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October 8, 2024 • 45 mins
Common Man Hour 1

--Was It A Catch?
--'98 Vikings vs '24 Vikings
--Golf Round
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
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go on?

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Speaker 4 (00:24):
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Speaker 5 (00:25):
Nonsense?

Speaker 1 (00:26):
I'm deck today to man, It's time for common man.

Speaker 6 (00:32):
Let's go.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Why should anybody aspire to be a common man? An
average man? Do you realize what it means to be average?
That means you're the best of the lousiest and the
lousiest of the best. Now, if we demand more and
more for producing less and less while they have not
nations and courage and inspire and indeed require hard work
and maximum effort. If we deify the common man while

(00:58):
they encourage and reward the uncommon one, well, the end
result of such a lopsided race as that is too
obvious to require elaboration.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
I mean it's like, just.

Speaker 5 (01:10):
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Speaker 4 (01:57):
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ought to pay that station.

Speaker 5 (02:01):
To be on.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
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Speaker 7 (02:07):
Yeah, baby, we're going to South Carolina and Oklahoma and Arizona,
in North Dakota and New Mexico.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
We're go to California and Texas and New York.

Speaker 8 (02:18):
Are we going to South Dakota and Oregon and Washington
and Michigan.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
And then we're going to Washington, DC. You to take
back the White House?

Speaker 9 (02:35):
Yeah? That you?

Speaker 6 (02:41):
Where's that going home?

Speaker 10 (02:42):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (02:42):
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Stanford Railroad. I don't want to sound like I've made
no mistakes. I'm confident I have you put me under
spot here in this. Maybe I'm not put this quicker
on my feet as that should be.

Speaker 6 (03:02):
Ladies and gentlemen, we're seeing what a sophisticated offensive being
plan looks like you talk about.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
I always love that one.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
He's the clown from Brown, He's the forest in the north.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
This is the common man, Dan Cole.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
I think that's.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
That should be changed to me. If there was any
other program, Well there is no other program.

Speaker 5 (03:31):
Well there is one.

Speaker 6 (03:32):
They stole my dead the McAfee character. Now I know
why the head coach is an on at one o'clock.
He usually does a one fifteen news conference day after
the game. News conference took a day off because they
were traveling back from London town.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
He's on the Pat McAfee show today, so it's like.

Speaker 6 (03:48):
Hey, guess what, but you told me they were scheduled
for ten fifteen or ten twenty something like that, and
then they shifted it to originally said ten thirty yeah,
and then it was gonna be twelve ten and it
was twelve ten yeah. And the reason wasn't the regularly scheduled.
I thought one maybe they might they have just screwed up.
They said, sure, well you had. He's making when you're
around the Pat McAfee show, your big time, and this

(04:10):
Vikings club is big time. The head coach did address
the assembled media here locally TCO Performance Center a little afternoon.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
You know, we did.

Speaker 6 (04:21):
We recorded it and we're going to play it to
kill a sab I mean, because everybody wants to know
what the head coach has to say about the soon
to be Big Game World champion Minnesota Vikings.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
About where they've been, where they're going, and where they're at.

Speaker 6 (04:31):
They're going into a bye week, So we'll have that
for you about one thirty and runs twenty minutes or so.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
So where we're looking forward to that tennabye. It wasn't
to catch. It just wasn't. Do you think it was
a catch.

Speaker 8 (04:50):
All the baseball one, Yeah, I was not watching the
game live. I think I did see a replay out, But.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Let me guess you thought it was a catch. We
disagree a lot later.

Speaker 8 (05:00):
It's hard.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
It's hard to tell.

Speaker 8 (05:02):
I only saw a couple of replays of it, and
I had a hard time, Like, clearly you see it bouncing, correct.
The question is whether it bounced on that portion of
the glove or or the actual ground, and that's hard
to tell.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
The replay official took the easy way out.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
I'm I'm.

Speaker 6 (05:21):
I'm reading from a Mike x easa axis a hit
the who because I don't know who he is Mike Xisa,
he writes for CBS Sports headline, Why Stephen kwant's controversy
you'll catch and we love controversy here on the program.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
We had plenty of it.

Speaker 6 (05:40):
Yesterday, some suggesting the Viking should have five big name
running backs. They should, They should.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Sign five sumo wrestlers.

Speaker 6 (05:51):
They should sign a seven one seven two, seven to
three former NBA center to clog.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Up the middle on field goal attempts.

Speaker 6 (05:59):
Controversy, steal topics that you won't hear addressed or broached
anywhere else, and so because it's controversial, we embrace it.
Why Stephen Kwan's controversial catch was not overturned in Guardians
versus Tiger's Alds Game two? Can I first say it's
fun watching real competent baseball teams play postseason. All of
these series I believe are tied at one game apiece,

(06:22):
best of five. Guardians took game one, I think they did.
They pitch a shutout against Detroit and then Detroit basically
reversed it. Yesterday, the Carpenter kid comes through with a
clutch home runoff maybe the best closer in baseball.

Speaker 7 (06:38):
It was.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
It was just a clutch hit eighth inning and just
bangs it over the was it ninth thing? Was eight?
Bangs it over the wall and Tigers go on to win.

Speaker 5 (06:51):
Three Zippo.

Speaker 6 (06:54):
Likely Cy Young Award winner Tarik Schooble was brilliant yesterday.
That's a big time. Did he win seventeen games? I
think he won seventeen, which he said, well, that's not
that big avidea in this day and age in baseball,
it is because generally they don't let pitchers go deep
enough into ball games anymore, because it does seem like
the sabermetrics and analytics will tell you that striking out

(07:19):
as many hitters as you can and hitting as many
home runs as you can is the recipe for success.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
And I guess in this game it was.

Speaker 6 (07:26):
He struck out eight and seven shutout innings for the Tigers,
and then the Carpenter home run won it big, big,
just you know, like I say, I think the Cleveland
kid is considered, if not the best closer in the game,
one of the one or two best he manual clase.

(07:47):
I believe it's how you say I could be wrong
in the last name. I didn't really I really didn't
know how to pronounce Tariq Schooble's name for sure, until
I check the pronunciation again. You know, you ever type
in a name and say pronunciation and then that person
that fake lips, there's a little face there.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Have you ever done this before?

Speaker 6 (08:04):
And there's there they What if you go Tarik Schoolble
pronunciation hit Google, all of a sudden, this little like
animation of a face will show up and then a
lip skull like this, and that's just the mouth and
it's pronouncing, and then you can hit.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Slow so it goes.

Speaker 6 (08:19):
You will go Toarik schoobl or Treak scooble, so it'll
slow it down for you. Anyway, He's brilliant, but the
Kwan guy robbed and again I don't know how to
pronounce his first name. When CEO Perez robbed him of
a run scoring hit with a diving catch and left.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
As soon as I saw it, I said, well, that bounced,
and it did bounces, as you just said.

Speaker 10 (08:40):
The the the.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
The issue was.

Speaker 6 (08:46):
Did it bounce on the grass around the glove? I
think it's off the grass and it's not. I think
people think, well, because they're they're the tie user Detroit guy.
I think I made it perfectly clear. I don't the
only Detroit team I actually follow and pull for any
more of the kiddies. The Tigers have won the World
Series several times since I was a kid. Pistons have
won at Red Wings have won. It matters not to

(09:08):
me about those teams anymore. Here's what he writes. The
ball definitely bounced, but there's a blind spot, so to speak.
We can't tell whether the ball hit the grass and
bounced or hit Quand's glove and bounced. It definitely bounced,
there's no question about that. It's just not clear off
what exactly. This writer says, I leaned toward it hitting

(09:29):
the grass and therefore should have been a hit. That's
just my opinion, though, which is again I always like
to make my opinion as fact, you know me. That
was why I am so I'm of the same opinion
of him, and I think it's back. But here's what
I did not know this Tennaby. This is an interesting paragraph.
This I learned something today. It should be noted. It
was announced that the call on the field stands. That

(09:52):
is official terminology. Stands means the replay center did not
see conclusive evidence to overturn the car.

Speaker 1 (09:59):
Maybe I should have known. I never heard this book.

Speaker 6 (10:01):
Yeah, stans means the replay center did not see conclusive
evidence to overturn the call. Confirmed means there was conclusive
evidence to support the call in the field, and overturned
means there was conclusive evidence to change the call. The
replay center did not see enough either way here, so
I guess they didn't really take I mean, you could.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
Say it's taken the easy way out, but you.

Speaker 6 (10:19):
Really can't see what I suggested on Twitter, and I've
talked about this before on this radio station before. It's
the shoe polish game. Have I told you about the
shoe polish game before? No, Let's take our break. We'll
come back and I think the manager A. J. Hinch

(10:40):
blundered and I'll explain by comparing it to the shoe
polish Game. We'll do that on the other side of
the break, I believe. By the way, we'll have the
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don't think you can get trampled. But they moved so slow,
wouldn't you be able to get out of their way?
I mean, tell if there were and do they do
they call a bunch of turtles?

Speaker 6 (11:49):
Is it a heard?

Speaker 1 (11:50):
I don't know what to turtle called. You know what,
here's what I've done.

Speaker 10 (11:54):
This.

Speaker 1 (11:54):
You're gonna you're gonna love this.

Speaker 8 (12:01):
I've saved a group of turtle turtles is known as
a bale A bail, b a l e because before
you went to it, I was going to dig out.

Speaker 6 (12:09):
I saved it somewhere. I print these things and then
I saved them. And one of them I printed years
ago was what you call every group in the band.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
And I have a list that I printed it because
I always knew I would want to refer to it.
But then you'd yeah, and you know what, you just did?
You just you just you you leap frog me. What
would they call a group of frogs?

Speaker 8 (12:32):
No idea?

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Why don't you want your google that one?

Speaker 4 (12:35):
So?

Speaker 1 (12:35):
What did they call a bale of turtle?

Speaker 10 (12:38):
Ale?

Speaker 1 (12:38):
If a bale of turtles was.

Speaker 6 (12:40):
Heading after you tenneby, Do you think you'd be able
to avoid them? I mean, how slow could you? Now,
maybe if you had a Danish you wouldn't be able
to because, as we know, if you eat any type
of dessert, you get really slow. It sits in your gut,
like you can't play old man hot if you have
a Danish. So maybe if you ate a Danish and
a bale of turtles started coming after you, you wouldn't

(13:01):
be able to avoid it.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
I would think most people would. A turtle might be
That's why there was there was a there was an
old wives tale. There was an old.

Speaker 6 (13:12):
Fairy tale called the Tortoise and the Hair because tortoises
don't move very fast, so trample by turtles doesn't even
make any sense.

Speaker 8 (13:20):
So a group of frogs is called an army, but
can also be called a call in your chorus. Toads
are called a knot of toads.

Speaker 6 (13:28):
A knot of toads, and toads are also I think
they are slower. They jump, but not nearly as quickly
as a frog. People eat frog legs? Do they eat
toad legs?

Speaker 1 (13:39):
And if they don't, why not well there, how come
you can have a toad in your throat? That exactly right?

Speaker 6 (13:45):
Well, because I think a toad is a little fatter,
and then you would suffocate, you would die. These are
the controversial questions that you won't find talked about anywhere else. No,
this is why I get in trouble at the radio station.
So what were we talking about? Oh shoe polish game.

(14:10):
By the way, the kid, the schoolbol kid, and I
was aware that he'd won a pitching's triple crown. I
think I read that he was eighteen and four two
point three nine e r a two hundred twenty eight k's.

Speaker 5 (14:26):
Is that good?

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Well, I don't need to have any whip and war
to know that that's really good.

Speaker 6 (14:31):
The old fashioned stats win, loss, e R and strikeouts,
that's pretty good. In the Clays character tennebe, you know
what I'm told, he only gave up six earned runs
all year, and three of them were on that home run.
So going into that game, the Guardians were closer had
only given up three runs earned runs all season long,

(14:54):
and he gave up the next three at the worst
possible moment.

Speaker 8 (14:58):
I also saw if you liked those advanced tats that
the guy who at the home run carpenter Kerry Carpentery,
a carpenter that it was his fastest exit velocity of
his career. Really how hard he hit it? Yeah, yeah,
which I don't need a number to tell me that.
I can see whether it with my own eyes, whether
they hit it hard well.

Speaker 6 (15:15):
The exit velocity of the fans was even quicker because
that they knew it was. I was top of the
ninth I could remember it was eighth or ninth. I
think the fans exited at even a quicker velocity than
at a Yeah, whatever I'm trying to say. Anyway, the
Shoe Polish Game nineteen sixty nine World Series, Mets won
four games to one.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
They lost the opener.

Speaker 6 (15:36):
I'll never get they were the amazing Mets because they'd
been you know, they'd come and do existence I think
in nineteen sixty one or sixty two.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
And they'd been like they had this been awful.

Speaker 5 (15:46):
They were.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
They were the laughing stock of all baseball.

Speaker 6 (15:48):
And not all of a sudden nineteen sixty nine they
put it all together.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
I guess.

Speaker 6 (15:50):
I remember a lot of the players in the team,
Don clind and Cleon Jones, Tommy ag ron Ed Cranepool,
Tom seaver List goes on and on and on. Jerry
Kousman played on that club. The form Nolan Ryan was
a rookie on that team, the legendary Nolan Ryan. And
I think it might have been the fifth game of
the World Series, I think. And it went five, so

(16:11):
it's four games to one the Mets once, so it
might have been the deciding game. Now, my memories, you know,
me a whole multi colored galaxy of uppers and downers
and screamers and laughers.

Speaker 1 (16:21):
Did you know there's nothing more depraved than a man
in the depths of an ether binge. But but my
hate Ashbury days clouds my memory makes it not so clear.

Speaker 6 (16:32):
But if I remember correctly, baltim rose up three to
nothing and.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Cleon Jones is at the plate. Ball comes in low.

Speaker 6 (16:42):
He does the old steps back because he's about to
get hit. He starts trotting down in first base. Umpire
calls a ball. Cleon Jones is adam it, I got
hit by the pitch. Gil Hodge is, the manager, retrieves
the ball, goes up to the umpire and says, their
shoe polish on this ball. It hit him in the
foot umpire go dang straight, you're right, and he gave

(17:02):
him first base. Ear A Weaver Manners and the Orioles
come storming out of the dugout and he didn't get
real animated where he was kicking dirt or anything, but
he was, you know beside, what do you mean you
and uh lo and behold they gave him first bay.
Now Dave McNally's on the mound for the Orioles. They're
pitching starr uh brother of Ran McNally. And after Don

(17:26):
clinn Dennon got done with him, the next titter he
wouldn't You would have needed a map to to find
the baseball that that pitching staff for them, for the
for the Oriols back in those days, I mean Dave McNally,
Mike quay Are and Jim Palmer, oh throwing pata.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
There was a time.

Speaker 6 (17:43):
Now we're going way back, and I brought this up
before there was one season where the Mets. It might
have been Orioles. Might have been the sixty nine season.
By the way, the Orioles defeated the Twins. The Twins
have a legacy of getting swept in postseason play.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
You know that, don't you.

Speaker 6 (17:57):
The very first two Western Western Division playoffs was Baltimore
against Minnesota.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
We got swept by the Oriols both times. Three against
down against Town sixty nine and nineteen seventy.

Speaker 9 (18:08):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (18:08):
They had four starting pitchers that all won twenty games.
They all won twenty games. They won twenty games. They
weren't didn't get twenty starts. They won because they would
let Were they allowed to go through the third time
through the batting or are they actually they were allowed
to go in and they knew how to pitch, They
were crap. They didn't just throw as hard as they could.
You actually pitched. You know, most guys don't pitch anymore.

(18:29):
They just throw as hard as they possibly. The canon
that's okay if that's what kids like in baseball, and they.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Do power against power, power power power.

Speaker 6 (18:38):
So we ward in first base, Don Clindendon gets up
works the counter light three and two and it hits
a moonshot into left field, two run homer, three to two.
They go that cuts to lead to three to two,
puts them back in the game. They go on to
win a J. Hinch should have retrieved that ball and
look for a grass name because as you know, it's
not like you know, when we were kids, we use

(19:01):
the same baseball, even if we were playing pee wee's
and pony.

Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yeah, like, if it hits the dirt, you throw it
out and give them a new one.

Speaker 8 (19:10):
Yes, you use I mean you had your seems it's
just a complete waste.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah, you had your collection of balls as a kid.

Speaker 6 (19:16):
Right, you know, every every every every kid the neighborhood
had you know, a couple three and you always had
the best.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Ones, you know, and you had your bad ones, and
you had this and that and that and so.

Speaker 6 (19:28):
So you know that if that ball hit the grass,
more than likely there's a grass stain on it, and
it's not the grass stain that came from three innings
before that ball was put into play. Probably unless it
hit the dirt, it was put into as soon as
that ball goes out of play or as a foul ball,
they throw a new one in.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
They don't throw that ball back in. So there would
have been a grass day a J. Hinch. Now, there
may not have been a grass stay in either.

Speaker 5 (19:55):
Right, it's not a.

Speaker 8 (19:56):
Given, it's not a given.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
But what if there was, umpire would have to do.
And I can't remember the name of the empire back then?
Who was it?

Speaker 6 (20:07):
I can't remember his name. I think it's I think
his last name started with a D. But he said,
there's the shoe polish proved positive. That's how some people
think that. When Gil got the ball, he wiped it
on his shoe. But then other people said Gil wasn't
that kind of a guy. He played it straight up.
He wasn't going to try to cheat to win, and
I believe that. So anyway, he a j Now they

(20:30):
they they ended up winning the game anyway, so it
doesn't matter. But that's what he should have done.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
He went to the grass game.

Speaker 6 (20:37):
When we come back, we'll have Koc in his entirety.
We'll talk about the Jets. They fired a coach. Hey,
here's what's sad, Tim to me. I just finally learned
the three four years. I finally learned how to pronounce
his name just the other day. And now he's gone
and fired because they are a terrible team in a
terrible city, terrible fan, cherable team. Other topics to get
to as well, but the coaches.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
Next year on the Fan.

Speaker 8 (21:13):
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Speaker 1 (21:29):
Do me a favor, can you? Can you look up
and see what a group of hogs is?

Speaker 6 (21:39):
I'm gonna say it's a bushel full of hogs, Amria Adam,
A corner copia.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Hogs is what it is. Pobaby doesn't get this special
by pigs, right, what's a group of pigs?

Speaker 8 (21:55):
Just a lot of these animals are are like multiple
well papers multiply quickly.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
There's no doubt about that. I can't see that one.

Speaker 8 (22:07):
A drift of hogs, a drove of hogs, a parcel
of hogs, a parcel of hogs, a sounder of hogs,
a team of hogs.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Well, that would be the Washington Redskins. They're old right there.

Speaker 6 (22:18):
They had a team of hogs on the offensive line.
So use any one of those you want.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
Let's do this.

Speaker 6 (22:23):
We're going to head coach of the soon to be
Big Game World champion Minnesota Vikings is very popular. He
was just recently, just moments ago, about twenty minutes ago.
He was on the Pat McAfee show. Earlier today, a
little after twelve noon, he addressed the local media a
TCO Performance Center.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
This is what the head coach, Kevin O'Connell had to say.

Speaker 7 (22:42):
All right, good afternoon, everybody, one of the first start
out today and just make sure once again, I thinked
everybody involved with, you know.

Speaker 5 (22:52):
The trip of that magnitude.

Speaker 7 (22:55):
We really love getting a chance to go over to
London and love that we feel such a fan base
there of the Minnesota Vikings, but a lot, a lot
of a lot goes into it, not only for our team,
but the fans that traveled. So wanted to just highlight
all of our folks here in house that helped make
that trip such a success for our players, our second

(23:17):
time going over there, coming back with a win, and
then uh, ultimately the NFL they put a lot a
lot of their folks over there that do do a
great job with that, and then just highlighting our players' ability.
What's been a pretty uh you know, a pretty gruelling
five weeks really of that culminated with that trip and

(23:38):
created a lot of excuses for our team that our
guys just really weren't having and and went out and
found a way to beat a good football team in
a close, close game. We didn't necessarily play our best,
but you know, I thought our defense was massive for us,
and I want to highlight flow in his staff outside
of the ball, and then offensively for making enough plays

(24:01):
there to find a way to get Will swing at
it late and all he did was go out there
and hit another one for us.

Speaker 5 (24:07):
He's been phenomenal, Ryan Wright.

Speaker 7 (24:09):
I thought with some critical field position punts to pin
the Jets down deep in their in their side of
the field.

Speaker 5 (24:18):
So really all three phases.

Speaker 7 (24:20):
When we when we had to have them making some
really things happened to win the game, but highlighted clearly
by our defense and and Will Reiker his ability to
go execute.

Speaker 5 (24:31):
Overall, I'm happy with where our team's at.

Speaker 7 (24:34):
But we'll we'll use this week to rest up, recharge,
get healthy hopefully in a couple of spots, and and
go start attacking the next challenge, which will be a
great one in the Detroit Lions coming to town. Just
to highlight just the roster move that took place, putting
Miles Gaskins back on the roster and Robert Tanian back

(24:55):
to the practice squad. Just with the unique nature of
of how we're navigating certain aspects of the roster on
game day and and and how we kind of handle
those things.

Speaker 5 (25:07):
Both those guys done a nice.

Speaker 7 (25:09):
Job being ready to go when called upon, and and uh,
we'll we'll likely be called upon again, and and uh
just wanted to finish off with the injury updates I
do have. Mainly Aaron Jones continues to be evaluated and
but all the early information that we've got so far,

(25:32):
it looks like we've avoided a long term injury.

Speaker 5 (25:36):
But I would classify him as really week to week
at this point.

Speaker 7 (25:39):
He'll get treatment throughout this week, and I'll give you
guys an update where he's at next week as we
kind of hopefully work him back into uh, you know,
uh getting involved in practice and leading into whether we'll
have him versus versus the Lions. And then a Caleb
Evans is really on a pretty similar timeline as well,

(26:00):
So I'll.

Speaker 5 (26:01):
Update you guys all next week on those two players.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
We'll start with Andrew and then go to Kevin and Dave.

Speaker 5 (26:09):
Hey, Kevin, Yeah, just along the running back front. What
did you think of what Ty Chandler was able to
do for your replacing Aaron Yeah, I.

Speaker 7 (26:16):
Thought, you know, it was a shame a couple a
couple of his real ops, one of which went, you know,
thirty plus yards. We had a procedural penalty that cannot happen,
and then had another penalty on another nice game there
in the second half where I think they got ed
for a penalty that was really could have gone either

(26:37):
way kind of with how the play kind of materialized
and everything.

Speaker 5 (26:41):
So tough.

Speaker 7 (26:42):
Tough to lose some quality yards, especially with the type
of game it was against one of the top defenses
in the NFL.

Speaker 5 (26:50):
I thought there were some.

Speaker 7 (26:50):
Other runs where I think if Ty can get into
a flow, into a groove, maybe we find a few
more yards on them.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
But that's all part of the process. I got a
lot of confidence in Tie.

Speaker 7 (27:02):
Really going back to last year when he really emerged
for us like he did second half of last season.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
So a lot of confidence in Tie. Clearly, we can't
have the ball end.

Speaker 7 (27:14):
Up on the ground, which happened on one of our
wide zone kind of toss plays, which was a huge
play in the game at that point in time, defense
was able to go out and get the ball back
for us, but would love to just get the simple execution.
And it's one of the things we'll take a look at,
is just you know, across the board, just a little
cleaner you know, cleaner operation as an offense in its totality,

(27:40):
will lead to us being a little bit more consistent,
I do believe, because there are a bunch of really
talented players on our offense, and there's plays that are
out there. We just got to just start doing consistently
a little bit more of the little things that we've
got to do a better job, you know, as coaches
making sure happens.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah, Kevin, how do whenever TJ does get back into
the lineup, how do you imagine him sort of influencing
the offense knowing what he's capable of and knowing what
you've missed without having him.

Speaker 7 (28:13):
Yeah, I think, Kevin, he just provides such a you know,
an incredible asset in the interior of our past game,
how he works in conjunction with our wide receivers or
maybe Aaron Jones and out of the backfield where we
could truly see, you know, the weapons that we kind

(28:34):
of envisioned, you know, once we fully got healthy and
got TJ back there.

Speaker 5 (28:38):
I think Josh Oliver Johnny munt I have both done
a really nice.

Speaker 7 (28:41):
Job, you know, Josh's consistent force in the run game
and and showing up a little bit here and there
in the past game as well. And Johnny will still
play a role also which has been critical to us
in TJ's absence. So you guys always, you know, I've
been very vocal about my confidents in that tight end room,

(29:03):
not only you know, as we've been operating, but getting
you know, one of the top players in my opinion
at the position back is always going to be a
jolt for your offense, and especially with how we've built
our system really since TJ's arrived here, going back to
twenty twenty two, when he arrived mid season like he
did and immediately made an impact, was a huge part

(29:25):
of our offense continuing to be able to move the
ball last year despite the turmoil at the quarterback position
or not having Justin or Ja for you know, chunks
of time throughout the season. So it was obviously unfortunate
to lose them late in the year like we did.
But I've been very, very excited about the possibility of
getting TJ's TJ's skill set back in our offense, and

(29:48):
it will be something that I think should be a
real positive for us.

Speaker 9 (29:54):
Kevin, you mentioned after the game the offense not being
up to your standard, just kind of after watching back
the film. How much of that do you think was
just because Aaron was sidelined for three quarters of the game.

Speaker 7 (30:08):
Yeah, I think you know, Aaron's impact obviously was felt
early on in the game, made a big play on
a third down one on one past game situation. Nick Mullens,
you know, walks on the field, immediately finds him, found
some yards there in the run game, Our you know,
our average kind of dip down a little bit once.
You know, as the game went on, we knew that

(30:30):
was going to be a really good front, incredibly impactful
guys in the interior speed at the linebacker position.

Speaker 5 (30:37):
Knew it would be tight coverage.

Speaker 7 (30:38):
They've got a lot of confidence in those corners and
rightly so, two really good players, So I knew it
was going to be a challenge. Dave, I think the
thing that was frustrating is just as you look back
on it, there were some opportunities, you know, in the
past game maybe to to kind of eliminate some of that,
you know, frustration by that's how you kind of have

(31:00):
to play against the defense like that. When you get
your ops either you know, maybe an open guy down
the field and if we can, you know, give a
maximum opportunity for yards after catch, maybe though a couple
of those plays have a chance to be bigger gains,
even maybe touchdowns. And then when you are attacking the
top shelf, sometimes it's not necessarily always the top shelf.

Speaker 5 (31:23):
It might be Johnny munt on a on a crossing route.

Speaker 7 (31:27):
It might be you know, maybe a lack of coverage
resources sent towards players like that that there could be
some ops. But it's an all eleven thing. It's it's
the protection's got to hold up against the good front.
It's the details. It's the release plans versus tight coverages.
It's you know, the rhythm and timing of the quarterback

(31:48):
and the decision making. And then you know, as as
the weather started to get a little more sloppy there
in the second half, whether it was footing or the
ability to pitch and catch, none of those things are
excuses We've got to go out and operate and execute,
and I think our team and our offense we'll get
back on track with really focusing on the little things
that are required to make some of those bigger plays happen.

(32:12):
In a game like that where you're going to be
fighting and scratching and clawing for every yard.

Speaker 5 (32:17):
When you get some ops, you got to take advantage
of them. Matthew than Dane.

Speaker 3 (32:22):
Kevin five games in top defense in the league. I
guess I'm curious, just as you look at the way
the defense is performed, if there is something in particular
that you put your finger on.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
For why they've been as effective as they have.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Obviously the free agents pending and bringing in new guys
has been very effective. But is there something that you
look at to say that there is a particular reason
they have been able to excel. Feels like somebody else
comes up with a big play each week for this defense.

Speaker 5 (32:53):
Yeah, I think there's some layers to it, Matt I do.

Speaker 7 (32:56):
I think we brought in a lot of really smart
football players and paired those guys with smart football players.
I think the depth that exists up front, you know
where you might not you might see more splash plays
and rightly so from Van Ginkle or Gernard Blake Cashman.

(33:16):
The corners get Steph and Shaq both pairing with Murph
to make a lot of plays with our safeties kind
of in unison. But when you think about Harrison Phillips,
bull guys that we you know, really have a lot
of confidence in. And then you've got the Tilleries and
and you've got you know, different players making some young.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
Guys making an impact taking some snaps.

Speaker 7 (33:42):
You've got different different players in that outside linebacker room,
whether it's Pete Jones has been fantastic obviously Van Ginkle
and Gerard Dallas Turner finding his.

Speaker 5 (33:52):
Way making some plays and really showing up with his
skill set.

Speaker 7 (33:56):
We just have a complete group, a complete group with
some really really high level coaching going on with Flow
and his staff, and then those players making it all
come to life with the adjustments we've kind of made
year over year from flows first year to year two,
and then the players' ownership of that to really drive

(34:18):
the whole thing and make it go with their ability
to get really into the right call based upon what
we think the offense may be trying to do and
really get into a great call is the final call
when that ball gets snapped. I think has really come
to life and it's shown up the impactfulness of a
lot of smart football players shows up with being in

(34:41):
the right place at the right time. It's not just
luck that you fall into some good plays and some
spots where you can get your hands on some footballs.
It's all eleven working together within the call, within the system,
and making some huge impactful plays throughout the course of.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
These first five games.

Speaker 7 (34:58):
And what I'm most excited about out is, you know,
I think that there's so much more there as we
continue to move throughout this season and face the type
of challenges you're going to face, you know on our schedule,
but also as you start playing you know, teams for
the first time, but then the second time late in
the year in the division. That's where I'm going to
really look for constant improvement, constant comfort within the within

(35:24):
the scheme from our players and and Flow and his
staff doing it at such a high level, it's been
a huge thing for our organization.

Speaker 10 (35:34):
Thank Kevian with Sam when he needed the three points,
he went down the other day and got him. It's
been a common trend for him this season. Just what
stood out about his poise to come through in those
weighty moments kind of regardless of how the game has gone,
you know, good, bad, or indifferent before.

Speaker 7 (35:52):
Yeah, I think, you know, and offensively out early on
in the game, outside of outside of really the play
where the ball gets put on the ground and they
get an easy turnover, we were moving it, you know,
pretty pretty consistently.

Speaker 5 (36:08):
We got down there and scored a touchdown when we
got in the red zone.

Speaker 7 (36:13):
I would have liked to think we could have finished
that that drive we turned it over on in the
first half with points or you know, at the very
least three, hopefully seven.

Speaker 5 (36:21):
But I think what what I was proud of with
Sam was it was.

Speaker 7 (36:25):
Another example of when momentum had kind of turned in
many ways by our own doing.

Speaker 5 (36:34):
You know, he was able to jog back out on
that field, walk into the huddle and move the team.

Speaker 7 (36:39):
You know, found the big played to Justin down the middle,
finds Johnny Munt, you know, once you know, we got
behind the chains again on a on another early down penalty,
He's able to you know, find Justin on first at
first and twenty whatever it was, and then and then
find Johnny Munt for a big conversion and then put
the ball on the money. A couple more plays there

(37:00):
in some tough pockets, tough circumstances, but ultimately the goal
was make sure we at least made it.

Speaker 5 (37:07):
We at least got three on that drive.

Speaker 7 (37:09):
Would love to get a touchdown there, but we get
stopped there and we'll we'll puts it through to go
up six, where at least you know they've got a
drive and score a touchdown against our defense, and at
the very least, you know, if we're unable to make
a stop, which we were and we had a lot
of confidence they would get a stop, we would hopefully
have a chance to then use the confidence of moving

(37:30):
it in the previous drive to then try to drive
and an attempt a game winning field goal if we
had to.

Speaker 5 (37:37):
So a lot of things there.

Speaker 7 (37:38):
We're learning a lot about our team, But those moments
where it hasn't been pretty, it's you know, we've we've
kind of become stagnant for one too many drives there
in the second half, we turn it over backed up there.
What are we going to go do about it? What's
the next snap going to look like? And he dropped
back and was really good on that for us, and

(38:01):
I thought that was critical.

Speaker 5 (38:02):
And that's what Sam's been.

Speaker 7 (38:04):
That was him dealing with adversity when his team needed
him and he made he made some plays there. They
gave us a better opportunity to go win that football
game when you think about our defense played and uh,
you know, really our kicker and punter had performed that day.

Speaker 5 (38:17):
So that's what it's going to be like.

Speaker 7 (38:19):
Sometimes there's gonna come a time this season where momentum
is lost in our offense might need to be the
group that moves it and gets us the lead back,
goes and finishes a close game in the end and
finds a way to win a game. We'll be prepared
when that moment comes. But in the meantime, we're finding
ways to win football games right now. And what we've

(38:42):
done up until this point, you guys know exactly what
I'm gonna say. That doesn't mean a whole lot coming
off this buy. It's going to be about that challenge
of playing Detroit at home in a division game. It's
going to be a big opportunity for us against a really,
really good team.

Speaker 5 (38:57):
We want one last question to jet.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
Coach.

Speaker 7 (39:01):
A lot of players use the bye week to get
not only a physical but a mental rest, and maybe
you want a vacation just get away from football altogether.

Speaker 5 (39:08):
What does the bye week for you look like from
a coaching from football or like you said, is just
trying to continue to grind?

Speaker 7 (39:15):
Yeah, Jeff, I think the more you do this job,
the more you understand that the bye week he does
exist for more reasons than just self scout, than just
going back through. I think we've improved our process week
over week throughout the season. We've got a lot of
really good coaches, little a lot of smart guys, so

(39:36):
we're trying to stay on top of things much more
than just Okay, we've played five games, let's talk about
it and make changes where we see fit. I think
we're constantly always trying to find improvement weekend and week out.
How do we give these guys the best game plans?
Where we at personnel wise? Are we using our personnel
the best possible way that we can? Where do we

(39:58):
need to improve technique, fun namentals. How do we craft
our drill work and our practice time we do get
in season to improve? So my hope is that we've
been doing those things already that this doesn't need to
be a massive kind of overhaul. But at the same time,
I do think it's a nice little checkpoint throughout the
season for us to do our work in here and

(40:19):
make sure when the players do come back after a
much needed break that we're.

Speaker 5 (40:23):
Ready to go. So I think it's both.

Speaker 7 (40:25):
But the last part of that is I do believe,
especially with an earlier buy coming off of a pretty
you know, grueling trip, let's call it what it is,
with the time change. Those of you guys on this
call that made the trip, and I know you're probably
feeling it as well. You know it is what it is,
and you've got to find the recovery time here, both
mentally and physically, to make sure you're ready to hit

(40:46):
the ground running, because we'll come back, have a division opponent,
a very good one here at home, then have a
short week to travel out to LA for a Thursday game,
and then we'll get another little mini mini buy in there.
So sequent we've got to be exactly where our feet
are planning to attack each challenge as its own. But
I do think it's important for our staff and players

(41:07):
to recharge really proud of these first five weeks, really
proud of the results, but it's never really been about that.
We got to make sure make sure we come back
and stay true to the process and keep on chasing
improvement with the discipline to do.

Speaker 5 (41:22):
So every single day.

Speaker 7 (41:23):
And that's going to be my job to make sure
I'm stressing that throughout our whole organization coming off this bay.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
And there you have it.

Speaker 5 (41:30):
They had everyone.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
Yes, thank you, appreciate that. Yeah, not problem. They really
didn't do anything. No reason to thank me.

Speaker 6 (41:37):
As a head coach of the soon to be Big
Game World champion Minnesota Vikings Tennaby, what do you call
a group of reporters that ask boring questions and cliche questions?

Speaker 1 (41:45):
I'm just kidding. They did a great job. What do
you call a group?

Speaker 6 (41:50):
What do you call a group of vikingsen to me,
the soon to be Big Game World champions?

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Yeah, yeah, man, we'll come here super Bowl home.

Speaker 6 (42:02):
Yeah, that's what I would say. I would say it
was well done. You know again, I don't know if
we were able to glean Okay, not Aaron Gleaming, but glean.
Can you look up the word glean? Have you heard
that word before? Sure g l E would it be
g l e e N or g l e A N.

Speaker 5 (42:20):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
I think what it means is we weren't able to
glean much from that. In other words, weren't able to
learn glean mister.

Speaker 8 (42:30):
To gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.

Speaker 6 (42:33):
Yeah, that's what we kind of did over fifteen minutes.
We we laboriously, we gathered nuggets from the head coach.
The one that I thought that was the most interesting
was Aaron Jones week to week, yes, which the bye
week obviously comes at a really nifty times, so you know,
and when he says week to week, that could have
been let's say they would have been playing this week,

(42:54):
it might have been ready on Sunday.

Speaker 8 (42:56):
I mean, the wild kind of freaked out fans a
couple of weeks ago. And then Matt Boldy had a
training camp injury and they listened him as week to week, right. Well,
he ended up coming back like the second week, the
second week, right, So this could very well be where
week to week.

Speaker 6 (43:10):
They're not that they're trying to hide it, and there's
being honest, it's could be week to week.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
We just don't know.

Speaker 8 (43:15):
My guest KOs did say, quote, it looks like we've
avoided a.

Speaker 1 (43:18):
Long term injury.

Speaker 6 (43:19):
Yes, and so I would assume he'll be ready for
you know what light The coach actually used two pronunc
head the first time he said Detroit, and I thought,
I like this guy, because.

Speaker 1 (43:31):
If you're from Detroit, you say Detroit. You don't say Detroit,
you say Detroit.

Speaker 6 (43:36):
But then I think at least one other time, if
not two or three, he said he just went to Detroit,
but we like to call it Detroit. And so that's
their next opponent, Detroit. Detroit takes on the Dallas.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
This upcome.

Speaker 6 (43:54):
I think it's a Sunday I think it's a regular
Sunday game. I don't know if it's a if it's
a Monday night Sunday. Regardless of what night they play,
they will be taking on the Dallas Cowboys. And I
was talking to some of the sales guys back in
the young kids Tennaby, the ones that are still a
little you know, wet behind the ears or green horns.

(44:15):
There's they haven't gone through all the trials and tribulations
you and I have. I've even gone through more, having
suffered through four big game losses, but I've seen it all.
They're very excited, and I said I am too, of course,
you know I you know, I gave them some fore warning,
basically saying you never know what's gonna happen. It's all

(44:36):
looks good now, I said, does this remind you of
ninety eight? I got some comparisons to ninety eight Tennabe
and you know the one that you don't want is
wide right or wide left whatever it was missing his
only field goal of the year, the Vikings losing in
the NFC Championship came we'll do a little comparing and contrasting.
Got several and I got some other controversial, yes, controversial

(44:58):
topics to get to tenneby one, including mean you and me?

Speaker 1 (45:02):
That's that, yeah, all that next common man problem with
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