December 5, 2025 • 53 mins
The Friday Football Feast begins with the boys talking about the Vikings struggles at home. Then former Vikings linebacker Chad Greenway joins the show.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Human things, sister.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
The fact.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Taking Donal Steak so mad now so music and the
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agne was goodson.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
It Smith Donald takes the damn Hair's Brenard.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
He got help for the play. Has damn Donald is that? Yes?
He is?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Was take him down, Eric Wilson, and they drive him
all the way back to the twenty.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Six yard line.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Eighteen yard loss for Sam the man who used.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
To be on the fan. You guys already talked about.
We already have three sacks and Sam Donald.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
I'm first down, darny doctor again making door bead labor.
When the ball came out, Sam fumbled again.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Vikings football for Sam Darnold.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
His fifteen to give this season, and the Minnesota Vikings
have taken the ball from Seattle. It'll be burst down
from the Seattle thirteen.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It'll be your murder. It's fourth and one snap. Rover
rolls out to the right. He's in trouble.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
He's gonna throw the ball up headed picked us.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Awful decision by Max Brozner.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
And this is going to be a defense a touchdown
for the Seonal Seahawks. It's Ernest Jones top board with
the first touchdown of his career and Seattle has taken
a nine zero lead. Max Brozner, falling to the field,
decided to underhand it.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
To absolutely nobody except Ernest.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Jones, and he's.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Gonna go the distance for the first touchdown of the game.
Is taking a nine zero lead. It'll be a pick
six up right around.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Eighty five yards.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Nineteen zero Seattle a minute ten in county to go.
In the third quarter, firston tent from the Seattle forty five.
Max Brosner play actions, great front wind protection, rose over
the middle, interceptedy over the three jam. The Taylor and
the Seattle Seahawks have picked off Max Browser at the
twenty one yard lines. It's Toby Bryant, four year throws
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Tittinnati because third pick this season and Seattle as a
nineteen zero lead, and it gets involved.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
States scream team and Miguel Stags leap on the moment.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
France play everybody, Hello, everybody, Hello, everybody, Bruffalo, wild Wing Savage,
good morning, and.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Welcome to the front football.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
You still got some feast in you from four to
eight eight, Ladies and gentlemen, good juice, Oh yeah, good juice,
ladies and gentlemen. Jared Wells, engineer extraordinaire round of applause,
Ashley and Haley representing Nick Madden's Street Team. Devin Ward,
God's the Great Chip Left Covenant from f N one
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hundred point three kfam and from the Athletic in the
Athletic dot Com. One of the Friday Football Feast co hosts.
Can we get a witness in a racas round the
bapplause for alec Lewis Ladies and gentlemen and from.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Nine to noon and Vikings fanline. Eric Nordquist, He's Nordo,
and we welcome you to the Friday Football Feast.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Alex Let's a wonderful kid from ALABEI like you doing
in a snowy state like this and good morning.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Good morning.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
Yeah, it's unbelievable out there. Like I'm not real worried.
I don't really know how to do the breaks. If
my parents knew the break I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I stopping short at stopped like it's it's a tough
time right now, four and eight radio, the weather out there,
you just as much as you could get through day
by day, week to week. That's that's the challenge.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
But if my parents saw my driving strategy amid what's
going on out there.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You know, I might be pulled back down Alabama or two.
It's rough. I mean, you're going to have one of
those stud parked f one fifties out there, just parked
right in a row a year from now. I'm a
blessed slow slowing everybody down for five minutes backing into
your spot.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Yeah, you know, if anyone is going to drive a
four f one fifty, you can imagine it being me,
the very nerd with the glasses up here.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Well, it's it's also appropriate and good that your father's
a lawyer, So therefore you learning to negotiate the roads
and the streets and the highways and the byways of
the twins. Having a father as a lawyer, I think
that probably could get you out of a couple of jam.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
No, it's not. It couldn't get me. It's gotten me
out of a couple of jams.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Well it's not.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
This is not present. This would be past tense.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
But yeah, it's it's necessary at all times and unfortunate.
But but like even for him, there's only so much
grace he's going to be giving, uh me.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
With my driving, Which would you rather negotiate the roads
on a day like today or the conversation.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
I think, I don't know, it's at the roads. The
roads might be worth at least you're active.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
You can feel like you got control over the situation,
quarterback situation. You feel like you're just a bystander to
it all.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
So yeah, I don't know if you guys want to
talk about posture based balanced body positions.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
It's all gone, Yeah it is. It's all done.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
It's yeah, it's over. The whole thing's done now is
just uh, just go rip it?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
As Nordo cleverly sang nine to noon yesterday, JJ's.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Free free ball. That was good.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
I heard that we're gonna be free balling this weekend.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
The word jam has come into the equation early trying
to get Alec Lewis out of some metaphorical jam. The
Minnesota Vikings absolutely have backed themselves into a jam at
four and eight. So let's try a couple of things
before we try to get all analytical and stuff like that. Yeah,
the Minnesota Vikings are four and eight. They've lost four
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consecutive games and have him scored a touchdown for eight
consecutive quarters. How many people at Buffalo Wild Wings Savage
still deeply love Minnesota Vikings football.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Can I get a witness?
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Only the strong survive is what they say?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
All right now, if you happen to be at the
palatial purple paradise known as US Bank Stadium this weekend
and the box of all boxes ever to Vox, Alan Roach,
Alan Roach, the voice of US Bank Stadium, if he
were to hit the microphone and bellow throughout the stadium
something like this, what would your reaction be?
Speaker 6 (08:03):
And and and be straight, be honest if it were
like this? At quarterback number.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Nine, J. J.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Mucarthy, I love you, Oh we love you. Wow, hard
times create strong people. I didn't hear a single boo
the strong.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
These fans are these strong. I feel beyond like I
always have appreciation. And I'm not just saying this, Like
these fans go through the fire and they just somehow
keep coming out.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Well, the word jam is familiar. As as we mentioned,
I want to find what to find jam? This team
has backed itself into uh the announcer, the host of
fan Line, and a scribe, a journalist, an objective journalist
covering the football team for the Athletic and the Athletic
dot Com.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Assumingly for profit.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
We are here for nine segments to analyze said product,
and we will begin like this, boys, uh, what do
you expect the rest of the journey? What do you
expect the rest of the journey? And that they're there,
by the way is historical wherewithal of this.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
I don't do this, well, I got you. Would you
just pull out of your it's bad, it's bad.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
We just rev them up. We have them cheering, we
have them excited no matter what for their football team.
You're gonna come with this, but these are takes for tots.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
We want you to be the smartest football fan at
the lunch table and or in your covenant. So for instance,
when I say where do they go from here? All right,
they've lost four in a row. If they lose every
game the rest of the way, that means it would
be a Pasadena City College. Math gets me to a
nine game losing street, which would be the longest in
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the history of Minnesota Vikings football.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
It's not happening.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
So now you look at the rest of the schedule,
and you got the Washingtonians here this weekend, then you
go to Dallas, then you go to the Giants, then
you come home on Christmas and you play the Motor
City Kiddies, and you close with the Green Bay Packers.
So with Washington three and nine losers, losers of seven
consecutive games, and like one and six on the road,
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this would seem to be the most winnable of the
rest of the bunch.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
So what do you guys think about this weekend? And
where do you think it goes from here?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
In?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Good morning? Yeah, good morning. And I still don't know
where you pulled out that piece of paper. It was
just like out of nowhere.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
You just pulled it out the same place my favorite
team is attempted to pull out its most recent touchdown
from my butt.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I don't know how to follow that. We've been wearing, respectively,
the same jeans all week. So when he originally wrote
those notes and put it in his back pocket, they
were still there three days later. Absolutely, yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
The two I think this game is definitely winnable comparatively
to the New York Giants game, Like those are the
two the Giants in this game, in particular, this one
being at home. To lose again at home with the
Lions and pack looming at home, that.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Would be quite difficult, and it would be quite unfortunately.
I believe this year they're one and four at home.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Yes, yes, so you know the idea of going one
and seven at home would not bode well for anybody.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Yeah, that gets us to the next historical any record
of futility. Our favorite team is trying to avoid and
don't kill the messengers. We didn't put the team in
the spot. We are just opining to a large crowd
at Buffalo Wild Wing Savage, a lot larger than we
thought it would be. So don't kill the messengers, all right.
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As Young Alex said, the Minnesota Vikings are one and
four at home.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
That is a two hundred winning percentage.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
The nineteen sixty seven bunch went one four and two
at home two hundred winning percentage, The nineteen sixty two
Vikings went one five and one at home, a one
sixty seven winning percentage, and the twenty eleven Minnesota Vikings
went one in seven at home, which is a one
five winning percentage. Uh, we're just trying to avoid historical
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futility here, boys, and good morning.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I think that's where you're looking to. Man, we need
one at home, man, the fans need one at home.
Just two years ago. By the way, this, This would
be all of you. Just to win out would get
them to five hundred and so if they don't do that,
this will be the sixth time in franchise history, sixth
time in all those years as they've had a losing
record at home. I thought of it, and we don't
have to. We just had to look back two years.
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Remember when we were two and six and twenty twenty
three and.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Dobbs, Dobbs.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
As brutal as that was, we I hate to say
we need one. It's a four win team. Now, you
got offside to the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
We got to do the bid Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs,
Dobbs Dobbs.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
You were saying we got to win at home. That
that's really just at the end of it, it's a
four win team. So the saying you need one is
kind of insane. But the historical part of what we've
seen is just pure ugliness. So whether it's the coach
and I agree with him, the team feeling some success
on the field, if for nothing else than just finding
momentum into twenty twenty six, like I expect, still like
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weirdness at the quarterback spot, Like I still expect mistakes,
I still expect some sort of uncontrolled chaos specifically on
the offense over the final five. Just beat a freaking
team at home. Please. My biggest thing for this game
is just win the trenches on both sides. Yeah, like
I it is.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
You know, JJ McCarthy, I have no idea. We'll see
what happens without him focusing on mechanics and just letting
it rip, and hopefully it looks phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And he's at piece. The pressure's not on all of that,
but for.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Him to be as good as he needs to be,
just have the offensive line protect for him, blocking the
run game, and then defensively win the FLTET scrimmage against
the Commander's offensive line.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Just do those things at the bare minimum in this game.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Here is a more historical futility. Our favorite team is
hoping to avoid the alec You've covered Minnesota Vikings games
home and road for several years now, save a barn
burner in Cincinnati.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
But nevertheless, you know, you know what you see, you
know what you hear. Stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
The Minnesota Vikings in the turnover differential. Pretty important, right boys, Yeah,
most important? The yeah yeah, most important outside of the
final score. The old take give game, the Minnesota Vikings
are minus fifteen.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Crazy.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
They've given it in the giving season fifteen times more
than they've taken it. That is the third worst in
the history of Minnesota Vikings football.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
The twenty.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Twenty the two thousand and two Minnesota Vikings were minus
eighteen in the take give. The two thousand and one
Minnesota Vikings were minus twenty one in the take. GiB
If you go minus seven and the take give the
rest of the way, it's the worst in the history
of the franchise.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
And good morning, good morning, And it's po I.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Mean, I don't want to say, I don't want to
be negative guy, but it's possible. Like just that's the
other thing. JJ McCarthy possible. She talked about it yesterday.
He's like, I just want to eliminate the turnovers and
get the big conversation point in the building this week
has been let's do what we have to do not
to lose the game, to give ourself the chance to
win the game. And that's probably the classic coaching point
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at this you know, time of a season that goes
like this, but it really, it really does feel like that.
Don't fumble the ball when DeMarcus Lawrence is tracking you
down on the sideline.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Don't don't throw the ball to the other team.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Kevin O'Connell's record here, I believe is like thirty three
and four when they break even or win the turnover margin.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
It's that clear and cut of a statistic. So just
give yourself the best chance by that. But I don't
know how much faith I have in it. Well, that's
a tough thing. I mean, this team really, over the
last handful of years has been more unpredictable than you
ghost breaking on Highway thirteen. Because despite so you look
at it every other year, right, Like, let's go back
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to twenty twenty two. They were middle of the pack,
like seventeen eighteenth and turnovers, so they were turning the
ball over, but it was complimentary from the defense. Twenty
twenty three unmitigated disaster, I think, second most turnovers on
offense in the league, Nick Mullen. Then last year you're
still sixteen seventeen, eighteenth and turnovers, but the defense is complimenting, right,
And now this year we're flipping that again. This team
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over the last four or five years has been undisciplined.
They have given the ball away. That is part of
their identity, sadly, But the difference is is in twenty
two and in twenty four the defense was coming up
with those takes. One of the things that we were
super excited about with raising a kid QB on the
fly is like, man, this defense with flores, these are ballhawks.
They generate these opportunities. It is by design and taking
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of those opportunities, and sadly, whether it's not taking the
ball away, still giving it away, not playing with the lead, unfortunately,
that's kind of put us in a spot where we're
talking about history again.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
Yeah, and you can counterbalance some of the turnovers from
throwing the ball down the field if you're generating explosives,
which is the second most predictive stat to winning turnovers
an explosive play, so you can.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
You can counterbalance a little bit.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
The problem with this season offensively has been you're giving
the ball away, you're not generate explosives, and then you
don't have the lead in your defense isn't creating turnover.
It's just like the total ultimate recipe for how you
get to four and eight amid a season like this?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And so yeah, I mean I for me again. In
this game, in particular, run the football put JJ McCarthy
in positions to just let him AerR it out and
rip it and and and see where the chips fall,
like I think this Commander's defense is one of the
most gettable in the NFL. They give they've given up
the thirtieth excuse me thirty their thirtieth and explosive play
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rate elion. They give up eight point seven yards per past,
the most in the NFL. If you can't move the
ball in some capacity against this Commander's defense, it's gonna
be difficult. It's been difficult. Really don't want it to
be difficult anymore because it's been hard.
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Speaker 6 (22:22):
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I don't know if this was one of the more
like memorable games in your career, but when they were
the wash Hington Redskins, the OG name in one of
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the cooler games you know, of the games that I
can remember in my run with the Minnesota Vikings took
place in twenty ten when it was just I mean,
you think this season was bad is bad. Holy cow,
that twenty ten thing. The way I like to frame
it up, you can get it if you are so inclined.
If snapchat had been invented in twenty ten, the Vikings
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would have gone to the super Bowl. We'll just leave
it right there, as did somebody else. But Leslie Fraser
took over his head coach and it was a grinder
of a season. You got like not, you got to
like Chad not, Joe Lieber given every single thing. They
have tried to find a way to win a game,
and they finally won a game at fed X against
the Washington Redskins. Chad Ben and others hoisted Leslie Frasier
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up as the interim coach and walked him off the field,
and Leslie was just, I mean, it's a crap season.
He's trying to hold the job, which he would. That
was a yeah, that was a wonderful, wonderful moment in
good morning.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
And good morning. Great to be back. You know, that
game was very special for a lot of reasons. Obviously,
Leslie gets his first win. Twenty ten was an absolute mess.
It should have its solen thirty for thirty and then
people it's just it's sad, it was depressing, it was long,
and then we were supposed to suck for Luck but
we didn't suck enough for Luck class and we went
and won out in Washington and we didn't get Andrew Luck.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah, ee, Andy, the way you go.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
So and I think I think Peterson messed up as
ACL in the penultimate game of the season.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
So I thought you were gonna go with the Robert Grimarca.
I thought you were gonna go there on the on
the on the double a gap when we don't blitz.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
But here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
You didn't after what you said about Jamarca Sanford's angle
last year. Oh, I felt it should be a felony
in forty eight state. So I didn't want to bring
it up again, but you did. Clearly it resonates.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yeah, no, it hurts.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
But then listen, is there a push to get it
named renamed the Redskins?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I heard this?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Is that a real thing or no, it's more of
a community effort. But let's let's go to the let's
go to the Nordo Gesk for that.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
But there's been vast agreement that they would prefer that
over the commanders agree here WFT.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Bit this we should get unde the Fighting Hawks and
the Commanders kind of in the same room.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Just talk through that names, the names that we all
love and enjoy.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Commanders is terrible.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
Yeah, why don't you just broke baseball into it?
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Cleveland Baseball can get jumped in there.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
And like, as we go to break what are you
gonna do into Florida State? Absolutely, yes, my goodness, all
right now, the.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Last time you played them, though, whether it was twenty
ten and you just absolutely needed it, you sacked RG
three I believe in twenty fourteen, the last time you
played the Redskins.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Well, when you're faster, more athletic than the quarterback like
I was in that case, and it's just it's just simple.
It's a simple game, you know. But listen, it was fun.
It's always fun to go into that stadium. Careful, careful.
That ended my career. That hurts, okay when you go
into that when we obviously we're playing them here, but
going there that was always one of the most fun
places to play because it's this kind of statuesque stadium.
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It's big, obviously a lot of history there. Ninety two
somehow thousand people, I mean it gets going there.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
It's it's crazy. You know, there's not obviously a lot
of history there. I mean because they they played where where.
Before I moved to southern California in seventy nine, I
lived in a part of Washington, d C. Can Ana, Costia,
and it was not only was it the murder capital
of the USA at the time I lived there, but
I lived right by RFK Stadium.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
All Right, RFK Stadium. That's the one with the history.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
That's that's the moment that that's the the Redskins and
Cowboys games.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
And FedEx all ry. I don't want to aid you,
you know, to make you bring that up, But.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Here we are. FedEx is the one where the sewage
pipe's actually dumped down on to the fans. I believe
that was so simple mistake. Simple mistake that this is.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
You want to talk about how just how insane this
is gonna sound everybody when you go out the Redskins
slash Commanders. Now you don't get you don't get the
suite police escort from the airport to the hotel, from
the hotel to the stadium because you don't.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
It's not allowed there.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
It's not because you're too close to d c's Oh
the rules, and you can't get a police escort. So
we're sitting in traffic like everybody else, and you're absolutely brutal.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
How could you do that time?
Speaker 5 (27:24):
The fact that you guys had sitting oh my gosh, yeah,
wait in a line at airports to that now all
the time that you know, fun off that Bursage tells
an amazing story about when the Detroit Lions were moving
from the Pontiac Silverdome to Ford Field and he was
coaching linebackers with the Vikings then and like it was
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either the last game of the season or whatever.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
But the the the Detroit PD or the Pontiat those
who lead the escort, and they thought they had when
they're like, now, why.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Should we do this? They're leaving. It was just a disaster. Well,
I always actually felt bad in the times when when
the team was still in Eden Prairie, a winter park,
and I got to travel with the team doing preseason bits,
a couple of road games and you're on four ninety
four and you got to teams leaving at like five
thirty pm four ninety four.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
People tried just to get hold Yeah, they just want
to go home.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
It's a complete freaking parking lot as it is. And
then boom bus bus five rolls rolls. Oh my goodness, yep. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
I always felt bad at police officers getting off his
bike and just have his hand up. All they want
to do is get home and put themself a cocktails,
get great duck in their.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Body good, Oh my goodness. All they want absolutely well.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
And this certainly is no fault of the team because
you know you, you know the likes of Polywally Martin,
Chad Lundean, Chuck Peterson, Malam Burgess, the rest of that
staff second to none. And I mean that because of
everything that's gone into Dublin and London. And then like
the Chargers, I mean they the operations staff for the
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Vikings happen a lot. They're fantastic at what they do,
so they have no control over this. How do you
think this would feel? So at Seattle the last game
and they get shut out for the first time since
two thousand and seven.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah, I heard that in a game.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
In which you played against the Green Bay Packers from
al Harris hits Adrian middle of the field, he gets
a high ankle sprain, misses time and everybody's ready to
go bush Buses one, two, three, and four, ready to
go Bus five inginging ing ing ing ing all of
a sudden, Milana I think with operations is like everybody
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has to get off.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
This bus, get all of your luggage and buying room
on another bus.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
So I got I look at Bus six and I'm
like looking down the aisle and I'm like, all right,
let me see where am I gonna sit next to?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
TAKEI Taimani Darris.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
I mean like four of the biggest.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
People in the world.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
No arm rests, no place to put your stuff that
you win if you win twenty seven to thirteen.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Like again, like police Academy over he sounds like an alternator.
Ye might have had to be.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
But you know what, Vikings Persevere. We got to the airport, okay,
navigated the moderate chop and here we are for the
Friday football Peace to Buffalo Wild Wing Savage. Uh so,
what do you think about what do you think of
this mess the team's gotten itself into.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
I don't think a lot about it. It bothers me
every day.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Actually, you know, it's just such a it's such a
tough spot for an organization to now be in. And
we look at the leadership, the coach obviously head coach,
and the GM who got us essentially to this spot
one way or the other. You, no matter how you
want to look at it, you make this decision. Donald
McCarthy decision last offseason. If you say, hey, we're gonna
pay a hundred million dollars donold and keep him here, right,
it means that I can't draft and my draft picks
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not ready. If you go with JJ, you know, the
young kid we're all excited about. He comes in, does
really well, we look really smart. If he struggles and
we get a bunch of injuries and offensive line, also,
we can't stop the run, all this stuff starts to happen,
we're gonna be where we're at, and that's where That's
where we are.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
So we are in a tough, tough spot.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
Now we're at the spot in the season and I've
been there unfortunately multiple times.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Is this is a pride factor.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
Now, this is a factor of how much do you
care about your job and how good you are at
your job. Preach regardless of how what your contract status
is next year. Don't care about money you have coming
towards you next year or the situation this is a
pride factor.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
How much do you want it?
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Look back to that Detroit game three weeks ago when
we rolled out and said and we played football the
way we were capable of playing football, and everybody left
that game as a fan, as a player, and as
an athlete, as a coach, said, that's how we're capable
of playing.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
All we need is a fan base.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
All I need as a fan watching the game now
as a former player, is everything they got And if
they give me that, I don't care about the result
necessarily because as a fan, I'm not changing my fandom
next year.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
That's not changing.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
But I sure as heck want to be proud of
the players that are going out there and how they
represent an organization that we care about so much.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
As part of that, as part of that pride and
just going to work. And now it's like I'm focused
on my own tape and we've talked about this a
couple of different Oh yeah, can there be real? And
I know roster turnover is huge, and you think about
this team with some of the contracts that you're peaking at.
There will be change this winner. Can there be real
measurable momentum? However, into twenty twenty six, if you do
find some success and you do keep that hunger at
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least to you know, to be productive on the field
over this final stretch, playoffs or not.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
No, I don't think that's the truth. I think that's
not a real thing. I think that's a wish to
hope that we think of as fans. Is that. But
it's such a it's such a distinguished difference. When the
roster turns over like thirty three percent year to year,
you just lose that momentum, especially in the positions we have. Now,
let's let's say the quarterback goes out and plays really well. Yeah,
to me, that's momentum we can take and say, Okay, Now,
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what that's gonna cause is an issue to be frank,
because all of a sudden, if he goes out and
plays lights out these next five to six, you're gonna
come back and say, Okay, he's the guy, right, he's
proven of his last five to six, he's the guy.
We're gonna stick with him. We're not gonna get a
secondary option. We're not gonna go spend money on the bet.
You know, we can keep Jefferson and go down that route. Now,
you come back in week one next year, and who
knows what we're gonna get because you've seen so much
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up and down. So I think from a team perspective,
I'd like to think there can be but I think
that's not real. But from an individual perspective of guys
that we know we're gonna have on a roster from ours,
it makes us feel better because we see and feel
that guy, see the doubt, see the lows, see the high,
see him get better, see him gave them at the
end of the year. I think that does matter an
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individual basis.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
The guy to the left of you, no matter what
happens over the final five, absolutely believes an aged veteran
will be brought in next year. Yeah, and because of that,
he's going on trial in the Covenant Cort at eleven o'clock.
Nor knows the prosecutor and I'm the judge. Make sure
you listen to that at eleven o'clock. And the jeff
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however you put it with Jefferson. Ain't nobody trading justin Jefferson.
So I mean, if you were intimating that.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Well, good thing, you're not the GM.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
So here's how we're gonna do this.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Listen no, but listen, if you get to this spot
you have you making decisions now, you're making this is
based off job security, and you're not thinking clearly as
as you should be. I think everybody in leadership because
this team was built to win this year with the
roster we had, from a running back standpoint to a
receiver standpoint, from an offensive line standpoint, and with the
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young kid that we knew would.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Have some struggles. They spent three and forty four million
dollars in cash.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
The roster, the cash to spend the defense. So to me,
to have this season be the way it is. If
you're an owner, you have to look at my investment
and say, I invested as much cash as people are
asking me to invest. We're not the twins here, right,
We're investing cash. We're trying to go down and win.
All of a sudden, Yep had to catch a stray. Now,
all of the sudden, as Abbot texted me, So, all
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of a sudden, you have this roster and you're sitting
here in the best division in football, when the Bears
are turning around, the Lions are playing really good, the
Packers are good. There's so much pressure to win and
to win at that same level. I'm not saying there's
going to be changed. I'm saying there's pressure all those guys,
and they know it, they feel it, and they can't
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They're gonna make decisions based off of that.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
That's what worries me.
Speaker 7 (35:06):
Let me ask a very weird question, because you talk
about playing for Pride at this point, is there part
of you in the back of your mind that you're
also guarding, like I don't want to get hurt into
the offseason in the sense that it carries those.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
It depends on your position in life. It depends on
your contract.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
So if you know you have guaranteed money coming back
the next year, you need to go out and play
really well because you know that dollars.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Those dollars are coming to you. But you want to
be healthy.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
You don't want to spend your entire offseason training, you
rehabbing a surgery, get an injury. Now, if all of
a sudden you have a guy who's fighting for his contract,
fighting for his NFL life, I can remember this in
my own braink because twenty ten was coming up on
contract year. I have to go out and play the
best I can, And that didn't mean go out and
make a million tackles. Because when a GM watches film,
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he's looking at did he.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Do his assignment? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (35:55):
Did he do what he was supposed to do? He
had a gap coverage, B gap coverage. He had this
in pass coverage. Is he doing jobs? You're going out
of body trying to go make a play. So to me,
I was almost hyper focus. You do become a little
bit more selfish, but in turn, you have to become
selfish in doing your job better. Now again, as a pro,
that's your job every week. And that's how I looked
at it, and I felt like that. That's why I
felt like I was pretty consistent then that I got
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that tag.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I love the tag. Listen.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
I grew up on a farm and all we did
was all the made money tag. All we did was
all the bank money. Mom and dad were just making
payments on the combine and the track and everything else.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Play.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
So if you're gonna tell me you're gonna pay me
ten point nine million dollars for one season, that's before
tax back in yeah back, yeah, true. I'm not in
South Dakota anymore. It's like in twenty ten. You take
it because I'm like, I.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Can live on that. That seems pretty good.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Tell me tractors I can buy with ten point nine
a lot, not as many as I could then, but
a lot, a lot of tractor No cattle prices right now.
I can't buy that many cows right now either. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
You talk about the pressure. I mean I I definitely
feel like, especially specifically with three home games left, like,
if you lose these three home games in front of
your crowd, there's booing ind about, like, there's no question
the emotions of that effect.
Speaker 6 (37:13):
The most passive aggressive boo in the history.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Well, I'm hopeful that like on Christmas Day, there's not
booing right.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
Well, in spirit, I can tell you from experience.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
I can tell you from experience when when you start
off it happened to my career, When you start off
slowly in a season, when you have high expectations, and
all of a sudden, ownership group that resides in New
Jersey is spending every day in the building, Coaches coach differently,
Coaches talk differently in meetings because the owner of the
football team is sitting right there. Now, all of a sudden,
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you're saying things differently. You're coaching differently. You're bringing more energy,
You're being maybe a little bit more aggressive in your
coaching style, and all of a sudden, they call it,
there's a little pucker effect on all of a sudden,
I gotta worry about my job and do I do
something drastic, do something dramatic, or do I just go
you know what?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
This is who I am. I'm gonna keep doing my
job the way I cant. We're gonna find out the
next few weeks.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
I'm still I'm still wrapping my mind around that bad
twenty ten season. And you absolutely with the ultimate and professionalism,
giving everything you have branded it has some eye not
by to it. But I understand you've got a family
to think of and stuff like that. So therefore you're
playing for new money into twenty eleven after a season
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you had zero force fumbles, zero interceptions, one sack, and
average five tackles per game.
Speaker 6 (38:35):
The final four My goodness, I mean, what happened?
Speaker 5 (38:38):
You just have to do your job, Pa, and maybe
in those four games you just I just got I
just gotta reside in my gap to make sure my
buddy can make the play. Great point and the Vikings
and Rick Spielman look at that and say, hey, this
is a guy who want to build around.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Yeah, there's no doubt.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
You know, in a couple of years, we're gonna draft
our guy number seven pondering. We're gonna have this team
put together. We got the captain on defense. We're gonna
have the capitainal offense.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Now we call the post. That was the look that
was the look ahead. So you brought it up today
and this week alone nine to noon. This is what
Foreign eight Radio does we have caught. We have caught
a Minnesota Twins comparison related stray today. Yes, we just
caught a Christian ponder stray. You mentioned Spurgeon win earl
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or earlier in the week.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
We'll have you invited back next week.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
We caught a Spurgeon win pray from the two thousand
and one season.
Speaker 6 (39:26):
But that's four in eight Radio.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
Don't Kill the Messengers Chad Greenway courtesy of a Great
Duck vodkap and Great Duck spirits for another segment, and
we'll do that around the corner from Buffalo Wild Wing Savage.
Speaker 6 (39:39):
It's the Friday Football.
Speaker 5 (39:43):
On k f A.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
N Well sadly from the Don't Killed the Messenger coven him.
As we mentioned earlier, uh the uh. The team in
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the history of Minnesota Vikings football, and it's a long
and storied history that has the worst record at home
was a team on which Jack Greenway played. The twenty
eleven Minnesota Vikings went one and seven at home. The
current Vikings are one and four. So don't kill the messenger. Okay, yeah,
come on man.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
A season that opened up with also the Harvin kick
return touchdown San Diego.
Speaker 6 (40:30):
You know what, PLC in the parking lot after this?
Stop that please?
Speaker 2 (40:33):
But then Donovan McNabb had to throw the ball.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
Hey, let me say, like Chuck Knoblock, let me uh
the yips for real. McNabb had the novels with the
reference to the Harvin touchdown. It always causes me to
remember on that play, Iowa Hawkeys kicker Nate Nate Cading
ripped his ACL up.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
And was lost for the season. At that time, he
was one of the better kickers in the NFL. So
we we think Iowa. We think Iowah Hawke Gys football
and as a storied game changer for the Iowa Hawkeys
football program, Kirk Farrence Norman Parker, the defensive coordinator. I mean,
Chad was good in the NFL, Chad was really good
at Iowa. How does a devoted Hawkeys football fan handle
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the Indiana Hoosiers all of a sudden being really couldn't
like playing Ohio's date from the Big Ten title tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
Yeah, I mean, you want to talk about a coach
that made an impact immediately. I don't think I've ever
seen in the history of me watching football somebody come
in and change the dynamic of a program so dramatically.
Speaker 6 (41:37):
When we played in Indiana when I was in college.
Speaker 5 (41:39):
I mean, there might be thirty thousand people Tilgaty, but
there was five thousand people watching the game and they
are mostly Hawkeys, and we would know and gave him
their medicine and walked away and got the gut our win.
And to see what they're doing now is impressive. And
again you see with a transfer portal, he has used
that through his advantage and going to get the quarterback,
the guy that really really matters, and he's been playing amazing.
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But it's coaching, it's mentality, it's a culture, getting the.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Five star guys. You know, he's just pulling out of
the portal like you're saying, man, it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
And I think you get You're getting the four star guys.
The three star guys are talented guys. He's getting the
right guys for the positions that he needs in his system,
and I think that's the most important thing.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (42:19):
Young Greenway daughter took a visit to Indiana, went over
there and saw their facilities. Like the money they're pouring
into college football in Indiana is following the success they're having.
Speaker 4 (42:30):
So if Signetti Basketball school be damn it's it's it's crazy.
If you ever been to Bloomintend It's beautiful. Campus is incredible,
So like there's a place that people want to go.
You're more middle of America now as far cold now,
as cold as I or Minnesota, a lot of good things.
I think he can sustain it.
Speaker 5 (42:45):
The reality is there is gonna enough money to go
compete with Ohio State and all these guys that have
the bank bankroll. So it'll be interesting to see it.
But it's it's fun to say, I do like it.
Isn't it good though for football to see somebody new
and fresh in there. And if you're cheer for Ohio State,
you're just absolute in now. I can't deal with you.
We can't be friends anymore.
Speaker 7 (43:03):
The crazy thing about that coach is he's it's like
it's somebody new, but he's like sixty five years old.
Speaker 5 (43:08):
I don't think I've seen somebody more confident in his
own abilities than that guy.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (43:12):
I mean the stuff he said and this, by the way,
just backed up every point of it. That's it like
to say something now, And that's.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
My thing always with that. It's like you can talk
if you're performing like that. It's it's totally okay.
Speaker 5 (43:23):
I hope he runs his mouth more now because like,
look at me now, like what are you gonna do?
Like you know, So he's the opposite of Kirk Farens.
He doesn't say anything get their fALS credit. But it's
just fun to see him say I'm gonna say it. Oh,
by the way, coming to Bloomington to get a win.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Nice try.
Speaker 5 (43:36):
You know, it's gonna be interesting to see how Indiana
fans travel compared to a house state.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
It's kind of one of those things too, where I
can't really hate Indiana, Like if I of nowhere, Rutgers
becomes a force that's kind of annoying.
Speaker 6 (43:46):
Would be irritating if Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Jumps up and it's truly a top five.
Speaker 5 (43:50):
Juggern BA have a football team in the rests hard
to say, but I have been paying attention too much
that would be infuriating.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
But like there's something about Bloomington, like Illinois would kind
of frustrate me. But there's some of those like Indiana.
It's just a cute little thing that is becoming an
absolute workhorse.
Speaker 5 (44:04):
Yeah, and I think in the new Big ten, right,
this new era of USC and the l's that are
coming from the West Coast that are just gonna be
behemos as we kind of getting this recruiting world and
all of a sudden, you have a you have a
team from the Midwest named Minnesota or I will trying
to go get a kid from La Lego compete and
recruiting with USC, Like, good luck with that one, because
it's beautiful here in January.
Speaker 6 (44:25):
I mean no, this is December, but it's way better
in January, so you'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (44:30):
How about with the current Vikings Blake Cashman all right,
so during the four game losing streak, Blake Cashman is
such a stud not only on the field, but the
way he prepares for games. I've just gotten to know
Blake a little more this year because of the like
the buses that we ride to the stadium and stuff,
and I'll ask him about certain situations and he's just
so on point and detail Shirt, no matter what's happening,
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whether you're winning a lot or losing a lot. But
during the four game losing streak, he's averaging thirteen tackles
a game in the in the Alley Green Bay. Again,
things are going pear shaped, you know. He and Emmanuel
Wilson needed the goal line in just a big time
violent collision, which means Blake's going ten to ten. Emmanuel,
of course, is he's on a team with a winning record.
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I just I've always respected Blake, but playing for the
Jets and Texans didn't really follow him that closely, and
and he's battled injuries during his career.
Speaker 6 (45:23):
Blake Cashman's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (45:25):
He's fantastic, And he's one of those guys that he's
not he's a playmaker, but because he's always in the
right spot making the tackle.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Yeah he's not. He's not.
Speaker 5 (45:34):
He's not ever getting what I would say, bad press.
He's not out in coverage and he just looks lost,
he's not in the run game and misses a bad
tackle like he's he's so solid and I always think about,
like think about my career. Your best ability in the
NFL is availability, and that's where he struggled.
Speaker 6 (45:51):
But when he's healthy, he is who he is. Every
game there's there's His up and down is very shallow.
Speaker 5 (45:57):
He's very consistent and you know what you're gonna get
into me as a fan, as a GM, as a coach,
you want a guy. He's a leader, he's a worker,
he's a grinder, and you know what you're gonna get
every game. And to me, those are guys you build around.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
He I mean.
Speaker 7 (46:10):
The other thing with him is like in coverage and play,
I mean it's it's better than you think. He is
rock solid in space and they obviously play a defense
where you have to be and then stopping the run,
you're to your point. He's always in position, and I
really feel like that group with Eric Wilson and Blake Cashman, without.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
That group being what they've been this year, I don't
know what.
Speaker 7 (46:31):
This defense looks like like Eric Wilson, what he's done
from a pastor stand but what's been massive.
Speaker 5 (46:39):
I'm not sure what his contract situation is, but that's
a guy you bring back from a veteran standpoint. They
can plug holes or be a starter for you for
a full season. And he's earned it, and he's a
team leader. He's the dude. I mean, he's a guy
you build around. Now, all of a sudden, you can
keep a veteran, pay him maybe less than you would
go draft something else. Get both to your offensive line.
Whatever gonna look for in the offseason is gonna be interesting.
One thing is for sure is our offsea is gonna
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be very interesting. Yeah, but I'm very curious about how
we as a team. I think you're gonna you're gonna
see how Koc, how he is impacted this locker room
in these next five. The type of team that rolls
out is it is indicative of the respect they have
for their head football coach, Yes, and their position coaches.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Yeah, And I think that that matters.
Speaker 4 (47:19):
Well, I'm glad you said that because the feast that
you guys were with family and stuff like that. One
of the big themes Nordo and I had is with
what's happening now and what just happened to Green Bay.
These are human nature games because human nature gets to
win too.
Speaker 6 (47:35):
And you know it's I called on.
Speaker 4 (47:37):
I can't remember if you were on the team or not,
but like like, Lovey Smith brought a Bears team in
week seventeen or week eighteen. They had a bunch of
bunch of owls and the Vikings were going or were
I think going to the playoffs. Only Udo played right tackle, okay,
so they were sending their better players. Well, for whatever
the reason, Lovey Smith decided, you know what, I'm gonna
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draw a line in the sand here man, Khalil Mack,
all of you, you're all playing in this game. Well,
Kohalil Mack had a very box score wise nondescript game.
So therefore the offseason talker was, whoa oli udo shut down?
Kohalil Mack?
Speaker 2 (48:14):
What do we have? What do we have in oli udo?
Speaker 6 (48:17):
But then you watch it back and off what you're saying.
Speaker 4 (48:20):
Kohalil Mack did everything possible to make sure he looked
like he was going ten of ten, but the last
thing he wanted was to deal with off season ACL
rehab or some form of rehab to ruin the off
season that's the human nature component of what you just said.
Speaker 6 (48:38):
Is with these next five, who's in, who's out?
Speaker 5 (48:41):
Yeah, those guys are looking at their banking accounts and saying,
I'm probably okay to sit this one out. I'll just
play this cut block a little safe. I don't really
need another sack. I'm probably gonna pay's in the barn.
Let's get ready for next year. So it's a human
nature game. But also it's a reflection of your coaching
staff and respect you have for those guys at how
bad you really want it, even those guys who get
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paid a lot of money, because everybody in that building
at this point it's looking over their shoulder saying in
the NFL, if you don't win, you lose your job.
Speaker 3 (49:12):
And in this.
Speaker 5 (49:12):
Situation with this team as good as we could have
been Tellent wise, Yeah, I think there's some of that
going on.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
Is now, how do those players go out and reflect that?
Speaker 4 (49:20):
Well, I mean, Alec, you watch back, you watch back
all plays from every game, whether it's four and eight
radio or it's fifteen to one radio. Yeah, and like
justin Jefferson with you know, some of these shots people
catch on the sideline not talking to the media after
the which is a rarity for him. After the Seattle game,
some comments that he's made about frustration and like, guys,
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I'm saying the same thing every single week.
Speaker 6 (49:42):
Yeah, okay, it's I'm happy people.
Speaker 4 (49:46):
Have not taken that on social media and blown it up, right,
because when I watch him back, and you watch more
of it back than me, Man, Jefferson's running every single
route as hard as he possibly can. If there's a
run play like against the Bears, you know he's getting
He's getting the safety the corner of the linebackers as
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well as he ever has to help somebody else into
the end zone.
Speaker 6 (50:10):
That's the identity the team.
Speaker 4 (50:12):
And when your most identifiable piece is going ten to ten,
it matters.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
That matter, That matters a lot. We can blame. Let's
just blame John Extram for.
Speaker 5 (50:20):
That, the PR snaff who on the after game we
might as well throw Extra under the bus. I love you, John, Hey,
So can we end on a positive su sow much
time we have, but I want to at least talk
about this positive Yeah you guys remember Jim Clients officer. Yeah, yeah,
maybe one of the best vikings in history can be
here about yea a giant class sawficer. Jimmy Kay carry
to North Dakota go crazy. So my one of my
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great examples of which is how to do pro football
the right way. Jimmy ka is now in the College
Football Hall of Fame. Wow as a und fighting sue
fighting Hawk. So congrats to Jimmy Kay. He is the best.
He's on my all time top five freak list of guys.
He would show up with the biggest upper and lower
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dip in his in the life like you couldn't fit,
but it was unbelievable, with a giant cup of coffee
and would be lifting insurmountable weights off his body. And
I walk in, I'm like, yeah, I'm supposed to get
off a block from this guy. That's how this is
supposed to work. Who are some of the other freaks
if that's top? Steve Hutchinson yeah, Percy Harvin Yeah, Adrian Peterson, Yeah, Chagger,
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I'm gonna go with just because I've never heard of
football get.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
Thrown like this.
Speaker 6 (51:35):
Brett far Far Yeah, I'm glad you said that. The
arm strength whistle on you.
Speaker 5 (51:39):
Know, he those nerf balls that they whistle to make
you feel good like you have a cannon. But you're
really like in your mid forties. You know, he made
an NFL football And if you guys have you guys
have held the NFL football before. They are hard to
throw their big they're really inflated. Yeah, you could hear
that thing and and unreal.
Speaker 4 (51:53):
We can say this because we both know Sean Hill
and like him a lot, Hank And if Hank Hill
were here, he would laugh at the So this one liner.
The difference between the way Brett Favre threw a pass
and Sean Hill, Well, every pitching staff needs a fastball
thrower and somebody who throws a.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
Good change, old nuckler and a knuckleball.
Speaker 6 (52:12):
We'll just leave it like that.
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as usual support Gray Duck, thick and thin, so awesome.
I will be at Saint Louis Park, top ten sign
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Speaker 2 (52:24):
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I'm going there, right now. Where is it?
Speaker 6 (52:29):
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He's the bomb.
Speaker 4 (52:38):
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Speaker 2 (00:42):
The fact.
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Taking Donal Steak so mad now so music and the
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Speaker 4 (01:27):
It Smith Donald takes the damn Hair's Brenard.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
He got help for the play. Has damn Donald is that? Yes?
He is?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Was take him down, Eric Wilson, and they drive him
all the way back to the twenty.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Six yard line.
Speaker 5 (01:44):
Eighteen yard loss for Sam the man who used.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
To be on the fan. You guys already talked about.
We already have three sacks and Sam Donald.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
I'm first down, darny doctor again making door bead labor.
When the ball came out, Sam fumbled again.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Vikings football for Sam Darnold.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
His fifteen to give this season, and the Minnesota Vikings
have taken the ball from Seattle. It'll be burst down
from the Seattle thirteen.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It'll be your murder. It's fourth and one snap. Rover
rolls out to the right. He's in trouble.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
He's gonna throw the ball up headed picked us.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Awful decision by Max Brozner.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
And this is going to be a defense a touchdown
for the Seonal Seahawks. It's Ernest Jones top board with
the first touchdown of his career and Seattle has taken
a nine zero lead. Max Brozner, falling to the field,
decided to underhand it.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
To absolutely nobody except Ernest.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Jones, and he's.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Gonna go the distance for the first touchdown of the game.
Is taking a nine zero lead. It'll be a pick
six up right around.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Eighty five yards.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
Nineteen zero Seattle a minute ten in county to go.
In the third quarter, firston tent from the Seattle forty five.
Max Brosner play actions, great front wind protection, rose over
the middle, interceptedy over the three jam. The Taylor and
the Seattle Seahawks have picked off Max Browser at the
twenty one yard lines. It's Toby Bryant, four year throws
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Tittinnati because third pick this season and Seattle as a
nineteen zero lead, and it gets involved.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
States scream team and Miguel Stags leap on the moment.
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France play everybody, Hello, everybody, Hello, everybody, Bruffalo, wild Wing Savage,
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Speaker 6 (03:58):
Welcome to the front football.
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You still got some feast in you from four to
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Can we get a witness in a racas round the
bapplause for alec Lewis Ladies and gentlemen and from.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Nine to noon and Vikings fanline. Eric Nordquist, He's Nordo,
and we welcome you to the Friday Football Feast.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Alex Let's a wonderful kid from ALABEI like you doing
in a snowy state like this and good morning.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Good morning.
Speaker 7 (05:04):
Yeah, it's unbelievable out there. Like I'm not real worried.
I don't really know how to do the breaks. If
my parents knew the break I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
I stopping short at stopped like it's it's a tough
time right now, four and eight radio, the weather out there,
you just as much as you could get through day
by day, week to week. That's that's the challenge.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
But if my parents saw my driving strategy amid what's
going on out there.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
You know, I might be pulled back down Alabama or two.
It's rough. I mean, you're going to have one of
those stud parked f one fifties out there, just parked
right in a row a year from now. I'm a
blessed slow slowing everybody down for five minutes backing into
your spot.
Speaker 7 (05:41):
Yeah, you know, if anyone is going to drive a
four f one fifty, you can imagine it being me,
the very nerd with the glasses up here.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Well, it's it's also appropriate and good that your father's
a lawyer, So therefore you learning to negotiate the roads
and the streets and the highways and the byways of
the twins. Having a father as a lawyer, I think
that probably could get you out of a couple of jam.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
No, it's not. It couldn't get me. It's gotten me
out of a couple of jams.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Well it's not.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
This is not present. This would be past tense.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
But yeah, it's it's necessary at all times and unfortunate.
But but like even for him, there's only so much
grace he's going to be giving, uh me.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
With my driving, Which would you rather negotiate the roads
on a day like today or the conversation.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
I think, I don't know, it's at the roads. The
roads might be worth at least you're active.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
You can feel like you got control over the situation,
quarterback situation. You feel like you're just a bystander to
it all.
Speaker 7 (06:39):
So yeah, I don't know if you guys want to
talk about posture based balanced body positions.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
It's all gone, Yeah it is. It's all done.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
It's yeah, it's over. The whole thing's done now is
just uh, just go rip it?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
As Nordo cleverly sang nine to noon yesterday, JJ's.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Free free ball. That was good.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
I heard that we're gonna be free balling this weekend.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
The word jam has come into the equation early trying
to get Alec Lewis out of some metaphorical jam. The
Minnesota Vikings absolutely have backed themselves into a jam at
four and eight. So let's try a couple of things
before we try to get all analytical and stuff like that. Yeah,
the Minnesota Vikings are four and eight. They've lost four
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consecutive games and have him scored a touchdown for eight
consecutive quarters. How many people at Buffalo Wild Wings Savage
still deeply love Minnesota Vikings football.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Can I get a witness?
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Only the strong survive is what they say?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
All right now, if you happen to be at the
palatial purple paradise known as US Bank Stadium this weekend
and the box of all boxes ever to Vox, Alan Roach,
Alan Roach, the voice of US Bank Stadium, if he
were to hit the microphone and bellow throughout the stadium
something like this, what would your reaction be?
Speaker 6 (08:03):
And and and be straight, be honest if it were
like this? At quarterback number.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Nine, J. J.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Mucarthy, I love you, Oh we love you. Wow, hard
times create strong people. I didn't hear a single boo
the strong.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
These fans are these strong. I feel beyond like I
always have appreciation. And I'm not just saying this, Like
these fans go through the fire and they just somehow
keep coming out.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Well, the word jam is familiar. As as we mentioned,
I want to find what to find jam? This team
has backed itself into uh the announcer, the host of
fan Line, and a scribe, a journalist, an objective journalist
covering the football team for the Athletic and the Athletic
dot Com.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Assumingly for profit.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
We are here for nine segments to analyze said product,
and we will begin like this, boys, uh, what do
you expect the rest of the journey? What do you
expect the rest of the journey? And that they're there,
by the way is historical wherewithal of this.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
I don't do this, well, I got you. Would you
just pull out of your it's bad, it's bad.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
We just rev them up. We have them cheering, we
have them excited no matter what for their football team.
You're gonna come with this, but these are takes for tots.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
We want you to be the smartest football fan at
the lunch table and or in your covenant. So for instance,
when I say where do they go from here? All right,
they've lost four in a row. If they lose every
game the rest of the way, that means it would
be a Pasadena City College. Math gets me to a
nine game losing street, which would be the longest in
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the history of Minnesota Vikings football.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
It's not happening.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
So now you look at the rest of the schedule,
and you got the Washingtonians here this weekend, then you
go to Dallas, then you go to the Giants, then
you come home on Christmas and you play the Motor
City Kiddies, and you close with the Green Bay Packers.
So with Washington three and nine losers, losers of seven
consecutive games, and like one and six on the road,
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this would seem to be the most winnable of the
rest of the bunch.
Speaker 6 (10:14):
So what do you guys think about this weekend? And
where do you think it goes from here?
Speaker 5 (10:17):
In?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Good morning? Yeah, good morning. And I still don't know
where you pulled out that piece of paper. It was
just like out of nowhere.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
You just pulled it out the same place my favorite
team is attempted to pull out its most recent touchdown
from my butt.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I don't know how to follow that. We've been wearing, respectively,
the same jeans all week. So when he originally wrote
those notes and put it in his back pocket, they
were still there three days later. Absolutely, yeah, it makes sense.
Speaker 7 (10:45):
The two I think this game is definitely winnable comparatively
to the New York Giants game, Like those are the
two the Giants in this game, in particular, this one
being at home. To lose again at home with the
Lions and pack looming at home, that.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
Would be quite difficult, and it would be quite unfortunately.
I believe this year they're one and four at home.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Yes, yes, so you know the idea of going one
and seven at home would not bode well for anybody.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Yeah, that gets us to the next historical any record
of futility. Our favorite team is trying to avoid and
don't kill the messengers. We didn't put the team in
the spot. We are just opining to a large crowd
at Buffalo Wild Wing Savage, a lot larger than we
thought it would be. So don't kill the messengers, all right.
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As Young Alex said, the Minnesota Vikings are one and
four at home.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
That is a two hundred winning percentage.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
The nineteen sixty seven bunch went one four and two
at home two hundred winning percentage, The nineteen sixty two
Vikings went one five and one at home, a one
sixty seven winning percentage, and the twenty eleven Minnesota Vikings
went one in seven at home, which is a one
five winning percentage. Uh, we're just trying to avoid historical
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futility here, boys, and good morning.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
I think that's where you're looking to. Man, we need
one at home, man, the fans need one at home.
Just two years ago. By the way, this, This would
be all of you. Just to win out would get
them to five hundred and so if they don't do that,
this will be the sixth time in franchise history, sixth
time in all those years as they've had a losing
record at home. I thought of it, and we don't
have to. We just had to look back two years.
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Remember when we were two and six and twenty twenty
three and.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Dobbs, Dobbs.
Speaker 6 (12:37):
As brutal as that was, we I hate to say
we need one. It's a four win team. Now, you
got offside to the whole thing.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
We got to do the bid Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs, Dobbs,
Dobbs Dobbs.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
You were saying we got to win at home. That
that's really just at the end of it, it's a
four win team. So the saying you need one is
kind of insane. But the historical part of what we've
seen is just pure ugliness. So whether it's the coach
and I agree with him, the team feeling some success
on the field, if for nothing else than just finding
momentum into twenty twenty six, like I expect, still like
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weirdness at the quarterback spot, Like I still expect mistakes,
I still expect some sort of uncontrolled chaos specifically on
the offense over the final five. Just beat a freaking
team at home. Please. My biggest thing for this game
is just win the trenches on both sides. Yeah, like
I it is.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
You know, JJ McCarthy, I have no idea. We'll see
what happens without him focusing on mechanics and just letting
it rip, and hopefully it looks phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And he's at piece. The pressure's not on all of that,
but for.
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Him to be as good as he needs to be,
just have the offensive line protect for him, blocking the
run game, and then defensively win the FLTET scrimmage against
the Commander's offensive line.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Just do those things at the bare minimum in this game.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Here is a more historical futility. Our favorite team is
hoping to avoid the alec You've covered Minnesota Vikings games
home and road for several years now, save a barn
burner in Cincinnati.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
But nevertheless, you know, you know what you see, you
know what you hear. Stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
The Minnesota Vikings in the turnover differential. Pretty important, right boys, Yeah,
most important? The yeah yeah, most important outside of the
final score. The old take give game, the Minnesota Vikings
are minus fifteen.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Crazy.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
They've given it in the giving season fifteen times more
than they've taken it. That is the third worst in
the history of Minnesota Vikings football.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
The twenty.
Speaker 4 (14:49):
Twenty the two thousand and two Minnesota Vikings were minus
eighteen in the take give. The two thousand and one
Minnesota Vikings were minus twenty one in the take. GiB
If you go minus seven and the take give the
rest of the way, it's the worst in the history
of the franchise.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
And good morning, good morning, And it's po I.
Speaker 7 (15:10):
Mean, I don't want to say, I don't want to
be negative guy, but it's possible. Like just that's the
other thing. JJ McCarthy possible. She talked about it yesterday.
He's like, I just want to eliminate the turnovers and
get the big conversation point in the building this week
has been let's do what we have to do not
to lose the game, to give ourself the chance to
win the game. And that's probably the classic coaching point
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at this you know, time of a season that goes
like this, but it really, it really does feel like that.
Don't fumble the ball when DeMarcus Lawrence is tracking you
down on the sideline.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Don't don't throw the ball to the other team.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Kevin O'Connell's record here, I believe is like thirty three
and four when they break even or win the turnover margin.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
It's that clear and cut of a statistic. So just
give yourself the best chance by that. But I don't
know how much faith I have in it. Well, that's
a tough thing. I mean, this team really, over the
last handful of years has been more unpredictable than you
ghost breaking on Highway thirteen. Because despite so you look
at it every other year, right, Like, let's go back
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to twenty twenty two. They were middle of the pack,
like seventeen eighteenth and turnovers, so they were turning the
ball over, but it was complimentary from the defense. Twenty
twenty three unmitigated disaster, I think, second most turnovers on
offense in the league, Nick Mullen. Then last year you're
still sixteen seventeen, eighteenth and turnovers, but the defense is complimenting, right,
And now this year we're flipping that again. This team
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over the last four or five years has been undisciplined.
They have given the ball away. That is part of
their identity, sadly, But the difference is is in twenty
two and in twenty four the defense was coming up
with those takes. One of the things that we were
super excited about with raising a kid QB on the
fly is like, man, this defense with flores, these are ballhawks.
They generate these opportunities. It is by design and taking
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of those opportunities, and sadly, whether it's not taking the
ball away, still giving it away, not playing with the lead, unfortunately,
that's kind of put us in a spot where we're
talking about history again.
Speaker 7 (17:10):
Yeah, and you can counterbalance some of the turnovers from
throwing the ball down the field if you're generating explosives,
which is the second most predictive stat to winning turnovers
an explosive play, so you can.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
You can counterbalance a little bit.
Speaker 7 (17:22):
The problem with this season offensively has been you're giving
the ball away, you're not generate explosives, and then you
don't have the lead in your defense isn't creating turnover.
It's just like the total ultimate recipe for how you
get to four and eight amid a season like this?
Speaker 2 (17:36):
And so yeah, I mean I for me again. In
this game, in particular, run the football put JJ McCarthy
in positions to just let him AerR it out and
rip it and and and see where the chips fall,
like I think this Commander's defense is one of the
most gettable in the NFL. They give they've given up
the thirtieth excuse me thirty their thirtieth and explosive play
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rate elion. They give up eight point seven yards per past,
the most in the NFL. If you can't move the
ball in some capacity against this Commander's defense, it's gonna
be difficult. It's been difficult. Really don't want it to
be difficult anymore because it's been hard.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Well, keep talking goalie to us like that, Holy cal
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check Greenway. Ladies and gentlemen, check Greenway. The uh, we're
back at full strength, that's debatable. Always were full strength
Friday Football Feast of Buffalo Wild Wings. The savage is
in the air. And I say that because Nordo and
I were. We were at Buffalo Wild Wings Ball of
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Fox stop buying. It's truly kind and and everybody except
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Speaker 5 (22:00):
And I'm really sorry I missed that one with them
allth America guys. I understand anyway, I love woman in
this time of year.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Well, especially given your segment begins nine to fifteen nine twenty,
you ain't showing up at seven fifteen to find a
good spot.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Nope. Five to two radio.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
Doesn't circumnavigate level six of anything looking for a parking doll.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
No.
Speaker 6 (22:22):
My wife asked me often, do you want to go?
I'm like, no, I'm not. I'm gonna go the other direction,
somewhere west.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
The week before I do think PA was like, so
you're gonna meet us, and you were like, nah, I
don't think I can make up.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
I'm absolutely I'm absolutely booked.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
We even tried to get these Risers set ups, and
for the first time ever we could look down on
Chad and then it jumped on and nothing's going our way. Yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
That's brilliant, all right, Chad Greenway and his appearance quasi
weekly nine to noon with a Friday football feast courtesy
of Great Duck Spirits and Great Duck Vodka and and
I don't know if this was one of the more
like memorable games in your career, but when they were
the wash Hington Redskins, the OG name in one of
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the cooler games you know, of the games that I
can remember in my run with the Minnesota Vikings took
place in twenty ten when it was just I mean,
you think this season was bad is bad. Holy cow,
that twenty ten thing. The way I like to frame
it up, you can get it if you are so inclined.
If snapchat had been invented in twenty ten, the Vikings
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would have gone to the super Bowl. We'll just leave
it right there, as did somebody else. But Leslie Fraser
took over his head coach and it was a grinder
of a season. You got like not, you got to
like Chad not, Joe Lieber given every single thing. They
have tried to find a way to win a game,
and they finally won a game at fed X against
the Washington Redskins. Chad Ben and others hoisted Leslie Frasier
(23:51):
up as the interim coach and walked him off the field,
and Leslie was just, I mean, it's a crap season.
He's trying to hold the job, which he would. That
was a yeah, that was a wonderful, wonderful moment in
good morning.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
And good morning. Great to be back. You know, that
game was very special for a lot of reasons. Obviously,
Leslie gets his first win. Twenty ten was an absolute mess.
It should have its solen thirty for thirty and then
people it's just it's sad, it was depressing, it was long,
and then we were supposed to suck for Luck but
we didn't suck enough for Luck class and we went
and won out in Washington and we didn't get Andrew Luck.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Yeah, ee, Andy, the way you go.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
So and I think I think Peterson messed up as
ACL in the penultimate game of the season.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
So I thought you were gonna go with the Robert Grimarca.
I thought you were gonna go there on the on
the on the double a gap when we don't blitz.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
But here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
You didn't after what you said about Jamarca Sanford's angle
last year. Oh, I felt it should be a felony
in forty eight state. So I didn't want to bring
it up again, but you did. Clearly it resonates.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Yeah, no, it hurts.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
But then listen, is there a push to get it
named renamed the Redskins?
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I heard this?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
Is that a real thing or no, it's more of
a community effort. But let's let's go to the let's
go to the Nordo Gesk for that.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
But there's been vast agreement that they would prefer that
over the commanders agree here WFT.
Speaker 5 (25:11):
Bit this we should get unde the Fighting Hawks and
the Commanders kind of in the same room.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Just talk through that names, the names that we all
love and enjoy.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
Commanders is terrible.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
Yeah, why don't you just broke baseball into it?
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Cleveland Baseball can get jumped in there.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
And like, as we go to break what are you
gonna do into Florida State? Absolutely, yes, my goodness, all
right now, the.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Last time you played them, though, whether it was twenty
ten and you just absolutely needed it, you sacked RG
three I believe in twenty fourteen, the last time you
played the Redskins.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
Well, when you're faster, more athletic than the quarterback like
I was in that case, and it's just it's just simple.
It's a simple game, you know. But listen, it was fun.
It's always fun to go into that stadium. Careful, careful.
That ended my career. That hurts, okay when you go
into that when we obviously we're playing them here, but
going there that was always one of the most fun
places to play because it's this kind of statuesque stadium.
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It's big, obviously a lot of history there. Ninety two
somehow thousand people, I mean it gets going there.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
It's it's crazy. You know, there's not obviously a lot
of history there. I mean because they they played where where.
Before I moved to southern California in seventy nine, I
lived in a part of Washington, d C. Can Ana, Costia,
and it was not only was it the murder capital
of the USA at the time I lived there, but
I lived right by RFK Stadium.
Speaker 6 (26:34):
All Right, RFK Stadium. That's the one with the history.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
That's that's the moment that that's the the Redskins and
Cowboys games.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
And FedEx all ry. I don't want to aid you,
you know, to make you bring that up, But.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Here we are. FedEx is the one where the sewage
pipe's actually dumped down on to the fans. I believe
that was so simple mistake. Simple mistake that this is.
Speaker 5 (26:55):
You want to talk about how just how insane this
is gonna sound everybody when you go out the Redskins
slash Commanders. Now you don't get you don't get the
suite police escort from the airport to the hotel, from
the hotel to the stadium because you don't.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
It's not allowed there.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
It's not because you're too close to d c's Oh
the rules, and you can't get a police escort. So
we're sitting in traffic like everybody else, and you're absolutely brutal.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
How could you do that time?
Speaker 5 (27:24):
The fact that you guys had sitting oh my gosh, yeah,
wait in a line at airports to that now all
the time that you know, fun off that Bursage tells
an amazing story about when the Detroit Lions were moving
from the Pontiac Silverdome to Ford Field and he was
coaching linebackers with the Vikings then and like it was
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either the last game of the season or whatever.
Speaker 4 (27:50):
But the the the Detroit PD or the Pontiat those
who lead the escort, and they thought they had when
they're like, now, why.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Should we do this? They're leaving. It was just a disaster. Well,
I always actually felt bad in the times when when
the team was still in Eden Prairie, a winter park,
and I got to travel with the team doing preseason bits,
a couple of road games and you're on four ninety
four and you got to teams leaving at like five
thirty pm four ninety four.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
People tried just to get hold Yeah, they just want
to go home.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
It's a complete freaking parking lot as it is. And
then boom bus bus five rolls rolls. Oh my goodness, yep. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
I always felt bad at police officers getting off his
bike and just have his hand up. All they want
to do is get home and put themself a cocktails,
get great duck in their.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
Body good, Oh my goodness. All they want absolutely well.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
And this certainly is no fault of the team because
you know you, you know the likes of Polywally Martin,
Chad Lundean, Chuck Peterson, Malam Burgess, the rest of that
staff second to none. And I mean that because of
everything that's gone into Dublin and London. And then like
the Chargers, I mean they the operations staff for the
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Vikings happen a lot. They're fantastic at what they do,
so they have no control over this. How do you
think this would feel? So at Seattle the last game
and they get shut out for the first time since
two thousand and seven.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah, I heard that in a game.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
In which you played against the Green Bay Packers from
al Harris hits Adrian middle of the field, he gets
a high ankle sprain, misses time and everybody's ready to
go bush Buses one, two, three, and four, ready to
go Bus five inginging ing ing ing ing all of
a sudden, Milana I think with operations is like everybody
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has to get off.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
This bus, get all of your luggage and buying room
on another bus.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
So I got I look at Bus six and I'm
like looking down the aisle and I'm like, all right,
let me see where am I gonna sit next to?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
TAKEI Taimani Darris.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
I mean like four of the biggest.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
People in the world.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
No arm rests, no place to put your stuff that
you win if you win twenty seven to thirteen.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Like again, like police Academy over he sounds like an alternator.
Ye might have had to be.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
But you know what, Vikings Persevere. We got to the airport, okay,
navigated the moderate chop and here we are for the
Friday football Peace to Buffalo Wild Wing Savage. Uh so,
what do you think about what do you think of
this mess the team's gotten itself into.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
I don't think a lot about it. It bothers me
every day.
Speaker 5 (30:25):
Actually, you know, it's just such a it's such a
tough spot for an organization to now be in. And
we look at the leadership, the coach obviously head coach,
and the GM who got us essentially to this spot
one way or the other. You, no matter how you
want to look at it, you make this decision. Donald
McCarthy decision last offseason. If you say, hey, we're gonna
pay a hundred million dollars donold and keep him here, right,
it means that I can't draft and my draft picks
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not ready. If you go with JJ, you know, the
young kid we're all excited about. He comes in, does
really well, we look really smart. If he struggles and
we get a bunch of injuries and offensive line, also,
we can't stop the run, all this stuff starts to happen,
we're gonna be where we're at, and that's where That's
where we are.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
So we are in a tough, tough spot.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
Now we're at the spot in the season and I've
been there unfortunately multiple times.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Is this is a pride factor.
Speaker 5 (31:07):
Now, this is a factor of how much do you
care about your job and how good you are at
your job. Preach regardless of how what your contract status
is next year. Don't care about money you have coming
towards you next year or the situation this is a
pride factor.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
How much do you want it?
Speaker 5 (31:21):
Look back to that Detroit game three weeks ago when
we rolled out and said and we played football the
way we were capable of playing football, and everybody left
that game as a fan, as a player, and as
an athlete, as a coach, said, that's how we're capable
of playing.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
All we need is a fan base.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
All I need as a fan watching the game now
as a former player, is everything they got And if
they give me that, I don't care about the result
necessarily because as a fan, I'm not changing my fandom
next year.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
That's not changing.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
But I sure as heck want to be proud of
the players that are going out there and how they
represent an organization that we care about so much.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
As part of that, as part of that pride and
just going to work. And now it's like I'm focused
on my own tape and we've talked about this a
couple of different Oh yeah, can there be real? And
I know roster turnover is huge, and you think about
this team with some of the contracts that you're peaking at.
There will be change this winner. Can there be real
measurable momentum? However, into twenty twenty six, if you do
find some success and you do keep that hunger at
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least to you know, to be productive on the field
over this final stretch, playoffs or not.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
No, I don't think that's the truth. I think that's
not a real thing. I think that's a wish to
hope that we think of as fans. Is that. But
it's such a it's such a distinguished difference. When the
roster turns over like thirty three percent year to year,
you just lose that momentum, especially in the positions we have. Now,
let's let's say the quarterback goes out and plays really well. Yeah,
to me, that's momentum we can take and say, Okay, Now,
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what that's gonna cause is an issue to be frank,
because all of a sudden, if he goes out and
plays lights out these next five to six, you're gonna
come back and say, Okay, he's the guy, right, he's
proven of his last five to six, he's the guy.
We're gonna stick with him. We're not gonna get a
secondary option. We're not gonna go spend money on the bet.
You know, we can keep Jefferson and go down that route. Now,
you come back in week one next year, and who
knows what we're gonna get because you've seen so much
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up and down. So I think from a team perspective,
I'd like to think there can be but I think
that's not real. But from an individual perspective of guys
that we know we're gonna have on a roster from ours,
it makes us feel better because we see and feel
that guy, see the doubt, see the lows, see the high,
see him get better, see him gave them at the
end of the year. I think that does matter an
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individual basis.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
The guy to the left of you, no matter what
happens over the final five, absolutely believes an aged veteran
will be brought in next year. Yeah, and because of that,
he's going on trial in the Covenant Cort at eleven o'clock.
Nor knows the prosecutor and I'm the judge. Make sure
you listen to that at eleven o'clock. And the jeff
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however you put it with Jefferson. Ain't nobody trading justin Jefferson.
So I mean, if you were intimating that.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Well, good thing, you're not the GM.
Speaker 6 (33:52):
So here's how we're gonna do this.
Speaker 5 (33:53):
Listen no, but listen, if you get to this spot
you have you making decisions now, you're making this is
based off job security, and you're not thinking clearly as
as you should be. I think everybody in leadership because
this team was built to win this year with the
roster we had, from a running back standpoint to a
receiver standpoint, from an offensive line standpoint, and with the
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young kid that we knew would.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Have some struggles. They spent three and forty four million
dollars in cash.
Speaker 5 (34:21):
The roster, the cash to spend the defense. So to me,
to have this season be the way it is. If
you're an owner, you have to look at my investment
and say, I invested as much cash as people are
asking me to invest. We're not the twins here, right,
We're investing cash. We're trying to go down and win.
All of a sudden, Yep had to catch a stray. Now,
all of the sudden, as Abbot texted me, So, all
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of a sudden, you have this roster and you're sitting
here in the best division in football, when the Bears
are turning around, the Lions are playing really good, the
Packers are good. There's so much pressure to win and
to win at that same level. I'm not saying there's
going to be changed. I'm saying there's pressure all those guys,
and they know it, they feel it, and they can't
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They're gonna make decisions based off of that.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
That's what worries me.
Speaker 7 (35:06):
Let me ask a very weird question, because you talk
about playing for Pride at this point, is there part
of you in the back of your mind that you're
also guarding, like I don't want to get hurt into
the offseason in the sense that it carries those.
Speaker 6 (35:20):
It depends on your position in life. It depends on
your contract.
Speaker 5 (35:22):
So if you know you have guaranteed money coming back
the next year, you need to go out and play
really well because you know that dollars.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Those dollars are coming to you. But you want to
be healthy.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
You don't want to spend your entire offseason training, you
rehabbing a surgery, get an injury. Now, if all of
a sudden you have a guy who's fighting for his contract,
fighting for his NFL life, I can remember this in
my own braink because twenty ten was coming up on
contract year. I have to go out and play the
best I can, And that didn't mean go out and
make a million tackles. Because when a GM watches film,
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he's looking at did he.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Do his assignment? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (35:55):
Did he do what he was supposed to do? He
had a gap coverage, B gap coverage. He had this
in pass coverage. Is he doing jobs? You're going out
of body trying to go make a play. So to me,
I was almost hyper focus. You do become a little
bit more selfish, but in turn, you have to become
selfish in doing your job better. Now again, as a pro,
that's your job every week. And that's how I looked
at it, and I felt like that. That's why I
felt like I was pretty consistent then that I got
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that tag.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
I love the tag. Listen.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
I grew up on a farm and all we did
was all the made money tag. All we did was
all the bank money. Mom and dad were just making
payments on the combine and the track and everything else.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Play.
Speaker 5 (36:30):
So if you're gonna tell me you're gonna pay me
ten point nine million dollars for one season, that's before
tax back in yeah back, yeah, true. I'm not in
South Dakota anymore. It's like in twenty ten. You take
it because I'm like, I.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
Can live on that. That seems pretty good.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Tell me tractors I can buy with ten point nine
a lot, not as many as I could then, but
a lot, a lot of tractor No cattle prices right now.
I can't buy that many cows right now either. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
You talk about the pressure. I mean I I definitely
feel like, especially specifically with three home games left, like,
if you lose these three home games in front of
your crowd, there's booing ind about, like, there's no question
the emotions of that effect.
Speaker 6 (37:13):
The most passive aggressive boo in the history.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Well, I'm hopeful that like on Christmas Day, there's not
booing right.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
Well, in spirit, I can tell you from experience.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
I can tell you from experience when when you start
off it happened to my career, When you start off
slowly in a season, when you have high expectations, and
all of a sudden, ownership group that resides in New
Jersey is spending every day in the building, Coaches coach differently,
Coaches talk differently in meetings because the owner of the
football team is sitting right there. Now, all of a sudden,
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you're saying things differently. You're coaching differently. You're bringing more energy,
You're being maybe a little bit more aggressive in your
coaching style, and all of a sudden, they call it,
there's a little pucker effect on all of a sudden,
I gotta worry about my job and do I do
something drastic, do something dramatic, or do I just go
you know what?
Speaker 2 (38:02):
This is who I am. I'm gonna keep doing my
job the way I cant. We're gonna find out the
next few weeks.
Speaker 4 (38:07):
I'm still I'm still wrapping my mind around that bad
twenty ten season. And you absolutely with the ultimate and professionalism,
giving everything you have branded it has some eye not
by to it. But I understand you've got a family
to think of and stuff like that. So therefore you're
playing for new money into twenty eleven after a season
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you had zero force fumbles, zero interceptions, one sack, and
average five tackles per game.
Speaker 6 (38:35):
The final four My goodness, I mean, what happened?
Speaker 5 (38:38):
You just have to do your job, Pa, and maybe
in those four games you just I just got I
just gotta reside in my gap to make sure my
buddy can make the play. Great point and the Vikings
and Rick Spielman look at that and say, hey, this
is a guy who want to build around.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Yeah, there's no doubt.
Speaker 5 (38:51):
You know, in a couple of years, we're gonna draft
our guy number seven pondering. We're gonna have this team
put together. We got the captain on defense. We're gonna
have the capitainal offense.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Now we call the post. That was the look that
was the look ahead. So you brought it up today
and this week alone nine to noon. This is what
Foreign eight Radio does we have caught. We have caught
a Minnesota Twins comparison related stray today. Yes, we just
caught a Christian ponder stray. You mentioned Spurgeon win earl
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or earlier in the week.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
We'll have you invited back next week.
Speaker 4 (39:21):
We caught a Spurgeon win pray from the two thousand
and one season.
Speaker 6 (39:26):
But that's four in eight Radio.
Speaker 4 (39:27):
Don't Kill the Messengers Chad Greenway courtesy of a Great
Duck vodkap and Great Duck spirits for another segment, and
we'll do that around the corner from Buffalo Wild Wing Savage.
Speaker 6 (39:39):
It's the Friday Football.
Speaker 5 (39:43):
On k f A.
Speaker 4 (39:45):
N Well sadly from the Don't Killed the Messenger coven him.
As we mentioned earlier, uh the uh. The team in
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the history of Minnesota Vikings football, and it's a long
and storied history that has the worst record at home
was a team on which Jack Greenway played. The twenty
eleven Minnesota Vikings went one and seven at home. The
current Vikings are one and four. So don't kill the messenger. Okay, yeah,
come on man.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
A season that opened up with also the Harvin kick
return touchdown San Diego.
Speaker 6 (40:30):
You know what, PLC in the parking lot after this?
Stop that please?
Speaker 2 (40:33):
But then Donovan McNabb had to throw the ball.
Speaker 5 (40:35):
Hey, let me say, like Chuck Knoblock, let me uh
the yips for real. McNabb had the novels with the
reference to the Harvin touchdown. It always causes me to
remember on that play, Iowa Hawkeys kicker Nate Nate Cading
ripped his ACL up.
Speaker 4 (40:52):
And was lost for the season. At that time, he
was one of the better kickers in the NFL. So
we we think Iowa. We think Iowah Hawke Gys football
and as a storied game changer for the Iowa Hawkeys
football program, Kirk Farrence Norman Parker, the defensive coordinator. I mean,
Chad was good in the NFL, Chad was really good
at Iowa. How does a devoted Hawkeys football fan handle
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the Indiana Hoosiers all of a sudden being really couldn't
like playing Ohio's date from the Big Ten title tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (41:25):
Yeah, I mean, you want to talk about a coach
that made an impact immediately. I don't think I've ever
seen in the history of me watching football somebody come
in and change the dynamic of a program so dramatically.
Speaker 6 (41:37):
When we played in Indiana when I was in college.
Speaker 5 (41:39):
I mean, there might be thirty thousand people Tilgaty, but
there was five thousand people watching the game and they
are mostly Hawkeys, and we would know and gave him
their medicine and walked away and got the gut our win.
And to see what they're doing now is impressive. And
again you see with a transfer portal, he has used
that through his advantage and going to get the quarterback,
the guy that really really matters, and he's been playing amazing.
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But it's coaching, it's mentality, it's a culture, getting the.
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Five star guys. You know, he's just pulling out of
the portal like you're saying, man, it's crazy.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
And I think you get You're getting the four star guys.
The three star guys are talented guys. He's getting the
right guys for the positions that he needs in his system,
and I think that's the most important thing.
Speaker 3 (42:19):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (42:19):
Young Greenway daughter took a visit to Indiana, went over
there and saw their facilities. Like the money they're pouring
into college football in Indiana is following the success they're having.
Speaker 4 (42:30):
So if Signetti Basketball school be damn it's it's it's crazy.
If you ever been to Bloomintend It's beautiful. Campus is incredible,
So like there's a place that people want to go.
You're more middle of America now as far cold now,
as cold as I or Minnesota, a lot of good things.
I think he can sustain it.
Speaker 5 (42:45):
The reality is there is gonna enough money to go
compete with Ohio State and all these guys that have
the bank bankroll. So it'll be interesting to see it.
But it's it's fun to say, I do like it.
Isn't it good though for football to see somebody new
and fresh in there. And if you're cheer for Ohio State,
you're just absolute in now. I can't deal with you.
We can't be friends anymore.
Speaker 7 (43:03):
The crazy thing about that coach is he's it's like
it's somebody new, but he's like sixty five years old.
Speaker 5 (43:08):
I don't think I've seen somebody more confident in his
own abilities than that guy.
Speaker 2 (43:11):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (43:12):
I mean the stuff he said and this, by the way,
just backed up every point of it. That's it like
to say something now, And that's.
Speaker 2 (43:18):
My thing always with that. It's like you can talk
if you're performing like that. It's it's totally okay.
Speaker 5 (43:23):
I hope he runs his mouth more now because like,
look at me now, like what are you gonna do?
Like you know, So he's the opposite of Kirk Farens.
He doesn't say anything get their fALS credit. But it's
just fun to see him say I'm gonna say it. Oh,
by the way, coming to Bloomington to get a win.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Nice try.
Speaker 5 (43:36):
You know, it's gonna be interesting to see how Indiana
fans travel compared to a house state.
Speaker 2 (43:40):
It's kind of one of those things too, where I
can't really hate Indiana, Like if I of nowhere, Rutgers
becomes a force that's kind of annoying.
Speaker 6 (43:46):
Would be irritating if Nebraska.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
Jumps up and it's truly a top five.
Speaker 5 (43:50):
Juggern BA have a football team in the rests hard
to say, but I have been paying attention too much
that would be infuriating.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
But like there's something about Bloomington, like Illinois would kind
of frustrate me. But there's some of those like Indiana.
It's just a cute little thing that is becoming an
absolute workhorse.
Speaker 5 (44:04):
Yeah, and I think in the new Big ten, right,
this new era of USC and the l's that are
coming from the West Coast that are just gonna be
behemos as we kind of getting this recruiting world and
all of a sudden, you have a you have a
team from the Midwest named Minnesota or I will trying
to go get a kid from La Lego compete and
recruiting with USC, Like, good luck with that one, because
it's beautiful here in January.
Speaker 6 (44:25):
I mean no, this is December, but it's way better
in January, so you'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (44:30):
How about with the current Vikings Blake Cashman all right,
so during the four game losing streak, Blake Cashman is
such a stud not only on the field, but the
way he prepares for games. I've just gotten to know
Blake a little more this year because of the like
the buses that we ride to the stadium and stuff,
and I'll ask him about certain situations and he's just
so on point and detail Shirt, no matter what's happening,
(44:54):
whether you're winning a lot or losing a lot. But
during the four game losing streak, he's averaging thirteen tackles
a game in the in the Alley Green Bay. Again,
things are going pear shaped, you know. He and Emmanuel
Wilson needed the goal line in just a big time
violent collision, which means Blake's going ten to ten. Emmanuel,
of course, is he's on a team with a winning record.
(45:14):
I just I've always respected Blake, but playing for the
Jets and Texans didn't really follow him that closely, and
and he's battled injuries during his career.
Speaker 6 (45:23):
Blake Cashman's fantastic.
Speaker 5 (45:25):
He's fantastic, And he's one of those guys that he's
not he's a playmaker, but because he's always in the
right spot making the tackle.
Speaker 2 (45:33):
Yeah he's not. He's not.
Speaker 5 (45:34):
He's not ever getting what I would say, bad press.
He's not out in coverage and he just looks lost,
he's not in the run game and misses a bad
tackle like he's he's so solid and I always think about,
like think about my career. Your best ability in the
NFL is availability, and that's where he struggled.
Speaker 6 (45:51):
But when he's healthy, he is who he is. Every
game there's there's His up and down is very shallow.
Speaker 5 (45:57):
He's very consistent and you know what you're gonna get
into me as a fan, as a GM, as a coach,
you want a guy. He's a leader, he's a worker,
he's a grinder, and you know what you're gonna get
every game. And to me, those are guys you build around.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
He I mean.
Speaker 7 (46:10):
The other thing with him is like in coverage and play,
I mean it's it's better than you think. He is
rock solid in space and they obviously play a defense
where you have to be and then stopping the run,
you're to your point. He's always in position, and I
really feel like that group with Eric Wilson and Blake Cashman, without.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
That group being what they've been this year, I don't
know what.
Speaker 7 (46:31):
This defense looks like like Eric Wilson, what he's done
from a pastor stand but what's been massive.
Speaker 5 (46:39):
I'm not sure what his contract situation is, but that's
a guy you bring back from a veteran standpoint. They
can plug holes or be a starter for you for
a full season. And he's earned it, and he's a
team leader. He's the dude. I mean, he's a guy
you build around. Now, all of a sudden, you can
keep a veteran, pay him maybe less than you would
go draft something else. Get both to your offensive line.
Whatever gonna look for in the offseason is gonna be interesting.
One thing is for sure is our offsea is gonna
(47:01):
be very interesting. Yeah, but I'm very curious about how
we as a team. I think you're gonna you're gonna
see how Koc, how he is impacted this locker room
in these next five. The type of team that rolls
out is it is indicative of the respect they have
for their head football coach, Yes, and their position coaches.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Yeah, And I think that that matters.
Speaker 4 (47:19):
Well, I'm glad you said that because the feast that
you guys were with family and stuff like that. One
of the big themes Nordo and I had is with
what's happening now and what just happened to Green Bay.
These are human nature games because human nature gets to
win too.
Speaker 6 (47:35):
And you know it's I called on.
Speaker 4 (47:37):
I can't remember if you were on the team or not,
but like like, Lovey Smith brought a Bears team in
week seventeen or week eighteen. They had a bunch of
bunch of owls and the Vikings were going or were
I think going to the playoffs. Only Udo played right tackle, okay,
so they were sending their better players. Well, for whatever
the reason, Lovey Smith decided, you know what, I'm gonna
(47:58):
draw a line in the sand here man, Khalil Mack,
all of you, you're all playing in this game. Well,
Kohalil Mack had a very box score wise nondescript game.
So therefore the offseason talker was, whoa oli udo shut down?
Kohalil Mack?
Speaker 2 (48:14):
What do we have? What do we have in oli udo?
Speaker 6 (48:17):
But then you watch it back and off what you're saying.
Speaker 4 (48:20):
Kohalil Mack did everything possible to make sure he looked
like he was going ten of ten, but the last
thing he wanted was to deal with off season ACL
rehab or some form of rehab to ruin the off
season that's the human nature component of what you just said.
Speaker 6 (48:38):
Is with these next five, who's in, who's out?
Speaker 5 (48:41):
Yeah, those guys are looking at their banking accounts and saying,
I'm probably okay to sit this one out. I'll just
play this cut block a little safe. I don't really
need another sack. I'm probably gonna pay's in the barn.
Let's get ready for next year. So it's a human
nature game. But also it's a reflection of your coaching
staff and respect you have for those guys at how
bad you really want it, even those guys who get
(49:03):
paid a lot of money, because everybody in that building
at this point it's looking over their shoulder saying in
the NFL, if you don't win, you lose your job.
Speaker 3 (49:12):
And in this.
Speaker 5 (49:12):
Situation with this team as good as we could have
been Tellent wise, Yeah, I think there's some of that
going on.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
Is now, how do those players go out and reflect that?
Speaker 4 (49:20):
Well, I mean, Alec, you watch back, you watch back
all plays from every game, whether it's four and eight
radio or it's fifteen to one radio. Yeah, and like
justin Jefferson with you know, some of these shots people
catch on the sideline not talking to the media after
the which is a rarity for him. After the Seattle game,
some comments that he's made about frustration and like, guys,
(49:41):
I'm saying the same thing every single week.
Speaker 6 (49:42):
Yeah, okay, it's I'm happy people.
Speaker 4 (49:46):
Have not taken that on social media and blown it up, right,
because when I watch him back, and you watch more
of it back than me, Man, Jefferson's running every single
route as hard as he possibly can. If there's a
run play like against the Bears, you know he's getting
He's getting the safety the corner of the linebackers as
(50:07):
well as he ever has to help somebody else into
the end zone.
Speaker 6 (50:10):
That's the identity the team.
Speaker 4 (50:12):
And when your most identifiable piece is going ten to ten,
it matters.
Speaker 2 (50:17):
That matter, That matters a lot. We can blame. Let's
just blame John Extram for.
Speaker 5 (50:20):
That, the PR snaff who on the after game we
might as well throw Extra under the bus. I love you, John, Hey,
So can we end on a positive su sow much
time we have, but I want to at least talk
about this positive Yeah you guys remember Jim Clients officer. Yeah, yeah,
maybe one of the best vikings in history can be
here about yea a giant class sawficer. Jimmy Kay carry
to North Dakota go crazy. So my one of my
(50:43):
great examples of which is how to do pro football
the right way. Jimmy ka is now in the College
Football Hall of Fame. Wow as a und fighting sue
fighting Hawk. So congrats to Jimmy Kay. He is the best.
He's on my all time top five freak list of guys.
He would show up with the biggest upper and lower
(51:04):
dip in his in the life like you couldn't fit,
but it was unbelievable, with a giant cup of coffee
and would be lifting insurmountable weights off his body. And
I walk in, I'm like, yeah, I'm supposed to get
off a block from this guy. That's how this is
supposed to work. Who are some of the other freaks
if that's top? Steve Hutchinson yeah, Percy Harvin Yeah, Adrian Peterson, Yeah, Chagger,
(51:30):
I'm gonna go with just because I've never heard of
football get.
Speaker 2 (51:34):
Thrown like this.
Speaker 6 (51:35):
Brett far Far Yeah, I'm glad you said that. The
arm strength whistle on you.
Speaker 5 (51:39):
Know, he those nerf balls that they whistle to make
you feel good like you have a cannon. But you're
really like in your mid forties. You know, he made
an NFL football And if you guys have you guys
have held the NFL football before. They are hard to
throw their big they're really inflated. Yeah, you could hear
that thing and and unreal.
Speaker 4 (51:53):
We can say this because we both know Sean Hill
and like him a lot, Hank And if Hank Hill
were here, he would laugh at the So this one liner.
The difference between the way Brett Favre threw a pass
and Sean Hill, Well, every pitching staff needs a fastball
thrower and somebody who throws a.
Speaker 2 (52:10):
Good change, old nuckler and a knuckleball.
Speaker 6 (52:12):
We'll just leave it like that.
Speaker 2 (52:13):
Anything with Gray Duck, grayd d exspirash, we need.
Speaker 5 (52:15):
To know nothing new, how excus it was incredible Minnesotan's
as usual support Gray Duck, thick and thin, so awesome.
I will be at Saint Louis Park, top ten sign
and bottles.
Speaker 2 (52:24):
Come see me. That's today, that's today, right after right now,
I'm going there, right now. Where is it?
Speaker 6 (52:29):
Top ten Liquor in Saint Louis, Pottet. I'll be there
through the snow Jack Greenway Ladies and Gentlemen five two Radio.
He's the bomb.
Speaker 4 (52:38):
Into the middle portion of the program, we have a
fantasy football segment around the corner. We also have a
benefactor who has popped up out of nowhere and given
us a beautiful charitable tie to our fantasy football segment
called ihop. I'll learn what all that means and tight
ends you definitely want to do use this week when
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(53:00):
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