November 14, 2025 • 48 mins
The Friday Football Feast begins with Chad Greenway joining the show to talk about the Vikings upcoming game vs the Bears, as well as what it was like playing with Harrison Smith.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, hey, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the Friday Football fief alrighty,
holy cal what a jam pack crowd this is. Let's
begin the show in patented nine to noon fashion. It's
an old school Quincy Jones song called street Beater. There
was a show called Sanford and Son. This is the
theme with which we have started every nine to noon
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ten to one PA and Dubay show for the quarter
century that I've had the privilege to broadcast on kfa N.
But here's how we're gonna do it. From Buffalo Wild Wings, Lakeville.
Ladies and gentlemen, how about a round of applause for
the Lakeville South Band surprising us with the open of
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nine to noon.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, m hm yeah, come on now.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Spot at that.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Hey, hey, hey, how about that like the South ben
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Ladies and gentlemen at Buffalo Wild Wings, Lakeville, Please rise,
please rise, everybody stand up. We welcome Emma White, a
dear friend of mine from Faith Family Church, to the
football feast, as we honor the United States of America
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with the singing of our Star Spangled banner.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Home say can you see part the dancerly lie, what's
so proudly we had at the twilights last me whose
broadstrives handbrid.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Stars through the pair this fight or the red parts
we watched were so galland Lee.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Streaming hand the rockets, Red Claire, the Thorps, birsty in air,
gay froof through.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
The night that a flag was still there? Oh say does.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Dat spangled bandcad Ward.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Or the Land of the Free and the Home of
the Bread.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Hey em a white Ladies and gentlemen, Faith family Church.
Aren't you glad you came to the Friday football feast
today at Buffalo Wild Wings Lakeville.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Hey, Lakeville South Band, Lakeville South.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And what's going on? Why don't you out? Why don't
you play?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Play a little ditty for about thirty forty five seconds
as we start this radio show. Okay, anybody want any
free T shirts? We could throw those into the crowd too.
Come on, now, come on now, let's fire some shirts
into the crowd. Get a little live music for bumper
at Buffalo Wild Wings, Lakeville. This is the Friday football
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Here we go, ladies and gentlemen, we are feasting at
Buffalo Wild Wings, Lakeville. Ladies and gentlemen, the excellence in
engineering of Jared Wells. Round of applause, Nick Madden and
his street Team, Ladies and gentlemen. Alec Lewis from Theathletic
Indeathletic dot Com as a co host likewise for Nordo,
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the producer of nine to Noon, and I'm Paul Allen.
Devin Ward produces and guides the Great Ship Love Covenant
from FIM one hundred point three k F A N
and the Football Fish.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Is in the Air. Lakeville South Band Ladies and gentlemen, round.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Of applause for the kindness of just showing up and
that that's so sweet. They're gonna be playing some bumper
music for us too. Alc all I'm gonna say is behold.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
I walked up and there was a band playing outside.
I'm like, am I at the wrong place? I don't
know is there band practice? I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
And we got a star spangled banner for you and
everything this has been.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I mean, you look at this crowd right now.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You think the Vikings have won six consecutive games or
something like that.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Right I'm wondering if the whole city of Lakeville's in here.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I know, Hey, give yourselves a round of applause for
packing this thing this morning.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
It is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
All right, Well, there's a radio show to do despite
all of the all of the ancillary fantastic things that
are transpiring in our lives right now, and and the
there's something very important involving the Minnesota Vikings game this
weekend Sunday at noon against the Chicago Bears. That's the
time for the Boone pregame at ten o'clock. There's something
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very important happening right now. We have to handle it.
This is of utmost importance, Ladies and gentlemen. Alec Lewis
was on the nine to new radio show yesterday right
at the end of the show, and there was some
healing hand related terrorism that was spread at about eleven
fifty two am yesterday involving the hand of Minnesota Vikings
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quarterback JJ McCarthy. Advance the story. You're a reporter by trade.
Advance what we heard yesterday with the healing hand, what
happened in practice, and where we are today and good morning,
good morning.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah, JJ hurt his hand in the game on Sunday
on the.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Throw over the middle to Justin Jefferson in the end
zone that we all probably would have expected Justin Jefferson
to catch.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
That hand was bandaged on that hand was bandaged.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
On Wednesday, there were no under center snaps taken. There
were very few throws taken with the right hand. Then
yesterday there were under center snaps taken and there were
more throws than he was full in practice, So you
expect it to be, you know, fine, but it's something
to watch, yeah, considering the accuracy has already been somewhat
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of a moving target.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
So yeah, we're watching it.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
The reporter said, everything's fine with JJ McCarthy, and he practiced.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
In fall ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Well I heard him in his pressure he say, when
you slam your hand in a car door, not that
kind of worries me, as it pertains to throwing a
ball with some sort of accuracy, so it's not like
slamming your hand in a car door.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Well, he was in the press conference, like holding his
hands in his pockets.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
You couldn't see.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
You think he's hiding the fact that he may only
have four fingers, So you're like, is there.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Swelling, Like why is he not like taking his hand
out of his pocket.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
If there really was swelling, would you have been able
to tell? I don't know. Maybe, I mean you're you're
watching the guy like a hawk in the press lot.
Truly grip that football after your hand was swelling, I'd
be able to tell.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I have the fattest fingers at Buffalo Wild Wings, Lakeville.
My hand is permanently swollen, and you'll be fifty nine
one day too. Okay, we have more very very important
information here. Looks good today than so do your glasses
that need to be shared at the Friday football feast.
Very important from a reporter by trade. Now, this is serious,
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ladies and gentlemen, take this very seriously.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I feel like you're not getting trolled.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Everybody here familiar with one of the very best defensive
players in the National Football League named Jonathan Grenard?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Are you familiar?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I get a witness mourcus round of applause for.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Fifty eight preacho.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well guess what he hasn't practiced.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
The last two days. Oh and he.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Left the Baltimore game with some type of swoon over
his shoulder. For an update on that piece of negativity,
we go back to the reporting desk. What can you
tell us about Jonathan Grenard against these division rivals. And
by the way, even though we have a losing record,
even though the Minnesota Vikings are at the bottom of
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the NFC North right now and that's nothing but bad
for business, but we can fix it this weekend and
next weekend when they beat the Green Bay Packers. Even
though even though the team is mired at the bottom
of the NFC North, it still is undefeated in the division.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Ladies and gentlemen, can't I get.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
A witness and it plans to stay that way this
week And for an update and what we expect with
today's practice with Jonathan Grenard number fifty eight, maybe if
he plays in the game, we go back to the
Athletic indeathletic dot com desk. By the way, the only
way this information is shared at Buffalo Wild Wings Lakeville
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is if at least ten of you become new subscribers
to the Athletic.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
It's only like four dollars a month. It might be
one dollar a month. We offer these deals that are
falling out of your pocket. I don't know, I don't
know him around remember around. I'm like, how is this
sustained with?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yes? You know, okay? Paying Michael Russa.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Okay, cool,
we got we got the subscriptions. Russo cash though, what
kind of an update? Can you give us a number
fifty eight? Because he's very, very important to the cause.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Yeah, he hasn't practiced this week's DNP. Yeah, sorry, he
was DNP on Wednesday, did not practice, and then didn't
practice Thursday. I saw him in the locker room Wednesday
and he was as vibrant of a personality as he
always is. But if he's not upgraded to limited today, geez,
you start to wonder.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I mean, you would probably.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Know we're not going to play in the game Sunday,
and that would put a lot on on Dallas Turner's plate. Now,
I did feel like this, I will you know, doubt
don yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Bo rickor just caught astray.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
No, Dallas Turner, I did feel like had one of
his best game Sunday obviously got flagged for what everybody
in this room believes should not be a flag in
terms of the rule of that play.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
But if Dallas Turner, you know, I Jonathan Garnard.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Doesn't play, that would obviously be a big spot for
Dallas Turner and against tackles who are gettable around the edge.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
All right, so that's the update with some pertinent injury
related information.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
You notice.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
So all we try to do when we come to
Buffalo Wild Wings is pumped this thing up and give
And all Alec has done for the first segment is
talk about the QB's hand and one of our passwasters
that won't play.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
But I'm being put in that I'm being put in
that situation.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Look basic, right, But I mean those are pertinent, pertinent
questions involving this weekend's game.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
They're pertinent, without without question, that is a pertinent topic.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You want positivity. People want positivity.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Has change the conversation. Hashtag faith Radio.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
As we've said for about two decades, nine to noon
or ten to one, just for fun. All right, Well,
here's the positivity. You have found a place where we
can feed you. There's food, there's alcohol, there's alcohol, and
it's Friday. We have shirts. We can clothe you. Anybody
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want a free shirt. We have one of the great
defensive players in the history of Minnesota Vikings football, Chad Greenway,
joining us shortly. We can entertain you, ladies and gentlemen.
Can I get a witness in a Rockers round of
applause for that.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So no, we brought the hashtag faith goods today. Okay,
ain't nobody ever gonna second guess that with the nine
to noon prisonation, no matter what is happening or what
type of rigmarole with which we are dealing. So now
we close this segment with something called dealer's choice. This
is dealer's choice for the two analysts nine to noon,
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and it evolves the Vikings and the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
And there we are.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
It's dealer's choice for Alec Lewis and Eric Nordquist, my producer.
And here are the options, and you get the choice.
The options are with the Minnesota Vikings this weekend against
the Chicago Bears. You expect a big one from the
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Minnesota Vikings, but are not quite sure of the outcome.
Number Two, you guarantee a solid effort and a victory
from the Minnesota Vikings. And three, the Bears are hot.
The Bears are like the Vikings of twenty twenty two.
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They're finding the way to win all of these tightly
contested games. And the Bears will defeat the Minnesota Vikings
this Sunday dealer. Hey, hey, I just write the questions.
Damn it, I don't make the choices. Gotta get a witness,
all right, Now, hold on dealer's choice, Alec, you're first.
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Which one do you want?
Speaker 6 (14:24):
And why the one that gets the loudest round of applause?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Alick guarantees a solid effort by the Minnesota Vikings and
a victory.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
How about that? Uh, Nordo, which one do you pick?
Speaker 7 (14:38):
You know, I don't know how much bounce back this
team has left in the tank. But after eight false starts,
after self inflicted wounds, and I'm the negative one and
a four and five team. This Bears squad feasting off
of the mistake prone, This Bear squad feasting off of
bad football teams. If only for a day, the Minnesota
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Vikings will play a turnover free game and they will
continue to do what Kevin O'Connell does every single time
he faces the freaking Bears is he's gonna beat on
the Bears. We are going to battle the Bears.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
It will be a Chicago shellacking.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
Yeah, and the Vikings will be five and five by
Sunday afternoons.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
They're gonna change that song from the night Chicago Died
to the day Chicago Died, and it's gonna take place
boom at noon on FM one hundred point three KFAM.
All right, we're gonna add to break first and foremost.
A round of applause, Emma you still here, A round
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of applause for m A White for that outstanding rendition
of the Star Spangled banner, also from under the cover
of darkness, and we love when this happens. The Lakeville
South Band Welcome, Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. They're gonna be
playing a little bumper music for us today, some music
for you between breaks, I mean, between segments. And what
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a fantastic Friday football peace this has turned out to
me JDB Jared Wells, the master mixer and the engineer,
Nick Madden and the street team Alex Lewis, Eric Nordquist,
Paul Allen. Devin Ward is back at FN one hundred
point three kf an. We're back shortly with the game
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changer Chad Greenway. But first Devin has some cash to
give away in Good Morning Buffalo Wild Wings lake Bill.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
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Speaker 8 (16:34):
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Speaker 2 (16:50):
All right, welcome back to the Friday Football Feast. Hey,
Lakeville South marching band. Ladies and gentlemen, they gotta go.
I think they got classes and stuff like bat You
guys are outstanding. Hey, thank you very much, Thank you,
thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
They're probably at the bank tonight, say something final football?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Oh really, I would guess we should ask, Well, this
is a warm up. I know he dined at beat
Minnetonka by a point last night. And I don't know
what what games are today? Is Linkedo South involved, Laco South?
And South is tonight?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I believe yes or no? Got a w jeez, they're
playing right now?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
All right, Hey, ladies and gentlemen, one of the great
defensive players in the history of Minnesota Vikings football has
joined us. He's a weekly staple at the Friday Football Feast.
Can I get a witness and a raucous round of
applause for Chad girl?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Way?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
All right, before we begin hey, my man, hey, my man,
come here. What in the heck is happening here? Oh yeah,
that sounds about right all down Chicago. Beeh ha ha
again I get all right, belie, this is I mean,
what's your what's your name? Kid, Scott Lombardi? Where are
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you from?
Speaker 8 (18:09):
From?
Speaker 7 (18:09):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Chicago, Illinois? But I will live in Praierly. Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Now you got Nick Madden behind you with with a
at KFA and one zero zero three all of our
social all of our social media channels and KFA in
dot com.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
So this will be seen by many.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Can you explain exactly what you're wearing and what this
inflatable is that.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
You're riding Staley the Bear?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Okay, well you know what. Uh we're Minnesota and ice here. Okay,
for the effort and the inflatable Staley the Bear and
showing up at the feast, just give him a round
of applause.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Damn it, Come on you, you fools. All right? A
Bears fan named Lombardi, I know, yeah, that was so
many things going on.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I know, it's like meeting a Packers fan named Hallis
what'd you say?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
My Grandfrother's name is Vince Lombardi. Really is family. Well,
I can relate to that.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I can relate to that being the wrong Paul Allen,
now the other Paul Allen, God rest his soul. But
I'm the wrong Paul Allen, and your uncle or whomever
is the wrong Vince Lombardy. So we've come together as
kindred spirits. Okay, uh, let's fist bump one more time,
nice and softly, because kindness is important. Before that, all
your team's gonna take this weekend. And I just figured,
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you know, we're going to talk about.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
It all right. I got you, ma'am, great duck vodka,
Thank you very much. Here's Chad Greenway.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Can you guarantee a big effort from the Minnesota Vikings
this weekend?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
And good morning? And good morning?
Speaker 9 (19:48):
You get folks an excuse to drink in Lakeville at
nine am? And I mean you can't park outside, no
place to sit.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
You've been here, it's unbelievable several times this you you
were here when the Lakeville South Band did the original
Sanford and Son theme that we play every single day
nine to now.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yes, hold on, we might have a problem. And our
boss Janie's right over here.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Oh yeah, uh so we may have just played the
song for longer than nineteen seconds, and if it's not
pulled out of the podcast, we all lose our jobs.
How concerned are you, Nordo? How concerned are you? You
know more about this than me?
Speaker 7 (20:24):
No, I'm mild I'm mildly concerned. I can feel the
super super boss I daggers. I'm asked with Devin to
remove it from the podcast. Yes, the lawyers are always listening,
and the lawyers dictate everything we do.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Nine to do.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
He threatened to pull fifteen of my sixty five vacation
days simply vocal vocal maintenance because of what just happened.
All right, Well, so you've been to a lot of
these here, Chad, I mean this is ah, this is packed.
I mean everything's up on top of everything. Alex's already
gotten three phone numbers. We had a star spangled banner.
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Marketing director just frowned, got a band and everything. We
got babies in here where the whole thing's being videotape
by somebody.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
We have no idea who. It is so unbelievable happening
right now. I was a guy riding a bear, not
calloween costume. I don't know. I thought he was like
a consultant for the street team.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I don't know what's happening right now, but somehow I
have a feeling there's going to be an AI generated
naked image of yours truly on top of Stanley the Bear.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And I'm not happy about that. Unhappy about it. Okay,
that's a fair point. It is Friday, all right, So
you expect a big effort from the football team this weekend.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Well, listen to this football team's got to figure out
what it is. I mean, the unit and yang of
these last two weeks, the ups and downs have been unbelievable.
You look at that game last week, and you look
at the first half compared to the second half of our
inability to get off the field bend but don't break, give.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Them field goals.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
It was like the defense, the Lessie Fraser defense of
eight the bend but don't break, give him the Tampa.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Two bit, but can't get off the field.
Speaker 9 (22:01):
And then offensively, just waiting for this team to get going,
coming off a Detroit game that obviously flipped our entire
script of the season, and we come out there like
he ain't no stopping.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Us now here.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
We come down the stretch, they go big, big month
coming up, and then you lay that egg last week
against a Ravens team who is now healthy.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
It wasn't exactly an egg. It was an egg.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Chargers game was an egg. Charges game was an egg.
This was a game.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
When you come off a win like that, it's the
letdown from the Detroit game shows you this team at
this point is not They can't sustain that type of
effort and environment for the team to.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Be to be successful that way.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Okay, we can't and didn't are two different things at
this point, they are.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
What they are, got it.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
You know when you talk about a football season, like
you can wish away all the things you want to
wish away, but the reality is, like we're far enough
in is this is who we are now? The thing
you can argue from from the standpoint of watching this game,
and this is not a this is not a cut,
but this is the idea of like, can we get
JJ to play consistently like he did against Detroit? Which
one when it becomes both thank you. I didn't like
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the mood coming off of the Superstar last week for
maybe the first time in his career, you know, like
maybe he got that big bag of cash, lost a
little bit of edge and this guy to have a moment.
Where's the dog at? We liked that guy a little
bit more? Can we get it back this week?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Savage mode?
Speaker 9 (23:18):
I think savage mode, which I didn't know. If I
had to call it something cool like that when I played,
I'd call it Lakeville mode. But anyway with the altar ego.
But now, but now you look at I looked at
that game last week, and I look at the play
calling offensively in certain situations, they ended up being turnovers
when I didn't love the position our football team was in.
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So I think this, this lost last week last week
goes to everybody. It's not just on one. It goes
to everybody in that building. Or not find a way
to win. And now you come two divisional games in
a row where you have to win these two.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
You know you mentioned, hey, we got to find out
who we are? Isn't that who we are? Still waiting?
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Aren't we undisciplined? Aren't we mistake prone? I mean, as
many years as you spent in the league, I mean,
I'm not talking about a quicksand situation.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Mentally, you can't let yourself think that.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
But we're watching a team right now, like JJ McCarthy struggling.
That's about the only thing through this season that I'm
confidently seen And like I knew that was gonna happen.
I knew there would be ups and downs with him.
I didn't know we'd spend six weeks wondering where Javon
Hargrave is. I didn't know we'd spend nine games wondering
where the turnovers are. I also didn't know about the
injuries and all of that. I think at nine games
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we are who we are. To your point, like that
might be our identity. It might be the roller coaster.
That might be the identity, and that has to change
if you don't know for a day against these Bear Yeah,
I think, like I said, we are what we are.
Speaker 9 (24:37):
And before that Detroit game, we talked about the run
stopping the inability to stop the run, our inability to
run the football and stay on the field, our inability
to possess the ball, to to have more plays than
the other team. That's continued, so at the end of
the day, that is who we are. I think when
I look at this team offensively, the struggles we've had
is before this season, we talked about how many weapons
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this football team had the board, from tight end to
receiver to running back, the plethora of options we have.
When you try to force the ball to a spot
rather than taking what's available with a young quarterback, you
get issues.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
And that's what we saw last week. All right, Now,
is the Lakeville South Band still here? Well?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Because after hearing mostly five to two, I think we
need them to play taps. Yeah, for the twenty twenty
five Minnesota Viking season.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
It's just the truth.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
You're putting pressure on them for the weekend too, which
is a good thing. Truth, which is a good thing.
How did pressure work out? We went to Detroit, that's right,
the gout to have a divisional game.
Speaker 9 (25:33):
We actually go out there and play with an edge,
and we win the battle of the trenches.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
These next two weeks is no different.
Speaker 9 (25:38):
Football never changes since the inception of football is you
have to win.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
With the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
If you don't do that, if you get beat up
by the ravens, if all of a sudden, that two
yard game the first quarter turns into a four yard
six yard game in a third quarter to that behemoth
running back, you lost your edge.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
You didn't win the trenches. You have to win these
next two games. On the inside, I'm feeling all of that.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Let me ask you a very quick, simple question. Do
you think that they are running the football enough?
Speaker 1 (26:02):
No? I don't.
Speaker 9 (26:03):
I absolutely don't, And I don't thin they're running fotball
enough with our quarterback and being more multiple enough in
our run game. Now you can talk about you can
talk about the Dolphins, you can talk about that run.
You know the fact that coach is gonna be fired
most like at the.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
End of the season. McDaniels. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (26:16):
But the reality is is, like I love watching their
run game because the multiple ways they get their creative
with their run game. To get the ball in the
hands of the guys, they need to touch the football, And.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I think we can be more creative.
Speaker 9 (26:28):
We can get the ball into our guys hands and
run the football more to possess the ball to keep
our defense off the field.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Hey, Buffalo Wild Wings, Lake vill do we have any
Harry the Hitman fans here.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
And the Hitman face Harry the Hitman.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Harrison Smith is playing his two hundredth regular season game
this weekend, and he plans to win the game this
week and Chad a former teammate with Harrison Smith. In
fact fifty two played with Harrison Smith for five years.
What was he like the first couple of years, like
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twenty twelve, twenty thirteen, it's a good bush And here's
the bit because we had rules changes. We have a
guest at ten o'clock who also was up the hard
hitting variety who had to pull back a little bit.
But his first couple of years when the hit man
nickname was given because of his hits.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
What was that like? The guy came in just like
a missile.
Speaker 9 (27:29):
You had Andrew Sendejo and Harrison Smith playing behind you,
and the thing you had to do was watch your
back because if they had their head down, they may
take you out as well. The guy has changed over
the course of his career in so many ways. When
he came in the league, he was just that. He's
a fire breathing missile, coming downhill, knocking people out and
playing fast, playing fun football that we loved. We fell
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in love with him. As the career went, Zimmer comes in.
He changes into this like savant of football and understanding
how to understand protections and blit schemes and how to
bluff and how to show and when to fire the missile,
and when to fire the missile not hit his linebackers
in the back when they're just simply trying to play
football in front of him. And I think from a
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covered standpoint, from a schematic standpoint, his ability to run
the defense through the zimmer years was incredible. To watch
him the ins and out, knowing the ins and out
of the Zimber defense and how complex it was and
the communication that it took.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
He's so smart.
Speaker 9 (28:29):
And now to see him transition to B flow and
he's having fun play in the game because Flores's defense
is fun to play.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
So he has kind of become this thing.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
He's the best, he can be whatever you want him
to be, because he's that type of player.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
He's a Hall of Fame safety. And when he came in,
I don't know if I'd have coined him.
Speaker 9 (28:45):
As he's going to be a Hall of Fame, but
you knew this guy was gonna be good for a
long time, and he's built himself into a Hall of
Fame type player because of his longevity, his ability to
make big plays, his ability to pick off intercept the
best quarterbacks in the league, especially Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
He's had his number since day one, and that's fun.
See we love that. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (29:01):
So, uh, I can't say enough about him. He's a great,
great human being just to stud all around.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
That's sweet.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
How would you describe his personality?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Man, there's a couple of words that immediately came to mind.
I realized that from the radio.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Well that's I almost asked you, what's your favorite?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You can tell all you know, Chad, do it this
way because you got Harry the Hitman locker room practice
in game guy, I mean off the field when when
he's like, you know, normal person, uh with kids. I
mean he just has a captain coal side to him
that that you just can't teach.
Speaker 9 (29:33):
Yeah, so young Young Dajo and I always bring those
two together because they always travel together as a pack.
They come to the Greenway Farm, Uh, first Thanksgiving, we'd
have practice that morning.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
You know, Harry.
Speaker 9 (29:44):
Harry kind of slide in like this, and Dajo would
bring the bottle of tequila and you knew, like which
one was there to do what? And uh and now
like the captain cool bit is like it's completely what
Harry is as he walks in. He's very understated he's
always pretty quiet. He's always thinking, and I think the
thing that he doesn't get enough He does get enough
credit for it now from the football style, but he
is just a smart dude. And when you can play
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that fast, to play that physical and be that smart,
you're gonna play for a long time, which is what
he's done.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
With those high cheek bones in that jaw line. Look
at the eyes he's I mean, it's not even fair.
It's ridiculous. When he wears that hat from like the
twenty yeats.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
You never really know, like when you're talking with him,
at least in my like, you never know where the conversation.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
He's playing chess and you're playing check. Yeah, that's exactly
what because he pauses.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah, I mean it's like people immediately, like if you're
interviewing Chris Carter or something like that.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
No shot at Chris.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
But sometimes there are like pauses that are five seconds
and you think it's my turn to come in and
then he clips, but it's actually he's not clipping because
he's the guest. You ask Harrison Smith a question, he
pauses for two or three seconds to think out the answer,
and it could go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I mean, that's really like it could go the name guy.
Speaker 9 (30:53):
He might be the only guy that I know of
that played Maybe Matellus did this, and there's other guys.
I'm should be a rattle off. I goes to Notre
Dame from Tennessee. I think it was maybe the running back. Yeah,
he was the dude safety, but then moves to a linebacker,
play him outside backer at Notre Dame comes the league
just decides he's gonna play safety. Because the thing you
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don't realize is that he's a freak athlete, Like nobody
talks about like he's smart, he's he's a big hitter.
I don't even mentioned when I was talking about him.
The guy's a freak. Like you're gonna walk up and
I'm a dunk a basketball, Like he can do that
right now at whatever, thirty four years old.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
He's that you left. The other day, they have this
little goal with well he's left handed, he's got a
nice jump shot.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
He was just like like just draining shots like by
himself quietly.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Cam Akers is just like watching.
Speaker 9 (31:42):
Do you think that do you think that how a
person shoots a basketball is the best version of their athleticism,
or how does a person run because you've ever seen
somebody roun You're like, no way, that dude's an athlete,
like you gotta be able to kind of have it,
you know, have it together. I don't know, but shooting
the basketball, you can tell a lot about somebody's coordination.
Speaker 7 (32:01):
How much has he had to adjust? I mean, I
think about it in your career as well. As you
get older, you get smarter. You mentioned how he evolved
within Zimmer's defense, and he may still be a freak athlete.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
I mean, look at me, I'm judging Noba a freak athletic.
Speaker 9 (32:13):
Obviously, no way around a bowling alley, the blue or
the smoke, the better the bowling.
Speaker 7 (32:19):
The way that he's had to adapt, or the way
you had to adapt in your career, like I see
Harry out there now, in some ways he has to
be smarter than when it used.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
To be faster. You know what he You know, he's
a fiscally conservative guy.
Speaker 9 (32:33):
So he does not like to get the check or
the check docked on Tuesday for fines. So the guy,
the guy was getting fine after fine as a young person,
was leaning with his helmet, absolutely just playing reckless.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
And now the game has changed so he's changed.
Speaker 9 (32:48):
How he's had to approach, how he tackle like everybody else,
but he's also changed his approach. So now it's it's
it's more I'm going to beat you. I was talking
about Steve Hutchinson in this way. Is physically he's going
to be better than you. He's a Hall of Fame
left guard. But he's also gonna be more prepared. He's
gonna be the most prepared guy in the room to
go on Sunday, I'm gonna beat you. If I don't
beat you physically, I'm gonna beat you with my.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
First step and know where you're gonna go first. Wow.
Speaker 9 (33:11):
So now Harry's gonna beat you. He's really good physically,
and now he's aged. But now he's gonna give himself
that little bit of a half step, a little bit
of adjustment forward, a little bit of that slight movement
where he's gonna say, I know what you're gonna do
because I'm prepared. I'm just gonna slide myself in that
spot so I can make the play where last you know,
five years ago, I can make that play from anywhere
in the.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Field, is okay with everything you just said from a
preparatory standpoint and or in game slide of hand execution
uh Faine Feine, the the blitz, mugging, the double a
gap and retreat, just everything that goes into the sneaky
nature of winning. Is Antwine Winfield the football smartest player
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with whom you've ever played?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Good question, because.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
We just talked about the football documen of Smith, and
there's there's no affront to Harry. If the answers, yes, Nacho,
you I mean not not me?
Speaker 9 (34:10):
Uh, I would say Antoine Winfield is, pound for pound,
the best football player I have ever played with.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Okay, and that includes Adrian Peterson.
Speaker 9 (34:17):
This dude, his ability at his slight stature was incredible,
But Antoine didn't have the elite speed.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
You didn't play with Corey Javis, did?
Speaker 9 (34:27):
You did not sound Antoine's incredible player. Anybody in that
on that defense would say the exact same thing. A
defense that had Jared Allen, defense that had Kevin Williams.
The guys are gonna be Hall of famers. Goodine, Yes
he was. Kevin was extremely good and does not get
the recognition he deserves across the league a man because
he's understated. Dude, He's just chill. He doesn't get loud,
but his jumper nice. Really Okay Okaomas basketball player, that's
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all the he was Okay State as a basketball player.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I think the for the Vikings drift, we'll sport wow.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
For the Vikings draft of the combine to be like,
we'll ask you a few questions, then we'll wheel in
a basketball.
Speaker 9 (35:06):
Goal when they bring the thirty guys in like the
pre draft visit just just go to the lifetime.
Speaker 7 (35:12):
Absolutely, So what do you think of this? I need
eight to ten from the stripe with with and Twan Winfield.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Okay, Chad Greenway played a decade plus right around a
decade in the NFL, very very good. One of the
best defensive players in the history of Vikings football. Certainly
one of the greatest tacklers, most reliable tacklers in the
history of Minnesota Vikings football. So when he preaches something
like that, people should listen with and Twan Winfield. For
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him to say he's the best overall football player with
whom I've ever played, and he played with Adrian Peterson quarterbacks,
I'd eliminate from it like Brett barv you know, because hey,
Brady hands it off better than so and so or
or sells the play action or whatever.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
So we'll put quarterbacks out of the mix with Winfield.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Tell me what you think of There's nobody like him
even to this day.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
And here's why.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Smaller guy, but do you remember how broad his shoulders were.
His shoulders were abnormal for a guy that size. They
were broad and round, and he would light you up
with those shoulders.
Speaker 9 (36:23):
Also one of the best, if not the best tackling
corner in the history of the NFL.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Correct, And I've never listen.
Speaker 9 (36:29):
My job was to shock and shed get off blocks
these big olgers. Nobody shocked in shed like a antworm,
shocked and shagged job and you shock him and you
gotta shed him.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Do you talk about the ex I tell this story
all the.
Speaker 9 (36:46):
Time about Antoine because you would, you would go out
for warm up and this is this was after the
VHS days and after the seed the DVD days of
film and al a sudden, you have an iPad you
can look at, which is amazing. You come back in
before the game, he's on the film. He comes at
for the halftime, he's on the film at the end
of the game. Like Obvio, he's not back on the film,
But he's always studying and understanding splits, alignment releases of receivers.
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He knows that this receiver does this release out of
this position on the field, if he's in the slot,
how big is a split? He know he's gonna run
these two or three routes, and if he runs past
eight yards, I know he's gonna run one of these
two routes. And if he's short of eight yards, I
know he's gonna do this. And he's just jumping things
all the time because he just understands what you're gonna
do in a book that's this thick when you have
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no idea what that guy's gonna call. It's just tremendous
ability to think, especially in football when you have two
three seconds pre snap, to take all that information and
calculate it and understand what you're looking at.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
I gotta get some windfield tape.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Chad Greenway, ladies and gentlemen got another segment with him too,
to talk of Vikings and Bears, and a former teammate
of Chad Greenway's Ann Harrison Smith's Andrew Sendejo, will be
calling us about fifteen to twenty menu. It's from now
Chad just gave us a lot of wonderful material off
which we will play. But when we return more with
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number fifty two, Chad Greenway. We are at Buffalo Wild Wings, Lakeville,
and this is the Friday Football on k f A
n Buffalo Wild Wings of Lakeville for the Friday Football
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Feast final segment with Chad Greenway, Andrews and Dajo is
going to be a rare Feast phone guest around the corner.
After that, we'll mix in some fantasy called ihop, talk
about some quarterbacks around the NFL, and Vike's Bites takes
place at about eleven o'clock. I'm gonna be out in
the crowd with everybody. I have some topics for the analysts,
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the co hosts, but an opportunity to create your own
Vike bite takes place at about eleven o'clock. If you
have a question, buyo VB. Yeah, BYOVB. If you have
a question, a Vikings related question for either ATLEK or Nordo,
if we're gonna do that an hour and change from now. Meanwhile,
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I'm asked this one and get out of the way.
Ben Johnson, head coach of the Chicago Bears, so yeah,
about about eighty ninety through the Bears portion of the
equation for the game calling depth chart this weekend. There offensively,
there have been some things that you can immediately see
where it's like Caleb, now, Caleb last year and two
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of them would be first and foremost. He was sacked
sixty eight or sixty three, sixty eight, sixty eight times
last year, freaking absurd, and he's been sacked this year.
It's like fourteen fourteen, fourteen through nine. So hey, Caleb,
don't hold it so long. Hey, Darnell right, live up
to your first round hype, which he is O'Connell on
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and off the microphone Tuesday at TCOPC. I mean, I'm
not saying he made Darnell Wright sound like a cross
between a right tackle version of Orlando Pace and Walter Jones,
but he definitely was like this guy's different, So we
got that. But so Caleb with I mean, he's on
Pace for like, you know, twenty some odd sacks, are
you kidding me? But he had no rushing touchdowns this year.
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He has three this year, and he just won the
game against the Giants with a seventeen yard scamper. So
Ben's getting through to Caleb. When it comes to the
Ben Johnson Bears offense, how do you think they attack
Brian Flores defense.
Speaker 9 (40:56):
Yeah, I think you know, you look at what he
does so well is he he's just a phenomenal athlete
at the end of the day playing quarterback. And he's
not a Lamar Jackson type of athlete where he's gonna
he's gonna pull it down and run first. He's a
athlete to get myself into a throwing slot that I
can get to my spots. And I think that's when
you've watched him last year, you watch him make some plays,
you're like, that's unique. Even though he's running for his
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life and he made some throws, You're like, Okay, that's special.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
But couldn't keep couldn't keephim up right now.
Speaker 9 (41:22):
You bring in this coach that's clearly a good football coach. Yeah,
when you come in and you flip an organization as
quick as he's he's done it. Unfortunately, NFC North they're
here to stay and they got a young quarterback and
a really good football coach. They're not going anywhere, So
that's scary. But I think when you play a guy
like this who tries to stay in the pocket and
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throw from that spot.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Is you've got to rush him really smart.
Speaker 9 (41:46):
You want to he's gonna make throws, but make him
make throws from that well, deep in the well of
that pocket, over the top of guys. Not let him
get into space, step up in the pocket. Our interior roster.
You got to be really, really smart and our ends.
You got to cage him and not let them get outside.
That's the process from into your line standpoint. Can we
trick him into some mistakes? That'd be the key? Sindejo
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just scratched. No, I'm just kidding. Nordo running the ball.
Speaker 7 (42:12):
A big part of this as well as part of
that development is Ben Johnson has kind of had the
opportunity to establish what he had in Detroit, the combination
of swift and manung guy fun as the name is
to say, it's not fun to watch him run and
this team's running for a buck eighty five a game over.
I think since the buye and they're four and one,
so you do you roll in?
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Is Is it truly?
Speaker 7 (42:32):
You know the simplicity of it, like, hey, this stop
this tandem and make Caleb Williams prove that he's the
guy that's only been sacked fourteen times prove that he
can win the game by rolling out, escaping pressure and
hitting those sweet sideline throws to a dune.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Say, I mean, is it? Is it truly? Just kind
of ABC's back to simple, simple.
Speaker 7 (42:51):
Stuff like I'm gonna stop that tandem and let Caleb
try to do his business. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (42:55):
You look at look back to Detroit two weeks ago
and what we forced them into because they weren't able
to get what they want on the ground. You look
at that box square after that game, You're like, Wow,
who's the bully of the North Like it was us? Yeah,
Like what makes a quarter a young quarterback life really easy?
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Is a run game?
Speaker 7 (43:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (43:13):
It is? And a really good and a really good defense.
Speaker 9 (43:17):
So you can look at our team and be like,
wait a second, we have a good young quarterback. We
could have a good run game and take all the
pressure off him making all the plays. And when you
have when you have a guy like Caleb who can
extend a third down and six when they got to
have when first and second down win awrye. But when
you're running for a buck eighty a game in the league,
like you're an absolute problem, because now you can do
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whatever you want. That's why Detroit's been so good these
last what five six years, is because they've they've been
able to be multiple, just balanced, run the ball, throw
the ball, play action pass when they do want to
do it, check down to running back, like an extension
of your running game. Simple plays. And when you're multiple
like that, you're so hard to defend. I mean, what
are you gonna do.
Speaker 6 (43:57):
Caleb does some stuff outside the pocket where he throws velocity,
like on the run, at a level that I like, it's.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Hard to find comps for that.
Speaker 6 (44:07):
My question to you is that, like you talked to
a lot of players in the locker room, they praise
Ben Jhonson's ability to adjust in game.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
And I would just wonder for.
Speaker 6 (44:15):
You over the course of your time, like, are there
coordinators you faced where you're like, this guy, regardless of
what our game plan is, is going to pick at
us throughout the course of the game.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
And so we have to be very adaptable in game.
Speaker 6 (44:28):
Because Ben, talk to any of the players in the
locker room, they will tell you like, that's where he
does thrive.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (44:33):
To me, the sign of a great football coach is
your ability to end game when the bullets are flying,
make adjustments and not let it hurt your ego in
the plan you had set forth. Interesting, so like you
have a whole week to prepare, you say, here's how
we're gonna beat him. I've seen it, I've saw the light.
Here we go all of a sudden, Hey, you know what,
they solve that problem. It's not working. We have to
adjust if on the fly. And by the way, we
can do that. He's clearly been good at that and adjusting.
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And by the way, we have really good coaches too,
they can do that.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
Yeah. I think, yeah, and I do think.
Speaker 9 (45:00):
Because how desperate our football team is gonna play this weekend,
I think it's I think it's gonna play very desperate
and very very hard and very good inside. It's gonna
be a really good football game that's gonna come down
to the last possession. There's just no question about in
my mind, that's how this thing is gonna play out.
And our ability to keep them off the ground game
and keep the offense on the sidelines and extend to
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our own offensive drives, which is.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Something we have not been able to do, is gonna
be key.
Speaker 2 (45:25):
Two minutes doom minutes to break time.
Speaker 7 (45:29):
So if you're Dennis Allen and you're the Bears and
you're looking at the Vikings and got the kid QB.
We see forty two attempts a week ago. Everybody knows
that's too many. So what they do? What they do
to stop us? Like, what's in your head in terms
of if you're looking at this Vikings offense? What am
I looking at Dennis Allen and company doing.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
To make problems for us? Yeah? I mean I would,
I would force the kid to beat us. I would.
Speaker 9 (45:52):
I would absolutely say, Okay, you're not running the football actively.
We're gonna make sure you don't run the football against us.
We're gonna make the kid beat us. We're gonna pla
from ahead and hope this game can flip. And all
of a sudden, it's seven, ten to three, whatever the scorer
is in the first quarter. Now, all of a sudden,
we've been a bandy in the run game. So now
now the kids got to beat him. And yeah, we
have a bunch of athletes. But now, okay, I know
it's second and twelve, you know, I know he's got
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to drop back and throw a football Like we're gonna
pain her ears back. We're gonna throw him exotic glitz
at him, and we're gonna and we're gonna be multiple
in our coverages and try to confuse him and have
him throw us to football. You know, let him see
something that he thinks is there and all of a
sudden whoop.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
It's not say if you have the top, here we go.
Speaker 6 (46:30):
Love that the Bears have been the best defense in
third and long this season in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
They like teams against them.
Speaker 6 (46:37):
In third and long are only converting like fifteen percent.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
I think I saw that in the But anyway, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (46:43):
And so like what's interesting to me is if you're
the Vikings, can you stay out of third and long?
And what do you have to do to do that?
Probably run the football. So I like you've banged the
drum on this since you arrived. It feels to me
like line of scrimmages must win run games, stop the run.
Speaker 9 (47:00):
And it's like nineteen eighty seven again with the NFL,
Like you gotta run the football and win win the
line of scrimmage. Yeah, and you don't have to hand
the ball off for it to be a run game.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Sure, Like there's there's.
Speaker 9 (47:11):
A lot more options now with the offense and the
creativity about getting the ball to JJ, getting the ball
to a running back in the flat, letting him get
four yards on first down.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Last game, Derrick Henry pitched to Lamar Jackson and it
was fresh.
Speaker 1 (47:25):
Yeah. Crazy.
Speaker 9 (47:26):
I just think you can be a little bit more
creative rather than say, hey, we're gonna run zone scheme,
left zone scheme, right here comes power. Now you can
win that way. Absolutely, you can win that way if
you have the horses. But you can throw a bubble
screen to the left and get five on first down.
Now you're sick and it's sitting at second to five
and your whole play sheets in front of you, and
now you're not in the third and long. We can
extend drives, keep Caleb on the sidelines in that run
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game nice and ice cold, and the way.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
We go anything with a great Duck Vodka, Great Duck sperience.
This weekend we need to know about you know, there's
always something, always something. I'm so far south, I'm just
gonna head your rose Mount Top ten liquor over there
have been a big support of Duck back over these years.
Speaker 9 (48:01):
Were gonna sign some bottles on, I'll recover your ears,
probably take some pictures. He's gonna show up. He's company
said he wants two bottles. Oh wow, I set them
aside for you.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
That's because he's working on a deal with somebody in
a roundabout way. But yeah, man, so yeah, we'll be
over there all right. Appreciate you, Love you very much,
thank you. Thanks Hey, Jack Greenway, he's got to go.
Chad Greenway his former teammate and one of the best friends,
Harrison Smith. Harry the Hitman has had Andrews and Daho.
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They played together for X amount of years. Fairy close,
then very close. Now Hitman's playing his two hundred regular
season game Sunday, and that is the bomb. So we're
gonna call down Texas Way and chat with Andrews and
Dajo when Nine to Noon continues from Buffalo Wild Wings, Lakeville.
Everybody's all snuggled up here at the Friday Football Feast.
Hey, hey, what's going on?
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the Friday Football fief alrighty,
holy cal what a jam pack crowd this is. Let's
begin the show in patented nine to noon fashion. It's
an old school Quincy Jones song called street Beater. There
was a show called Sanford and Son. This is the
theme with which we have started every nine to noon
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ten to one PA and Dubay show for the quarter
century that I've had the privilege to broadcast on kfa N.
But here's how we're gonna do it. From Buffalo Wild Wings, Lakeville.
Ladies and gentlemen, how about a round of applause for
the Lakeville South Band surprising us with the open of
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nine to noon.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Yeah, m hm yeah, come on now.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Spot at that.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Hey, hey, hey, how about that like the South ben
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Ladies and gentlemen at Buffalo Wild Wings, Lakeville, Please rise,
please rise, everybody stand up. We welcome Emma White, a
dear friend of mine from Faith Family Church, to the
football feast, as we honor the United States of America
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with the singing of our Star Spangled banner.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Home say can you see part the dancerly lie, what's
so proudly we had at the twilights last me whose
broadstrives handbrid.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Stars through the pair this fight or the red parts
we watched were so galland Lee.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Streaming hand the rockets, Red Claire, the Thorps, birsty in air,
gay froof through.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
The night that a flag was still there? Oh say does.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Dat spangled bandcad Ward.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
Or the Land of the Free and the Home of
the Bread.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Hey em a white Ladies and gentlemen, Faith family Church.
Aren't you glad you came to the Friday football feast
today at Buffalo Wild Wings Lakeville.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Hey, Lakeville South Band, Lakeville South.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
And what's going on? Why don't you out? Why don't
you play?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Play a little ditty for about thirty forty five seconds
as we start this radio show. Okay, anybody want any
free T shirts? We could throw those into the crowd too.
Come on, now, come on now, let's fire some shirts
into the crowd. Get a little live music for bumper
at Buffalo Wild Wings, Lakeville. This is the Friday football
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Here we go, ladies and gentlemen, we are feasting at
Buffalo Wild Wings, Lakeville. Ladies and gentlemen, the excellence in
engineering of Jared Wells. Round of applause, Nick Madden and
his street Team, Ladies and gentlemen. Alec Lewis from Theathletic
Indeathletic dot Com as a co host likewise for Nordo,
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the producer of nine to Noon, and I'm Paul Allen.
Devin Ward produces and guides the Great Ship Love Covenant
from FIM one hundred point three k F A N
and the Football Fish.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Is in the Air. Lakeville South Band Ladies and gentlemen, round.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Of applause for the kindness of just showing up and
that that's so sweet. They're gonna be playing some bumper
music for us too. Alc all I'm gonna say is behold.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
I walked up and there was a band playing outside.
I'm like, am I at the wrong place? I don't
know is there band practice? I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
And we got a star spangled banner for you and
everything this has been.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
I mean, you look at this crowd right now.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
You think the Vikings have won six consecutive games or
something like that.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Right I'm wondering if the whole city of Lakeville's in here.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I know, Hey, give yourselves a round of applause for
packing this thing this morning.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
It is fantastic.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
All right, Well, there's a radio show to do despite
all of the all of the ancillary fantastic things that
are transpiring in our lives right now, and and the
there's something very important involving the Minnesota Vikings game this
weekend Sunday at noon against the Chicago Bears. That's the
time for the Boone pregame at ten o'clock. There's something
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very important happening right now. We have to handle it.
This is of utmost importance, Ladies and gentlemen. Alec Lewis
was on the nine to new radio show yesterday right
at the end of the show, and there was some
healing hand related terrorism that was spread at about eleven
fifty two am yesterday involving the hand of Minnesota Vikings
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quarterback JJ McCarthy. Advance the story. You're a reporter by trade.
Advance what we heard yesterday with the healing hand, what
happened in practice, and where we are today and good morning,
good morning.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah, JJ hurt his hand in the game on Sunday
on the.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Throw over the middle to Justin Jefferson in the end
zone that we all probably would have expected Justin Jefferson
to catch.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
That hand was bandaged on that hand was bandaged.
Speaker 6 (07:09):
On Wednesday, there were no under center snaps taken. There
were very few throws taken with the right hand. Then
yesterday there were under center snaps taken and there were
more throws than he was full in practice, So you
expect it to be, you know, fine, but it's something
to watch, yeah, considering the accuracy has already been somewhat
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of a moving target.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
So yeah, we're watching it.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
The reporter said, everything's fine with JJ McCarthy, and he practiced.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
In fall ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
Well I heard him in his pressure he say, when
you slam your hand in a car door, not that
kind of worries me, as it pertains to throwing a
ball with some sort of accuracy, so it's not like
slamming your hand in a car door.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Well, he was in the press conference, like holding his
hands in his pockets.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
You couldn't see.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
You think he's hiding the fact that he may only
have four fingers, So you're like, is there.
Speaker 6 (08:05):
Swelling, Like why is he not like taking his hand
out of his pocket.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
If there really was swelling, would you have been able
to tell? I don't know. Maybe, I mean you're you're
watching the guy like a hawk in the press lot.
Truly grip that football after your hand was swelling, I'd
be able to tell.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
I have the fattest fingers at Buffalo Wild Wings, Lakeville.
My hand is permanently swollen, and you'll be fifty nine
one day too. Okay, we have more very very important
information here. Looks good today than so do your glasses
that need to be shared at the Friday football feast.
Very important from a reporter by trade. Now, this is serious,
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ladies and gentlemen, take this very seriously.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
I feel like you're not getting trolled.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Everybody here familiar with one of the very best defensive
players in the National Football League named Jonathan Grenard?
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Are you familiar?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
I get a witness mourcus round of applause for.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
Fifty eight preacho.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well guess what he hasn't practiced.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
The last two days. Oh and he.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Left the Baltimore game with some type of swoon over
his shoulder. For an update on that piece of negativity,
we go back to the reporting desk. What can you
tell us about Jonathan Grenard against these division rivals. And
by the way, even though we have a losing record,
even though the Minnesota Vikings are at the bottom of
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the NFC North right now and that's nothing but bad
for business, but we can fix it this weekend and
next weekend when they beat the Green Bay Packers. Even
though even though the team is mired at the bottom
of the NFC North, it still is undefeated in the division.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Ladies and gentlemen, can't I get.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
A witness and it plans to stay that way this
week And for an update and what we expect with
today's practice with Jonathan Grenard number fifty eight, maybe if
he plays in the game, we go back to the
Athletic indeathletic dot com desk. By the way, the only
way this information is shared at Buffalo Wild Wings Lakeville
(10:12):
is if at least ten of you become new subscribers
to the Athletic.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
It's only like four dollars a month. It might be
one dollar a month. We offer these deals that are
falling out of your pocket. I don't know, I don't
know him around remember around. I'm like, how is this
sustained with?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yes? You know, okay? Paying Michael Russa.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Okay, cool,
we got we got the subscriptions. Russo cash though, what
kind of an update? Can you give us a number
fifty eight? Because he's very, very important to the cause.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Yeah, he hasn't practiced this week's DNP. Yeah, sorry, he
was DNP on Wednesday, did not practice, and then didn't
practice Thursday. I saw him in the locker room Wednesday
and he was as vibrant of a personality as he
always is. But if he's not upgraded to limited today, geez,
you start to wonder.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I mean, you would probably.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Know we're not going to play in the game Sunday,
and that would put a lot on on Dallas Turner's plate. Now,
I did feel like this, I will you know, doubt
don yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Bo rickor just caught astray.
Speaker 6 (11:15):
No, Dallas Turner, I did feel like had one of
his best game Sunday obviously got flagged for what everybody
in this room believes should not be a flag in
terms of the rule of that play.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
But if Dallas Turner, you know, I Jonathan Garnard.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Doesn't play, that would obviously be a big spot for
Dallas Turner and against tackles who are gettable around the edge.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
All right, so that's the update with some pertinent injury
related information.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
You notice.
Speaker 7 (11:41):
So all we try to do when we come to
Buffalo Wild Wings is pumped this thing up and give
And all Alec has done for the first segment is
talk about the QB's hand and one of our passwasters
that won't play.
Speaker 6 (11:52):
But I'm being put in that I'm being put in
that situation.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Look basic, right, But I mean those are pertinent, pertinent
questions involving this weekend's game.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
They're pertinent, without without question, that is a pertinent topic.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
You want positivity. People want positivity.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Has change the conversation. Hashtag faith Radio.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
As we've said for about two decades, nine to noon
or ten to one, just for fun. All right, Well,
here's the positivity. You have found a place where we
can feed you. There's food, there's alcohol, there's alcohol, and
it's Friday. We have shirts. We can clothe you. Anybody
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want a free shirt. We have one of the great
defensive players in the history of Minnesota Vikings football, Chad Greenway,
joining us shortly. We can entertain you, ladies and gentlemen.
Can I get a witness in a Rockers round of
applause for that.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So no, we brought the hashtag faith goods today. Okay,
ain't nobody ever gonna second guess that with the nine
to noon prisonation, no matter what is happening or what
type of rigmarole with which we are dealing. So now
we close this segment with something called dealer's choice. This
is dealer's choice for the two analysts nine to noon,
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and it evolves the Vikings and the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
And there we are.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
It's dealer's choice for Alec Lewis and Eric Nordquist, my producer.
And here are the options, and you get the choice.
The options are with the Minnesota Vikings this weekend against
the Chicago Bears. You expect a big one from the
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Minnesota Vikings, but are not quite sure of the outcome.
Number Two, you guarantee a solid effort and a victory
from the Minnesota Vikings. And three, the Bears are hot.
The Bears are like the Vikings of twenty twenty two.
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They're finding the way to win all of these tightly
contested games. And the Bears will defeat the Minnesota Vikings
this Sunday dealer. Hey, hey, I just write the questions.
Damn it, I don't make the choices. Gotta get a witness,
all right, Now, hold on dealer's choice, Alec, you're first.
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Which one do you want?
Speaker 6 (14:24):
And why the one that gets the loudest round of applause?
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Alick guarantees a solid effort by the Minnesota Vikings and
a victory.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
How about that? Uh, Nordo, which one do you pick?
Speaker 7 (14:38):
You know, I don't know how much bounce back this
team has left in the tank. But after eight false starts,
after self inflicted wounds, and I'm the negative one and
a four and five team. This Bears squad feasting off
of the mistake prone, This Bear squad feasting off of
bad football teams. If only for a day, the Minnesota
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Vikings will play a turnover free game and they will
continue to do what Kevin O'Connell does every single time
he faces the freaking Bears is he's gonna beat on
the Bears. We are going to battle the Bears.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
It will be a Chicago shellacking.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
Yeah, and the Vikings will be five and five by
Sunday afternoons.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
They're gonna change that song from the night Chicago Died
to the day Chicago Died, and it's gonna take place
boom at noon on FM one hundred point three KFAM.
All right, we're gonna add to break first and foremost.
A round of applause, Emma you still here, A round
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of applause for m A White for that outstanding rendition
of the Star Spangled banner, also from under the cover
of darkness, and we love when this happens. The Lakeville
South Band Welcome, Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. They're gonna be
playing a little bumper music for us today, some music
for you between breaks, I mean, between segments. And what
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a fantastic Friday football peace this has turned out to
me JDB Jared Wells, the master mixer and the engineer,
Nick Madden and the street team Alex Lewis, Eric Nordquist,
Paul Allen. Devin Ward is back at FN one hundred
point three kf an. We're back shortly with the game
(16:23):
changer Chad Greenway. But first Devin has some cash to
give away in Good Morning Buffalo Wild Wings lake Bill.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
This is gonna be a funky good time.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
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Speaker 2 (16:50):
All right, welcome back to the Friday Football Feast. Hey,
Lakeville South marching band. Ladies and gentlemen, they gotta go.
I think they got classes and stuff like bat You
guys are outstanding. Hey, thank you very much, Thank you,
thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
They're probably at the bank tonight, say something final football?
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Oh really, I would guess we should ask, Well, this
is a warm up. I know he dined at beat
Minnetonka by a point last night. And I don't know
what what games are today? Is Linkedo South involved, Laco South?
And South is tonight?
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I believe yes or no? Got a w jeez, they're
playing right now?
Speaker 2 (17:24):
All right, Hey, ladies and gentlemen, one of the great
defensive players in the history of Minnesota Vikings football has
joined us. He's a weekly staple at the Friday Football Feast.
Can I get a witness and a raucous round of
applause for Chad girl?
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Way?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
All right, before we begin hey, my man, hey, my man,
come here. What in the heck is happening here? Oh yeah,
that sounds about right all down Chicago. Beeh ha ha
again I get all right, belie, this is I mean,
what's your what's your name? Kid, Scott Lombardi? Where are
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you from?
Speaker 8 (18:09):
From?
Speaker 7 (18:09):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Chicago, Illinois? But I will live in Praierly. Okay.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Now you got Nick Madden behind you with with a
at KFA and one zero zero three all of our
social all of our social media channels and KFA in
dot com.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
So this will be seen by many.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Can you explain exactly what you're wearing and what this
inflatable is that.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
You're riding Staley the Bear?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Okay, well you know what. Uh we're Minnesota and ice here. Okay,
for the effort and the inflatable Staley the Bear and
showing up at the feast, just give him a round
of applause.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Damn it, Come on you, you fools. All right? A
Bears fan named Lombardi, I know, yeah, that was so
many things going on.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I know, it's like meeting a Packers fan named Hallis
what'd you say?
Speaker 1 (19:04):
My Grandfrother's name is Vince Lombardi. Really is family. Well,
I can relate to that.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I can relate to that being the wrong Paul Allen,
now the other Paul Allen, God rest his soul. But
I'm the wrong Paul Allen, and your uncle or whomever
is the wrong Vince Lombardy. So we've come together as
kindred spirits. Okay, uh, let's fist bump one more time,
nice and softly, because kindness is important. Before that, all
your team's gonna take this weekend. And I just figured,
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you know, we're going to talk about.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
It all right. I got you, ma'am, great duck vodka,
Thank you very much. Here's Chad Greenway.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
Can you guarantee a big effort from the Minnesota Vikings
this weekend?
Speaker 1 (19:46):
And good morning? And good morning?
Speaker 9 (19:48):
You get folks an excuse to drink in Lakeville at
nine am? And I mean you can't park outside, no
place to sit.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
You've been here, it's unbelievable several times this you you
were here when the Lakeville South Band did the original
Sanford and Son theme that we play every single day
nine to now.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Yes, hold on, we might have a problem. And our
boss Janie's right over here.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Oh yeah, uh so we may have just played the
song for longer than nineteen seconds, and if it's not
pulled out of the podcast, we all lose our jobs.
How concerned are you, Nordo? How concerned are you? You
know more about this than me?
Speaker 7 (20:24):
No, I'm mild I'm mildly concerned. I can feel the
super super boss I daggers. I'm asked with Devin to
remove it from the podcast. Yes, the lawyers are always listening,
and the lawyers dictate everything we do.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Nine to do.
Speaker 2 (20:37):
He threatened to pull fifteen of my sixty five vacation
days simply vocal vocal maintenance because of what just happened.
All right, Well, so you've been to a lot of
these here, Chad, I mean this is ah, this is packed.
I mean everything's up on top of everything. Alex's already
gotten three phone numbers. We had a star spangled banner.
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Marketing director just frowned, got a band and everything. We
got babies in here where the whole thing's being videotape
by somebody.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
We have no idea who. It is so unbelievable happening
right now. I was a guy riding a bear, not
calloween costume. I don't know. I thought he was like
a consultant for the street team.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I don't know what's happening right now, but somehow I
have a feeling there's going to be an AI generated
naked image of yours truly on top of Stanley the Bear.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And I'm not happy about that. Unhappy about it. Okay,
that's a fair point. It is Friday, all right, So
you expect a big effort from the football team this weekend.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
Well, listen to this football team's got to figure out
what it is. I mean, the unit and yang of
these last two weeks, the ups and downs have been unbelievable.
You look at that game last week, and you look
at the first half compared to the second half of our
inability to get off the field bend but don't break, give.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Them field goals.
Speaker 9 (21:54):
It was like the defense, the Lessie Fraser defense of
eight the bend but don't break, give him the Tampa.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
Two bit, but can't get off the field.
Speaker 9 (22:01):
And then offensively, just waiting for this team to get going,
coming off a Detroit game that obviously flipped our entire
script of the season, and we come out there like
he ain't no stopping.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Us now here.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
We come down the stretch, they go big, big month
coming up, and then you lay that egg last week
against a Ravens team who is now healthy.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
It wasn't exactly an egg. It was an egg.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Chargers game was an egg. Charges game was an egg.
This was a game.
Speaker 9 (22:23):
When you come off a win like that, it's the
letdown from the Detroit game shows you this team at
this point is not They can't sustain that type of
effort and environment for the team to.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Be to be successful that way.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Okay, we can't and didn't are two different things at
this point, they are.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
What they are, got it.
Speaker 9 (22:41):
You know when you talk about a football season, like
you can wish away all the things you want to
wish away, but the reality is, like we're far enough
in is this is who we are now? The thing
you can argue from from the standpoint of watching this game,
and this is not a this is not a cut,
but this is the idea of like, can we get
JJ to play consistently like he did against Detroit? Which
one when it becomes both thank you. I didn't like
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the mood coming off of the Superstar last week for
maybe the first time in his career, you know, like
maybe he got that big bag of cash, lost a
little bit of edge and this guy to have a moment.
Where's the dog at? We liked that guy a little
bit more? Can we get it back this week?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Savage mode?
Speaker 9 (23:18):
I think savage mode, which I didn't know. If I
had to call it something cool like that when I played,
I'd call it Lakeville mode. But anyway with the altar ego.
But now, but now you look at I looked at
that game last week, and I look at the play
calling offensively in certain situations, they ended up being turnovers
when I didn't love the position our football team was in.
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So I think this, this lost last week last week
goes to everybody. It's not just on one. It goes
to everybody in that building. Or not find a way
to win. And now you come two divisional games in
a row where you have to win these two.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
You know you mentioned, hey, we got to find out
who we are? Isn't that who we are? Still waiting?
Speaker 7 (23:54):
Aren't we undisciplined? Aren't we mistake prone? I mean, as
many years as you spent in the league, I mean,
I'm not talking about a quicksand situation.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Mentally, you can't let yourself think that.
Speaker 7 (24:03):
But we're watching a team right now, like JJ McCarthy struggling.
That's about the only thing through this season that I'm
confidently seen And like I knew that was gonna happen.
I knew there would be ups and downs with him.
I didn't know we'd spend six weeks wondering where Javon
Hargrave is. I didn't know we'd spend nine games wondering
where the turnovers are. I also didn't know about the
injuries and all of that. I think at nine games
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we are who we are. To your point, like that
might be our identity. It might be the roller coaster.
That might be the identity, and that has to change
if you don't know for a day against these Bear Yeah,
I think, like I said, we are what we are.
Speaker 9 (24:37):
And before that Detroit game, we talked about the run
stopping the inability to stop the run, our inability to
run the football and stay on the field, our inability
to possess the ball, to to have more plays than
the other team. That's continued, so at the end of
the day, that is who we are. I think when
I look at this team offensively, the struggles we've had
is before this season, we talked about how many weapons
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this football team had the board, from tight end to
receiver to running back, the plethora of options we have.
When you try to force the ball to a spot
rather than taking what's available with a young quarterback, you
get issues.
Speaker 1 (25:11):
And that's what we saw last week. All right, Now,
is the Lakeville South Band still here? Well?
Speaker 2 (25:17):
Because after hearing mostly five to two, I think we
need them to play taps. Yeah, for the twenty twenty
five Minnesota Viking season.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
It's just the truth.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
You're putting pressure on them for the weekend too, which
is a good thing. Truth, which is a good thing.
How did pressure work out? We went to Detroit, that's right,
the gout to have a divisional game.
Speaker 9 (25:33):
We actually go out there and play with an edge,
and we win the battle of the trenches.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
These next two weeks is no different.
Speaker 9 (25:38):
Football never changes since the inception of football is you
have to win.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
With the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 9 (25:42):
If you don't do that, if you get beat up
by the ravens, if all of a sudden, that two
yard game the first quarter turns into a four yard
six yard game in a third quarter to that behemoth
running back, you lost your edge.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
You didn't win the trenches. You have to win these
next two games. On the inside, I'm feeling all of that.
Speaker 6 (25:56):
Let me ask you a very quick, simple question. Do
you think that they are running the football enough?
Speaker 1 (26:02):
No? I don't.
Speaker 9 (26:03):
I absolutely don't, And I don't thin they're running fotball
enough with our quarterback and being more multiple enough in
our run game. Now you can talk about you can
talk about the Dolphins, you can talk about that run.
You know the fact that coach is gonna be fired
most like at the.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
End of the season. McDaniels. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (26:16):
But the reality is is, like I love watching their
run game because the multiple ways they get their creative
with their run game. To get the ball in the
hands of the guys, they need to touch the football, And.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
I think we can be more creative.
Speaker 9 (26:28):
We can get the ball into our guys hands and
run the football more to possess the ball to keep
our defense off the field.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Hey, Buffalo Wild Wings, Lake vill do we have any
Harry the Hitman fans here.
Speaker 1 (26:43):
And the Hitman face Harry the Hitman.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Harrison Smith is playing his two hundredth regular season game
this weekend, and he plans to win the game this
week and Chad a former teammate with Harrison Smith. In
fact fifty two played with Harrison Smith for five years.
What was he like the first couple of years, like
(27:09):
twenty twelve, twenty thirteen, it's a good bush And here's
the bit because we had rules changes. We have a
guest at ten o'clock who also was up the hard
hitting variety who had to pull back a little bit.
But his first couple of years when the hit man
nickname was given because of his hits.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
What was that like? The guy came in just like
a missile.
Speaker 9 (27:29):
You had Andrew Sendejo and Harrison Smith playing behind you,
and the thing you had to do was watch your
back because if they had their head down, they may
take you out as well. The guy has changed over
the course of his career in so many ways. When
he came in the league, he was just that. He's
a fire breathing missile, coming downhill, knocking people out and
playing fast, playing fun football that we loved. We fell
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in love with him. As the career went, Zimmer comes in.
He changes into this like savant of football and understanding
how to understand protections and blit schemes and how to
bluff and how to show and when to fire the missile,
and when to fire the missile not hit his linebackers
in the back when they're just simply trying to play
football in front of him. And I think from a
(28:13):
covered standpoint, from a schematic standpoint, his ability to run
the defense through the zimmer years was incredible. To watch
him the ins and out, knowing the ins and out
of the Zimber defense and how complex it was and
the communication that it took.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
He's so smart.
Speaker 9 (28:29):
And now to see him transition to B flow and
he's having fun play in the game because Flores's defense
is fun to play.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
So he has kind of become this thing.
Speaker 9 (28:37):
He's the best, he can be whatever you want him
to be, because he's that type of player.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
He's a Hall of Fame safety. And when he came in,
I don't know if I'd have coined him.
Speaker 9 (28:45):
As he's going to be a Hall of Fame, but
you knew this guy was gonna be good for a
long time, and he's built himself into a Hall of
Fame type player because of his longevity, his ability to
make big plays, his ability to pick off intercept the
best quarterbacks in the league, especially Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
He's had his number since day one, and that's fun.
See we love that. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (29:01):
So, uh, I can't say enough about him. He's a great,
great human being just to stud all around.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
That's sweet.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
How would you describe his personality?
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Man, there's a couple of words that immediately came to mind.
I realized that from the radio.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
Well that's I almost asked you, what's your favorite?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
You can tell all you know, Chad, do it this
way because you got Harry the Hitman locker room practice
in game guy, I mean off the field when when
he's like, you know, normal person, uh with kids. I
mean he just has a captain coal side to him
that that you just can't teach.
Speaker 9 (29:33):
Yeah, so young Young Dajo and I always bring those
two together because they always travel together as a pack.
They come to the Greenway Farm, Uh, first Thanksgiving, we'd
have practice that morning.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
You know, Harry.
Speaker 9 (29:44):
Harry kind of slide in like this, and Dajo would
bring the bottle of tequila and you knew, like which
one was there to do what? And uh and now
like the captain cool bit is like it's completely what
Harry is as he walks in. He's very understated he's
always pretty quiet. He's always thinking, and I think the
thing that he doesn't get enough He does get enough
credit for it now from the football style, but he
is just a smart dude. And when you can play
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that fast, to play that physical and be that smart,
you're gonna play for a long time, which is what
he's done.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
With those high cheek bones in that jaw line. Look
at the eyes he's I mean, it's not even fair.
It's ridiculous. When he wears that hat from like the
twenty yeats.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
You never really know, like when you're talking with him,
at least in my like, you never know where the conversation.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
He's playing chess and you're playing check. Yeah, that's exactly
what because he pauses.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
Yeah, I mean it's like people immediately, like if you're
interviewing Chris Carter or something like that.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
No shot at Chris.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
But sometimes there are like pauses that are five seconds
and you think it's my turn to come in and
then he clips, but it's actually he's not clipping because
he's the guest. You ask Harrison Smith a question, he
pauses for two or three seconds to think out the answer,
and it could go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
I mean, that's really like it could go the name guy.
Speaker 9 (30:53):
He might be the only guy that I know of
that played Maybe Matellus did this, and there's other guys.
I'm should be a rattle off. I goes to Notre
Dame from Tennessee. I think it was maybe the running back. Yeah,
he was the dude safety, but then moves to a linebacker,
play him outside backer at Notre Dame comes the league
just decides he's gonna play safety. Because the thing you
(31:15):
don't realize is that he's a freak athlete, Like nobody
talks about like he's smart, he's he's a big hitter.
I don't even mentioned when I was talking about him.
The guy's a freak. Like you're gonna walk up and
I'm a dunk a basketball, Like he can do that
right now at whatever, thirty four years old.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
He's that you left. The other day, they have this
little goal with well he's left handed, he's got a
nice jump shot.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
He was just like like just draining shots like by
himself quietly.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Cam Akers is just like watching.
Speaker 9 (31:42):
Do you think that do you think that how a
person shoots a basketball is the best version of their athleticism,
or how does a person run because you've ever seen
somebody roun You're like, no way, that dude's an athlete,
like you gotta be able to kind of have it,
you know, have it together. I don't know, but shooting
the basketball, you can tell a lot about somebody's coordination.
Speaker 7 (32:01):
How much has he had to adjust? I mean, I
think about it in your career as well. As you
get older, you get smarter. You mentioned how he evolved
within Zimmer's defense, and he may still be a freak athlete.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
I mean, look at me, I'm judging Noba a freak athletic.
Speaker 9 (32:13):
Obviously, no way around a bowling alley, the blue or
the smoke, the better the bowling.
Speaker 7 (32:19):
The way that he's had to adapt, or the way
you had to adapt in your career, like I see
Harry out there now, in some ways he has to
be smarter than when it used.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
To be faster. You know what he You know, he's
a fiscally conservative guy.
Speaker 9 (32:33):
So he does not like to get the check or
the check docked on Tuesday for fines. So the guy,
the guy was getting fine after fine as a young person,
was leaning with his helmet, absolutely just playing reckless.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
And now the game has changed so he's changed.
Speaker 9 (32:48):
How he's had to approach, how he tackle like everybody else,
but he's also changed his approach. So now it's it's
it's more I'm going to beat you. I was talking
about Steve Hutchinson in this way. Is physically he's going
to be better than you. He's a Hall of Fame
left guard. But he's also gonna be more prepared. He's
gonna be the most prepared guy in the room to
go on Sunday, I'm gonna beat you. If I don't
beat you physically, I'm gonna beat you with my.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
First step and know where you're gonna go first. Wow.
Speaker 9 (33:11):
So now Harry's gonna beat you. He's really good physically,
and now he's aged. But now he's gonna give himself
that little bit of a half step, a little bit
of adjustment forward, a little bit of that slight movement
where he's gonna say, I know what you're gonna do
because I'm prepared. I'm just gonna slide myself in that
spot so I can make the play where last you know,
five years ago, I can make that play from anywhere
in the.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
Field, is okay with everything you just said from a
preparatory standpoint and or in game slide of hand execution
uh Faine Feine, the the blitz, mugging, the double a
gap and retreat, just everything that goes into the sneaky
nature of winning. Is Antwine Winfield the football smartest player
(33:55):
with whom you've ever played?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Good question, because.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
We just talked about the football documen of Smith, and
there's there's no affront to Harry. If the answers, yes, Nacho,
you I mean not not me?
Speaker 9 (34:10):
Uh, I would say Antoine Winfield is, pound for pound,
the best football player I have ever played with.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Okay, and that includes Adrian Peterson.
Speaker 9 (34:17):
This dude, his ability at his slight stature was incredible,
But Antoine didn't have the elite speed.
Speaker 1 (34:25):
You didn't play with Corey Javis, did?
Speaker 9 (34:27):
You did not sound Antoine's incredible player. Anybody in that
on that defense would say the exact same thing. A
defense that had Jared Allen, defense that had Kevin Williams.
The guys are gonna be Hall of famers. Goodine, Yes
he was. Kevin was extremely good and does not get
the recognition he deserves across the league a man because
he's understated. Dude, He's just chill. He doesn't get loud,
but his jumper nice. Really Okay Okaomas basketball player, that's
(34:53):
all the he was Okay State as a basketball player.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
I think the for the Vikings drift, we'll sport wow.
Speaker 6 (35:01):
For the Vikings draft of the combine to be like,
we'll ask you a few questions, then we'll wheel in
a basketball.
Speaker 9 (35:06):
Goal when they bring the thirty guys in like the
pre draft visit just just go to the lifetime.
Speaker 7 (35:12):
Absolutely, So what do you think of this? I need
eight to ten from the stripe with with and Twan Winfield.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Okay, Chad Greenway played a decade plus right around a
decade in the NFL, very very good. One of the
best defensive players in the history of Vikings football. Certainly
one of the greatest tacklers, most reliable tacklers in the
history of Minnesota Vikings football. So when he preaches something
like that, people should listen with and Twan Winfield. For
(35:40):
him to say he's the best overall football player with
whom I've ever played, and he played with Adrian Peterson quarterbacks,
I'd eliminate from it like Brett barv you know, because hey,
Brady hands it off better than so and so or
or sells the play action or whatever.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
So we'll put quarterbacks out of the mix with Winfield.
Speaker 2 (35:59):
Tell me what you think of There's nobody like him
even to this day.
Speaker 1 (36:05):
And here's why.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
Smaller guy, but do you remember how broad his shoulders were.
His shoulders were abnormal for a guy that size. They
were broad and round, and he would light you up
with those shoulders.
Speaker 9 (36:23):
Also one of the best, if not the best tackling
corner in the history of the NFL.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Correct, And I've never listen.
Speaker 9 (36:29):
My job was to shock and shed get off blocks
these big olgers. Nobody shocked in shed like a antworm,
shocked and shagged job and you shock him and you
gotta shed him.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Do you talk about the ex I tell this story
all the.
Speaker 9 (36:46):
Time about Antoine because you would, you would go out
for warm up and this is this was after the
VHS days and after the seed the DVD days of
film and al a sudden, you have an iPad you
can look at, which is amazing. You come back in
before the game, he's on the film. He comes at
for the halftime, he's on the film at the end
of the game. Like Obvio, he's not back on the film,
But he's always studying and understanding splits, alignment releases of receivers.
(37:12):
He knows that this receiver does this release out of
this position on the field, if he's in the slot,
how big is a split? He know he's gonna run
these two or three routes, and if he runs past
eight yards, I know he's gonna run one of these
two routes. And if he's short of eight yards, I
know he's gonna do this. And he's just jumping things
all the time because he just understands what you're gonna
do in a book that's this thick when you have
(37:33):
no idea what that guy's gonna call. It's just tremendous
ability to think, especially in football when you have two
three seconds pre snap, to take all that information and
calculate it and understand what you're looking at.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
I gotta get some windfield tape.
Speaker 2 (37:45):
Chad Greenway, ladies and gentlemen got another segment with him too,
to talk of Vikings and Bears, and a former teammate
of Chad Greenway's Ann Harrison Smith's Andrew Sendejo, will be
calling us about fifteen to twenty menu. It's from now
Chad just gave us a lot of wonderful material off
which we will play. But when we return more with
(38:06):
number fifty two, Chad Greenway. We are at Buffalo Wild Wings, Lakeville,
and this is the Friday Football on k f A
n Buffalo Wild Wings of Lakeville for the Friday Football
(38:51):
Feast final segment with Chad Greenway, Andrews and Dajo is
going to be a rare Feast phone guest around the corner.
After that, we'll mix in some fantasy called ihop, talk
about some quarterbacks around the NFL, and Vike's Bites takes
place at about eleven o'clock. I'm gonna be out in
the crowd with everybody. I have some topics for the analysts,
(39:12):
the co hosts, but an opportunity to create your own
Vike bite takes place at about eleven o'clock. If you
have a question, buyo VB. Yeah, BYOVB. If you have
a question, a Vikings related question for either ATLEK or Nordo,
if we're gonna do that an hour and change from now. Meanwhile,
(39:32):
I'm asked this one and get out of the way.
Ben Johnson, head coach of the Chicago Bears, so yeah,
about about eighty ninety through the Bears portion of the
equation for the game calling depth chart this weekend. There offensively,
there have been some things that you can immediately see
where it's like Caleb, now, Caleb last year and two
(39:54):
of them would be first and foremost. He was sacked
sixty eight or sixty three, sixty eight, sixty eight times
last year, freaking absurd, and he's been sacked this year.
It's like fourteen fourteen, fourteen through nine. So hey, Caleb,
don't hold it so long. Hey, Darnell right, live up
to your first round hype, which he is O'Connell on
(40:16):
and off the microphone Tuesday at TCOPC. I mean, I'm
not saying he made Darnell Wright sound like a cross
between a right tackle version of Orlando Pace and Walter Jones,
but he definitely was like this guy's different, So we
got that. But so Caleb with I mean, he's on
Pace for like, you know, twenty some odd sacks, are
you kidding me? But he had no rushing touchdowns this year.
(40:40):
He has three this year, and he just won the
game against the Giants with a seventeen yard scamper. So
Ben's getting through to Caleb. When it comes to the
Ben Johnson Bears offense, how do you think they attack
Brian Flores defense.
Speaker 9 (40:56):
Yeah, I think you know, you look at what he
does so well is he he's just a phenomenal athlete
at the end of the day playing quarterback. And he's
not a Lamar Jackson type of athlete where he's gonna
he's gonna pull it down and run first. He's a
athlete to get myself into a throwing slot that I
can get to my spots. And I think that's when
you've watched him last year, you watch him make some plays,
you're like, that's unique. Even though he's running for his
(41:17):
life and he made some throws, You're like, Okay, that's special.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
But couldn't keep couldn't keephim up right now.
Speaker 9 (41:22):
You bring in this coach that's clearly a good football coach. Yeah,
when you come in and you flip an organization as
quick as he's he's done it. Unfortunately, NFC North they're
here to stay and they got a young quarterback and
a really good football coach. They're not going anywhere, So
that's scary. But I think when you play a guy
like this who tries to stay in the pocket and
(41:44):
throw from that spot.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
Is you've got to rush him really smart.
Speaker 9 (41:46):
You want to he's gonna make throws, but make him
make throws from that well, deep in the well of
that pocket, over the top of guys. Not let him
get into space, step up in the pocket. Our interior roster.
You got to be really, really smart and our ends.
You got to cage him and not let them get outside.
That's the process from into your line standpoint. Can we
trick him into some mistakes? That'd be the key? Sindejo
(42:08):
just scratched. No, I'm just kidding. Nordo running the ball.
Speaker 7 (42:12):
A big part of this as well as part of
that development is Ben Johnson has kind of had the
opportunity to establish what he had in Detroit, the combination
of swift and manung guy fun as the name is
to say, it's not fun to watch him run and
this team's running for a buck eighty five a game over.
I think since the buye and they're four and one,
so you do you roll in?
Speaker 1 (42:31):
Is Is it truly?
Speaker 7 (42:32):
You know the simplicity of it, like, hey, this stop
this tandem and make Caleb Williams prove that he's the
guy that's only been sacked fourteen times prove that he
can win the game by rolling out, escaping pressure and
hitting those sweet sideline throws to a dune.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
Say, I mean, is it? Is it truly? Just kind
of ABC's back to simple, simple.
Speaker 7 (42:51):
Stuff like I'm gonna stop that tandem and let Caleb
try to do his business. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (42:55):
You look at look back to Detroit two weeks ago
and what we forced them into because they weren't able
to get what they want on the ground. You look
at that box square after that game, You're like, Wow,
who's the bully of the North Like it was us? Yeah,
Like what makes a quarter a young quarterback life really easy?
Speaker 1 (43:12):
Is a run game?
Speaker 7 (43:13):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (43:13):
It is? And a really good and a really good defense.
Speaker 9 (43:17):
So you can look at our team and be like,
wait a second, we have a good young quarterback. We
could have a good run game and take all the
pressure off him making all the plays. And when you
have when you have a guy like Caleb who can
extend a third down and six when they got to
have when first and second down win awrye. But when
you're running for a buck eighty a game in the league,
like you're an absolute problem, because now you can do
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whatever you want. That's why Detroit's been so good these
last what five six years, is because they've they've been
able to be multiple, just balanced, run the ball, throw
the ball, play action pass when they do want to
do it, check down to running back, like an extension
of your running game. Simple plays. And when you're multiple
like that, you're so hard to defend. I mean, what
are you gonna do.
Speaker 6 (43:57):
Caleb does some stuff outside the pocket where he throws velocity,
like on the run, at a level that I like, it's.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
Hard to find comps for that.
Speaker 6 (44:07):
My question to you is that, like you talked to
a lot of players in the locker room, they praise
Ben Jhonson's ability to adjust in game.
Speaker 1 (44:14):
And I would just wonder for.
Speaker 6 (44:15):
You over the course of your time, like, are there
coordinators you faced where you're like, this guy, regardless of
what our game plan is, is going to pick at
us throughout the course of the game.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
And so we have to be very adaptable in game.
Speaker 6 (44:28):
Because Ben, talk to any of the players in the
locker room, they will tell you like, that's where he
does thrive.
Speaker 1 (44:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (44:33):
To me, the sign of a great football coach is
your ability to end game when the bullets are flying,
make adjustments and not let it hurt your ego in
the plan you had set forth. Interesting, so like you
have a whole week to prepare, you say, here's how
we're gonna beat him. I've seen it, I've saw the light.
Here we go all of a sudden, Hey, you know what,
they solve that problem. It's not working. We have to
adjust if on the fly. And by the way, we
can do that. He's clearly been good at that and adjusting.
(44:56):
And by the way, we have really good coaches too,
they can do that.
Speaker 1 (44:58):
Yeah. I think, yeah, and I do think.
Speaker 9 (45:00):
Because how desperate our football team is gonna play this weekend,
I think it's I think it's gonna play very desperate
and very very hard and very good inside. It's gonna
be a really good football game that's gonna come down
to the last possession. There's just no question about in
my mind, that's how this thing is gonna play out.
And our ability to keep them off the ground game
and keep the offense on the sidelines and extend to
(45:21):
our own offensive drives, which is.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
Something we have not been able to do, is gonna
be key.
Speaker 2 (45:25):
Two minutes doom minutes to break time.
Speaker 7 (45:29):
So if you're Dennis Allen and you're the Bears and
you're looking at the Vikings and got the kid QB.
We see forty two attempts a week ago. Everybody knows
that's too many. So what they do? What they do
to stop us? Like, what's in your head in terms
of if you're looking at this Vikings offense? What am
I looking at Dennis Allen and company doing.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
To make problems for us? Yeah? I mean I would,
I would force the kid to beat us. I would.
Speaker 9 (45:52):
I would absolutely say, Okay, you're not running the football actively.
We're gonna make sure you don't run the football against us.
We're gonna make the kid beat us. We're gonna pla
from ahead and hope this game can flip. And all
of a sudden, it's seven, ten to three, whatever the scorer
is in the first quarter. Now, all of a sudden,
we've been a bandy in the run game. So now
now the kids got to beat him. And yeah, we
have a bunch of athletes. But now, okay, I know
it's second and twelve, you know, I know he's got
(46:15):
to drop back and throw a football Like we're gonna
pain her ears back. We're gonna throw him exotic glitz
at him, and we're gonna and we're gonna be multiple
in our coverages and try to confuse him and have
him throw us to football. You know, let him see
something that he thinks is there and all of a
sudden whoop.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
It's not say if you have the top, here we go.
Speaker 6 (46:30):
Love that the Bears have been the best defense in
third and long this season in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (46:35):
They like teams against them.
Speaker 6 (46:37):
In third and long are only converting like fifteen percent.
Speaker 1 (46:40):
I think I saw that in the But anyway, go ahead.
Speaker 6 (46:43):
And so like what's interesting to me is if you're
the Vikings, can you stay out of third and long?
And what do you have to do to do that?
Probably run the football. So I like you've banged the
drum on this since you arrived. It feels to me
like line of scrimmages must win run games, stop the run.
Speaker 9 (47:00):
And it's like nineteen eighty seven again with the NFL,
Like you gotta run the football and win win the
line of scrimmage. Yeah, and you don't have to hand
the ball off for it to be a run game.
Speaker 1 (47:09):
Sure, Like there's there's.
Speaker 9 (47:11):
A lot more options now with the offense and the
creativity about getting the ball to JJ, getting the ball
to a running back in the flat, letting him get
four yards on first down.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Last game, Derrick Henry pitched to Lamar Jackson and it
was fresh.
Speaker 1 (47:25):
Yeah. Crazy.
Speaker 9 (47:26):
I just think you can be a little bit more
creative rather than say, hey, we're gonna run zone scheme,
left zone scheme, right here comes power. Now you can
win that way. Absolutely, you can win that way if
you have the horses. But you can throw a bubble
screen to the left and get five on first down.
Now you're sick and it's sitting at second to five
and your whole play sheets in front of you, and
now you're not in the third and long. We can
extend drives, keep Caleb on the sidelines in that run
(47:47):
game nice and ice cold, and the way.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
We go anything with a great Duck Vodka, Great Duck sperience.
This weekend we need to know about you know, there's
always something, always something. I'm so far south, I'm just
gonna head your rose Mount Top ten liquor over there
have been a big support of Duck back over these years.
Speaker 9 (48:01):
Were gonna sign some bottles on, I'll recover your ears,
probably take some pictures. He's gonna show up. He's company
said he wants two bottles. Oh wow, I set them
aside for you.
Speaker 2 (48:10):
That's because he's working on a deal with somebody in
a roundabout way. But yeah, man, so yeah, we'll be
over there all right. Appreciate you, Love you very much,
thank you. Thanks Hey, Jack Greenway, he's got to go.
Chad Greenway his former teammate and one of the best friends,
Harrison Smith. Harry the Hitman has had Andrews and Daho.
(48:32):
They played together for X amount of years. Fairy close,
then very close. Now Hitman's playing his two hundred regular
season game Sunday, and that is the bomb. So we're
gonna call down Texas Way and chat with Andrews and
Dajo when Nine to Noon continues from Buffalo Wild Wings, Lakeville.
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Ruthie's Table 4
For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activists, and politicians. Michael Caine, Glenn Close, JJ Abrams, Steve McQueen, Victoria and David Beckham, and Lily Allen, are just some of the people who love to call The River Cafe home. On River Cafe Table 4, Rogers sits down with her customers—who have become friends—to talk about food memories. Table 4 explores how food impacts every aspect of our lives. “Foods is politics, food is cultural, food is how you express love, food is about your heritage, it defines who you and who you want to be,” says Rogers. Each week, Rogers invites her guest to reminisce about family suppers and first dates, what they cook, how they eat when performing, the restaurants they choose, and what food they seek when they need comfort. And to punctuate each episode of Table 4, guests such as Ralph Fiennes, Emily Blunt, and Alfonso Cuarón, read their favourite recipe from one of the best-selling River Cafe cookbooks. Table 4 itself, is situated near The River Cafe’s open kitchen, close to the bright pink wood-fired oven and next to the glossy yellow pass, where Ruthie oversees the restaurant. You are invited to take a seat at this intimate table and join the conversation. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to https://shoptherivercafe.co.uk/ Web: https://rivercafe.co.uk/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/therivercafelondon/ Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/therivercafelondon/ For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iheartradio app, apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.