October 17, 2025 • 50 mins
The Friday Football Feast begins with a preview of the Vikings upcoming game vs the Eagles. Then the Feast talks about some Fantasy Football, as well as the Thursday Night Football game between the Bengals and Steelers.
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
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Speaker 2 (01:23):
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Minsmula Vikings are within one live on the fair second
and eighth for Cleveland from its own thirty nine five
minutes in county to go in the first half. Gabriel
back under center, Titan David and Josh just left and
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rookie wide receiver Isaiah Bond in motion for the right
playoff for Gabriel and he.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
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Speaker 3 (01:55):
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if he gets the full thing lee by Drake Rodriguez
was also in the mid and the Vikings mildly of sack.
This rookie second in goal. Jordan Mason was right of Wentz.
It's a gun run Mason up the middle to the
end Song touchdown. A rushing touchdown by Jordan Mason, and
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the Minnesota Vikings have taken the lead thirteen to ten.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
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Speaker 3 (02:31):
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Speaker 2 (03:16):
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Speaker 3 (03:23):
The Minnesota Vikings a twenty to seventeen lead.
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Speaker 3 (03:36):
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Speaker 2 (04:06):
Welcome.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to the nine to Noon Friday
Football Feast at Buffalo Wild Wings Manticello. The co hosts
or Alex Lewis from the Athletic and Nordo, producer of
nine to Noon.
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off of by and into a game against the World champions.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
That's actually the one a right now.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
The one is this is Nordo's first ride at a
mona Cello Friday Football Feast. I mean mad producers handled
the behind the scenes work each and every Friday for
the a football Feast with me in charge. But he's
heard it from afar, He's known. The crowd is of
the voluminous variety and including those behind us.
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Shout out to those behind us. Far areas packed. Far
area is packed. But now you get to feel it.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
It's Nordo's first ride at a Monty football.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
What do you think? Good morning, all you beautiful people.
Oh my goodness, we got.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
This guy with the shield right here and the chopper
outside looking good, living the part. I love.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
When the confetti went off, I didn't have to jump
under a table.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I love.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I love Monticello. I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I've been sitting back at the studio for a decade
plus and I hear the noise. I hear the most
raucous of Buffalo wild Wings feast attendees every single year.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
It's this spot in Monticello. You represent at a higher level,
and all the feasts are good. All the feasts are good.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
You have created a standard in the twelve years in total,
I should say working with the fan it is unmatched.
You are the best feast crowd and I'm just happy
to be a part of it for the first time
in my tenure.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
So thanks for having me. Monty Go Crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Alex Lewis at ALEC underscore Lewis via the tweet machine
follow him if you are so inclined. He writes about
and covers the Minnesota vikings for the Athletic and Theathletic
dot Com. How about your last three weekends, ma'am. I
mean you're in mana Cello, now Minneapolis over the weekend.
Last weekend it was Spain, the weekend before that it
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was London, and the weekend before that it was Dublin.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Are you excited to be home? I yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
I mean you really realize how special this country.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Is when you're gone for eighteen days.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Hey, for the United States of America. Freedom, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Bye, Mona Cello.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
I mean when you paved the best for the last
of that journey. I mean absolutely, Majorca is nice. You
see the water, you see the mountains, But you come
out to Mona sell you see that Carameou coffee around
the corner. You can't really I know, it makes you
want to come to Monticello more like these people. Look,
it's so welcoming. I walked in, had a couple people
call my name. No one's ever done that in my
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whole life. Wow, it was great.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Hey, Monty, he loves you. What do you think about that?
He loves you?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
For the Minnesota Vikings this weekend, playing the practice or
report game like all three of us do, trying to
figure out who's going to be the quarterback against the
reigning world champion Philadelphia Eagles. They're in town this weekend,
and it's a noon boom on KFA N. I mean
we yeah, we root against the Eagles. We got f
Millie from back in NFC title game days and so
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on and so on and so on the blowout in
that game. But nevertheless, this is a team on a
two game losing streak, and it bears the nine to
noon trio figuring out exactly what goes into said losing
streak and ready for this how we can extend it
to three consecutive losses for the champs?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Ken't I got a witness the Roca's round of applause.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
So playing the practice report game, Carson Wentz and according
to the texting from from alec and or Nordo this morning,
Nordo's first ride Monte and Ali, is this your second
or third?
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I believe this is my third time to Montapel. I
usually write it down after you go back in my
in my notes.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And okay, so Carson Wentz Bizmarck, North Dakota. According to
these guys, one coming from Minneapolis, the other from Jasca,
you would think the drive to the Friday football feast
took us to Bismarck. They're making Monticello sound so far
away from from what we would know and love each
and every day. It's called the scenic route. It's the
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scenic route, no doubt about it. Carson Wentz full and
full at practice. JJ McCarthy limited and limited to practice.
Carson Wentz. I believe there either was news yesterday or
could be new is today that he will be your
quarterback this weekend against the Philadelphia Eagles. Let's begin here
with Alan flewis who will be the backup? If Wentz
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is the starter, who will be the backup? And I
think it's a you know, it's it's a question that
I slash. We rarely asking the games. But when when
the quarter first and foremost, you believe Carson Wentz will
be the quarterback? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Okay, So when when you're coming off a bad shoulder
and you know that that's been kind of the bye
week chatter. I mean, Jalen Carter who has zero sacks,
Jordan Davis, Zach Bond, somebody laying on him and driving
him down the wrong way means maybe for a series
a quarter or the balance of a game. The backup,
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you know, may have some merit in this game. Who
do you think it'll be.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
No, it's a great question. It's a it's a worthwhile question.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You said it.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
But I mean this Carson Wentz non throwing shoulder injury
is not insignificant.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I mean, and he took a ton of hits in.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
That first game against the Steelers where his ribs, I
mean took a beating. He couldn't even play golf that
week with teammates and where England because of how much
he was hurting, and and so this shoulder, you know,
it's a very serious deal. I would expect the backup
to meet Max Brosmer. Kevin O'Connell will get asked this today, Yep,
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he'll probably get asked as well whether that means JJ
McCarthy is the emergency.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Quarterback press conference at about two o'clock carried on KFA
and you'll get all the info.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
But yeah, I expect Max Brosmer.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
To be the backup, just because if JAJ McCarthy's not
healthy enough to be the guy, I can't imagine you'd
have him be one snap away that that doesn't set
him up for optimal success. And that's what they're I mean,
as Kevin said to you and in your conversation with
them earlier this week, like this player means a lot
to him. They want to set him up for optimal
success in the long term, and so I think the
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best approach would be to have Max Brosmer as the backup,
and I expect I believe Max is probably doing as
much study as he possibly can to ensure that if
he's thrown it.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
In the fire, he has prepared for it.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
On Sunday, well, here is what I deemed to be
the rub in the conversation, and Alex wrote about it.
I believe it was the story that posted today. Carson
wentz from stuff he said on Wednesday after the practice,
and Nordo played a clip yesterday during bikes Bites that's
included in this story that Alec wrote at the Athletic
Indeathletic dot com, paraphrasing Carson's like, well, when it comes
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to running, or when it comes to playing the game,
I've been trying to tell myself for ten years that
discretion needs to be the better part of valor. But
you know he didn't say this, but I want that
first down or I want that touchdown, or I want
those extra yards. So just to encapsulate the story and
just knowing what we have seen from Carson or know
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about Carson.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I mean, you can tell my man all you want
in certain.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Situations, slide, slide, run out of bounds, do something like that.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
He may do it eighty ninety percent of the time.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
It's that ten percent about which we need to be
a little concerned this weekend.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
No, I mean, when you're six five, two thirty seven,
you're gonna think that you can absorb hit. The problem
is I mean I looked up from twenty sixteen to
twenty twenty, Carson Wentz took four hundred and sixty five hits,
and I mean this guy's body has just been like
in twenty years from now, I'll be so curious to
see how he's moving around the house with his family,
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just will being fascinated by. But it's not like he
can go into the game with the plan of I'm
not gonna take hits on this left shoulder. Then the
pocket breaks down and your instincts take over and you're
probably gonna take some hits. And so yeah, I mean,
as much as he can try to weed that out.
That would be great, But he joked, like Kevin Sefferd
to ESPN asked him the question of like, do you
think about it a little more, and He's like, yes, always.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
But I've been saying this for.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Ten years, and you go back and read stories from
twenty seventeen and columnists and Philadelphia are writing that he
needs to be more mindful of taking hits. It's just
been kind of the trademark of his whole career at
this point. To expect anything different, I think would be
a little faulty on our end.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Well, you'd be asking Carson to not be the Carson
Wentz exactly that put himself in a spot where he
went nine to nine, gets the game when he touched on.
That's why in some the Brozmer backup. It's interesting in
the respect that that's where JJ McCarthy is.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
That tells you about where JJ's health is, and so
you have twelve as your backup.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
But there is a non zero chance that we see
Brozmer at some point because I'm not saying that it's
an intentional injury situation, but when you're talking about in
one of many ways will break down where the Eagles
aren't doing what we know the Eagles can do. The
Vikings have not done what we know the Vikings can
do or want to do. One of them is attacking
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and sacking the quarterback. And he mentioned Jalen Carter right
out of the gates, whether he's spitting on Dak in
the opener or he's now he has the injury that
finally got him out of the of this most recent
game against the Giants. It sounds like he's going to
be back, of course, but he has been awful in
comparison to the expectations that were put upon him based
on his rookie season. So the it's it's not about
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trying to intentionally injure Carson, but if they get to him,
they're gonna make him feel it.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
And and that's just part of the game, right.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
And so with that shoulder being not insignificant as you're
saying the backup conversation sadly given the quarterback, I mean,
just the adventure we've had through five games, well it
actually matters, it actually plays in. So Carson wants those
instincts take over. I would imagine you still see him scramble,
and we're gonna be wincing a little bit on Sunday
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at us Bank Stadium and hoping he comes out of
that pile.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Up right quick, quick hit or quick twitch.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
If if you knew you had to use a backup
in this game, who would you prefer to use and why?
For Nordo, Max Brosmer or Josh Dobbs, I would come on,
it's a dob trick. He's been in the league eight
or nine years. This is not a playing question, but
I love it.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Well, yeah, I mean, if if it's if I hadn't seen.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Dobbs before, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs.
But leta da da, Yeah, it's Rosmer's. It's absolutely Max Brosmer. Now,
I will say Dobbs gave us a game and a half.
Dobbs gave I mean, he took five years off the
head coach's life. When he's running that touchdown in and TJ.
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Hawkinson standing in the end zone saying.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Hello, I think I cheered in the press box in Atlanta,
almost got Maxford intial revoked.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
And then he gave us that first half against the
Saints and almost lost the game, but Jamis Winston gave
us the ball a couple times and we got out alive.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, yeah, MaTx brozmer go for of course. Ber. Okay.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Now, by the way, speaking to the Gophers, they host
the Nebraska corn Huskers this evening, I'm going you're going
to the game in Huntington Banks Stadium. I'm going on
Inton Makes Day. Now, were you going to the game
before we secured the ten o'clock guest? Former Vikings offensive
lineman Jeremiah Searles, who also played for the corn Huskers,
works with their pre and post game show, and we're
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gonna talk about Kings in NFL with Jeremiah, but he'll
be on at ten o'clock. Where you were you going
to the game before that? Or did the did the
ten oh three get you that fired up? Well, I'm
going to tailgate. We'll see if I make it in
the I mean, this could be, this could be We're
back in America.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
This could be a wild, wild strong arm by the
marketing director. Yeah, a little bit, but it should happen.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
I will say, can you imagine the Gophers Drake lindsay
they get this done against Nebraska Prosber has.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
To go I mean, this could be the ultimate Gophers weekend.
You might be you might be sitting next to throat
between Throsmer and cash Man. I mean, I'm PJ. Fleck.
I'm gonna have to text them MAV Monday morning. Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Now, from the from the injury reports for both teams
through yesterday, I find fastests of it to be fascinating.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
First and foremost, there could be some negativity for the Vikings.
We'll get into that momentarily. Uh, But yours, truly, I
think I may have taken a massive speculative related l
yesterday nine to noon where quin Yon Mitchell their best corner.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
He leaves the Giants game, he has a swoon over
his hammy. They list him as limited, and I'm like, nice.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Try guys, fast surface nailer Addison Jefferson, Nice try guys,
Like he's gonna play in the next game with a hammy. Well,
he went full with this practice yesterday, So it looks
like the Roses off and a coven of cleanups required
for yours truly. But with the Vikings injury report, Grenard
popped up on it yesterday with a hamstring that wasn't
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there Wednesday.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
I don't think no, And I did not expect that
at all when he was he was limited. I believe
with it with the hamstring, this is major. I haven't
I haven't reached out to anybody about it. Was kind
of just gonna wait to see what Kevin O'Connell says today.
He was in the locker room yesterday, seemed like the
same energy that he usually has, and he was walking
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a little bit, you know, or it was walking throughout
the locker room, so it would be I mean, Jonathan Garnard,
you cannot overstate.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
His impact on this defense in.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
The run and pass, specifically the run in a game
where they're gonna have to stop the run.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
He is. He is.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
So if you remove him from you know, the puzzle
that they want to put together on Sunday against this
Eagles offense, it becomes it becomes a challenge.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Well, Van Ginkel has returned to practice, he's limited. Limited
personally speaking, I'm not counting on him this weekend.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I'm with you, okay.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Now, Grenard goes from a zero problem full practice to
limited and limited, you know as subjective unless you're watching
every second. Limited means he could literally walk out on
the field. Play catch with somebody and then go back
to the locker room and you have to list limited
because you were out there. But from from no problem
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to a limited on Thursday. We'll get the answer today
at two o'clock from Kevin O'Connell. I believe with the
press conference. But if Gernard doesn't play, your edge guys
are Dallas Tyler Battie and Bo Richter and maybe Gabriel Murphy.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Against Lane Johnson and Jordan Mylotto. It's not not quite
the approach you'd want. I we'll see on Gernard though,
because I mean he's played through even this year. I
mean there's been some stuff in game where he looks
you're You're like, is that a serious injury? He goes
to the sidelines, he's in the medical ten, what have you,
and then he comes right back out there two plays later.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
And this guy.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
You know this, Pa, because you've been at these press
conferences going back months, But I mean Jonathan Garnard has
been on a mission going back. Yeah, you know, from
the beginning of the season. I I tweeted this stat
last night. He has the most quick pressures of any
pass rusher in the NFL. I mean again, I I don't.
You cannot overstate is that a Pro Football Focus number?
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That's a next gen static numbers.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I bring it up.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I say that because I have a feeling of ten
oh three. We're gonna get Ryola, this, Drake lindsay that,
break Blake Brandell, this Donovan Jay And oh, by the way,
PFF is garbage. I'm not saying that, but I think
Jeremiah Serlz is gonna say it. He's negative. I tat
the PFF grade thing.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I mean, we might have honestly talked about it last
year in Monticello. Like, you just can't take the PFF
grades as gospel. You just can't do it. That's why
you have to watch the film argue with it. And
you don't know assignments. You don't know what they're being
asked to do. You don't know which gap the player
is supposed to be in. Yeah, and while the PFF
grades have been built by a lot of former coaches,
it's just a very imperfect measure.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
It's a fine one. But if you take that as gospel, Blake.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Brandell had a fifty six PFF grade, so that's who
he is. You're just that's just faulty and foolish and lazy.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
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Thank you very much for alec Lewis's inclusion. Nordo, what
version of the Eagles will we get Sunday at noon?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:35):
I think it's it's it's a version that it's going
to be an absolute onslaught early and I don't mean
that we're talking up by three scores, get run out
of the building.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I just mean you're going to have an.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Urgent team with a baby buy fresh off of two
consecutive losses, one of which, yeah, it's it's it's difficult
because the way we look at a schedule in May
or June or July up until the opening night kickoff,
you know, I imagine and that the Eagles are looking
at the Giants as a couple of free squares on
the board and for them to go in and truly
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in the way.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
That we talked about it.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
For instance, in the Falcons game, the Eagles being out
muscled and actually playing a team like the Giants, and
Brian Burns had a day and Abdull Carter still trying
to find his way but in the end being outclassed
and out muscled by the freaking Giants and Evan Jackson
Dart and Cam Scataboo clowning on you.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I mean, that's disastrous. And they can't even get along.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
They got team meetings and saying certain people are there,
but then it's not being corroborated like the infighting again,
the Eagles being their own worst enemy. But I think
that the early urgency from the team is what I
anticipate seeing. Now, can they fix every single issue in
one game. I don't believe that they can, which makes
this game as intriguing as it is. But I believe
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specifically early it's kind of a Saquan or Bust like.
I honestly feel that that is going to be a
super early focus for them is how quickly they can
just find some.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Morsel at twenty twenty four in that run game.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Again, the things that they haven't been doing that make
them the defending champs, there's a long list and a
top that list, and why they've had the struggles they
have is their inability to move men in the at
the line of scrimmage and to get Saquon and those
explosive plays.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Without those, they are not going to win the division.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
I mean, that's how brutal the run game is, and
so I would anticipate early on that it's that kind
of title wave, and then how we handle that will
probably dictate what the end of Sunday's game looks like.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
What version of the reigning World champions will the three
and two Minnesota Vikings welcome into Minneapolis Sunday at noon
on kfam Aj Brown and Devonte Smith. They're two best
receivers currently with career lows with yards per catch, they're
both about eleven and change. Saquon Barkley three and a
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half yards per run. That's close to a career low.
He has a one to eight when he was with
the Giants, but played a couple of games. Alex Lewis
at Alec underscore Lewis via x What version of the
Eagle should we expect this weekend?
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Yeah, I mean I view this as like a two
prong thing. It could either be an Eagles team that
wants to prove to the world that the national narrative
that they're kind of in disarray is false. Or it
can be an Eagles team that is just actually in
disarray and they've just lost it. And for me, it's
gonna be very curious to see which side of the
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coin we see on Sunday. I do to Nordo's point,
the run game, the Eagles run game against the Vikings
run defense, for me, is the game if if the
Eagles have to throw at Jalen Hurts and drop back
time and time again against a Brian Flores defense that
is mixing it up and keeping him way off his game.
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In terms of Jalen Hurts, I would have no confidence
in the Eagles being able to move the football that way.
But if they have the run game, and if they
can do I mean it's crazy. You think back the
Vikings played the Eagles in twenty twenty three. DeAndre Swift
ran for one hundred and seventy five yards that day.
It was the worst run defensive performance of Brian Flora's
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time with the Minnesota Vikings. If you look at any
of the advanced metrics now the Vikings in that game,
we're trying to do some weird defensive structures that they
have not.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Showed ever ever since.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Yeah, So I just like, I'm not gonna be surprised
if we get their Sunday afternoon and first down, the
Eagles have the football their first possession and the Vikings
have six men on the front and they are like,
you are not running the football. Jalen Hurts has to
beat us that. That would be the way that I
expect them to play the game. And if they are
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able to force the Eagles into a drop back game.
You side with Brian Floras ever every for you know,
every time.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Perch the Super Bowl fifty nine MVP in that game
win for one to ninety three one in one. But
he did have two rushing touchdowns against the Vikings. And
when it comes to stopping the run and you're talking about,
you know, a bear front would be five defensive linemen.
If you're saying five or six, I can understand what
you're saying. Two of those would be Jonathan Allen and
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Javon Hargrave. And one of Alec's most recent stories at
the Athletic. In fact, like Middle of the Week was
respectfully requesting more from Alan and or Hargrave.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Yeah, I mean it's hard to evaluate what they've been Like,
I just feel like opposing offenses have gotten the ball
out pretty quick, so it's really hard to evaluate from
a past rush standpoint. But I mean it just for me,
as I evaluate it, it is like pretty clear they
there hasn't been a ton of sack production. Javon Hargrave
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has two sacks, Jonathan Allen has none.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I can look at all of it.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
I can watch the film, I can look at the
win rate metrics all this stuff, but you just you
kind of need them to show up and pop for
you a little bit more and then the run defense
just has to be better.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
That's Alex Lewis.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
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Speaker 2 (27:16):
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Speaker 3 (27:17):
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Speaker 4 (28:47):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
By the way, one of our frequent contributors to the
Friday Football Beast, Jack Greenway, sadly couldn't be here this week.
He left coming up to Monticello. Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
But it certainly is for good reason.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
He's not obligated to a joined the Friday Football Feast,
but nevertheless he enjoys it. And he's in Lexington, Kentucky
while with his daughter Madden for their official first visit
because she's going to be on a full ride to
be a game changer for the Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball team.
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So that's why Chad Greenway is not with us this week.
But nevertheless, we have Young Alec and we have mad producer,
yours truly, Paul Allen, Buffalo wild Wings, Monticello and Good Morning.
We do a segment each and every week to honor
the decade and a half co host of the Friday
Football Feast Paul Charchiam, how you doing, Paul Charchian who
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relocated to Utah. And and it's a fantasy segment we
call I Hop in honor of Paul, So the I
Hop segment this week focuses on tight ends. And by
the way, Alick probably doesn't know this because he was working,
but maybe Nordo heard it yesterday. Coveny cleft for charge.
By the way, he came on the nine to new
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radio show yesterday and he touted tight in Noah Fant
for Cincinnati scoring a touchdown, and Fant scored a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Ain't nobody, I'm not picking up Noah Fan.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
But well how about you hitting? You hit Rogers with
three touchdowns? He threw four last night. Yeah, but this
is in honor of the other Paul.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
You haven't even mentioned Joe Flacco and Aaron Rodgers is
going to the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Noah Fan ain't going anywhere close to it. Probably not.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
That's a heck of a towel by Paul Charchi. And
but that was a bit of a sweat last night
though he had to get there. Now.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
He had two for fourteen, I think at one like
late in the game before he got a couple in
that score.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
How about how about how crotchety old people got last
night when left tackle guy pushed him down talking about
Aaron Rodgers. If you haven't seen it on a highlight
or social media, long touchdown, Rogers celebrating left tackle seventy seven.
He's so excited. Sometimes big people can't control themselves. He
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pushed Rogers. Rogers went down, popped up and like pushed
the guy and yelled at him.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
He was probably like trying to get you know, like
celebrate with Rogers.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I want this guy to like me, and it just
made easy. Maybe I could be friends. Yeah, yeah, And
he's just like he was not had.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
My ten year old came downstairs last night and watching
the game and she saw and it was slow motion
of Rogers doing this after his touchdown.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
She's like, Dad, he's a little old to be in football.
Isn't like he's getting there?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (31:28):
How about Flacco on the scramble though, Yeah, Flacco on
the zone read for thirteen.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
We're trying to figure out if Carson can help himself.
Flacco looked so crotchety last night, riding in slow motion
for the first down. Blaco wouldn't crack a smile on
the bench.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
And then there was one time that they had a
third down Flaco either missed a guy or a guy
ran the wrong route, walks off the field. He's been
there like five minutes and he's yelling at coach Zach Taylor. Hey.
I mean it's like, I mean, Joe, I think Joe's
so bored with like, oh I'm here, Well now I'm here,
I'm traded here.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
But I mean, like, what an unbelievable He's been there
ten days and he just torched the Steelers defense.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
And you have Mike.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
Tomlin mad and Andrew Berry for trading the guy who
was I mean, it's the AFC North is I mean
this people you talk about Crotchety.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
I feel like that whole division is everyone's on edge
right now. Flacco has beaten Tomlin with three different teams. Wow,
he had all those years of course with the Ravens,
and then he beat him with the Colts two or
three years ago, and now he beat him with the Browns.
And the Steelers are probably gonna be just fine in
that division. It's still wonky, it's still weird. I think
there will be an expiration day with this Flacco thing.
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But if he just keeps he just decided, oh you
guys got Jamar Chase and I could just throw it
within five yards and he's gonna catch him.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Well, here's the thing I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Why does it always feel like Jamar Chase is wide
open within five yards and Justin Jefferson it's never happened
one time?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Well, why why is it that drastically different? Well, I
mean I and I was wondering that last night too.
But but when you when you employ Jalen Ramsey. Okay,
Jalen's gonna sell all week. I got him, dog, I
got him, got you, got you, got you dog, I
got him a facts dog. I mean he's gonna sell
that the entire way match, Okay, Jalen rams I mean
(33:15):
while what Jamar Chase did to Jalen Ramsey last night
should be a felony in forty eight days, it's penalties.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
I mean, Jamar Chase is a dog man. What a
nice way.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
And it's not like I promise nobody ever singles Justine
that's wild.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
Well that's right, and it's not at all a shot
at anybody Justin or the Vikings at all. It just
I just as like a fan of football. It's like,
why is this guy always open within five yard now?
And then Justin it feels like he's having to run
the greatest route of all time ever to run and he.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Gets the ball. It's just interesting.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
So you think Zach Taylor is a better play designer
than Kevin O'Connell, like what I gathered from, Like see.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
That that was the thing.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
It's like if anybody took that like that is the
most absurd I think Zach Taylor has. The only reason
Zach Taylor's offense has evolved is because they hire Justin Riscatti,
who has taken some of the concepts Kevin O'Connell utilizes
with Justin Jefferson applied them to JOm Mark.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
I thought that anyways, that hideous Bengals O line though,
standing up for the old you gotta take a shot
at Riisner like that, because they were a freaking disaster
and we got to see it at US Bank Stadium.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
But you put the forty one, forty year old guy
back there and suddenly it's the problem. It's nineties cowboys.
We could talk about the game for an hour. I
really believe us three he could just go back and forth.
I mean, Flacco, I was.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Proud, I was happy for you.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Well, I'm going back and forth because I don't want
to get through this fantasy bit.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Well, but Flacco, what what I believe he's doing Because Flacco,
I think most consider Fringe MVP guy. I was friend
Hof guy. All right, So he's a you know, he's
a super Bowl MVP. Well that right there elevates just
so far, but not doesn't get you in Eli Manning
two times super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
But he's not a fantasy feast kind of guy. For
the for the sake of the I hop.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Segment, I think he's got to be Hof though I
think so too. But a lot of people say Fringe
or maybe a little above Fringe or mid As Allen
and the marketing director would say. But nevertheless, with Flacco,
you got one super Bowl, one super Bowl MVP. It's
nearly a decade and a half ago with the Ravens.
What I think Flaco's doing now is he's establishing with
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those who vote for the Hall of Fame. I ain't done,
and I can be in a nationally televised game against TJ.
Watt and Jalen Ramsey and Darius Slay and Peyton Wilson
and the rest of these dogs. And I can only
be there a week and a half, and I'm gonna
run up a bunch of yards on him. I'm gonna
put Chase and Higgins each on a hundred or excuse me,
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chasing Brown and then Higgins on a big game.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
I can still do it. I think he's really really
enhancing his Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Greg Well, I'm so glad you mentioned that, because let's
go back to the softy from Seattle conversation a couple
of days ago. First of all, his Mariners might be
cooked after him joining the show. About that, but to
the end of what he stated about Russell Wilson, two
different pathways. So Flacco has gone on and I forget
now it's Jets, it's Broncos, it's Colts, it's Brown, it's
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now Bengals. Of course, so five six different teams. I
don't have his PFR stuff in front of me. He
has only enhanced as he has gone on. He's proven
himself sturdy, veteran, he can go and win games. You
laid all of that out beautifully. On the other end
of it, another fringe Hall of fame guy in Russell Wilson,
who all those terrific years like that and has been
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a complete freaking disaster. Flacco's moving on. It's like, oh,
you guys got that stud receiver. Yeah, I can hit
him fifteen times in a game that's perfect, and Russ
has just their fan base was booing him. I think
the coach crawled into the blue tent to drag a
potentially concussed Jackson dart out of the tent because I
just don't want to see Russell Wilson on the field.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
And I employ you you got a doctor from like Jamaica,
Queen's Performance Center, Orthopedic Performance Center, just getting lamb basted
by day after they bow Russ saying where's the guy?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
When's Jackson coming back?
Speaker 5 (37:04):
I do think though, like the Hall of Fame, some
of it is narrative insurance. Yeah, some of it is
narrative in perception and how you're viewed. And I like,
even after the game, Joe Flacco, He's on the broadcast
and it felt like like he was endearing just to
see the whole thing, And I definitely think that's a.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Part of it.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Yeah, I think, you know, last night was a was
a sports night where old guys unite. I mean, old guys,
let's go out there and show the spring chickens what
we and they still can do. Rogers four touchdowns, Flaco
full of fastballs, just just beating Mike Tomlin in a
nationally televised game. And Max Scherzer for the Toronto Blue
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Jays forty one years of age. They didn't even have
him up for the last series against the Yankees, even
though reports are he was ready to go. Schurzer comes
out there with that noon to six curveball last night
and multi colored eyes trying to look like David Bowie.
I mean, you talk about dog immortality. Holy cow, Old
guys unite.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
There was a snapshot two of him jawing at the
manager who came out there, I believe and tried to
They were either gonna mount visit or I didn't.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Watch the game. I saw a clip, but yeah, all
three of these got it.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Is cool.
Speaker 5 (38:16):
Honestly, as a as a young guy watching it, you
just have an unbelievable amount of respect for Aaron Rodgers,
Joe Flacco, sers.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Of these guys do not have to be doing it.
I mean, beaver injury issues, you get been around forever.
It's a different breed man.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
Dogs come out in the big spots, an opportunity to
do this for the rest of your life.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
It's cool.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
It's cool that they still want to do it. I
hop in on or a pall as in Paul Charchi.
It's a fantasy feast. This will be the fourth one
we've done. What we do is we go position by
position offensively. We rotated weekly.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
We are on tight ends. We each pick one.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
It's only a touchdown bit six points for a rushing
or receiving touchdown for for a passing touchdown. And after
Jackson Smith in Jigba like a month ago the feast
before the Bengals game, Jackson Smith and Jigbud did a
number on us, did a metaphorical jig on us for
Alec Lewis, he took the lead. Alex has sixteen points.
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I have twelve, Nordo has ten. We still have a
lot of a lot of eye hopping to do.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 5 (39:22):
Seeing I was seeing columns in the newspaper about the
I hop.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
In the be on the AGA page.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Do you know what that is?
Speaker 2 (39:28):
I do? Yeah, okay three? Two?
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Uh So we go to tight ends this week, Nordo's
in last. I'm in second last, So Nordo gets the
opportunity to pick first. Which tight end are you going
to use? And why? Well, we're going to talk about
a tight end next segment in Trey McBride when we're
talking a little bit about the pack.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
But I'm not taking Trey mcwow. I'm already annoyed by this.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Week seven? This is It's just I can't find the
right answer.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
So I'm just I'm going to go with a guy
who has four touchdowns this year, and I'm curious.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
I don't know if Cede Lamb's going to come back,
but I think if he.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Does, that impacts George Pickens much more than it impacts
this guy. I think Dak Prescott has a terrific connection
with a Jake Ferguson of it and this weekend and
what might be a fantasy feast the Commandos and the Cowboys,
Ibra Flus's defense is going to potentially keep Dak throwing
because Ibra Flus and that group.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Is dreadful bad, And I think Jake Ferguson.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
Is going to uh do me a solid and he's
gonna find his way into the end zone for the
Cowboys this week.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
I'm tripping. Who do they play the Commanders. That's a
good pick.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
They play the Commanders defenses is slowly Commanders.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Yeah. They've given up three tight end touchdowns this year,
which is middle of the pack. The uh the Eagles
have given up five, so basically won a game. The
Steelers have given up six. Should win Hawkinson to play
into two charges. Elite tout nine to Noon yesterday, who
touts Noah Fan Fannin's kind of are fan.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
You know fan works with that with that combination of
Chase and Higgins if they just can get the right answer.
I don't know if it's fant long term Yaceibus or
whatever the heck that other guys Yoshavas, Joashavas, but it
was a good talp by Charge, no doubt the Elite
now Jake Ferguson, No, I'm second.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
You know what, I'm gonna take a tight end. I mean,
this is a touchdown game, and I'm taking a guy
who runs up a bunch of yards and never scores touchdowns.
But the Green Bay Packers have been leaky against tight
ends all year.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
They've given up a fair amount of yard dish to
tight ends. Four touchdowns allowed by Green Bay two tight ends.
So yeah, Jacoby Brissette doesn't have a ton around him.
I'm not a big Marvin Harrison junior. Guy might not
play with a concussion. Marvin Harrison junior, Marvin Harrison junior.
So man, we're just leaving. We're leaving potentially the offensive
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rookie of the year and one of the better tight
ends in the NFL. I'm gonna take Trey McBride for
the Arizona Cardinals and and I'm hoping to get a
tight end touchdown for the guy really doesn't score that much.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
But here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
Yeah, he got his most receptions of the season and
one of his two touchdowns with Jacoby Brissette last weekend.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
Hey, so oh yes too, Trey McBride. Yeah, one, Trey McBride.
That's a good pick.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
I like that. I got Trey McBride and the leader,
Alex Lewis, just take him. Tyler Warren. I mean it's
not Let take ty Warren.
Speaker 5 (42:28):
And you got Daniel Jones working with shaf Pike and
throwing the Tyler Warren.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
It's a no brainer for me. And I'll see you
guys and pick pick last next week. Looking forward to it.
Speaker 5 (42:36):
What are the Colts playing so tired? They played the Chargers?
They play the Chargers. The Chargers linebackers in La Diane Henley.
I don't know if he's healthy, but he's a really
good middle linebacker can cover. Otherwise, I feel pretty good
about it. Shane Stikeen likes to get this guy the ball.
Daniel Jones is playing very well. They're five and one.
Tyler Warren.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
The Chargers have allowed zero tight end touchdown. There we
go all season.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
Well that even they're the only team in the NFL
to not allow a tight end touchdown all year.
Speaker 5 (43:06):
I don't understand that stat because they haven't allowed one.
That might mean it's bound to happen right now.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
Oh cool, you're the last person Norda and I are
taking to Vegas because we'll roll up next to a
roulette table and you'll go, guys, hey, blacks hit fifteen
consecutive times, it has to be red.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Let's shove all of our chips in.
Speaker 5 (43:26):
And guess look, the odds are the same no matter
if it just hit black or see.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
That's the thing.
Speaker 5 (43:32):
You can't just oh, it's been like this, so it's
gonna be like this, just like the Vikings run defense.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
Speaking of the Packers and Arizona Cardinals, the NFC North
is it's always heated, but it's getting a little congested,
especially if the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Find a way to win this weekend.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Likewise for the Lions against the Bucks, but Green Bays
at Arizona, Arizona is a six and a half point
home underdog.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
We're gonna handicap that game.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
Walking up to former Vikings offensive lineman and somebody who
knows a lot about the Nebraska Cornhuskers, Jeremiah Searles. He
will join us at about ten oh five. This is
the Friday Football mona Cello style on KFA N all right,
(44:29):
welcome back to the Friday Football Feast Buffalo Wild Wings
mona Cello. We want to welcome. I don't think anybody's
in here. I think they're outside on the patio. This
is the absolute biggest Buffalo Wild Wings mona Cello crowd
we've ever had. I mean, it actually is crazy. I
mean the bar area is packed, the area in front
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of us, the dining area, now, these two areas always
are packed, but the patio out there is packed too,
and on said patio, I've been informed are members of
Vikings World Order. Oh, we did, Nordo, And I just
want to give you Covenant collapse for the dedication you
have and uh and from what I'm learning how you
work with people.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
And stuff like that. So my presence of royalty, that's sweet.
Speaker 3 (45:12):
Vikings World Order. God bless all of you and thank
you for your dedication. The NFC North goes a little
something like this. Green Bay is three to one and one,
Detroit is four and two. The Vikings in Chicago each
your three and two. Green Bay is at Arizona this weekend,
the Packers are six and a half point Roads are
to seven.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
Has moved to seven. Yeah, well that's a bit.
Speaker 3 (45:34):
That's a big hook from a six and a half
to a seven, meaning you've got to get an eight
to win.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
That's a lot of money at this stage of the
week that's required to do that.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
So it seems that the maybe the Sharps and the
squares are shipping it in against Jacoby Bursett and who
I happen to like a little bit.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
But nevertheless, seven point spread. What do you think about
this one?
Speaker 4 (45:54):
Rd? Well, you you tasked me Hey, handicap Packers Cardinals,
and so I'm going into it naturally as a Vikings fan,
trying to figure out ways that the Cardinals could win.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
That's a problem. It is a problem.
Speaker 4 (46:06):
I'm glad you started with Brissette, though, I'm wondering if,
in the short term, okay backup quarterback, I think Kyler
Murray in totality is more talented than Jacoby Brissette. I
wonder with Drew Petsing, however, if Jacoby Brissett is the
better QB.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
Interesting for a while. And the reason I bring that
up is did the Cardinals beat the Colts last week
or just push him to the wire? Pushed him to
the on the road, right, Yeah? Thirty one twenty seven
I believe was the final Well yeah, I mean that
that counts in this equation what they just did with Bressett.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
I agree, And I think what Petsing's able to do
is he's able.
Speaker 4 (46:42):
To work under center a lot more absolutely first the
shotgun of Kyler Murray, which then means with the under
center you're able to do a more effective play action
and it rings out the numbers.
Speaker 3 (46:54):
I think Kyler is sitting in shotgun like seventy percent
of the time.
Speaker 2 (46:59):
I didn't think about that great take.
Speaker 4 (47:00):
He does play action like twenty two percent of the
time out of shotgun, whereas on Sunday in a vacuum.
It's a single game against the Colts, Brissette was under
center half the time and did play action forty percent
of the time. And so this is going to come
down to can they effectively run the ball. We know
that they already suffered and I'm completely losing the script.
Speaker 3 (47:23):
Rme conn Yeah, it was Connor, That's correct. Yeah, and
they're down on de Mercado. So you got Bam Knight
like Zonovan Michael Carter.
Speaker 4 (47:30):
Yeah, yeah, Michael Carter and Bam and De Mercado still
potentially could play, but he's.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
He hasn't been able to practice. I think he got
nick done and if he plays, he'll just drop the
ball right before the goal. He'll be on the bench.
Speaker 4 (47:42):
If so, I think this is this is actually a sneakier,
more competitive game you think. I think because I do
believe that Petsing and what he wants to do. When
we think about Petsing's trail back to Kevin Stefanski, back
to the Minnesota Vikings, he wants to run the ball,
he wants to do play action, and I think that
Trey McBride is a.
Speaker 2 (48:01):
Guy that has a terrific game this weekend. Now, with
all of that said, yeah, I mean, Jordan Love, it
pains me to do this.
Speaker 3 (48:09):
Jayden Love just so sneaky efficient and if you can
run it all on the Cardinals, I mean just that
all all of floor wants to do is run it
fifty times and then have Jordan Love throw it fifteen
times and.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
Get out alive with a victory. And that's effectively what
he was able to do against the Bengals last weekend.
And from a pressure rate.
Speaker 4 (48:28):
If you look at the Cardinals defense, and I think
in some ways they lack some of the star power.
Denarius Robinson I believe is injured and won't play in
this game, but they lack some of the even you know,
star power on a Bengals defense.
Speaker 3 (48:39):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (48:39):
But all the same, their inability to pressure the QB,
which is one of the lowest rates in the NFL.
They don't blitz a lot, less than twenty percent of
the time, so very unflor is like, I think they
will have trouble if they can get Josh Jacob's moving
downhill the way that he's been able to do for
a large part of this season. So you know, that's
seven points is a ton and there is part to
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me specifically at home, that would love to, you know,
take a peek at that cover.
Speaker 3 (49:04):
But it's gonna be very, very difficult. The run game
on both sides means a ton. Allan Hey, Govenant claps
for that.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
That was the shotgun, the shotgun to under center.
Speaker 6 (49:14):
That was.
Speaker 5 (49:16):
That's like you've been you've been in the NFL Pro.
You've been looking at some you know, sixteen dollars a
month for stats. Dad had and Molly asks why I
pay for it?
Speaker 3 (49:26):
Every Moody what, I'll give us your best thirty seconds
to a minute on this one, mister Alick Lewis.
Speaker 5 (49:31):
Yeah, where Nordo ended is exactly where where my mind goes.
Jonathan Taylor ran for one hundred and twenty three yep
last week against the Cardinals. Josh Jacobs and the Packers,
I mean, they run the football right at you until
you prove you can stop it. I'm not sure they
can stop it. The Jordan Love things, I'm still like
sometimes I watch them, man, it's impressive. Sometimes I watch
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them like you need more than that. But I'd say
the Packers win pretty convincingly would probably be how I go.
Last we did this, I said the Browns a week
would lose convincingly. They didn't, So I wouldn't trust anything
I say.
Speaker 2 (50:05):
Around the corner.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
Jeremiah Searles, former Vikings offensive lineman, convincing and somebody who
is deeply rooted into Nebraska corn Huskers football. He's going
to handicap that Huskers Gophers game for us and also
chat about the Vikings offensive line and much more. A
rare phone in segment guest around the Corner on the
Friday football feast Gophers and Huskers seven o'clock to night Sky.
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the boat and skull Vikings will be right back
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By the way, cam Akers is in the game. That's
George Mason Wright Acres.
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It's a wildcat. They're gonna snap it direct to cam Akers.
He's throwing to Josh Oliver inside the tents topside.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Thirty two yard.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Touchdown him Trump cam Akers to Josh Oliver and the
Minsmula Vikings are within one live on the fair second
and eighth for Cleveland from its own thirty nine five
minutes in county to go in the first half. Gabriel
back under center, Titan David and Josh just left and
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rookie wide receiver Isaiah Bond in motion for the right
playoff for Gabriel and he.
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Tyreon Ingram Dawkins with his first National Football League Zach
if he gets the full thing lee by Drake Rodriguez
was also in the mid and the Vikings mildly of sack.
This rookie second in goal. Jordan Mason was right of Wentz.
It's a gun run Mason up the middle to the
end Song touchdown. A rushing touchdown by Jordan Mason, and
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the Minnesota Vikings have taken the lead thirteen to ten.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Shelter Okay circumstances that all it.
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Justin Jefferson had the twenty sticks on Denzel Ward and
that reception was sectacular, putting it out of bound twenty
one yard hit Vikings with one time out remaining raily
by three one fifteen in county to go first and ten.
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So it's gifteen thirty eight, thirty seven, thirty six, thirty five.
When launch second and five from the Cleveland twelve, he
works out of the shop and takes the snap. Four
man rush grows to the right side pod cut.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
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Speaker 3 (03:23):
The Minnesota Vikings a twenty to seventeen lead.
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the behind the scenes work each and every Friday for
the a football Feast with me in charge. But he's
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Shout out to those behind us. Far areas packed. Far
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It's Nordo's first ride at a Monty football.
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What do you think? Good morning, all you beautiful people.
Oh my goodness, we got.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
This guy with the shield right here and the chopper
outside looking good, living the part. I love.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
When the confetti went off, I didn't have to jump
under a table.
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I love.
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I love Monticello. I'm happy to be here.
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I've been sitting back at the studio for a decade
plus and I hear the noise. I hear the most
raucous of Buffalo wild Wings feast attendees every single year.
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and all the feasts are good. All the feasts are good.
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You have created a standard in the twelve years in total,
I should say working with the fan it is unmatched.
You are the best feast crowd and I'm just happy
to be a part of it for the first time
in my tenure.
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So thanks for having me. Monty Go Crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Alex Lewis at ALEC underscore Lewis via the tweet machine
follow him if you are so inclined. He writes about
and covers the Minnesota vikings for the Athletic and Theathletic
dot Com. How about your last three weekends, ma'am. I
mean you're in mana Cello, now Minneapolis over the weekend.
Last weekend it was Spain, the weekend before that it
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was London, and the weekend before that it was Dublin.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Are you excited to be home? I yeah.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
I mean you really realize how special this country.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Is when you're gone for eighteen days.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Hey, for the United States of America. Freedom, ladies and gentlemen.
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Bye, Mona Cello.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
I mean when you paved the best for the last
of that journey. I mean absolutely, Majorca is nice. You
see the water, you see the mountains, But you come
out to Mona sell you see that Carameou coffee around
the corner. You can't really I know, it makes you
want to come to Monticello more like these people. Look,
it's so welcoming. I walked in, had a couple people
call my name. No one's ever done that in my
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whole life. Wow, it was great.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Hey, Monty, he loves you. What do you think about that?
He loves you?
Speaker 3 (07:21):
For the Minnesota Vikings this weekend, playing the practice or
report game like all three of us do, trying to
figure out who's going to be the quarterback against the
reigning world champion Philadelphia Eagles. They're in town this weekend,
and it's a noon boom on KFA N. I mean
we yeah, we root against the Eagles. We got f
Millie from back in NFC title game days and so
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on and so on and so on the blowout in
that game. But nevertheless, this is a team on a
two game losing streak, and it bears the nine to
noon trio figuring out exactly what goes into said losing
streak and ready for this how we can extend it
to three consecutive losses for the champs?
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Ken't I got a witness the Roca's round of applause.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
So playing the practice report game, Carson Wentz and according
to the texting from from alec and or Nordo this morning,
Nordo's first ride Monte and Ali, is this your second
or third?
Speaker 5 (08:20):
I believe this is my third time to Montapel. I
usually write it down after you go back in my
in my notes.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
And okay, so Carson Wentz Bizmarck, North Dakota. According to
these guys, one coming from Minneapolis, the other from Jasca,
you would think the drive to the Friday football feast
took us to Bismarck. They're making Monticello sound so far
away from from what we would know and love each
and every day. It's called the scenic route. It's the
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scenic route, no doubt about it. Carson Wentz full and
full at practice. JJ McCarthy limited and limited to practice.
Carson Wentz. I believe there either was news yesterday or
could be new is today that he will be your
quarterback this weekend against the Philadelphia Eagles. Let's begin here
with Alan flewis who will be the backup? If Wentz
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is the starter, who will be the backup? And I
think it's a you know, it's it's a question that
I slash. We rarely asking the games. But when when
the quarter first and foremost, you believe Carson Wentz will
be the quarterback? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Okay, So when when you're coming off a bad shoulder
and you know that that's been kind of the bye
week chatter. I mean, Jalen Carter who has zero sacks,
Jordan Davis, Zach Bond, somebody laying on him and driving
him down the wrong way means maybe for a series
a quarter or the balance of a game. The backup,
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you know, may have some merit in this game. Who
do you think it'll be.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
No, it's a great question. It's a it's a worthwhile question.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
You said it.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
But I mean this Carson Wentz non throwing shoulder injury
is not insignificant.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I mean, and he took a ton of hits in.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
That first game against the Steelers where his ribs, I
mean took a beating. He couldn't even play golf that
week with teammates and where England because of how much
he was hurting, and and so this shoulder, you know,
it's a very serious deal. I would expect the backup
to meet Max Brosmer. Kevin O'Connell will get asked this today, Yep,
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he'll probably get asked as well whether that means JJ
McCarthy is the emergency.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Quarterback press conference at about two o'clock carried on KFA
and you'll get all the info.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
But yeah, I expect Max Brosmer.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
To be the backup, just because if JAJ McCarthy's not
healthy enough to be the guy, I can't imagine you'd
have him be one snap away that that doesn't set
him up for optimal success. And that's what they're I mean,
as Kevin said to you and in your conversation with
them earlier this week, like this player means a lot
to him. They want to set him up for optimal
success in the long term, and so I think the
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best approach would be to have Max Brosmer as the backup,
and I expect I believe Max is probably doing as
much study as he possibly can to ensure that if
he's thrown it.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
In the fire, he has prepared for it.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
On Sunday, well, here is what I deemed to be
the rub in the conversation, and Alex wrote about it.
I believe it was the story that posted today. Carson
wentz from stuff he said on Wednesday after the practice,
and Nordo played a clip yesterday during bikes Bites that's
included in this story that Alec wrote at the Athletic
Indeathletic dot com, paraphrasing Carson's like, well, when it comes
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to running, or when it comes to playing the game,
I've been trying to tell myself for ten years that
discretion needs to be the better part of valor. But
you know he didn't say this, but I want that
first down or I want that touchdown, or I want
those extra yards. So just to encapsulate the story and
just knowing what we have seen from Carson or know
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about Carson.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I mean, you can tell my man all you want
in certain.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Situations, slide, slide, run out of bounds, do something like that.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
He may do it eighty ninety percent of the time.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
It's that ten percent about which we need to be
a little concerned this weekend.
Speaker 5 (12:03):
No, I mean, when you're six five, two thirty seven,
you're gonna think that you can absorb hit. The problem
is I mean I looked up from twenty sixteen to
twenty twenty, Carson Wentz took four hundred and sixty five hits,
and I mean this guy's body has just been like
in twenty years from now, I'll be so curious to
see how he's moving around the house with his family,
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just will being fascinated by. But it's not like he
can go into the game with the plan of I'm
not gonna take hits on this left shoulder. Then the
pocket breaks down and your instincts take over and you're
probably gonna take some hits. And so yeah, I mean,
as much as he can try to weed that out.
That would be great, But he joked, like Kevin Sefferd
to ESPN asked him the question of like, do you
think about it a little more, and He's like, yes, always.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
But I've been saying this for.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Ten years, and you go back and read stories from
twenty seventeen and columnists and Philadelphia are writing that he
needs to be more mindful of taking hits. It's just
been kind of the trademark of his whole career at
this point. To expect anything different, I think would be
a little faulty on our end.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Well, you'd be asking Carson to not be the Carson
Wentz exactly that put himself in a spot where he
went nine to nine, gets the game when he touched on.
That's why in some the Brozmer backup. It's interesting in
the respect that that's where JJ McCarthy is.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
That tells you about where JJ's health is, and so
you have twelve as your backup.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
But there is a non zero chance that we see
Brozmer at some point because I'm not saying that it's
an intentional injury situation, but when you're talking about in
one of many ways will break down where the Eagles
aren't doing what we know the Eagles can do. The
Vikings have not done what we know the Vikings can
do or want to do. One of them is attacking
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and sacking the quarterback. And he mentioned Jalen Carter right
out of the gates, whether he's spitting on Dak in
the opener or he's now he has the injury that
finally got him out of the of this most recent
game against the Giants. It sounds like he's going to
be back, of course, but he has been awful in
comparison to the expectations that were put upon him based
on his rookie season. So the it's it's not about
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trying to intentionally injure Carson, but if they get to him,
they're gonna make him feel it.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
And and that's just part of the game, right.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
And so with that shoulder being not insignificant as you're
saying the backup conversation sadly given the quarterback, I mean,
just the adventure we've had through five games, well it
actually matters, it actually plays in. So Carson wants those
instincts take over. I would imagine you still see him scramble,
and we're gonna be wincing a little bit on Sunday
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at us Bank Stadium and hoping he comes out of
that pile.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Up right quick, quick hit or quick twitch.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
If if you knew you had to use a backup
in this game, who would you prefer to use and why?
For Nordo, Max Brosmer or Josh Dobbs, I would come on,
it's a dob trick. He's been in the league eight
or nine years. This is not a playing question, but
I love it.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Well, yeah, I mean, if if it's if I hadn't seen.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Dobbs before, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs.
But leta da da, Yeah, it's Rosmer's. It's absolutely Max Brosmer. Now,
I will say Dobbs gave us a game and a half.
Dobbs gave I mean, he took five years off the
head coach's life. When he's running that touchdown in and TJ.
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Hawkinson standing in the end zone saying.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Hello, I think I cheered in the press box in Atlanta,
almost got Maxford intial revoked.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
And then he gave us that first half against the
Saints and almost lost the game, but Jamis Winston gave
us the ball a couple times and we got out alive.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Yeah, yeah, MaTx brozmer go for of course. Ber. Okay.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Now, by the way, speaking to the Gophers, they host
the Nebraska corn Huskers this evening, I'm going you're going
to the game in Huntington Banks Stadium. I'm going on
Inton Makes Day. Now, were you going to the game
before we secured the ten o'clock guest? Former Vikings offensive
lineman Jeremiah Searles, who also played for the corn Huskers,
works with their pre and post game show, and we're
(15:59):
gonna talk about Kings in NFL with Jeremiah, but he'll
be on at ten o'clock. Where you were you going
to the game before that? Or did the did the
ten oh three get you that fired up? Well, I'm
going to tailgate. We'll see if I make it in
the I mean, this could be, this could be We're
back in America.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
This could be a wild, wild strong arm by the
marketing director. Yeah, a little bit, but it should happen.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
I will say, can you imagine the Gophers Drake lindsay
they get this done against Nebraska Prosber has.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
To go I mean, this could be the ultimate Gophers weekend.
You might be you might be sitting next to throat
between Throsmer and cash Man. I mean, I'm PJ. Fleck.
I'm gonna have to text them MAV Monday morning. Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
Now, from the from the injury reports for both teams
through yesterday, I find fastests of it to be fascinating.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
First and foremost, there could be some negativity for the Vikings.
We'll get into that momentarily. Uh, But yours, truly, I
think I may have taken a massive speculative related l
yesterday nine to noon where quin Yon Mitchell their best corner.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
He leaves the Giants game, he has a swoon over
his hammy. They list him as limited, and I'm like, nice.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Try guys, fast surface nailer Addison Jefferson, Nice try guys,
Like he's gonna play in the next game with a hammy. Well,
he went full with this practice yesterday, So it looks
like the Roses off and a coven of cleanups required
for yours truly. But with the Vikings injury report, Grenard
popped up on it yesterday with a hamstring that wasn't
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there Wednesday.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
I don't think no, And I did not expect that
at all when he was he was limited. I believe
with it with the hamstring, this is major. I haven't
I haven't reached out to anybody about it. Was kind
of just gonna wait to see what Kevin O'Connell says today.
He was in the locker room yesterday, seemed like the
same energy that he usually has, and he was walking
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a little bit, you know, or it was walking throughout
the locker room, so it would be I mean, Jonathan Garnard,
you cannot overstate.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
His impact on this defense in.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
The run and pass, specifically the run in a game
where they're gonna have to stop the run.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
He is. He is.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
So if you remove him from you know, the puzzle
that they want to put together on Sunday against this
Eagles offense, it becomes it becomes a challenge.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Well, Van Ginkel has returned to practice, he's limited. Limited
personally speaking, I'm not counting on him this weekend.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I'm with you, okay.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Now, Grenard goes from a zero problem full practice to
limited and limited, you know as subjective unless you're watching
every second. Limited means he could literally walk out on
the field. Play catch with somebody and then go back
to the locker room and you have to list limited
because you were out there. But from from no problem
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to a limited on Thursday. We'll get the answer today
at two o'clock from Kevin O'Connell. I believe with the
press conference. But if Gernard doesn't play, your edge guys
are Dallas Tyler Battie and Bo Richter and maybe Gabriel Murphy.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Against Lane Johnson and Jordan Mylotto. It's not not quite
the approach you'd want. I we'll see on Gernard though,
because I mean he's played through even this year. I
mean there's been some stuff in game where he looks
you're You're like, is that a serious injury? He goes
to the sidelines, he's in the medical ten, what have you,
and then he comes right back out there two plays later.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
And this guy.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
You know this, Pa, because you've been at these press
conferences going back months, But I mean Jonathan Garnard has
been on a mission going back. Yeah, you know, from
the beginning of the season. I I tweeted this stat
last night. He has the most quick pressures of any
pass rusher in the NFL. I mean again, I I don't.
You cannot overstate is that a Pro Football Focus number?
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That's a next gen static numbers.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
I bring it up.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I say that because I have a feeling of ten
oh three. We're gonna get Ryola, this, Drake lindsay that,
break Blake Brandell, this Donovan Jay And oh, by the way,
PFF is garbage. I'm not saying that, but I think
Jeremiah Serlz is gonna say it. He's negative. I tat
the PFF grade thing.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I mean, we might have honestly talked about it last
year in Monticello. Like, you just can't take the PFF
grades as gospel. You just can't do it. That's why
you have to watch the film argue with it. And
you don't know assignments. You don't know what they're being
asked to do. You don't know which gap the player
is supposed to be in. Yeah, and while the PFF
grades have been built by a lot of former coaches,
it's just a very imperfect measure.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
It's a fine one. But if you take that as gospel, Blake.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
Brandell had a fifty six PFF grade, so that's who
he is. You're just that's just faulty and foolish and lazy.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
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Thank you very much for alec Lewis's inclusion. Nordo, what
version of the Eagles will we get Sunday at noon?
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:35):
I think it's it's it's a version that it's going
to be an absolute onslaught early and I don't mean
that we're talking up by three scores, get run out
of the building.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
I just mean you're going to have an.
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Urgent team with a baby buy fresh off of two
consecutive losses, one of which, yeah, it's it's it's difficult
because the way we look at a schedule in May
or June or July up until the opening night kickoff,
you know, I imagine and that the Eagles are looking
at the Giants as a couple of free squares on
the board and for them to go in and truly
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in the way.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
That we talked about it.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
For instance, in the Falcons game, the Eagles being out
muscled and actually playing a team like the Giants, and
Brian Burns had a day and Abdull Carter still trying
to find his way but in the end being outclassed
and out muscled by the freaking Giants and Evan Jackson
Dart and Cam Scataboo clowning on you.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
I mean, that's disastrous. And they can't even get along.
Speaker 4 (22:29):
They got team meetings and saying certain people are there,
but then it's not being corroborated like the infighting again,
the Eagles being their own worst enemy. But I think
that the early urgency from the team is what I
anticipate seeing. Now, can they fix every single issue in
one game. I don't believe that they can, which makes
this game as intriguing as it is. But I believe
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specifically early it's kind of a Saquan or Bust like.
I honestly feel that that is going to be a
super early focus for them is how quickly they can
just find some.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Morsel at twenty twenty four in that run game.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Again, the things that they haven't been doing that make
them the defending champs, there's a long list and a
top that list, and why they've had the struggles they
have is their inability to move men in the at
the line of scrimmage and to get Saquon and those
explosive plays.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Without those, they are not going to win the division.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
I mean, that's how brutal the run game is, and
so I would anticipate early on that it's that kind
of title wave, and then how we handle that will
probably dictate what the end of Sunday's game looks like.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
What version of the reigning World champions will the three
and two Minnesota Vikings welcome into Minneapolis Sunday at noon
on kfam Aj Brown and Devonte Smith. They're two best
receivers currently with career lows with yards per catch, they're
both about eleven and change. Saquon Barkley three and a
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half yards per run. That's close to a career low.
He has a one to eight when he was with
the Giants, but played a couple of games. Alex Lewis
at Alec underscore Lewis via x What version of the
Eagle should we expect this weekend?
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Yeah, I mean I view this as like a two
prong thing. It could either be an Eagles team that
wants to prove to the world that the national narrative
that they're kind of in disarray is false. Or it
can be an Eagles team that is just actually in
disarray and they've just lost it. And for me, it's
gonna be very curious to see which side of the
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coin we see on Sunday. I do to Nordo's point,
the run game, the Eagles run game against the Vikings
run defense, for me, is the game if if the
Eagles have to throw at Jalen Hurts and drop back
time and time again against a Brian Flores defense that
is mixing it up and keeping him way off his game.
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In terms of Jalen Hurts, I would have no confidence
in the Eagles being able to move the football that way.
But if they have the run game, and if they
can do I mean it's crazy. You think back the
Vikings played the Eagles in twenty twenty three. DeAndre Swift
ran for one hundred and seventy five yards that day.
It was the worst run defensive performance of Brian Flora's
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time with the Minnesota Vikings. If you look at any
of the advanced metrics now the Vikings in that game,
we're trying to do some weird defensive structures that they
have not.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Showed ever ever since.
Speaker 5 (25:19):
Yeah, So I just like, I'm not gonna be surprised
if we get their Sunday afternoon and first down, the
Eagles have the football their first possession and the Vikings
have six men on the front and they are like,
you are not running the football. Jalen Hurts has to
beat us that. That would be the way that I
expect them to play the game. And if they are
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able to force the Eagles into a drop back game.
You side with Brian Floras ever every for you know,
every time.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Perch the Super Bowl fifty nine MVP in that game
win for one to ninety three one in one. But
he did have two rushing touchdowns against the Vikings. And
when it comes to stopping the run and you're talking about,
you know, a bear front would be five defensive linemen.
If you're saying five or six, I can understand what
you're saying. Two of those would be Jonathan Allen and
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Javon Hargrave. And one of Alec's most recent stories at
the Athletic. In fact, like Middle of the Week was
respectfully requesting more from Alan and or Hargrave.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Correct.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Yeah, I mean it's hard to evaluate what they've been Like,
I just feel like opposing offenses have gotten the ball
out pretty quick, so it's really hard to evaluate from
a past rush standpoint. But I mean it just for me,
as I evaluate it, it is like pretty clear they
there hasn't been a ton of sack production. Javon Hargrave
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has two sacks, Jonathan Allen has none.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I can look at all of it.
Speaker 5 (26:45):
I can watch the film, I can look at the
win rate metrics all this stuff, but you just you
kind of need them to show up and pop for
you a little bit more and then the run defense
just has to be better.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
That's Alex Lewis.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
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Speaker 2 (27:16):
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Speaker 3 (27:17):
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Speaker 4 (28:47):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
By the way, one of our frequent contributors to the
Friday Football Beast, Jack Greenway, sadly couldn't be here this week.
He left coming up to Monticello. Uh.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
But it certainly is for good reason.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
He's not obligated to a joined the Friday Football Feast,
but nevertheless he enjoys it. And he's in Lexington, Kentucky
while with his daughter Madden for their official first visit
because she's going to be on a full ride to
be a game changer for the Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball team.
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So that's why Chad Greenway is not with us this week.
But nevertheless, we have Young Alec and we have mad producer,
yours truly, Paul Allen, Buffalo wild Wings, Monticello and Good Morning.
We do a segment each and every week to honor
the decade and a half co host of the Friday
Football Feast Paul Charchiam, how you doing, Paul Charchian who
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relocated to Utah. And and it's a fantasy segment we
call I Hop in honor of Paul, So the I
Hop segment this week focuses on tight ends. And by
the way, Alick probably doesn't know this because he was working,
but maybe Nordo heard it yesterday. Coveny cleft for charge.
By the way, he came on the nine to new
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radio show yesterday and he touted tight in Noah Fant
for Cincinnati scoring a touchdown, and Fant scored a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Ain't nobody, I'm not picking up Noah Fan.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
But well how about you hitting? You hit Rogers with
three touchdowns? He threw four last night. Yeah, but this
is in honor of the other Paul.
Speaker 5 (30:20):
You haven't even mentioned Joe Flacco and Aaron Rodgers is
going to the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Noah Fan ain't going anywhere close to it. Probably not.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
That's a heck of a towel by Paul Charchi. And
but that was a bit of a sweat last night
though he had to get there. Now.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
He had two for fourteen, I think at one like
late in the game before he got a couple in
that score.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
How about how about how crotchety old people got last
night when left tackle guy pushed him down talking about
Aaron Rodgers. If you haven't seen it on a highlight
or social media, long touchdown, Rogers celebrating left tackle seventy seven.
He's so excited. Sometimes big people can't control themselves. He
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pushed Rogers. Rogers went down, popped up and like pushed
the guy and yelled at him.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
He was probably like trying to get you know, like
celebrate with Rogers.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
I want this guy to like me, and it just
made easy. Maybe I could be friends. Yeah, yeah, And
he's just like he was not had.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
My ten year old came downstairs last night and watching
the game and she saw and it was slow motion
of Rogers doing this after his touchdown.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
She's like, Dad, he's a little old to be in football.
Isn't like he's getting there?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Absolutely?
Speaker 4 (31:28):
How about Flacco on the scramble though, Yeah, Flacco on
the zone read for thirteen.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
We're trying to figure out if Carson can help himself.
Flacco looked so crotchety last night, riding in slow motion
for the first down. Blaco wouldn't crack a smile on
the bench.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
And then there was one time that they had a
third down Flaco either missed a guy or a guy
ran the wrong route, walks off the field. He's been
there like five minutes and he's yelling at coach Zach Taylor. Hey.
I mean it's like, I mean, Joe, I think Joe's
so bored with like, oh I'm here, Well now I'm here,
I'm traded here.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
But I mean, like, what an unbelievable He's been there
ten days and he just torched the Steelers defense.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
And you have Mike.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
Tomlin mad and Andrew Berry for trading the guy who
was I mean, it's the AFC North is I mean
this people you talk about Crotchety.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
I feel like that whole division is everyone's on edge
right now. Flacco has beaten Tomlin with three different teams. Wow,
he had all those years of course with the Ravens,
and then he beat him with the Colts two or
three years ago, and now he beat him with the Browns.
And the Steelers are probably gonna be just fine in
that division. It's still wonky, it's still weird. I think
there will be an expiration day with this Flacco thing.
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But if he just keeps he just decided, oh you
guys got Jamar Chase and I could just throw it
within five yards and he's gonna catch him.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
Well, here's the thing I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
Why does it always feel like Jamar Chase is wide
open within five yards and Justin Jefferson it's never happened
one time?
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Well, why why is it that drastically different? Well, I
mean I and I was wondering that last night too.
But but when you when you employ Jalen Ramsey. Okay,
Jalen's gonna sell all week. I got him, dog, I
got him, got you, got you, got you dog, I
got him a facts dog. I mean he's gonna sell
that the entire way match, Okay, Jalen rams I mean
(33:15):
while what Jamar Chase did to Jalen Ramsey last night
should be a felony in forty eight days, it's penalties.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
I mean, Jamar Chase is a dog man. What a
nice way.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
And it's not like I promise nobody ever singles Justine
that's wild.
Speaker 5 (33:29):
Well that's right, and it's not at all a shot
at anybody Justin or the Vikings at all. It just
I just as like a fan of football. It's like,
why is this guy always open within five yard now?
And then Justin it feels like he's having to run
the greatest route of all time ever to run and he.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
Gets the ball. It's just interesting.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
So you think Zach Taylor is a better play designer
than Kevin O'Connell, like what I gathered from, Like see.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
That that was the thing.
Speaker 5 (33:52):
It's like if anybody took that like that is the
most absurd I think Zach Taylor has. The only reason
Zach Taylor's offense has evolved is because they hire Justin Riscatti,
who has taken some of the concepts Kevin O'Connell utilizes
with Justin Jefferson applied them to JOm Mark.
Speaker 4 (34:06):
I thought that anyways, that hideous Bengals O line though,
standing up for the old you gotta take a shot
at Riisner like that, because they were a freaking disaster
and we got to see it at US Bank Stadium.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
But you put the forty one, forty year old guy
back there and suddenly it's the problem. It's nineties cowboys.
We could talk about the game for an hour. I
really believe us three he could just go back and forth.
I mean, Flacco, I was.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Proud, I was happy for you.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
Well, I'm going back and forth because I don't want
to get through this fantasy bit.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
Well, but Flacco, what what I believe he's doing Because Flacco,
I think most consider Fringe MVP guy. I was friend
Hof guy. All right, So he's a you know, he's
a super Bowl MVP. Well that right there elevates just
so far, but not doesn't get you in Eli Manning
two times super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
But he's not a fantasy feast kind of guy. For
the for the sake of the I hop.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Segment, I think he's got to be Hof though I
think so too. But a lot of people say Fringe
or maybe a little above Fringe or mid As Allen
and the marketing director would say. But nevertheless, with Flacco,
you got one super Bowl, one super Bowl MVP. It's
nearly a decade and a half ago with the Ravens.
What I think Flaco's doing now is he's establishing with
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those who vote for the Hall of Fame. I ain't done,
and I can be in a nationally televised game against TJ.
Watt and Jalen Ramsey and Darius Slay and Peyton Wilson
and the rest of these dogs. And I can only
be there a week and a half, and I'm gonna
run up a bunch of yards on him. I'm gonna
put Chase and Higgins each on a hundred or excuse me,
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chasing Brown and then Higgins on a big game.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
I can still do it. I think he's really really
enhancing his Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
Greg Well, I'm so glad you mentioned that, because let's
go back to the softy from Seattle conversation a couple
of days ago. First of all, his Mariners might be
cooked after him joining the show. About that, but to
the end of what he stated about Russell Wilson, two
different pathways. So Flacco has gone on and I forget
now it's Jets, it's Broncos, it's Colts, it's Brown, it's
(36:08):
now Bengals. Of course, so five six different teams. I
don't have his PFR stuff in front of me. He
has only enhanced as he has gone on. He's proven
himself sturdy, veteran, he can go and win games. You
laid all of that out beautifully. On the other end
of it, another fringe Hall of fame guy in Russell Wilson,
who all those terrific years like that and has been
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a complete freaking disaster. Flacco's moving on. It's like, oh,
you guys got that stud receiver. Yeah, I can hit
him fifteen times in a game that's perfect, and Russ
has just their fan base was booing him. I think
the coach crawled into the blue tent to drag a
potentially concussed Jackson dart out of the tent because I
just don't want to see Russell Wilson on the field.
Speaker 3 (36:50):
And I employ you you got a doctor from like Jamaica,
Queen's Performance Center, Orthopedic Performance Center, just getting lamb basted
by day after they bow Russ saying where's the guy?
Speaker 2 (37:03):
When's Jackson coming back?
Speaker 5 (37:04):
I do think though, like the Hall of Fame, some
of it is narrative insurance. Yeah, some of it is
narrative in perception and how you're viewed. And I like,
even after the game, Joe Flacco, He's on the broadcast
and it felt like like he was endearing just to
see the whole thing, And I definitely think that's a.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Part of it.
Speaker 3 (37:22):
Yeah, I think, you know, last night was a was
a sports night where old guys unite. I mean, old guys,
let's go out there and show the spring chickens what
we and they still can do. Rogers four touchdowns, Flaco
full of fastballs, just just beating Mike Tomlin in a
nationally televised game. And Max Scherzer for the Toronto Blue
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Jays forty one years of age. They didn't even have
him up for the last series against the Yankees, even
though reports are he was ready to go. Schurzer comes
out there with that noon to six curveball last night
and multi colored eyes trying to look like David Bowie.
I mean, you talk about dog immortality. Holy cow, Old
guys unite.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
There was a snapshot two of him jawing at the
manager who came out there, I believe and tried to
They were either gonna mount visit or I didn't.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
Watch the game. I saw a clip, but yeah, all
three of these got it.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Is cool.
Speaker 5 (38:16):
Honestly, as a as a young guy watching it, you
just have an unbelievable amount of respect for Aaron Rodgers,
Joe Flacco, sers.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Of these guys do not have to be doing it.
I mean, beaver injury issues, you get been around forever.
It's a different breed man.
Speaker 5 (38:31):
Dogs come out in the big spots, an opportunity to
do this for the rest of your life.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
It's cool.
Speaker 3 (38:36):
It's cool that they still want to do it. I
hop in on or a pall as in Paul Charchi.
It's a fantasy feast. This will be the fourth one
we've done. What we do is we go position by
position offensively. We rotated weekly.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
We are on tight ends. We each pick one.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
It's only a touchdown bit six points for a rushing
or receiving touchdown for for a passing touchdown. And after
Jackson Smith in Jigba like a month ago the feast
before the Bengals game, Jackson Smith and Jigbud did a
number on us, did a metaphorical jig on us for
Alec Lewis, he took the lead. Alex has sixteen points.
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I have twelve, Nordo has ten. We still have a
lot of a lot of eye hopping to do.
Speaker 2 (39:22):
Yeah, I was.
Speaker 5 (39:22):
Seeing I was seeing columns in the newspaper about the
I hop.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
In the be on the AGA page.
Speaker 3 (39:27):
Do you know what that is?
Speaker 2 (39:28):
I do? Yeah, okay three? Two?
Speaker 3 (39:30):
Uh So we go to tight ends this week, Nordo's
in last. I'm in second last, So Nordo gets the
opportunity to pick first. Which tight end are you going
to use? And why? Well, we're going to talk about
a tight end next segment in Trey McBride when we're
talking a little bit about the pack.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
But I'm not taking Trey mcwow. I'm already annoyed by this.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Week seven? This is It's just I can't find the
right answer.
Speaker 4 (39:52):
So I'm just I'm going to go with a guy
who has four touchdowns this year, and I'm curious.
Speaker 2 (39:57):
I don't know if Cede Lamb's going to come back,
but I think if he.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Does, that impacts George Pickens much more than it impacts
this guy. I think Dak Prescott has a terrific connection
with a Jake Ferguson of it and this weekend and
what might be a fantasy feast the Commandos and the Cowboys,
Ibra Flus's defense is going to potentially keep Dak throwing
because Ibra Flus and that group.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Is dreadful bad, And I think Jake Ferguson.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
Is going to uh do me a solid and he's
gonna find his way into the end zone for the
Cowboys this week.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
I'm tripping. Who do they play the Commanders. That's a
good pick.
Speaker 5 (40:31):
They play the Commanders defenses is slowly Commanders.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
Yeah. They've given up three tight end touchdowns this year,
which is middle of the pack. The uh the Eagles
have given up five, so basically won a game. The
Steelers have given up six. Should win Hawkinson to play
into two charges. Elite tout nine to Noon yesterday, who
touts Noah Fan Fannin's kind of are fan.
Speaker 4 (40:55):
You know fan works with that with that combination of
Chase and Higgins if they just can get the right answer.
I don't know if it's fant long term Yaceibus or
whatever the heck that other guys Yoshavas, Joashavas, but it
was a good talp by Charge, no doubt the Elite
now Jake Ferguson, No, I'm second.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
You know what, I'm gonna take a tight end. I mean,
this is a touchdown game, and I'm taking a guy
who runs up a bunch of yards and never scores touchdowns.
But the Green Bay Packers have been leaky against tight
ends all year.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
They've given up a fair amount of yard dish to
tight ends. Four touchdowns allowed by Green Bay two tight ends.
So yeah, Jacoby Brissette doesn't have a ton around him.
I'm not a big Marvin Harrison junior. Guy might not
play with a concussion. Marvin Harrison junior, Marvin Harrison junior.
So man, we're just leaving. We're leaving potentially the offensive
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rookie of the year and one of the better tight
ends in the NFL. I'm gonna take Trey McBride for
the Arizona Cardinals and and I'm hoping to get a
tight end touchdown for the guy really doesn't score that much.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
But here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
Yeah, he got his most receptions of the season and
one of his two touchdowns with Jacoby Brissette last weekend.
Speaker 2 (42:13):
Hey, so oh yes too, Trey McBride. Yeah, one, Trey McBride.
That's a good pick.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
I like that. I got Trey McBride and the leader,
Alex Lewis, just take him. Tyler Warren. I mean it's
not Let take ty Warren.
Speaker 5 (42:28):
And you got Daniel Jones working with shaf Pike and
throwing the Tyler Warren.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
It's a no brainer for me. And I'll see you
guys and pick pick last next week. Looking forward to it.
Speaker 5 (42:36):
What are the Colts playing so tired? They played the Chargers?
They play the Chargers. The Chargers linebackers in La Diane Henley.
I don't know if he's healthy, but he's a really
good middle linebacker can cover. Otherwise, I feel pretty good
about it. Shane Stikeen likes to get this guy the ball.
Daniel Jones is playing very well. They're five and one.
Tyler Warren.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
The Chargers have allowed zero tight end touchdown. There we
go all season.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
Well that even they're the only team in the NFL
to not allow a tight end touchdown all year.
Speaker 5 (43:06):
I don't understand that stat because they haven't allowed one.
That might mean it's bound to happen right now.
Speaker 3 (43:12):
Oh cool, you're the last person Norda and I are
taking to Vegas because we'll roll up next to a
roulette table and you'll go, guys, hey, blacks hit fifteen
consecutive times, it has to be red.
Speaker 2 (43:24):
Let's shove all of our chips in.
Speaker 5 (43:26):
And guess look, the odds are the same no matter
if it just hit black or see.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
That's the thing.
Speaker 5 (43:32):
You can't just oh, it's been like this, so it's
gonna be like this, just like the Vikings run defense.
Speaker 3 (43:37):
Speaking of the Packers and Arizona Cardinals, the NFC North
is it's always heated, but it's getting a little congested,
especially if the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Find a way to win this weekend.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Likewise for the Lions against the Bucks, but Green Bays
at Arizona, Arizona is a six and a half point
home underdog.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
We're gonna handicap that game.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
Walking up to former Vikings offensive lineman and somebody who
knows a lot about the Nebraska Cornhuskers, Jeremiah Searles. He
will join us at about ten oh five. This is
the Friday Football mona Cello style on KFA N all right,
(44:29):
welcome back to the Friday Football Feast Buffalo Wild Wings
mona Cello. We want to welcome. I don't think anybody's
in here. I think they're outside on the patio. This
is the absolute biggest Buffalo Wild Wings mona Cello crowd
we've ever had. I mean, it actually is crazy. I
mean the bar area is packed, the area in front
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of us, the dining area, now, these two areas always
are packed, but the patio out there is packed too,
and on said patio, I've been informed are members of
Vikings World Order. Oh, we did, Nordo, And I just
want to give you Covenant collapse for the dedication you
have and uh and from what I'm learning how you
work with people.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
And stuff like that. So my presence of royalty, that's sweet.
Speaker 3 (45:12):
Vikings World Order. God bless all of you and thank
you for your dedication. The NFC North goes a little
something like this. Green Bay is three to one and one,
Detroit is four and two. The Vikings in Chicago each
your three and two. Green Bay is at Arizona this weekend,
the Packers are six and a half point Roads are
to seven.
Speaker 2 (45:32):
Has moved to seven. Yeah, well that's a bit.
Speaker 3 (45:34):
That's a big hook from a six and a half
to a seven, meaning you've got to get an eight
to win.
Speaker 2 (45:38):
That's a lot of money at this stage of the
week that's required to do that.
Speaker 3 (45:42):
So it seems that the maybe the Sharps and the
squares are shipping it in against Jacoby Bursett and who
I happen to like a little bit.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
But nevertheless, seven point spread. What do you think about
this one?
Speaker 4 (45:54):
Rd? Well, you you tasked me Hey, handicap Packers Cardinals,
and so I'm going into it naturally as a Vikings fan,
trying to figure out ways that the Cardinals could win.
Speaker 2 (46:04):
That's a problem. It is a problem.
Speaker 4 (46:06):
I'm glad you started with Brissette, though, I'm wondering if,
in the short term, okay backup quarterback, I think Kyler
Murray in totality is more talented than Jacoby Brissette. I
wonder with Drew Petsing, however, if Jacoby Brissett is the
better QB.
Speaker 3 (46:23):
Interesting for a while. And the reason I bring that
up is did the Cardinals beat the Colts last week
or just push him to the wire? Pushed him to
the on the road, right, Yeah? Thirty one twenty seven
I believe was the final Well yeah, I mean that
that counts in this equation what they just did with Bressett.
Speaker 2 (46:39):
I agree, And I think what Petsing's able to do
is he's able.
Speaker 4 (46:42):
To work under center a lot more absolutely first the
shotgun of Kyler Murray, which then means with the under
center you're able to do a more effective play action
and it rings out the numbers.
Speaker 3 (46:54):
I think Kyler is sitting in shotgun like seventy percent
of the time.
Speaker 2 (46:59):
I didn't think about that great take.
Speaker 4 (47:00):
He does play action like twenty two percent of the
time out of shotgun, whereas on Sunday in a vacuum.
It's a single game against the Colts, Brissette was under
center half the time and did play action forty percent
of the time. And so this is going to come
down to can they effectively run the ball. We know
that they already suffered and I'm completely losing the script.
Speaker 3 (47:23):
Rme conn Yeah, it was Connor, That's correct. Yeah, and
they're down on de Mercado. So you got Bam Knight
like Zonovan Michael Carter.
Speaker 4 (47:30):
Yeah, yeah, Michael Carter and Bam and De Mercado still
potentially could play, but he's.
Speaker 2 (47:36):
He hasn't been able to practice. I think he got
nick done and if he plays, he'll just drop the
ball right before the goal. He'll be on the bench.
Speaker 4 (47:42):
If so, I think this is this is actually a sneakier,
more competitive game you think. I think because I do
believe that Petsing and what he wants to do. When
we think about Petsing's trail back to Kevin Stefanski, back
to the Minnesota Vikings, he wants to run the ball,
he wants to do play action, and I think that
Trey McBride is a.
Speaker 2 (48:01):
Guy that has a terrific game this weekend. Now, with
all of that said, yeah, I mean, Jordan Love, it
pains me to do this.
Speaker 3 (48:09):
Jayden Love just so sneaky efficient and if you can
run it all on the Cardinals, I mean just that
all all of floor wants to do is run it
fifty times and then have Jordan Love throw it fifteen
times and.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
Get out alive with a victory. And that's effectively what
he was able to do against the Bengals last weekend.
And from a pressure rate.
Speaker 4 (48:28):
If you look at the Cardinals defense, and I think
in some ways they lack some of the star power.
Denarius Robinson I believe is injured and won't play in
this game, but they lack some of the even you know,
star power on a Bengals defense.
Speaker 3 (48:39):
I get it.
Speaker 4 (48:39):
But all the same, their inability to pressure the QB,
which is one of the lowest rates in the NFL.
They don't blitz a lot, less than twenty percent of
the time, so very unflor is like, I think they
will have trouble if they can get Josh Jacob's moving
downhill the way that he's been able to do for
a large part of this season. So you know, that's
seven points is a ton and there is part to
(49:00):
me specifically at home, that would love to, you know,
take a peek at that cover.
Speaker 3 (49:04):
But it's gonna be very, very difficult. The run game
on both sides means a ton. Allan Hey, Govenant claps
for that.
Speaker 2 (49:11):
That was the shotgun, the shotgun to under center.
Speaker 6 (49:14):
That was.
Speaker 5 (49:16):
That's like you've been you've been in the NFL Pro.
You've been looking at some you know, sixteen dollars a
month for stats. Dad had and Molly asks why I
pay for it?
Speaker 3 (49:26):
Every Moody what, I'll give us your best thirty seconds
to a minute on this one, mister Alick Lewis.
Speaker 5 (49:31):
Yeah, where Nordo ended is exactly where where my mind goes.
Jonathan Taylor ran for one hundred and twenty three yep
last week against the Cardinals. Josh Jacobs and the Packers,
I mean, they run the football right at you until
you prove you can stop it. I'm not sure they
can stop it. The Jordan Love things, I'm still like
sometimes I watch them, man, it's impressive. Sometimes I watch
(49:52):
them like you need more than that. But I'd say
the Packers win pretty convincingly would probably be how I go.
Last we did this, I said the Browns a week
would lose convincingly. They didn't, So I wouldn't trust anything
I say.
Speaker 2 (50:05):
Around the corner.
Speaker 3 (50:06):
Jeremiah Searles, former Vikings offensive lineman, convincing and somebody who
is deeply rooted into Nebraska corn Huskers football. He's going
to handicap that Huskers Gophers game for us and also
chat about the Vikings offensive line and much more. A
rare phone in segment guest around the Corner on the
Friday football feast Gophers and Huskers seven o'clock to night Sky.
(50:30):
You Maa rode the boat in Minneapolis, Ky Yum rolled
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