December 4, 2025 • 50 mins
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What have we done?
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Seriously? What have we done? The eleven fifteen? We have
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We are scratching and clining for even a first down
as they gloat while working their ways to the promised
land of the postseason.
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What are your a topics into this life changer Sunday
at noon? Here are a couple of ours A topic
exchange coming in now?
Speaker 8 (04:56):
Well, mine is quarterback related and just for a moment,
excu is this on the fly? Awful butchering of a
song that I like? What have we done for JJ McCarthy?
I need him to be free?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Free ball burden.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
One from the Bear fourteen McCarthy out of the shotgun,
milking a three point lead.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It is a run pass option.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
McCarthy takes off to the right to the Tesh Stunner
step sick a five touchdown. Peace JJ McCarthy and he
runs for a Vikings touchdown and the Minnesota Vikings after
that fourteen yard touchdown gallup, sending fans home here at
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Soldier field man.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
Eleven games ago feels like eleven months ago. Remember how
we felt after week one. Here's the thing, Kevin O'Connell
talking yesterday at the media, you're actually gonna hear some
audio bits during Vike Spites this hour. But the coach
was talking about decision making, protecting yourself, some things that
he's looking for. From JJ McCarthy on Sunday, I'm just
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looking for the kid to take a breath, dim the
lights upstairs, and just freaking play. With five games to go,
win or lose any of these games. The absolute a
topic of the team is seeing what you have in
the quarterback. And while that is, of course, that's in
concert with seeing growth from many other players guys you
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want to build momentum with in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
But the quarterback is where it all starts.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
And I can't have hyperventilating over footwork. I can't have
slow reads and decisions leading to sacks. I can't have
scrambles and guys taking hits from giant linebackers. Kid's brain boggled,
brain getting even more boggled.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Just see the routes, man, Just make the reads.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
Remember that you've been really, really high end at this
for your entire life, and now this is just the
next graduating step. Make some throwsing has been so diseased
this year.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Man.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
But if he can feel and I truly believe this,
if he can feel some actual tangible success on Sunday,
that will be really important to the growth process.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
And if that all happens, and if we're.
Speaker 9 (07:15):
Free free ball in I think he could play a
turnover free game and and that would lead to some
success for all number nine on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Topic exchange, Well, let's discuss a twenty two year old
of a different variety. Oh, because Dallas has turnered a corner.
Darnold down on the shotgun four man rush.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
He's hit again, He's sacked again, and the ball came out.
Speaker 10 (07:48):
Dive on it.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Vikings come on.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
The ball is bouncing about at the forty five Seeattle
recovered it back at the forty five yard line.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So that's gonna be a loss of eight yards. That
is Darnold's six fumble this year. He's lost four. He
had no idea where Dallas Turner was coming from. Because
Dallas now emerges from under the cover of darkness. He
has so much cunning and guile let's put this in context.
Are you ready for some context the con text.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
I love it and I'm ready for it. Edge, you
guys at age twenty two? Okay, Edge, you guys threw
out the annles of the National Football League at age
twenty two who were first round picks with at least
forty five tackles, five sacks, and eight tackles for loss
at age twenty two. So if you were a rookie
at age twenty one, that's out of the contextual chat.
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Edge you guys at age twenty two, who were first
round picks with at least forty five tackles, five sacks,
and eight tackles for loss. The twenty two year old
Alabama product this year has five and a half sacks,
eight tackles for loss, and forty six tackles, meaning as
he grows and matures, there undoubtedly is better to come.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Why wouldn't there be.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
We are experiencing it right before our very ears on
the KFA and Minnesota Vikings Audio network. But as of now,
with the contextual qualifier, he's right there with fellow twenty
two year old first rounders like Aiden Hutchinson, Will Anderson.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Okay, Michaeh.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Parsons, Brian Burns, Interesting, Devin White, Wow, Terrell Suggs. Okay,
are you gonna make me get my bag and read
more names.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
If you want to get the whole grocery list out,
I'm freaking ready for it.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I'm getting in my bag. I got more names, please.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
The context edge guys who are aged twenty two who
were first round picks with at least at age twenty
two forty five tackles, five sacks and eight tackles.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
For loss day Dallas Turner, faith loving feast.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Right now, the man who has turnered a corner is
twenty two years of age with five and a half sacks,
eight tackles for loss in six forty six tackles. I'm
just going to rattle off all the names of the
twenty two year olds who did basically the exact same
thing during their seasons when they were twenty two. Dallas Turner,
Will Anderson, Aiden Hutchinson, Michael Parsons, Brian Burns, Devin White,
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Nick Bosa. I had sixteen tackles for lost, forty seven
forty seven tackles overall and nine.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Sacks when he was twenty two. Wow.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Bradley Chubb, who knew Bradley Chubb, Rokwan Smith, Joey Bosa,
Leonard Williams, Chandler Jones, Corey Legette, Rolando McLain, Von Miller,
Jason Pierre Paul High threes for everybody, JJ Watt, Mario Williams,
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Sean Merriman, Terrell Suggs, Dwight Freeney, Andre Carter, Justin Smith,
and Brian R.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Lacheron all of age twenty two.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
It's that's what Dallas is doing right nowadays, twenty two.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Like we said.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Monday, when the Pros was dead, but we still remembered,
the demise of Dallas Turner has been greatly exaggerated. Patience
is a virtue, and Dallas Turner is paying off those
who are and were patient enough to wait.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It's kind of.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
Nutty two with the playing time that he has gotten.
So after his rookie year, he's seventeenth overall selection I
think it was seventeen and all the equity and he
only gets three hundred snaps and it's like, okay, well
you're behind all Pro caliber and the gang. You're behind
what Grenard is offering this team. Show us something, Dallas,
show us something.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
You're thinking bo Richter's on your heels.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
And even into twenty twenty five, how will Flores get
Turner involved? And at first, really I think I'd say
about half the season, you see him getting those reps
and you're thinking, Okay, I get it. There's the athleticism,
there is he splashing, and because of injury, the opportunity
to get and stack reps and get rhythm and consistency
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and when that light turns on, which that's kind of
what it appears is happening now when the light turns on,
Dallas has been terrific now and with this three game stretch,
look out, Marcus Mariota because the twenty two year olds
about to make it four straight. I can't wait to
see Dallas, the twenty two year olds hopefully showing out
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at US Bank Stadium, and the team finally getting another
freaking win in front of their home fan base.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Please let's do it.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
So when we off microphone, are like off season vikings talkers. Yeah,
are we really going to have to do this? And
is it really going to be all about that? And
are the talkbacks that we claim will take but probably
never will take or the six four six, eight six
are they all going to be involving Yes, January, very minds.
I've had that all the way after the draft and everything. Okay,
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it's the lot in life that has been chosen for us,
So therefore we execute the toil with context hard work,
and hopefully entertainment value. But at the end of the
season with five to go with Dallas Turner at age
twenty two is a first round edge rusher at age
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twenty two, and the contextual qualifiers these you know, it's
hashtag faith radio for sure, but if your hashtag sciences everything, person,
you can't dispute the numbers. I mean, at the end
of the equation, I can't say that a twenty two
year old Dallas Turner with five and a half sacks
will finish with more sacks than the twenty two year
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old Michael Parsons did he at thirteen. However, I can
say he should finish with more sacks than the twenty
two year old Will Anderson him who had seven. He
already has more sacks than a twenty two year old
Rokwan Smith. He's right on the heels of twenty two
year old Andre Carter and or Justin Smith. The same
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with Brian Urlacker. He's going to have as a twenty
two year old first round edge rusher, more tackles than
Will Anderson, Aiden Hutchinson, Brian Burns, Nick Bosa, maybe Bradley
Chubb already, Chandler Jones, and I mean we can go
on and on, but like Sean Merriman's in there, he'll
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have more tackles than him. What about tackles for loss?
Dallas who has Turner de Corner has eight tackles for loss?
If he gets two more than at age twenty two,
is the first round edge rusher, He'll have more than
Aiden Hutchinson. He'll have more than Brian Burns, Roqwan Smith,
He'll have more than Chandler Jones. He'll have more than
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Rolando McClain, Young Alec. Go crazy for Yourbama Crimson tide.
There's a puncher's chance to pass the likes of Andre Carter,
Justin Smith and maybe catch Brian Urlacker. It's not bad
contextual equity. Rude Nation, twenty two year old first round
edge of rushers, and there they are. It's nine to fifteen.
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Thank you CJ. Ham I saw this? When did I
receive this? Just this morning?
Speaker 10 (16:12):
C J.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
Hamm named the Vikings twenty twenty five Walter Peyton NFL.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Man of the Year Award.
Speaker 8 (16:19):
He's the team's nominee and they just kind of listed,
I mean, all sorts of things. There's a statement from
Mark will I'm sure you'll find the team putting out there.
But whether it's the Ham Scholarship Fund, Boys and Girls Club,
pamper Her Purple Children's Minnesota CJ. Ham youth football camps.
These are just a handful of the many things that
CJ supports. He and his family, his wife Stephanie and
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all involved. And he's the team's Walter Payton NFL Man
of the Year Award nominee.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
CJ.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Ham getting lost in this you think about early in
the year, not available and what he means to the
special teams, what he can mean from a past protection standpoint.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
CJ.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
Ham has carved out one hell of a career here
in Purple, has any pa well?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
CJ.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Ham is always saying quite uncomfortable, might be too strong.
He doesn't like to overshare with the philanthropic nature of
his life using the platforms God has given him to
better the lives of others. Kirk Cousins was very much
that way too. So the Vikings it's probably a Vikings
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dot com. I just saw it at Vikings via X.
His daughter came into the TCO radio studio and they
filmed her talking about daddy and what he does off
the field. It's touching, it's beautiful and hopefully it's eye
opening to many vikes bites.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
What would be eye opening this weekend?
Speaker 8 (17:45):
Pa is JJ McCarthy a full participant in practice by
the way, So it appears that full steam ahead for
number nine into Sunday.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
But it would be eye opening.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
And appreciative if Christian Darisaw was back in the mix.
Here's head coach Kevin O'Connell yesterday talking about it.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Yeah, Donovan is not quite there yet from a standpoint
of participating in practice, but he's rapidly recovering and doing
everything in his power to be on the field. It's
been awesome to see and we'll see how that works
towards the end of the week. He's proven off the
you know, the wrist surgery earlier this year. He can
go off the Christian player at a pretty high level
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if he can get to that place where he's stable
and has the power and tinge direction.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Even mentioned those things.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
And then like I said, you know, Monday, the plan
for Christian is to have his normal kind of work
week and flow and play in the football game.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
All right, Well, first of all, lesson and proof listening
to audio bits as they are labeled in the system.
But as you heard it there the plan for Donovan
Jackson not quite ready to get back onto the field.
And then that little snippet At the end, Christian Darris
saw the plan for him as he's going to have
a normal week of practice and be ready to go
against the commanders. If JJ is going to be free
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bad and it'd be nice to have Christian back in
the mix, wouldn't it.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Amen, I became done making Christian darisaw playing related predictions
on like Fridays and Saturdays a month and a half ago. Yeah, So,
I mean I got a gut feeling as to weather
he'll play. It's a positive feeling. But nevertheless, we got today,
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we got tomorrow, you got Saturday, and I guess we'll
find out Sunday at noon. But it can be argued
that as things are constructed the way they are now,
he's the single most important person, certainly on the offense,
but on this team. And that's a topic that will
be broached with Nacho Lieberg.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Mikes Fikes.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
I have two audio bits I'm gonna play from Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
The first is in relation to you. You sure it's
not Mike Tyson. Well, we're about to find out.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
I think this is about Jordan Addison getting back on
track in terms of his production.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
Obviously, our past game has never really existed in a
place where it was in a top ten caliber, you know,
in the league kind of pass game. We're not that
right now in any way shape or form, our execution,
our ability to pitch and catch, our protection from you know,
on enough of these weighty downs where it's a combination
of a lot of things. So you have to ask
yourself those questions as far as individual impact players, but
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then obviously strain those through the lens of what do
we need to do to make sure that the collective
group is successful, can sustain momentum and hopefully stack positive place.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
All right, here's the deal proof listening lesson number two.
You heard it in relation to a position group, but basically,
let me just paraphrase my own question. Then, since the
audio has not been correctly labeled, Jordan Addison, we've heard,
you know, talking back on track, we've seen some drops
in some of those things, the mental wherewithal of the
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of the head guy, that being justin Jefferson, how he's
handled the trials of a tough twenty twenty five season,
the toughest thing for me and maybe for you. And
I'm curious how the coaches look at this internally is
how do I evaluate Jordan Addison, how do I evaluate
Justin Jefferson, How do I evaluate the pass offense at large?
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Or even have conversations about, well, here's what TJ could
have done on this route. Jalen Naylor, Hey, he's open
and no one ever sees them. That's those sorts of
things when the problem, the crux of the issue with
this offense has really since minute one, been at the
QB position. So we can hit him in moments with drops,
we can hit him in moments where this didn't look
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lart right. Two receivers effectively ending up in a route
at the exact same spot, Well, that means something went wrong.
But the true focus of the offense has always been
about the QB. I'm just curious how Kevin O'Connell handles
some of those thoughts in some of those issues internally,
when the QB really impacts everything else we see from
the skill set players.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Yeah, for me that they're the evaluation of Justin Jefferson
is a complete non player. I mean he's put so
much good in so many different ways on tape for
so many plays in so many years. Yeah, it's obviously
a complete outlier or aberration that he has two touchdowns
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and hasn't had more than one hundred yards since the
Cleveland game at Tottenham Hotspur. Addison would fall under the
evaluation category for me, even though it's I know in
my heart if you can push buttons or pull strings
with Jordan Addison and get everything on and off the
field to work exactly the way you want it, he
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is a high end one a to a receiver who
has a chance to go to the Hall of Fame.
Now he falls under the evaluation or we're worthy of
evaluation category for me, simply because it has been topsy
turvy ever since he got here, and now we're dropping
passes that are hard to catch, but he has caught
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and need to be caught badly. I think that barely
falls into the evaluation category. So but justin Jefferson, I
mean his work away from the ball this year and
his work in the run force or the chip game
has been the best of his career and is not
even close.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Mikes, Mikes, Well, let's try this one one more. We're
gonna try it. Hopefully we go at least one to three.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Here happened.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
This is Kevin O'Connell from yesterday talking about JJ McCarthy
the decision maker, making the right decisions potentially when it's running,
protecting himself and how that all plays into his growth
process as a QB.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
It's part of the learning process of understanding, especially with
the guys that are so competitive and have played a
certain style and made a play to win a national
championship by doing so, or whatever it is, maybe early
on in their career made a play to win a
game by doing so, like just the totality of it,
and when the full season's worth of information and data
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can now tell you that that needs to be a
part of your refined thought process, protecting yourself and getting
what you can.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
And it's a positive play.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
And then you put a period on that sentence by
your ability to move on and play the next.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
Snap, protecting the kid staying on the field. One talker,
we really just haven't I mean, and it's not even
necessarily a talker, because how can we impact this PA
is I want to see as part of these final
five games, free balling and all jokes aside for nineballing.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I want I just want them to be healthy.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
I mean that that's what that's that's another part of
it that we can't necessarily evaluate because he's not on
the field. But if the kid's going to improve, if
this kid's going to make strides, if this kid's going
to show that spark in the pulse, he just has
to stay on the freaking field. So the the ankle nickups,
maybe you can't help that. The concussion protecting yourself on
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some of these runs, making the decision to slide being
available is in some ways as much of a factor
in how we continue to look at the kid as
what we're actually seeing on the field. So hopefully the
decision making and a free mind are part of the
equation for him this Sunday, I.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Agree with all of that for my taste.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
The most interesting thing Kevin O'Connell said yesterday, and I'm
gonna have to paraphrase this because i don't have the
transcript in front of me, was and I don't want
to go too far on one side and short change
another side. It kind of was, there's a good chance
JJ is going to be back. He's practicing in full
and when it comes to the schematics and the footwork
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and the details and everything that goes into what we've
worked on for so long. It's not necessarily let's just
throw that away until the off season and quote letting
Blake quarterback end quote. But there's going to be the
JJ McCarthy we see this weekend. I think the way
they're designing the week of practice, which is less to
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the detail of hey you're off two inches with this,
Hey you're off three inches with that, I think it's
going to be you've learned what you've learned. It's going
to naturally continue to come to you. Take the snap,
see it and throw it, and just let loose and
just play more loosely. I'm looking for that. I'm looking
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forward to that.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
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The Golden Gophers football team allegedly had a ballyhooed national
signing Day, and the basketball team beat twenty second ranked
Indiana last night. Mike Grimm was on the call for
the College Basketball Life Changer, and he knows more about
Gophers football than really anybody listening, and that wouldn't include us.
Grimmer is going to join us in studio nine to noon.
When we reached earned to FM one hundred point three kfan.
Speaker 10 (27:14):
Here's the last step. It's sneel down thirty five seconds.
They will not need to snap again. There's the dash
to the end zone to the left. Rushawn Lawrence is
the first man there. The axe is in hand. It
stays where.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
It belongs in Minneapolis, Minnesota snow angels from the Gopher cheerleaders,
head first dives by the Gopher players, and Minnesota beats
Wisconsin seventeen to seven.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
And the axe stays here. The voice of Mike Grim.
He is the play by play voice for Golden Gophers
football and he's also the Voxford basketball National Signing Day
is coming gone and pjscrop is bally hoot on the
national level. First, uh the the a topic when it
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comes to recency was mister Medved's team beating a ranked
team last night.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Grimmer was on the call. What was that live? It
was awesome.
Speaker 11 (28:12):
They that that program really needed that at that particular time.
I don't think a lot of folks expected the Gophers
given the situation. They were without two starters, including their
point guard, and he's gonna be out for the year
with a broken foot, so that's not good news.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
And so there was some you know, doppers down so
to speak.
Speaker 11 (28:31):
Uh, and I think it was what a nine point spread,
and it just it just wasn't gonna look great.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
And they hung tough.
Speaker 11 (28:39):
They got down by seven or eight midway first half,
fought back to tie it at halftime, and then pretty
much controlled the second half.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Their defense was great.
Speaker 11 (28:48):
Tucker DeVries the best player for Indiana who probably is
going to be an NBA player. Langston Reynolds, Minnesota's transfer
from Northern Colorado really shut him down. Played, physical, got
up in him. He was for thirteen. He hasn't had
many days like that. And they hit a couple of
free throws late. Indiana helped. You know, when you're beating
the ranked team and you're out man the way the
Gophers were, you're gonna need a little help from them,
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and they missed some free throws in the second half
Indiana did. So it all comes down to that. You
get to win. And when you had an emotional week
the way it was coming off of, you know, two
games in California they probably weren't real proud of. They
got run by Santa Clara, had a chance to win
the Stanford game and lost that lost to San Francisco,
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who lost to somebody I'd never heard of last night,
but they lost to San Francisco in two fall, so
it was three straight losses. The injury situation was stacking up,
and that's a nice little jolt of energy to get
a win like that, and the crowd was really good.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
We still need more people.
Speaker 11 (29:45):
Coming back to the barn, and I hope that that will,
that win last night will precipitate people coming out, because
last night proved it can be just an exceptional.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Time when things are going well.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Go for sports dot com to get tickets to see
Nico Medved's team and also learn more about that basketball
program that be twenty second ranked Indiana last night. I'm
gonna I'm gonna lay this out there and then just
let you go the I like a lot that the
Golden Gophers have a quarterback who got a lot of
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reps in Drake Lindsay. So I see that nucleus and
what can you build off of it with the transfer
portal and National Signing Day. Now National Signing Day has
coming gone and Pj's crop is it's getting a lot
of respect on the national level. So what's good with
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this year's crop of talented kids and golden Gophers football. Yeah,
it's a it's it's a it's the biggest class thirty
one when they have now done it. Used to be
you couldn't sign more than twenty five, and now with
the with the portal and with teams coming and going,
some programs are like, we need to take more than
twenty five because we're losing twenty five guys to the
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portal or whatever, especially like Max Schools. Right, if you're
good in the MAC, all of a sudden, the big
ten comes calling and so they will be signing big
classes there as well. So it's quantity is part of it,
but in this case there's a lot of quality as well.
They've got the top three players in Minnesota signed, sealed
and delivered, which is great.
Speaker 11 (31:16):
That has really taken a hold. Remember that has been
a big issue for a long time. Coaches have struggled
with that. And now I want to say, this is
like the fifth or sixth straight year where the top
one or two guys from Minnesota have come to Minnesota. Now,
Quinn Carroll and Jackson Howard. They took the circuitous route,
one to Notre Dame and one to LSU, they were
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number one in their respective classes, but eventually worked their
way back to the Maroon and Gold. But to get
the top three guys and Burnsey, who follows that part
of it closer than I haven't seen any of those
three players play in person, and quite frankly, haven't seen
much of their film. But people who know tell me
that all three of those guys are legit like prospects.
Like the Trout kid who was an offensive blind from
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Saint Cloud. He's gonna have likely if if if you
could write his path, it sounds like red shirt as
a freshman, start as a red shirt freshman. Like Nathan Roy,
who was the number one guy in Wisconsin last year
two years ago that PJ signed, sat out one year,
and he started every game this year at left tackle
or I guess he moved at one point, but anyway,
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he started every game up front. And then you've got
the kid from from Jackson County Central, Roman Voss, who
played quarterback but it's going to be a tight end
for Minnesota and just a tremendous athlete. And then and
then you got the kid from Forest Lake, a defensive
lineman who everybody likes. Two quarterbacks, in this class, and
you always you need depth now because quarterbacks who aren't
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going to play don't want to stick around. So you
got to have enough guys that that that somebody's there.
Because Lindsay is going to be the starter, there's no
question about that. They're going to retain him at some cost,
I suppose, because quarterbacks that start in the Big Ten
are going to make some money, so you need some
guy behind him just in case. But you're right to
build it around him. He got tons of reps. He
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was great over the course of the year. PA in
clutch time was Lindsay. He brought them back to win
against Purdue. He brought them back to win against Rutgers,
he brought them back to win against Michigan State. He
brought them back to have a game tying kick potentially
to send it to overtime against Northwestern. The kick was missed.
So in clutch time he's been phenomenal. He's a great kid,
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great leader. Guys want to run through the wall for him.
So yeah, that part of it is really really exciting
to have a quarterback in the fold, and obviously that
they need to retain him, and I think things are
leaning that that's what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Well, and we'll start there.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
There were a couple of things you mentioned again busy,
busy signing day and a lot to dig into. But
whether it was the San Diego kid Brady Palmer, which
you know he's used to like doing little mini weekends
with his parents on Coronado, and then he's up here
during the Acts game and it's snowing in fifteen degrees,
he somehow decides to commit. Then there was an Illinois
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kid owing Lance again, both quarterbacks. You know how much
I mean, Drake Lindsay's success really impacts their tenure here
in some regards.
Speaker 11 (34:08):
Yeah, and again, in this day and age, you just
never know. So I think you have to cast a
wide net. I'm sure that's part of why you know
you bring thirty one guys in, because it's a I
asked PJ yesterday about that the needle you have to
thread here in terms of how many high schoolers do
you bring in because you think you've got an idea
of who might come and go, and you want to
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save some spots for the transfer portal because you have
areas of immediate need that you need to address, like
most of these thirty one that signed yesterday are going
to be limited in playing time. There's very few true
freshmen that play in the Big Ten. You know, it's
a many just won't play much and then slowly but
surely develop into players. Some play right away, like coy Perritch,
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and then there's most of them kind of in between
where you might get four or five games and get
called into duty and hope that you know, you develop
and then you keep them. And then in PG case Nordo,
they run a very unique program. I think that you know,
they talk about it like they they want to fit.
Obviously you want highly skilled players, but they want the fit.
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And I think they feel like in this day and
age where you got to kind of be efficient with
with your with your resources. You bring in thirty one
guys and not all, certainly at the end of the day,
are going to say this is just a great place
for me.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
It just is.
Speaker 11 (35:25):
There's going to be some attrition, but the good ones
that are going to get calls their agents are going
to get call some other programs. If you have them
here for a year, A two, a three, and all
of a sudden, this is the culture I want. This
is the culture you know, I live in this programs
for me, then you're efficient. You can keep those guys
for maybe less than what somebody else. Anthony Smith is
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an example of that. He loves the culture. He could
have gone to some you know, high end programs last year.
So back to your quarterback situation, I think that's part
of it. You got to bring in a few guys
just so you want you want quality backups. You never
know everyone, as they say, you're a snap away, but
you know there's no doubt that Lindsay's going to be
the guy. There's Brady Palmer. PJ yesterday talked about he's
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a three sport athlete, football, rugby, and surfing. And he
came on his visit. So he had been committed to
Cal and then Cal fired their coach, so he reopened
his commitment. He had come to a visit on Minnesota
back in the process when before he had committed, you know,
a year or two ago, and so he comes on
a visit after he had reopened his commitment to the
snow game last week. So here's a kid from San
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Diego who you know probably has a palm tree in
his front yard and he's been surfing all his life.
He comes to this snow game and Pj's like, well,
as a staff, we discussed it, this is going to
go one of two ways. It's going to be like,
no chance am I ever going to play in weather
like this? Or this is awesome? And the kid committed
after the game, so he chose this as awesome.
Speaker 8 (36:49):
You know, I don't have every name, every position in
front of me, but of those thirty one that you mentioned,
it felt like whether it's the old line like running
game going to be a big part of the conversation
this offseason of what Drake c Lindsay's doing. But my goodness,
can we move the ball on the ground. You mentioned it,
Nathan Roy two years ago best in Wisconsin's class and
he heads to Minnesota. Is fickle in a pickle here
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because their top o lineman in the state. Let me
find it. Gavin Meyer. He's picking Maroon in Golden South
yesterday for the gofers and I remember years ago. You've
been around long enough, you know how these conversations go
if you're not keeping your best in state. You mentioned
Pj's got the top three and he's continuing to make
those and build those continuing inroads in Minnesota, but he's
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hopping over the border and getting the best in cheese Land,
the best beefeedters over there.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Yeah, and fickles in a pickle.
Speaker 11 (37:41):
Maybe you're right, And think about Wisconsin US losing linement
like that, that that is yeah, you know, I mean
they've had so many good offensive linemen over the years,
right that I think we need to change our faces
on that.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
And here's why Pj's pointed it out multiple times. And
it's not like the Joe Thomas is or the os
U Ohio State offensive lineman Doujr. Steve Hutchinson Michigan. It's
not like that's not going to happen again. The game
has just changed so much with the spread offense that
the the power ahead running game, vertical passing game, powerhouse
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been it's.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Just a day of the pass. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 11 (38:22):
And part of that too gets into quarterback drafting too, right,
you know what what is a quarter Well, this quarterback
all his career has been a one read guy right
on this quick passing game or and how does that
translate to the NFL? And you I'm sure these NFL
scouts really have to dive into that. And you wonder
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sometimes in terms of how they you know, quarterback throws
for five thousand yards doesn't necessarily guarantee success at the
next level up. But you think about Wisconsin Nordo two
and all the linemen they've had, and and and they
changed their identities. Certainly when they switch coaches. I'm certainly
not yet ready to just say, you know, throw dirt
on them and say, well they're done, it's over, because
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in sports you never know. I think they only signed
thirteen high schoolers yesterday, which is pretty low, so they're
going to have to count on the transfer portal. Their issue,
I think their big issue, and in fairness to Fickle,
is they just have not been able to keep a
quarterback healthy. Like all three of their years, they've played
like three, four or five quarterbacks for whatever reason, the
guys they have brought in have gotten hurt.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
And so that's hard.
Speaker 11 (39:27):
I mean in today's day and age, the depth of
quarterback because quarterbacks don't want to sit right, they want
to play. Their window is limited and when you can
come and go and you're a free agent every year,
if you're the backup, there's a good chance you're not
going to stick around at your place. You're going to
go look someplace where you can play. So the depth
behind a starter and that's why again you take some
high school kids that you hope you can go with.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
The Scout team.
Speaker 11 (39:51):
Quarterback for the Golfers was a kid from Laguna Beach
from last year that they got that they like.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
So there's some depth there.
Speaker 11 (39:57):
Max chicken Janski's the backup quarterback and he's got a
couple of years left. Yeah, the son of Jim Hick
and Jansen Swimmer. Yeah, of Jim chicken Jansky, the former
Gopher basketball player. And what a great story. He played
in a couple of games this year and that Northwestern
State game had a touchdown run and a touchdown pass.
And he has been through some stuff, you know, losing
his mother at the end of last year, and you
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know what, what a family and a Gopher legacy, So
that that's fun to watch. So he's he's going to
be in the mix as well. But you just have
to build some depth there with some guys that can go.
But Lindsey, there's no doubt that that he's he's going
to be their starter next year. And the kid is
such a good guy. Talk to guards he too because
when we see him, he's just polite, he's just.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
On top of it. He is a natural leader.
Speaker 11 (40:43):
He's mature beyond his years, but he's still a kid too,
if if that makes sense. There's a nice mesh point
there with with his uh, you know, just his maturity level.
But yet he's he's he's kind of a kid yet too,
which is is fun.
Speaker 8 (40:57):
One guy that I'm excited to learn more about again
in the vein of we got the O Line Minnesota
Moving Company College Edition and then can we move the
ball on the ground?
Speaker 2 (41:06):
How about this?
Speaker 8 (41:07):
This might be the best thing in al Paso since
Aaron Jones was a utap.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
He broke Aaron Jones' record.
Speaker 8 (41:12):
This Ryan Estrata cat seven thousand yards and ninety touchdowns
in high school. Yeah, just a one man wrecking crew.
And apparently he's a freaking rocket. Like the kid can
run their speed in the mix. Something that would help
with the ground game here in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Right.
Speaker 11 (41:29):
That's one of the threads yesterday's recruiting class showed is
that they they went out and got some track guys.
The guys just can flat out want to get fast.
They want to get faster. Everyone's got to get faster.
You know, a couple of these guys might be more
track than football, but they're like, well, we'll make them
football players.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
But some of them are great.
Speaker 11 (41:46):
Max this Astrata in five A Texas football and I
don't know where that ranks. I don't know if they
have Class eight A or whatever. I think it's nine,
nine or nine. Yeah, so in class five he played
five A Texas football. He averaged almost fifteen yards of
carry last year. This past year, I think they might
still be in it too. I think they're still playing
playoffs in Texas. PJ had mentioned a few guys that
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were still in it yesterday and that he might have
been one of them. But yeah, Strata is a great recruit.
They got three running backs, and they got a bunch
of offensive lineman. You mentioned Meyer from from Wisconsin and Trout,
who is from Saint Cloud, the Recorry area Recorrey High School,
Cold Spring is is his listed hometown. That's the number
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one lineman in Minnesota, the number one lineman in Wisconsin.
They got a couple of other big guys, one kid
who at one point was committed to Ohio State out
of Phoenix. They got committed as an offensive lineman. So
you talk about that Nordo trying to get that run
game established, and three running backs and a bunch of
old linemen I think are going to help that.
Speaker 6 (42:47):
Minnesota high school football sources tell me Howie Johnson from
Forest Lakes, a defensive lineman, as the potential to change games.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
What do you know? Yeah, so he is.
Speaker 11 (43:00):
Burnsy tells me yesterday he's going to be an in
tier lineman and might be one of those guys. There's
a few of these guys in this class that you know,
they if they enroll early, they're going to maybe play
in the fall, and he might be one of them.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
But if not, red shirt freshman year. But he he is.
Speaker 11 (43:19):
It sounds like he's a guy that they believe because
it's hard in college football to get, you know, like
like the Clemsons and the Ohio States and the Alabamas.
They get the dudes that end up in the NFL
on the defensive line right the rush and they sack
and they run stuff.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
And they do it all and then the tiering of.
Speaker 11 (43:34):
College football it becomes a situation where all right, we
got to run stuffer, but he's not a great pass rusher,
or we got a guy that can get off the
ball and go sack at quarterback, but he's never in
his running lane. And that's you know, that's not always
the case. But to get the total package, things have
to fall right. And one of those things that sounds
like this kid can be the total package. And when
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he's you know, twenty minutes from campus, right, it helps, right,
So you got to land those eyes and they did,
and he was one of the early commitments. He's been
on board from early on, helped recruit the rest of
the class, and I know everyone's excited about him. He
actually ended up being the number one ranked recruit on
Burnsey's site in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (44:13):
Yeah, so out of those top three, uh, and they're
all they're all excellent.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
They're all excellent.
Speaker 11 (44:18):
They're all you know, projected to be big time contributors.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (44:21):
You mentioned kind of the early getting them in as
quickly as possible. Eighteen of the thirty one is what
I read will actually be on campus next month, which
kind of helps maybe with getting them into spring games,
getting them maybe on the field in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Now, and think about like.
Speaker 11 (44:35):
Those guys, I always get a kick and it's more
every year they're missing baseball for their high school team,
they're missing basketball and second semester, they're missing prom. H
it's a sacrifice, you know, but they also want to
play college football and it's become.
Speaker 6 (44:50):
Norda and I both missed prom, but it was for
completely different races.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Nobody said yes.
Speaker 11 (44:57):
A tough moment, Yeah, down down yeah see see. I
on the other hand, had my pick. No, I'm just kidding,
uh huh No, it was. That's why they call it
the pick of the litter.
Speaker 8 (45:07):
Hey Grimmer, My last thing for you is simply actually okay,
signing days sweet thirty one kids hoops squad is beating Indiana.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Love that with Pj's team though.
Speaker 8 (45:16):
In the next coming weeks like Bowl games seven and five,
Wisconsin the last handful of years feeling more like a
speed bump. But winning rival regames is sweet. So what
are we looking forward to here as we approached ballseason?
Speaker 11 (45:29):
Yeah, one, last Saturday was awesome with the snow game.
There was this kind of euphoric feeling. By the fourth quarter,
it was pretty apparent Wisconsin wasn't moving the football enough
to there was not a concern. The Gophers get a
touchdown to go up ten and they start playing music
during the TV timeouts and it's like this huge sing along,
like they played the Piano Man and it's you know,
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twenty eight thirty. However, many people were left, some of
the Badger fans had left, but all singing along. And then,
you know, I wouldn't call it a field rush everyone
to the field rush. I would call it more of
a social gathering. The students just kind of meandered their
way onto the field, right, and it was great. I mean,
you sit through that weather and you get the win,
you keep the acts. Anytime you beat Wisconsin is big
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and and thank goodness they did win that game because
you know it had you know, they had lost two
in a row. And sometimes the timing is just right
that you need to, you know, shut the faucet off,
and that did it, and then you run that axe
around the field and it stays in your trophy case.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
That's a big deal, it really is.
Speaker 11 (46:29):
And so yeah, you're right now, they just wait transfer
portal opens in January. They'll likely be involved in that.
Pj's had discussions with you. He meets with every player now,
you know, postseason, and certainly some of those will probably
be hard discussions about you know, you're not projected maybe
to be in our plans or at least in the
too deep right now, it doesn't mean you can't work
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your way into it. And so sometimes there's mutual decisions
because you need roster spots and you want what's best
for the kid. That's one thing I'd give PJ credit.
He'll he'll if he thinks that one of his players
is maybe not going to crack the two deep but
can play somewhere else, he'll help find.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
You know.
Speaker 11 (47:09):
They all these coaches know everybody and they've got certain connections. Hey,
you need a defensive back. We've got a kid that
is just not quite there here, but at your place
he would be awesome, you know those kind of things.
So all of this will work it out Nordo probably
over the next six to eight weeks. There's no transfer
portal now, which I can't believe that someone has won't.
In fact, I believe someone will sue at the end
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of spring. Not in Minnesota, but somebody will sue. But
right now, once you're through January, you're stuck. You if
you get through spring ball, you can't transfer after that
without sitting out a year. The transfer window closes at
the end of January, and the coaches wanted that because
they wanted at the end of spring ball or going
into springball to.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
Know who is going to be on their team.
Speaker 11 (47:50):
Yeah, it's hard to go through all the springball and
then lose seven guys, right. I believe though, someone will
probably sue some quarterback at some school who's like, well,
I've been beaten out, I don't I can't stay here.
Why you keeping me from transferring? And the NCAA hasn't
won any cases where that's why we're headed where we're headed.
Speaker 2 (48:08):
We'll see if that happens.
Speaker 11 (48:09):
But the rules right now, as they're stated, at the
end of January, PJ is going to know who is
on his team on September fourth or whatever the first
game is.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
Which.
Speaker 6 (48:17):
Lastly, which Golden Gophers football player heading into the twenty
twenty six draft or college free agency do you believe
will make the biggest impact in the NFL.
Speaker 11 (48:27):
Yeah, Well, first of all, we got to find out
who goes. So Anthony Smith tied for the lead in
big ten sacks. I think for a lot of the
season it was just assumed that he's gonna go. He's
going to be an early round pick. It seems that
that notion is not one hundred percent anymore. That they're
with nil and with different things. And like I said,
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if you love the culture and you can make six
or seven figures in NIL and sponsorships and endorsement money
and all that stuff, there might be, Hey, I'll come
back and get fifteen sacks next year. Maybe because I
think the theory is he's not a first round pick even.
I mean at the start of the year he was
kind of like, hey, he's a first or second round pick.
And if you'd have told us in you know, in
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at Las Vegas and media days in July, that he's
going to lead the big ten in sacks, everyone would
have said, well, he'll be He'll be a first round
pick then.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
And I think the theory is he won't.
Speaker 11 (49:19):
He isn't, and so he's got to decide if I
come back and get fifteen sacks or eighteen, you know,
just kill it. Maybe I can work into a first
round pick while you know, this is the new thing
while making life changing money and being big man on camp,
being big man on campus and loving the culture. I'm
not suggesting he's back. I don't know, but it's not
the slam dunk that he's going pro. And that's a
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good question because there's not a lot of old guys
on the team this there's much of this team coming back.
Darius Taylor is probably not going into the draft. I
don't think so. He's probably going to be back. He'll
make some good dough as well. And then we mentioned
the running backs that are there that are in the
recruiting class.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
Some of those guys coming back.
Speaker 11 (49:59):
AJ Turner was hurt, I'm off the top of my head,
I don't have my depth chart in front of him,
trying to think who who is a senior? And Devin
Eastern has got a shot, big defensive tackle from Shakapie.
You know, he'll absolutely be in a camp. I don't
know enough yet about you know, where the mel Kuipers
of the world might have him slotted. Is he going
to get drafted or does he got to you know,
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go through go through a street free agent deal. I
don't know that. There'll be a few. There'll be a
few guys that you know, there were nine total last
year that ended up either getting drafted or or spent
some time in a camp anyway and got a.
Speaker 6 (50:33):
Shot uh that that was very informative.
Speaker 2 (50:37):
Thank you very much and I have a wonderful day
you too. Always enjoyed guys.
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This will be our fourth consecutive win. The Wild get
the booming KFA in signal at eight o'clock and from
Calgary against the Flames team that has lost to consecutive
games and just was blasted by Nashville Tuesday nights six
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to one. And of course the Minnesota Vikings are in
search of some light during these dark days of twenty
twenty five and host the Commanders Sunday at noon on Kfan.
The Friday football is tomorrow at Buffalo Wild Wings in Savage.
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What are your a topics into this life changer Sunday
at noon? Here are a couple of ours A topic
exchange coming in now?
Speaker 8 (04:56):
Well, mine is quarterback related and just for a moment,
excu is this on the fly? Awful butchering of a
song that I like? What have we done for JJ McCarthy?
I need him to be free?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Free ball burden.
Speaker 6 (05:12):
One from the Bear fourteen McCarthy out of the shotgun,
milking a three point lead.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It is a run pass option.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
McCarthy takes off to the right to the Tesh Stunner
step sick a five touchdown. Peace JJ McCarthy and he
runs for a Vikings touchdown and the Minnesota Vikings after
that fourteen yard touchdown gallup, sending fans home here at
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Soldier field man.
Speaker 8 (05:43):
Eleven games ago feels like eleven months ago. Remember how
we felt after week one. Here's the thing, Kevin O'Connell
talking yesterday at the media, you're actually gonna hear some
audio bits during Vike Spites this hour. But the coach
was talking about decision making, protecting yourself, some things that
he's looking for. From JJ McCarthy on Sunday, I'm just
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looking for the kid to take a breath, dim the
lights upstairs, and just freaking play. With five games to go,
win or lose any of these games. The absolute a
topic of the team is seeing what you have in
the quarterback. And while that is, of course, that's in
concert with seeing growth from many other players guys you
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want to build momentum with in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
But the quarterback is where it all starts.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
And I can't have hyperventilating over footwork. I can't have
slow reads and decisions leading to sacks. I can't have
scrambles and guys taking hits from giant linebackers. Kid's brain boggled,
brain getting even more boggled.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Just see the routes, man, Just make the reads.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
Remember that you've been really, really high end at this
for your entire life, and now this is just the
next graduating step. Make some throwsing has been so diseased
this year.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Man.
Speaker 8 (07:01):
But if he can feel and I truly believe this,
if he can feel some actual tangible success on Sunday,
that will be really important to the growth process.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
And if that all happens, and if we're.
Speaker 9 (07:15):
Free free ball in I think he could play a
turnover free game and and that would lead to some
success for all number nine on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
Topic exchange, Well, let's discuss a twenty two year old
of a different variety. Oh, because Dallas has turnered a corner.
Darnold down on the shotgun four man rush.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
He's hit again, He's sacked again, and the ball came out.
Speaker 10 (07:48):
Dive on it.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Vikings come on.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
The ball is bouncing about at the forty five Seeattle
recovered it back at the forty five yard line.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So that's gonna be a loss of eight yards. That
is Darnold's six fumble this year. He's lost four. He
had no idea where Dallas Turner was coming from. Because
Dallas now emerges from under the cover of darkness. He
has so much cunning and guile let's put this in context.
Are you ready for some context the con text.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
I love it and I'm ready for it. Edge, you
guys at age twenty two? Okay, Edge, you guys threw
out the annles of the National Football League at age
twenty two who were first round picks with at least
forty five tackles, five sacks, and eight tackles for loss
at age twenty two. So if you were a rookie
at age twenty one, that's out of the contextual chat.
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Edge you guys at age twenty two, who were first
round picks with at least forty five tackles, five sacks,
and eight tackles for loss. The twenty two year old
Alabama product this year has five and a half sacks,
eight tackles for loss, and forty six tackles, meaning as
he grows and matures, there undoubtedly is better to come.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
Why wouldn't there be.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
We are experiencing it right before our very ears on
the KFA and Minnesota Vikings Audio network. But as of now,
with the contextual qualifier, he's right there with fellow twenty
two year old first rounders like Aiden Hutchinson, Will Anderson.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Okay, Michaeh.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Parsons, Brian Burns, Interesting, Devin White, Wow, Terrell Suggs. Okay,
are you gonna make me get my bag and read
more names.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
If you want to get the whole grocery list out,
I'm freaking ready for it.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I'm getting in my bag. I got more names, please.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
The context edge guys who are aged twenty two who
were first round picks with at least at age twenty
two forty five tackles, five sacks and eight tackles.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
For loss day Dallas Turner, faith loving feast.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Right now, the man who has turnered a corner is
twenty two years of age with five and a half sacks,
eight tackles for loss in six forty six tackles. I'm
just going to rattle off all the names of the
twenty two year olds who did basically the exact same
thing during their seasons when they were twenty two. Dallas Turner,
Will Anderson, Aiden Hutchinson, Michael Parsons, Brian Burns, Devin White,
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Nick Bosa. I had sixteen tackles for lost, forty seven
forty seven tackles overall and nine.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Sacks when he was twenty two. Wow.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
Bradley Chubb, who knew Bradley Chubb, Rokwan Smith, Joey Bosa,
Leonard Williams, Chandler Jones, Corey Legette, Rolando McLain, Von Miller,
Jason Pierre Paul High threes for everybody, JJ Watt, Mario Williams,
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Sean Merriman, Terrell Suggs, Dwight Freeney, Andre Carter, Justin Smith,
and Brian R.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Lacheron all of age twenty two.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
It's that's what Dallas is doing right nowadays, twenty two.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Like we said.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Monday, when the Pros was dead, but we still remembered,
the demise of Dallas Turner has been greatly exaggerated. Patience
is a virtue, and Dallas Turner is paying off those
who are and were patient enough to wait.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It's kind of.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
Nutty two with the playing time that he has gotten.
So after his rookie year, he's seventeenth overall selection I
think it was seventeen and all the equity and he
only gets three hundred snaps and it's like, okay, well
you're behind all Pro caliber and the gang. You're behind
what Grenard is offering this team. Show us something, Dallas,
show us something.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
You're thinking bo Richter's on your heels.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
And even into twenty twenty five, how will Flores get
Turner involved? And at first, really I think I'd say
about half the season, you see him getting those reps
and you're thinking, Okay, I get it. There's the athleticism,
there is he splashing, and because of injury, the opportunity
to get and stack reps and get rhythm and consistency
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and when that light turns on, which that's kind of
what it appears is happening now when the light turns on,
Dallas has been terrific now and with this three game stretch,
look out, Marcus Mariota because the twenty two year olds
about to make it four straight. I can't wait to
see Dallas, the twenty two year olds hopefully showing out
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at US Bank Stadium, and the team finally getting another
freaking win in front of their home fan base.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Please let's do it.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
So when we off microphone, are like off season vikings talkers. Yeah,
are we really going to have to do this? And
is it really going to be all about that? And
are the talkbacks that we claim will take but probably
never will take or the six four six, eight six
are they all going to be involving Yes, January, very minds.
I've had that all the way after the draft and everything. Okay,
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it's the lot in life that has been chosen for us,
So therefore we execute the toil with context hard work,
and hopefully entertainment value. But at the end of the
season with five to go with Dallas Turner at age
twenty two is a first round edge rusher at age
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twenty two, and the contextual qualifiers these you know, it's
hashtag faith radio for sure, but if your hashtag sciences everything, person,
you can't dispute the numbers. I mean, at the end
of the equation, I can't say that a twenty two
year old Dallas Turner with five and a half sacks
will finish with more sacks than the twenty two year
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old Michael Parsons did he at thirteen. However, I can
say he should finish with more sacks than the twenty
two year old Will Anderson him who had seven. He
already has more sacks than a twenty two year old
Rokwan Smith. He's right on the heels of twenty two
year old Andre Carter and or Justin Smith. The same
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with Brian Urlacker. He's going to have as a twenty
two year old first round edge rusher, more tackles than
Will Anderson, Aiden Hutchinson, Brian Burns, Nick Bosa, maybe Bradley
Chubb already, Chandler Jones, and I mean we can go
on and on, but like Sean Merriman's in there, he'll
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have more tackles than him. What about tackles for loss?
Dallas who has Turner de Corner has eight tackles for loss?
If he gets two more than at age twenty two,
is the first round edge rusher, He'll have more than
Aiden Hutchinson. He'll have more than Brian Burns, Roqwan Smith,
He'll have more than Chandler Jones. He'll have more than
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Rolando McClain, Young Alec. Go crazy for Yourbama Crimson tide.
There's a puncher's chance to pass the likes of Andre Carter,
Justin Smith and maybe catch Brian Urlacker. It's not bad
contextual equity. Rude Nation, twenty two year old first round
edge of rushers, and there they are. It's nine to fifteen.
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Thank you CJ. Ham I saw this? When did I
receive this? Just this morning?
Speaker 10 (16:12):
C J.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
Hamm named the Vikings twenty twenty five Walter Peyton NFL.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Man of the Year Award.
Speaker 8 (16:19):
He's the team's nominee and they just kind of listed,
I mean, all sorts of things. There's a statement from
Mark will I'm sure you'll find the team putting out there.
But whether it's the Ham Scholarship Fund, Boys and Girls Club,
pamper Her Purple Children's Minnesota CJ. Ham youth football camps.
These are just a handful of the many things that
CJ supports. He and his family, his wife Stephanie and
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all involved. And he's the team's Walter Payton NFL Man
of the Year Award nominee.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
CJ.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Ham getting lost in this you think about early in
the year, not available and what he means to the
special teams, what he can mean from a past protection standpoint.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
CJ.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
Ham has carved out one hell of a career here
in Purple, has any pa well?
Speaker 2 (17:01):
CJ.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
Ham is always saying quite uncomfortable, might be too strong.
He doesn't like to overshare with the philanthropic nature of
his life using the platforms God has given him to
better the lives of others. Kirk Cousins was very much
that way too. So the Vikings it's probably a Vikings
(17:24):
dot com. I just saw it at Vikings via X.
His daughter came into the TCO radio studio and they
filmed her talking about daddy and what he does off
the field. It's touching, it's beautiful and hopefully it's eye
opening to many vikes bites.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
What would be eye opening this weekend?
Speaker 8 (17:45):
Pa is JJ McCarthy a full participant in practice by
the way, So it appears that full steam ahead for
number nine into Sunday.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
But it would be eye opening.
Speaker 8 (17:54):
And appreciative if Christian Darisaw was back in the mix.
Here's head coach Kevin O'Connell yesterday talking about it.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
Yeah, Donovan is not quite there yet from a standpoint
of participating in practice, but he's rapidly recovering and doing
everything in his power to be on the field. It's
been awesome to see and we'll see how that works
towards the end of the week. He's proven off the
you know, the wrist surgery earlier this year. He can
go off the Christian player at a pretty high level
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if he can get to that place where he's stable
and has the power and tinge direction.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Even mentioned those things.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
And then like I said, you know, Monday, the plan
for Christian is to have his normal kind of work
week and flow and play in the football game.
Speaker 8 (18:34):
All right, Well, first of all, lesson and proof listening
to audio bits as they are labeled in the system.
But as you heard it there the plan for Donovan
Jackson not quite ready to get back onto the field.
And then that little snippet At the end, Christian Darris
saw the plan for him as he's going to have
a normal week of practice and be ready to go
against the commanders. If JJ is going to be free
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bad and it'd be nice to have Christian back in
the mix, wouldn't it.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Amen, I became done making Christian darisaw playing related predictions
on like Fridays and Saturdays a month and a half ago. Yeah, So,
I mean I got a gut feeling as to weather
he'll play. It's a positive feeling. But nevertheless, we got today,
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we got tomorrow, you got Saturday, and I guess we'll
find out Sunday at noon. But it can be argued
that as things are constructed the way they are now,
he's the single most important person, certainly on the offense,
but on this team. And that's a topic that will
be broached with Nacho Lieberg.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Mikes Fikes.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
I have two audio bits I'm gonna play from Kevin O'Connell.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
The first is in relation to you. You sure it's
not Mike Tyson. Well, we're about to find out.
Speaker 8 (19:50):
I think this is about Jordan Addison getting back on
track in terms of his production.
Speaker 7 (19:55):
Obviously, our past game has never really existed in a
place where it was in a top ten caliber, you know,
in the league kind of pass game. We're not that
right now in any way shape or form, our execution,
our ability to pitch and catch, our protection from you know,
on enough of these weighty downs where it's a combination
of a lot of things. So you have to ask
yourself those questions as far as individual impact players, but
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then obviously strain those through the lens of what do
we need to do to make sure that the collective
group is successful, can sustain momentum and hopefully stack positive place.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
All right, here's the deal proof listening lesson number two.
You heard it in relation to a position group, but basically,
let me just paraphrase my own question. Then, since the
audio has not been correctly labeled, Jordan Addison, we've heard,
you know, talking back on track, we've seen some drops
in some of those things, the mental wherewithal of the
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of the head guy, that being justin Jefferson, how he's
handled the trials of a tough twenty twenty five season,
the toughest thing for me and maybe for you. And
I'm curious how the coaches look at this internally is
how do I evaluate Jordan Addison, how do I evaluate
Justin Jefferson, How do I evaluate the pass offense at large?
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Or even have conversations about, well, here's what TJ could
have done on this route. Jalen Naylor, Hey, he's open
and no one ever sees them. That's those sorts of
things when the problem, the crux of the issue with
this offense has really since minute one, been at the
QB position. So we can hit him in moments with drops,
we can hit him in moments where this didn't look
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lart right. Two receivers effectively ending up in a route
at the exact same spot, Well, that means something went wrong.
But the true focus of the offense has always been
about the QB. I'm just curious how Kevin O'Connell handles
some of those thoughts in some of those issues internally,
when the QB really impacts everything else we see from
the skill set players.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Yeah, for me that they're the evaluation of Justin Jefferson
is a complete non player. I mean he's put so
much good in so many different ways on tape for
so many plays in so many years. Yeah, it's obviously
a complete outlier or aberration that he has two touchdowns
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and hasn't had more than one hundred yards since the
Cleveland game at Tottenham Hotspur. Addison would fall under the
evaluation category for me, even though it's I know in
my heart if you can push buttons or pull strings
with Jordan Addison and get everything on and off the
field to work exactly the way you want it, he
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is a high end one a to a receiver who
has a chance to go to the Hall of Fame.
Now he falls under the evaluation or we're worthy of
evaluation category for me, simply because it has been topsy
turvy ever since he got here, and now we're dropping
passes that are hard to catch, but he has caught
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and need to be caught badly. I think that barely
falls into the evaluation category. So but justin Jefferson, I
mean his work away from the ball this year and
his work in the run force or the chip game
has been the best of his career and is not
even close.
Speaker 8 (23:26):
Mikes, Mikes, Well, let's try this one one more. We're
gonna try it. Hopefully we go at least one to three.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Here happened.
Speaker 8 (23:34):
This is Kevin O'Connell from yesterday talking about JJ McCarthy
the decision maker, making the right decisions potentially when it's running,
protecting himself and how that all plays into his growth
process as a QB.
Speaker 7 (23:49):
It's part of the learning process of understanding, especially with
the guys that are so competitive and have played a
certain style and made a play to win a national
championship by doing so, or whatever it is, maybe early
on in their career made a play to win a
game by doing so, like just the totality of it,
and when the full season's worth of information and data
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can now tell you that that needs to be a
part of your refined thought process, protecting yourself and getting
what you can.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
And it's a positive play.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
And then you put a period on that sentence by
your ability to move on and play the next.
Speaker 8 (24:25):
Snap, protecting the kid staying on the field. One talker,
we really just haven't I mean, and it's not even
necessarily a talker, because how can we impact this PA
is I want to see as part of these final
five games, free balling and all jokes aside for nineballing.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I want I just want them to be healthy.
Speaker 8 (24:43):
I mean that that's what that's that's another part of
it that we can't necessarily evaluate because he's not on
the field. But if the kid's going to improve, if
this kid's going to make strides, if this kid's going
to show that spark in the pulse, he just has
to stay on the freaking field. So the the ankle nickups,
maybe you can't help that. The concussion protecting yourself on
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some of these runs, making the decision to slide being
available is in some ways as much of a factor
in how we continue to look at the kid as
what we're actually seeing on the field. So hopefully the
decision making and a free mind are part of the
equation for him this Sunday, I.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Agree with all of that for my taste.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
The most interesting thing Kevin O'Connell said yesterday, and I'm
gonna have to paraphrase this because i don't have the
transcript in front of me, was and I don't want
to go too far on one side and short change
another side. It kind of was, there's a good chance
JJ is going to be back. He's practicing in full
and when it comes to the schematics and the footwork
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and the details and everything that goes into what we've
worked on for so long. It's not necessarily let's just
throw that away until the off season and quote letting
Blake quarterback end quote. But there's going to be the
JJ McCarthy we see this weekend. I think the way
they're designing the week of practice, which is less to
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the detail of hey you're off two inches with this,
Hey you're off three inches with that, I think it's
going to be you've learned what you've learned. It's going
to naturally continue to come to you. Take the snap,
see it and throw it, and just let loose and
just play more loosely. I'm looking for that. I'm looking
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forward to that.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
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Speaker 6 (26:39):
The Golden Gophers football team allegedly had a ballyhooed national
signing Day, and the basketball team beat twenty second ranked
Indiana last night. Mike Grimm was on the call for
the College Basketball Life Changer, and he knows more about
Gophers football than really anybody listening, and that wouldn't include us.
Grimmer is going to join us in studio nine to noon.
When we reached earned to FM one hundred point three kfan.
Speaker 10 (27:14):
Here's the last step. It's sneel down thirty five seconds.
They will not need to snap again. There's the dash
to the end zone to the left. Rushawn Lawrence is
the first man there. The axe is in hand. It
stays where.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
It belongs in Minneapolis, Minnesota snow angels from the Gopher cheerleaders,
head first dives by the Gopher players, and Minnesota beats
Wisconsin seventeen to seven.
Speaker 6 (27:43):
And the axe stays here. The voice of Mike Grim.
He is the play by play voice for Golden Gophers
football and he's also the Voxford basketball National Signing Day
is coming gone and pjscrop is bally hoot on the
national level. First, uh the the a topic when it
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comes to recency was mister Medved's team beating a ranked
team last night.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Grimmer was on the call. What was that live? It
was awesome.
Speaker 11 (28:12):
They that that program really needed that at that particular time.
I don't think a lot of folks expected the Gophers
given the situation. They were without two starters, including their
point guard, and he's gonna be out for the year
with a broken foot, so that's not good news.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
And so there was some you know, doppers down so
to speak.
Speaker 11 (28:31):
Uh, and I think it was what a nine point spread,
and it just it just wasn't gonna look great.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
And they hung tough.
Speaker 11 (28:39):
They got down by seven or eight midway first half,
fought back to tie it at halftime, and then pretty
much controlled the second half.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Their defense was great.
Speaker 11 (28:48):
Tucker DeVries the best player for Indiana who probably is
going to be an NBA player. Langston Reynolds, Minnesota's transfer
from Northern Colorado really shut him down. Played, physical, got
up in him. He was for thirteen. He hasn't had
many days like that. And they hit a couple of
free throws late. Indiana helped. You know, when you're beating
the ranked team and you're out man the way the
Gophers were, you're gonna need a little help from them,
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and they missed some free throws in the second half
Indiana did. So it all comes down to that. You
get to win. And when you had an emotional week
the way it was coming off of, you know, two
games in California they probably weren't real proud of. They
got run by Santa Clara, had a chance to win
the Stanford game and lost that lost to San Francisco,
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who lost to somebody I'd never heard of last night,
but they lost to San Francisco in two fall, so
it was three straight losses. The injury situation was stacking up,
and that's a nice little jolt of energy to get
a win like that, and the crowd was really good.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
We still need more people.
Speaker 11 (29:45):
Coming back to the barn, and I hope that that will,
that win last night will precipitate people coming out, because
last night proved it can be just an exceptional.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
Time when things are going well.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Go for sports dot com to get tickets to see
Nico Medved's team and also learn more about that basketball
program that be twenty second ranked Indiana last night. I'm
gonna I'm gonna lay this out there and then just
let you go the I like a lot that the
Golden Gophers have a quarterback who got a lot of
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reps in Drake Lindsay. So I see that nucleus and
what can you build off of it with the transfer
portal and National Signing Day. Now National Signing Day has
coming gone and Pj's crop is it's getting a lot
of respect on the national level. So what's good with
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this year's crop of talented kids and golden Gophers football. Yeah,
it's a it's it's a it's the biggest class thirty
one when they have now done it. Used to be
you couldn't sign more than twenty five, and now with
the with the portal and with teams coming and going,
some programs are like, we need to take more than
twenty five because we're losing twenty five guys to the
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portal or whatever, especially like Max Schools. Right, if you're
good in the MAC, all of a sudden, the big
ten comes calling and so they will be signing big
classes there as well. So it's quantity is part of it,
but in this case there's a lot of quality as well.
They've got the top three players in Minnesota signed, sealed
and delivered, which is great.
Speaker 11 (31:16):
That has really taken a hold. Remember that has been
a big issue for a long time. Coaches have struggled
with that. And now I want to say, this is
like the fifth or sixth straight year where the top
one or two guys from Minnesota have come to Minnesota. Now,
Quinn Carroll and Jackson Howard. They took the circuitous route,
one to Notre Dame and one to LSU, they were
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number one in their respective classes, but eventually worked their
way back to the Maroon and Gold. But to get
the top three guys and Burnsey, who follows that part
of it closer than I haven't seen any of those
three players play in person, and quite frankly, haven't seen
much of their film. But people who know tell me
that all three of those guys are legit like prospects.
Like the Trout kid who was an offensive blind from
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Saint Cloud. He's gonna have likely if if if you
could write his path, it sounds like red shirt as
a freshman, start as a red shirt freshman. Like Nathan Roy,
who was the number one guy in Wisconsin last year
two years ago that PJ signed, sat out one year,
and he started every game this year at left tackle
or I guess he moved at one point, but anyway,
(32:20):
he started every game up front. And then you've got
the kid from from Jackson County Central, Roman Voss, who
played quarterback but it's going to be a tight end
for Minnesota and just a tremendous athlete. And then and
then you got the kid from Forest Lake, a defensive
lineman who everybody likes. Two quarterbacks, in this class, and
you always you need depth now because quarterbacks who aren't
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going to play don't want to stick around. So you
got to have enough guys that that that somebody's there.
Because Lindsay is going to be the starter, there's no
question about that. They're going to retain him at some cost,
I suppose, because quarterbacks that start in the Big Ten
are going to make some money, so you need some
guy behind him just in case. But you're right to
build it around him. He got tons of reps. He
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was great over the course of the year. PA in
clutch time was Lindsay. He brought them back to win
against Purdue. He brought them back to win against Rutgers,
he brought them back to win against Michigan State. He
brought them back to have a game tying kick potentially
to send it to overtime against Northwestern. The kick was missed.
So in clutch time he's been phenomenal. He's a great kid,
(33:25):
great leader. Guys want to run through the wall for him.
So yeah, that part of it is really really exciting
to have a quarterback in the fold, and obviously that
they need to retain him, and I think things are
leaning that that's what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
Well, and we'll start there.
Speaker 8 (33:38):
There were a couple of things you mentioned again busy,
busy signing day and a lot to dig into. But
whether it was the San Diego kid Brady Palmer, which
you know he's used to like doing little mini weekends
with his parents on Coronado, and then he's up here
during the Acts game and it's snowing in fifteen degrees,
he somehow decides to commit. Then there was an Illinois
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kid owing Lance again, both quarterbacks. You know how much
I mean, Drake Lindsay's success really impacts their tenure here
in some regards.
Speaker 11 (34:08):
Yeah, and again, in this day and age, you just
never know. So I think you have to cast a
wide net. I'm sure that's part of why you know
you bring thirty one guys in, because it's a I
asked PJ yesterday about that the needle you have to
thread here in terms of how many high schoolers do
you bring in because you think you've got an idea
of who might come and go, and you want to
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save some spots for the transfer portal because you have
areas of immediate need that you need to address, like
most of these thirty one that signed yesterday are going
to be limited in playing time. There's very few true
freshmen that play in the Big Ten. You know, it's
a many just won't play much and then slowly but
surely develop into players. Some play right away, like coy Perritch,
(34:50):
and then there's most of them kind of in between
where you might get four or five games and get
called into duty and hope that you know, you develop
and then you keep them. And then in PG case Nordo,
they run a very unique program. I think that you know,
they talk about it like they they want to fit.
Obviously you want highly skilled players, but they want the fit.
(35:11):
And I think they feel like in this day and
age where you got to kind of be efficient with
with your with your resources. You bring in thirty one
guys and not all, certainly at the end of the day,
are going to say this is just a great place
for me.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
It just is.
Speaker 11 (35:25):
There's going to be some attrition, but the good ones
that are going to get calls their agents are going
to get call some other programs. If you have them
here for a year, A two, a three, and all
of a sudden, this is the culture I want. This
is the culture you know, I live in this programs
for me, then you're efficient. You can keep those guys
for maybe less than what somebody else. Anthony Smith is
(35:46):
an example of that. He loves the culture. He could
have gone to some you know, high end programs last year.
So back to your quarterback situation, I think that's part
of it. You got to bring in a few guys
just so you want you want quality backups. You never
know everyone, as they say, you're a snap away, but
you know there's no doubt that Lindsay's going to be
the guy. There's Brady Palmer. PJ yesterday talked about he's
(36:08):
a three sport athlete, football, rugby, and surfing. And he
came on his visit. So he had been committed to
Cal and then Cal fired their coach, so he reopened
his commitment. He had come to a visit on Minnesota
back in the process when before he had committed, you know,
a year or two ago, and so he comes on
a visit after he had reopened his commitment to the
snow game last week. So here's a kid from San
(36:30):
Diego who you know probably has a palm tree in
his front yard and he's been surfing all his life.
He comes to this snow game and Pj's like, well,
as a staff, we discussed it, this is going to
go one of two ways. It's going to be like,
no chance am I ever going to play in weather
like this? Or this is awesome? And the kid committed
after the game, so he chose this as awesome.
Speaker 8 (36:49):
You know, I don't have every name, every position in
front of me, but of those thirty one that you mentioned,
it felt like whether it's the old line like running
game going to be a big part of the conversation
this offseason of what Drake c Lindsay's doing. But my goodness,
can we move the ball on the ground. You mentioned it,
Nathan Roy two years ago best in Wisconsin's class and
he heads to Minnesota. Is fickle in a pickle here
(37:12):
because their top o lineman in the state. Let me
find it. Gavin Meyer. He's picking Maroon in Golden South
yesterday for the gofers and I remember years ago. You've
been around long enough, you know how these conversations go
if you're not keeping your best in state. You mentioned
Pj's got the top three and he's continuing to make
those and build those continuing inroads in Minnesota, but he's
(37:35):
hopping over the border and getting the best in cheese Land,
the best beefeedters over there.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Yeah, and fickles in a pickle.
Speaker 11 (37:41):
Maybe you're right, And think about Wisconsin US losing linement
like that, that that is yeah, you know, I mean
they've had so many good offensive linemen over the years,
right that I think we need to change our faces
on that.
Speaker 6 (37:54):
And here's why Pj's pointed it out multiple times. And
it's not like the Joe Thomas is or the os
U Ohio State offensive lineman Doujr. Steve Hutchinson Michigan. It's
not like that's not going to happen again. The game
has just changed so much with the spread offense that
the the power ahead running game, vertical passing game, powerhouse
(38:17):
been it's.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Just a day of the pass. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 11 (38:22):
And part of that too gets into quarterback drafting too, right,
you know what what is a quarter Well, this quarterback
all his career has been a one read guy right
on this quick passing game or and how does that
translate to the NFL? And you I'm sure these NFL
scouts really have to dive into that. And you wonder
(38:42):
sometimes in terms of how they you know, quarterback throws
for five thousand yards doesn't necessarily guarantee success at the
next level up. But you think about Wisconsin Nordo two
and all the linemen they've had, and and and they
changed their identities. Certainly when they switch coaches. I'm certainly
not yet ready to just say, you know, throw dirt
on them and say, well they're done, it's over, because
(39:05):
in sports you never know. I think they only signed
thirteen high schoolers yesterday, which is pretty low, so they're
going to have to count on the transfer portal. Their issue,
I think their big issue, and in fairness to Fickle,
is they just have not been able to keep a
quarterback healthy. Like all three of their years, they've played
like three, four or five quarterbacks for whatever reason, the
guys they have brought in have gotten hurt.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
And so that's hard.
Speaker 11 (39:27):
I mean in today's day and age, the depth of
quarterback because quarterbacks don't want to sit right, they want
to play. Their window is limited and when you can
come and go and you're a free agent every year,
if you're the backup, there's a good chance you're not
going to stick around at your place. You're going to
go look someplace where you can play. So the depth
behind a starter and that's why again you take some
high school kids that you hope you can go with.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
The Scout team.
Speaker 11 (39:51):
Quarterback for the Golfers was a kid from Laguna Beach
from last year that they got that they like.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
So there's some depth there.
Speaker 11 (39:57):
Max chicken Janski's the backup quarterback and he's got a
couple of years left. Yeah, the son of Jim Hick
and Jansen Swimmer. Yeah, of Jim chicken Jansky, the former
Gopher basketball player. And what a great story. He played
in a couple of games this year and that Northwestern
State game had a touchdown run and a touchdown pass.
And he has been through some stuff, you know, losing
his mother at the end of last year, and you
(40:19):
know what, what a family and a Gopher legacy, So
that that's fun to watch. So he's he's going to
be in the mix as well. But you just have
to build some depth there with some guys that can go.
But Lindsey, there's no doubt that that he's he's going
to be their starter next year. And the kid is
such a good guy. Talk to guards he too because
when we see him, he's just polite, he's just.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
On top of it. He is a natural leader.
Speaker 11 (40:43):
He's mature beyond his years, but he's still a kid too,
if if that makes sense. There's a nice mesh point
there with with his uh, you know, just his maturity level.
But yet he's he's he's kind of a kid yet too,
which is is fun.
Speaker 8 (40:57):
One guy that I'm excited to learn more about again
in the vein of we got the O Line Minnesota
Moving Company College Edition and then can we move the
ball on the ground?
Speaker 2 (41:06):
How about this?
Speaker 8 (41:07):
This might be the best thing in al Paso since
Aaron Jones was a utap.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
He broke Aaron Jones' record.
Speaker 8 (41:12):
This Ryan Estrata cat seven thousand yards and ninety touchdowns
in high school. Yeah, just a one man wrecking crew.
And apparently he's a freaking rocket. Like the kid can
run their speed in the mix. Something that would help
with the ground game here in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
Right.
Speaker 11 (41:29):
That's one of the threads yesterday's recruiting class showed is
that they they went out and got some track guys.
The guys just can flat out want to get fast.
They want to get faster. Everyone's got to get faster.
You know, a couple of these guys might be more
track than football, but they're like, well, we'll make them
football players.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
But some of them are great.
Speaker 11 (41:46):
Max this Astrata in five A Texas football and I
don't know where that ranks. I don't know if they
have Class eight A or whatever. I think it's nine,
nine or nine. Yeah, so in class five he played
five A Texas football. He averaged almost fifteen yards of
carry last year. This past year, I think they might
still be in it too. I think they're still playing
playoffs in Texas. PJ had mentioned a few guys that
(42:08):
were still in it yesterday and that he might have
been one of them. But yeah, Strata is a great recruit.
They got three running backs, and they got a bunch
of offensive lineman. You mentioned Meyer from from Wisconsin and Trout,
who is from Saint Cloud, the Recorry area Recorrey High School,
Cold Spring is is his listed hometown. That's the number
(42:28):
one lineman in Minnesota, the number one lineman in Wisconsin.
They got a couple of other big guys, one kid
who at one point was committed to Ohio State out
of Phoenix. They got committed as an offensive lineman. So
you talk about that Nordo trying to get that run
game established, and three running backs and a bunch of
old linemen I think are going to help that.
Speaker 6 (42:47):
Minnesota high school football sources tell me Howie Johnson from
Forest Lakes, a defensive lineman, as the potential to change games.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
What do you know? Yeah, so he is.
Speaker 11 (43:00):
Burnsy tells me yesterday he's going to be an in
tier lineman and might be one of those guys. There's
a few of these guys in this class that you know,
they if they enroll early, they're going to maybe play
in the fall, and he might be one of them.
Speaker 2 (43:13):
But if not, red shirt freshman year. But he he is.
Speaker 11 (43:19):
It sounds like he's a guy that they believe because
it's hard in college football to get, you know, like
like the Clemsons and the Ohio States and the Alabamas.
They get the dudes that end up in the NFL
on the defensive line right the rush and they sack
and they run stuff.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
And they do it all and then the tiering of.
Speaker 11 (43:34):
College football it becomes a situation where all right, we
got to run stuffer, but he's not a great pass rusher,
or we got a guy that can get off the
ball and go sack at quarterback, but he's never in
his running lane. And that's you know, that's not always
the case. But to get the total package, things have
to fall right. And one of those things that sounds
like this kid can be the total package. And when
(43:55):
he's you know, twenty minutes from campus, right, it helps, right,
So you got to land those eyes and they did,
and he was one of the early commitments. He's been
on board from early on, helped recruit the rest of
the class, and I know everyone's excited about him. He
actually ended up being the number one ranked recruit on
Burnsey's site in Minnesota.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Wow.
Speaker 11 (44:13):
Yeah, so out of those top three, uh, and they're
all they're all excellent.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
They're all excellent.
Speaker 11 (44:18):
They're all you know, projected to be big time contributors.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (44:21):
You mentioned kind of the early getting them in as
quickly as possible. Eighteen of the thirty one is what
I read will actually be on campus next month, which
kind of helps maybe with getting them into spring games,
getting them maybe on the field in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
Now, and think about like.
Speaker 11 (44:35):
Those guys, I always get a kick and it's more
every year they're missing baseball for their high school team,
they're missing basketball and second semester, they're missing prom. H
it's a sacrifice, you know, but they also want to
play college football and it's become.
Speaker 6 (44:50):
Norda and I both missed prom, but it was for
completely different races.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
Nobody said yes.
Speaker 11 (44:57):
A tough moment, Yeah, down down yeah see see. I
on the other hand, had my pick. No, I'm just kidding,
uh huh No, it was. That's why they call it
the pick of the litter.
Speaker 8 (45:07):
Hey Grimmer, My last thing for you is simply actually okay,
signing days sweet thirty one kids hoops squad is beating Indiana.
Speaker 2 (45:14):
Love that with Pj's team though.
Speaker 8 (45:16):
In the next coming weeks like Bowl games seven and five,
Wisconsin the last handful of years feeling more like a
speed bump. But winning rival regames is sweet. So what
are we looking forward to here as we approached ballseason?
Speaker 11 (45:29):
Yeah, one, last Saturday was awesome with the snow game.
There was this kind of euphoric feeling. By the fourth quarter,
it was pretty apparent Wisconsin wasn't moving the football enough
to there was not a concern. The Gophers get a
touchdown to go up ten and they start playing music
during the TV timeouts and it's like this huge sing along,
like they played the Piano Man and it's you know,
(45:50):
twenty eight thirty. However, many people were left, some of
the Badger fans had left, but all singing along. And then,
you know, I wouldn't call it a field rush everyone
to the field rush. I would call it more of
a social gathering. The students just kind of meandered their
way onto the field, right, and it was great. I mean,
you sit through that weather and you get the win,
you keep the acts. Anytime you beat Wisconsin is big
(46:13):
and and thank goodness they did win that game because
you know it had you know, they had lost two
in a row. And sometimes the timing is just right
that you need to, you know, shut the faucet off,
and that did it, and then you run that axe
around the field and it stays in your trophy case.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
That's a big deal, it really is.
Speaker 11 (46:29):
And so yeah, you're right now, they just wait transfer
portal opens in January. They'll likely be involved in that.
Pj's had discussions with you. He meets with every player now,
you know, postseason, and certainly some of those will probably
be hard discussions about you know, you're not projected maybe
to be in our plans or at least in the
too deep right now, it doesn't mean you can't work
(46:51):
your way into it. And so sometimes there's mutual decisions
because you need roster spots and you want what's best
for the kid. That's one thing I'd give PJ credit.
He'll he'll if he thinks that one of his players
is maybe not going to crack the two deep but
can play somewhere else, he'll help find.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
You know.
Speaker 11 (47:09):
They all these coaches know everybody and they've got certain connections. Hey,
you need a defensive back. We've got a kid that
is just not quite there here, but at your place
he would be awesome, you know those kind of things.
So all of this will work it out Nordo probably
over the next six to eight weeks. There's no transfer
portal now, which I can't believe that someone has won't.
In fact, I believe someone will sue at the end
(47:31):
of spring. Not in Minnesota, but somebody will sue. But
right now, once you're through January, you're stuck. You if
you get through spring ball, you can't transfer after that
without sitting out a year. The transfer window closes at
the end of January, and the coaches wanted that because
they wanted at the end of spring ball or going
into springball to.
Speaker 2 (47:48):
Know who is going to be on their team.
Speaker 11 (47:50):
Yeah, it's hard to go through all the springball and
then lose seven guys, right. I believe though, someone will
probably sue some quarterback at some school who's like, well,
I've been beaten out, I don't I can't stay here.
Why you keeping me from transferring? And the NCAA hasn't
won any cases where that's why we're headed where we're headed.
Speaker 2 (48:08):
We'll see if that happens.
Speaker 11 (48:09):
But the rules right now, as they're stated, at the
end of January, PJ is going to know who is
on his team on September fourth or whatever the first
game is.
Speaker 2 (48:17):
Which.
Speaker 6 (48:17):
Lastly, which Golden Gophers football player heading into the twenty
twenty six draft or college free agency do you believe
will make the biggest impact in the NFL.
Speaker 11 (48:27):
Yeah, Well, first of all, we got to find out
who goes. So Anthony Smith tied for the lead in
big ten sacks. I think for a lot of the
season it was just assumed that he's gonna go. He's
going to be an early round pick. It seems that
that notion is not one hundred percent anymore. That they're
with nil and with different things. And like I said,
(48:48):
if you love the culture and you can make six
or seven figures in NIL and sponsorships and endorsement money
and all that stuff, there might be, Hey, I'll come
back and get fifteen sacks next year. Maybe because I
think the theory is he's not a first round pick even.
I mean at the start of the year he was
kind of like, hey, he's a first or second round pick.
And if you'd have told us in you know, in
(49:11):
at Las Vegas and media days in July, that he's
going to lead the big ten in sacks, everyone would
have said, well, he'll be He'll be a first round
pick then.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
And I think the theory is he won't.
Speaker 11 (49:19):
He isn't, and so he's got to decide if I
come back and get fifteen sacks or eighteen, you know,
just kill it. Maybe I can work into a first
round pick while you know, this is the new thing
while making life changing money and being big man on camp,
being big man on campus and loving the culture. I'm
not suggesting he's back. I don't know, but it's not
the slam dunk that he's going pro. And that's a
(49:41):
good question because there's not a lot of old guys
on the team this there's much of this team coming back.
Darius Taylor is probably not going into the draft. I
don't think so. He's probably going to be back. He'll
make some good dough as well. And then we mentioned
the running backs that are there that are in the
recruiting class.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
Some of those guys coming back.
Speaker 11 (49:59):
AJ Turner was hurt, I'm off the top of my head,
I don't have my depth chart in front of him,
trying to think who who is a senior? And Devin
Eastern has got a shot, big defensive tackle from Shakapie.
You know, he'll absolutely be in a camp. I don't
know enough yet about you know, where the mel Kuipers
of the world might have him slotted. Is he going
to get drafted or does he got to you know,
(50:20):
go through go through a street free agent deal. I
don't know that. There'll be a few. There'll be a
few guys that you know, there were nine total last
year that ended up either getting drafted or or spent
some time in a camp anyway and got a.
Speaker 6 (50:33):
Shot uh that that was very informative.
Speaker 2 (50:37):
Thank you very much and I have a wonderful day
you too. Always enjoyed guys.
Speaker 6 (50:39):
Great to catch up Mike Grim he is the Fox
Fox or a Golden Gophers football and basketball, but you
all know that. When we returned, bentleyber joins nine to
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