October 27, 2025 • 46 mins
Pete Bercich kicks off the hour with more Vikes analysis, then Pierre-Marc Bouchard joins to celebrate 25yrs of Wild hockey, before Gopher football coach PJ Fleck's weekly appearance wraps the hour!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ani The Analyst, The Analyst Pete Bursage courtesy of Sue
Cup and Suitcup Manufacturing a suit Cup dot com at
(00:21):
Pete Bursage via via Twitter for hardcore football takes and
things that are so dicey with the Minnesota Vikings covenant,
Pete's most recent eye in the Sky YouTube post is
him firing an M one. Abrams, I believe that's what
it's called, and and good morning, what's what's an M one?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Abram Abrams, it's a it's the United States main Battle tank.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And how'd you and how'd you fall into that?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
We went to my guy. This is probably ten years ago.
The Red Bulls came down with a Chinook helicop. They're
landed at the old facility Buncamus won up there, probably
like twenty of us and it was kind of like
kindergarten for a day to shoot all, you know, shoot
the machine guns, the saws, qualify on the range, do
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the simulators, and then they took us down on the tanks,
got the fire of Bradley and then ultimately an M one.
It was almost as good as flying with the Blue Angels,
but it was Yeah, I had found I found some
old video of it. I mean this a long time
ago and it's been something I just wanted to put
out there, and I figured that would be it might
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be the it might be the time. Yeah, it's a
two times for a little you know, for little little
roper room, a little fun, and then we'll get back
to business here in the next day or two.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, it's a good diversion. Nine to noon is turning
the page today on some things with the twenty twenty
five Minnesota Vikings, and that would include the way the
run defense has worked out. So if if Andrew Van
Ginkel returns in the Lions game, undoubtedly that will help.
But you hit on it during game calls week after
week after week after week, and you know, I think
(02:06):
we both or underplayed it this game until we watched
it back end or looked at snap counts. But that
forty four for the LA Charger something called Scott mattlock
He Wow, he had played thirty eight plays the three
games up to our game, played forty one in this game.
That's basic. It's a career high. So it's basically saying
everybody from Fred Johnson to Darnell Washington now Scott Mattlocke
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is doing this to you, and we're going to do
it too until you show the NFL you can stop
it right right.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And here's a couple of things on that ball. Is
that this is not the first week that teams have
gone big on us. This is the third or fourth
week in a row that week after week, we've seen
extra offensive linemen, we've seen multiple tight ends, we've seen
teams go big to run the football and it's worked.
The other side of that coin, however, is when you
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have lead like the Chargers do, then you have you know,
you have the patients to run the ball right, you
want to run the ball. You're in a situation where
you should run the football. So and then time of
possession was almost two to one again on Thursday night.
So there's other's a lot of things that can also
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go into helping the running game. But right now, teams
have the patients, they have the ability, and they have
the big bodies to go ahead and do that, and
and they're just we didn't. We never saw that. Last year.
We didn't we faced more passes. I think we were
the number one or number two in the league, but
we were right at the top of percentage of passes
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that we saw that we faced last year. Teams did
not run the football on us for a number of reasons.
Number one, it was very difficult. Number Two, they were
behind most of the time and so they had to
throw the football. So we're seeing a shift on It's again, well,
how do we actually what's going on? It's like, well,
there's a there's a lot of things. There's a ton
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of things you know that are that are factoring into
all this. But we see it. You know, you're seeing
it week in and week out, and teams, teams look
to us to get their get their run game healthy.
And you know again, yeah, you're right. I mean, having
be gangle back is going to help. But those guys
in the middle, the linebackers, all those guys have to
play better now offensively.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
A page turn could involve the re emergence of JJ
McCarthy at Ford Field against the Lions. If McCarthy indeed
does start and we can actually get a series of
games out of him, what would you be looking for?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Uh, just.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You're kind of going back to kind of going back
to square one, right, I mean you're looking you're just
you're looking for a rhythm in the passing game. And
I think that's one thing that disappeared on Thursday night.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I mean you if you, if you.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Watch the film, you notice Carson Wentz will get to
the top of his drop and then you pause it.
You pause the film. There anybody, you know, anybody can
do this. But the slot of times the receivers are
still in their routes, they're not even in their brakes yet,
they're not turned. And and so when you get to
the top of your drop and you're a quarterback and
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you're trying to do your reads and the and the
receivers aren't even in their brakes yet, then you have
to either stand there and wait, or you know, the
rush starts getting to you. And it just it's these
offenses at this at this time, it's it's so much timing.
It's one two three plant throw the receipt. You know,
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the offenses operate on timing, and our timing was just off.
So for McCarthy, that's one of the things that you
definitely want to see is to have some timing with
this offense exactly how it's going to look, because it's
going to change. It's not going to look the same
as they with Carson Wentz that's going to be a factor.
And then here's another thing too, is this Detroit defense
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plays a ton of man the man, man man all
they love they they'll play it all day long. They'll
blitz you and play it. They'll just play it. So
having those routes is going to be Having the man
the man beating routes are going to be important. And
then you know, again the mobility of the quarterback to
extend plays, it's going to be important too. So for McCarthy,
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you know, those are the things. Those are kinds of
the things that I'm looking for. Is it's just again
some rhythm and timing to an offense and not just
having it breakdown. Pete art He running for his life.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Pete Bursage, Sue Cup Manufacturing and Sue Cup dot Com.
The Analyst joins nine to noon each and every Monday
about ten o'clock. Vikings and Lions noon from Ford Field
this weekend, uh, Javon Hargrave might be the last one here.
Javon Hargrave last two games forty snaps all right now,
It's like Levi Drake Rodriguez played forty one snaps by
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himself in the Chargers game. No, No, knock at the
second year defensive lineman. It's it's just being a hard
Grave fan from Afar before before he got here. I
I and I'm I'm maybe I'm mistaken with this. Maybe
it never was like this because I didn't ask anybody.
I thought Javon Hargrave was three down guy. I thought
he would play runs and passes and just the whole thing.
(07:18):
What do you think? I think?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
So, I think you're right on that pall. I mean,
and I know this is just my gut, but I
we've seen kind of an evolution of the defense, you know,
year after year of the year, and a lot of
it depends upon the players that we have h and
that's the prudent thing to do as a coordinator. You
can't ask guys to do things that they're not capable
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of doing. But for some reason, jayvon Hargrave, I don't
think it's just fitting into the techniques and things that
they want to do up front. Now, whether that's I
don't you know what that is. I don't know. Right,
it's different than anything he's ever done. You know, you
look at his stance. You know, his stance is very upfield.
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It's more of a four to three defensive tackle type
of a type of a stance instead of the square
in it up and playing into guys like like we
normally do. So that's different. Yeah, I don't eat.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I don't know if he if he's just not wanting to,
you know, accept and just sell into the buy into
the fundamentals and techniques that are needed up there, or
they want him just to be himself and try to
find a way to fit him in. And right now
a team's running the football, it's just not fitting in
and we're not just you know, we're we're not getting
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the two score leads with with the need to get
a D lineman in there to get up the field.
So maybe he's not fitting from that standpoint, I don't Yeah,
I don't know. But up until his injury last year
when he was with the forty nine ers, he was
playing at a very very high level and it's just
not translating to this year. So I don't know what
exactly that is. But we need it, we know, we
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definitely need we definitely need more on of him, We
need more on everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
My brother. I will see you this weekend at Ford Field.
Thank you very much. For the time and to have
a good day.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Okay, yeah you too, Paul, Thank you, see.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You about pete Ursage, Sue Cup Manufacturing and sue Cup
dot Com. Around the corner. Pierre Marc Bouchard, Uh, he's
Wild Immortality. He'll join us to chat about a fun
night tomorrow night for the Minnesota Wild and a home
game against the Jets.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
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Speaker 4 (09:41):
Urcers nine to noon.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
What in the handfed is going on with you guys?
That's a very good question over there the common we
are awaiting the arrival of Minnesota Wild Immortality. You lucky suckers.
Pierre Mark Bouchard, Ould Booch, Oh my god, it was
(10:34):
one of the guys, one of the guys as the
you're not chortling today, You're not laughing. You're giggling a
lot today. I am Yeah, why are you giggles today?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
I just want to turn the page. I mean, it
goes back to our conversation. It's like the damn has
to have broken with the football team. Now. I know
Pierre is going to come on Happy quarter century Minnesota Wild,
and that's gonna be sweet when he joints.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
You pought up the phone line real quick. Yeah, I
know it's working. Okay, anyway, I'm gonna make sure it
was working.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
But turning the page right, I mean the Wild. I
mean they're in a shootout with the freaking Sharks yesterday.
The college team, and we're gonna talk. We got a
little nd N before we get to the college coach.
But whether it's the Gophers game, I mean, it's page
turning season. How much of that game against the Sharks
did you watch last night? About ten minutes of it
you did? I was just channel flipping. It's good, it's
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good to check in.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
But I flipped, and I think they might have been
Were they down five to two or was that the
Utah game.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
And five to two was the final I think in
the Utah game? Yeah, but they were down there. Yes,
they were down by multiple goals to the Sharks, which
is bad for business because you shouldn't be losing to
the Sharks in lopsided fashion. They fight back, and then
I think it was Celebrini. I got a highlight around
here somewhere, a Celebrini selly. But then but then it's like, okay,
so at least like it's LFL season so I can
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check out, you know, the hoop side of things. Oh wait,
Anthony Edwards plays three minutes and now there's a potential
hammy situation.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Was it a hamstring?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I think it was. I think it's listed as a
hammy and heard it was tight.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Well, because I jumped in and here comes Yeah, we
get we'll get to each one of the guys. I
jumped into the Wolves game, into the first quarter. I'm like, Anthony,
I happened where Oh there he is on the bench,
but I thought he was playing. I happened hamstring negative joker,
joker in the building. This evening with Jamal Murray and
newfangled Cameron Johnson. That's this evening at day thirty. Meanwhile,
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we segue and they are very happy to be joined
now by Minnesota Wild Immortality. You see the Winni Big
Jets are here tomorrow night as the Wild celebrate a
twenty fifth anniversary. Bobblehead tickets are available for tomorrow night
against the Jets, meaning a Marion Gabrick bobblehead and autographs
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from Gabby, Brian Ralston, Stefan Vayu or Peter Mark Bouchard,
who joins this momentarily to share memories, are available right
now at wild dot com. Tickets Tomorrow night against the
Jets with that bobblehead and autographs wild dot com. And
here comes Pierre Mark Bouchard. You spent ten seasons with
the Minnesota Wild and does fourth all time and assists.
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And here he is, peterre Mark Bouchard. It's Paul Allen.
How are you and how are things?
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Paul, I'm doing great, Thank you, Thanks for having.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Me, no problem man, and thanks A for joining us
and b for what you're doing tomorrow night with the
quarter century anniversary. Let me let me just get this
out of the way. You're forty one years of age, right,
that's correct? Okay, a decade into it. How's retirement? I mean,
what's it like when one retires? And it doesn't mean
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that you've retired from everything, but you had a nice
career in the NHL, and I would imagine a lot
of hockey up Canada Way and other places went into
getting into the NHL, and then at like age thirty two,
thirty one, thirty two, you retire. Uh does the does
the is the future scary in any way at that
(14:11):
point when you retire from hockey at such a young age, Well,
some part of it, I guess.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
I mean, like you said, you know, I started playing
hockey pretty young, you know, four or five years old.
You're you you pretty much have the skates on your
feet every day, and then you just you know, climb
the ladder and then you you're able to achieve your agreement,
make it to the NHL, and all of a sudden,
(14:40):
it's it's it's all over. So, uh, you know, the
first the first couple of years were pretty tough. You know,
you're you're so used to go out the rink every day,
you know, with the boys, you know, playing in front
of twenty thousand people, the emotion the generally and you
can live through the hockey. So it's it was it
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was a little bit tough the first two years. But
after that, you, uh, you kind of get your groove.
You find a different schedule and life goes on and
you're you're able to, uh to live different experiences.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
A wonderful answer there, and thanks for the honesty. And
you know it's I would imagine, uh, the the concussions,
the concussions that you had during your career probably played
into this. Okay, so we can't do anything about that,
but uh we we can. We can wonder now remove
from the game, settling into a life with family and
(15:37):
friends and new opportunities. Uh, how how is the brain?
How is your head? Any any concussion related symptoms?
Speaker 4 (15:46):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
No, I'm pretty lucky, Paul, Thanks thanks for asking. I
mean I think I you know, when I had some
concussion with the wild Uh, you know, the team doctors
and the staff were we're pretty small smart about it,
and I was able to recover pretty well from them.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
So right now, you know, I.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
No headaches, no different symptoms, So it's all good. I'm
able to enjoy my life, as you know, spend time
with my family, do different activities. So let's say it's
all good.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
That's fantastic, pr Mark Bouchard nine to now your first
season with the Wild O two O three and a
few years to follow that, all right? What was that
as much fun playing hockey as maybe you've ever had?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Oh yeah, big time, big time, I mean, it was
so much fun being part of the wild, being drafted
by them, able to be there ten years first season
as eighteen years old. You know, I was not playing
every game, but you know I played fifty game that
first year. And I mean, you guys all remember that
playoff run we had, so that that was my first
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my first year, so I was like, whoa, this is
the NHL. That's pretty fun. So let's try to do
this every year. I guess it didn't work out that way,
but it was still a great time.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
And you know, the the one of the if not
the highlights from that run Bruno Andrew Brunette with the
with the shot in Denver on WAH in Game seven.
I mean, that was spectacular. What what was Andrew Brunette
like as a teammate? Personally speaking? He's one of my
all time favorite athletes of the four pro sports in
this part of the country. In the twenty seven twenty
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eight years I've done this radio show, I Love Bruno.
What did you love about him?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Well, he was one of my all time favorite teammates
as well. I mean, you know, I got there as
eighteen years old and Bruno was well maybe ten years older.
Than me was. He was a great mentor. He was
there twelveed me out, you know, on and of the
ice is. You know, he was a great player, a
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great person, and I only have great thing to say
about him. And I'm pretty happy for him that he
find it is where as a coaching U coaching. You know,
he's been coaching in the NHL now and having success.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Have you, Pierre, I don't, pere Mark, I don't. I
don't know how much you watch of the NHL or
the Wild, But have you seen much of Carill Caprice
off and and if so, what do you think?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Yeah, you know, I keep I keep following the Wild
and uh, you know, Carol is so much fun to watch.
I mean, he's a full package, right, He's got he's
got everything.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
He's got great.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Skill, good vision, He's he's one on one battle are amazing.
You know, he's got that good attitude, he's uh, you know,
he wants to win every night.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
So I'm pretty.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Trill for the Minnesota whild fans for the team for
the next few years.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
What what what made Marion Gabbertt such a high end
player and your fourth all time on the team and assists,
you know, and I would imagine a fair amount of
them went the way at Gabby. So you know what
what made him such a high end player.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I mean his speed. His speed was tremendous. I mean
for a loose puck, you know, in virtual zone, for
a breakaway, I think he was one of the fastest
I ever seen, you know, to to go get that
puck and get that breakaway. Uh, and then one on
one with the goalie, he was he was deadly. So
he was he was fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
What was it like playing for Jacques Lamire, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Josh, he was.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
He was great for me.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I mean, he's one of the best coach, uh, you
know who's been around in the NHL, pretty smart, knows
a lot of things about the game. He was good
to me, you know, I was at a young age.
It was great to have him to support me and
then guide me through my first HUC. Then I think
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he did a great job in Minnesota. We know we
never had you know, you know, yes, we had Gabby,
we had Rolye, you know, guys like Bruno, but we
never had like you know, as Sydney Crosby or Caprisov
or all those guys, and he was able to get
the team together and we're we were always competitive and
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battling for a playoff spot or making the playoffs. So
that's saw on him.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So the So the Winnipeg Jets are here tomorrow night.
They they were the Atlanta Thrashers when you entered the
last Yeah, I think they played at Philips Arena. What what, what,
if anything do you remember about games in Atlanta? Shoot,
I remember back in the late seventies when they were
the Atlanta Flames and I'm watching the Washington Capitals at
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Capital Center in Landover, Maryland, and Jim Craig came out
of the Olympics and played for the Atlanta Flames. What
were the what were the Thrashers like and games in Atlanta?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Well, not many people in the sends the first thing
that comes to my mind. It was pretty empty there.
So besides that that, you know, a couple of superstars,
you know, Colo Chuck was there, Danny eat.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Lee was there.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
So they had some good players. But you know, I
think it was it was kind of the right decision,
I think to bring back a team to Winnipang. And
now the Jets are are rowing Booch.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Thank you very much for the time and enjoy your
travel back to the Twin Cities. First and foremost, we
have the celebration tomorrow night and everything, but God bless
you and your family with the concussions and no lingering
or lasting effects from it in your early forties. And
best of luck to you, my man. Thanks for the time,
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all right, Thanks, I appreciate tomorrow. Yeah, say about that's
up here, Mark Bouchard. As part of a Minnesota Wild
twenty fifth anniversary celebration that begins tomorrow night, you can
get anniversary bobblehead tickets which include a Marian Gabick bobblehead
and you'll get the auto the opportunity to get an
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the Howl, it was Pascal Siakam and then just about
nobody else. Last night, Pa and Julius Randall's thirty one
points helped the Howl beat the pacers at Target Center
watching some hamstring tightness of your Anthony Edwards. However, he
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was able to go for just three minutes and I
saw something. Whether it was Johnny Krasinski, I hate to
attribute it incorrectly, but it was something about hamstring tightness,
and potentially this is something that was actually seen and
was lingering from La, So he potentially sits tonight. I'm
seeing scores and odds. They have the Nuggets in town
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and it's they're five and a half point favorites, not
over the Wolves at Target Center tonight. So is that
a potential early lean that you don't expect Anthony Edwards
to play? Yes, but Aunt potentially, given the fact that
we've seen him writhing in pain and then he bounces back,
maybe Aunt plays tonight. We shall see, but they'll need him.
The text line, I saw somebody talking about Aaron Gordon.
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How about Aaron Gordon going for fifty against those dubs
the other night mile High City squad Ball arena go crazy.
But at Target Center tonight, the healthy, the healthiest that
you're probably going to see the Nuggets are here and
they're a tough team to handle.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Well, it's I don't you know Anthony with with this
swoon over his hammy? All right, so he plays three minutes.
Think he had five points in three minutes, so he
might have been sitting on a big one. But nevertheless,
he was on the bench and he was bouncing up
and like like by the huddle stuff like that. So,
you know, outside of the Covenant, doctor Chow so to speak,
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trying to pretend like I know what's happening, even though
I'm like not there with the team. I'm gonna guess
things are pretty much okay for Anthony. However, what what
would concern me is we had a questionable into the
first game with backspasms. Yeah, and and from what I understand,
it was a very very questionable situation, very very fifty
(25:26):
to fifty I should say. And uh, and then now
we leave with a swoon over the hammy. So it's
just too early in the season to be dealing with
things like this. And by the way, they almost got
beat And this this Indiana team with Aliburton or without
with them Nemhart or without with Miles Turner here or
in Milwaukee, that these guys give give the Timberwolves fits.
(25:48):
They do. And I don't know if it's the Wolves,
Like looking at the names on the back of the
jerseys or the rosters and you know, seeing Knees Smith
and oh there's there's Pascal Siakam. Okay, we've got to
pay attention to that, But we got, like Bradley and
Matharen and just Shepherd, some nondescript players where they think
they can roll it out and beat them. Well, they
were right last night, but that's not always the case
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when they play Indiana. Hopefully a better performance takes place
tonight against Denver.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
I don't know how much you've been watching the World
Series PA. Game three is tonight. It'll be Surezer for
Toronto and then Tyler glasnow for the Dodgers. Jay's just
jumped up and just battered the Dodgers in Game one,
but then the other night, Game two, it was I
mean just classic, get to the bullpen and then all
of a sudden, Will Smith hits a home run, Max
Munsey goes yard and they stretch it out. They win
(26:38):
five to one. But Game three tonight, I felt like
it would probably go five, and I was somewhat surprised
that Toronto got them the way they did in Game one.
Not sure where your head's at, but getting that first
one does give them an opportunity that the Blue Jays
that is in a heavily favored series towards LA. But
they got to get it done on the road. Now
with the next three in LA.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
It's been terrific. I've watched almost every ending. I really
enjoy the World Series. But it's you know, even if
you're an outsider like nine to Noon, or you're of
the seamhead variety like Ken Rosenthal and you're following every
single pitch, it's abundantly apparent that if you can get
to the Dodgers' bullpen, you will win the World Series. Yeah,
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that's it. That's just pretty much the end of the story.
The glass Now Snake Bell, he got knocked around a
little bit in game one and then you know they
get into that bullpen and you know one of those
guys that gave up three runs in like two minutes.
So if Snake Bell, along with glass Now, well, Yah
Mamoto has been the story. He was the story of
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the first two games of the World Series. Who in
the heck pitches complete games anymore? A and B let
alone in the World Series, Yah Momoto pitched a complete
game in game two A because they don't want anything
to do with their bullpen and they know it. And
that was the first one in like a decade since
I think Johnny Quato when he pitched for John Extrom's
(27:59):
Kansas City. So that that's an absolute aberration this one.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
It's two complete games in a row for him. Oh
he did it in the NLCS two against the Brewers. Yeah,
it was also is a five to one win.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
He has an MVP right to him. If they happened
to win this thing.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Yeah, and I think, well, no, they he gave up
a home run. I think to the first batter it
was first inning for the Brewers, and then just went nine,
cut down eight or ten in that game, and then
last night gives up an early run. Does the exact
same thing or two nights ago, I should say, lastly
Lions on a bye. If we're checking out the NFC
North Ravens handled the Bears Dereck Henry with a couple tds,
(28:36):
I believe. And then I mean you got to give
him props. Jordan Love with three sixty and three. He
was fantastic last night. They were struggling to run the ball.
I think Emmanuel actually out rushed Josh Jacob's yardage wise
in that game. Jacobs did get in the end zone,
but they said, hey, I want to see if Jordan
Love can beat us. We're going to stop the run.
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Jordan Love was terrific last night, and Green Bay, I believe,
improved to five to one and one. The Minnesota Vikings
start a string of divisional games coming up here. Momentarily,
they'll have the Lions Sunday at noon, a pre game
at ten with Muss from Ford Field, then the Ravens
after that here. Then the Bears are here a couple
(29:19):
of weeks from Sunday, because the Vikings are one to
er in the division, only have played one division game.
So when it comes to turning the page and eliminating
the consternation, the calamity, and or the gridiron gospel related gore,
we move to the other page. We tell you what
we think that looks like tomorrow, But for now, we
(29:41):
chat with PJ. Fleck, coach of the Golden Gophers football team.
That takes place each and every week nine to now
and it's around the corner on FM one hundred point
three KFAM.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
PJ.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Fleck, coach of the Golden Gophers football team, joins nine
to noon weekly off a bad one against Iowa into
what undoubtedly will be a better one against Michigan State.
That's next, and it's here at Huntington Banks stadium, PJ
joins now, and you know, I know there's learning to
take place at all times, and even off the Iowa game.
(30:40):
But now now there have been a couple of those
lopsided ones and they're different. I understand that. What has
your attention off that one and into the Spartans game?
And good morning PJ.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
Yeah, well, good morning Pa, thanks for having us on
the show. Now that our team playing really hard, we
just executed really poorly. Any time that you lose the
turnover battle or three to nothing against Iowa, that game
is going to look like that. Well, it doesn't matter
who you play, that's how they play. Force you to
turn the ball over, can't do it for you, play
really good special teams. We didn't, and you know, force
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you to play a quicker game, which we do the
same thing too, and they were able to hit some
explosive play. So we lost seventy eight percent ball tackling
and explosive plays and we lose all three. Especially when
you're playing Iowa at Kinnick, that's what the score looks like.
So proud of how hard we played, just ex kid
really poorly and with nine minutes to go in the
second quarter, are already down, you know, thirty one nothing,
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which which changes everything, so there is no pill. Yeah,
every week is in a chance to change our bets
and respond, and we're zero zero and have to find
a way if you want to know.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
This week, maybe Parker Fox just to join the equation,
so he'll be asking question or questions here momentarily Coach Fleck.
But maybe the music lesson this week is Ludwig Vaughn
and they listened to classical music all week to just
like chill. What do you think of some Ludvig von
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Haltoven PJ.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
I really like that. I mean there's actually a study
to classical music that you can you can gain a
percentage point here and there after you work out and
after you practice to listen to classical music to bring
yourself down, help your body recover. So maybe that's a
great suggestion from your from your so we do it
after every practice. We listened to that after practice. But
maybe focusing on that piece would be really good for
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the musical piece. So we'll see, we'll take that into consideration.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
To you do you do? Do you like any form
of classical music?
Speaker 6 (32:40):
Absolutely? Actually I've been listening to today. I had a
classical music going on ever since six this morning in
my office right now. So yeah, absolutely, so that a
little Swan Lake going on today. Yeah yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
What with with the with the lessons? You know, Ludvig
von Holto or not quarterback Drake lindsay, what lessons can
he take from Saturday? Moving forward? And after the game, PJ,
you said something I really liked and I can't say
in you know, all my years of of chatting with
you or chatting with other people about young players in
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this game that I've heard anybody say it the way
you said it. It's paraphrasing. I like how you said
with Drake lindsay, as a freshman there will be some
dark times, but you can't skip the step that was.
I mean, you're right, that was fantastic, But like, what
kind of lessons did he get out of this? Moving forward?
Speaker 6 (33:37):
Well, there's a bunch of lessons as if you look
at the performance side of a quarterback. But the peaks
and valleys, especially when you're young, are going to be
way bigger than as you grow it had gained experience
and you have leather skin and you add another scar
and you know this is all about the decision I
made pa to play a freshman quarterback. That is my decision,
right Everything that happens is my decision, and and really
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based on the decisions I'm making the offseason. When you
decide to play a rookie or a red shirt freshman
quarterback for the first time, you already know that there's
going to be some massive peaks and valleys. You know that,
So this doesn't surprise me that there's peaks and valleys.
It surprises everybody when you go through the season of
when those happened and you're looking at that game during
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a one game championship season mindset.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
But for me, I know that they're coming.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Last week, he played outstanding, this week little inconsistent, and
there's a certain way to beat certain teams, and we
did everything but do that in this game, and you're
going to learn a lot from it. But you have
to be willing to go through those steps. I don't
think it's avoidable, I really don't. I'm sure there's stories
out there where somebody was able to avoid that. But
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there are going to be some really really good times.
There's going to be some really really hard times. And
when you make a decision to play a young quarterback.
You've already made that decision of you understand how big
of those situations are. How big those are, I mean
that varies based on skill set around them, health of
a football team, players around that player. That all goes
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into the equation. And you know, we weren't very good
on Saturday, and that is completely unacceptable and that is
one hundred percent my responsibility in my fall.
Speaker 7 (35:21):
Hey coach Parker Fox here, great to be with you
this morning. We know the bread and butter go for
football is established in the run game running back by
committee at the U but only one snap for your
starr Darius Taylor kind of how do you move forward
in the running game and established that early for the
upcoming game on Saturday, we got to find.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
Ways to be able to run the football. You know,
last year we found unique ways to throw the ball,
to run the ball right, and we were able to
have a run game through the air. Every team presents
its own challenges and everybody, every team presents their own opportunities.
When you have whenever you have your star player, I
mean he's not playing, I mean there's a reason he's
your star player. Your backup's done for the year, aj Turner.
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And so when you start getting to the bottom of
that that the middle to the bottom of the depth
chart doesn't mean that you're not very good. You're probably
just lacking experience. And for us, we're lacking experience in
that position. That's not the issue.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Takes your O.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Line, tight ends, quarterback, wideouts and running backs to have
a really successful run game, and we have to stay
consistent this game. We were out of it so fast
Parker that again, what happened to Ohio State happened at
Iowa where we weren't weren't able to establish our run
game because we didn't earn the right to establish that
run game. You got to earn the right to do
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what you want in a game, and you got to
go take that from somebody, and we didn't establish that
at all.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Uh PJ. At this stage of the equation where you
played as many games as you have likewise for the opponents,
how how challenging or tricky is it with the we
know that you know that, we know that you know
like you know you said, there's a formula to beat Iowa,
and of course you're not going to share the details
or specifics exactly what that formula is. But you know
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at this stage of the season where teams have seen
so much tape and that they've seen so many plays,
and you know, then you're dealing with injuries and stuff
like that. Like how challenging is it to game plan
and change things week after week?
Speaker 6 (37:13):
Well, that's the fun of it, you know. I mean,
that is the fun of coaching. And our coaches work
really really hard in that players work really hard to
execute the game plan at a really high level. But
it really comes down to the three things we talk
about all the time, Pa, and it's the formula to beat. Iowas,
you got to win the ball to take away, you
got to be able to win the tackling battle, and
you got to win the explosive play battle. We lost
all three TA, So I'm always focused on why we lose,
(37:36):
why we win, how do we win? How do we lose?
That's my responsibility and then being able to fix those
things and hence those things as you go through the
next week and right now, the ball, tackling, explosive play plays,
we didn't win any of those and that's why we lost.
And that's why the number was staggering, because when you
lose all three, it's pretty lopsided.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Okay, so Iowa, let's say the determination has made that
Iowa was a better overall team than Nebraska. Well, I
mean when when and you're at home for one road
for the other. I understand that, But like a week
ago when we chat and I talk about the assignment,
the the being on point with assignments and things like
that in that game and the last one was so sloppy,
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and you say that, you know you you you take
the blame here ten out of ten times either or
one hundred percent, that's what you said. But just like
that has to be so frustrating to you, PJ for it,
for the detail nature of games to flip the way
they did in just a single week.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
We're all working towards striving for and earning consistency. Pa,
I think that's an NFL organization, that's a collegiate program,
that's a high school program. The more consistent you can
be based on knowing what you're going to get out
of your team and knowing what to call and exactly
what's going to happen, is the close to perfection is
we're going to get. We live in a we get
judged on a perfect level and an ideal level where
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we don't live in that real We live in a
real world, right with young people from eighteen to twenty
three years old. Jim Trussel said it best. I asked
him why he coached college football and not the pros.
He said, you just never know what you're gonna get
with eighteen to twenty two year olds, and that's jan's
true today. And I think that's the part of education
and teaching. And you know, we get paid to win.
I've said that last time. But I love to do
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the job because I love to teach and educate. And
you're going to go through a gama of all types
of things, some really good, some really bad, some really hard,
some really really fun. But you're constantly teaching through all
of that until somebody tells you not to not.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
To teach anymore.
Speaker 6 (39:34):
And I think that that's what you continue to focus
on as a coach, is just focus on what you
can control. Players have to focus on what they can control.
And Mike McCarthy said it best when I played for
him in San Francisco. He said, a coach of a
job of a coach is a teaching demand. A job
of a players prepare and perform. Whoever does that better
and understands those jobs, it can do that more consistent
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on a weekly basis is probably going to win the game.
And it still rings true to this day.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Right, Yeah, that's very fairly explained. What with with Michigan
State with Spartan, what what's the formula to beating them?
Speaker 6 (40:10):
Well, it goes back to, you know, we have to
win the turnover margin. We have to be really good
tacklers and be in position to tackle and swarm tackle,
and then we have to create more explosive plays. You know,
we're playing, you know, a defense that's really active, a
defense we're very familiar with with Joe Rossi who used
to be here our defensive coordinator and doing great job
out of Michigan State and has a lot of players,
a lot, a lot of depth that they rotate guys
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in and then offensively and everything starts with their quarterback.
And you know, he can get out of the pocket,
he can scramble if you give him big running lanes.
He can make explosive plays with his feet. He's got
a live and big arm. They've got one of the
best receivers in the Big Ten to throw it to.
So we have an enormous challenge this week to respond,
and you know we've got to take one play at
a time and one day at a time and continue
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to get better.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
If lastly, here thanks for the time too. After that,
iowall game. If if I missed something here and you've
talked to about this, I apologize. But when when you
watch it back and you see Hawk Eys hitting Lindsey
and others let's say below the belt in below the
bell fashion, what what's the reaction?
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Well, you know, you never.
Speaker 6 (41:16):
Watch a quarterback to get hit, period, you know. I
mean you don't get to control how that happens, with
how they get hit, but you get to control whether
you protect him or not. And I didn't think we
did a good enough job protecting him. I didn't do
a good enough job of preparing him for that game
to be able to do that. And you got to
get Bio a lot of credit. I mean, they create
a lot of issues for a lot of teams that
they play. That's what they're known for, and you do
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everything you can to minimize that. And I did not.
I did not excel in that area for sure.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Tear it up against Sparty and we'll chat next week.
Speaker 6 (41:47):
Okay, appreciate it, Pa, thanks for your time. For the boats, guy,
I can go for Coulvikes.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Thanks buddy.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Yep, see you, Bud. That's PJ. Flack, coach of the
Golden Gophers football team. He he deflected that last question. Yeah,
because smart and he knows exactly what I'm talking about. Turnover,
Here come the Hawkeyes Parker Fox at Parker Fox two
four via the X machine, Here come the Hawkeyes. Lindsay,
you know, kind of an innocent bystander, somebody a safety
(42:15):
guy role. I mean, just absolutely annihilated him. Honestly. It's
the type of hit that could end could in collegiate
careers now you know, is it can be tough enough,
sally and have your head on a swivel. You're still
between the hash marks. Okay, but there also are you know,
(42:35):
unwritten codes in sports where that's the quarterback. There's a
different way you can hit him. That was just a
ten of ten, zero respect for it was just it's
just lack of respect. Yeah, in my estimation, what'd you think?
I agree?
Speaker 7 (42:52):
It's one of those insult added to injury, right, like
you're already getting you're already getting beat bad. Maybe your
head isn't on the swivel the way it should be,
your attention to detail isn't there as much. You're trying
to fight for points and you get big hits like that.
My guy, Kendrick Lanier, number fifteen was just standing there
on one play and an Iowa guy comes and just
complete targeting miss call. So you just don't want to
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see that from guys.
Speaker 4 (43:14):
Right.
Speaker 7 (43:15):
It's one of those things where it's like there needs
to be a little respect factor here, but also you
got to earn that respect, right, Like, if you're not
putting a good product on the field. And I'm not saying, hey,
go hit guys, that should completely not.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Be the deal.
Speaker 7 (43:26):
But yeah, I agree with you, Like there's that unwritten
rule in football, it's the quarterback. You're already up big
on them, But you don't love to see that. I
don't think Kirk ference loves to see that either. There
needs to be respect there from both teams.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
And I don't believe what we're talking about here. It
might have been number four, two or four or something
for Iowa. Yeah, I remember because I saw it out
of the corner of my eye live and then like,
didn't pay attention to it till the next day. Then
I saw it on social media. I don't even know
if that's within the rules or out of bounds. Okay,
so maybe it is within the rules. Cool if this
(44:02):
is just me and that this is difficult to lay
out because it encourages people basically to cheat, okay, to
go out of body and take a bad situation to
make it worse that. I'm just assuming there was not
one teammate on the field who saw that take place
(44:24):
with their quarterback, because if anybody saw it, I don't
care if it's pee wee, if it's middle school, if
it's high school, if it's college or pros. Somebody has
to go find that guy and run him down totally.
I mean right after he does it. Not okay, it's
not the hockey rules. This happened in November, and I
(44:45):
got you in March. Okay, no, right there, don't you
think I agree? That's a tough question. Nobody run up
on that guy.
Speaker 7 (44:52):
Yeah, I mean that's a tough question for me because
I was always raised on the don't retaliate. The retaliation
guy gets the penalty. That's the fifteen years yards and
hurting your team like.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
That's a good point. But also, and I'm turned the
other cheek guy too, But that's the quarterback. That's the quarterback.
Speaker 7 (45:05):
And that's where exactly where I was getting to is,
is that's your guy. Nobody touches that guy. Even PJ said,
you don't want your quarterback touched in general, where's the
offensive line? Maybe nobody saw it, who knows, but I
do agree. I'm not telling you to go illegally hit somebody,
throw his face, mass start throwing punches. You don't need
to get kicked out of the game for this. But also, hey,
that's our guy. We're sticking by his side regardless win
(45:26):
or lose. There needs to be a little bit of that.
And who knows, Pa, maybe somebody didn't see it. I know,
we're kind of taking the high road here.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
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(46:20):
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Ani The Analyst, The Analyst Pete Bursage courtesy of Sue
Cup and Suitcup Manufacturing a suit Cup dot com at
(00:21):
Pete Bursage via via Twitter for hardcore football takes and
things that are so dicey with the Minnesota Vikings covenant,
Pete's most recent eye in the Sky YouTube post is
him firing an M one. Abrams, I believe that's what
it's called, and and good morning, what's what's an M one?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Abram Abrams, it's a it's the United States main Battle tank.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
And how'd you and how'd you fall into that?
Speaker 2 (00:51):
We went to my guy. This is probably ten years ago.
The Red Bulls came down with a Chinook helicop. They're
landed at the old facility Buncamus won up there, probably
like twenty of us and it was kind of like
kindergarten for a day to shoot all, you know, shoot
the machine guns, the saws, qualify on the range, do
(01:13):
the simulators, and then they took us down on the tanks,
got the fire of Bradley and then ultimately an M one.
It was almost as good as flying with the Blue Angels,
but it was Yeah, I had found I found some
old video of it. I mean this a long time
ago and it's been something I just wanted to put
out there, and I figured that would be it might
(01:35):
be the it might be the time. Yeah, it's a
two times for a little you know, for little little
roper room, a little fun, and then we'll get back
to business here in the next day or two.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Yeah, it's a good diversion. Nine to noon is turning
the page today on some things with the twenty twenty
five Minnesota Vikings, and that would include the way the
run defense has worked out. So if if Andrew Van
Ginkel returns in the Lions game, undoubtedly that will help.
But you hit on it during game calls week after
week after week after week, and you know, I think
(02:06):
we both or underplayed it this game until we watched
it back end or looked at snap counts. But that
forty four for the LA Charger something called Scott mattlock
He Wow, he had played thirty eight plays the three
games up to our game, played forty one in this game.
That's basic. It's a career high. So it's basically saying
everybody from Fred Johnson to Darnell Washington now Scott Mattlocke
(02:29):
is doing this to you, and we're going to do
it too until you show the NFL you can stop
it right right.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
And here's a couple of things on that ball. Is
that this is not the first week that teams have
gone big on us. This is the third or fourth
week in a row that week after week, we've seen
extra offensive linemen, we've seen multiple tight ends, we've seen
teams go big to run the football and it's worked.
The other side of that coin, however, is when you
(02:59):
have lead like the Chargers do, then you have you know,
you have the patients to run the ball right, you
want to run the ball. You're in a situation where
you should run the football. So and then time of
possession was almost two to one again on Thursday night.
So there's other's a lot of things that can also
(03:19):
go into helping the running game. But right now, teams
have the patients, they have the ability, and they have
the big bodies to go ahead and do that, and
and they're just we didn't. We never saw that. Last year.
We didn't we faced more passes. I think we were
the number one or number two in the league, but
we were right at the top of percentage of passes
(03:41):
that we saw that we faced last year. Teams did
not run the football on us for a number of reasons.
Number one, it was very difficult. Number Two, they were
behind most of the time and so they had to
throw the football. So we're seeing a shift on It's again, well,
how do we actually what's going on? It's like, well,
there's a there's a lot of things. There's a ton
(04:03):
of things you know that are that are factoring into
all this. But we see it. You know, you're seeing
it week in and week out, and teams, teams look
to us to get their get their run game healthy.
And you know again, yeah, you're right. I mean, having
be gangle back is going to help. But those guys
in the middle, the linebackers, all those guys have to
play better now offensively.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
A page turn could involve the re emergence of JJ
McCarthy at Ford Field against the Lions. If McCarthy indeed
does start and we can actually get a series of
games out of him, what would you be looking for?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Uh, just.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
You're kind of going back to kind of going back
to square one, right, I mean you're looking you're just
you're looking for a rhythm in the passing game. And
I think that's one thing that disappeared on Thursday night.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
I mean you if you, if you.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Watch the film, you notice Carson Wentz will get to
the top of his drop and then you pause it.
You pause the film. There anybody, you know, anybody can
do this. But the slot of times the receivers are
still in their routes, they're not even in their brakes yet,
they're not turned. And and so when you get to
the top of your drop and you're a quarterback and
(05:17):
you're trying to do your reads and the and the
receivers aren't even in their brakes yet, then you have
to either stand there and wait, or you know, the
rush starts getting to you. And it just it's these
offenses at this at this time, it's it's so much timing.
It's one two three plant throw the receipt. You know,
(05:38):
the offenses operate on timing, and our timing was just off.
So for McCarthy, that's one of the things that you
definitely want to see is to have some timing with
this offense exactly how it's going to look, because it's
going to change. It's not going to look the same
as they with Carson Wentz that's going to be a factor.
And then here's another thing too, is this Detroit defense
(05:58):
plays a ton of man the man, man man all
they love they they'll play it all day long. They'll
blitz you and play it. They'll just play it. So
having those routes is going to be Having the man
the man beating routes are going to be important. And
then you know, again the mobility of the quarterback to
extend plays, it's going to be important too. So for McCarthy,
(06:23):
you know, those are the things. Those are kinds of
the things that I'm looking for. Is it's just again
some rhythm and timing to an offense and not just
having it breakdown. Pete art He running for his life.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Pete Bursage, Sue Cup Manufacturing and Sue Cup dot Com.
The Analyst joins nine to noon each and every Monday
about ten o'clock. Vikings and Lions noon from Ford Field
this weekend, uh, Javon Hargrave might be the last one here.
Javon Hargrave last two games forty snaps all right now,
It's like Levi Drake Rodriguez played forty one snaps by
(06:56):
himself in the Chargers game. No, No, knock at the
second year defensive lineman. It's it's just being a hard
Grave fan from Afar before before he got here. I
I and I'm I'm maybe I'm mistaken with this. Maybe
it never was like this because I didn't ask anybody.
I thought Javon Hargrave was three down guy. I thought
he would play runs and passes and just the whole thing.
(07:18):
What do you think? I think?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
So, I think you're right on that pall. I mean,
and I know this is just my gut, but I
we've seen kind of an evolution of the defense, you know,
year after year of the year, and a lot of
it depends upon the players that we have h and
that's the prudent thing to do as a coordinator. You
can't ask guys to do things that they're not capable
(07:42):
of doing. But for some reason, jayvon Hargrave, I don't
think it's just fitting into the techniques and things that
they want to do up front. Now, whether that's I
don't you know what that is. I don't know. Right,
it's different than anything he's ever done. You know, you
look at his stance. You know, his stance is very upfield.
(08:04):
It's more of a four to three defensive tackle type
of a type of a stance instead of the square
in it up and playing into guys like like we
normally do. So that's different. Yeah, I don't eat.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
I don't know if he if he's just not wanting to,
you know, accept and just sell into the buy into
the fundamentals and techniques that are needed up there, or
they want him just to be himself and try to
find a way to fit him in. And right now
a team's running the football, it's just not fitting in
and we're not just you know, we're we're not getting
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the two score leads with with the need to get
a D lineman in there to get up the field.
So maybe he's not fitting from that standpoint, I don't Yeah,
I don't know. But up until his injury last year
when he was with the forty nine ers, he was
playing at a very very high level and it's just
not translating to this year. So I don't know what
exactly that is. But we need it, we know, we
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definitely need we definitely need more on of him, We
need more on everybody.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
My brother. I will see you this weekend at Ford Field.
Thank you very much. For the time and to have
a good day.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Okay, yeah you too, Paul, Thank you, see.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
You about pete Ursage, Sue Cup Manufacturing and sue Cup
dot Com. Around the corner. Pierre Marc Bouchard, Uh, he's
Wild Immortality. He'll join us to chat about a fun
night tomorrow night for the Minnesota Wild and a home
game against the Jets.
Speaker 5 (09:28):
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Speaker 4 (09:41):
Urcers nine to noon.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
What in the handfed is going on with you guys?
That's a very good question over there the common we
are awaiting the arrival of Minnesota Wild Immortality. You lucky suckers.
Pierre Mark Bouchard, Ould Booch, Oh my god, it was
(10:34):
one of the guys, one of the guys as the
you're not chortling today, You're not laughing. You're giggling a
lot today. I am Yeah, why are you giggles today?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
I just want to turn the page. I mean, it
goes back to our conversation. It's like the damn has
to have broken with the football team. Now. I know
Pierre is going to come on Happy quarter century Minnesota Wild,
and that's gonna be sweet when he joints.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
You pought up the phone line real quick. Yeah, I
know it's working. Okay, anyway, I'm gonna make sure it
was working.
Speaker 5 (11:12):
But turning the page right, I mean the Wild. I
mean they're in a shootout with the freaking Sharks yesterday.
The college team, and we're gonna talk. We got a
little nd N before we get to the college coach.
But whether it's the Gophers game, I mean, it's page
turning season. How much of that game against the Sharks
did you watch last night? About ten minutes of it
you did? I was just channel flipping. It's good, it's
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good to check in.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
But I flipped, and I think they might have been
Were they down five to two or was that the
Utah game.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
And five to two was the final I think in
the Utah game? Yeah, but they were down there. Yes,
they were down by multiple goals to the Sharks, which
is bad for business because you shouldn't be losing to
the Sharks in lopsided fashion. They fight back, and then
I think it was Celebrini. I got a highlight around
here somewhere, a Celebrini selly. But then but then it's like, okay,
so at least like it's LFL season so I can
(12:01):
check out, you know, the hoop side of things. Oh wait,
Anthony Edwards plays three minutes and now there's a potential
hammy situation.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Was it a hamstring?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
I think it was. I think it's listed as a
hammy and heard it was tight.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Well, because I jumped in and here comes Yeah, we
get we'll get to each one of the guys. I
jumped into the Wolves game, into the first quarter. I'm like, Anthony,
I happened where Oh there he is on the bench,
but I thought he was playing. I happened hamstring negative joker,
joker in the building. This evening with Jamal Murray and
newfangled Cameron Johnson. That's this evening at day thirty. Meanwhile,
(12:37):
we segue and they are very happy to be joined
now by Minnesota Wild Immortality. You see the Winni Big
Jets are here tomorrow night as the Wild celebrate a
twenty fifth anniversary. Bobblehead tickets are available for tomorrow night
against the Jets, meaning a Marion Gabrick bobblehead and autographs
(12:58):
from Gabby, Brian Ralston, Stefan Vayu or Peter Mark Bouchard,
who joins this momentarily to share memories, are available right
now at wild dot com. Tickets Tomorrow night against the
Jets with that bobblehead and autographs wild dot com. And
here comes Pierre Mark Bouchard. You spent ten seasons with
the Minnesota Wild and does fourth all time and assists.
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And here he is, peterre Mark Bouchard. It's Paul Allen.
How are you and how are things?
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Hi?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Paul, I'm doing great, Thank you, Thanks for having.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Me, no problem man, and thanks A for joining us
and b for what you're doing tomorrow night with the
quarter century anniversary. Let me let me just get this
out of the way. You're forty one years of age, right,
that's correct? Okay, a decade into it. How's retirement? I mean,
what's it like when one retires? And it doesn't mean
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that you've retired from everything, but you had a nice
career in the NHL, and I would imagine a lot
of hockey up Canada Way and other places went into
getting into the NHL, and then at like age thirty two,
thirty one, thirty two, you retire. Uh does the does
the is the future scary in any way at that
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point when you retire from hockey at such a young age, Well,
some part of it, I guess.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
I mean, like you said, you know, I started playing
hockey pretty young, you know, four or five years old.
You're you you pretty much have the skates on your
feet every day, and then you just you know, climb
the ladder and then you you're able to achieve your agreement,
make it to the NHL, and all of a sudden,
(14:40):
it's it's it's all over. So, uh, you know, the
first the first couple of years were pretty tough. You know,
you're you're so used to go out the rink every day,
you know, with the boys, you know, playing in front
of twenty thousand people, the emotion the generally and you
can live through the hockey. So it's it was it
(15:04):
was a little bit tough the first two years. But
after that, you, uh, you kind of get your groove.
You find a different schedule and life goes on and
you're you're able to, uh to live different experiences.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
A wonderful answer there, and thanks for the honesty. And
you know it's I would imagine, uh, the the concussions,
the concussions that you had during your career probably played
into this. Okay, so we can't do anything about that,
but uh we we can. We can wonder now remove
from the game, settling into a life with family and
(15:37):
friends and new opportunities. Uh, how how is the brain?
How is your head? Any any concussion related symptoms?
Speaker 4 (15:46):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
No, I'm pretty lucky, Paul, Thanks thanks for asking. I
mean I think I you know, when I had some
concussion with the wild Uh, you know, the team doctors
and the staff were we're pretty small smart about it,
and I was able to recover pretty well from them.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
So right now, you know, I.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
No headaches, no different symptoms, So it's all good. I'm
able to enjoy my life, as you know, spend time
with my family, do different activities. So let's say it's
all good.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
That's fantastic, pr Mark Bouchard nine to now your first
season with the Wild O two O three and a
few years to follow that, all right? What was that
as much fun playing hockey as maybe you've ever had?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Oh yeah, big time, big time, I mean, it was
so much fun being part of the wild, being drafted
by them, able to be there ten years first season
as eighteen years old. You know, I was not playing
every game, but you know I played fifty game that
first year. And I mean, you guys all remember that
playoff run we had, so that that was my first
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my first year, so I was like, whoa, this is
the NHL. That's pretty fun. So let's try to do
this every year. I guess it didn't work out that way,
but it was still a great time.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
And you know, the the one of the if not
the highlights from that run Bruno Andrew Brunette with the
with the shot in Denver on WAH in Game seven.
I mean, that was spectacular. What what was Andrew Brunette
like as a teammate? Personally speaking? He's one of my
all time favorite athletes of the four pro sports in
this part of the country. In the twenty seven twenty
(17:34):
eight years I've done this radio show, I Love Bruno.
What did you love about him?
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Well, he was one of my all time favorite teammates
as well. I mean, you know, I got there as
eighteen years old and Bruno was well maybe ten years older.
Than me was. He was a great mentor. He was
there twelveed me out, you know, on and of the
ice is. You know, he was a great player, a
(18:00):
great person, and I only have great thing to say
about him. And I'm pretty happy for him that he
find it is where as a coaching U coaching. You know,
he's been coaching in the NHL now and having success.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
So that's pretty cool.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Have you, Pierre, I don't, pere Mark, I don't. I
don't know how much you watch of the NHL or
the Wild, But have you seen much of Carill Caprice
off and and if so, what do you think?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
Yeah, you know, I keep I keep following the Wild
and uh, you know, Carol is so much fun to watch.
I mean, he's a full package, right, He's got he's
got everything.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
He's got great.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Skill, good vision, He's he's one on one battle are amazing.
You know, he's got that good attitude, he's uh, you know,
he wants to win every night.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
So I'm pretty.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Trill for the Minnesota whild fans for the team for
the next few years.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
What what what made Marion Gabbertt such a high end
player and your fourth all time on the team and assists,
you know, and I would imagine a fair amount of
them went the way at Gabby. So you know what
what made him such a high end player.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
I mean his speed. His speed was tremendous. I mean
for a loose puck, you know, in virtual zone, for
a breakaway, I think he was one of the fastest
I ever seen, you know, to to go get that
puck and get that breakaway. Uh, and then one on
one with the goalie, he was he was deadly. So
he was he was fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
What was it like playing for Jacques Lamire, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Josh, he was.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
He was great for me.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
I mean, he's one of the best coach, uh, you
know who's been around in the NHL, pretty smart, knows
a lot of things about the game. He was good
to me, you know, I was at a young age.
It was great to have him to support me and
then guide me through my first HUC. Then I think
(20:02):
he did a great job in Minnesota. We know we
never had you know, you know, yes, we had Gabby,
we had Rolye, you know, guys like Bruno, but we
never had like you know, as Sydney Crosby or Caprisov
or all those guys, and he was able to get
the team together and we're we were always competitive and
(20:24):
battling for a playoff spot or making the playoffs. So
that's saw on him.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So the So the Winnipeg Jets are here tomorrow night.
They they were the Atlanta Thrashers when you entered the
last Yeah, I think they played at Philips Arena. What what, what,
if anything do you remember about games in Atlanta? Shoot,
I remember back in the late seventies when they were
the Atlanta Flames and I'm watching the Washington Capitals at
(20:49):
Capital Center in Landover, Maryland, and Jim Craig came out
of the Olympics and played for the Atlanta Flames. What
were the what were the Thrashers like and games in Atlanta?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Well, not many people in the sends the first thing
that comes to my mind. It was pretty empty there.
So besides that that, you know, a couple of superstars,
you know, Colo Chuck was there, Danny eat.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Lee was there.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
So they had some good players. But you know, I
think it was it was kind of the right decision,
I think to bring back a team to Winnipang. And
now the Jets are are rowing Booch.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Thank you very much for the time and enjoy your
travel back to the Twin Cities. First and foremost, we
have the celebration tomorrow night and everything, but God bless
you and your family with the concussions and no lingering
or lasting effects from it in your early forties. And
best of luck to you, my man. Thanks for the time,
(21:48):
all right, Thanks, I appreciate tomorrow. Yeah, say about that's
up here, Mark Bouchard. As part of a Minnesota Wild
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(22:13):
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the Howl, it was Pascal Siakam and then just about
nobody else. Last night, Pa and Julius Randall's thirty one
points helped the Howl beat the pacers at Target Center
watching some hamstring tightness of your Anthony Edwards. However, he
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was able to go for just three minutes and I
saw something. Whether it was Johnny Krasinski, I hate to
attribute it incorrectly, but it was something about hamstring tightness,
and potentially this is something that was actually seen and
was lingering from La, So he potentially sits tonight. I'm
seeing scores and odds. They have the Nuggets in town
(24:07):
and it's they're five and a half point favorites, not
over the Wolves at Target Center tonight. So is that
a potential early lean that you don't expect Anthony Edwards
to play? Yes, but Aunt potentially, given the fact that
we've seen him writhing in pain and then he bounces back,
maybe Aunt plays tonight. We shall see, but they'll need him.
The text line, I saw somebody talking about Aaron Gordon.
(24:30):
How about Aaron Gordon going for fifty against those dubs
the other night mile High City squad Ball arena go crazy.
But at Target Center tonight, the healthy, the healthiest that
you're probably going to see the Nuggets are here and
they're a tough team to handle.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Well, it's I don't you know Anthony with with this
swoon over his hammy? All right, so he plays three minutes.
Think he had five points in three minutes, so he
might have been sitting on a big one. But nevertheless,
he was on the bench and he was bouncing up
and like like by the huddle stuff like that. So,
you know, outside of the Covenant, doctor Chow so to speak,
(25:05):
trying to pretend like I know what's happening, even though
I'm like not there with the team. I'm gonna guess
things are pretty much okay for Anthony. However, what what
would concern me is we had a questionable into the
first game with backspasms. Yeah, and and from what I understand,
it was a very very questionable situation, very very fifty
(25:26):
to fifty I should say. And uh, and then now
we leave with a swoon over the hammy. So it's
just too early in the season to be dealing with
things like this. And by the way, they almost got
beat And this this Indiana team with Aliburton or without
with them Nemhart or without with Miles Turner here or
in Milwaukee, that these guys give give the Timberwolves fits.
(25:48):
They do. And I don't know if it's the Wolves,
Like looking at the names on the back of the
jerseys or the rosters and you know, seeing Knees Smith
and oh there's there's Pascal Siakam. Okay, we've got to
pay attention to that, But we got, like Bradley and
Matharen and just Shepherd, some nondescript players where they think
they can roll it out and beat them. Well, they
were right last night, but that's not always the case
(26:11):
when they play Indiana. Hopefully a better performance takes place
tonight against Denver.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
I don't know how much you've been watching the World
Series PA. Game three is tonight. It'll be Surezer for
Toronto and then Tyler glasnow for the Dodgers. Jay's just
jumped up and just battered the Dodgers in Game one,
but then the other night, Game two, it was I
mean just classic, get to the bullpen and then all
of a sudden, Will Smith hits a home run, Max
Munsey goes yard and they stretch it out. They win
(26:38):
five to one. But Game three tonight, I felt like
it would probably go five, and I was somewhat surprised
that Toronto got them the way they did in Game one.
Not sure where your head's at, but getting that first
one does give them an opportunity that the Blue Jays
that is in a heavily favored series towards LA. But
they got to get it done on the road. Now
with the next three in LA.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
It's been terrific. I've watched almost every ending. I really
enjoy the World Series. But it's you know, even if
you're an outsider like nine to Noon, or you're of
the seamhead variety like Ken Rosenthal and you're following every
single pitch, it's abundantly apparent that if you can get
to the Dodgers' bullpen, you will win the World Series. Yeah,
(27:17):
that's it. That's just pretty much the end of the story.
The glass Now Snake Bell, he got knocked around a
little bit in game one and then you know they
get into that bullpen and you know one of those
guys that gave up three runs in like two minutes.
So if Snake Bell, along with glass Now, well, Yah
Mamoto has been the story. He was the story of
(27:37):
the first two games of the World Series. Who in
the heck pitches complete games anymore? A and B let
alone in the World Series, Yah Momoto pitched a complete
game in game two A because they don't want anything
to do with their bullpen and they know it. And
that was the first one in like a decade since
I think Johnny Quato when he pitched for John Extrom's
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Kansas City. So that that's an absolute aberration this one.
Speaker 5 (28:03):
It's two complete games in a row for him. Oh
he did it in the NLCS two against the Brewers. Yeah,
it was also is a five to one win.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
He has an MVP right to him. If they happened
to win this thing.
Speaker 5 (28:15):
Yeah, and I think, well, no, they he gave up
a home run. I think to the first batter it
was first inning for the Brewers, and then just went nine,
cut down eight or ten in that game, and then
last night gives up an early run. Does the exact
same thing or two nights ago, I should say, lastly
Lions on a bye. If we're checking out the NFC
North Ravens handled the Bears Dereck Henry with a couple tds,
(28:36):
I believe. And then I mean you got to give
him props. Jordan Love with three sixty and three. He
was fantastic last night. They were struggling to run the ball.
I think Emmanuel actually out rushed Josh Jacob's yardage wise
in that game. Jacobs did get in the end zone,
but they said, hey, I want to see if Jordan
Love can beat us. We're going to stop the run.
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Jordan Love was terrific last night, and Green Bay, I believe,
improved to five to one and one. The Minnesota Vikings
start a string of divisional games coming up here. Momentarily,
they'll have the Lions Sunday at noon, a pre game
at ten with Muss from Ford Field, then the Ravens
after that here. Then the Bears are here a couple
(29:19):
of weeks from Sunday, because the Vikings are one to
er in the division, only have played one division game.
So when it comes to turning the page and eliminating
the consternation, the calamity, and or the gridiron gospel related gore,
we move to the other page. We tell you what
we think that looks like tomorrow, But for now, we
(29:41):
chat with PJ. Fleck, coach of the Golden Gophers football team.
That takes place each and every week nine to now
and it's around the corner on FM one hundred point
three KFAM.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
PJ.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Fleck, coach of the Golden Gophers football team, joins nine
to noon weekly off a bad one against Iowa into
what undoubtedly will be a better one against Michigan State.
That's next, and it's here at Huntington Banks stadium, PJ
joins now, and you know, I know there's learning to
take place at all times, and even off the Iowa game.
(30:40):
But now now there have been a couple of those
lopsided ones and they're different. I understand that. What has
your attention off that one and into the Spartans game?
And good morning PJ.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
Yeah, well, good morning Pa, thanks for having us on
the show. Now that our team playing really hard, we
just executed really poorly. Any time that you lose the
turnover battle or three to nothing against Iowa, that game
is going to look like that. Well, it doesn't matter
who you play, that's how they play. Force you to
turn the ball over, can't do it for you, play
really good special teams. We didn't, and you know, force
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you to play a quicker game, which we do the
same thing too, and they were able to hit some
explosive play. So we lost seventy eight percent ball tackling
and explosive plays and we lose all three. Especially when
you're playing Iowa at Kinnick, that's what the score looks like.
So proud of how hard we played, just ex kid
really poorly and with nine minutes to go in the
second quarter, are already down, you know, thirty one nothing,
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which which changes everything, so there is no pill. Yeah,
every week is in a chance to change our bets
and respond, and we're zero zero and have to find
a way if you want to know.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
This week, maybe Parker Fox just to join the equation,
so he'll be asking question or questions here momentarily Coach Fleck.
But maybe the music lesson this week is Ludwig Vaughn
and they listened to classical music all week to just
like chill. What do you think of some Ludvig von
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Haltoven PJ.
Speaker 6 (32:10):
I really like that. I mean there's actually a study
to classical music that you can you can gain a
percentage point here and there after you work out and
after you practice to listen to classical music to bring
yourself down, help your body recover. So maybe that's a
great suggestion from your from your so we do it
after every practice. We listened to that after practice. But
maybe focusing on that piece would be really good for
(32:33):
the musical piece. So we'll see, we'll take that into consideration.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
To you do you do? Do you like any form
of classical music?
Speaker 6 (32:40):
Absolutely? Actually I've been listening to today. I had a
classical music going on ever since six this morning in
my office right now. So yeah, absolutely, so that a
little Swan Lake going on today. Yeah yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
What with with the with the lessons? You know, Ludvig
von Holto or not quarterback Drake lindsay, what lessons can
he take from Saturday? Moving forward? And after the game, PJ,
you said something I really liked and I can't say
in you know, all my years of of chatting with
you or chatting with other people about young players in
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this game that I've heard anybody say it the way
you said it. It's paraphrasing. I like how you said
with Drake lindsay, as a freshman there will be some
dark times, but you can't skip the step that was.
I mean, you're right, that was fantastic, But like, what
kind of lessons did he get out of this? Moving forward?
Speaker 6 (33:37):
Well, there's a bunch of lessons as if you look
at the performance side of a quarterback. But the peaks
and valleys, especially when you're young, are going to be
way bigger than as you grow it had gained experience
and you have leather skin and you add another scar
and you know this is all about the decision I
made pa to play a freshman quarterback. That is my decision,
right Everything that happens is my decision, and and really
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based on the decisions I'm making the offseason. When you
decide to play a rookie or a red shirt freshman
quarterback for the first time, you already know that there's
going to be some massive peaks and valleys. You know that,
So this doesn't surprise me that there's peaks and valleys.
It surprises everybody when you go through the season of
when those happened and you're looking at that game during
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a one game championship season mindset.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
But for me, I know that they're coming.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Last week, he played outstanding, this week little inconsistent, and
there's a certain way to beat certain teams, and we
did everything but do that in this game, and you're
going to learn a lot from it. But you have
to be willing to go through those steps. I don't
think it's avoidable, I really don't. I'm sure there's stories
out there where somebody was able to avoid that. But
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there are going to be some really really good times.
There's going to be some really really hard times. And
when you make a decision to play a young quarterback.
You've already made that decision of you understand how big
of those situations are. How big those are, I mean
that varies based on skill set around them, health of
a football team, players around that player. That all goes
(35:14):
into the equation. And you know, we weren't very good
on Saturday, and that is completely unacceptable and that is
one hundred percent my responsibility in my fall.
Speaker 7 (35:21):
Hey coach Parker Fox here, great to be with you
this morning. We know the bread and butter go for
football is established in the run game running back by
committee at the U but only one snap for your
starr Darius Taylor kind of how do you move forward
in the running game and established that early for the
upcoming game on Saturday, we got to find.
Speaker 6 (35:37):
Ways to be able to run the football. You know,
last year we found unique ways to throw the ball,
to run the ball right, and we were able to
have a run game through the air. Every team presents
its own challenges and everybody, every team presents their own opportunities.
When you have whenever you have your star player, I
mean he's not playing, I mean there's a reason he's
your star player. Your backup's done for the year, aj Turner.
(35:58):
And so when you start getting to the bottom of
that that the middle to the bottom of the depth
chart doesn't mean that you're not very good. You're probably
just lacking experience. And for us, we're lacking experience in
that position. That's not the issue.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Takes your O.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Line, tight ends, quarterback, wideouts and running backs to have
a really successful run game, and we have to stay
consistent this game. We were out of it so fast
Parker that again, what happened to Ohio State happened at
Iowa where we weren't weren't able to establish our run
game because we didn't earn the right to establish that
run game. You got to earn the right to do
(36:30):
what you want in a game, and you got to
go take that from somebody, and we didn't establish that
at all.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Uh PJ. At this stage of the equation where you
played as many games as you have likewise for the opponents,
how how challenging or tricky is it with the we
know that you know that, we know that you know
like you know you said, there's a formula to beat Iowa,
and of course you're not going to share the details
or specifics exactly what that formula is. But you know
(36:56):
at this stage of the season where teams have seen
so much tape and that they've seen so many plays,
and you know, then you're dealing with injuries and stuff
like that. Like how challenging is it to game plan
and change things week after week?
Speaker 6 (37:13):
Well, that's the fun of it, you know. I mean,
that is the fun of coaching. And our coaches work
really really hard in that players work really hard to
execute the game plan at a really high level. But
it really comes down to the three things we talk
about all the time, Pa, and it's the formula to beat. Iowas,
you got to win the ball to take away, you
got to be able to win the tackling battle, and
you got to win the explosive play battle. We lost
all three TA, So I'm always focused on why we lose,
(37:36):
why we win, how do we win? How do we lose?
That's my responsibility and then being able to fix those
things and hence those things as you go through the
next week and right now, the ball, tackling, explosive play plays,
we didn't win any of those and that's why we lost.
And that's why the number was staggering, because when you
lose all three, it's pretty lopsided.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Okay, so Iowa, let's say the determination has made that
Iowa was a better overall team than Nebraska. Well, I
mean when when and you're at home for one road
for the other. I understand that, But like a week
ago when we chat and I talk about the assignment,
the the being on point with assignments and things like
that in that game and the last one was so sloppy,
(38:19):
and you say that, you know you you you take
the blame here ten out of ten times either or
one hundred percent, that's what you said. But just like
that has to be so frustrating to you, PJ for it,
for the detail nature of games to flip the way
they did in just a single week.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
We're all working towards striving for and earning consistency. Pa,
I think that's an NFL organization, that's a collegiate program,
that's a high school program. The more consistent you can
be based on knowing what you're going to get out
of your team and knowing what to call and exactly
what's going to happen, is the close to perfection is
we're going to get. We live in a we get
judged on a perfect level and an ideal level where
(38:58):
we don't live in that real We live in a
real world, right with young people from eighteen to twenty
three years old. Jim Trussel said it best. I asked
him why he coached college football and not the pros.
He said, you just never know what you're gonna get
with eighteen to twenty two year olds, and that's jan's
true today. And I think that's the part of education
and teaching. And you know, we get paid to win.
I've said that last time. But I love to do
(39:19):
the job because I love to teach and educate. And
you're going to go through a gama of all types
of things, some really good, some really bad, some really hard,
some really really fun. But you're constantly teaching through all
of that until somebody tells you not to not.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
To teach anymore.
Speaker 6 (39:34):
And I think that that's what you continue to focus
on as a coach, is just focus on what you
can control. Players have to focus on what they can control.
And Mike McCarthy said it best when I played for
him in San Francisco. He said, a coach of a
job of a coach is a teaching demand. A job
of a players prepare and perform. Whoever does that better
and understands those jobs, it can do that more consistent
(39:55):
on a weekly basis is probably going to win the game.
And it still rings true to this day.
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Right, Yeah, that's very fairly explained. What with with Michigan
State with Spartan, what what's the formula to beating them?
Speaker 6 (40:10):
Well, it goes back to, you know, we have to
win the turnover margin. We have to be really good
tacklers and be in position to tackle and swarm tackle,
and then we have to create more explosive plays. You know,
we're playing, you know, a defense that's really active, a
defense we're very familiar with with Joe Rossi who used
to be here our defensive coordinator and doing great job
out of Michigan State and has a lot of players,
a lot, a lot of depth that they rotate guys
(40:32):
in and then offensively and everything starts with their quarterback.
And you know, he can get out of the pocket,
he can scramble if you give him big running lanes.
He can make explosive plays with his feet. He's got
a live and big arm. They've got one of the
best receivers in the Big Ten to throw it to.
So we have an enormous challenge this week to respond,
and you know we've got to take one play at
a time and one day at a time and continue
(40:52):
to get better.
Speaker 1 (40:53):
If lastly, here thanks for the time too. After that,
iowall game. If if I missed something here and you've
talked to about this, I apologize. But when when you
watch it back and you see Hawk Eys hitting Lindsey
and others let's say below the belt in below the
bell fashion, what what's the reaction?
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Well, you know, you never.
Speaker 6 (41:16):
Watch a quarterback to get hit, period, you know. I
mean you don't get to control how that happens, with
how they get hit, but you get to control whether
you protect him or not. And I didn't think we
did a good enough job protecting him. I didn't do
a good enough job of preparing him for that game
to be able to do that. And you got to
get Bio a lot of credit. I mean, they create
a lot of issues for a lot of teams that
they play. That's what they're known for, and you do
(41:39):
everything you can to minimize that. And I did not.
I did not excel in that area for sure.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
Tear it up against Sparty and we'll chat next week.
Speaker 6 (41:47):
Okay, appreciate it, Pa, thanks for your time. For the boats, guy,
I can go for Coulvikes.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Thanks buddy.
Speaker 1 (41:51):
Yep, see you, Bud. That's PJ. Flack, coach of the
Golden Gophers football team. He he deflected that last question. Yeah,
because smart and he knows exactly what I'm talking about. Turnover,
Here come the Hawkeyes Parker Fox at Parker Fox two
four via the X machine, Here come the Hawkeyes. Lindsay,
you know, kind of an innocent bystander, somebody a safety
(42:15):
guy role. I mean, just absolutely annihilated him. Honestly. It's
the type of hit that could end could in collegiate
careers now you know, is it can be tough enough,
sally and have your head on a swivel. You're still
between the hash marks. Okay, but there also are you know,
(42:35):
unwritten codes in sports where that's the quarterback. There's a
different way you can hit him. That was just a
ten of ten, zero respect for it was just it's
just lack of respect. Yeah, in my estimation, what'd you think?
I agree?
Speaker 7 (42:52):
It's one of those insult added to injury, right, like
you're already getting you're already getting beat bad. Maybe your
head isn't on the swivel the way it should be,
your attention to detail isn't there as much. You're trying
to fight for points and you get big hits like that.
My guy, Kendrick Lanier, number fifteen was just standing there
on one play and an Iowa guy comes and just
complete targeting miss call. So you just don't want to
(43:13):
see that from guys.
Speaker 4 (43:14):
Right.
Speaker 7 (43:15):
It's one of those things where it's like there needs
to be a little respect factor here, but also you
got to earn that respect, right, Like, if you're not
putting a good product on the field. And I'm not saying, hey,
go hit guys, that should completely not.
Speaker 1 (43:25):
Be the deal.
Speaker 7 (43:26):
But yeah, I agree with you, Like there's that unwritten
rule in football, it's the quarterback. You're already up big
on them, But you don't love to see that. I
don't think Kirk ference loves to see that either. There
needs to be respect there from both teams.
Speaker 1 (43:38):
And I don't believe what we're talking about here. It
might have been number four, two or four or something
for Iowa. Yeah, I remember because I saw it out
of the corner of my eye live and then like,
didn't pay attention to it till the next day. Then
I saw it on social media. I don't even know
if that's within the rules or out of bounds. Okay,
so maybe it is within the rules. Cool if this
(44:02):
is just me and that this is difficult to lay
out because it encourages people basically to cheat, okay, to
go out of body and take a bad situation to
make it worse that. I'm just assuming there was not
one teammate on the field who saw that take place
(44:24):
with their quarterback, because if anybody saw it, I don't
care if it's pee wee, if it's middle school, if
it's high school, if it's college or pros. Somebody has
to go find that guy and run him down totally.
I mean right after he does it. Not okay, it's
not the hockey rules. This happened in November, and I
(44:45):
got you in March. Okay, no, right there, don't you
think I agree? That's a tough question. Nobody run up
on that guy.
Speaker 7 (44:52):
Yeah, I mean that's a tough question for me because
I was always raised on the don't retaliate. The retaliation
guy gets the penalty. That's the fifteen years yards and
hurting your team like.
Speaker 1 (45:01):
That's a good point. But also, and I'm turned the
other cheek guy too, But that's the quarterback. That's the quarterback.
Speaker 7 (45:05):
And that's where exactly where I was getting to is,
is that's your guy. Nobody touches that guy. Even PJ said,
you don't want your quarterback touched in general, where's the
offensive line? Maybe nobody saw it, who knows, but I
do agree. I'm not telling you to go illegally hit somebody,
throw his face, mass start throwing punches. You don't need
to get kicked out of the game for this. But also, hey,
that's our guy. We're sticking by his side regardless win
(45:26):
or lose. There needs to be a little bit of that.
And who knows, Pa, maybe somebody didn't see it. I know,
we're kind of taking the high road here.
Speaker 1 (45:32):
Next segment with the Parker, we'll get into the Timberwolves,
we'll get into us, some Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers from
last night walking up to the Saltan of smug joining
us thirty minutes from now, some Vikings and Lions commentary,
plus much more. And that's going to be our Steve's
Appliance's Marathon segment. If you go to the website Steve's
Appliances dot Com, you will notice they're having a clearance
(45:56):
event that if you need appliances, that's probably the best
news you've gotten all day because you get fast delivery,
free recycling, and guaranteed low prices. Restrictions apply there, but
if it's a clearance event that means they're moving, that
that means things are there. Getting's good that they got
new stuff coming in and they want to get rid
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(46:20):
the cut prices on these appliances, Holy cow, Steve's Appliances
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