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means that the product is delicious beef. My first Vike
bite a couple of pressers yesterday that I want to
dig into and lots to Chewan Vike's bite style. In
terms of the head coach and Thursday's quarterback, Carson Wentz,
it was announced that Carson will indeed be under center
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on Thursday night against the LA Chargers, but the practice
window for another player has opened up. Let's hear from
the head coach on Aaron Jones.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Also wanted to make note of Aaron Jones' twenty one
day window opening up today. That'll be something that will
happen today and we'll see where he's at potentially for
his availability on Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
So even prior to Aaron Jones being hurt PA through
the first two games, Jordan Mason had the lion's share
of attempts and I forget exactly where the snaps were.
Of course, Aaron Jones did have that receiving TD against
the Bears, but it was already kind of playing out
where Okay, Jordan Mason is. You know, you can't call
him really a bell cow, but in terms of the tandem,
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the guy running between the tackles was going to be
Jordan Mason, but potentially welcome back tomorrow night, Aaron Jones.
What dynamic do you think he offers, if healthy, if happy,
if ready to rock in splitting things up between he
and mister Mason.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
And you know it's we we intimated it late last
week and then again with Ben yesterday, as I would
not be surprised if Aaron played tomorrow night. Now how
much that that's the question. It's I don't I don't
believe for him to come back. It's like some aggressive
Darisaw recovery bit and all of a sudden, Jones is
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on a good game and Xavier Scott's carrying it five
times in the fourth quarter and nobody knows why. So
if he comes back, you know he will play a
fair amount. That's my guess. Now where things change is
is Jordan, I mean Jordan outside of one lost fumble,
two fumbles overall, Jordan has done pretty much exactly what
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Jordan was asked to do. He's not going to run
away from you. That's just it. Jordan Mason is not
going to run away from anybody. Aaron Jones will run
away from you. So now you add a speed element
to the offense, a fluidity element with somebody who naturally
catches it better than the other guy, and well you
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have something about which to think. That's different if you're
the La Chargers with the assumption that to Aaron Jones
plays so and then it takes reps off Mason and
then you go back more into you know what we'll
talk about about an hour and ten minutes from now. Identity.
The Minnesota Vikings have no identity right now. I mean now, now,
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granted mediocre, middling five hundred type bits, well they lack
They all lack identity because are you a loser or
are you a winner? Oh, you've done this three times
in that three times, so you're neither a winner or
a loser, which leads to some apathy. But they lack
identity in so many areas, so this will add to
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the identity piece. If he plays against the LA Chargers,
I would say from a catching standpoint, he does have
one receiving touchdown this year. Aaron Jones Vikes Bites.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Kevin O'Connell also had this to say in relation to
Dallas Turner.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
He's had a lot obviously a lot of snaps and
some impactful plays. I think we're asking him to do
quite a bit, especially in our emphasis of trying to
stop the run. Last week, I thought Dallas was really
really good set and edges against a really physical front,
you know, a hard, hard o line to rush against,
especially at the tackle spots, and wanting to try to
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contain hurts as much as we could, maybe limited some
of the you know, creativity of some of the rushes,
but the strain to finish his use of his you
know gifts to rush the pass here are being used
and emphasized but also growing on a daily basis.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
For Dallas Turner and just expecting we we won't be
seeing Andrew van Ginkel tomorrow night, Dallas Turner an opportunity
maybe not to go against consummate all pro Lane Johnson,
but also will it be Joe Alt who's been limited
the last couple of days via the walkthrough esque injury
report that's been being released. You have I believe Trey
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Pipkins has been limited throughout the week as well, injury
laid in front for the for the Chargers offense, take time,
potential for more success on a Thursday night against these
Bolts versus is Lane Johnson and the Birds last Sunday,
I would expect All to play.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Okay, there are key members of the Vikings who at
least who expect Joe All to play, and he'll be
coming off a one month layoff. Didn't hear anything about
Pipkins where Shawn Slater maybe the best of the bunch.
He's out for the year. So they they it's it's
we'll go depth chart diving here in about twenty minutes.
They have some interesting players on their offensive line. I mean,
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whether it's it's like this right tackle Bobby Hart, I
mean he started two games in five years. I mean
they're really really desperate for the right tackle situation. They
have this ducal Lek or whatever who plays left tackle.
Well that that goes off if Joe plays, So you know,
maybe they'll move this this guy to right because this
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Bobby hart Man, Holy cow. I mean he started a
lot of games like seven, eight, nine, ten years ago,
might have played for the Cardinals or something, but he
just he wasn't playing football. And now he's starting games
that could favor the Minnesota Vikings right tackle. But Bradley Boseman.
I don't get a chance to look at or learn
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about Bradley Boseman their center too frequently, simply because the
Vikings don't play the LA Chargers all the time. My
man's had a wonderful, wonderful career. I think he's coming
up to like his one hundred and twenty first game,
Bradley Boseman. Yeah, Bradley Boseman center for the LA Chargers,
and he was I remember how good he was with
the Baltimore Ravens. So that's why Bradley Boseman was on
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my radar. Then he played with thelan in Carolina. Thelin
last week told me some good things about him, about
just his leadership skills with a bunch of young players
and like this Tyler, this Taylor Tyler Moten and you know,
like how Bradley works with him, and he's just kind
of a serve first guy. And so then I'm memorizing
some numbers and body type yeah last night, and I'm like, damn,
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look at their center, go look at him. Run. And
then I went in and with the game calling depth
chart started to complete the Chargers offense. And I'm like,
Bradley Boseman's had an awesome career with not many penalties,
and he's blocked for some tricky different situations. I like
their center, He's very intriguing to me. Now you get
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to you get to the running backs, and well, things
just fall off a little bit there. That's that's gonna
be a problem tomorrow night for the charge And I
didn't know into the game or into the week Herbert
led the NFL and passing yards and he's number one.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yeah, he's no, he has number one.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Well, even even early on, O'maron Hampton was not necessarily
uber effective. And then you have Najee Harris popped the
achilles early in the season and so struggling to to
and and chasing in a fair number of games as well.
They have u the inability to run the ball has
put it in the hands of Herbert and he is
freaking airing it out.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah. Well, when we go depth chart diving there, leading Rusher,
I think we'll be intriguing to some people. Vikes bites.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I was looking at Bean by the way before we
move on. He succeeded Ryan Kelly at Bama, right, and
he was a he was a sixth round pick. Nice
career for a sixth round pick, hanging in for eight
nine years as he has.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That's what was eye opening to me was he was
drafted so late and he's done so much well, like
Tony Jefferson, it's it's I mean, I'm stepping on all
my depth chart deep dive touchdown calls right now. But
that's okay. One of their free safety Tony Jefferson former
Raven as well. Maybe yeah, and Arizona with whom he
came into the NFL in like twenty thirteen undrafted. I mean,
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my man's made an eleven twelve year career being undrafted,
starting a million games. That's just really really good when
you're able to do things.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Like that, vice mites speaking a center for our team.
Is there a controversy at the center spot?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I feel like, you know, we're getting both those guys
some reps this week and we'll go with what we
think is the best five for the game for sure.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Well, and that was short. I should have prefaced it.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
The head coach was speaking specifically to Michael Jurgens, who
it sounds like his healthy and potentially an option on
Thursday night.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
And Brendell really came back to the pack last game. Yes, Now,
let let's let's keep the context. Let's keep the context
in mind. Okay, it was Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis. Yes,
that matters. Now, the week before that, the game before that,
that is, uh, Malik Collins and Mason Graham, they're they're good,
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They're they're not They're not in Carter Davis's class. When
Carter and Davis are engaged, yep, the engagement factor with
the Eagles, well, that's, like I said, you know, that's
a problem. It legitimately is a problem because of the
human nature aspect. They got all this cash and they
got this ring, they bicker, and but when they pushed
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the button and say we're gonna go. You better hide
the women and children because Carter and Davis are are
just fantastic. Now this week against the LA Chargers is different.
It's it's a different group up front compared to what
Lake uh Donovan Jackson last week and or Will Fries
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have seen the last couple of games.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Remember when Tierre Tart threw uh through Garrett Bradbury out.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Of the chat.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Tier Tart, the former Titan, second year with the Chargers.
He's a very very strong man. Yes, and he's going
to be opposite Donovan Jackson, who is a very very
strong man. Uh. That's uh. And who's the other one there?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
There's I see the noses is a rookie Jammrie Caldwell.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yep, that's right, j He is a sack. Yep, he's twitch,
he's fast. They like it. They actually like him a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And I'm excited for your deep dive because you found
the pronunciation for a boy of boy be.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Oh yeah, boy be something like that. But somebody who
didn't play last game for the Chargers has had a
wonderful two year run out there, and I'm just curious
to hear how Lieber and Burstus talk about him on
the radio. Come on, Troy die, he's like third in tackles.
I've he's got like an interception or a sack. Does
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he fill out those shoulder pads?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I don't know if his shoulders still look like coat hangers,
you know, underneath those underneath those, uh, those shoulder pads.
But they like him a fair amount out there.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I can't remember which which one said this to me,
but they're like, you know, digging Troy doing his thing
on special teams. But it looks like senior night at
a high school game when everyone gets to play the
way those shoulder pads sat on his shoulders, Troy died.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I know, because his shoulders aren't broad. He's angular and
straight up and great, he's gonna have twelve tackles. Troy
is fast. Troy is fast.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Bikes bikes.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
It's brought to you by Thousand Hills. Wait on the
other side, somebody I don't think played last game. Maybe
he did, but he didn't register anything. Tyler Conkland way,
he's back pervert fires deep what Conkland wide open? Nah,
that ain't gonna happen. No, I don't think so, Hey
to the quarterback spot.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
I've been just kind of sitting on.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
A couple of things here.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
This was interesting from the head coach via his pressure
yesterday that kind of alluding, you know, if this was
a full week, if this was a Sunday game, and
I'm just thinking about the kid QB JJ McCarthy, maybe
we could have seen into the weekend if he was
able to go.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
We did put JJ McCarthy through an on field workout
just to see if he had a chance to make
it this week. You know, JJ, the medical staff, myself,
we're all kind of encouraged about where he's at and
the progress he's making, but he's just not there. And
if this was a Sunday game, maybe it would would
be a little bit of a different story and we
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could push it throughout the week and see where he's
at towards the end of the week. But really I
look at today almost as the combination of Wednesday Thursday,
but really it is a Friday on the timeline of
coming up on being forty eight hours out from the game.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
A little more from the head coach here, kind of
what does he still need to learn, whether it's foundation,
it's footwork, it's you know, at a base level of course,
the health to the ankle. What else did you know
in terms of feeling comfortable reactivate him and putting him
on the field.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I feel really good about you know, the work we've
done on is on on the foundation of his fundamentals.
That's been pretty evident through the work that he's done,
and he's really the commitment to doing that. It's really
just about you know, hey, there's a you know, maybe
a guy gets edged and I don't really know the
movement I'm gonna have to make. Uh, that's where you know,
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he still feels it. And if he doesn't have the
ability to do that paying free, you know, we obviously
risk setting him back, which would be very very unfortunate
with the time lost already, but also giving him the
best chance to go out there and have success is
is ultimately, uh, you know what we're what we're looking for.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So the commitment to the plan, he is committed to
the plan. If he's not ready to rock, he's not
going to rock. So he's not tomorrow night. And it
still feels as kind of things have settled in with
the with the injury that a week from now we're
looking at a practice week that will include the Detroit
Lions on the back end of it. That feels like
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a more natural spot to potentially see number nine again.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, I'm just done guessing about it, and quite honestly,
I'm done thinking about it until this team identifies itself
as a winner or a loser. And then even your
announcer and those listening now fans.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Yeah, well we will start.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
We will start, you know, putting more focus on something
that looks to have future of the franchise to it,
at least you believe it has future of the franchise
to it. So I you know, when I say I
don't think about it or talk about it much, is
because what I share is what I share kind of
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draws the metaphorical line in the sand. When I see
JJ McCarthy walk at practice, off buses into hotels, into
road stadiums or home stadiums, there is a hitch in
his gideo. There is a a little tiny lip still
with that thing. So now you go to the O'Connell
facet of the equation. All right, Kevin's the reigning coach
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of the year. Okay, So it is so petulant and
ridiculous for those who would think there's this level of
security or.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
You know, soft benchings and things.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
No, the guy knows there's going to be a National
Football League tomorrow and next year, and this guy's going
to be a big part of him. So whether like
I'm certainly not speaking for him, but if I were,
it'd be like whether we're middling to three and three,
whether we're five and one or we're one and five.
The right thing has to be done with this asset. Yes,
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it has to be handled exactly the way, the medical
part of it, the discernment with the coaches, and the
discernment and honesty with the player, because again we're talking
about a twenty two year old who has fewer than
the one hundred regular season snaps or one hundred and
twenty five regular season snaps, who now in essence coming
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off the high ankle kind of has to reinvent part
of the technique and part of the footwork and the
foundation and the base and everything that was established over
oh a year and change simply because you're not going
to step the right way.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
And I'm not.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Trying to be quarterback guru guy here like former pitcher
Tom House who teaches quarterbacks to throw, which is weird,
but I ain't trying to be that guy. But I'm
just saying from what I've seen and or heard over
the years, is if you're still battling something, then your
footwork and your technique isn't going to be what it
needs to be. If you're still feeling something, you can
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get close. But you know what else it affects the
mind is you're thinking about it. That's what I was
wondering about with Wentz last week. I mean, Wentz has
the left shoulder. What else does Carson ap Like, Like,
what else does Carson have with a hip and ank?
I don't know what it would be. Just when you're
thrown down fourteen times the way he has been, and
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when you're hit on some of these running plays the
way he's been hit. Is you know, Carson wants to play,
and Carson he wants to be the guy to do
well until the Prodigy returns. It's just Carson with the
side arm stuff and the looping passes and the indecision
last game. It was antithetical to a lot of things
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anybody has seen with Carson during his career. It is,
but then you know he will have some moments in
the game where he'll shake his shoulders. He'll get away
from an uncharging guy and he'll fire right to a
guy in stride because that's who that's why he was
drafted where he was drafted. But he has that. Carson
still has that to him. We're just not seeing enough
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of it, I think, because he's just being he's being
good soldier guy and pushing threat through his pain while
they wait for the pain of the other guy to subside.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
One hundred percent with you in terms of done guessing
when he's ready.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
He's ready again.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
The coach has been absolutely rock steady consistent on when
the ankle's good, he's going to have a chance to play.
Ankle's not good, he's not playing. But to this end,
I was reading this article. I even paid three dollars
for a year subscription yesterday to the Pioneer Press. Wow,
I was going to get up to day on Saint
Paul News these days.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
It was a big purchase.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
And while I was tooling around, Dame Mizutani, who covers
the Minnesota Vikings, had a column and just kind of
floating this out there. It's not should he start Thursday,
But Dane was kind of making the point that it's
actually better in the long term for Kevin O'Connell and
probably this team that once that ankle is healthy, it's
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no longer as you want to win every game, but
you actually in some ways are better off in the
long term if you start when he's healthy, so that
you know what you have, even if Carson in the
short term gives you a better chance.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
To win the game.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Well they right, well, well done, I mean for my taste,
And Dane's a fantastic guy too, and he does really
good work for it. Is it twin Cities Live dot
com or some Twin Cities dot com at twin Cities
dot com, So good work there with that. I like
the way that was formula eight dollars for your subscription.
All right, well, guess what I mean, Guess what is fact?
Guess what is the reality? Until it's not the reality.
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And I don't believe in luck. I'm not a you
know you lucky suckers, all right, whatever, I said it
for whatever the reason, but I'm not a luck guy.
So with that said, I'm not saying McCarthy's had bad luck.
I'm saying we saw him and he was gone. We
saw him and he was gone, right, so until that stops,
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that's who he is. Yep, that's who he is, the
injuries factor in. And I'm not gonna look back at
like injury reports from the Wolverines or I am Academy
or how many freaking pee weee hockey games he missed
when he was growing up in Chica in the.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Lagrange Lagrange Park.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
All Right, I'm saying that there he was and we
liked him, and he was gone, and here he is
and they like him and we want to like him,
and then we love him fourth quarter in his home
state and he's gone.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah, that's it. That's just fact.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Okay, So doctors and makeshift fake doctor Charles can get
into the probability. Okay, he's a hockey guy, Okay. JJ
McCarthy's a hockey guy. He's tough, he's naturally tough. He's
a tough kid. So these things are bad, but they
keep being bad, and he keeps being gone, and until
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until he's not gone for a long period of time,
there's really nothing else to say. Until we start watching
a voluminous amount of beautiful, beautiful things that transpire like
they By the way, he threw a pick six at
Soldier Field and we won the game. Yep, that's all
part of raising kids. Why'd you push that seven hundred
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and fifty avle? Why'd you push that seven hundred and
fifty dollars vase off that dresser? Oh h you've gotten
perfect grades and these respect certificates from school for three
years in a row.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Now, nice job.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Why'd you push that vase off off that dresser or
off that table? Know what I mean? Raising kids, man,
kids are going to do things, sometimes at a high
level poorly, and sometimes at a high level very well.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
It was actually a four hundred dollars mirror off the
mantle of our fireplace.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
But still I get you right right, Well, what in
the heck is a nine ten year old doing up
on a mantle above a fireplace that probably is burning.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Well, she was, the fireplace was not on. She was
six at the time. And yeah, she climbed up.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
She climbed up. Mirror down, miar down. Geez, compleet does
that step? But you know what, it's eliminating vanity. Yes,
within your covenant. I just love that Christian approach. We're
going to eliminate all of the vanity that's in our homes,
all of the things we can learn from our own
all the time. So I got a little long winded
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on you there. Con I like them. I like those
McCarthy miss utani slash like reality based like what are
what's factual here? Yeah? Without speculating, oh soft benching, you
really don't believe in him? Shut up? No, I do
I call people liars, man, or just come out and
say if you believe, if you're at a press conference,
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or if you're writing something or podcasting something or your
super special YouTube stuff and the narrow casting game at
least if you think somebody doesn't believe in somebody. So
therefore that's why we're holding back because we might have
made a mistake here. Guys, right, come out and say it.
Come out and say, Kevin, I think you're lying. I
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think you just lie to the assembled media and the
public because I personally.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I I I I.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Personally don't think you like the quarterback. I think you're
concerned about it. His ankle is good enough to play,
but you want to use the other guy because you
need to win games.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Just come out, Just come out. I think you're lying.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah, just be stupid like that, just if you're going
to be stupid come out so everybody can know you're stupid,
so we at least can identify who end or what
is stupid so we can avoid it.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Well, I think that you know the implication of a
soft benching leads you down that road lying being untruthful.
Do you think there's validity to asking the question? Is
their second guessing or through those two games? Are we
not at the are we not where we thought we
would be with the QB injury?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Is sid? I can't answer that because I haven't asked
the question, and I'm not one that's going to speak
for others like others are doing with the soft benching accusation.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
No, I I just noted I think that that could
be a fair question in it in a press conference
environment where.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Okay, a press conference environment.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I thought you're asking my opinion.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
No, no, no, no through Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
So it's like what you said yesterday, that the fact
that they blew it by not taking bo Nix. I
still need to see McCarthy play the game before I
can get to that finish line.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Okay, I'm still very happy.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Hold on Feena fairness, FEMA fairness, and Matt producer act.
He actually did not say that it's nine to noon,
cracking wise, because we are k fan raised.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I just think again, the soft benching is kind of
inferring the idea that there's lack of truth there versus
I think you could be open and honest and ask
the coach through these two games. You got to see
a quarters, I know, the ankles balking, and we're going
to see what the timetable is. But are you where
you wanted to be with him through two games? And
then allow the coach to kind of answer that that
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kind of avoid that avoids the implication of him being
untruthful about an injury.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
That's just that's where my head is at on it.
But in the end, I think he's lying. No, I
don't think the coach is lit on you today for
some reason. Come asked, I'm just playing with.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
But okay, well that we're kind of running up against
it here. We're good.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
But but but in the end.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Carson's Carson's rolling tomorrow and uh and and from my standpoint,
I just I like just kind of putting a ball
on that Dame Missy Tawny piece.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
I'm kind of in lockstep with him.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Where when the kid is healthy, when the kid does
make it back to the field, I think.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
For good, bad, ugly, or worse.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
I think it's it's it's gotta.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
BEJJ in there, and we're gonna do everything we can
to raise nine and support him on this journey throttle.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
And who who Okay, who runs?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Yeah, that's be a tough road to go down. Like
when I say who runs the team? Okay, Well I'm
not talking about somebody with the last name Will. So
now we can get into you have the general manager
and you have the head coach. Okay, so where when
that decision is made, Okay, it's full boar ahead. It's
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full throttle. There's no moon walking with this kid unless
he gets hurt. No matter what the outcome is, we're
going to raise him. We're going to win with him.
And if we lose with him and he consistently keeps
making mistakes, the same mistake, and we'll start talking about that.
When that decision is made, the person making that decision
has to be incredibly comfortable within their own skin. And
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they can't let stupid columns second guessing. They can't let
little shots on social media about mistakes that may have
been made. It has to be elevator music. It has
to be in one ear and out the other. You
have to remind yourself, I've worked a long time for this.
I earned it. I earned this new piece. There were
(26:51):
other people who voted this, and thus I won this
off the fourteen wins. I didn't vote for myself. This
is how it worked out because I guess respect or whatever,
and you just got to the noise. Yeah, whomever is
making this final decision that you're talking about with the
quarterback or anything, and I would bet it's Kevin O'Connell. Yeah,
then you have to eliminate the noise.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I'm not coming into I'm not like like with Zimmer. Okay,
when he couldn't eliminate the noise, you know, it got
it got boisterous. I mean, like, look at look at
the petulance and the immaturity and ridiculous nature of how
he handled Chris Thomason's questions.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Correct. Okay, well go ahead and fight that.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
I mean seriously, that's like coming into the lake of
fire with a squirt gun. So I'm just gonna go
and do the moonwalk on that. It's like back to
the back of the room. Kevin is not like that.
So that's a lot, man, There's just a lot going
on right now, and they need to win tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
They need to win.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
They need a w tomorrow night. Just three and a
half point underdogs that house of the con. I think
we're gonna get a w. Tom I hope with you
tomorrow night. I hope Carson throws for four to ten,
three and zero. I really want to see it.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
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thirty eight. Okay, yep. An hour thirty eight into the presentation.
Well they're talking about again. Oh yeah, So Alan Horton
on the call this evening with Wolves and Portland Trail Blaze.
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We got a doubleheader for you this evening on your
Audio Leader FN one hundred point three k FAM now
at seven fifteen ish tomorrow night from SOFI Stadium in Inglewood, California,
the Minnesota Vikings will contest Keenan Allen and the LA Chargers.
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Keenan can catch passes. Let's just hope he doesn't do
this again. Keenan has been a problem today. Is the
is for most twelve catches one hundred and thirty five
yards and he is wide left. Now he goes in
motion and he will halo behind Herbert, who will throw
it to him. Keenan's going to hoole pass two guys
wide open, caught twenty five ten five touchdown and we
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just got Oki doped. And the touchdown pass by Keenan
Allen the first of his career. And for the LA Chargers,
the receiver Mike Williams on a four forty nine yard touchdown.
Keenan Allen to Mike Williams, No Minnesota Viking within the
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vicinity and is twenty to ten. Well, let's let's also
hope that when you have an opportunity to intercept a pass,
you actually catch it to win a game, and you
don't deflect it. First down Chargers, two tight ends to
the right, two receivers left, Herbert shotgun blitz again, pass
left and oh if Caleb Evans nearly had an interception.
Really it bounced into the arms of Josh Palmer. Really,
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and the LA Chargers have a serendipitous score. It's a
thirty yard touchdown. And by the way, when you're trying
to win the game, let's let's make sure you throw
it to the right guy. Let's make sure you throw
it to the right guy. Twenty two seconds.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
To go in the game.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Kill the clock.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Man. Kill it.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Yeah, I mean kill the clock. We're trying to get
everything set.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Up, trying to get nigh out. We burned about five
or ten extra seconds because of the Kirk shotgun and
the lists all bouncing about. Intercepted by the Chargers in
the Minnesota Vike, Jero and Parie are you kidding? Football?
Been a Charger, I believe, and was intercepted by a
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member of the Chargers. Spitted now boy in the end zone.
That is Kenneth Murray June's spited now boy. Keenan Allen
needs football immortality. Thirteenth year from cal So. He's thrown
five passes during his career and he's completed one. And
you just heard it to Mike Williams at US Bank Stadium.
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We got the old Oki dok is what it is?
Six versus Minnesota for immortality. He averages ten catches a game,
one hundred and nineteen yards per game, with four receiving
touchdowns and the only passing touchdown. As we just mentioned
now that center Bradley Boseman I mentioned, eighth year from Alabama.
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He's played one hundred and twenty games, one hundred and
one starts with Baltimore Carolina and the Chargers. He's a
tough customer. Bobby Heart I tackle. Perhaps he's made two
starts in four years. Austin Deculus their left tackle. Now
I think Joe All comes back in play, so one
of these guys takes an l but Deculus third year
from LSU. They were so stuck at offensive line they
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traded with Houston like a month and a half ago
for a backup offensive lineman. And now Deculus has made
five starts, three with the LA Chargers, and he's been
in the league three years, So like that's not a
lot of starts. Zion Johnson their left guard, fourth year
from Boston College, first round pick in twenty twenty two.
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He's good. He's becoming one of the best guards in
the NFL. Mark my words. And the reason I say
it is one major thing for their left guard, Zion
Johnson that really impresses me is in his first season,
his rookie season. He's a first round pick. He's a beefeater.
He was called for twelve penalties, nine were accepted.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
His rookie year. He generated twelve zero flags, three declined,
nine accepted as of this year. As of now, I
think he has two against him, maybe three and only
four last year, so the penalties have come way back
for their left guards. Ion Johnson, he can be a handful.
Arondez Gadsden the second number eighty six for them. He's
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a tight end who has a little wiggle to him.
That's around rookie from Syracuse. Old schoolers may remember his father,
Aronde Gadsden, the first He played six years in the
NFL with the Miami Dolphins. Their top two wide receivers,
Quinton Johnston and Keenan Allen, have combined for nine touchdowns.
Like our top two receivers Jefferson and Addison have a
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combined two. These guys have a combined nine touchdowns. The
LA Chargers, they're the only team in the league that
has I think it's five guys off to look this up,
it's five guys would like at least one or two touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Well, you got Keenan Allen or Quinton Johnston five. Lad
McConkey has two. Gadsden has won and yeah, I'll look
that up in a minute. But for their offense to
land the plane, here, Justin Herbert with with rookie Amarion
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Hampton on ir with that ankle. Justin Herbert leads the
LA Chargers in rushing yards with active players, and he
had he had a forty one long last game. Yeah,
so he's still out there cooking. Now. My man has
thrown five pick sixes and the Dolly Haskin, and we're
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happy for both those guys.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I don't think Haskins is going to play based on
the d NPS through two with the Hammy.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Good point and trade. They just traveon Johnson. They just
assigned a running back to their practice squad, So you're
probably right. Khalil Mack has played four years. He's in
his twelfth year. Khalil Mack, He's immortality. Spent four with
the Raiders, four with the Bears, and now he's in
his fourth with the LA Chargers. Which team do you
(35:08):
think he amassed his most sacks his first four with Oakland,
his middle four with the Bears, or his current four
with the LA Chargers. The con I.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Would immediately guess the Bears. I assume you're going down
a road here of how productive he's been with the Chargers,
But it just felt like he reached his apex or
zenith with the Bears. Forty and a half sacks with
the Oakland Raiders will come in most of his career. Okay,
And what else do we have here?
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Former Gopher Benjamin Saint just he is an interception this
year unrestricted from Washington. You mentioned earlier tier tarp zero sacks.
They got this tooy Polo all right, third year from
USC second round pick in twenty twenty three. I wasn't
real familiar with him. Tippolo too, Yeah, yeah, what's to
(36:02):
say his last name again? I think it's tiple low too, yeah,
something like that. He has five sacks and eighteen sacks
and forty one games. This guy's no joke and he's
super super fast. I believe he wears number forty five.
And we've got Troy Die six year from Oregon. And
what else do we have here? It was a rookie
as one of their three safeties are Jay Mickens, sixth
(36:23):
round rookie from Clemson. He's playing his fifth game. I
think he can get over the top on him. What
about Tib Still Toib tar Heeb Tarhib tar Heeb Still
he has zero interception second year from Maryland. Oh yeah,
how about this, let's keep that at zero. I should
save this for tomorrow night. But Cam Heart. All right,
(36:43):
Cam Heart is one of the four corners they use.
He wears number twenty second year from Notre Dame, fifth
round pick in twenty twenty four. Zero interceptions in his career.
That's not the first to go a year in change
without having any interceptions. My man's last inner reception took
place four and a half years ago in twenty twenty one,
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when he played a Notre Dame on September twenty fifth.
He had a couple of interceptions from the arm of
Graham Mertz, who was the quarterback for Wisconsin. So the
only way that gets into the game called Tomorrow Night
is if cam Hart has an interception. Otherwise it'll stay
on the nine to noon cutting floor. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
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winning last two days ago. They're at the Devils tonight
six pm. Wolves making their season debut. That's going to
be a late one in Portland, Saint Thomas, the University
of Saint Thomas, a couple of cool things coming their
way for the Tommies. Is a the provisional period from
a Division one standpoint, that's over, so hockey and hoops
and everybody involved, playoffs in play and just the journey
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of all of that going D one making that change.
Big part of the conversation, a short one, but a
fun one that I had with athletics director doctor phil Eston.
And they're celebrating because two nights from now, Friday night,
they're opening to Lee and Penny Anderson Arena and it's
a beautiful, fresh new venue for the Tommies and their
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sporting programs.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
And that's where I kind of started things.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Congratulations on the new facility, mister Eston, and just talk
about that journey.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
Yeah, well, I tell you what, it's been quite a journey.
We you know, we started this a couple of years
ago with a vision and then a large gift, the
largest gift in the history of Minnesota, you know, universities
and colleges, Lee and Penny seventy five million dollar commitment,
and then you know, really navigating no design construction market,
you know, everything else that we've had to navigated over
(39:03):
a couple of years. It's really satisfying to know that
we're going to finally be competing this weekend. I'll tell
you what. As much as anything, that satisfaction was in
the faces of the kids as they moved into their
spaces over the last couple of weeks. And just to
sheer joy that they had on their faces when they
saw their new locker rooms and lounges and training spaces
and the competition venue is what it's all about ultimately,
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and so it'll be great experience for our student athletes
and for our fans as well.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Yeah, the Lee and Penny Anderson Arena, hockey and hoops.
I believe fifty three hundred or so seats.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
What are is there?
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Is there a favorite thing about the new facility. I
just pictured the idea.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
It's like a new car, it's like a new house.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
And you mentioned that, you mentioned the student athletes themselves
how excited they are for the new facilities there anything
as you look at it, you're like, man, I'm glad
this is part of it.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
Yeah, you know, I tell you what that For me,
it's the memories that are going to be made right,
and we were able to design this in a way
that it feels like it belongs to campus. It feels
like it's been there for one hundred years. The design
and architecture is similar to what you see on our
campus limestone siding and the Gothic architecture. But I tell
you what, the memories that we know we're going to create.
We've been playing off campus hockey forever and you know
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that now we can invite our alumni back to campus,
give our students an opportunity to engage in Our student
sections are going to be full now or before it
was difficult to them to get to you know, get
to Mendota Heights, to the Saint Toom's Academy. So those
are the things that I'm looking forward as much as anything.
And then of course celebrating all the milestones along the way.
And we've had some milestones over the last couple of
years that we've celebrated as we moved the reclassification, and
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this is another one as we continue on this commission
on journey.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
No, I love that, and congratulations again on completing the project.
Friday night, you're going to have Lee and Penny Anderson
arena opening, go to tommysports dot com and just learn
more about the new venue.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
It's it's terrific now you mentioned it.
Speaker 5 (40:56):
Yes, well, we stall tickets the veil a couple of
tickets available. You know, I just want to mention that,
you know, the the arena sitelines are unbelievable, but we
do have less than one hundred tickets available for Friday night.
So those that are interested in your right times sports
dot com is the spot to find them and we
hope to see a Friday night and if not Friday,
we'll return against Providence on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
And with that said, what they're watching right now is
a full D one. Products serve four years of Division one,
but it's kind of your D one and name only.
Speaker 5 (41:26):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (41:26):
What has it been like making the jump, the challenge
of fitting in and then also, as you've mentioned, with
at least you know, hockey and hoops and you've had
some success along the way as well.
Speaker 5 (41:37):
Yeah, you know, the last four years, in this provisional
period that we've been in, as we've been with classifying,
we've really doubled down on culture that's been important to
us and we believe that our best I guess defense,
if you will, against the transfer portal has been making
sure that the culture has been strong and as student
athletes love being in the locker room and loved the
coaches and love their students, their their teammates, and because
(42:00):
of that, I think we've had some success. The culture
has been one of those ingredients that's led on court,
on field, on ice, whatever success, and we have experienced
some of that, maybe sooner than some may have thought
we would, but we've won several conference championships. Both of
our men's basketball, men's hockey last year competed in the
conference championship game. You know, they win that, they win
(42:21):
the tournament, the conference tournament, and so it has been
a little bit of a journey. But now this year
we've got an opportunity to go on in advance to
postseason play, represent the subhimate League and the university at
the INSTABA Championship play. So excited about those opportunities now
as well for our student athletes and for our fans.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Frankly, yeah, and going into it, you knew that the
provisional period would be what it was. There had to
be a moment specifically, you know, with with the hockey
team and the hoop squad being on the brink not
having that extra step then that that you now have,
I mean, you are now a full D one member.
That must have been kind of frustrating in the moment,
even if you knew that would pet tension.
Speaker 5 (43:00):
Yeah, you know, it's one of those things that the
NCAA laid out pretty clearly to us on the fund
that you've got this provisional period and there are certain
aspects to that that you're going to just have to
live with for a number of years. You know, Franklin,
when we first began on this journey, we were told
that would take twelve years to fully reclassify from Division
three and Division one. We did in four and so,
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you know, part of the fact that we were able
to demonstrate to the NCAA that this is a university's
profile and commitment to excellence is one that belongs to
the Division one level. But yeah, along the way is,
you know, our student athletes really had to believe and
they were part of the legacy of building a foundation
for future success. And you know, some of those student
athletes that committed to Saint Thomas and our seniors on
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the squad this year even juniors on the squad this
year committed not knowing if they'd have the opportunity to
compete in postseason. So I tell you what, I give
them a lot of credit to their commitment, their vision,
their dedication because they're at Saint Thomas, because they wanted
to be part of the story of building a foundation
for the future. And so whether that's in basketball or
in hockey, or football or any of our other twenty
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one sports, you know those student athletes are long going
to be remembered as the builders of what is our
success in the future.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Big thanks to Saint Thomas, the athletic director, doctor phil
Eston for giving me a few minutes kind of pumping
up the new arena. Nice job with that again, Tommy
Sports dot Com for information. Friday night, you're going to
get to start watching your favorite Tommy's teams go at it.
So Tommy Sports dot Com quick, just a couple of
odds and ends to end news. Do nord Minnesota whild
(44:33):
are six pm. You're going to hear that right here
in your home for a Wild Hockey the fan the
finale of a road trip before they come home featuring
the New Jersey Devils. Here is head coach John Hines
with PA this morning talking about some things that the
Devils have going for him, some things that he'll have
he'll be focused on tonight in the game.
Speaker 6 (44:49):
Well, they're a quick team. You know, they got some
quick water bug type of forwards n F high skills,
so they're they're pretty dangerous off the rush. Also, they
do a good job because they're quick and fast. They
like to get out on the four check and if
they can create quick turnovers off of four check, they're
looking right for some direct place to the slot. I'd
say those are two of their probably biggest assets.
Speaker 1 (45:10):
And then of course the hoops team is making their
season debut.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
Pump to see the Wolves.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Still questionable Anthony Edwards with some backspasms, so looking for
health related updates as we near the game tonight, but
it is a late one. It's a double feature on
the fans, So after the Wild hopefully get two points
against those Devils, the Wolves and the Howl get started
and hopefully a double I think tip offs.
Speaker 4 (45:35):
Right around nine pm right here on the fan.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Alan Horton on the call for that, you're going to
get to hear them get a w against those Blazers.
Speaker 4 (45:43):
And we have a creature feature tomorrow evening Thursday.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Night, seven fifteen KFAM your home for everything funky and
fun and live sports audio. It's the Vikings and the
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dig into and lots to Chewan Vike's bite style. In
terms of the head coach and Thursday's quarterback, Carson Wentz,
it was announced that Carson will indeed be under center
(00:46):
on Thursday night against the LA Chargers, but the practice
window for another player has opened up. Let's hear from
the head coach on Aaron Jones.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Also wanted to make note of Aaron Jones' twenty one
day window opening up today. That'll be something that will
happen today and we'll see where he's at potentially for
his availability on Thursday night.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
So even prior to Aaron Jones being hurt PA through
the first two games, Jordan Mason had the lion's share
of attempts and I forget exactly where the snaps were.
Of course, Aaron Jones did have that receiving TD against
the Bears, but it was already kind of playing out
where Okay, Jordan Mason is. You know, you can't call
him really a bell cow, but in terms of the tandem,
(01:27):
the guy running between the tackles was going to be
Jordan Mason, but potentially welcome back tomorrow night, Aaron Jones.
What dynamic do you think he offers, if healthy, if happy,
if ready to rock in splitting things up between he
and mister Mason.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
And you know it's we we intimated it late last
week and then again with Ben yesterday, as I would
not be surprised if Aaron played tomorrow night. Now how
much that that's the question. It's I don't I don't
believe for him to come back. It's like some aggressive
Darisaw recovery bit and all of a sudden, Jones is
(02:04):
on a good game and Xavier Scott's carrying it five
times in the fourth quarter and nobody knows why. So
if he comes back, you know he will play a
fair amount. That's my guess. Now where things change is
is Jordan, I mean Jordan outside of one lost fumble,
two fumbles overall, Jordan has done pretty much exactly what
(02:28):
Jordan was asked to do. He's not going to run
away from you. That's just it. Jordan Mason is not
going to run away from anybody. Aaron Jones will run
away from you. So now you add a speed element
to the offense, a fluidity element with somebody who naturally
catches it better than the other guy, and well you
(02:50):
have something about which to think. That's different if you're
the La Chargers with the assumption that to Aaron Jones
plays so and then it takes reps off Mason and
then you go back more into you know what we'll
talk about about an hour and ten minutes from now. Identity.
The Minnesota Vikings have no identity right now. I mean now, now,
(03:10):
granted mediocre, middling five hundred type bits, well they lack
They all lack identity because are you a loser or
are you a winner? Oh, you've done this three times
in that three times, so you're neither a winner or
a loser, which leads to some apathy. But they lack
identity in so many areas, so this will add to
(03:33):
the identity piece. If he plays against the LA Chargers,
I would say from a catching standpoint, he does have
one receiving touchdown this year. Aaron Jones Vikes Bites.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Kevin O'Connell also had this to say in relation to
Dallas Turner.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
He's had a lot obviously a lot of snaps and
some impactful plays. I think we're asking him to do
quite a bit, especially in our emphasis of trying to
stop the run. Last week, I thought Dallas was really
really good set and edges against a really physical front,
you know, a hard, hard o line to rush against,
especially at the tackle spots, and wanting to try to
(04:11):
contain hurts as much as we could, maybe limited some
of the you know, creativity of some of the rushes,
but the strain to finish his use of his you
know gifts to rush the pass here are being used
and emphasized but also growing on a daily basis.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
For Dallas Turner and just expecting we we won't be
seeing Andrew van Ginkel tomorrow night, Dallas Turner an opportunity
maybe not to go against consummate all pro Lane Johnson,
but also will it be Joe Alt who's been limited
the last couple of days via the walkthrough esque injury
report that's been being released. You have I believe Trey
(04:47):
Pipkins has been limited throughout the week as well, injury
laid in front for the for the Chargers offense, take time,
potential for more success on a Thursday night against these
Bolts versus is Lane Johnson and the Birds last Sunday,
I would expect All to play.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Okay, there are key members of the Vikings who at
least who expect Joe All to play, and he'll be
coming off a one month layoff. Didn't hear anything about
Pipkins where Shawn Slater maybe the best of the bunch.
He's out for the year. So they they it's it's
we'll go depth chart diving here in about twenty minutes.
They have some interesting players on their offensive line. I mean,
(05:26):
whether it's it's like this right tackle Bobby Hart, I
mean he started two games in five years. I mean
they're really really desperate for the right tackle situation. They
have this ducal Lek or whatever who plays left tackle.
Well that that goes off if Joe plays, So you know,
maybe they'll move this this guy to right because this
(05:47):
Bobby hart Man, Holy cow. I mean he started a
lot of games like seven, eight, nine, ten years ago,
might have played for the Cardinals or something, but he
just he wasn't playing football. And now he's starting games
that could favor the Minnesota Vikings right tackle. But Bradley Boseman.
I don't get a chance to look at or learn
(06:07):
about Bradley Boseman their center too frequently, simply because the
Vikings don't play the LA Chargers all the time. My
man's had a wonderful, wonderful career. I think he's coming
up to like his one hundred and twenty first game,
Bradley Boseman. Yeah, Bradley Boseman center for the LA Chargers,
and he was I remember how good he was with
the Baltimore Ravens. So that's why Bradley Boseman was on
(06:30):
my radar. Then he played with thelan in Carolina. Thelin
last week told me some good things about him, about
just his leadership skills with a bunch of young players
and like this Tyler, this Taylor Tyler Moten and you know,
like how Bradley works with him, and he's just kind
of a serve first guy. And so then I'm memorizing
some numbers and body type yeah last night, and I'm like, damn,
(06:54):
look at their center, go look at him. Run. And
then I went in and with the game calling depth
chart started to complete the Chargers offense. And I'm like,
Bradley Boseman's had an awesome career with not many penalties,
and he's blocked for some tricky different situations. I like
their center, He's very intriguing to me. Now you get
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to you get to the running backs, and well, things
just fall off a little bit there. That's that's gonna
be a problem tomorrow night for the charge And I
didn't know into the game or into the week Herbert
led the NFL and passing yards and he's number one.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Yeah, he's no, he has number one.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Well, even even early on, O'maron Hampton was not necessarily
uber effective. And then you have Najee Harris popped the
achilles early in the season and so struggling to to
and and chasing in a fair number of games as well.
They have u the inability to run the ball has
put it in the hands of Herbert and he is
freaking airing it out.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah. Well, when we go depth chart diving there, leading Rusher,
I think we'll be intriguing to some people. Vikes bites.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
I was looking at Bean by the way before we
move on. He succeeded Ryan Kelly at Bama, right, and
he was a he was a sixth round pick. Nice
career for a sixth round pick, hanging in for eight
nine years as he has.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
That's what was eye opening to me was he was
drafted so late and he's done so much well, like
Tony Jefferson, it's it's I mean, I'm stepping on all
my depth chart deep dive touchdown calls right now. But
that's okay. One of their free safety Tony Jefferson former
Raven as well. Maybe yeah, and Arizona with whom he
came into the NFL in like twenty thirteen undrafted. I mean,
(08:31):
my man's made an eleven twelve year career being undrafted,
starting a million games. That's just really really good when
you're able to do things.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Like that, vice mites speaking a center for our team.
Is there a controversy at the center spot?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I feel like, you know, we're getting both those guys
some reps this week and we'll go with what we
think is the best five for the game for sure.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Well, and that was short. I should have prefaced it.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
The head coach was speaking specifically to Michael Jurgens, who
it sounds like his healthy and potentially an option on
Thursday night.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
And Brendell really came back to the pack last game. Yes, Now,
let let's let's keep the context. Let's keep the context
in mind. Okay, it was Jalen Carter and Jordan Davis. Yes,
that matters. Now, the week before that, the game before that,
that is, uh, Malik Collins and Mason Graham, they're they're good,
(09:23):
They're they're not They're not in Carter Davis's class. When
Carter and Davis are engaged, yep, the engagement factor with
the Eagles, well, that's, like I said, you know, that's
a problem. It legitimately is a problem because of the
human nature aspect. They got all this cash and they
got this ring, they bicker, and but when they pushed
(09:44):
the button and say we're gonna go. You better hide
the women and children because Carter and Davis are are
just fantastic. Now this week against the LA Chargers is different.
It's it's a different group up front compared to what
Lake uh Donovan Jackson last week and or Will Fries
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have seen the last couple of games.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Remember when Tierre Tart threw uh through Garrett Bradbury out.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Of the chat.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Tier Tart, the former Titan, second year with the Chargers.
He's a very very strong man. Yes, and he's going
to be opposite Donovan Jackson, who is a very very
strong man. Uh. That's uh. And who's the other one there?
Speaker 1 (10:25):
There's I see the noses is a rookie Jammrie Caldwell.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yep, that's right, j He is a sack. Yep, he's twitch,
he's fast. They like it. They actually like him a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
And I'm excited for your deep dive because you found
the pronunciation for a boy of boy be.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Oh yeah, boy be something like that. But somebody who
didn't play last game for the Chargers has had a
wonderful two year run out there, and I'm just curious
to hear how Lieber and Burstus talk about him on
the radio. Come on, Troy die, he's like third in tackles.
I've he's got like an interception or a sack. Does
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he fill out those shoulder pads?
Speaker 4 (11:04):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I don't know if his shoulders still look like coat hangers,
you know, underneath those underneath those, uh, those shoulder pads.
But they like him a fair amount out there.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
I can't remember which which one said this to me,
but they're like, you know, digging Troy doing his thing
on special teams. But it looks like senior night at
a high school game when everyone gets to play the
way those shoulder pads sat on his shoulders, Troy died.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
I know, because his shoulders aren't broad. He's angular and
straight up and great, he's gonna have twelve tackles. Troy
is fast. Troy is fast.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Bikes bikes.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
It's brought to you by Thousand Hills. Wait on the
other side, somebody I don't think played last game. Maybe
he did, but he didn't register anything. Tyler Conkland way,
he's back pervert fires deep what Conkland wide open? Nah,
that ain't gonna happen. No, I don't think so, Hey
to the quarterback spot.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
I've been just kind of sitting on.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
A couple of things here.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
This was interesting from the head coach via his pressure
yesterday that kind of alluding, you know, if this was
a full week, if this was a Sunday game, and
I'm just thinking about the kid QB JJ McCarthy, maybe
we could have seen into the weekend if he was
able to go.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
We did put JJ McCarthy through an on field workout
just to see if he had a chance to make
it this week. You know, JJ, the medical staff, myself,
we're all kind of encouraged about where he's at and
the progress he's making, but he's just not there. And
if this was a Sunday game, maybe it would would
be a little bit of a different story and we
(12:41):
could push it throughout the week and see where he's
at towards the end of the week. But really I
look at today almost as the combination of Wednesday Thursday,
but really it is a Friday on the timeline of
coming up on being forty eight hours out from the game.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
A little more from the head coach here, kind of
what does he still need to learn, whether it's foundation,
it's footwork, it's you know, at a base level of course,
the health to the ankle. What else did you know
in terms of feeling comfortable reactivate him and putting him
on the field.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I feel really good about you know, the work we've
done on is on on the foundation of his fundamentals.
That's been pretty evident through the work that he's done,
and he's really the commitment to doing that. It's really
just about you know, hey, there's a you know, maybe
a guy gets edged and I don't really know the
movement I'm gonna have to make. Uh, that's where you know,
(13:30):
he still feels it. And if he doesn't have the
ability to do that paying free, you know, we obviously
risk setting him back, which would be very very unfortunate
with the time lost already, but also giving him the
best chance to go out there and have success is
is ultimately, uh, you know what we're what we're looking for.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So the commitment to the plan, he is committed to
the plan. If he's not ready to rock, he's not
going to rock. So he's not tomorrow night. And it
still feels as kind of things have settled in with
the with the injury that a week from now we're
looking at a practice week that will include the Detroit
Lions on the back end of it. That feels like
(14:07):
a more natural spot to potentially see number nine again.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Yeah, I'm just done guessing about it, and quite honestly,
I'm done thinking about it until this team identifies itself
as a winner or a loser. And then even your
announcer and those listening now fans.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Yeah, well we will start.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
We will start, you know, putting more focus on something
that looks to have future of the franchise to it,
at least you believe it has future of the franchise
to it. So I you know, when I say I
don't think about it or talk about it much, is
because what I share is what I share kind of
(14:47):
draws the metaphorical line in the sand. When I see
JJ McCarthy walk at practice, off buses into hotels, into
road stadiums or home stadiums, there is a hitch in
his gideo. There is a a little tiny lip still
with that thing. So now you go to the O'Connell
facet of the equation. All right, Kevin's the reigning coach
(15:08):
of the year. Okay, So it is so petulant and
ridiculous for those who would think there's this level of
security or.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
You know, soft benchings and things.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
No, the guy knows there's going to be a National
Football League tomorrow and next year, and this guy's going
to be a big part of him. So whether like
I'm certainly not speaking for him, but if I were,
it'd be like whether we're middling to three and three,
whether we're five and one or we're one and five.
The right thing has to be done with this asset. Yes,
(15:43):
it has to be handled exactly the way, the medical
part of it, the discernment with the coaches, and the
discernment and honesty with the player, because again we're talking
about a twenty two year old who has fewer than
the one hundred regular season snaps or one hundred and
twenty five regular season snaps, who now in essence coming
(16:07):
off the high ankle kind of has to reinvent part
of the technique and part of the footwork and the
foundation and the base and everything that was established over
oh a year and change simply because you're not going
to step the right way.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
And I'm not.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Trying to be quarterback guru guy here like former pitcher
Tom House who teaches quarterbacks to throw, which is weird,
but I ain't trying to be that guy. But I'm
just saying from what I've seen and or heard over
the years, is if you're still battling something, then your
footwork and your technique isn't going to be what it
needs to be. If you're still feeling something, you can
(16:46):
get close. But you know what else it affects the
mind is you're thinking about it. That's what I was
wondering about with Wentz last week. I mean, Wentz has
the left shoulder. What else does Carson ap Like, Like,
what else does Carson have with a hip and ank?
I don't know what it would be. Just when you're
thrown down fourteen times the way he has been, and
(17:08):
when you're hit on some of these running plays the
way he's been hit. Is you know, Carson wants to play,
and Carson he wants to be the guy to do
well until the Prodigy returns. It's just Carson with the
side arm stuff and the looping passes and the indecision
last game. It was antithetical to a lot of things
(17:30):
anybody has seen with Carson during his career. It is,
but then you know he will have some moments in
the game where he'll shake his shoulders. He'll get away
from an uncharging guy and he'll fire right to a
guy in stride because that's who that's why he was
drafted where he was drafted. But he has that. Carson
still has that to him. We're just not seeing enough
(17:53):
of it, I think, because he's just being he's being
good soldier guy and pushing threat through his pain while
they wait for the pain of the other guy to subside.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
One hundred percent with you in terms of done guessing
when he's ready.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
He's ready again.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
The coach has been absolutely rock steady consistent on when
the ankle's good, he's going to have a chance to play.
Ankle's not good, he's not playing. But to this end,
I was reading this article. I even paid three dollars
for a year subscription yesterday to the Pioneer Press. Wow,
I was going to get up to day on Saint
Paul News these days.
Speaker 4 (18:30):
It was a big purchase.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
And while I was tooling around, Dame Mizutani, who covers
the Minnesota Vikings, had a column and just kind of
floating this out there. It's not should he start Thursday,
But Dane was kind of making the point that it's
actually better in the long term for Kevin O'Connell and
probably this team that once that ankle is healthy, it's
(18:52):
no longer as you want to win every game, but
you actually in some ways are better off in the
long term if you start when he's healthy, so that
you know what you have, even if Carson in the
short term gives you a better chance.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
To win the game.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Well they right, well, well done, I mean for my taste,
And Dane's a fantastic guy too, and he does really
good work for it. Is it twin Cities Live dot
com or some Twin Cities dot com at twin Cities
dot com, So good work there with that. I like
the way that was formula eight dollars for your subscription.
All right, well, guess what I mean, Guess what is fact?
Guess what is the reality? Until it's not the reality.
(19:28):
And I don't believe in luck. I'm not a you
know you lucky suckers, all right, whatever, I said it
for whatever the reason, but I'm not a luck guy.
So with that said, I'm not saying McCarthy's had bad luck.
I'm saying we saw him and he was gone. We
saw him and he was gone, right, so until that stops,
(19:49):
that's who he is. Yep, that's who he is, the
injuries factor in. And I'm not gonna look back at
like injury reports from the Wolverines or I am Academy
or how many freaking pee weee hockey games he missed
when he was growing up in Chica in the.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Lagrange Lagrange Park.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
All Right, I'm saying that there he was and we
liked him, and he was gone, and here he is
and they like him and we want to like him,
and then we love him fourth quarter in his home
state and he's gone.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Yeah, that's it. That's just fact.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Okay, So doctors and makeshift fake doctor Charles can get
into the probability. Okay, he's a hockey guy, Okay. JJ
McCarthy's a hockey guy. He's tough, he's naturally tough. He's
a tough kid. So these things are bad, but they
keep being bad, and he keeps being gone, and until
(20:49):
until he's not gone for a long period of time,
there's really nothing else to say. Until we start watching
a voluminous amount of beautiful, beautiful things that transpire like
they By the way, he threw a pick six at
Soldier Field and we won the game. Yep, that's all
part of raising kids. Why'd you push that seven hundred
(21:10):
and fifty avle? Why'd you push that seven hundred and
fifty dollars vase off that dresser? Oh h you've gotten
perfect grades and these respect certificates from school for three
years in a row.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
Now, nice job.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Why'd you push that vase off off that dresser or
off that table? Know what I mean? Raising kids, man,
kids are going to do things, sometimes at a high
level poorly, and sometimes at a high level very well.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
It was actually a four hundred dollars mirror off the
mantle of our fireplace.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
But still I get you right right, Well, what in
the heck is a nine ten year old doing up
on a mantle above a fireplace that probably is burning.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Well, she was, the fireplace was not on. She was
six at the time. And yeah, she climbed up.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
She climbed up. Mirror down, miar down. Geez, compleet does
that step? But you know what, it's eliminating vanity. Yes,
within your covenant. I just love that Christian approach. We're
going to eliminate all of the vanity that's in our homes,
all of the things we can learn from our own
all the time. So I got a little long winded
(22:16):
on you there. Con I like them. I like those
McCarthy miss utani slash like reality based like what are
what's factual here? Yeah? Without speculating, oh soft benching, you
really don't believe in him? Shut up? No, I do
I call people liars, man, or just come out and
say if you believe, if you're at a press conference,
(22:37):
or if you're writing something or podcasting something or your
super special YouTube stuff and the narrow casting game at
least if you think somebody doesn't believe in somebody. So
therefore that's why we're holding back because we might have
made a mistake here. Guys, right, come out and say it.
Come out and say, Kevin, I think you're lying. I
(22:59):
think you just lie to the assembled media and the
public because I personally.
Speaker 4 (23:05):
I I I I.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Personally don't think you like the quarterback. I think you're
concerned about it. His ankle is good enough to play,
but you want to use the other guy because you
need to win games.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Just come out, Just come out. I think you're lying.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah, just be stupid like that, just if you're going
to be stupid come out so everybody can know you're stupid,
so we at least can identify who end or what
is stupid so we can avoid it.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
Well, I think that you know the implication of a
soft benching leads you down that road lying being untruthful.
Do you think there's validity to asking the question? Is
their second guessing or through those two games? Are we
not at the are we not where we thought we
would be with the QB injury?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Is sid? I can't answer that because I haven't asked
the question, and I'm not one that's going to speak
for others like others are doing with the soft benching accusation.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
No, I I just noted I think that that could
be a fair question in it in a press conference
environment where.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Okay, a press conference environment.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
I thought you're asking my opinion.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
No, no, no, no through Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
So it's like what you said yesterday, that the fact
that they blew it by not taking bo Nix. I
still need to see McCarthy play the game before I
can get to that finish line.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Okay, I'm still very happy.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Hold on Feena fairness, FEMA fairness, and Matt producer act.
He actually did not say that it's nine to noon,
cracking wise, because we are k fan raised.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I just think again, the soft benching is kind of
inferring the idea that there's lack of truth there versus
I think you could be open and honest and ask
the coach through these two games. You got to see
a quarters, I know, the ankles balking, and we're going
to see what the timetable is. But are you where
you wanted to be with him through two games? And
then allow the coach to kind of answer that that
(24:51):
kind of avoid that avoids the implication of him being
untruthful about an injury.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
You know.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
That's just that's where my head is at on it.
But in the end, I think he's lying. No, I
don't think the coach is lit on you today for
some reason. Come asked, I'm just playing with.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
But okay, well that we're kind of running up against
it here. We're good.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
But but but in the end.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Carson's Carson's rolling tomorrow and uh and and from my standpoint,
I just I like just kind of putting a ball
on that Dame Missy Tawny piece.
Speaker 4 (25:22):
I'm kind of in lockstep with him.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Where when the kid is healthy, when the kid does
make it back to the field, I think.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
For good, bad, ugly, or worse.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
I think it's it's it's gotta.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
BEJJ in there, and we're gonna do everything we can
to raise nine and support him on this journey throttle.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
And who who Okay, who runs?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Yeah, that's be a tough road to go down. Like
when I say who runs the team? Okay, Well I'm
not talking about somebody with the last name Will. So
now we can get into you have the general manager
and you have the head coach. Okay, so where when
that decision is made, Okay, it's full boar ahead. It's
(26:06):
full throttle. There's no moon walking with this kid unless
he gets hurt. No matter what the outcome is, we're
going to raise him. We're going to win with him.
And if we lose with him and he consistently keeps
making mistakes, the same mistake, and we'll start talking about that.
When that decision is made, the person making that decision
has to be incredibly comfortable within their own skin. And
(26:28):
they can't let stupid columns second guessing. They can't let
little shots on social media about mistakes that may have
been made. It has to be elevator music. It has
to be in one ear and out the other. You
have to remind yourself, I've worked a long time for this.
I earned it. I earned this new piece. There were
(26:51):
other people who voted this, and thus I won this
off the fourteen wins. I didn't vote for myself. This
is how it worked out because I guess respect or whatever,
and you just got to the noise. Yeah, whomever is
making this final decision that you're talking about with the
quarterback or anything, and I would bet it's Kevin O'Connell. Yeah,
then you have to eliminate the noise.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
I agree.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I'm not coming into I'm not like like with Zimmer. Okay,
when he couldn't eliminate the noise, you know, it got
it got boisterous. I mean, like, look at look at
the petulance and the immaturity and ridiculous nature of how
he handled Chris Thomason's questions.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
Correct. Okay, well go ahead and fight that.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
I mean seriously, that's like coming into the lake of
fire with a squirt gun. So I'm just gonna go
and do the moonwalk on that. It's like back to
the back of the room. Kevin is not like that.
So that's a lot, man, There's just a lot going
on right now, and they need to win tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
They need to win.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
They need a w tomorrow night. Just three and a
half point underdogs that house of the con. I think
we're gonna get a w. Tom I hope with you
tomorrow night. I hope Carson throws for four to ten,
three and zero. I really want to see it.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
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Well they're talking about again. Oh yeah, So Alan Horton
on the call this evening with Wolves and Portland Trail Blaze.
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We got a doubleheader for you this evening on your
Audio Leader FN one hundred point three k FAM now
at seven fifteen ish tomorrow night from SOFI Stadium in Inglewood, California,
the Minnesota Vikings will contest Keenan Allen and the LA Chargers.
(29:20):
Keenan can catch passes. Let's just hope he doesn't do
this again. Keenan has been a problem today. Is the
is for most twelve catches one hundred and thirty five
yards and he is wide left. Now he goes in
motion and he will halo behind Herbert, who will throw
it to him. Keenan's going to hoole pass two guys
wide open, caught twenty five ten five touchdown and we
(29:45):
just got Oki doped. And the touchdown pass by Keenan
Allen the first of his career. And for the LA Chargers,
the receiver Mike Williams on a four forty nine yard touchdown.
Keenan Allen to Mike Williams, No Minnesota Viking within the
(30:08):
vicinity and is twenty to ten. Well, let's let's also
hope that when you have an opportunity to intercept a pass,
you actually catch it to win a game, and you
don't deflect it. First down Chargers, two tight ends to
the right, two receivers left, Herbert shotgun blitz again, pass
left and oh if Caleb Evans nearly had an interception.
Really it bounced into the arms of Josh Palmer. Really,
(30:30):
and the LA Chargers have a serendipitous score. It's a
thirty yard touchdown. And by the way, when you're trying
to win the game, let's let's make sure you throw
it to the right guy. Let's make sure you throw
it to the right guy. Twenty two seconds.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
To go in the game.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Kill the clock.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Man. Kill it.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Yeah, I mean kill the clock. We're trying to get
everything set.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Up, trying to get nigh out. We burned about five
or ten extra seconds because of the Kirk shotgun and
the lists all bouncing about. Intercepted by the Chargers in
the Minnesota Vike, Jero and Parie are you kidding? Football?
Been a Charger, I believe, and was intercepted by a
(31:10):
member of the Chargers. Spitted now boy in the end zone.
That is Kenneth Murray June's spited now boy. Keenan Allen
needs football immortality. Thirteenth year from cal So. He's thrown
five passes during his career and he's completed one. And
you just heard it to Mike Williams at US Bank Stadium.
(31:32):
We got the old Oki dok is what it is?
Six versus Minnesota for immortality. He averages ten catches a game,
one hundred and nineteen yards per game, with four receiving
touchdowns and the only passing touchdown. As we just mentioned
now that center Bradley Boseman I mentioned, eighth year from Alabama.
(31:52):
He's played one hundred and twenty games, one hundred and
one starts with Baltimore Carolina and the Chargers. He's a
tough customer. Bobby Heart I tackle. Perhaps he's made two
starts in four years. Austin Deculus their left tackle. Now
I think Joe All comes back in play, so one
of these guys takes an l but Deculus third year
from LSU. They were so stuck at offensive line they
(32:15):
traded with Houston like a month and a half ago
for a backup offensive lineman. And now Deculus has made
five starts, three with the LA Chargers, and he's been
in the league three years, So like that's not a
lot of starts. Zion Johnson their left guard, fourth year
from Boston College, first round pick in twenty twenty two.
(32:35):
He's good. He's becoming one of the best guards in
the NFL. Mark my words. And the reason I say
it is one major thing for their left guard, Zion
Johnson that really impresses me is in his first season,
his rookie season. He's a first round pick. He's a beefeater.
He was called for twelve penalties, nine were accepted.
Speaker 4 (32:57):
His rookie year. He generated twelve zero flags, three declined,
nine accepted as of this year. As of now, I
think he has two against him, maybe three and only
four last year, so the penalties have come way back
for their left guards. Ion Johnson, he can be a handful.
Arondez Gadsden the second number eighty six for them. He's
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a tight end who has a little wiggle to him.
That's around rookie from Syracuse. Old schoolers may remember his father,
Aronde Gadsden, the first He played six years in the
NFL with the Miami Dolphins. Their top two wide receivers,
Quinton Johnston and Keenan Allen, have combined for nine touchdowns.
Like our top two receivers Jefferson and Addison have a
(33:42):
combined two. These guys have a combined nine touchdowns. The
LA Chargers, they're the only team in the league that
has I think it's five guys off to look this up,
it's five guys would like at least one or two touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Well, you got Keenan Allen or Quinton Johnston five. Lad
McConkey has two. Gadsden has won and yeah, I'll look
that up in a minute. But for their offense to
land the plane, here, Justin Herbert with with rookie Amarion
(34:19):
Hampton on ir with that ankle. Justin Herbert leads the
LA Chargers in rushing yards with active players, and he
had he had a forty one long last game. Yeah,
so he's still out there cooking. Now. My man has
thrown five pick sixes and the Dolly Haskin, and we're
(34:42):
happy for both those guys.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
I don't think Haskins is going to play based on
the d NPS through two with the Hammy.
Speaker 3 (34:47):
Good point and trade. They just traveon Johnson. They just
assigned a running back to their practice squad, So you're
probably right. Khalil Mack has played four years. He's in
his twelfth year. Khalil Mack, He's immortality. Spent four with
the Raiders, four with the Bears, and now he's in
his fourth with the LA Chargers. Which team do you
(35:08):
think he amassed his most sacks his first four with Oakland,
his middle four with the Bears, or his current four
with the LA Chargers. The con I.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Would immediately guess the Bears. I assume you're going down
a road here of how productive he's been with the Chargers,
But it just felt like he reached his apex or
zenith with the Bears. Forty and a half sacks with
the Oakland Raiders will come in most of his career. Okay,
And what else do we have here?
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Former Gopher Benjamin Saint just he is an interception this
year unrestricted from Washington. You mentioned earlier tier tarp zero sacks.
They got this tooy Polo all right, third year from
USC second round pick in twenty twenty three. I wasn't
real familiar with him. Tippolo too, Yeah, yeah, what's to
(36:02):
say his last name again? I think it's tiple low too, yeah,
something like that. He has five sacks and eighteen sacks
and forty one games. This guy's no joke and he's
super super fast. I believe he wears number forty five.
And we've got Troy Die six year from Oregon. And
what else do we have here? It was a rookie
as one of their three safeties are Jay Mickens, sixth
(36:23):
round rookie from Clemson. He's playing his fifth game. I
think he can get over the top on him. What
about Tib Still Toib tar Heeb Tarhib tar Heeb Still
he has zero interception second year from Maryland. Oh yeah,
how about this, let's keep that at zero. I should
save this for tomorrow night. But Cam Heart. All right,
(36:43):
Cam Heart is one of the four corners they use.
He wears number twenty second year from Notre Dame, fifth
round pick in twenty twenty four. Zero interceptions in his career.
That's not the first to go a year in change
without having any interceptions. My man's last inner reception took
place four and a half years ago in twenty twenty one,
(37:05):
when he played a Notre Dame on September twenty fifth.
He had a couple of interceptions from the arm of
Graham Mertz, who was the quarterback for Wisconsin. So the
only way that gets into the game called Tomorrow Night
is if cam Hart has an interception. Otherwise it'll stay
on the nine to noon cutting floor. We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Yeah, short segment here nine to noon and it's new.
He's usually news do Nord brought to you by the
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(37:50):
winning last two days ago. They're at the Devils tonight
six pm. Wolves making their season debut. That's going to
be a late one in Portland, Saint Thomas, the University
of Saint Thomas, a couple of cool things coming their
way for the Tommies. Is a the provisional period from
a Division one standpoint, that's over, so hockey and hoops
and everybody involved, playoffs in play and just the journey
(38:14):
of all of that going D one making that change.
Big part of the conversation, a short one, but a
fun one that I had with athletics director doctor phil Eston.
And they're celebrating because two nights from now, Friday night,
they're opening to Lee and Penny Anderson Arena and it's
a beautiful, fresh new venue for the Tommies and their
(38:34):
sporting programs.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
And that's where I kind of started things.
Speaker 1 (38:37):
Congratulations on the new facility, mister Eston, and just talk
about that journey.
Speaker 5 (38:42):
Yeah, well, I tell you what, it's been quite a journey.
We you know, we started this a couple of years
ago with a vision and then a large gift, the
largest gift in the history of Minnesota, you know, universities
and colleges, Lee and Penny seventy five million dollar commitment,
and then you know, really navigating no design construction market,
you know, everything else that we've had to navigated over
(39:03):
a couple of years. It's really satisfying to know that
we're going to finally be competing this weekend. I'll tell
you what. As much as anything, that satisfaction was in
the faces of the kids as they moved into their
spaces over the last couple of weeks. And just to
sheer joy that they had on their faces when they
saw their new locker rooms and lounges and training spaces
and the competition venue is what it's all about ultimately,
(39:25):
and so it'll be great experience for our student athletes
and for our fans as well.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Yeah, the Lee and Penny Anderson Arena, hockey and hoops.
I believe fifty three hundred or so seats.
Speaker 4 (39:36):
What are is there?
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Is there a favorite thing about the new facility. I
just pictured the idea.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
It's like a new car, it's like a new house.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
And you mentioned that, you mentioned the student athletes themselves
how excited they are for the new facilities there anything
as you look at it, you're like, man, I'm glad
this is part of it.
Speaker 5 (39:52):
Yeah, you know, I tell you what that For me,
it's the memories that are going to be made right,
and we were able to design this in a way
that it feels like it belongs to campus. It feels
like it's been there for one hundred years. The design
and architecture is similar to what you see on our
campus limestone siding and the Gothic architecture. But I tell
you what, the memories that we know we're going to create.
We've been playing off campus hockey forever and you know
(40:15):
that now we can invite our alumni back to campus,
give our students an opportunity to engage in Our student
sections are going to be full now or before it
was difficult to them to get to you know, get
to Mendota Heights, to the Saint Toom's Academy. So those
are the things that I'm looking forward as much as anything.
And then of course celebrating all the milestones along the way.
And we've had some milestones over the last couple of
years that we've celebrated as we moved the reclassification, and
(40:38):
this is another one as we continue on this commission
on journey.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
No, I love that, and congratulations again on completing the project.
Friday night, you're going to have Lee and Penny Anderson
arena opening, go to tommysports dot com and just learn
more about the new venue.
Speaker 4 (40:53):
It's it's terrific now you mentioned it.
Speaker 5 (40:56):
Yes, well, we stall tickets the veil a couple of
tickets available. You know, I just want to mention that,
you know, the the arena sitelines are unbelievable, but we
do have less than one hundred tickets available for Friday night.
So those that are interested in your right times sports
dot com is the spot to find them and we
hope to see a Friday night and if not Friday,
we'll return against Providence on Saturday.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
And with that said, what they're watching right now is
a full D one. Products serve four years of Division one,
but it's kind of your D one and name only.
Speaker 5 (41:26):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (41:26):
What has it been like making the jump, the challenge
of fitting in and then also, as you've mentioned, with
at least you know, hockey and hoops and you've had
some success along the way as well.
Speaker 5 (41:37):
Yeah, you know, the last four years, in this provisional
period that we've been in, as we've been with classifying,
we've really doubled down on culture that's been important to
us and we believe that our best I guess defense,
if you will, against the transfer portal has been making
sure that the culture has been strong and as student
athletes love being in the locker room and loved the
coaches and love their students, their their teammates, and because
(42:00):
of that, I think we've had some success. The culture
has been one of those ingredients that's led on court,
on field, on ice, whatever success, and we have experienced
some of that, maybe sooner than some may have thought
we would, but we've won several conference championships. Both of
our men's basketball, men's hockey last year competed in the
conference championship game. You know, they win that, they win
(42:21):
the tournament, the conference tournament, and so it has been
a little bit of a journey. But now this year
we've got an opportunity to go on in advance to
postseason play, represent the subhimate League and the university at
the INSTABA Championship play. So excited about those opportunities now
as well for our student athletes and for our fans.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
Frankly, yeah, and going into it, you knew that the
provisional period would be what it was. There had to
be a moment specifically, you know, with with the hockey
team and the hoop squad being on the brink not
having that extra step then that that you now have,
I mean, you are now a full D one member.
That must have been kind of frustrating in the moment,
even if you knew that would pet tension.
Speaker 5 (43:00):
Yeah, you know, it's one of those things that the
NCAA laid out pretty clearly to us on the fund
that you've got this provisional period and there are certain
aspects to that that you're going to just have to
live with for a number of years. You know, Franklin,
when we first began on this journey, we were told
that would take twelve years to fully reclassify from Division
three and Division one. We did in four and so,
(43:22):
you know, part of the fact that we were able
to demonstrate to the NCAA that this is a university's
profile and commitment to excellence is one that belongs to
the Division one level. But yeah, along the way is,
you know, our student athletes really had to believe and
they were part of the legacy of building a foundation
for future success. And you know, some of those student
athletes that committed to Saint Thomas and our seniors on
(43:43):
the squad this year even juniors on the squad this
year committed not knowing if they'd have the opportunity to
compete in postseason. So I tell you what, I give
them a lot of credit to their commitment, their vision,
their dedication because they're at Saint Thomas, because they wanted
to be part of the story of building a foundation
for the future. And so whether that's in basketball or
in hockey, or football or any of our other twenty
(44:04):
one sports, you know those student athletes are long going
to be remembered as the builders of what is our
success in the future.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Big thanks to Saint Thomas, the athletic director, doctor phil
Eston for giving me a few minutes kind of pumping
up the new arena. Nice job with that again, Tommy
Sports dot Com for information. Friday night, you're going to
get to start watching your favorite Tommy's teams go at it.
So Tommy Sports dot Com quick, just a couple of
odds and ends to end news. Do nord Minnesota whild
(44:33):
are six pm. You're going to hear that right here
in your home for a Wild Hockey the fan the
finale of a road trip before they come home featuring
the New Jersey Devils. Here is head coach John Hines
with PA this morning talking about some things that the
Devils have going for him, some things that he'll have
he'll be focused on tonight in the game.
Speaker 6 (44:49):
Well, they're a quick team. You know, they got some
quick water bug type of forwards n F high skills,
so they're they're pretty dangerous off the rush. Also, they
do a good job because they're quick and fast. They
like to get out on the four check and if
they can create quick turnovers off of four check, they're
looking right for some direct place to the slot. I'd
say those are two of their probably biggest assets.
Speaker 1 (45:10):
And then of course the hoops team is making their
season debut.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
Pump to see the Wolves.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Still questionable Anthony Edwards with some backspasms, so looking for
health related updates as we near the game tonight, but
it is a late one. It's a double feature on
the fans, So after the Wild hopefully get two points
against those Devils, the Wolves and the Howl get started
and hopefully a double I think tip offs.
Speaker 4 (45:35):
Right around nine pm right here on the fan.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Alan Horton on the call for that, you're going to
get to hear them get a w against those Blazers.
Speaker 4 (45:43):
And we have a creature feature tomorrow evening Thursday.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
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