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Vikings shut out the Commanders 31-0, so the opening hour breaks it all down!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The master mixer of the patented Monday Montage Win Loser
Time is Eric Nord, Christie's Mad producer, and I'm Paul Allen.
So hey, there some FIFA to start. FIFA, FIFA to
start It's Fairness in Fairness Act. All right, off the
negativity and unhappiness and frustration voiced off last week's performance
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in the Cappuccino Capital by the Minnesota Vikings. FIFA Fairness
in fairness because negative history avoidance was required yesterday, and
they gave their best when their best was required. So
here it is with the FIFA, a Fairness and a
Fairness Act. The Minnesota Vikings will not lose nine in
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a row, which would have been the worst in team lore.
The Minnesota Vikings scored a touchdown in the first quarter,
so eight in a row, San six was handled early.
The Minnesota Vikings will not have the worst home record
in the history of minnes So Vikings football. All Wolves
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were in attendance. All Wolves were in attendance. I always
love that one and prominent on the pregame sideline. So
sorry to disappoint the money stealing aggregators, but let the
record show that took place yesterday. Whiles a FIFA Fairness
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and Fairness Act. While minus twelve in the tay give
certainly is not preferred, it now means the Minnesota Vikings
would have to go minus ten the final four to
set the team record for that sucker, and if they
do that, well, shame on Fira Fira Fira fairness in
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ruining that great day Yesterday act in the first shutout
since the Dobbs game in Vegas. That was the day
Jefferson Yeah, ended up in the hospital due to it
being the Dobbs game yesterday, it was the Commanders who
ended up in the infirmary for broken hearts and dislocated elbows.
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No change to the A topic for nine to noon,
jj A. McCarthy and his improvement and his three passing
td day for the first time in his brief NFL
run and consistency off that young man's first home win. Yeah,
that's the A topic nine to noon and should be
with Minnesota Vikings fans. He was genuinely appreciative of the
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fans clapping for him as he departed the field, and
that stupid nine thing was far from in play after
the game. Thank goodness for that right and indeed, in fact,
his alter ego was that of stayining call ragging about
how quickly his sun is growing and crediting the Minnesota
Moving Company for helping him to his first pick three
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three two and the Minnesota Moving Company for helping him
to his first pick free game through seven.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Goodness, that streak ended, right, I mean six executive games
giving it to the other team. How about we were
takers in the giving season. As you put last week,
we finally won the freaking turtle for battle first time
I think since the SINCI.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Game Dallas Sunday Night. Consistency required and JJ McCarthy knows
that the team's a topic is still in play very much. Talkbacks. Please,
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and thank you Minnesota Vikings for keeping the Davenport of
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Love stored away and acquiescing to our patented locker room
drive bys. Blew off the contraptions, cobwebs went all hyper
in the locker room, and we started with offensive lineman
Donovan Jackson, a well compensated member of the Minnesota Moving Company.
He's a tough guy too, and we started with what
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can be gained and what can be learned when your
opposite crafty veterans like Doron Payin.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, you know there's things you see on tape, but
then he's obviously a veteran in rustler. He's been in the
league for a long time, so you know there are
things that he'll do that you haven't seen on films,
so you have to learn and adapt from it. And
their whole defense was veteran, so you know they are
obviously savvy vets who you know they can adapt on
the fly, so you know it was for me at least,
it was trying to make the right play, trying to
make the right move, and just to just staying true
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to technique.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And lastly that that has to be kind of cool
growing up and watching the likes of Bobby Wagner and
Von Miller. I mean, there's a couple of Hall of
famers there, and you got a chance to play against him. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
You know when when Vong was at text A and
M I live thirty minutes away from there, so I
know I grew up watching him at text A. M
get drafted to the Broncos and I was like, man, like,
I'm playing against this guy right now. And obviously Wagner
and when he was on the Seahawks. Man, I remember
I was in like middle school when I was happening.
So just just seeing that and playing against those guys
and they're still playing at a high level.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Man, it's just kind of cool to see. I'm glad
it worked out this way. After that Saturday night game
of the Big Ten Championship, did did did Miles Price
give it to you? Pretty good? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I still got a We had a little we had
a little something, so I I had been I had
some pint of angers I had to put out on
the field.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Man.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
But don't worry. The Bucks are gonna be back. Bucks
are gonna be back. You're fantastic man. Thank you very
much for the time. Thank you Kindavan Jackson Brookie left
guard for the Minnesota Vikings part of that thirty one
zero victory. More from the Minnesota Moving Company. Here Will Fries,
who stole the show by the way on Vikings Country
earlier in the week and it started all thirteen games
and a thirty one zero victory, snaps that losing story.
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How to work out for you today? You must have
had a good job. It was a lot of fun
out there.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
You know, when we can run the ball like that
and we're just a fishing on offense and like things
will start clicking for us. I mean what else guys
for like putting that preparation all week and it finally
starts to come together on Sunday, and like you realize
your potential and there's so much more we can good
stuff we can build off of now going forward.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
So Will when the head coach publicly says during the
course of the week, all right, you know we're gonna
simplify some things and start dealing with all this quarterback
technique and all that stuff in the off season. Like,
what's your take on what's simplified today that you know
right now having not watched it back work?
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Yeah, I think anytime that you can come off the
ball and play fast and you don't have to think
too much, and you know, we're getting the looks that
we're we're practicing all week and you can come just
come off the ball, you know, time after time after
time and keep leaning on them as offensive line.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
That's, you know, kind of what you dream about.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
It makes a lot of fun and kind of like
I said before, like when you're able to kind of
build off of a game like that, you know can
continue to get more complex and do we need to
down the road?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Man. Awesome having you on the team. Another dynamite effort today. Congratulations,
Thank you very much as well Frize as the Hi Ryan.
As the drive bys continue here from a celebratory in
Minnesota Vikings locker room after a thirty one zero victory,
Just gonna run over here and chat with JJ McCarthy
with a quick little drive by. What's going on, buddy,
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nothing much. Yeah, that's the fiftieth win today at US
Bank Stadium for the football team, and your first win
at home, your first win in front of these fans
who love you. How great is that?
Speaker 7 (07:54):
It's fantastic. You know, just couldn't wait to get it done. Obviously,
the only thing I remember from a home win that
I played was the preseason game, so it's been a while,
so it's good to get it done.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, And you know, I just asked Donovan will Fries
this question about you know O'Connor publicly this week, is like, hey,
you know, there are things that we need to work
on technique wise with JJ. We're gonna put a lot
of that into the off seasons. Go ahead and let
him rip and to simplify some things. And you know,
when you're somebody like me and you hear that, you
don't exactly know what it means. So sharing what you
can share having not watched it back, like what simplified today,
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that really helped you.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
I think, just you know, coach o'connelly has such a
beautiful mind in terms of offensive schemes and he dials
up amazing place. But you're learning almost a whole new
offense with new formations, new concepts going into each week.
On top of one play having two plays, and we
just simplified it down, you know, one play that was multipurpose,
that had you know, a yes no answer and the
pre snap and then I could.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Carry out through the rest of the reads.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
But yeah, it was fantastic just to simplify things and
everyone played fast and free.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Last one, Budd quickly three touchdowns to the tight ends.
You throw three for the first time in your emerging
NFL career. Josh catches too, for the first time in
his career. TJ got one. Did you come into the game?
Is this a game where you're like, hey, the Titans
could be live here or was it a process of
the way things develop. It's really funny.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
I've talked about, you know, a game like this with
them in the off season all the time, and they're
always like, their words, not mine.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
It's always the games.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
We never think we're going to get the ball that
we show up, so it just as a precedent no
matter what the expectations are, they always come to work
and they always you know, strain every single snap. And
it's one of the most underrated positions in the sport.
So I'm happy they got their love.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And I'm extremely happy for you. JJ McCarthy, well done.
Thank you so much, brothers. JJ McCarthy, quarterback for the
Minnesota Vikings, got his first victory at US Bank Stadium
and it was in his seventh start. As the drive
bys along a way to drive bys, I haven't done
these in a little while. They're they're underway and it's
kind of rolling around the locker room now to see
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who's available and what we can get accomplished. After a
thirty one zero victory over the the Washington Commanders, Hi,
Jonathan Grenard, we're doing great, man, first drive bys in
a month. I mean, you were out for some of them,
but but now you're back and you guys are back
in the winner circle. And you know it's during the
course and it's a team game. Man, you know more
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about it than all of us. But during the course
of that four game losing strike, I mean, it's like
it's your third down defense that they were getting first
downs twenty five percent of the time. Kat Cashman sitting
on like fifteen sixteen tackles every game. You play like
fifteen snaps at Seattle. But they were super meaningful. You
took down Darnold thirty eight percent of the sacks, but
you guys didn't win. So from a defensive standpoint, not
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only the shutout today, first shutouts since twenty twenty three,
but defensively, you have to feel pretty good about it
despite that losing East rig right, I feel was good.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
Obviously, when everything comes right and comes together, we play
off of each other's coming new ball, take care of
our offense, and take the ball away on defense, and
limited penalties on special scenes. I f like that's a
good recipe for winning. So everything just came together. It
was a good day and we're just gonna run it.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
And I felt really good for you guys, not only
winning the game, but shoot, the time of possession went
the right way. I mean, I mean, you guys were
like twenty seven and change into it like third worst
in the game, and that's just not what this team's
all about. So you got a chance to catch your breath.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
Yeah, I mean, I feel like I was on the
sideline forever for a good bit, which is a good
thing for us, so that we can just get rested
up and obviously just whenever it starts, time to go
with fresh got fresh legs and ready to go dominate.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
So like I said, man, it was.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Good on all phases.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
It's coming and ball all the way around, and that's
where you get the best result today.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Congratulations on the victory and we'll hear you on the
Power Trip Tuesday. They love having you on. You're fantastic
on the show. And to ask Meat Sauce about what
is uh final score prediction was this week it's coming
and it was ridiculous. This week it just I think
it was like like one hundred to four. It was
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something stupid. Yeah, so get him.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
Okay, that's pretty normal.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
I mean I'm not surprised.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I'm not surprised. Not a dispointment.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
When you throw one crazy take out there, You're kind
of capable of a lot of crazy takes.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So uh, we'll hear about it on Tuesday.
Speaker 9 (11:59):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
It is great and you great seeing you smile like
this and everybody in this locker room so happy. Thank you,
Thank you. Mascow. That's Jonathan Grenard, edge guy for the
Minnesota Vikings. As the drive bys continue here in a
victorious Minnesota Vikings locker room, where let's go. I gotta
go over here for one second. Just uh hey, Harry,
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just quick a little drive by that that was interception
number thirty eight puts you in a fourth all time
in Vikings history. Passing Joey Browner Mariota kind of made
it easy for you, but you're still closed on it.
And overall, Man, that defensive effort today was fantastic. But
like I just shared with Jonathan Gernard, I mean, it's
a team game. I get it. But during that four
game losing strick defense was playing pretty pretty well. Good
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to see that time of possession go the right way today,
Old people like me, Man got a chance to catch
the breath.
Speaker 10 (12:50):
Yeah, that's that's one of those things you look back on.
Time of possession, turnovers tend to tend to point to
the outcome of every game.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
So things things went our way today. Yeah, plus three,
you know, plus three, I mean that minus fifteen obviously
is a ridiculous advise. You worked on that today. But
you know, to end this because I got people waiting
for you, and you know, people got things to do
on Sunday. This was good ball. This was good ball.
That's a good way to put it.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
Right, Absolutely, it was. It was you know, it's what
you talk about it was complimentary football. I think the
pivotal point was us getting that fourth down stop early
at the goal one in our offense, going all the
way down and scoring. I kind of established what the
game was going to be.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
See you next week. Thanks, but thanks be Harry the
hit man. He's football in Biking's immortality. And I had
had an interception today as first of the season. That
was a thirty eight in the career of Harrison Smith,
which once again put him past Joey Browner for fourth
all time, and in fact, if Harrison can get a
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sack over the course of the final four games, then
he'll joined Ronde Barber is the only two players in
a National Football League history with at least thirty eight
interceptions in twenty one and a half sack Jonathan, I'm
doing these drive bys real quick. I've done them in
a month. Man missed him badly. Eight with Washington. You know,
of course you're gonna want to beat him today, but
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you played with your hair on fire, quite honestly. But nevertheless,
you know Washington, whether it's Redskins, WFT, WTF, whatever it was, Commanders,
that place will always hold a special part, special place
in your heart, right, Yeah, for sure. I mean I
went to high school in there.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
You spent eight years of my career there, So I
love those guys over there, but you know, as always,
it's always good to beat them. And right now, I'm
just so excited to be a Minnesota Viking. So definitely
an old chapter of my life, but I still have
so much live for those guys over there. John, you're
trying to get out of your last one.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I don't know if you've seen it back or not,
but I know you'll watch it probably today or tomorrow.
Jaybon on the force fumble and the fumble of recovery
by the sideline, and that's a very hard play. I'm
not going to say hard play for big people. I'm
just gonna say that's a hard play. So he needed that, man,
that was very good for him. One of my favorite
players since he came into the league. And you know,
likewise for you and and you know, just the way
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they orchestrate defense here. For somebody on the outside like me,
I'm just kind of like, hey, you knows tackle, defensive tackle,
the splitzing and everything. But it's good to see you
guys play as well as you played.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Today and then thank you. I really appreciate it. Dallas,
next game, good luck, thank you, I appreciate you. Excited.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
That's Jonathan Allen. Eight years with the Washington football program,
first year with the Minnesota Vikings, and he really really
had himself a good game today, all right. Last one
in the drive bys. Matt's nice to have these drive bys.
Bier Murphy Jr. I mean, Bira Murphy Jr. You know,
if I'm doing drive bys, which it feels like I
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haven't done in a year, you know, I'm gonna find you.
And it's your one hundredth game. So you and I,
you and I chat more so off the microphone than
we do about God's blessings of choosing. You get to
do exactly what you want to do for a career
as long as you have with the money to the side,
but the interceptions, everything to the side. One hundred games, man,
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that's quite the accomplishment. Well done, how you feel.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
I'm glad you told me that because that definitely feels good. Obviously,
you know, reaching this goal. I'm obviously being in the league,
you know. Obviously, you know some people say two to
three years just to get to this point. I'm thankful
every single day. Thankful for the guys around me. I
always say in this locker room, you know, we just
you know, we've been through some stuff this year, but
obviously you know, we got each other's back, so that's
a wonderful thing to be around. And obviously my family
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shot on my phone. I always just stuck to my side,
support and all those type of things. So I'm just
thankful to keep playing this game that I love.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
And you're you're a very physical player, specifically in the
tackling game, And tell me what you think of this
take that I had into the game. It's like, hey,
you know when you're four and eight and the other
team's three and nine, these can become human nature games,
you know, where you just got to watch make sure
everybody's on point for every single play because it's a
violent game. Reason I bring it up is when I
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started watching The Commanders this week, I was like, Terry McLaurin,
Deebo Samuel, the way Laramie Tunsel's playing this year, and
Jeremy McNichols, I mean, I haven't watched a lot of him.
This is that's a bruising, pounding, super physical team. Did
you know that coming into it and like, how do
you handle that?
Speaker 9 (17:10):
Oh, definitely this We knew this was a team who
also catches the ball against yards after a bunch of
yeat guys. You know, once you're just trying to get
the playmakers the ball. Obviously, go make plays. So we
knew that about dee Bo. Obviously going in, we knew
he was gonna be a screen guy and all those
type of things. But everybody else we knew they were
gonna run hard and just play physical. So we just
got to go out there and master physicality and then obviously,
you know, go make those tackles.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Hey man, it's great to see you smile, and I
know you're smiling because you're a team first guy. Man,
you guys won thirty one zero. It's hard shutting out
teams in the NFL.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
It definitely is.
Speaker 9 (17:38):
But you know, we got to do something that happened
to us. So we got to come out here and
this so everybody will worry about but I just I'm
just thankful we got to win today. Obviously it was
a team a team game today, and we both sides
of all three phases.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Did there to a job today?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Now, Now, I mean whether it's a tip pass block shot,
as O'Connor will call it. Route John, somebody throws at you.
I don't care what it is. I know how badly
you want an interception, and I'm just gonna just lay
it out for you. Man into the game. You know,
you've gone sixteen consecutive without one. I think your longest
streak was nineteen consecutive back when you were with Arizona.
So you've looked at that, I can tell, and uh,
but but that's the wonderment of how you play and
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what Flores preaches, where yes, you want it desperately, but
you're not going to compromise other teammates trying to do
something dumb to get it right exactly.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
And as you know, you just got to think about
how teams are coming in and playing. The guys are
coming in, you know, trying to you know, run the ball,
get quick stuff, not take shots down the field, all
those types of things, you know, but you know, opportunity
to still there. We've still got games, Lef, and I'm
still trying to go get multiple So I'm gonna still
go get that ball somehow.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
But we're gonna figure it out. One hundred games for
Byron and one big win today. Congratulates sir, Thank you.
Iira Murphy Junior. That's my main man right there. He's
absolutely fantastic. And uh, let's uh, let's wrap up the
uh the drive by is rolling over here, TJ quick
drive by. It feels like I'm done in about five years.
But first and foremost, thanks for the wonderful chat at
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Toys for Todd's Atyeden Prairie Shields and the crowd is
so engaged with your man and and just just your
giving and putting others first. Thank you very much for that.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
No, I appreciate it.
Speaker 11 (19:05):
I appreciate you guys having me in such a great
event to be able to do that every year and
then be able to share with the kids in the fans.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
So okay, So now from the giving nature of t
J Hawkinson he had a touchdown today to the punishing
nature of t J Hockinson. You took you took on
two with the goal line. One of them laid there
for thirty seconds after you were done, I mean, four
game losing streak. It's kind of like you took it
all out right there, trying to pound to get into
the end zone.
Speaker 9 (19:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (19:31):
No, you know, it's a it was I knew it
was going to be a bang bang play and I'm
not sure if I was in on the first one
or not, but made sure to define it.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
So, you know, it was such a great team win,
a lot of.
Speaker 11 (19:44):
Complimentary football, and it's it's just great to be on
in this locker room on the side of the ball.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
And I love I love all these guys.
Speaker 11 (19:50):
And you know, there's a lot of a lot of
excitement in this room and and it's deserved.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
So last one, how about Josh Oliver. You're tight in
rooms mate, first touchdown game of his career. Good for Josh, Man,
that's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Oh so much fun. I love seeing it.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Love.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
You know, Josh is one of.
Speaker 11 (20:07):
Those guys that does a lot of the dirty work
and for him to be able to get up and
be able to, you.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Know, score a couple of times is a lot of
fun to watch.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
And be able to celebrate the end zone with him
on the first one was was fun too.
Speaker 11 (20:20):
So you know, we we'll hopefully enjoy some more of
those and keep this thing moving.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
And you get used to these two hour and forty
minute games.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Dang right, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
J appreciate you, Yes sir, Yes what buyer Murphy say,
Yes sir, yes sir. Those are the drive bys and
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moved by the twelve ninety eight and twelve oh one.
He texted me during the game and we came up
with the dissection of a drive. It was twelve play
nineteen make that nineteen ninety eight, twelve oh one, nineteen plays,
ninety eight yards, twelve minutes and a tick, and it's
going to be fun dissecting an aberration a nineteen play
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ninety eight yard drive that was consummated by Jordan Mason
shaking a very easy tackle to the left side and
walking into the end zone for his six touchdown this season.
That'll be a few segments from now Parker Fox will
join the Equation and the Sultan of smug Oh, he's
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all full of himself right now for multiple reasons. Yeah.
Seriously speaking FIJA Fairness and Honesty Act. That that Packers
Bears game yesterday, that felt like I was watching an
NFC title game. Yeah, I mean it was tightly contested,
it was. It was good football for the most part,
and a Green Bay got the money. But David is
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an IU grad and that's where his son Jackson attends,
or attended, and I you and just everything coming up
city these days. Zach Royce's Hoosiers beat Donovan Jackson's Ohio
State Buckeyes. Dave's going to feel good about that. That's
once again all part of the Timber Tech What's on
Deck set list. Excellent work by Nordo with the montage,
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and I'm Paul Allen here. We are on this chilly
Monday in the corn fields of the Twin Cities, just
to the west of erotic city known as Minneapolis. The
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So I saw the name dan Quinn and I clicked
on it during the drive buys it. Basically, if you
take the names dan Quinn and I believe it's Adam
Peters Adam Peters and replaced them with certain names here
from last week. It's like the more things change, the
more they stay the same. It's just the ways and
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means and teams become rearranged like this this triple from
nineteen hours ago something triple triple l M f AO
JD five. I've injured Ertz, injured dan Quinn as a
head coach, got to rely on a commander's defense. I'm
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good for the baby Blue Covenant. Now. Of course, after
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play on the fan, well, of course he got hot
with Smith and Jigba Darnald, and Darnald steps up in
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Speaker 5 (25:52):
Touchdown Seahawks.
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Ja yes and clips the ball into the stands to
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Speaker 1 (26:04):
Three tds for Sam, two for Jackson, Smith and Jigba,
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found a way to win another game, tied with the
La Rams atop the NFC West, as those teams with
the Green and Gold continue to perform at quite the
high level to house the one seed in the NFC.
The Saltan joins around eleven forty to chat about this
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Speaker 12 (27:00):
He died and the Packers lead twenty seven to twenty one.
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After the game, we were able to chat with David
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Speaker 14 (30:46):
Good morning, gentlemen, Mike from Tampa, PA, Nordo. Nice to
have a good day on Monday, all of a sudden
as we've had.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I love what I saw yesterday.
Speaker 14 (30:56):
But it was one game. I think the true test
comes on the road again Dallas this Sunday. I'm not
giving the anointment to JJ Hasard yet. I still think
that he needs a lot of work, but one hell
of a performance yesterday. Gentlemen, looking forward to seeing what
they can do Sunday night. If they can keep that momentum.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Thank you, Michael. Hoping to get to Tampa Bay down
shortly after the season, maybe we can say hello and
with JJ McCarthy, it's a Sunday night. You know. The
the last time he played on Sunday Night football was
off a very positive fourth quarter at Soldier Field, and
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the team lost to the Atlanta Falcons, a very beatable team,
and failed to score a touchdown nationally televised game. Tariko
and the group bad for business. This is another opportunity
for McCarthy to continue to take a step with Nine
to Noon's a topic. I mean, if for whatever the reason,
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and the game plan is constructed where they're running more
than their passing and the play action has merit and
Deron Bland falls or Jefferson puts somebody somebody on a
double move and say McCarthy lights it up for three
seventy five to three and zero. The exact same edict
(32:23):
is in play nine to noon Monday and or Tuesday.
As we move forward with McCarthy through what will be
eight starts, A consistency obviously is required, but there are
going to be highs and we've seen a fair mental lows,
So it's unfair and it's actually duplicitous to preach the
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patience required a topic of the team, most important thing
rest of the year, work on the off season and
do that only when things are bad and when things
are poor. McCarthy managed it beautifully yesterday in watching back
a majority of the of the first half at this stage,
you know, and I would imagine same thing probably took
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place in the second half. They are guys running free
and you know he at this stage of the equation
with the way the progressions are requested to be managed,
whether he's coming through with it or not, there are
open guys. O'Connell's been scheming guys wide open all year.
And whether it's McCarthy or Wentz or Brosmer, you know
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it's it's whether it's one of the twenty two offensive
line combinations not holding up, running back missing something, or
a quarterback just making mistakes. It's all part of the
maturation and the a topic with this team week by
week until you get up to about eighteen twenty twenty two,
twenty three. Let me ask you a question before the
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next talkback. Yesterday on Vikings fan Line, why did Ron
Johnson call you Nego? Why did he call you? He said,
you're Nordo. You're not Nego? Why are you being so negative?
But the thing is is I tuned into RJ and
Nego right after. You must have said something that triggered
the Nego. Or is he just like out of his
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mind in good morning? Well he might be. I mean,
Ron's probably out of his mind.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
But it was actually it was a Texter because I
was I was asking Ron kind of how do you
sum up this performance in terms of balancing? Kid absolutely
took steps yesterday, but the commanders had absolutely some quit
to them yesterday.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Crazy, And it was.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Like, I mean, we were looking at like a twenty
seventeen all pro roster, I mean with the with the
Wagoners of the world and Doron Payne not exactly new
to the league, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I liked you. I liked your LA Clippers analogyas Thursday.
I mean, James Harden, yes he can still play, so
can Jeremy Reeves. But there are times that you know
that trends just decide, Hey, I'm just gonna like I
don't want to rehab in the off season. Yeah no,
And so just kind of balancing, and we talked.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
We talked about this into the game that you look
at the schedule, it's like the Washington Commanders where they
are at a three win operation in their own right.
This is as gettable a defense as you're going to
see on the remainder of the schedule. And then it
played out that way, So you know, JJ did what
he was supposed to do against that defense. So I
was just being called negative by a listener as if
(35:29):
I was trying to qualify or provide an asterisk to
the performance, when when overall, really and you hit it
during the drive bys, when you chatted with JJ briefly,
I thought there was something telling just in terms of
playing a little more free. He kind of mentioned, you know,
fewer answers to each play, and he went out there
and handled business. So he did what you're supposed to
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do against a bad team which has convert third downs
at a high level and dagger him with some tds.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
He We have Kevin O'Connell tomorrow at eleven o'clock at
twins that he'thopedics Performance Center, and one of the questions
that I know I'm going to craft later today involves
what what my perception of what I saw from JJ
McCarthy yesterday, well, in advance of the game, and then
after the game in the locker room, before, during and
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after the drive by, is he what he was? Calmer?
And it's absolutely by design. I mean, this is somebody,
whether it's his dad or his mom, or O'Connell or
a teammate, somebody's talking to him would just like the
takenity breath. Yeah. And and we're gonna be bouncing around
with that alter ego thing, yeah, the alter ego nine bit.
(36:37):
It's like a few weeks ago when you brought it
up to me and I'm like, the nine bit socks.
Yeh okay, it's it's not the kid with the ruddy
cheeks and the curly hair coming out of the hat. Yeah,
he he. He made a mistake, you know, and and
it will eventually will go away. But when you do
things like that and it goes, as the kids would say,
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viral and social media. Every mistake you make, either a
roube a player an anal, somebody will find it and
and capitalize on it, not to hurt you, but for
their benefit to try to get that repost and that
like thing. And however you do things on TikTok. The pictures.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
The picture has been bouncing around. The picture has been
bouncing around with with the mean mog. I mean I've
seen other I mean they've put like Jalen Hurts his
face on him, They've put Governor Walls's face on him.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
It's been it's been heavily used. Yeah, but the nine
bit was diseased. It was and and then.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
But but the only way that you that you make
that go away, PA is by evolving and playing better.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
And ignoring ignore it, not just ignoring what what slings
and arrows of outrageous negativity will come at you with
people trying to get under your skin. That that's easy
for McCarthy, not responding to people on social media making
at elevator music. But it doesn't matter. It doesn't mean
he and others don't see it, and it doesn't impact
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them specifically when they're hurt and they're losing, and they
they they play two games and they miss five, and
they play four and they miss one. And so before
the game when when I get down there about nine
forty five on the sideline, McCarthy and Brosemer were warming
up and JJ just taped he had a calm to him.
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He just wasn't bouncing around, and you know, it's you
don't want to take the vivacious, happy, go lucky, God
given nature out of somebody. But it was abundantly apparent
to me that by design he kept himself markedly calmer
into the game, and during the game we saw what
we saw, managed it beautifully, and then after the game
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super calm. With that alter ego was that of crediting
the Minnesota Moving Company for moving humanity the way it did,
and that I thought that was a good step taken
by taken by JJ McCarthy. The last time he was
on Sunday night football didn't go so well, No, it
did not. So this game Sunday night at Dallas, that,
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like Mike from Tampa said on Tampa Bay said on
the talkback, it's there. There will be no anointing from
nine to noon or learned football minds. If he goes
three seventy five three or zero, or if he goes
one seventy five zero in two, it's the next step.
And that actually, I think for you and I and
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maybe a fair amount listening right now, that that's an
enjoyable part of the process. It is. Sadly it's from
five to eight. I mean sadly. You know, if it
was a seven and six or an eight and five,
and you know the pressure cooker was hotter with the
new bee making start seven, eight to nine or whatever,
well that would be a different scenario. But you know,
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you hear it on nine to noon a fair amount,
specifically this time of the year when I say human
nature gets to win, And that's what happened with a
fair amount of the commanders yesterday. And it's not like
they came out of the gate being like, all right,
we ain't going anywhere. We're three and nine, we've lost
seven in a row, we're one and six on the road,
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and here we are in the cornfields. So we're just
gonna go ahead and lay down and just give you
a thirty one point victory. But when you march down
the field and score, and all they've seen all week
is a team that has absolutely minimal chance of scoring touchdowns,
all right, that's a little bit of a jab right there.
When they get down to the two yard line and
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they got three that they had been running quite well
with Rodriguez. In fact, I think they ran for like
seventeen yards two consecutive plays. Then they get to second, third,
and fourth and goal from the two, and they throw
three times in a row and Deebo Samuel dropped a
rather catchable pass back center of the end zone. All right,
Well that now was the uppercut. Well, the knockout punch
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Theldhouse took place after that with the nineteen play, ninety
eight yard, twelve minute and a second touchdown drive captain
by Jordan Mason. That's it. It's over, Johnny right there
for Washington with human nature absolutely prevailing for a majority
of the game. There's somebody I now follow on Twitter
named Grant Paulson. He's a radio host on the Commander's
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flagship and I joined him Friday for his radio show.
It does a really good job, and the Commanders travel
a lot of people, you know, the growing up in
the DC area. I remember how big Washington Redskins football
was in that market when I lived there. But even
with the Commanders at like three and nine, I mean,
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there's Santana Moss on the sideline. They got Fred Smoot
doing a postgame show. They have a bunch of former
players doing a bunch of bits for their pregame show
and TV and stuff like that, and this Grant Paulson,
who does the radio show. He traveled to the game,
and he tweeted about thirty minutes ago talking about the Commanders.
(42:05):
This season has been really bad. It's very hard to
lose eight straight in the NFL. It's very hard to
lose nine of ten in the NFL. It's very hard
to lose a game thirty one zero in the NFL.
It's very hard to lose five. They've lost five games
by twenty one points or more. This has been beyond bad.
It's hard to be this bad. But Dan Quinn is not,
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nor should he be on the hot seat. He had
to get out of jail free card to use coming
off the magical NFC title game run in twenty twenty four.
He used it this season, but he's out of get
out of jail free cards and they need to start
fast in twenty twenty six Super Bowl Home with See
we're not the only ones that like include twenty twenty
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six into the equation. After things, after things get a
little wonky. Oh, that was a really cool tweet. Talk back.
Speaker 15 (42:59):
Hey guys, Gil for me Grove All year all I've
been reading on X is what a bus. JJ McCarthy
is Gosh, his team never wins. We can't win. We
are so bad. All we do is lose and then
we win. Yesterday, all I read is but it was
the worst defense in the NFL. But it ruins our
draft pick. It's like, do you want to win or
don't want to win?
Speaker 1 (43:19):
I want to win.
Speaker 15 (43:19):
I'm a season ticket holder for thirty years. I like winning.
I love winning, and I'm thrilled for JJ and I'm
thrilled for the Viking skull.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Yeah, very cool Viking. Now the you know from a
draft pick standpoint where people immediately will be like, come
pull in my tickets. Yeah, lose the rest of the games, Hey, guys,
lose nine in a row and become the losingest team
in the history of a storied franchise. Yeah, that sounds cool.
Their draft position changed minimally yesterday. In fact, the first
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pick didn't change at all.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
I don't believe that they lost any ground that I
could tell yesterday.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
I'm fan line.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
That's all people really wanted to talk about was JJ
And then the negative When you have a season like
this and I'm not like fans can think whatever they want,
but they get to a point where people didn't want
to call in to say, hey, it was super cool
that JJ took steps yesterday. They wanted to find negativity
to complain because it was a four and now a
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five win team.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
I'll take QB development.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
If you're worried about drafts and worried about picks, how
about our freaking tenth overall pick becomes a franchise QB.
How about we see if we have some hope in
the tenth overall selection and worry later about whether we're
picking eleventh or we're picking fourteenth. You think that freaking
matters in the grand scheme. First of all, players don't
care about draft picks. They care about their stats and
(44:42):
their paychecks, and a lot of them professional pride wise,
just want to go out and win. So the players
aren't sitting there, man, it'd be great if JJ looks
good but we lose. They're not trying to thread needles.
They're trying to play the freaking game. And the long
term optimism in this team sits and rests not with
number eighteen, but with number nine. As we sit here today,
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so winning games and having momentum maybe not as a
team with all the turnover, but with an individual in
McCarthy that means infinitely more than again, whether we're picking
the best safety at eleven or we're picking the best
safety at thirteenth, it's ridiculous. It's a stupid talker, and
it's just traditional. We are who we are. We're always
(45:23):
going to be awful negativity that naturally emanates when you're
having a tough season like this.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
A man, brother, faith and goal one more little baby
talk back, please than the analyst. All right, let me
see here.
Speaker 9 (45:36):
A nordal apa.
Speaker 16 (45:38):
So I think it's great that Kevin O'Connell's able to
get these guys motivated with that speech or whatever you said,
I'm paraphrasing about what would your sixteen year old self
say if you could look at yourself now and see
that you're in the NFL.
Speaker 13 (45:50):
I think that's a great speech to motivate the guys.
Clearly it worked me on The question is how do
you sustain it? What speech do you give this week
to make sure that we don't lay an egg against
Dallas because you see it so many times, after an
emotional high, we have a leftown the next game.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
Thanks guys, good talk. Back and Trump caated answer here
with the analyst on the horizon. The motivational inspirational speeches
slash preaches by head coaches nights before games or even
days of game, well, I mean they can motivate man,
no doubt. But you know when when you're trying to
(46:25):
bring down Jeremy McNichols and you're not exactly sure how
physically he is and he trucks you, Well, all the
speeches and the preaches and the teachers and the talks,
well they go in the rearview, mayor Yeah. It then
comes down. It's incumbent upon the individual in a team
game to galvanize, like I said last week, being your
brother's keeper, galvanizing the team so that A can get
(46:48):
to B, can get to C and get to D.
And that has not been a problem watching back all
of these games in the human nature gets to win
two department for teams that aren't going to the playoffs,
and it was personified yesterday. But that all plays into
the consistency, the consistency that is required not only for
McCarthy but for everybody. All the kids always have, always
(47:13):
do and always will love going to Dallas. They love
playing games, in the Big d So that's going to
have some built in motivation there. And it's a standalone
Sunday Night game and they have been great in those
scenarios this year and I already have heard that a
little bit, so that's on their minds into Sunday Night
Vikings in Dallas Sunday Night seven twenty KFAM. The analyst
(47:34):
and the Vikings Audio network will be Pete Burstch, who
joins US next
The master mixer of the patented Monday Montage Win Loser
Time is Eric Nord, Christie's Mad producer, and I'm Paul Allen.
So hey, there some FIFA to start. FIFA, FIFA to
start It's Fairness in Fairness Act. All right, off the
negativity and unhappiness and frustration voiced off last week's performance
(00:20):
in the Cappuccino Capital by the Minnesota Vikings. FIFA Fairness
in fairness because negative history avoidance was required yesterday, and
they gave their best when their best was required. So
here it is with the FIFA, a Fairness and a
Fairness Act. The Minnesota Vikings will not lose nine in
(00:43):
a row, which would have been the worst in team lore.
The Minnesota Vikings scored a touchdown in the first quarter,
so eight in a row, San six was handled early.
The Minnesota Vikings will not have the worst home record
in the history of minnes So Vikings football. All Wolves
(01:04):
were in attendance. All Wolves were in attendance. I always
love that one and prominent on the pregame sideline. So
sorry to disappoint the money stealing aggregators, but let the
record show that took place yesterday. Whiles a FIFA Fairness
(01:25):
and Fairness Act. While minus twelve in the tay give
certainly is not preferred, it now means the Minnesota Vikings
would have to go minus ten the final four to
set the team record for that sucker, and if they
do that, well, shame on Fira Fira Fira fairness in
(01:46):
ruining that great day Yesterday act in the first shutout
since the Dobbs game in Vegas. That was the day
Jefferson Yeah, ended up in the hospital due to it
being the Dobbs game yesterday, it was the Commanders who
ended up in the infirmary for broken hearts and dislocated elbows.
(02:08):
No change to the A topic for nine to noon,
jj A. McCarthy and his improvement and his three passing
td day for the first time in his brief NFL
run and consistency off that young man's first home win. Yeah,
that's the A topic nine to noon and should be
with Minnesota Vikings fans. He was genuinely appreciative of the
(02:33):
fans clapping for him as he departed the field, and
that stupid nine thing was far from in play after
the game. Thank goodness for that right and indeed, in fact,
his alter ego was that of stayining call ragging about
how quickly his sun is growing and crediting the Minnesota
Moving Company for helping him to his first pick three
(02:57):
three two and the Minnesota Moving Company for helping him
to his first pick free game through seven.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Goodness, that streak ended, right, I mean six executive games
giving it to the other team. How about we were
takers in the giving season. As you put last week,
we finally won the freaking turtle for battle first time
I think since the SINCI.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Game Dallas Sunday Night. Consistency required and JJ McCarthy knows
that the team's a topic is still in play very much. Talkbacks. Please,
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Love stored away and acquiescing to our patented locker room
drive bys. Blew off the contraptions, cobwebs went all hyper
in the locker room, and we started with offensive lineman
Donovan Jackson, a well compensated member of the Minnesota Moving Company.
He's a tough guy too, and we started with what
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can be gained and what can be learned when your
opposite crafty veterans like Doron Payin.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Yeah, you know there's things you see on tape, but
then he's obviously a veteran in rustler. He's been in the
league for a long time, so you know there are
things that he'll do that you haven't seen on films,
so you have to learn and adapt from it. And
their whole defense was veteran, so you know they are
obviously savvy vets who you know they can adapt on
the fly, so you know it was for me at least,
it was trying to make the right play, trying to
make the right move, and just to just staying true
(05:16):
to technique.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
And lastly that that has to be kind of cool
growing up and watching the likes of Bobby Wagner and
Von Miller. I mean, there's a couple of Hall of
famers there, and you got a chance to play against him. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
You know when when Vong was at text A and
M I live thirty minutes away from there, so I
know I grew up watching him at text A. M
get drafted to the Broncos and I was like, man, like,
I'm playing against this guy right now. And obviously Wagner
and when he was on the Seahawks. Man, I remember
I was in like middle school when I was happening.
So just just seeing that and playing against those guys
and they're still playing at a high level.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Man, it's just kind of cool to see. I'm glad
it worked out this way. After that Saturday night game
of the Big Ten Championship, did did did Miles Price
give it to you? Pretty good? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
I still got a We had a little we had
a little something, so I I had been I had
some pint of angers I had to put out on
the field.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Man.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
But don't worry. The Bucks are gonna be back. Bucks
are gonna be back. You're fantastic man. Thank you very
much for the time. Thank you Kindavan Jackson Brookie left
guard for the Minnesota Vikings part of that thirty one
zero victory. More from the Minnesota Moving Company. Here Will Fries,
who stole the show by the way on Vikings Country
earlier in the week and it started all thirteen games
and a thirty one zero victory, snaps that losing story.
(06:26):
How to work out for you today? You must have
had a good job. It was a lot of fun
out there.
Speaker 5 (06:30):
You know, when we can run the ball like that
and we're just a fishing on offense and like things
will start clicking for us. I mean what else guys
for like putting that preparation all week and it finally
starts to come together on Sunday, and like you realize
your potential and there's so much more we can good
stuff we can build off of now going forward.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
So Will when the head coach publicly says during the
course of the week, all right, you know we're gonna
simplify some things and start dealing with all this quarterback
technique and all that stuff in the off season. Like,
what's your take on what's simplified today that you know
right now having not watched it back work?
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Yeah, I think anytime that you can come off the
ball and play fast and you don't have to think
too much, and you know, we're getting the looks that
we're we're practicing all week and you can come just
come off the ball, you know, time after time after
time and keep leaning on them as offensive line.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
That's, you know, kind of what you dream about.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
It makes a lot of fun and kind of like
I said before, like when you're able to kind of
build off of a game like that, you know can
continue to get more complex and do we need to
down the road?
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Man. Awesome having you on the team. Another dynamite effort today. Congratulations,
Thank you very much as well Frize as the Hi Ryan.
As the drive bys continue here from a celebratory in
Minnesota Vikings locker room after a thirty one zero victory,
Just gonna run over here and chat with JJ McCarthy
with a quick little drive by. What's going on, buddy,
(07:44):
nothing much. Yeah, that's the fiftieth win today at US
Bank Stadium for the football team, and your first win
at home, your first win in front of these fans
who love you. How great is that?
Speaker 7 (07:54):
It's fantastic. You know, just couldn't wait to get it done. Obviously,
the only thing I remember from a home win that
I played was the preseason game, so it's been a while,
so it's good to get it done.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Yeah, And you know, I just asked Donovan will Fries
this question about you know O'Connor publicly this week, is like, hey,
you know, there are things that we need to work
on technique wise with JJ. We're gonna put a lot
of that into the off seasons. Go ahead and let
him rip and to simplify some things. And you know,
when you're somebody like me and you hear that, you
don't exactly know what it means. So sharing what you
can share having not watched it back, like what simplified today,
(08:26):
that really helped you.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
I think, just you know, coach o'connelly has such a
beautiful mind in terms of offensive schemes and he dials
up amazing place. But you're learning almost a whole new
offense with new formations, new concepts going into each week.
On top of one play having two plays, and we
just simplified it down, you know, one play that was multipurpose,
that had you know, a yes no answer and the
pre snap and then I could.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Carry out through the rest of the reads.
Speaker 7 (08:49):
But yeah, it was fantastic just to simplify things and
everyone played fast and free.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Last one, Budd quickly three touchdowns to the tight ends.
You throw three for the first time in your emerging
NFL career. Josh catches too, for the first time in
his career. TJ got one. Did you come into the game?
Is this a game where you're like, hey, the Titans
could be live here or was it a process of
the way things develop. It's really funny.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
I've talked about, you know, a game like this with
them in the off season all the time, and they're
always like, their words, not mine.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
It's always the games.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
We never think we're going to get the ball that
we show up, so it just as a precedent no
matter what the expectations are, they always come to work
and they always you know, strain every single snap. And
it's one of the most underrated positions in the sport.
So I'm happy they got their love.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
And I'm extremely happy for you. JJ McCarthy, well done.
Thank you so much, brothers. JJ McCarthy, quarterback for the
Minnesota Vikings, got his first victory at US Bank Stadium
and it was in his seventh start. As the drive
bys along a way to drive bys, I haven't done
these in a little while. They're they're underway and it's
kind of rolling around the locker room now to see
(09:54):
who's available and what we can get accomplished. After a
thirty one zero victory over the the Washington Commanders, Hi,
Jonathan Grenard, we're doing great, man, first drive bys in
a month. I mean, you were out for some of them,
but but now you're back and you guys are back
in the winner circle. And you know it's during the
course and it's a team game. Man, you know more
(10:15):
about it than all of us. But during the course
of that four game losing strike, I mean, it's like
it's your third down defense that they were getting first
downs twenty five percent of the time. Kat Cashman sitting
on like fifteen sixteen tackles every game. You play like
fifteen snaps at Seattle. But they were super meaningful. You
took down Darnold thirty eight percent of the sacks, but
you guys didn't win. So from a defensive standpoint, not
(10:38):
only the shutout today, first shutouts since twenty twenty three,
but defensively, you have to feel pretty good about it
despite that losing East rig right, I feel was good.
Speaker 8 (10:46):
Obviously, when everything comes right and comes together, we play
off of each other's coming new ball, take care of
our offense, and take the ball away on defense, and
limited penalties on special scenes. I f like that's a
good recipe for winning. So everything just came together. It
was a good day and we're just gonna run it.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
And I felt really good for you guys, not only
winning the game, but shoot, the time of possession went
the right way. I mean, I mean, you guys were
like twenty seven and change into it like third worst
in the game, and that's just not what this team's
all about. So you got a chance to catch your breath.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
Yeah, I mean, I feel like I was on the
sideline forever for a good bit, which is a good
thing for us, so that we can just get rested
up and obviously just whenever it starts, time to go
with fresh got fresh legs and ready to go dominate.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
So like I said, man, it was.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Good on all phases.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
It's coming and ball all the way around, and that's
where you get the best result today.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Congratulations on the victory and we'll hear you on the
Power Trip Tuesday. They love having you on. You're fantastic
on the show. And to ask Meat Sauce about what
is uh final score prediction was this week it's coming
and it was ridiculous. This week it just I think
it was like like one hundred to four. It was
(11:47):
something stupid. Yeah, so get him.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
Okay, that's pretty normal.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
I mean I'm not surprised.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I'm not surprised. Not a dispointment.
Speaker 8 (11:53):
When you throw one crazy take out there, You're kind
of capable of a lot of crazy takes.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So uh, we'll hear about it on Tuesday.
Speaker 9 (11:59):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
It is great and you great seeing you smile like
this and everybody in this locker room so happy. Thank you,
Thank you. Mascow. That's Jonathan Grenard, edge guy for the
Minnesota Vikings. As the drive bys continue here in a
victorious Minnesota Vikings locker room, where let's go. I gotta
go over here for one second. Just uh hey, Harry,
(12:21):
just quick a little drive by that that was interception
number thirty eight puts you in a fourth all time
in Vikings history. Passing Joey Browner Mariota kind of made
it easy for you, but you're still closed on it.
And overall, Man, that defensive effort today was fantastic. But
like I just shared with Jonathan Gernard, I mean, it's
a team game. I get it. But during that four
game losing strick defense was playing pretty pretty well. Good
(12:43):
to see that time of possession go the right way today,
Old people like me, Man got a chance to catch
the breath.
Speaker 10 (12:50):
Yeah, that's that's one of those things you look back on.
Time of possession, turnovers tend to tend to point to
the outcome of every game.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
So things things went our way today. Yeah, plus three,
you know, plus three, I mean that minus fifteen obviously
is a ridiculous advise. You worked on that today. But
you know, to end this because I got people waiting
for you, and you know, people got things to do
on Sunday. This was good ball. This was good ball.
That's a good way to put it.
Speaker 10 (13:16):
Right, Absolutely, it was. It was you know, it's what
you talk about it was complimentary football. I think the
pivotal point was us getting that fourth down stop early
at the goal one in our offense, going all the
way down and scoring. I kind of established what the
game was going to be.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
See you next week. Thanks, but thanks be Harry the
hit man. He's football in Biking's immortality. And I had
had an interception today as first of the season. That
was a thirty eight in the career of Harrison Smith,
which once again put him past Joey Browner for fourth
all time, and in fact, if Harrison can get a
(13:54):
sack over the course of the final four games, then
he'll joined Ronde Barber is the only two players in
a National Football League history with at least thirty eight
interceptions in twenty one and a half sack Jonathan, I'm
doing these drive bys real quick. I've done them in
a month. Man missed him badly. Eight with Washington. You know,
of course you're gonna want to beat him today, but
(14:16):
you played with your hair on fire, quite honestly. But nevertheless,
you know Washington, whether it's Redskins, WFT, WTF, whatever it was, Commanders,
that place will always hold a special part, special place
in your heart, right, Yeah, for sure. I mean I
went to high school in there.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
You spent eight years of my career there, So I
love those guys over there, but you know, as always,
it's always good to beat them. And right now, I'm
just so excited to be a Minnesota Viking. So definitely
an old chapter of my life, but I still have
so much live for those guys over there. John, you're
trying to get out of your last one.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I don't know if you've seen it back or not,
but I know you'll watch it probably today or tomorrow.
Jaybon on the force fumble and the fumble of recovery
by the sideline, and that's a very hard play. I'm
not going to say hard play for big people. I'm
just gonna say that's a hard play. So he needed that, man,
that was very good for him. One of my favorite
players since he came into the league. And you know,
likewise for you and and you know, just the way
(15:07):
they orchestrate defense here. For somebody on the outside like me,
I'm just kind of like, hey, you knows tackle, defensive tackle,
the splitzing and everything. But it's good to see you
guys play as well as you played.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Today and then thank you. I really appreciate it. Dallas,
next game, good luck, thank you, I appreciate you. Excited.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
That's Jonathan Allen. Eight years with the Washington football program,
first year with the Minnesota Vikings, and he really really
had himself a good game today, all right. Last one
in the drive bys. Matt's nice to have these drive bys.
Bier Murphy Jr. I mean, Bira Murphy Jr. You know,
if I'm doing drive bys, which it feels like I
(15:42):
haven't done in a year, you know, I'm gonna find you.
And it's your one hundredth game. So you and I,
you and I chat more so off the microphone than
we do about God's blessings of choosing. You get to
do exactly what you want to do for a career
as long as you have with the money to the side,
but the interceptions, everything to the side. One hundred games, man,
(16:05):
that's quite the accomplishment. Well done, how you feel.
Speaker 9 (16:07):
I'm glad you told me that because that definitely feels good. Obviously,
you know, reaching this goal. I'm obviously being in the league,
you know. Obviously, you know some people say two to
three years just to get to this point. I'm thankful
every single day. Thankful for the guys around me. I
always say in this locker room, you know, we just
you know, we've been through some stuff this year, but
obviously you know, we got each other's back, so that's
a wonderful thing to be around. And obviously my family
(16:28):
shot on my phone. I always just stuck to my side,
support and all those type of things. So I'm just
thankful to keep playing this game that I love.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
And you're you're a very physical player, specifically in the
tackling game, And tell me what you think of this
take that I had into the game. It's like, hey,
you know when you're four and eight and the other
team's three and nine, these can become human nature games,
you know, where you just got to watch make sure
everybody's on point for every single play because it's a
violent game. Reason I bring it up is when I
(16:53):
started watching The Commanders this week, I was like, Terry McLaurin,
Deebo Samuel, the way Laramie Tunsel's playing this year, and
Jeremy McNichols, I mean, I haven't watched a lot of him.
This is that's a bruising, pounding, super physical team. Did
you know that coming into it and like, how do
you handle that?
Speaker 9 (17:10):
Oh, definitely this We knew this was a team who
also catches the ball against yards after a bunch of
yeat guys. You know, once you're just trying to get
the playmakers the ball. Obviously, go make plays. So we
knew that about dee Bo. Obviously going in, we knew
he was gonna be a screen guy and all those
type of things. But everybody else we knew they were
gonna run hard and just play physical. So we just
got to go out there and master physicality and then obviously,
you know, go make those tackles.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Hey man, it's great to see you smile, and I
know you're smiling because you're a team first guy. Man,
you guys won thirty one zero. It's hard shutting out
teams in the NFL.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
It definitely is.
Speaker 9 (17:38):
But you know, we got to do something that happened
to us. So we got to come out here and
this so everybody will worry about but I just I'm
just thankful we got to win today. Obviously it was
a team a team game today, and we both sides
of all three phases.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
Did there to a job today?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Now, Now, I mean whether it's a tip pass block shot,
as O'Connor will call it. Route John, somebody throws at you.
I don't care what it is. I know how badly
you want an interception, and I'm just gonna just lay
it out for you. Man into the game. You know,
you've gone sixteen consecutive without one. I think your longest
streak was nineteen consecutive back when you were with Arizona.
So you've looked at that, I can tell, and uh,
but but that's the wonderment of how you play and
(18:11):
what Flores preaches, where yes, you want it desperately, but
you're not going to compromise other teammates trying to do
something dumb to get it right exactly.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
And as you know, you just got to think about
how teams are coming in and playing. The guys are
coming in, you know, trying to you know, run the ball,
get quick stuff, not take shots down the field, all
those types of things, you know, but you know, opportunity
to still there. We've still got games, Lef, and I'm
still trying to go get multiple So I'm gonna still
go get that ball somehow.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
But we're gonna figure it out. One hundred games for
Byron and one big win today. Congratulates sir, Thank you.
Iira Murphy Junior. That's my main man right there. He's
absolutely fantastic. And uh, let's uh, let's wrap up the
uh the drive by is rolling over here, TJ quick
drive by. It feels like I'm done in about five years.
But first and foremost, thanks for the wonderful chat at
(18:55):
Toys for Todd's Atyeden Prairie Shields and the crowd is
so engaged with your man and and just just your
giving and putting others first. Thank you very much for that.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
No, I appreciate it.
Speaker 11 (19:05):
I appreciate you guys having me in such a great
event to be able to do that every year and
then be able to share with the kids in the fans.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
So okay, So now from the giving nature of t
J Hawkinson he had a touchdown today to the punishing
nature of t J Hockinson. You took you took on
two with the goal line. One of them laid there
for thirty seconds after you were done, I mean, four
game losing streak. It's kind of like you took it
all out right there, trying to pound to get into
the end zone.
Speaker 9 (19:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (19:31):
No, you know, it's a it was I knew it
was going to be a bang bang play and I'm
not sure if I was in on the first one
or not, but made sure to define it.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
So, you know, it was such a great team win,
a lot of.
Speaker 11 (19:44):
Complimentary football, and it's it's just great to be on
in this locker room on the side of the ball.
Speaker 6 (19:48):
And I love I love all these guys.
Speaker 11 (19:50):
And you know, there's a lot of a lot of
excitement in this room and and it's deserved.
Speaker 1 (19:55):
So last one, how about Josh Oliver. You're tight in
rooms mate, first touchdown game of his career. Good for Josh, Man,
that's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Oh so much fun. I love seeing it.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Love.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
You know, Josh is one of.
Speaker 11 (20:07):
Those guys that does a lot of the dirty work
and for him to be able to get up and
be able to, you.
Speaker 1 (20:14):
Know, score a couple of times is a lot of
fun to watch.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
And be able to celebrate the end zone with him
on the first one was was fun too.
Speaker 11 (20:20):
So you know, we we'll hopefully enjoy some more of
those and keep this thing moving.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
And you get used to these two hour and forty
minute games.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Dang right, Thank you.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
J appreciate you, Yes sir, Yes what buyer Murphy say,
Yes sir, yes sir. Those are the drive bys and
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(20:53):
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a little less than an hour from now. The producer
of nine to New Nordo a producer, a mad producer
one via X follow him if you're so inclined, so
(21:14):
moved by the twelve ninety eight and twelve oh one.
He texted me during the game and we came up
with the dissection of a drive. It was twelve play
nineteen make that nineteen ninety eight, twelve oh one, nineteen plays,
ninety eight yards, twelve minutes and a tick, and it's
going to be fun dissecting an aberration a nineteen play
(21:37):
ninety eight yard drive that was consummated by Jordan Mason
shaking a very easy tackle to the left side and
walking into the end zone for his six touchdown this season.
That'll be a few segments from now Parker Fox will
join the Equation and the Sultan of smug Oh, he's
(21:58):
all full of himself right now for multiple reasons. Yeah.
Seriously speaking FIJA Fairness and Honesty Act. That that Packers
Bears game yesterday, that felt like I was watching an
NFC title game. Yeah, I mean it was tightly contested,
it was. It was good football for the most part,
and a Green Bay got the money. But David is
(22:20):
an IU grad and that's where his son Jackson attends,
or attended, and I you and just everything coming up
city these days. Zach Royce's Hoosiers beat Donovan Jackson's Ohio
State Buckeyes. Dave's going to feel good about that. That's
once again all part of the Timber Tech What's on
Deck set list. Excellent work by Nordo with the montage,
(22:42):
and I'm Paul Allen here. We are on this chilly
Monday in the corn fields of the Twin Cities, just
to the west of erotic city known as Minneapolis. The
Minnesota Vikings crushed the Commander's Big d Dallas. Next Sunday,
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(23:25):
So I saw the name dan Quinn and I clicked
on it during the drive buys it. Basically, if you
take the names dan Quinn and I believe it's Adam
Peters Adam Peters and replaced them with certain names here
from last week. It's like the more things change, the
more they stay the same. It's just the ways and
(23:47):
means and teams become rearranged like this this triple from
nineteen hours ago something triple triple l M f AO
JD five. I've injured Ertz, injured dan Quinn as a
head coach, got to rely on a commander's defense. I'm
a fan of a poverty franchise, which is my effing fault.
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Speaker 12 (25:09):
Hand the Pollard Pollard right side patiently forty forty five
fifty forty five forty makes another cut thirty twenty five
twenty one man defeat. He just say Yitans touchdown sixty
five yards Tony Pollard touchdown Titans.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Seriously for the Tennessee Titans. Good for them. That's a
lot of losses over there, and that had to feel
good for the baby Blue Covenant. Now. Of course, after
being flummoxed by Flores Sam the man who used to
play on the fan, well, of course he got hot
with Smith and Jigba Darnald, and Darnald steps up in
(25:50):
the pocket, dumps it off underneath and it's caught.
Speaker 5 (25:52):
Touchdown Seahawks.
Speaker 12 (25:55):
Ja yes and clips the ball into the stands to
some Seahawks fan his second touchdown reception of the game.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Three tds for Sam, two for Jackson, Smith and Jigba,
and Kirko Chains didn't like that. He didn't like that.
Kirko Chains had a rough one two picks and no
touchdowns and a yard per attempt closer to five, then
closer to five than it was six. Maybe over Johnny
(26:26):
for the old Couz buzz trick and the Super Chickens
found a way to win another game, tied with the
La Rams atop the NFC West, as those teams with
the Green and Gold continue to perform at quite the
high level to house the one seed in the NFC.
The Saltan joins around eleven forty to chat about this
(26:49):
tight end west side of the eye.
Speaker 12 (26:50):
Now Jacobs up the middle bows.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
So he is in. Yes, cut comes down, shut up,
Jay cuts good.
Speaker 12 (27:00):
He died and the Packers lead twenty seven to twenty one.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
After the game, we were able to chat with David
sinkin the Sultan of smug to set up the eleven
forty border battle today and regarding yesterday's game at lambeau Field,
the Sultan had this to say, Chicago Bears, good football game.
Caleb Williams missed Cole Commet quite badly at the end
(27:29):
of the game, and they needed that touchdown like they
needed to breathe. But to Ben Johnson has done uber
fantastic work with the Chicago Bears, and the Green Bay
Packers are atop the NFC North and they hook the
Denver Broncos next week. That game's at Denver. That should be.
(27:49):
That should be a doozy. By the way, Oh, our
beloved Wild have lost two in a row and that's weird.
Speaker 12 (27:58):
The Brost carries a head and dumps it in Falstead
out with his goalste lost the putt look out this story.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
And who else.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Three point game.
Speaker 12 (28:13):
As a young netminer fumbled it away slam Doug Farrotzu it's.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Four one oh what uh uh? Vollstat was tagged for
four at the Cove, a game after Buss took the
l at Calgary. But all still good in the hood though,
and the Wild are at the cracking tonight. That one's
on KFA M and said Seattle squad has lost five
consecutive and in the business we should be able to
(28:40):
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oh oh oh Saturday night, how about that Big ten
title game. Here's the staff saying back to throw again.
Pressure Colms rolls to his right, tries to run with it,
throws it down the field.
Speaker 13 (29:12):
And is tipped up in the air.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
And that's the ball game right there.
Speaker 8 (29:19):
Bendiada wins.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Bendiana has beat the Olhama State buck Eyes and number
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Playoff and not going to get a bye. Unbelievable, so
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(29:44):
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Speaker 14 (30:46):
Good morning, gentlemen, Mike from Tampa, PA, Nordo. Nice to
have a good day on Monday, all of a sudden
as we've had.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
I love what I saw yesterday.
Speaker 14 (30:56):
But it was one game. I think the true test
comes on the road again Dallas this Sunday. I'm not
giving the anointment to JJ Hasard yet. I still think
that he needs a lot of work, but one hell
of a performance yesterday. Gentlemen, looking forward to seeing what
they can do Sunday night. If they can keep that momentum.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Thank you, Michael. Hoping to get to Tampa Bay down
shortly after the season, maybe we can say hello and
with JJ McCarthy, it's a Sunday night. You know. The
the last time he played on Sunday Night football was
off a very positive fourth quarter at Soldier Field, and
(31:39):
the team lost to the Atlanta Falcons, a very beatable team,
and failed to score a touchdown nationally televised game. Tariko
and the group bad for business. This is another opportunity
for McCarthy to continue to take a step with Nine
to Noon's a topic. I mean, if for whatever the reason,
(32:00):
and the game plan is constructed where they're running more
than their passing and the play action has merit and
Deron Bland falls or Jefferson puts somebody somebody on a
double move and say McCarthy lights it up for three
seventy five to three and zero. The exact same edict
(32:23):
is in play nine to noon Monday and or Tuesday.
As we move forward with McCarthy through what will be
eight starts, A consistency obviously is required, but there are
going to be highs and we've seen a fair mental lows,
So it's unfair and it's actually duplicitous to preach the
(32:48):
patience required a topic of the team, most important thing
rest of the year, work on the off season and
do that only when things are bad and when things
are poor. McCarthy managed it beautifully yesterday in watching back
a majority of the of the first half at this stage,
you know, and I would imagine same thing probably took
(33:10):
place in the second half. They are guys running free
and you know he at this stage of the equation
with the way the progressions are requested to be managed,
whether he's coming through with it or not, there are
open guys. O'Connell's been scheming guys wide open all year.
And whether it's McCarthy or Wentz or Brosmer, you know
(33:34):
it's it's whether it's one of the twenty two offensive
line combinations not holding up, running back missing something, or
a quarterback just making mistakes. It's all part of the
maturation and the a topic with this team week by
week until you get up to about eighteen twenty twenty two,
twenty three. Let me ask you a question before the
(33:57):
next talkback. Yesterday on Vikings fan Line, why did Ron
Johnson call you Nego? Why did he call you? He said,
you're Nordo. You're not Nego? Why are you being so negative?
But the thing is is I tuned into RJ and
Nego right after. You must have said something that triggered
the Nego. Or is he just like out of his
(34:19):
mind in good morning? Well he might be. I mean,
Ron's probably out of his mind.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
But it was actually it was a Texter because I
was I was asking Ron kind of how do you
sum up this performance in terms of balancing? Kid absolutely
took steps yesterday, but the commanders had absolutely some quit
to them yesterday.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Crazy, And it was.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
Like, I mean, we were looking at like a twenty
seventeen all pro roster, I mean with the with the
Wagoners of the world and Doron Payne not exactly new
to the league, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I liked you. I liked your LA Clippers analogyas Thursday.
I mean, James Harden, yes he can still play, so
can Jeremy Reeves. But there are times that you know
that trends just decide, Hey, I'm just gonna like I
don't want to rehab in the off season. Yeah no,
And so just kind of balancing, and we talked.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
We talked about this into the game that you look
at the schedule, it's like the Washington Commanders where they
are at a three win operation in their own right.
This is as gettable a defense as you're going to
see on the remainder of the schedule. And then it
played out that way, So you know, JJ did what
he was supposed to do against that defense. So I
was just being called negative by a listener as if
(35:29):
I was trying to qualify or provide an asterisk to
the performance, when when overall, really and you hit it
during the drive bys, when you chatted with JJ briefly,
I thought there was something telling just in terms of
playing a little more free. He kind of mentioned, you know,
fewer answers to each play, and he went out there
and handled business. So he did what you're supposed to
(35:50):
do against a bad team which has convert third downs
at a high level and dagger him with some tds.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
He We have Kevin O'Connell tomorrow at eleven o'clock at
twins that he'thopedics Performance Center, and one of the questions
that I know I'm going to craft later today involves
what what my perception of what I saw from JJ
McCarthy yesterday, well, in advance of the game, and then
after the game in the locker room, before, during and
(36:16):
after the drive by, is he what he was? Calmer?
And it's absolutely by design. I mean, this is somebody,
whether it's his dad or his mom, or O'Connell or
a teammate, somebody's talking to him would just like the
takenity breath. Yeah. And and we're gonna be bouncing around
with that alter ego thing, yeah, the alter ego nine bit.
(36:37):
It's like a few weeks ago when you brought it
up to me and I'm like, the nine bit socks.
Yeh okay, it's it's not the kid with the ruddy
cheeks and the curly hair coming out of the hat. Yeah,
he he. He made a mistake, you know, and and
it will eventually will go away. But when you do
things like that and it goes, as the kids would say,
(36:58):
viral and social media. Every mistake you make, either a
roube a player an anal, somebody will find it and
and capitalize on it, not to hurt you, but for
their benefit to try to get that repost and that
like thing. And however you do things on TikTok. The pictures.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
The picture has been bouncing around. The picture has been
bouncing around with with the mean mog. I mean I've
seen other I mean they've put like Jalen Hurts his
face on him, They've put Governor Walls's face on him.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
It's been it's been heavily used. Yeah, but the nine
bit was diseased. It was and and then.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
But but the only way that you that you make
that go away, PA is by evolving and playing better.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
And ignoring ignore it, not just ignoring what what slings
and arrows of outrageous negativity will come at you with
people trying to get under your skin. That that's easy
for McCarthy, not responding to people on social media making
at elevator music. But it doesn't matter. It doesn't mean
he and others don't see it, and it doesn't impact
(38:07):
them specifically when they're hurt and they're losing, and they
they they play two games and they miss five, and
they play four and they miss one. And so before
the game when when I get down there about nine
forty five on the sideline, McCarthy and Brosemer were warming
up and JJ just taped he had a calm to him.
(38:29):
He just wasn't bouncing around, and you know, it's you
don't want to take the vivacious, happy, go lucky, God
given nature out of somebody. But it was abundantly apparent
to me that by design he kept himself markedly calmer
into the game, and during the game we saw what
we saw, managed it beautifully, and then after the game
(38:50):
super calm. With that alter ego was that of crediting
the Minnesota Moving Company for moving humanity the way it did,
and that I thought that was a good step taken
by taken by JJ McCarthy. The last time he was
on Sunday night football didn't go so well, No, it
did not. So this game Sunday night at Dallas, that,
(39:11):
like Mike from Tampa said on Tampa Bay said on
the talkback, it's there. There will be no anointing from
nine to noon or learned football minds. If he goes
three seventy five three or zero, or if he goes
one seventy five zero in two, it's the next step.
And that actually, I think for you and I and
(39:33):
maybe a fair amount listening right now, that that's an
enjoyable part of the process. It is. Sadly it's from
five to eight. I mean sadly. You know, if it
was a seven and six or an eight and five,
and you know the pressure cooker was hotter with the
new bee making start seven, eight to nine or whatever,
well that would be a different scenario. But you know,
(39:55):
you hear it on nine to noon a fair amount,
specifically this time of the year when I say human
nature gets to win, And that's what happened with a
fair amount of the commanders yesterday. And it's not like
they came out of the gate being like, all right,
we ain't going anywhere. We're three and nine, we've lost
seven in a row, we're one and six on the road,
(40:17):
and here we are in the cornfields. So we're just
gonna go ahead and lay down and just give you
a thirty one point victory. But when you march down
the field and score, and all they've seen all week
is a team that has absolutely minimal chance of scoring touchdowns,
all right, that's a little bit of a jab right there.
When they get down to the two yard line and
(40:38):
they got three that they had been running quite well
with Rodriguez. In fact, I think they ran for like
seventeen yards two consecutive plays. Then they get to second, third,
and fourth and goal from the two, and they throw
three times in a row and Deebo Samuel dropped a
rather catchable pass back center of the end zone. All right,
Well that now was the uppercut. Well, the knockout punch
(40:59):
Theldhouse took place after that with the nineteen play, ninety
eight yard, twelve minute and a second touchdown drive captain
by Jordan Mason. That's it. It's over, Johnny right there
for Washington with human nature absolutely prevailing for a majority
of the game. There's somebody I now follow on Twitter
named Grant Paulson. He's a radio host on the Commander's
(41:23):
flagship and I joined him Friday for his radio show.
It does a really good job, and the Commanders travel
a lot of people, you know, the growing up in
the DC area. I remember how big Washington Redskins football
was in that market when I lived there. But even
with the Commanders at like three and nine, I mean,
(41:43):
there's Santana Moss on the sideline. They got Fred Smoot
doing a postgame show. They have a bunch of former
players doing a bunch of bits for their pregame show
and TV and stuff like that, and this Grant Paulson,
who does the radio show. He traveled to the game,
and he tweeted about thirty minutes ago talking about the Commanders.
(42:05):
This season has been really bad. It's very hard to
lose eight straight in the NFL. It's very hard to
lose nine of ten in the NFL. It's very hard
to lose a game thirty one zero in the NFL.
It's very hard to lose five. They've lost five games
by twenty one points or more. This has been beyond bad.
It's hard to be this bad. But Dan Quinn is not,
(42:29):
nor should he be on the hot seat. He had
to get out of jail free card to use coming
off the magical NFC title game run in twenty twenty four.
He used it this season, but he's out of get
out of jail free cards and they need to start
fast in twenty twenty six Super Bowl Home with See
we're not the only ones that like include twenty twenty
(42:51):
six into the equation. After things, after things get a
little wonky. Oh, that was a really cool tweet. Talk back.
Speaker 15 (42:59):
Hey guys, Gil for me Grove All year all I've
been reading on X is what a bus. JJ McCarthy
is Gosh, his team never wins. We can't win. We
are so bad. All we do is lose and then
we win. Yesterday, all I read is but it was
the worst defense in the NFL. But it ruins our
draft pick. It's like, do you want to win or
don't want to win?
Speaker 1 (43:19):
I want to win.
Speaker 15 (43:19):
I'm a season ticket holder for thirty years. I like winning.
I love winning, and I'm thrilled for JJ and I'm
thrilled for the Viking skull.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
Yeah, very cool Viking. Now the you know from a
draft pick standpoint where people immediately will be like, come
pull in my tickets. Yeah, lose the rest of the games, Hey, guys,
lose nine in a row and become the losingest team
in the history of a storied franchise. Yeah, that sounds cool.
Their draft position changed minimally yesterday. In fact, the first
(43:49):
pick didn't change at all.
Speaker 2 (43:51):
I don't believe that they lost any ground that I
could tell yesterday.
Speaker 1 (43:54):
I'm fan line.
Speaker 2 (43:55):
That's all people really wanted to talk about was JJ
And then the negative When you have a season like
this and I'm not like fans can think whatever they want,
but they get to a point where people didn't want
to call in to say, hey, it was super cool
that JJ took steps yesterday. They wanted to find negativity
to complain because it was a four and now a
(44:17):
five win team.
Speaker 1 (44:18):
I'll take QB development.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
If you're worried about drafts and worried about picks, how
about our freaking tenth overall pick becomes a franchise QB.
How about we see if we have some hope in
the tenth overall selection and worry later about whether we're
picking eleventh or we're picking fourteenth. You think that freaking
matters in the grand scheme. First of all, players don't
care about draft picks. They care about their stats and
(44:42):
their paychecks, and a lot of them professional pride wise,
just want to go out and win. So the players
aren't sitting there, man, it'd be great if JJ looks
good but we lose. They're not trying to thread needles.
They're trying to play the freaking game. And the long
term optimism in this team sits and rests not with
number eighteen, but with number nine. As we sit here today,
(45:03):
so winning games and having momentum maybe not as a
team with all the turnover, but with an individual in
McCarthy that means infinitely more than again, whether we're picking
the best safety at eleven or we're picking the best
safety at thirteenth, it's ridiculous. It's a stupid talker, and
it's just traditional. We are who we are. We're always
(45:23):
going to be awful negativity that naturally emanates when you're
having a tough season like this.
Speaker 1 (45:29):
A man, brother, faith and goal one more little baby
talk back, please than the analyst. All right, let me
see here.
Speaker 9 (45:36):
A nordal apa.
Speaker 16 (45:38):
So I think it's great that Kevin O'Connell's able to
get these guys motivated with that speech or whatever you said,
I'm paraphrasing about what would your sixteen year old self
say if you could look at yourself now and see
that you're in the NFL.
Speaker 13 (45:50):
I think that's a great speech to motivate the guys.
Clearly it worked me on The question is how do
you sustain it? What speech do you give this week
to make sure that we don't lay an egg against
Dallas because you see it so many times, after an
emotional high, we have a leftown the next game.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
Thanks guys, good talk. Back and Trump caated answer here
with the analyst on the horizon. The motivational inspirational speeches
slash preaches by head coaches nights before games or even
days of game, well, I mean they can motivate man,
no doubt. But you know when when you're trying to
(46:25):
bring down Jeremy McNichols and you're not exactly sure how
physically he is and he trucks you, Well, all the
speeches and the preaches and the teachers and the talks,
well they go in the rearview, mayor Yeah. It then
comes down. It's incumbent upon the individual in a team
game to galvanize, like I said last week, being your
brother's keeper, galvanizing the team so that A can get
(46:48):
to B, can get to C and get to D.
And that has not been a problem watching back all
of these games in the human nature gets to win
two department for teams that aren't going to the playoffs,
and it was personified yesterday. But that all plays into
the consistency, the consistency that is required not only for
McCarthy but for everybody. All the kids always have, always
(47:13):
do and always will love going to Dallas. They love
playing games, in the Big d So that's going to
have some built in motivation there. And it's a standalone
Sunday Night game and they have been great in those
scenarios this year and I already have heard that a
little bit, so that's on their minds into Sunday Night
Vikings in Dallas Sunday Night seven twenty KFAM. The analyst
(47:34):
and the Vikings Audio network will be Pete Burstch, who
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