November 14, 2025 • 48 mins
For Hour 2 of the Friday Football Feast former Vikings Safety Andrew Sendejo joins the show to talk about playing with Harrison Smith. Then then show transitions to there weekly fantasy segment IHoP.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
All right, welcome back to Buffalo Wild Wings Lakeville for
the Friday football. Now, that was a hard hitting hour.
And when we think of hard hits, we think of
this guy hit it. Kevin Drew Brees in a seventeenth
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year out of the shotgun. He steps up, He's gonna
fire and deep center of the field.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
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Speaker 1 (00:46):
The Vikings have turned over New Orleans. Ladies and gentlemen
joining us from a parts unknown, but I would bet
a lot of money it was Texas. Can we get
a witness in a raucus round of applause for former
Viking safety Andrews send day Ho joining us now? Andrew
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send day Ho twelve years in the NFL nine with
the Minnesota Vikings, seven and a half with Harry the
hit man, Harrison Smith and first and foremost the man
they called day Hoo. How are things for you? Assumingly
down Texas way, man.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
They're great down here in Austin. Actually, I have a
baby girl do here in about two weeks so about
to be a father.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
But life's good, no complaints, man, that's fantastic. And Andrew
once again spent seven and a half years with Harrison
Smith as a member of the Minnesota Vikings, and assumingly,
you guys are still pretty good, if not very good friends,
because you guys, there was a time with you and
you and Harrison Man the hit Man, you guys were
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were inseparable. You guys were very close when you played together.
And for those who you know, for those who remember
moments like that, you guys were a wonderful safety duo.
And Harrison's playing in his two hundredth regular season game.
Can you believe that?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
It's unbelievable? That is so many games, so much football
that guy's been starting since day one. I we talk
about every week or so, and I tell him that
every time I see him on the field, it just
it hurts my body to watch him still out there
having to play football.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
After all these years.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Andrew, my name is Alex Cover the team for the
athletic Why why do you think he's done it for
as long as he have? Like, why do you think
these last few years he's continued to decide to come
back and play for this team?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
And enjoy it as much as he seemingly has. Well.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I don't think anyone plays for that long unless they
genuinely love football. You see a lot of guys that
do you retire earlier than you would think they would.
But I think it's you know, having fun with the guys,
having fun on the field. It's the best job in
the world. And as long as you're healthy and you
can still do at a high level, why wouldn't you.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Hey, hey, Andrew, it's it's it's Nordo here.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
PA's producer and I really appreciate you giving us time
the you know, safety position in such a side. What
what kind of made you to gravitate to each other
and made you kind of that inseparable duo at times,
whether it was on the field or off the field.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah, I think we just we saw a lot of
things the same, uh, you know, defensively on the field,
also off the field, we saw a lot of things
the same. Naturally kind of bonded being the lighter skinned
fellows in the secondary. But you know, I think just
that's what makes a good safety duo is that you
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you kind of are sharing the same brain at times.
So when things happen on the field, you're so far
away you can't always communicate, but you've been in the
meetings all week together, you know that you've kind of
gone through all the rop progressions, different ways they can
attack you. And when you have another safety that basically
when you ask them, hey, how would you play this,
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and they're going to play it the same way you would,
then you know a lot of times that you don't
even have to necessarily communicate all the time on the
field that you're kind of thinking the same and you know,
it got to the point where we can kind of
just look at each other and basically just kind of
telepactically communicate. So it was great to have him back there. Obviously,
trustworthy guy. You know he's gonna make plays. You know
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he's gonna show up when he needs to. It just
brings a level of security and confidence when you're out
there on the field with him Andrew.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
For those who didn't see, we have quite the young
crowd here, I mean people of all ages. So for
those who didn't see or are not super familiar with
how you played or your career, how would you describe
how you played safety for the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I think the way that I played safety. The first
thing I think of was just head down, head first,
a little more old school stuff that is not allowed
in the NFL anymore. It was kind of what my
strong suit was. Harrison more of a ballhawk blitzer, and
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I almost felt like I was more of the like
the aggressor on the fields to where you know, you
couldn't run routes over the middle, You're not throwing the
ball over the middle of the fields, and so I
think it was a good kind of one two punch.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Andrew talking to a lot of the guys in the
locker room last few years, a lot of them have
described some of his training methods that are very unique.
I don't know how much of this stuff he's been
doing since since you guys were playing, but I just,
you know, if he was, I just wonder if you
can describe the types of things he does that keep
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him his body in the shape that it is for
him to be playing all of these years.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, you know, I think one thing that people don't
realize is that Harrison is a freak athlete. You know,
super strong, super gifted athletically and also you know, gifted mentally.
Being a smart player, But he was always a guy,
super tough.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You know, he didn't get injured.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
A lot, and so that that definitely helps when it
comes to playing for a long time not having any severe,
severe injuries, and a lot of that is just because
you know, he's not going to post it on his
Instagram and all that junk, but trains hard in the offseason.
I think later in his career he started doing some
more kind of unconventional uh methods.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
But I've worked out with him.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
And his trainer before back home, and you know, I
think he's a big part of that too, back in
Knoxville where he trains in the offseason. So you know,
I think once he got further into his career, he
kind of knew his system, what works, what doesn't work,
and it's been working for him.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So this is a celebration of a hit man, Harry
the hit Man Smith. Harrison Smith playing this two hundredth
regular season game this Sunday noon against the Chicago Bears
and one of his best friends and former teammate for
seven and a half years, Andrew Sendajo is on nine
to noon Nordo. You know, we are here to laude
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Harrison Smith.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
But Andrew I got to say, from watching all your
games here as a member of the Vikings, you were
a hell of a hitter yourself. And I'm just curious
back in the day, was there ever a chance where
you're in that room and Zimmer's talking and it's like, hey, coach,
like number two two is getting all the sacks, Like
I like to hit people, can you blitz me and
can I get some sacks?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Coach? Did you ever have those types of conversations?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, there's definitely some times where you know, I'm like,
let me get down the line of scrimmage and blitz
and get some of these free runs to the quarterback.
But man, when you when you got a guy like Harrison, like,
why would you change it up? I think there's only
a couple of times where we tried to throw them
a curveball and they put me down there to blitz,
and it just throws everything off because they're like, Okay,
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this guy's down here for a reason, right, Like he's not.
He's not down here to drop out into coverage. And
so keeping keeping all the looks uniform and keeping the
defense looking the same so that we could disguise and
things like that. But I think part of being a
good defense is being selfless like that, where you know,
let the let the blitzers blitz. I'll stay in the
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middle of the field and kind of quarterback things from back.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Here, Andrew now, starting in twenty twelve, Aarrison's rookie year,
until they and you referenced it earlier, until they tweaked
us some rules for defensive players. I mean, it was
like you and Harrison were trying to out hit the other.
In other words, if twenty two laid out a bit
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a big one, then Andrews and Dajo would be like,
all right, I got you, and then would hit somebody
harder the next time you had the opportunity. I mean,
you guys tried to one up each other with these
big hits, didn't you. Yeah, there was.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Always, you know, the friendly kind of competition of land
the wood on somebody. And yeah, I mean definitely early
in Harrison's career before they started to.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Changing a lot of rules.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I mean, he was he was laying dudes out left
and right where he got the hit man named from.
And then this guy turns into the ballhawk and is
just picking off every pass taking to the end zone.
And then then he's blitzing. All of a sudden, he
attacking the quarterback and you're like, all right, this guy's
a hell of a player. He can basically do everything.
But yeah, we had a lot of fun back there,
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you know, knocking it out of people, have a fun
winning game being you know, in the top top five,
if not top defense in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
All right. Lastly, Andrew has a business venture called Braintree Nutrition.
All right, and and Harrison Smith and Andrew have gotten
together on something that is absolutely fantastic. Listen closely Buffalo
wild Wings, Lakeville and certainly everybody listening to f M
one hundred point three k f a M an opportunity
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for Delta three sixty lounge access and tickets to a
Minnesota Vikings game in Section F which is absolutely the bomb,
plus a Harrison Smith game. Warn signed to Jersey. All right,
it's with Harrison Smith, Andrewsondejo and Braintree. There's going to
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be a display of something with the focus and hydration
drink mix. You can learn more at Braintree Nutrition dot com.
That that's where you can sign up too, and you
might you might win win this uh A late comp
Braintree Nutrition dot com. Uh Andrew. I just kind of
laid it out right there, but tell us more. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah, So, I mean Harrison takes our product, uh every day.
I was kind of always the locker room nutritionist guy.
So when I when I launched this venture, uh, obviously
he kind of trusts me with like different products and
things like that.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
So he loved it so much.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I said, hey, man, why don't we just make you
kind of your own flavor, uh, kind of go Weedies
box inspired, put your put your logo, and put everything
on the bag. And so we did a collaboration with
Harrison h the hit Man focused in hydration drink mix.
So he's got his own little bag everything. And then
we said, well, let's let's do something we can tie
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it into the fans. So basically everyone that that purchases
gets entered into a raffle to win. H I mean,
PIAT tickets are expensive now because they're for the season
finale against the Packers, like you said, section half delta
through sixty lounge, et cetera, but enters you into a
raffle to win the two tickets and we'll be announcing
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the winners early in December. And you can also get
a game signed game war and signed jersey from Harrison Smith.
So I wanted to do something with Harrison. Obviously my
good friend is a customer of the product. Wanted to
do something with him and then also do something to
tied end to the fans and try to give back
to all the Vikings fans that really have made it
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possible for me to even you know, go off and
have my own kind of business venture. So but yeah,
you can go check it out at Braintree Nutrition dot com.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I'm really happy we texted each other the last couple
of days, not only to celebrate twenty two's two hundredth
regular season game, but for this opportunity for everybody here
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which includes a couple of tickets and Delta three sixty
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Braintree Nutrition dot Com love you very much, Buddy, Thank
you very much for calling the show. Andrew Okay, Thank Seder.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Danke, Pa, go go.
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Speaker 3 (13:33):
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Approaching me midway point of the Friday Football Feast at
Buffalo Wild Winnings, Lakeville. If you just joined us here
or joined us on the radio show and the estimation
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a lot. And I don't generally, you know, say things
are podcast worthy because beauty is in the ear of
the beholder. However, there there were some unique things that
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transpired within the last hour and chains that we think
that you may enjoy listening back to once the podcast
is posted. We roll into Buffalo Wild Wings Lakeville and
it's packed, but that's generally the case at at the
Friday football feast. So okay, that's cool, but then we
hear like a tuba, and we hear a trombone, and
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we hear instruments. Well, the Lakeville South High School marching
band was at Buffalo Wild Wings, Lakeville and they played
the song called Street Beater by Quincy Jones, Sanford and
Son theme the quarter Century opening song for nine to
Noon or ten to one. They played that live. It
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was fantastic. A dear friend of mine, Emma White from
Faith Family Church saying the Star Spangled banner. That was spectacular,
and then we started the Friday football feast. Jack Greenway joined,
he was all fired up, had some great opinions, So
if interested find that via podcast at FM one at
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Speaker 5 (15:57):
And props to Jared by the way for making that
sound good on He's had a chaotic mess that could
have been Jared's stepping up and doing his thing.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
That's why we got him blackwise for Nick Madden in
a street team organizing things, so the band had room.
Nordo in essence was the was conductor one a the
orchestrator of the organ. Yah. Yeah, the the conductor was here,
the teacher, the leader of the band. But Norda was
over there taking the hand signals, getting them to play
in and out of break. Uh. We like to call
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that fist where you know everything you got Jay Dubb,
Nick Madden in the street team, Nordo, Uh, Young Alec
and yours truly, that five makes up the offensive line.
That is the fist, beautiful thing, and we're here to
push everybody back. So the fist was a was a
collective unit. That's a that's a narrow casting, old school
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Pete Bursage line. He's probably not even listening, but he'll
understand what I'm talking about. He was going nuts on
those five false starts. He was like, come on, come on, yep.
It gets frustrating sometimes for those of us who pull
for the team. Sure. Now, finally, before we head into
the fantasy portion of the equation, Hey listen closely, Hey,
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you and tip them, tip them, tip them as well
as possible. Okay, so thank you guys very much for
your arduous effort. Now let's get into something called I Hop.
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It's I hop ihop in honor of Paul. Paul Charchian,
the co host of the Friday Football Feast for a
decade and a half. He is in Utah, executing his
toil and like living his life and everything adjacent to
a bunch of rest stops with drones over top the
rest drops. So therefore whatever takes place there can be recorded.
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And he's not able to be at the Friday Football
Feast anymore, so the least we can do is dedicate
a segment to the decade and a half co host
Paul Charchi him. So we call it I Hop in
honor of Paul. Our boss Lannie, who was here for
the first hour might be listening right now and his
ears are gonna park. Why because maybe there's an international
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house of pancakes advertising deal that's gonna take place. I
haven't felt my ribs in thirty years, and I have
three chins. Yes, I like pigs in a blanket at
ee hop. All right, So anybody want to roll in
with that, We're all good. But what we do in
honor of Paul is we do a little fantasy bit.
And what we do is we go with skill position
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people and quarterback and stuff. And it's touchdown only six
for rushing and receiving, four for passing, and we're on
to quarterbacks. As we've swung up and down, I have
fifty four points. I had Jonathan Taylor last week. He
had three touchdowns. You're just I mean, you are just
welling away with this. That gives me fifty four. The
con is twenty eight. Aleck might want to start taking
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it seriously. He has twenty two points. We are on
quarterbacks this week, and Alec is bringing up the rear
metaphorically and realistically, so thus he gets the opportunity to
go first and good morning.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Good morning. Yeah, I'm gonna take Justin Herbert. They're playing
against the Jaguars. The Jaguars defense, it's been up and down.
It's kind of sexy, and Justin Herbert doesn't have sexy,
doesn't you're saying some things today. I mean, I'll tell
you that Justin Herbert doesn't have the greatest offensive line
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in front of him right now. But I just think
he's playing at a top four or five level in
the NFL. So I'm gonna take Justin Herbert and That'll
probably go terrible for me because I'm.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
The worst at this. Nordo.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Well, I picked Jordan Mason last week when they were
talking about running backs that felt a rushing touchdown sod early.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I don't know the wrong guy, and we knew at
the time. I mean, we didn't know what you're doing. No,
but see, I thought it was a bit, but it
wasn't a bit, and I liked his angle on it.
It just didn't transpire to get those runs inside the
low red. Well, you gotta start in the high red
to get to the low red. You must go through
the high red and your best and you got to
give your best when your best is required. Typically yes,
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but it depends on D and D. So I understand
how we laid that whole thing out low red. We
just didn't get many Mason opportunities in the low rizzle,
didn't get enough ops, not enough ops this week.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I'm basically flipping a coin between Josh Allen and Jalen Hurts.
And I'm gonna take Jalen Hurts, really because I got
a wide receiver on a live stream talking about dropping
him in Fantasy love this.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Things are negative.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
They just sneaked one out against the Bears on the
or against the Packers on the road in prime time,
yet there's still strife. Things are still negative. Oh yeah,
I want a guy that might throw it, he might
run it in. I want the dual threat aspect of it.
I think the secondary with this with this Lions team
as good as they as good as that team is.
We watched our guy manufacturer three tds against the kiddies
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a couple of weeks ago, and I'm sorry for Lions
fan in the house shaking his head. Uh, what Jalen
Hurts is going to do to Dan Campbell's defense should
be felonious in forty eight states, eight of them. That's
what the host would say. That's what I'm going to say.
Jalen Hurts is going to run it up on the
kiddies in Sunday Night.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Football Oki doky, Well, yeah, this is gonna be good.
What the old announcer is gonna do? Right? By the way,
did Fields do anything last night? You had like one
touchdown passing? Yeah you got? He ran one in and
passed point you got? He did too, yeah one of
the Oh geez, I would have gotten ten out of
that super last night on the heat check, which I
knew was gonna happen. Jam All right, Well here's the deal, McCarthy,
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do it, all right? Do it? You know when fantasy
football doesn't really mean that much to you, that would
be me. Just don't have the time during the week.
Got a lot of other things going on. Uh, And
I also love fantasy basketball. Nordo and I are in
a fantasy basketball league and it's league freak is life.
Growing up in Washington, d C. I was always a
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marketly bigger NBA fan than I was a NFL fan. Wow.
So we're looking at NBA box scores. We're trying to
figure out why Dylan Brooks scored thirty something last night?
Who in the heck Jeremiah Robinson earl is and does
he need to be on my team? I picked the
wrong pacer and that's that and and Lonzo Ball's getting
cut by the con and I'm thinking about picking him up,
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but I don't want to ruin my waiver spot. It's
too early for basketball. That's how seriously I and Nordo
take fantasy basketball. Now. Fantasy football is the most popular
of all fantasy sports ever to be a fantasy sports
I get it. He's gonna pick Caleb Williams. So of course,
of course when there's something about which I care little,
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certainly I'm not betting on well, of course I'm gonna
be on fire. Of course. Of course it's Uh, it's
gonna work the right way every single week because I
ain't got no money on it or no emotional wherew'th
all locked into it? So we're gonna do it heat
check right now with my quarterback. I have fifty four points,
Nordo has twenty eight. Uh the Athletic Intheathletic dot com. Uh,
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don't forget to subscribe for under two dollars twenty two points.
I am going to take in heat check like fashion
the kid. You gotta do it. Cleveland Brown's quarterback Dylan
Gabriel terrible pick. Wow, I'm take watch Dylan Gabriel this
week and go ahead and second, guess it. Nobody wants
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to watch that. Their eyes they're gonna be stinging. Well,
are we sure he's playing right? Maybe? Yeah, well let's
see Harry Man and though yeah, Deshaun Watson, I mean
he never plays. Who do they play? It seems like
they hate Shador the Ravens. Yeah, of course, Oh my,
I can't believe you just did that. Brought tea check time.
We're just well, I tried to take Fields last night,
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who ain't great and he would have gotten ten points.
So we're gonna take Dylan. I know Abri, I know
London was a pigment of our imagination. Yeah, considering we
were in Europe for a million weeks. Yeah, but you
saw him in that game of course. Oh. I watched
all twenty two of his last seventy five snaps just
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to get squared away for iye hoop and they're terrible.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
See this whole thing to a heat check. He's getting
cocky about it. Whether it was you know, let me
pick justin Fields that was cocky Pa yesterday. He's doing
this because he has a huge lead and he wants
to make sure by the time we get the Buffalo
wild Wings egan in early January that this is even
still a thing that we can do on a weekly basis.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
So you're like the NFL refs when they see the
game slipping the way they get that yellow, just toss
it right out there.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Fair point. No, he's the unfair point. He's the Scott
Foster of this fantasy football bit. He's the extender. And
that's why he's picking Dylan gabs So here's the deal.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
If we're betting on this, I'm taking Josh Allen, Okay,
but we ain't betting on it. We're having fun with
I hop in honor of Paul as in Paul Charchi
and so, and you've got a few points to spare you.
Alex Lewis takes Justin Herbert, who could run one in
and throw four. Nordo takes Jalen Hurts, who could run
two in and throw three. I take Dylan Gabriel, who's
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gonna do nothing but fumble and throw interceptions. And this
is a full fledged heat check in the old announcer. Now,
it's absolutely Briell. Right, Let's look at it this way.
From the final five minutes of this segment, gentlemen, quarterbacks
are the bill of fare within honor of Paul this week,
so yours truly has charged the surrogates to rank their
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top three NFL quarterbacks they would like to have for
the next ten years. And why top three quarterbacks that
alec and or Nordo would like to have for the
next decade? And why let's jump on over to the
Athletic and Theathletic dot Com desk and a courtesy of
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Steve's Appliances. By the way, Steve's Appliances provides Alex Lewis
for nine to noon each and every Friday. How are
you gonna rank it? Alick? Yeah, Joe Flacco would be first.
Are you going three two one or one two three?
I'll go three two one. I guess all right, three
two one, This is tough. I would go justin Herbert Free,
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Drake May two, Josh Allen one?
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Am I leaving out Mahomes? And that's dumb? But Mahomes
is what thirty two years old? So ten years and
now is gonna be forty two?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I get it. Mahomes is thirty two already? Is it really?
I think? Oh no, maybe I'm wrong with that. I'll
look it up.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
You talk thirty might be If he's twenty eight, then
Patrick Mahomes should be in there.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Drake May is hard to leave off this list.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Like it.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
The smoothness with which this guy plays. I mean, I
know they played the Jets last night, but the arm talent,
just how confident he looks, how grounded he is as
a kid with three older brothers, coming from North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Like Patrick Mahomes is thirty years of age, thirty years
so he'd bet. I didn't think Drake May was that
great last night, but then again, I fell asleep middle
of the second quarter when he heaved up that punt
that should have been intercepted by two Jets. One of
them was like stickler sticker or something like that, and
he got hurt. I was like lapping. I just I mean,
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I will tell you this.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
After the first day of joined practice's at TCO Performance Center,
I was texting with the Vikings coach who said that
guy is a franchise player, and there was pretty obvious
and clear at the time after seeing him one day
out there. Just the the size, the arm talent, the durability,
the mental makeup. It's hard for me not to have
him in there and then Josh Allen. He might be
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twenty seven or something, but it's hard for I mean,
he would be on my list, so I know I'm
bouncing around.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
A little bit like that. Those will be my three,
all right, So we go Herbert into Drake May into
Josh Allen for Alec what about you, Nordo.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Well, this is difficult and it's gonna end up being
really boring because watching Drake May last night, I saw
a little bit of Yeah, it's getting around, but it's
a group effort. Like he needed Travion, he needs that defense,
he needs opportunistic chances. But he's very good. I mean,
Drake May proving himself maybe to be the best of
that crop. Right, So loving on Drake May ten years,
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he's so young, you believe that he'll send I'm gonna
be super boring, man. I'm going Herbert three, Allen two,
and Mahomes. Yeah, with the with the way Mahomes throws,
with the way he moves. I know the ankle bits
have been an issue. He'll have to run less over
the course of time.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
He's magical. Mahomes, That's it. I almost like just didn't
want to include Mahomes because it's too obvious. I mean,
he's he's that guy.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Like I I've got a bunch of Chief fan friends
from my time living in Kansas City, and they're always like,
I don't know what we're gonna do with the third
receiver spot. I'm my guys, it doesn't matter when you
have that guy.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
So I like your three.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
But but Herbert Herbert is interesting because before the year,
I don't know if i'd.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Have him there, but I absolutely I wouldn't have. But
I when I watch him play, Yeah, the amount that
he's doing for that team, it just blows me away.
I Mean, the night we saw him in La I
was just I mean, I'm marveling at his strength, his athleticism.
It's impressive. It's course to be in that spot too.
The confidence he showed when he got back Joe Alt
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that night, I mean it was in hand, in command
and in charge. So he loses all and he still
is continuing to play fast, So he's even at the
stage of his career, you know, which you know, kind
of ties into the the JJ mccarr dorothy related conversation.
Justin Herbert wasn't what we're talking about until this year,
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And I don't know many years he's into the league,
maybe maybe five something like that, five years, right, But
it takes time. It just takes time. And with Herbert
he always had the skill set. Macarthy has the skill set.
It just takes time to simmer.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Yeah, it does take time, but five years is a
long time. It like that is that takes more time
than one regime typically gets.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I mean, that's just like the reality of it.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
So that's the the hard balance of this is if
it's gonna take three to five years, that's understandable from
a developmental timeline, but regimes typically don't have that long
to observe that amount of development. It's just one thing
that I've been thinking about a lot.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Well.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
I would also say, though, in fairness, Herbert, while he
is ascended to a new level this year and has
entered this sort of conversation, right, he was better year
two and year three. This was a guy where Chargers
fans are constantly questioning, can we even roll this kid
out there?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
He's going to dagger our own team with his massive mistakes.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
He found his way to a comfortable spot and has
continued to grow from there.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
So with respect to JJ and I'm believing in it,
I'm patient.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
I want this thing to happen, but number nine has
to find that essentially well, if for NOA, I mean
no other way than just being on the freaking field
and staying healthy.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Justin Herbert his first season as a rookie forty three
hundred yards, thirty one touchdowns, ten interceptions, sixty seven percent complete,
and he kind of he was he was.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
He came out of the gates firing. That's how the
team do well. The talent wasn't nearly what it is here.
It wasn't my question. He had Keenan Allen, who might
be Hall of Fame next seven and nine with Anthony Lynn. Okay,
all right, but he didn't have Justin Jefferson. Yeah, the
the knock on Herbert really up until last year this year,
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he wouldn't go outside the numbers. He just he does
not have a super strong arm. I would really strongly disagree. Well,
the I'm telling you from coaches who schemed against him
for years, like three years, it was he won't go
outside the numbers. So was that strength maybe accuracy though,
good babe, maybe those throat maybe meshinge strength with accuracy
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that it was all? It was middle of the field
ish stuff, and you were able to suck him into
things where he'd be like, all right, I gotta throw outside.
Then he would think about it, it would be closed,
he'd go back into the middle of be incomplete. So
it was just confusing that extra beat. Uh, but he
makes all the throws now.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Well, he's also six five, two thirty and like the
strength in the pocket is the thing. When you watch
him on film, it just blows you away. Like it's
really hard to tackle him. He takes a ton of
hits and hasn't gotten.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Hurt this year.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Specifically, his running is the bomb, and so like, I mean,
that's that's the thing. You look at a lot of
these guys. It's six five two thirty and and and
to play with the strength in the pot it's often required.
But I I you're right though, like it it takes
time for these guys to get acclimated to the game speed,
to be accurate, to be consistent.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Like it takes time. Confidence confidence, yeah, and and confidence
in those around you.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
And no question, I mean it, there's no there's no streamlining,
shortcutting the development of this of the hardest position in sports.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Just hard to do it. But but there are there
are moments, there are benchmarks where all right, we're ten
into it, what have we seen? All Right, we're fifteen
into it. All right, we're twenty into it, you know.
And then that's when you start wringing your hands together
because it's like, oh jays, what's happening? Or hopefully you
know it's not like c C. It's a you know
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what I mean?
Speaker 4 (33:49):
The hard part in this day and age is there's
such noise every single week, and it's you're either the
greatest or you're the worst of all time. And so
much of it is can you just survive noise to
allow the guy over time to develop. It's it's that's
that's so much of the challenge as well.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Step one just played ten freaking games in a row. Yeah,
however this season goes, be ready for week one, play
seventeen in a row next year, and then we can
have a much better conversation about number nine.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Well, with with this top three quarterbacks playing now you
would want for the next ten years. Who we heard
about Josh Allen, we heard about Justin Herbert, Patrick, Mahomes
in the mix, drink may in the mix. All understandable. Well, Uh,
there there are three that I think you guys are
dramatically short changing. I probably would put it like this,
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I mean, off the contract he just signed. I mean,
Jordan Love has to be in the mix, doesn't he.
You don't give somebody money like that unless they are
a new age Tom Brady Brett faarr. I mean, just
you talk about calculated and cool in big situations and
not throwing it to the wrong team, not throwing it
to the wrong team team at home, and the people
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wearing teal just drop it. You talk about handling pressure
with a plumb for like a two hundred and forty
million dollar deal, Well, that guy has to be unbelievably good,
so he has to be in the top three. Secondly,
I mean I can't possibly hear any better things than
I have over the last three days about Caleb Williams. Okay,
so yeah, I mean he's unbelievable, Okay, rarely throws interceptions,
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He's run for three touchdowns, not taking sacks anymore. Sounds
to me like a new age Bob Avellini cross with
the likes of a Joe Montana. So Nicks for your third. Well,
and he also was the first overall pick in the
twenty twenty four draft. I mean, who takes something first
overall and they're not of the immortality variety. So halo
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this weekend? What's it? It feels like four to seventy
five and four?
Speaker 5 (35:47):
Right?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I mean I must be who's the other three? But
he should well? Number one is Tyson Beaju probably the
most underrated and underappreciated player in the NFL. I mean
he barely plays, if ever, here a touchdown already this year,
and I think I went to Caleb William It did
go to Caleb Wville. So anyway, Beaijin's got to be
in that top three. Man. The hairs are just hitting
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on every single cylinder right now, but I think you're
missing out on bo Nicks. I mean the only first
six six yards down the field. I only got three. No,
that's true, but you got the right three? Well, of
course I do. I mean fact Love should be number
one up that contract. In the way he handles pressure,
Are you idymote Beage? If I'm a Packers fan, I
would already like him more than FARVN Rodgers. I kind
of like beaigent. I'm not like actually, I kind of
(36:29):
like I do too, now that I've know how to
pronounce his name unlike two years ago. All right, it's
the Friday Football Feast. We're back of Buffalo Wild Wings Lakeville.
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just had humanity relating clipping penalties, sans ejections and illegal touching.
None of that has happened either. But nevertheless, Jared is
about the body weight. No, we haven't had any sacks
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right around the corner. So I'm gonna come out to
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that'll be around the corner. But first, who wins and
why we like to do this every so often at
Buffalo Wild Wings. Who wins? And why it's outside of
the Minnesota Vikings covenant. There are some quite compelling games
this weekend. Kansas City's at Denver. That's a fat one.
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Green Bay is that the New York Giants. That's actually
not compelling because the quarterback for the Packers is so
good they'll probably win by three touchdowns. All right, So
let's look at it this way. Seattle at the Los
Angeles Rams. Rams are favored by three in this game.
The last time the Seattle Seahawks quarterbacks saw this group
of Rams. Speaking of sacks, well, he took nine of
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them down, goes Samba man on the fam. So who
wins and why? Will begin with Alec and I want
to begin with this aside to the game, because as
the kids would say, it's a thing every time you
go to Sofi, the Seattle Seahawks at Lumen, they have
the twelves all right, so the twelves are all loud
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and everything. Honestly, I don't know if the twelves travel.
So I just don't know if they travel. Maybe because
they have dispensaries there and they're scared about smuggling stuff
on a flight. But nevertheless, I don't know if they travel.
So do you think you know? Like when the Rams
play the forty nine Ers, it is not only a
forty nine ers home game, it is a loud, raucous,
(39:49):
violent forty nine Ers home game, and they seemingly beat
the Rams at Sofi almost every single time, And I
think that has something to do with it. What about
the chickens when they go to Sofi? Do they like
they can have a home field advantage? I don't think so, right,
It's a great question.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
I would expect that the Seahawks fans, especially with this
specific team, would travel. But I you know, I'm a
Rams I'd picked the Rams in this game. I am
blown away by what they've been able to do. They essentially,
in the span of like five years, they went all in,
traded all their picks, won a Super Bowl, and then
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rebuilt the whole.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Thing via the draft and now are in position to
be a Super Bowl contender again. And Matthew Stafford, like we.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
We had, you know, we were just talking about quarterbacks
we take for the next ten years.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Matthew Stafford's too old.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
To be in that kind of category, but he's playing
potentially at the highest level of any quarterback in the
NFL right now. That Seahawks defense is menacing their front
is great. But the plans that Sean puts together, paired
with what Matthew Stafford can do, paired with the front
that the Rams have. The one thing about Sam Darnald
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this season, just like last season, he's playing.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
With the lead at all times. Yeah, and so when
he is forced to drop back pass with a pass
dress that can hum at him, can he perform? I
think hopefully you get somewhat of an answer to that.
This weekend. But I the Rams for me would be
the pick in this game.
Speaker 5 (41:19):
You know, it's I think mcveigh's team might be the
best in the NFC right now. I'm with you, like
I just I look at the way that thing is going.
And it's not just I mean I shouldn't say not just.
I mean Stafford is truly playing at an MVP level.
But that defense that we had to deal with in
Arizona for that wild card game is five steps ahead
of even what we saw last January. Kidding me, really,
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they are absolutely incredible. They're they're top five in as
many statistical categories as you can throw out. They are
menacing and the thing that I want to see from
Donald you mentioned playing with the lead and all jokes
aside Minnesota Moving Company.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
The nine sacks.
Speaker 5 (41:56):
The combination of having to chase and go punch for
punch was Afford combined with how he handles that heat
from Versing Company.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
You know, this is a seven and two team.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
I get it, and frankly, Seahawks fans should be really
pumped about what they've seen thus far, no doubt about it.
This is a team, by the way, with McDonald, I
think they're like eleven or twelve and one on the
road in McDonald's tenure, short tenure, but all the same
as Seahawks coach. These guys come to play in other
people's buildings. I honestly think this is a touchdown game,
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and I think the Rams handle business at so far.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
All Right, now, Detroit the team to beat in the
NFC North Detroit is at Philadelphia, the Eagles who defensively speaking,
how about that Jalen Phillips on Monday Night Football. I mean,
it's yeah, we know who Jalen Phillips is. Yeah, we
talked about him Nordo and I and you and whomever
when he was University of Miami. I think when he
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was he was a Cane. It's like, you know, we
had opinions and everything.
Speaker 5 (42:54):
Well, he had that weird career too, where he was
at UCLA before Miami and then he was gonna quit
football like that's him, got into music production and things
like that and then and I think he played.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Finish with the Canes. Okay, so how a weird winding
road to the NFL. Nobody cared about him when he
wore the teal. Everybody should know who this man is
now wearing that bird on his helmet. Wow was he?
I mean, statistically he didn't like tear it up because
they eventually had to double team him every rush he
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was so fast. So Ali Roseman hit on a nice
one at the trading deadline with Jalen Phillips. Their defense
was the bomb the other night against Green Bay. They're
favored by two and a half over the Motor City kiddies.
How you do this one? Yeah, Eagles.
Speaker 4 (43:41):
I don't know how the Lions front offensively will be
able to handle the Eagles defensive line, especially on the
interior like we saw in Vikings lines. When you can
get to Jared Golf early, make him uncomfortable, he starts
to spray passes the clock in his head definitely speed up.
And when you have Jalen Carter, Jalen Phillips, moro ojomo,
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this guy has really come on.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
I've got to credit you on that because I was
familiar with the name. But then before they played the Eagles,
you like laid out from the dock like four or
five things about him. I went back and watched it,
Not that I need to corroborate it, but I was like,
who knew, Holy cow, this guy's fast. Well they get
they get rid of or they don't get rid of.
Speaker 4 (44:23):
Milton Williams has an unbelievable playoff performance, becomes a free agent,
signs for a massive deal in New England, and then
they just replace him with this seventh round pick developed
behind him in Moro jama And that's the way I mean.
They are a draft development load up the defensive line,
So that's what I say. And then for the Eagles offense,
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they've obviously been reeling.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
I'm not being rude here in my phone when you're talking.
I'm trying because I know from the Vikings game Christian
mahawk and he suffered what yeah, not bad. Dan Campbell
at the end of the game made sound like he's
gonna be out for a long time, and rat Ledge
got hurt. I'm just trying to figure out what their, uh,
the Motor City Moving Company looks.
Speaker 4 (45:03):
Like, even with Christian Mahogany and Tate Rattledge, like that
group was just was not impressive at all. And I
really it's the same with the Packers, Like I just
don't think the offensive lines of these two teams in
the division are remotely close to what they've been and
I feel like the Bears offensive line has really taken
a step and like you know, as boring as it is,
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that to me is so indicative of why these teams
are succeeding and not offensively so. And then the Lions
defense they play man coverage. When you do that against
the Eagles, it becomes kind of a disaster. So I
would take the Eagles in that game. Yeah, you you
you hit on a lot of what I wanted to
talk about.
Speaker 5 (45:41):
Their left guard right now, in substitution of Mahogany Coyote Alaostka.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Yeah, that's on the depth chart, but they they haven't
wanted to use him. Uh, they probably started him.
Speaker 5 (45:52):
Because Mahogany's on ir Yeah, but but at that rate,
you know when we were looking at the Jalen Carter
against Coyote, Well here's the thing though with the Ravens,
look at the Vikings for a second, Like that defensive
front of Baltimore was not athletic or game changing enough
to put consistent pressure on JJ McCarthy. So what they
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do They got their arms up and then they made
us for two days questioning the kid's arm angle and
what's going on the whole thing, and just many segments.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
It was exhausting. The Eagles front.
Speaker 5 (46:22):
You watched it in the primetime game against the against
the Packers. This front is not only athletic enough to
ruin your day ten different ways, and Goff is not
the most mobile cat on the planet.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
They will also be smart.
Speaker 5 (46:35):
Enough and intelligent enough if they do buy him.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
A bit of time to get their arms up and
bad passes down.
Speaker 5 (46:41):
I think the defensive front, in particular new Cat rolling
off the bus and getting two fumble recoveries and Jalen Phillips,
that's sweet. I like them defensively. I also, and I
know it was ugly on Monday night. I kind of
in some ways felt like that game at US Bank
Stadium in some ways was a get right game for Philly.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
And I wonder how much you know.
Speaker 5 (46:59):
I talk about this with with aj Brown when we
were discussing it yesterday with charts. Some way, it feels
like they thrive off of stress. They thrive off of
tension and frustration. That awful fan base kind of maybe
breeds that inside the building, and I wonder how much
they cling to that. I think they cling to it.
I think they thrive off of it. And I think
they win in primetime against the Lions.
Speaker 4 (47:19):
The other thing for me, DeVante Smith is playing at
a very very high level as a receiver. And I
understand there's all this Aj Brown noise and all that,
but DeVante Smith as a route runner, contested catcher, he
is tiny, but what he's able to do is just
incredibly I just don't know who the Lions have who
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can cover him. Maybe DJ Reid's back, I don't. I
don't know that, but I I The Eagles for me,
are forming themselves into the type of team that probably
preseason a lot of people expected them to be.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
Sounds like Philly and the La Rams are preferred by
the analysts and the Friday Football Feast for the who
and why. Yep, back to the vikings around the corner
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All right, welcome back to Buffalo Wild Wings Lakeville for
the Friday football. Now, that was a hard hitting hour.
And when we think of hard hits, we think of
this guy hit it. Kevin Drew Brees in a seventeenth
(00:30):
year out of the shotgun. He steps up, He's gonna
fire and deep center of the field.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Heater stepkad harek Kendrick puts us sparticular catch, King sent
day Ho hits it, crew sinday Ho p au spectacularly
pink grab.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
The Vikings have turned over New Orleans. Ladies and gentlemen
joining us from a parts unknown, but I would bet
a lot of money it was Texas. Can we get
a witness in a raucus round of applause for former
Viking safety Andrews send day Ho joining us now? Andrew
(01:09):
send day Ho twelve years in the NFL nine with
the Minnesota Vikings, seven and a half with Harry the
hit man, Harrison Smith and first and foremost the man
they called day Hoo. How are things for you? Assumingly
down Texas way, man.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
They're great down here in Austin. Actually, I have a
baby girl do here in about two weeks so about
to be a father.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
But life's good, no complaints, man, that's fantastic. And Andrew
once again spent seven and a half years with Harrison
Smith as a member of the Minnesota Vikings, and assumingly,
you guys are still pretty good, if not very good friends,
because you guys, there was a time with you and
you and Harrison Man the hit Man, you guys were
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were inseparable. You guys were very close when you played together.
And for those who you know, for those who remember
moments like that, you guys were a wonderful safety duo.
And Harrison's playing in his two hundredth regular season game.
Can you believe that?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
It's unbelievable? That is so many games, so much football
that guy's been starting since day one. I we talk
about every week or so, and I tell him that
every time I see him on the field, it just
it hurts my body to watch him still out there
having to play football.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
After all these years.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Andrew, my name is Alex Cover the team for the
athletic Why why do you think he's done it for
as long as he have? Like, why do you think
these last few years he's continued to decide to come
back and play for this team?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
And enjoy it as much as he seemingly has. Well.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I don't think anyone plays for that long unless they
genuinely love football. You see a lot of guys that
do you retire earlier than you would think they would.
But I think it's you know, having fun with the guys,
having fun on the field. It's the best job in
the world. And as long as you're healthy and you
can still do at a high level, why wouldn't you.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Hey, hey, Andrew, it's it's it's Nordo here.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
PA's producer and I really appreciate you giving us time
the you know, safety position in such a side. What
what kind of made you to gravitate to each other
and made you kind of that inseparable duo at times,
whether it was on the field or off the field.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yeah, I think we just we saw a lot of
things the same, uh, you know, defensively on the field,
also off the field, we saw a lot of things
the same. Naturally kind of bonded being the lighter skinned
fellows in the secondary. But you know, I think just
that's what makes a good safety duo is that you
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you kind of are sharing the same brain at times.
So when things happen on the field, you're so far
away you can't always communicate, but you've been in the
meetings all week together, you know that you've kind of
gone through all the rop progressions, different ways they can
attack you. And when you have another safety that basically
when you ask them, hey, how would you play this,
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and they're going to play it the same way you would,
then you know a lot of times that you don't
even have to necessarily communicate all the time on the
field that you're kind of thinking the same and you know,
it got to the point where we can kind of
just look at each other and basically just kind of
telepactically communicate. So it was great to have him back there. Obviously,
trustworthy guy. You know he's gonna make plays. You know
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he's gonna show up when he needs to. It just
brings a level of security and confidence when you're out
there on the field with him Andrew.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
For those who didn't see, we have quite the young
crowd here, I mean people of all ages. So for
those who didn't see or are not super familiar with
how you played or your career, how would you describe
how you played safety for the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
I think the way that I played safety. The first
thing I think of was just head down, head first,
a little more old school stuff that is not allowed
in the NFL anymore. It was kind of what my
strong suit was. Harrison more of a ballhawk blitzer, and
(05:31):
I almost felt like I was more of the like
the aggressor on the fields to where you know, you
couldn't run routes over the middle, You're not throwing the
ball over the middle of the fields, and so I
think it was a good kind of one two punch.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
Andrew talking to a lot of the guys in the
locker room last few years, a lot of them have
described some of his training methods that are very unique.
I don't know how much of this stuff he's been
doing since since you guys were playing, but I just,
you know, if he was, I just wonder if you
can describe the types of things he does that keep
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him his body in the shape that it is for
him to be playing all of these years.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah, you know, I think one thing that people don't
realize is that Harrison is a freak athlete. You know,
super strong, super gifted athletically and also you know, gifted mentally.
Being a smart player, But he was always a guy,
super tough.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
You know, he didn't get injured.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
A lot, and so that that definitely helps when it
comes to playing for a long time not having any severe,
severe injuries, and a lot of that is just because
you know, he's not going to post it on his
Instagram and all that junk, but trains hard in the offseason.
I think later in his career he started doing some
more kind of unconventional uh methods.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
But I've worked out with him.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
And his trainer before back home, and you know, I
think he's a big part of that too, back in
Knoxville where he trains in the offseason. So you know,
I think once he got further into his career, he
kind of knew his system, what works, what doesn't work,
and it's been working for him.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
So this is a celebration of a hit man, Harry
the hit Man Smith. Harrison Smith playing this two hundredth
regular season game this Sunday noon against the Chicago Bears
and one of his best friends and former teammate for
seven and a half years, Andrew Sendajo is on nine
to noon Nordo. You know, we are here to laude
(07:41):
Harrison Smith.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
But Andrew I got to say, from watching all your
games here as a member of the Vikings, you were
a hell of a hitter yourself. And I'm just curious
back in the day, was there ever a chance where
you're in that room and Zimmer's talking and it's like, hey, coach,
like number two two is getting all the sacks, Like
I like to hit people, can you blitz me and
can I get some sacks?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Coach? Did you ever have those types of conversations?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, there's definitely some times where you know, I'm like,
let me get down the line of scrimmage and blitz
and get some of these free runs to the quarterback.
But man, when you when you got a guy like Harrison, like,
why would you change it up? I think there's only
a couple of times where we tried to throw them
a curveball and they put me down there to blitz,
and it just throws everything off because they're like, Okay,
(08:24):
this guy's down here for a reason, right, Like he's not.
He's not down here to drop out into coverage. And
so keeping keeping all the looks uniform and keeping the
defense looking the same so that we could disguise and
things like that. But I think part of being a
good defense is being selfless like that, where you know,
let the let the blitzers blitz. I'll stay in the
(08:45):
middle of the field and kind of quarterback things from back.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
Here, Andrew now, starting in twenty twelve, Aarrison's rookie year,
until they and you referenced it earlier, until they tweaked
us some rules for defensive players. I mean, it was
like you and Harrison were trying to out hit the other.
In other words, if twenty two laid out a bit
(09:11):
a big one, then Andrews and Dajo would be like,
all right, I got you, and then would hit somebody
harder the next time you had the opportunity. I mean,
you guys tried to one up each other with these
big hits, didn't you. Yeah, there was.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Always, you know, the friendly kind of competition of land
the wood on somebody. And yeah, I mean definitely early
in Harrison's career before they started to.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
Changing a lot of rules.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I mean, he was he was laying dudes out left
and right where he got the hit man named from.
And then this guy turns into the ballhawk and is
just picking off every pass taking to the end zone.
And then then he's blitzing. All of a sudden, he
attacking the quarterback and you're like, all right, this guy's
a hell of a player. He can basically do everything.
But yeah, we had a lot of fun back there,
(09:58):
you know, knocking it out of people, have a fun
winning game being you know, in the top top five,
if not top defense in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
All right. Lastly, Andrew has a business venture called Braintree Nutrition.
All right, and and Harrison Smith and Andrew have gotten
together on something that is absolutely fantastic. Listen closely Buffalo
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(10:29):
for Delta three sixty lounge access and tickets to a
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plus a Harrison Smith game. Warn signed to Jersey. All right,
it's with Harrison Smith, Andrewsondejo and Braintree. There's going to
(10:51):
be a display of something with the focus and hydration
drink mix. You can learn more at Braintree Nutrition dot com.
That that's where you can sign up too, and you
might you might win win this uh A late comp
Braintree Nutrition dot com. Uh Andrew. I just kind of
laid it out right there, but tell us more. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Yeah, So, I mean Harrison takes our product, uh every day.
I was kind of always the locker room nutritionist guy.
So when I when I launched this venture, uh, obviously
he kind of trusts me with like different products and
things like that.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
So he loved it so much.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
I said, hey, man, why don't we just make you
kind of your own flavor, uh, kind of go Weedies
box inspired, put your put your logo, and put everything
on the bag. And so we did a collaboration with
Harrison h the hit Man focused in hydration drink mix.
So he's got his own little bag everything. And then
we said, well, let's let's do something we can tie
(11:49):
it into the fans. So basically everyone that that purchases
gets entered into a raffle to win. H I mean,
PIAT tickets are expensive now because they're for the season
finale against the Packers, like you said, section half delta
through sixty lounge, et cetera, but enters you into a
raffle to win the two tickets and we'll be announcing
(12:10):
the winners early in December. And you can also get
a game signed game war and signed jersey from Harrison Smith.
So I wanted to do something with Harrison. Obviously my
good friend is a customer of the product. Wanted to
do something with him and then also do something to
tied end to the fans and try to give back
to all the Vikings fans that really have made it
(12:33):
possible for me to even you know, go off and
have my own kind of business venture. So but yeah,
you can go check it out at Braintree Nutrition dot com.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
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Speaker 3 (13:24):
Danke, Pa, go go.
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Andrews senday. That's very cool.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Uh.
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Approaching me midway point of the Friday Football Feast at
Buffalo Wild Winnings, Lakeville. If you just joined us here
or joined us on the radio show and the estimation
of the Friday Football Feast team, we think you missed
a lot. And I don't generally, you know, say things
are podcast worthy because beauty is in the ear of
the beholder. However, there there were some unique things that
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transpired within the last hour and chains that we think
that you may enjoy listening back to once the podcast
is posted. We roll into Buffalo Wild Wings Lakeville and
it's packed, but that's generally the case at at the
Friday football feast. So okay, that's cool, but then we
hear like a tuba, and we hear a trombone, and
(15:14):
we hear instruments. Well, the Lakeville South High School marching
band was at Buffalo Wild Wings, Lakeville and they played
the song called Street Beater by Quincy Jones, Sanford and
Son theme the quarter Century opening song for nine to
Noon or ten to one. They played that live. It
(15:34):
was fantastic. A dear friend of mine, Emma White from
Faith Family Church saying the Star Spangled banner. That was spectacular,
and then we started the Friday football feast. Jack Greenway joined,
he was all fired up, had some great opinions, So
if interested find that via podcast at FM one at
kfa in dot com. It is The Love Covenant on demand.
Speaker 5 (15:57):
And props to Jared by the way for making that
sound good on He's had a chaotic mess that could
have been Jared's stepping up and doing his thing.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
That's why we got him blackwise for Nick Madden in
a street team organizing things, so the band had room.
Nordo in essence was the was conductor one a the
orchestrator of the organ. Yah. Yeah, the the conductor was here,
the teacher, the leader of the band. But Norda was
over there taking the hand signals, getting them to play
in and out of break. Uh. We like to call
(16:25):
that fist where you know everything you got Jay Dubb,
Nick Madden in the street team, Nordo, Uh, Young Alec
and yours truly, that five makes up the offensive line.
That is the fist, beautiful thing, and we're here to
push everybody back. So the fist was a was a
collective unit. That's a that's a narrow casting, old school
(16:45):
Pete Bursage line. He's probably not even listening, but he'll
understand what I'm talking about. He was going nuts on
those five false starts. He was like, come on, come on, yep.
It gets frustrating sometimes for those of us who pull
for the team. Sure. Now, finally, before we head into
the fantasy portion of the equation, Hey listen closely, Hey,
(17:08):
please tip the bartenders and your servers exponentially. Bad time
to be cheap, Bad time to be cheap because they
got here super early. It's very congested in here. Some
would say it's a humanity related clipping penalty with ejections forthcoming,
(17:29):
and they're negotiating these tight aisles, getting you your stuff
on time, food, beverages and all that. So thank you
very much to the bartenders and or the servers. Thank
you and tip them, tip them, tip them as well
as possible. Okay, so thank you guys very much for
your arduous effort. Now let's get into something called I Hop.
(17:53):
It's I hop ihop in honor of Paul. Paul Charchian,
the co host of the Friday Football Feast for a
decade and a half. He is in Utah, executing his
toil and like living his life and everything adjacent to
a bunch of rest stops with drones over top the
rest drops. So therefore whatever takes place there can be recorded.
(18:15):
And he's not able to be at the Friday Football
Feast anymore, so the least we can do is dedicate
a segment to the decade and a half co host
Paul Charchi him. So we call it I Hop in
honor of Paul. Our boss Lannie, who was here for
the first hour might be listening right now and his
ears are gonna park. Why because maybe there's an international
(18:37):
house of pancakes advertising deal that's gonna take place. I
haven't felt my ribs in thirty years, and I have
three chins. Yes, I like pigs in a blanket at
ee hop. All right, So anybody want to roll in
with that, We're all good. But what we do in
honor of Paul is we do a little fantasy bit.
And what we do is we go with skill position
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people and quarterback and stuff. And it's touchdown only six
for rushing and receiving, four for passing, and we're on
to quarterbacks. As we've swung up and down, I have
fifty four points. I had Jonathan Taylor last week. He
had three touchdowns. You're just I mean, you are just
welling away with this. That gives me fifty four. The
con is twenty eight. Aleck might want to start taking
(19:21):
it seriously. He has twenty two points. We are on
quarterbacks this week, and Alec is bringing up the rear
metaphorically and realistically, so thus he gets the opportunity to
go first and good morning.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Good morning. Yeah, I'm gonna take Justin Herbert. They're playing
against the Jaguars. The Jaguars defense, it's been up and down.
It's kind of sexy, and Justin Herbert doesn't have sexy,
doesn't you're saying some things today. I mean, I'll tell
you that Justin Herbert doesn't have the greatest offensive line
(19:56):
in front of him right now. But I just think
he's playing at a top four or five level in
the NFL. So I'm gonna take Justin Herbert and That'll
probably go terrible for me because I'm.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
The worst at this. Nordo.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Well, I picked Jordan Mason last week when they were
talking about running backs that felt a rushing touchdown sod early.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
I don't know the wrong guy, and we knew at
the time. I mean, we didn't know what you're doing. No,
but see, I thought it was a bit, but it
wasn't a bit, and I liked his angle on it.
It just didn't transpire to get those runs inside the
low red. Well, you gotta start in the high red
to get to the low red. You must go through
the high red and your best and you got to
give your best when your best is required. Typically yes,
(20:37):
but it depends on D and D. So I understand
how we laid that whole thing out low red. We
just didn't get many Mason opportunities in the low rizzle,
didn't get enough ops, not enough ops this week.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
I'm basically flipping a coin between Josh Allen and Jalen Hurts.
And I'm gonna take Jalen Hurts, really because I got
a wide receiver on a live stream talking about dropping
him in Fantasy love this.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Things are negative.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
They just sneaked one out against the Bears on the
or against the Packers on the road in prime time,
yet there's still strife. Things are still negative. Oh yeah,
I want a guy that might throw it, he might
run it in. I want the dual threat aspect of it.
I think the secondary with this with this Lions team
as good as they as good as that team is.
We watched our guy manufacturer three tds against the kiddies
(21:24):
a couple of weeks ago, and I'm sorry for Lions
fan in the house shaking his head. Uh, what Jalen
Hurts is going to do to Dan Campbell's defense should
be felonious in forty eight states, eight of them. That's
what the host would say. That's what I'm going to say.
Jalen Hurts is going to run it up on the
kiddies in Sunday Night.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Football Oki doky, Well, yeah, this is gonna be good.
What the old announcer is gonna do? Right? By the way,
did Fields do anything last night? You had like one
touchdown passing? Yeah you got? He ran one in and
passed point you got? He did too, yeah one of
the Oh geez, I would have gotten ten out of
that super last night on the heat check, which I
knew was gonna happen. Jam All right, Well here's the deal, McCarthy,
(22:05):
do it, all right? Do it? You know when fantasy
football doesn't really mean that much to you, that would
be me. Just don't have the time during the week.
Got a lot of other things going on. Uh, And
I also love fantasy basketball. Nordo and I are in
a fantasy basketball league and it's league freak is life.
Growing up in Washington, d C. I was always a
(22:26):
marketly bigger NBA fan than I was a NFL fan. Wow.
So we're looking at NBA box scores. We're trying to
figure out why Dylan Brooks scored thirty something last night?
Who in the heck Jeremiah Robinson earl is and does
he need to be on my team? I picked the
wrong pacer and that's that and and Lonzo Ball's getting
cut by the con and I'm thinking about picking him up,
(22:47):
but I don't want to ruin my waiver spot. It's
too early for basketball. That's how seriously I and Nordo
take fantasy basketball. Now. Fantasy football is the most popular
of all fantasy sports ever to be a fantasy sports
I get it. He's gonna pick Caleb Williams. So of course,
of course when there's something about which I care little,
(23:07):
certainly I'm not betting on well, of course I'm gonna
be on fire. Of course. Of course it's Uh, it's
gonna work the right way every single week because I
ain't got no money on it or no emotional wherew'th
all locked into it? So we're gonna do it heat
check right now with my quarterback. I have fifty four points,
Nordo has twenty eight. Uh the Athletic Intheathletic dot com. Uh,
(23:28):
don't forget to subscribe for under two dollars twenty two points.
I am going to take in heat check like fashion
the kid. You gotta do it. Cleveland Brown's quarterback Dylan
Gabriel terrible pick. Wow, I'm take watch Dylan Gabriel this
week and go ahead and second, guess it. Nobody wants
(23:50):
to watch that. Their eyes they're gonna be stinging. Well,
are we sure he's playing right? Maybe? Yeah, well let's
see Harry Man and though yeah, Deshaun Watson, I mean
he never plays. Who do they play? It seems like
they hate Shador the Ravens. Yeah, of course, Oh my,
I can't believe you just did that. Brought tea check time.
We're just well, I tried to take Fields last night,
(24:13):
who ain't great and he would have gotten ten points.
So we're gonna take Dylan. I know Abri, I know
London was a pigment of our imagination. Yeah, considering we
were in Europe for a million weeks. Yeah, but you
saw him in that game of course. Oh. I watched
all twenty two of his last seventy five snaps just
(24:33):
to get squared away for iye hoop and they're terrible.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
See this whole thing to a heat check. He's getting
cocky about it. Whether it was you know, let me
pick justin Fields that was cocky Pa yesterday. He's doing
this because he has a huge lead and he wants
to make sure by the time we get the Buffalo
wild Wings egan in early January that this is even
still a thing that we can do on a weekly basis.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
So you're like the NFL refs when they see the
game slipping the way they get that yellow, just toss
it right out there.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Fair point. No, he's the unfair point. He's the Scott
Foster of this fantasy football bit. He's the extender. And
that's why he's picking Dylan gabs So here's the deal.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
If we're betting on this, I'm taking Josh Allen, Okay,
but we ain't betting on it. We're having fun with
I hop in honor of Paul as in Paul Charchi
and so, and you've got a few points to spare you.
Alex Lewis takes Justin Herbert, who could run one in
and throw four. Nordo takes Jalen Hurts, who could run
two in and throw three. I take Dylan Gabriel, who's
(25:31):
gonna do nothing but fumble and throw interceptions. And this
is a full fledged heat check in the old announcer. Now,
it's absolutely Briell. Right, Let's look at it this way.
From the final five minutes of this segment, gentlemen, quarterbacks
are the bill of fare within honor of Paul this week,
so yours truly has charged the surrogates to rank their
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top three NFL quarterbacks they would like to have for
the next ten years. And why top three quarterbacks that
alec and or Nordo would like to have for the
next decade? And why let's jump on over to the
Athletic and Theathletic dot Com desk and a courtesy of
(26:16):
Steve's Appliances. By the way, Steve's Appliances provides Alex Lewis
for nine to noon each and every Friday. How are
you gonna rank it? Alick? Yeah, Joe Flacco would be first.
Are you going three two one or one two three?
I'll go three two one. I guess all right, three
two one, This is tough. I would go justin Herbert Free,
(26:41):
Drake May two, Josh Allen one?
Speaker 4 (26:46):
Am I leaving out Mahomes? And that's dumb? But Mahomes
is what thirty two years old? So ten years and
now is gonna be forty two?
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I get it. Mahomes is thirty two already? Is it really?
I think? Oh no, maybe I'm wrong with that. I'll
look it up.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
You talk thirty might be If he's twenty eight, then
Patrick Mahomes should be in there.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Drake May is hard to leave off this list.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
Like it.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
The smoothness with which this guy plays. I mean, I
know they played the Jets last night, but the arm talent,
just how confident he looks, how grounded he is as
a kid with three older brothers, coming from North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Like Patrick Mahomes is thirty years of age, thirty years
so he'd bet. I didn't think Drake May was that
great last night, but then again, I fell asleep middle
of the second quarter when he heaved up that punt
that should have been intercepted by two Jets. One of
them was like stickler sticker or something like that, and
he got hurt. I was like lapping. I just I mean,
(27:41):
I will tell you this.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
After the first day of joined practice's at TCO Performance Center,
I was texting with the Vikings coach who said that
guy is a franchise player, and there was pretty obvious
and clear at the time after seeing him one day
out there. Just the the size, the arm talent, the durability,
the mental makeup. It's hard for me not to have
him in there and then Josh Allen. He might be
(28:04):
twenty seven or something, but it's hard for I mean,
he would be on my list, so I know I'm
bouncing around.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
A little bit like that. Those will be my three,
all right, So we go Herbert into Drake May into
Josh Allen for Alec what about you, Nordo.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
Well, this is difficult and it's gonna end up being
really boring because watching Drake May last night, I saw
a little bit of Yeah, it's getting around, but it's
a group effort. Like he needed Travion, he needs that defense,
he needs opportunistic chances. But he's very good. I mean,
Drake May proving himself maybe to be the best of
that crop. Right, So loving on Drake May ten years,
(28:40):
he's so young, you believe that he'll send I'm gonna
be super boring, man. I'm going Herbert three, Allen two,
and Mahomes. Yeah, with the with the way Mahomes throws,
with the way he moves. I know the ankle bits
have been an issue. He'll have to run less over
the course of time.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
He's magical. Mahomes, That's it. I almost like just didn't
want to include Mahomes because it's too obvious. I mean,
he's he's that guy.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Like I I've got a bunch of Chief fan friends
from my time living in Kansas City, and they're always like,
I don't know what we're gonna do with the third
receiver spot. I'm my guys, it doesn't matter when you
have that guy.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
So I like your three.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
But but Herbert Herbert is interesting because before the year,
I don't know if i'd.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Have him there, but I absolutely I wouldn't have. But
I when I watch him play, Yeah, the amount that
he's doing for that team, it just blows me away.
I Mean, the night we saw him in La I
was just I mean, I'm marveling at his strength, his athleticism.
It's impressive. It's course to be in that spot too.
The confidence he showed when he got back Joe Alt
(29:42):
that night, I mean it was in hand, in command
and in charge. So he loses all and he still
is continuing to play fast, So he's even at the
stage of his career, you know, which you know, kind
of ties into the the JJ mccarr dorothy related conversation.
Justin Herbert wasn't what we're talking about until this year,
(30:06):
And I don't know many years he's into the league,
maybe maybe five something like that, five years, right, But
it takes time. It just takes time. And with Herbert
he always had the skill set. Macarthy has the skill set.
It just takes time to simmer.
Speaker 4 (30:20):
Yeah, it does take time, but five years is a
long time. It like that is that takes more time
than one regime typically gets.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I mean, that's just like the reality of it.
Speaker 4 (30:31):
So that's the the hard balance of this is if
it's gonna take three to five years, that's understandable from
a developmental timeline, but regimes typically don't have that long
to observe that amount of development. It's just one thing
that I've been thinking about a lot.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Well.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
I would also say, though, in fairness, Herbert, while he
is ascended to a new level this year and has
entered this sort of conversation, right, he was better year
two and year three. This was a guy where Chargers
fans are constantly questioning, can we even roll this kid
out there?
Speaker 1 (31:05):
He's going to dagger our own team with his massive mistakes.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
He found his way to a comfortable spot and has
continued to grow from there.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
So with respect to JJ and I'm believing in it,
I'm patient.
Speaker 5 (31:17):
I want this thing to happen, but number nine has
to find that essentially well, if for NOA, I mean
no other way than just being on the freaking field
and staying healthy.
Speaker 4 (31:26):
Justin Herbert his first season as a rookie forty three
hundred yards, thirty one touchdowns, ten interceptions, sixty seven percent complete,
and he kind of he was he was.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
He came out of the gates firing. That's how the
team do well. The talent wasn't nearly what it is here.
It wasn't my question. He had Keenan Allen, who might
be Hall of Fame next seven and nine with Anthony Lynn. Okay,
all right, but he didn't have Justin Jefferson. Yeah, the
the knock on Herbert really up until last year this year,
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he wouldn't go outside the numbers. He just he does
not have a super strong arm. I would really strongly disagree. Well,
the I'm telling you from coaches who schemed against him
for years, like three years, it was he won't go
outside the numbers. So was that strength maybe accuracy though,
good babe, maybe those throat maybe meshinge strength with accuracy
(32:18):
that it was all? It was middle of the field
ish stuff, and you were able to suck him into
things where he'd be like, all right, I gotta throw outside.
Then he would think about it, it would be closed,
he'd go back into the middle of be incomplete. So
it was just confusing that extra beat. Uh, but he
makes all the throws now.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
Well, he's also six five, two thirty and like the
strength in the pocket is the thing. When you watch
him on film, it just blows you away. Like it's
really hard to tackle him. He takes a ton of
hits and hasn't gotten.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Hurt this year.
Speaker 4 (32:50):
Specifically, his running is the bomb, and so like, I mean,
that's that's the thing. You look at a lot of
these guys. It's six five two thirty and and and
to play with the strength in the pot it's often required.
But I I you're right though, like it it takes
time for these guys to get acclimated to the game speed,
to be accurate, to be consistent.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Like it takes time. Confidence confidence, yeah, and and confidence
in those around you.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
And no question, I mean it, there's no there's no streamlining,
shortcutting the development of this of the hardest position in sports.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Just hard to do it. But but there are there
are moments, there are benchmarks where all right, we're ten
into it, what have we seen? All Right, we're fifteen
into it. All right, we're twenty into it, you know.
And then that's when you start wringing your hands together
because it's like, oh jays, what's happening? Or hopefully you
know it's not like c C. It's a you know
(33:48):
what I mean?
Speaker 4 (33:49):
The hard part in this day and age is there's
such noise every single week, and it's you're either the
greatest or you're the worst of all time. And so
much of it is can you just survive noise to
allow the guy over time to develop. It's it's that's
that's so much of the challenge as well.
Speaker 5 (34:05):
Step one just played ten freaking games in a row. Yeah,
however this season goes, be ready for week one, play
seventeen in a row next year, and then we can
have a much better conversation about number nine.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Well, with with this top three quarterbacks playing now you
would want for the next ten years. Who we heard
about Josh Allen, we heard about Justin Herbert, Patrick, Mahomes
in the mix, drink may in the mix. All understandable. Well, Uh,
there there are three that I think you guys are
dramatically short changing. I probably would put it like this,
(34:39):
I mean, off the contract he just signed. I mean,
Jordan Love has to be in the mix, doesn't he.
You don't give somebody money like that unless they are
a new age Tom Brady Brett faarr. I mean, just
you talk about calculated and cool in big situations and
not throwing it to the wrong team, not throwing it
to the wrong team team at home, and the people
(35:01):
wearing teal just drop it. You talk about handling pressure
with a plumb for like a two hundred and forty
million dollar deal, Well, that guy has to be unbelievably good,
so he has to be in the top three. Secondly,
I mean I can't possibly hear any better things than
I have over the last three days about Caleb Williams. Okay,
so yeah, I mean he's unbelievable, Okay, rarely throws interceptions,
(35:24):
He's run for three touchdowns, not taking sacks anymore. Sounds
to me like a new age Bob Avellini cross with
the likes of a Joe Montana. So Nicks for your third. Well,
and he also was the first overall pick in the
twenty twenty four draft. I mean, who takes something first
overall and they're not of the immortality variety. So halo
(35:45):
this weekend? What's it? It feels like four to seventy
five and four?
Speaker 5 (35:47):
Right?
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I mean I must be who's the other three? But
he should well? Number one is Tyson Beaju probably the
most underrated and underappreciated player in the NFL. I mean
he barely plays, if ever, here a touchdown already this year,
and I think I went to Caleb William It did
go to Caleb Wville. So anyway, Beaijin's got to be
in that top three. Man. The hairs are just hitting
(36:08):
on every single cylinder right now, but I think you're
missing out on bo Nicks. I mean the only first
six six yards down the field. I only got three. No,
that's true, but you got the right three? Well, of
course I do. I mean fact Love should be number
one up that contract. In the way he handles pressure,
Are you idymote Beage? If I'm a Packers fan, I
would already like him more than FARVN Rodgers. I kind
of like beaigent. I'm not like actually, I kind of
(36:29):
like I do too, now that I've know how to
pronounce his name unlike two years ago. All right, it's
the Friday Football Feast. We're back of Buffalo Wild Wings Lakeville.
All right, after this, welcome back to Buffalo Wild Wings
(36:51):
Lakeville for the Friday Football Feast at FM one hundred
point three. K at amout an hour to go in
the presentation and with the next ten minutes, yours surely
is going to I will be in the midst of
Route Nation. I'm gonna come out to the crowd execute
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(37:14):
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(37:55):
just had humanity relating clipping penalties, sans ejections and illegal touching.
None of that has happened either. But nevertheless, Jared is
about the body weight. No, we haven't had any sacks
at least as of yet. But I don't know. Man
is flowing around here, so who knows? Eleven fifty five
(38:15):
right around the corner. So I'm gonna come out to
the crowd, do some bikes bits with the boys, and
that'll be around the corner. But first, who wins and
why we like to do this every so often at
Buffalo Wild Wings. Who wins? And why it's outside of
the Minnesota Vikings covenant. There are some quite compelling games
this weekend. Kansas City's at Denver. That's a fat one.
(38:39):
Green Bay is that the New York Giants. That's actually
not compelling because the quarterback for the Packers is so
good they'll probably win by three touchdowns. All right, So
let's look at it this way. Seattle at the Los
Angeles Rams. Rams are favored by three in this game.
The last time the Seattle Seahawks quarterbacks saw this group
of Rams. Speaking of sacks, well, he took nine of
(39:03):
them down, goes Samba man on the fam. So who
wins and why? Will begin with Alec and I want
to begin with this aside to the game, because as
the kids would say, it's a thing every time you
go to Sofi, the Seattle Seahawks at Lumen, they have
the twelves all right, so the twelves are all loud
(39:26):
and everything. Honestly, I don't know if the twelves travel.
So I just don't know if they travel. Maybe because
they have dispensaries there and they're scared about smuggling stuff
on a flight. But nevertheless, I don't know if they travel.
So do you think you know? Like when the Rams
play the forty nine Ers, it is not only a
forty nine ers home game, it is a loud, raucous,
(39:49):
violent forty nine Ers home game, and they seemingly beat
the Rams at Sofi almost every single time, And I
think that has something to do with it. What about
the chickens when they go to Sofi? Do they like
they can have a home field advantage? I don't think so, right,
It's a great question.
Speaker 4 (40:03):
I would expect that the Seahawks fans, especially with this
specific team, would travel. But I you know, I'm a
Rams I'd picked the Rams in this game. I am
blown away by what they've been able to do. They essentially,
in the span of like five years, they went all in,
traded all their picks, won a Super Bowl, and then
(40:26):
rebuilt the whole.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Thing via the draft and now are in position to
be a Super Bowl contender again. And Matthew Stafford, like we.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
We had, you know, we were just talking about quarterbacks
we take for the next ten years.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Matthew Stafford's too old.
Speaker 4 (40:41):
To be in that kind of category, but he's playing
potentially at the highest level of any quarterback in the
NFL right now. That Seahawks defense is menacing their front
is great. But the plans that Sean puts together, paired
with what Matthew Stafford can do, paired with the front
that the Rams have. The one thing about Sam Darnald
(41:02):
this season, just like last season, he's playing.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
With the lead at all times. Yeah, and so when
he is forced to drop back pass with a pass
dress that can hum at him, can he perform? I
think hopefully you get somewhat of an answer to that.
This weekend. But I the Rams for me would be
the pick in this game.
Speaker 5 (41:19):
You know, it's I think mcveigh's team might be the
best in the NFC right now. I'm with you, like
I just I look at the way that thing is going.
And it's not just I mean I shouldn't say not just.
I mean Stafford is truly playing at an MVP level.
But that defense that we had to deal with in
Arizona for that wild card game is five steps ahead
of even what we saw last January. Kidding me, really,
(41:40):
they are absolutely incredible. They're they're top five in as
many statistical categories as you can throw out. They are
menacing and the thing that I want to see from
Donald you mentioned playing with the lead and all jokes
aside Minnesota Moving Company.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
The nine sacks.
Speaker 5 (41:56):
The combination of having to chase and go punch for
punch was Afford combined with how he handles that heat
from Versing Company.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
You know, this is a seven and two team.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
I get it, and frankly, Seahawks fans should be really
pumped about what they've seen thus far, no doubt about it.
This is a team, by the way, with McDonald, I
think they're like eleven or twelve and one on the
road in McDonald's tenure, short tenure, but all the same
as Seahawks coach. These guys come to play in other
people's buildings. I honestly think this is a touchdown game,
(42:26):
and I think the Rams handle business at so far.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
All Right, now, Detroit the team to beat in the
NFC North Detroit is at Philadelphia, the Eagles who defensively speaking,
how about that Jalen Phillips on Monday Night Football. I mean,
it's yeah, we know who Jalen Phillips is. Yeah, we
talked about him Nordo and I and you and whomever
when he was University of Miami. I think when he
(42:50):
was he was a Cane. It's like, you know, we
had opinions and everything.
Speaker 5 (42:54):
Well, he had that weird career too, where he was
at UCLA before Miami and then he was gonna quit
football like that's him, got into music production and things
like that and then and I think he played.
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Finish with the Canes. Okay, so how a weird winding
road to the NFL. Nobody cared about him when he
wore the teal. Everybody should know who this man is
now wearing that bird on his helmet. Wow was he?
I mean, statistically he didn't like tear it up because
they eventually had to double team him every rush he
(43:26):
was so fast. So Ali Roseman hit on a nice
one at the trading deadline with Jalen Phillips. Their defense
was the bomb the other night against Green Bay. They're
favored by two and a half over the Motor City kiddies.
How you do this one? Yeah, Eagles.
Speaker 4 (43:41):
I don't know how the Lions front offensively will be
able to handle the Eagles defensive line, especially on the
interior like we saw in Vikings lines. When you can
get to Jared Golf early, make him uncomfortable, he starts
to spray passes the clock in his head definitely speed up.
And when you have Jalen Carter, Jalen Phillips, moro ojomo,
(44:04):
this guy has really come on.
Speaker 1 (44:06):
I've got to credit you on that because I was
familiar with the name. But then before they played the Eagles,
you like laid out from the dock like four or
five things about him. I went back and watched it,
Not that I need to corroborate it, but I was like,
who knew, Holy cow, this guy's fast. Well they get
they get rid of or they don't get rid of.
Speaker 4 (44:23):
Milton Williams has an unbelievable playoff performance, becomes a free agent,
signs for a massive deal in New England, and then
they just replace him with this seventh round pick developed
behind him in Moro jama And that's the way I mean.
They are a draft development load up the defensive line,
So that's what I say. And then for the Eagles offense,
(44:44):
they've obviously been reeling.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
I'm not being rude here in my phone when you're talking.
I'm trying because I know from the Vikings game Christian
mahawk and he suffered what yeah, not bad. Dan Campbell
at the end of the game made sound like he's
gonna be out for a long time, and rat Ledge
got hurt. I'm just trying to figure out what their, uh,
the Motor City Moving Company looks.
Speaker 4 (45:03):
Like, even with Christian Mahogany and Tate Rattledge, like that
group was just was not impressive at all. And I
really it's the same with the Packers, Like I just
don't think the offensive lines of these two teams in
the division are remotely close to what they've been and
I feel like the Bears offensive line has really taken
a step and like you know, as boring as it is,
(45:24):
that to me is so indicative of why these teams
are succeeding and not offensively so. And then the Lions
defense they play man coverage. When you do that against
the Eagles, it becomes kind of a disaster. So I
would take the Eagles in that game. Yeah, you you
you hit on a lot of what I wanted to
talk about.
Speaker 5 (45:41):
Their left guard right now, in substitution of Mahogany Coyote Alaostka.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Yeah, that's on the depth chart, but they they haven't
wanted to use him. Uh, they probably started him.
Speaker 5 (45:52):
Because Mahogany's on ir Yeah, but but at that rate,
you know when we were looking at the Jalen Carter
against Coyote, Well here's the thing though with the Ravens,
look at the Vikings for a second, Like that defensive
front of Baltimore was not athletic or game changing enough
to put consistent pressure on JJ McCarthy. So what they
(46:13):
do They got their arms up and then they made
us for two days questioning the kid's arm angle and
what's going on the whole thing, and just many segments.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
It was exhausting. The Eagles front.
Speaker 5 (46:22):
You watched it in the primetime game against the against
the Packers. This front is not only athletic enough to
ruin your day ten different ways, and Goff is not
the most mobile cat on the planet.
Speaker 1 (46:33):
They will also be smart.
Speaker 5 (46:35):
Enough and intelligent enough if they do buy him.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
A bit of time to get their arms up and
bad passes down.
Speaker 5 (46:41):
I think the defensive front, in particular new Cat rolling
off the bus and getting two fumble recoveries and Jalen Phillips,
that's sweet. I like them defensively. I also, and I
know it was ugly on Monday night. I kind of
in some ways felt like that game at US Bank
Stadium in some ways was a get right game for Philly.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
And I wonder how much you know.
Speaker 5 (46:59):
I talk about this with with aj Brown when we
were discussing it yesterday with charts. Some way, it feels
like they thrive off of stress. They thrive off of
tension and frustration. That awful fan base kind of maybe
breeds that inside the building, and I wonder how much
they cling to that. I think they cling to it.
I think they thrive off of it. And I think
they win in primetime against the Lions.
Speaker 4 (47:19):
The other thing for me, DeVante Smith is playing at
a very very high level as a receiver. And I
understand there's all this Aj Brown noise and all that,
but DeVante Smith as a route runner, contested catcher, he
is tiny, but what he's able to do is just
incredibly I just don't know who the Lions have who
(47:40):
can cover him. Maybe DJ Reid's back, I don't. I
don't know that, but I I The Eagles for me,
are forming themselves into the type of team that probably
preseason a lot of people expected them to be.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
Sounds like Philly and the La Rams are preferred by
the analysts and the Friday Football Feast for the who
and why. Yep, back to the vikings around the corner
with bikes. Bikes from Buffalo Wild Wings, Lakeville at FM
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