#92Noon! 9a hour 11/21 - Friday Football Feast/Greenway

Hour 1 on the Friday Football Feast has former Vikings Linebacker Chad Greenway join the show to talk about what went wrong Sunday vs the Bear and to preview the Vikings game vs the Packers.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, what's going on everybody?

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Welcome to the Friday Football Feest Buffalo Wild Wings. Blaine
gets all the money today and it sure gets a
lot of money around of applause for yourself showing up today. Wow,
nice jam pack rout. That's what we do with the feast.
You know what, you know what else we do? We
begin with a high school marching bands if they are

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so inclined to stop by the Friday Football Feast, and
under the tutelage and direction of David Bouchard, ladies and gentlemen,
we kick off nine to noon with a little ditty
called street Beater courtesy of a portion of the Blaine

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High School Marching Banday, that's nice.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
We got a two.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, hey playing high school marching band. Ladies and gentlemen,
thank you very much. Stick around as long as you
want music into breaks, out of breaks. We are here

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the Friday Football.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Give it to me.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Welcome, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Let's have a good time and find a way to
be green Bay this week.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
And all right.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Eric Nordquist, Mad producer from nine to noon, walking back
to the stage after assisting with the Blaine High School Band.
He's one of the co hosts Nordo Ladies and Gentlemen.
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Speaker 1 (02:30):
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Speaker 2 (02:31):
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is here at eleven o'clock. The Sultan, the Sultan of
smug that's David Sinekon. He'll be here at eleven o'clock
and we begin like this, you know, during the course
of during the course of a week up to a
football game, yours truly, maybe Nordo, maybe Alec. We'll get
the opportunity to do some out of market interviews or podcasts.

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In this case it would be the Wisconsin market, Milwaukee,
Green Bay, et cetera. And I've done a couple of
those this week and we had Green Bay Packers play
by play voice the Dagger Wayne Laravion to start to
nine to noon yesterday and through all three of those
elite football mind entities, I it was eye opening for

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me that the Green Bay Packers facets of the Green
Bay Packers fan base are markedly more down on their
squad than I thought they would be for a six
three and one team. It's like some of the points
presented with Wisconsin radio or podcasting included super negative on

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the offensive line, the center camp play first round doesn't
have any touchdowns. They long for Tucker Kraft. Holy cow,
are they saddened by that loss? Evan william scares them,
and the Milwaukee Moving Company seems to be causing problems.
So that was an ear and eye opening for yours, truly,

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six three and one versus our beloved four and six squad.
I felt good hearing all of it, To be quite
honest with you, It's good to hear there are others
in the ashes with us at.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
Four and six.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
So what if we hooked this weekend boys with the
Green Bay Packers Alex you first?

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, two weeks ago, I think Matt Lafleur in the
postgame press conference was asked if he feels like he's
coaching for.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
His job, which I thought was wild.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Now he is obviously not under contract and they have
a new president, So there are a lot of I
think there are a lot of external reasons why that
question would exist.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
But yeah, this Packers team.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah, you hit the nail on the head from an
offensive line, and it's really easy to focus as you
guys are tossing out t shirts from.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
An offensive line persons. No, they're just giving your takes
a standing ovation. Hey can't I get a witness in
racas round the bapause opinion for those first thirty eight
words under by Alec.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Lewis at the Athletic in the Athletic dot Com.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
From an offensive line perspective, they definitely are not what
they have been. And then defensively, they haven't been the
best at stopping the run and they haven't run.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
The ball as well as they have. Yeah, we run, yeah, hopefully.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
This week, and there will be a lot of resk
over I think.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Actually hopefully we'll you know, it's gonna have to be
a lot of running this week, and so, yeah, it
is interesting. I had a radio interview yesterday with Wisconsin
something Radio the Fan or whatever, you know, they call
it over there, and I mean, yeah, there is like
a negativity around it. But I really think there's a
good football team. I think they're the best team in
the NFC North. Oh geez, you do, Yeah, I do?

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Holy can Okay, well, you can't wait to hear about
that a little later. I still think the kiddies are
the class. But I think in some ways the Packers
fan base is dealing what we're dealing with. I mean,
they're not too far removed from getting a taste of
the postseason.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
They're not too far removed.

Speaker 4 (06:08):
For dropping what forty some on the Cowboys and then
really being in it against the Niners until Jordan Love
makes that tragic mistake late in the game on the pick.
I think they're a fan base that feels like they're there.
They're a fan base that feels like when you make
a move for Micah Parsons, you're not making a move
just to bolster the defense, just do improve the pass

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rush at Titch. You're making a move like that because
you believe in late January that's when that stuff pays off.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Or perhaps they're looking at the totality of Jordan Lud's
deal and saying wait, we paid what because we need
to FORTI five things with the Milwaukee moving company in
the depline that we paid what to throw it to what?

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Anyway?

Speaker 4 (06:47):
And to that end, I think this is a team
that when you make those moves and you pay the
QB like PA is talking about, and then you tie
at Dallas, just think about some of the way that
they've lost games the time, which isn't even a loss
by the way, but all the same, the way that
they have either risen to the occasion or in more

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cases this year, if you're a Greed and Gold fan,
they've lowered themselves to the competition, whether it be the Cowboys,
that loss to the Panthers is straight up embarrassing. The
coach is gripping. You're going forward on fourth and eighths
and in obscure field positions throughout. So for Lafleur, a
guy that managed what thirteen wins the season is first
three with a ROJ finds his way deep into the

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playoffs with the new kid, and they continue to have
these sorts of almost functional or fundamental issues.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
That exist in big spots.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
I think much like us as we're gripping right now
with our QB.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
It was a roster built to win.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
Just think about some of the things we've talked about
over the last ten weeks. I think the Packers fan
base is probably very very close in their emotional wherewithal
as the Vikings fans are.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Right now, Yeah, I mean the difference for them is
their rosters much younger than the Vikings is and their quarterback.
BA and I are probably going to have a have
a knockdown drag out today about Jordan Love because I
think very highly of this guy.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
The film tells me that, Yeah, in the first fifty
eight minutes of any game, he's dynamite.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
I look, we're gonna we can go back and forth on.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
This all day, but I really think pocket movement, accuracy,
arm talent. You know, he's still young, he's still in
his third year starting.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
I have a lot of faith in this guy. I
think he's he's.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
Probably a top seven quarterback.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
In the NFL, which is why you pay him the
fifty million. We can we can do this all day,
and I'm looking forward to it, but I really like
Jordan Love, and I think it's gonna be a challenge, yeah,
for the Vikings defense this week and the last.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Time you and I mixed it up about a quarterback,
it was the age of Joe Flaco and he threw
for four touchdowns and zero interceptions. The next game, we
you know, we mix it up on quarterbacks. It's kind
of a bit speaking of quarterbacks. What are the expectations
this Sunday from the neurological pathways she's guiding our quarterbacks performance?

Speaker 3 (08:59):
I gotta be honest, Just take a step, like I
wish I could just remove, just remove myself from this
emotional wherewithal of all of this roller coaster.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
And next, I mean the fatigue, the neurological pathway, footwork, balance, podgy.

Speaker 3 (09:18):
Eyes, heads, no old head, dog walking, heads toes, knees
and shoulders. Yeah, look, what are my expectations for JJ McCarthy.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
I I'm I would be honest.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
I would be dishonest by saying I expect him to
be much better than he's been.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
Well, how about some contexts. He hasn't lost on the road,
and he hasn't won at home.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
He's also the worst quarterback in the NFL right now
and almost every meaningful metric in the NFL. So yeah,
I look, Which is not to say that he's not
in the future going to progress. That's not to say
that at all, but right now, I just have a
hard time.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
But you don't have to defend yourself by the way
he's been bad.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
It's okay to say that.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Well, I just I have a hard time believing the
inconsistencies a all of a sudden just gonna disappear, like
it's like a magic trick.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
But how explain Detroit?

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Well, I don't think he was incredible against Detroit, and
he made he made particular throws in that game that
he had to make to win the game. They ran
the football well, they really played defense well in that game, but.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
In particular his first two drives. Yeah, the key to
that victory. I mean, there's a lot that goes on
in the game. You go up fourteen to seven, right,
we couldn't stop him. It was Laporta on fourth down,
bouncing off of people into the end zone. We came
right back, we got that score, tied it up, forced
the punt. He comes down.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Again in scores the rest of the game, be damned.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
In that moment really put him on a platform to
win that game while not being fantastic throughout.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yeah, I mean, I look, I probably sound like the
Sultan of Smug or whatever, but I it's.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Just hard for me. A lot of the issues right
now are mechanical. We've talked.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
I mean, this has been the talker all week, and
it's exhausting, really, But I mean, the one thing I
will say is, these misses are there on the college tape.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
You go back and watch.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Michigan, Rutgers, Michigan, Purdue, Michigan, Michigan State. There are sailed
misses all over the tape. Now, it didn't impact that
Michigan team because they ran the football so well on
early downs, and the Vikings haven't done a good enough
job throughout the course of this year sticking to the
run game. If they can do that and if they
can generate turnovers defensively, they can definitely win this game.

(11:23):
Like I don't view this as an unwinnable game at
all whatsoever, But to expect some of the inconsistencies to
stop showing up, that's just I can't go there right
now until he proves it really over time.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Well, if you win a Lambeau this time, if you're
in Minnesota, Viking and you win a Lambo this time,
it'll be three consecutive victories at lambeau Field with all
kinds of different teams, including losing your quarterback Kirk Cousins
in one of them. I mean, shoot, we might have
to call this thing Twin Cities Orthopedic Performance Center East.
It's like a practice facility East where they just go

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there for bleeps and giggles to run a little seven
on seven and have a good time.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
I just want them to take a step. That's it.
What is that? What is that? What does that?

Speaker 4 (12:07):
What does that step mean? How about how about just
not throwing it to the other team.

Speaker 2 (12:10):
That's that would be We're not talking about Jordan Love,
We're talking about McCarthy.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
That's great. I don't want our QB to throw it
to the other team either. That that's the issue.

Speaker 4 (12:19):
That's the issue of that that I have is is
even the misses in spots like it's mind boggling, and
we're taught, you know, all the all the words and terminology,
and we're using and the excuses in some ways that
we have as we explain the growth process.

Speaker 1 (12:31):
Just stop throwing it to the other team.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Say if you if you sail it over justin Jefferson's
head by ten yards on Sunday.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
But you play the whole.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
Game without throwing it to the other team, the Vikings
are going to be five and six, and you're gonna
win that game. I truly believe it can be as
simple as the QB not giving it to the other team.
That's a growth moment, that's taking a step and and
you win a border battle in the process.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
The turnovers, I mean, there's no doubt like that's it's
the stat Kevin O'Connell when the Vikings break even or
whin the turnover margin is thirty three and four. As
a head coach, it's literally, if you show me that
seat after the game, I.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Probably have a good chance toning you who won the game?

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Hey, Blaine High School Marching Band, you got you guys
want to Hey David, how you doing buddy?

Speaker 1 (13:14):
Thank you for bringing out the band. Appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
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Speaker 1 (14:14):
Hey hey, hey, hey.

Speaker 5 (14:17):
Hey, yes, yes, right on, yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
The Blaine High School Marching Band. Ladies and gentlemen, thank
you very much for everything. David Bashard, thank you very
much for the direction. Ladies and gentlemen joining us at
this time weekly at the Friday football Feast. One of
the better defensive players in the history of Minnesota Vikings football.
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like to call it five to two radio. Can we
get a witness and a racus round of applause? Ladies
and gentlemen, It.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Is Jad burning Ways. Thank you, thank you very much.

Speaker 6 (15:08):
This is quite the crowd. You love Blaine. I love Blaine.
I'm here often.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
I remember the last time you were here because we're
always here day after Thanksgiving and it's it's like Jarge
and I and order and I stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
It was great to see you. It's good to see you.
I've been. I've been a couple of times over the years.

Speaker 6 (15:25):
Sure, I'm usually here for soccer or some sort of
sporting activity. They probably most of the crowd in here.
But I'm loving, though, is the energy in this building.
It's incredible with how the team has played these last
few weeks and the frustrations. People are drinking their sorrows.
People are drinking excited about the team.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
It's a bit but.

Speaker 6 (15:46):
Man, I thought we were Lake Build for a second,
but apparently like to drink and Blaine at nine am
as well, give yourselves around the book.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Really go to early and bibing.

Speaker 2 (15:58):
Uh So you know they're there's some hot high school
football action tonight. You're taking in any of that hot
high school football action tonight because I know Lieber is
gonna be at the bank rooting for Chase be your
guard and his beloved Dinah Hornets.

Speaker 6 (16:14):
Yeah, big big fan of high school football. Love the
Minnesota set up and how they do it, especially in
big Class six A when they got to get the
field of sixty four went a little ol down and
played out. It's pretty fun and a t have two
four lost teams in the championship with the big class
is pretty cool. He dined an old Morehead coming down right,
Morehead trying to do the big double with hockey last
year into football this year.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Hockey beating e Dina last year. Unbelievable hockey.

Speaker 6 (16:37):
But there's a lot of good matchups all the way
throughout the classes. So I love high school football. I
all beeat in Rochester the youth basketball tournament with this
gentleman right here right. I'll be down now the Rochester
Early Bird, and then come back from some high school hoops.
The old Greenway girls are back at it play Hopkins
on Saturday night. So yeah, high school activities are back
at full swing in our house.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Now sounds like a bevy of killer crossovers. Yes, now
Nine to Noon has been a high school football program
killer the last couple of weeks. Uh so fortunately for
Blaine High School. I mean it's it's it's it's an
oxy moron. I mean, you'd like to be playing for
a state championship. But if that were the case, you
wouldn't want nine to noon on the scene. And here's why.

(17:18):
Two weeks ago we did the Friday football feast at
Elk River. Well, they had a big postseason game that
uh that weekend, I believe that Saturday it was, and
they took a fat out last week.

Speaker 1 (17:31):
Well what happened last week?

Speaker 4 (17:32):
Nordo Well, Lakeville South and I believe facing morehead coaches there.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
We got swag. They made sure to have double black self.

Speaker 6 (17:40):
We a band, we a band. We were so fired
up for that game. Google gear everywhere.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
We had a freaking anthem. We had an anthem. It
was yeah an it was unbelievable. Lakeville gets housed.

Speaker 4 (17:52):
So the first thing when I went over to meet
mister Bichard in the marching band, the athletic director for
playing sure is over there. And before he could even
tell me his name, I said, hang on, I just
got to make sure one quick question, do you have
any super important athletic events this weekend, sir? Because I
would suggest that we don't do this. Yeah, if that's
the case, said a couple of hockey games tomorrow. Sadly,

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it sounds like they're probably going to lose now given
our track record, but we won't be ousting any teams
from the playoffs due to that karma, thankfully.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yes, the Minnesota Vikings. I'm just gonna go ahead and
get this off my chest for the final time this week.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
The melted a.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Little bit yesterday on a Thursday for something that took
place around three to ten on a Sunday. But the
Vikings had the lead on Chicago with fifty seconds to
go in the game, and they lost the game. It
feels like that game had a little dagger appeal to it,
as you, I mean the percent chance to win, a

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percent chance or just like heartfelt realistic chance to win
the divisions pretty low, making the playoffs feels like you
win seven in a row. I know we've got the
board battle this weekend and we'll be all fired up
for that momentarily. Uh but you know, certainly not trying
to sound like a player here, and I know that
you have with the twenty four hour rule, you kind

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of got to put wins and losses to the side
back when you played. But you know, there are certain ones,
for many reasons that sting differently than others. Yeah, that one,
That one just kind of stung. If you care about
the operation.

Speaker 6 (19:25):
Yeah, I think there's a thing you guess you can
see a therapist for that, Pa, if it takes you
this long. That's why I'm hear it. We got to
move on on Wednesday. Okay, Well that's why I'm here
to move on. Love covenant tight, I understood. So you really,
from a player's perspective, obviously go through that game. We
didn't deserve to win that football game for the majority
of it. We come back and try to steal one
and sneak one. At the end of the day, his
fans and as players, you don't give a hoot. How

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you get the dumb You really don't.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
You've grown by the way over the years. Right.

Speaker 6 (19:51):
We could talk, we could talk all week on the
radio about how frustrated we are. But the reality is
is if you get that win and he and he
makes errant throws and we can't do this, we can't
do that book, but you get the dub which is
the only source of currency the NFL that really matters.
When you want to keep your job or you want
to you like them like living and you dyinga and
the comfy confines.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
And you want to drive over to Tco and Egan.

Speaker 6 (20:13):
But the reality is is you didn't get it done
for whatever reason. Now you can argue that was because
we played so poorly for the rest of the game,
where you could argue because that happened on the kickoff
that you could should have prevented in several different ways
with kicking the ball at the violence, kicking the ball
or out of the back of the end zone.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
We want them to run the clock.

Speaker 6 (20:29):
We gave them a chance to kick it and return
it takes eight seconds off all a suddener at the
forty yard line.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
They win the game. The way we go, you lose
the game that we probably didn't deserve to win.

Speaker 6 (20:38):
Frustrated, Now you put yourself in this this territory of
you essentially have to win. So now from a quarterback standpoint,
we have to see what this kid has and ride
them all the way through. I found myself in that
fourth quarter when we were before we turned it to say, man,
should we go to Brosmer I said that because it
was such a struggle, I mean, it was, yeah, and

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that was not the answer we should have done.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
And that was a jerk, knee jerk. That's why I
don't coach the football team.

Speaker 6 (21:06):
But the reality is is you have to now see
if this kid can respond to a couple of tough weeks,
and it got to have a game against a tough opponent, rivalry,
divisional opponent. You know, it's a grind and we gotta
we gotta get it done this week.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
I'm waiting for somebody to explain to me why the
kid is undefeated on the road and win less at home.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
It's the same reason why we kept false start at home.

Speaker 6 (21:26):
Only Oh wow, something I mean not only but predominantly so.
Something that snap counts, something, something in the something in the.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
It was a it was a it was a have
to have it down. Reality was is.

Speaker 6 (21:41):
I mean, you gotta you gotta win football games, and
it's the NFL, and we're not we gonna see here
on Friday. We're gonna be moping and drinking our sorrows
away instead of drinking the celebration.

Speaker 4 (21:48):
Well, let me ask you this though, because the way
that you talked about it, and why by the way
you've grown over the years, when you said they don't
give a hoot ten years ago, I would have been
back at the station beeping.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
An F bomb. Indeed, I've gotten better.

Speaker 4 (21:59):
But secondly, now you're sending this through the eyes of
it of a fan, because I am Kimmy. Mean, you
played some years where it was glorious. You're finding your
way into playoff games. We're trying to raise t Jack
in O nine. It's magical with Farb, like you've had
some of those crazy seasons that are unbelievable Teddy in
twenty fifteen, things like that. But I wonder as a player,

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I can't tell you, as a player, well, at least
we're gonna get to see what JJ McCarthy has.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
I mean, we got contracts, we got cash.

Speaker 4 (22:27):
And some of these players may not feel the natural
urge to go and beat on Green Bay. They don't
see the border battle the same way that I don't.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
Did you ever encounter.

Speaker 4 (22:36):
Players where you could not have told them, well, I mean,
this is a complete l We're four and six, we
just got Dagger by the Bears.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
But at least we get to see what the young
QB has.

Speaker 6 (22:45):
Yeah, I think what you from a player's perspective, you
start to start to focus on yourself. You say, I
have to go play well, now you can do that
within the scheme, because playing well means I got to
do my job and make the plays in front of
me and execute Whatmever my job is. The more I
do that, the more good tape I put out to,
the more chance I a better chance I have of
keeping my job here and or find a good job
someplace else. So you start to do a little bit

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of evaluation of them, say how am I playing? And
you focus on that. Now it turns into more of
a selfish look and selfish approach. But if you can
kind of if the leadership in the in the locker
room and the coaching staff can drive and focus that momentum,
just doing your job to the best of your ability
and focus on those basics. Just like we talked about
going to Detroit game, It's like, can we focus on
stop the run and doing our job and being visible

(23:25):
up front?

Speaker 1 (23:26):
Can we do that and get that job done? We
did it. We got the win.

Speaker 6 (23:28):
All of a sudden, as a fan, we're thinking, man,
this team, this team is who we thought they could be.
Now you have these last two weeks that played out
the way they did, so you start to you start
to sort of internalize and say I have to take
care of me a little bit because in the day, it's
your job and there's somebody right behind you.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
They want to give the job too. They can pay
less to do it.

Speaker 6 (23:44):
The team befit from that, but the team can benefit
if it's kind of if it's viewed from that, that
light up a leader which we have in the head
coach that you know, we all believe is a great
leader of men, who's going to get that point in
the right direction.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
I think we have the right people in the locker room.

Speaker 6 (23:57):
There's not a lot of me first guys in this
locker room from what I can tell, and I think
that really is gonna help us in this game. But
the reality is, this is an opportunity to go showcase
what you can do and obviously you get a win,
and they're they're selling hope in that locker room. But
we can still get this thing done without question, and
they have to be and they should be.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Alan do you happen to remember if it was O'Connell
postgame Bears Day after Bears nine to noon eleven Tuesday
or Wednesday into the Packers game when he went down
the road, Chad just went down but not necessarily from
a me first standpoint, but the players going out of body,

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you know, kind of going cowboy on it because they
care so much. You happen that happened earlier in the week, right,
I think it was Monday. I was talking about the
kick return in particular. Where so was he talking about
the kick return? Well, that's what the answer is. I
don't recall him referencing the kick return, but yeah, you're
sitting there preaching that whole thing, and I'm looking at

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alc Gonordo and you go on that. I mean, there
were three or four players on that kick return, probably
two three maybe who just they just they sensed it,
they felt it.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
I know this is right.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
I want to win so badly because it is a
very tightly knit group. When when Kevin says that, now
Alex around there more than me, but you know, it's
a tightly knit group. They really care about each other
and that game was there to be had, but you
might have had a couple on that kick on that
kick coverage kind of went cowboy on it, and there's
your dagger.

Speaker 3 (25:29):
I mean, Kevin's point was like, these guys want it
so bad that you're seeing on a kick return like that.
Players take it way too like you know, they're trying
to make the play so far they leave the gap
that they've practiced all week with that specific kicker turn.
It's probably pretty natural. I don't know the word is
that is pressing. I don't know what the what the just.

Speaker 6 (25:47):
You're trying to do too much. Yeah, just doing your
job at the end of the day, if everybody just
does your job. And you talk about gap defensive schemes
and football on the defensive side is sometimes you're three
gaps away.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
But if you jump out of the gap.

Speaker 6 (25:58):
Too early till the ball takes where it's gonna go,
all of a sudden, the running back puts his foot in
the ground, comes back to that gap that you left open.
So the reality is you have to do your job
all the way through and see it through and then
if that if you're in the gap the ball comes,
then you gotta make the play.

Speaker 4 (26:12):
But you trust I mean, I just imagine being a
player in that spot they got you know, what was
it greedy? I think is how Daniels put it. But
you're thinking, I know they got three timeouts. If I
make this tackle at the seventeen yard line. I gotta
make them in fifty sevens like I would be thinking
that as I go out with the Specially if I
make this badass play here, they're not getting it at
the thirty five, I'm putting them inside the twenty.

Speaker 6 (26:34):
If I have a perfect example. This is gonna be
bad for Gopher fans. But it was zero three in
the Metrodome. Oh jeez, Maroni Barber running game. We couldn't
slow them down.

Speaker 1 (26:43):
They run for like three hundred and twenty on us.

Speaker 6 (26:46):
They're driving down to get a get in your face
Resloyd maybe the kicker, trying to think of the names Lloyd.

Speaker 1 (26:51):
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (26:52):
So they're driving down, getting feel positioned, and there's a
timeout and I go to the sidelines and kne they'renna
run another zone scheme. They zone schemed us all day
for like seven one hundred yards, And I said, I'm
gonna take a shot. And and the thing is if
you take a shot, you can't miss because you take
a shot and miss. Also, it's of twenty yards scampered
on the sidelines and they're kicking the field goal, right,
so you take a shot, you don't miss six yard loss.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
They missed the field goal. We win the game. Did
you it was a Maroni?

Speaker 6 (27:20):
Yeah, I'm caught that shoe string on him, But the
reality was I didn't square them up and drive him
to the ground.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
That's called a shoe.

Speaker 6 (27:29):
But the problem is when you take a shot in
that moment of the game, you can't shoot and miss.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
You lose a gap and you do it there. Now,
if you play.

Speaker 6 (27:37):
Solid gap defense, that kickoff now has become a run game.
It's just a run scheme defense. Now you're in your gap.
You got to keep leverage and if it comes to
your gap, you got to make the play. That's all
that is. I want kickoff, return kickoff. So we just
got out of a gap. You jump out just like
that backside of the gap of a run game.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
You left open.

Speaker 6 (27:54):
All of sudden they hit it and hit the head
in the on the goalpost. And that's exactly what happened
in that play.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
What did it say to you?

Speaker 3 (28:00):
We talked about JJ and the struggles that he would
be able to navigate all of that in that game
and then put together that drive like I could in
the press, I'm sitting there like, how could he possibly
muster that? After what this day has been Yeah, I
would imagine or like I'd be curious what a player
would have thought seeing.

Speaker 6 (28:18):
It was amazing to see him get into a rhythm
in the two minute drill. Now we can't come on
and play two minutes. I thought we did a better
job of run the football and being physical, like all things,
all things negative at the time.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Yeah, really, because this came up yesterday, right after, right
before practice, after I was walking out with you, Alec,
why why can't you run two minutes?

Speaker 1 (28:37):
Why does it have to be within the final two minutes?

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Jerun the quick to Hawkinson, quick here, quick there, tempo
as they call him.

Speaker 6 (28:43):
Why can't you Well the reason we it was so
available is because when you get into two minute you
don't play a lot of man coverage. You sit back
in his zone scheme and you sit and catch saying
we're not going to get beat over the top. So
then all of a sudden, these really tight windows become
really big and all of a sudden.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
JJ can hit it.

Speaker 6 (28:59):
Me get him in a rhythm. Now, a quarterback in rhythm.
When you get you know, when you get all things
firy feel really good, you can make that throw. All
of a sudden you feel confident, just like shooting jump shots.
You know, all of a sudden things feel good. But
the thing that kept biting us, I'm not sure how much.
I don't listened to the radio all week, but were
the drops, the timely drops that killed this football team
at the same time we were struggling to hit throws.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
It had some fifty to fifty to it.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
I mean, if he's over, if he's not over shooting them,
they might be dropping them, and then he catches fire.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Right. Well, I think it's just a momentum game.

Speaker 6 (29:30):
So if you catch that, if you catch that big,
that big third down and you move the chains, now
it's a momentum game. You get the running game got
going again. You get hit the ball back in the
quarterback's hands, or you walk off the field upset that
there was a drop, have to.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Wait and sit.

Speaker 6 (29:43):
Defense takes five minutes ago off the field. Now you're cold,
you come back out. It's like starting all over again.
It's it's no different than just momentum rhythm. That's football.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Well, I wonder what the mental overlay is.

Speaker 4 (29:53):
Specifically, early he misses Addison badly short.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
You see that you end up punting later on, and
I think there was a there was a tug on
the jersey.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
But a lot of people are talking about Addison over
the middle when JJ stepped up and his off his fingertips.
I think he was pulled on, but all the same,
he was pulled on the mentality of take that call.
I just wonder for a team, why can't we get
that call? I know, but we don't spend years, we
don't spend segments ever talking about man Addison in the
drop sies. We've never until the last couple of weeks,

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talked about Jefferson being anything than an absolute animal on
the field for this franchise.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
And I just wonder if there's kind of a mental side.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
Effect to some of those misses that leads potentially to
some of those drops for a team that's just gripping
as tightly as they can to find any success.

Speaker 6 (30:42):
And tip, let's be honest, it's not a skill issue
with these guys now taking catch the football. It's a
focus issue. It's I'm thinking about something else and not
making the play that I make all the time. So
I am I letting the frustration of something said overthrow,
said play call, said opportunity that I'm getting or think
I should be getting Now, I'm letting cloud my focus
of a game that happens all the time. The guys

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who want more balls want, you know, a frustrate with
the quarterback or frustrates the protection, frustrate to play call now,
all of a sudden, you can't do your job because
you're thinking about something else. I also think in a
lot of situations when you talk about the two minute success,
shorter route concepts, quicker decisions, it's.

Speaker 1 (31:17):
This or that.

Speaker 6 (31:18):
So you know, a young quarterback, I like the idea
of like, we're going to give you a one side
to work off on and it's this or that, boom
balls out. We don't have to worry about protections as much.
But you have to get yourself in that situation right now.
If you're sitting a third and twelve, we can't do
that right. DV is gonna sit in the sticks. We've
got to have make a really hard throw in the
tight windows. But it's about getting to a third and
two right and then accomplishing that because the balls out

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of his hands quicker with a quicker decision and two
minute gives us that, and then run a good running
game can give us that but these longer, he's fifteen
to twenty. Our route concepts that are taking a little longer,
that's the ones he's missing or that I've seen he's missing.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Okay, it's a.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
Different position, but playing linebacker, how much in the hardest
position in football artist, So yeah, that's the most important position.
We got green dot, we got all those things. We're
checking coverages, all the whole bit. I know it's a
different position, but we hear a lot about even now
mid season teams four and six, we're talking about footwork,

(32:13):
We're talking about fundamentals and arm angle and mechanics. Right,
we're talking about that in November of a season. How
much in your career were you in November still thinking
about how my basic technique like that feels like an
off season conversation. It feels like in a game week,
the game plan and all of that should be the

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dominant focal point where a lot of the conversations we're
having in and out of games are talking about.

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Shoulder with hips turning, all of that. I know it's
a different position.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
I'm just trying to think about, like in season, trying
to find the answers to those techniques.

Speaker 1 (32:48):
It just seems like that's difficult to do neurological pathways.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
I think there is a caveat here is you get
it already, you start with him, then you got to stop.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
For a month and change. So I think that plays
it into the Yeah.

Speaker 6 (33:01):
I mean, first of all, when you come from an
athlete perspective, like ever, you take your vitamins every day.
So just like your basic skill things that you work
on all the time, you do that in every practice
individual drills we do the first fifteen to twenty minutes.
You get out there and get your warm up on
your hand placement, get shock and shed, getting off blocks.
Those things are things you do all the time. So
from a technique standpoint, they're constantly working on them. So

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and it's an imperfect game. You're constantly working that your
entire career. You'll retire never have being perfected what you're
supposed to perfect. That's the whole point, right is trying
to work for it but never get it.

Speaker 1 (33:32):
Now.

Speaker 6 (33:32):
The reality is is if it becomes an issue like
for me in my career, like when Zimmer came in,
like I was asked to do different things.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
I was less covered up by a three technique.

Speaker 6 (33:40):
So now you have to work on the technique to
get off blocks better without having Kevin Blander takes some stuff,
So now you got to go.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
So that's an off season fix.

Speaker 6 (33:47):
Then now during the season, I have to continue to
work on as I watch film and say, okay, I
missed this. I wasn't good at that. My hand placement
was bad, I didn't shock and shed whatever the issue was.
So neurological pathway, Yeah, that's if that's the words we're using.
Those neural neurological pathways. You have to be worked on
every day to become a habit. Rewired it, Yes, you
rewire it. I mean he he's raising Madden with a

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killer crossover. I had to stop ten times so he
could work on his Tampa to drop. But anyway, yeah,
that's exactly what's happening when she takes the dog for.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
A walk and.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
Yeah, I feel bad quick ten air shots. Yeah absolutely, Yeah,
build that pathway.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
You know, daughters are suiting and over the shocking you
into the inside joke here because you've been busy this week.
McCarthy presser a couple of days ago talking about reconfiguring
the whole thing. Uh, basically paraphrasing was like, yes, all
of my neurological pathways are having to be redefined. Then

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he talked about, you know, he's thinking about it so much.
He's out walking his dogs and they can drop and
he'll stop. Ten times he's in the deck, the hiffs
work on his drop.

Speaker 6 (34:57):
I'm gonna I'm gonna call my high school coach, Myron
Stephan just thank him for not making me overthink football. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Yeah, let's just go hit that guy as hard as
we can and bring him down to the game. I
do that position is as difficult as a quarterback. But
have you played Have you played nine man? Have you
played nine man quarterback?

Speaker 5 (35:13):
Well?

Speaker 1 (35:13):
I worked in San Francio. I don't really wait to
talk about eighty by forty field.

Speaker 6 (35:19):
Hardest position in football, hands down, So yeah, I played
that position before I want to hear it.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
I do wonder sometimes though, if like the success in
the two minute is tied to just.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
You're not thinking. I think you're just playing a.

Speaker 3 (35:32):
Game and I'm not, Like, I don't know, I don't
know if that's a sustainable path, but I.

Speaker 4 (35:36):
Do really Chip Kelly tried to run tempo like he
was running Oregon ducks at Philly and you out of
the freaking league and had to go back to coordinating,
and the Greenway team put fifty something on him, with
Asciata scoring three times, and then Chip was five year.

Speaker 6 (35:50):
You know, I think there's a way, though, within a
game plan that you can say, on our third drive,
if situation is in this position, we could take a
shot and come out play two minute.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
Yea, And I think I think they might.

Speaker 6 (36:02):
And we've seen that over the course of We're gonna
go no huddle, We're gonna go hurry up. It's maybe
not a two minute, but it's gonna be two minute,
like we're gonna go muddle, huddle, get to the line
and go, you know, allow fewer subs defensively, try to
wear them down. Can we keep ourselves on the field longer,
keep the defensive on which has been an issue the
entire season, our inability to stay on the football field.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
I just think it's one of these. And you can
guess what.

Speaker 6 (36:22):
It's also easier to run the football in that moment,
because all of a sudden, you spread teams out.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
Now you're blocking man on man and you have one
guy to make make make the play. They don't get
the sub and there's some other apps.

Speaker 6 (36:32):
Now you gettle, you get a little fatigued, Harder, harder,
bring the guy down. You stay in there with a
big back, not a not a pass catching back. You'd
leave Mason in the game in that situation. Spread them out,
run the football. That's why, you know, even thinking back
to the high school football, Tamka trying to go for two,
they're trying to beat I Dinah. Last week they run
it short side. They stacked everybody in the box. They
just marched eighty yards to get down there. Spread them out,

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make them make a tackle one on one in the box.
When you have DB's all over the place, they can
support the run game. But this is Minnesota high school football.
That would potentially involves football, but that potentially would involve
a pass.

Speaker 1 (37:08):
It doesn't. Did you have you seen the Skippers play?
But no, I've seen any They can't play with that
hot with that hockey player a quarterback. Oh yeah, that guy.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
Yeah, Connor was talking about that guy last Can you
can to close here? Can you imagine if you live
in JJ McCarthy's neighborhood and it's eleven o'clock at night
and you're just laying down you know, getting ready to
go to sleep and you hear somebody outside your window going.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
Shadow starts bumping on the block.

Speaker 6 (37:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
I like like you're like walking the dog and you
see this guy on the other side just doing THEA.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Miss Winston hip thrusts. All right, this is nine to noon.
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Speaker 1 (38:11):
We'll be right back.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
All right now, I'm gonna take you back for a second,
Chad Greenway to October fifteenth of twenty eleven. Now, this
is I mean, there need to be several fairness and
whatever acts as disclaimers into this that I'm not going
to unfurl, because truthfully, all of us, if not most

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of us certainly here at the table or a Buffalo
Wild Wings blame for the Friday football feast, are really
really hoping. JJ McCarthy is dramatically better than Christian Ponder.
But ears what I'm to bring up and how I'm
gonna do it.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Wow, We're gonna go there.

Speaker 2 (39:03):
October fifteenth, of twenty eleven, Donovan McNabb taps out, he
and you played in the game.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
Takes a safety, just like takes the safety.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
Doesn't even try to do to Chicago at Chicago Monday
Night football. And Nor actually, I think quit the next day.
That's right around the time that he quit. All right,
So make twenty eleven or twenty sixteen Christian Ponder twenty eleven, yeah,
nor of twenty sixteen, thank you.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
But with Ponder.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
So McNabb basically gets kicked off the team, you know,
because he didn't want to play anymore. Ponder comes in
as a rookie from Florida State middle is of the season,
say five to six into it, and he eventually, in
his first five starts, goes with five touchdowns, six interceptions.

Speaker 1 (39:50):
He was sacked fourteen times.

Speaker 2 (39:52):
So the point being here is you didn't have the
opportunity during your career to play in circumstances that are
taking place here year right now. New quarterback, somebody they
drafted high in the first round. Uh that that was
a circumstance where you did so. Yet, Adrian Peterson, you
know you had some you guys had some good players

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on defense. Uh So, I'm not gonna compare or contrast
whether the twenty twenty five Vikings were better than the
twenty eleven Viking Vikings.

Speaker 1 (40:20):
That's not the point.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
The point is when you're playing defense and you know
that's what you're raising and what you see and it's wonky,
it's up and down, because that's how it is generally
for every quarterback who starts through the first five, ten,
maybe fifteen games.

Speaker 6 (40:37):
What was it like? And defensively, how do you get
around it? Yeah, we should have had a therapist come
this morning. We're gonna we're gonna dig in that deep
on things. My goodness, we're talking off. I've just heard
so much of the same stuff during the course. Yeah,
I wanted to listen coming off at thirty for thirty
we're gonna have for the twenty ten season going into
twenty eleven, and we're just throwing one hoppers the entire
first part of last season with Donovan and he was

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just completely chick and collecting checks and and that's fine.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
We learned that we moved on.

Speaker 6 (41:05):
I think when you get in that spot defensively, this
is when it comes down to playing complimentary football, and
sometimes that's just not a pretty thing. I always bring
up in these situations that you talk about is my
Iowahawkeyes is the perfect example of this of playing complimentary football,
of how your mentality around the idea of we understand
what we were defensive or offensively at that time. You're
not gonna throw somebody under the bus or go to

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the media or say give anybody talking points, but you're
sure going to show up knowing that you have to
play really good football and if you're gonna win the
football game, defense has to maybe lead the charge and
special teams defense, offense. Obviously it's all complimentary, but knowing
what you're gonna get offensively. The hardest part I would
say was this was you would get off the field,
come off the sideline, and you go three and out

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within like forty five seconds, and you're like, Okay, here
we go again. And it's one of those situations with
knowing when you're playing the other team's got a relatively good,
solid offense, it's going to be almost impossible to blank
them doesn't happen in the NFL almost ever, Now, how
can we keep them under? The number was what by average,
like fifteen points a game was like the tipping point
of winner loss. So we know we got to keep

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somewhere between that twelve to eighteen to give ourselves a chance. Wow,
even with an offense that you know was maybe not
now again defensive, we had our own sets of trouble,
but we knew if we were gonna win, we had
to play excellent football. And that's just what you That's
the cars that you were dealt. I don't think you
blame or can plain your point fingers.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
You just know that's the situation. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (42:24):
I just remember going back to that Raiders Cowboys game
the other night. Was just awful to watch him and
Cowboys blew them out. But I remember early in the game,
Raiders created a turnover on the Cowboys and they didn't
get it back into the end zone, and there was
almost a moment where you could see defensively on the
bench like they almost kind of knew this is field
goal territory.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
Yeah, and I remember.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
Geno trying to hit I forget who it was back
of the end zone on third down, and you could
see the camera panda Max Crosby, He's like, oh, and
you just kind of grimaced his like he knew in
effect that if the defense did not find their way
into the end zone on that play, just sign it
up for a car field goal right there.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
I just that that feels like that's grading over the
course of a long season.

Speaker 6 (43:05):
Yeah, And I think when you you talk about that
situation specifically turnover short yardage, field goal or short yardage
going in they have to score defense, what's what are
you saying yourself and go in the field field goal?
Field goal only is a win for us one hundred percent.
Get off the field, you bring that energy, you fire
up around the idea we're gonna get a stop and
we're gonna show you and try to gain this because
that's a momentum flip the other way. Right now, all

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of a sudden, you're on the eight yard line. You
didn't get that, you didn't get that interception in the
end zone, that fumble in the end zone.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
Now we bow up and hold you to a field goal.
That's a dub. Now we get the ball back, let's go.
We survived that thing.

Speaker 6 (43:35):
I just think it's a mentality when it comes down
to it, it's a mentality that I've liked out of
our defense these last few weeks, age of hey, we're
gonna give our team a chance to win, which is
exactly what happened in that football game last week. Same
thing against the Ravens is we kept giving them field goals,
and we kept giving them field goals. And this is
not blame the offense for these losses. It's all it

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all works together. But the reality is the defense has
played well enough last two weeks, just on points given
up to win those football games. And we got to
get you know, Kim, we sustain to drive. Can we
give them a break? Kimm, we go score early to
get a lead. Actually, you know, we came back and
had a chance, but that was because of the defense.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
Is there a part of it where you feel like,
over the course of a season, when you've given chance
after chance week after we.

Speaker 6 (44:19):
Getting close, we're getting close about we're about two weeks
away from all of a sudden saying like we might
have some frustration in the locker room of like we
got to make sure we're starting to play better, you know,
And I think it's different, you know, you bring up
I bring up a college example, but the realities were
pros like there's no raw rob fire up New Rockney speech,
like you show up, play the game because you're a professional.
So like we got to get better. So like there's

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no this idea of like, oh you know, we love
number nine, we want McCarthy to be excellent. We got
to improve, We got to take a step we gotta take.
We got to improve the things that we know are
glaring issues from week to week because that's what pros do.
And if you want to be this quarterback this football
team long long, like for a long time, if you
don't show that improved in these next five six weeks,
there's a chance you're not going to be.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
And I'm the thing for me real quick is like
I just wonder, you're, like how much energy they're expending
to keep giving chances and if over the course of
the year it's like you get to week fourteen, it's
like we've done so much to try to, you know,
give every chance we had that we just don't have
the juice anymore. Like I But but to your point earlier,
maybe it's just being a professional, the professional aspect of it,

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where it's like, you know, you on your own.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
Like that's the person, it is, what it is. Yeah,
you just deal with what you have going at you.

Speaker 4 (45:32):
Yeah, you spent your entire career playing for the Vikings
and we're talking about nine and we're talking about the
defense and just hanging on the mentality just in a vacuum.
How sweet is a border battle victory? I mean just
going just going to Lambeau and it's it's the historic
venue that it is. We got Grandma parking cars for
twenty five bucks in the Rambler, like fifty yards from

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the stadium and Crawls West and the whole thing. How
good is it to walk in there? Maybe maybe you
still play. They were still mooning people back in your Love,
But is it they could just go stuff it in
their freaking faces, Like that's what we have the chance
to do. As negative as things are, Teams four and six,
we can roll out of there and just beat on them.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
This was this was something I was actually gonna bring
up earlier. You mentioned.

Speaker 6 (46:14):
It was this idea of like I'm gonna I'm gonna
have a kid that comes in here from Michigan quarterback
or name the draft pick, name the free agent who's
never been a part.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
Of this rivalry.

Speaker 6 (46:25):
Right They're gonna go play a game and do their
professional job, and they're gonna collect that check after two weeks,
it's gonna come in. They don't care about this game
like you guys care about this game. I'm telling you
that much right now. It's just the way it is.
Like you have your neighborhood rivalry with your buddy. Who
are you gonna have a little better or a side
better or some action whatever you got going on, Like
that neighborhood banter is probably more than what they're talking
about the locker room now, because I was in this

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thing for so long, it became very very real for
me after a couple of years, like this really matters,
and the scope of this game from a fan base,
it does get pushed.

Speaker 1 (46:55):
Into the locker room. We all understand.

Speaker 6 (46:57):
That doesn't mean I'm gonna maybe change my mentality around
you put more emphasis on it, because at the end
of the day, you're a pro, like you gotta do
this for every game. But of course, from a fan perspective,
this one just means more. Now going to Lambeau historically
historical venue fun to play in, but even more fun
to win in and shut them up. And at the
end of the game, fourth quarter, when it's all Vike's
purple in there and they're walking to their their probably

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beat up mini vans.

Speaker 1 (47:21):
Yeah, puke right, Fleet Farm and Fleet Farm Entrance.

Speaker 6 (47:24):
Definitely drinking bush Heavy in their minivans on the way out,
because you can still drink and drive, I think in Wisconsin.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
So it's one of those things that, Yeah, I mean,
there's nothing better than that.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
Yeah, rapid fire, you get fifteen seconds for each response.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
Okay, nothing like a bush Heavy in a minivan? Was cigarette?
Was Jermichael Finley a tough cover? Yeah? For a time.

Speaker 2 (47:48):
Did you ever run head first into Eddie Lacy? Alick
loved him at Alabama when Alex was a child.

Speaker 6 (47:54):
Eddie Lacy's there's own scheme they had with Eddie Lacy
was an absolute problem.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
But he like fizzled out so quickly.

Speaker 6 (48:00):
His his quad was as big as this table. Well
that's he was on the quad. Look at his squad,
Like compare that thing.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
Was the nine game at Lambeau your most memorable game,
certainly at Lambeau, but one of your most memorable games
of your career.

Speaker 6 (48:17):
Yeah, unbelievable game. Going back with Brett, that was it
was fun on several levels. Exciting, I would say the
win to secure the division there in twenty four, twenty fifteen,
fifteen was probably above that.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
Yeah, playoff according to everybody.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
Yeah yeah, Any anything happening with Gray Duck Vodka Great
Duck Spirits today or this weekend?

Speaker 6 (48:36):
Well, you know Thanksgiving is coming up, yes, and every
family loves to get together and gather around for some
food and some drink, some libations.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
What better to go?

Speaker 6 (48:44):
Get some Gray Duck, get it in your house, bring
us Seltzer and try something new. No, we have nice
stuff here in Minnesota. Not a hoodson, all right, you
could get a hoodie online, bring it to your you know,
let's not talk politics. That's just talk Gray Duck at
the Thanksgiving dinner table. All right, have a good holiday,
Love you all at peace for having me once to.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
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(49:24):
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break down the border battle with nine to noon.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
We'll be right back. Thanks for coming out.