Gopher Football Weekly w/ PJ Fleck 10-7-25

Gopher Football Weekly w/ PJ Fleck 10-7-25

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Let's see who has it Dinnisoda.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Welcome to Gopher Football Weekly with PJ. Fleck, Well the
Gopher Sports Network from lear Field of.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
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(00:36):
Here's the voice of the Gophers, Mike grim and we're
off and running.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Welcome to another edition, a Tuesday edition of Gopher Football.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Weekly with PJ. Fleck.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
We are back on location Tipsy Steer in High Pines
in Roseville and glad to have you along. JG has
his own personal charing section over here, and it's a
full restaurant as usual. Good to see everybody looking good
here and we're gonna talk for football for the next
hour on the Gopher Sports Network. It's homecoming week. We'll
preview that Purdue coming to town under the light six

(01:08):
forty technically is the kickoff time, and we will take
care this weekend at four thirty jg is always good
to see you.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
You survive the Ohio State sidelines. I did.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yeah, no security breaches this time. I'm my favorite security
officer and I got along really well.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
No, we were good. Yeah, everything's fine. Outstanding, outstanding, Well,
it was. It wasn't the best of nights, I guess
for the Gophers forty two to three. That opening drive, though,
Coach was was it an impressive one seven for seven
for your quarterback and you got points right off the bat.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
Yeah, we'll just talk about the first drive the whole hour.
I think we should do that. Then just keep bringing
it up. We'll talk a little bit more about it.
But yeah, I thought we really started fast. That was
the whole game plan. Come out, start fast, had them
in a lot of different coverages, and I thought Drake
and Coach Tarbo and our offense dissected their defense really well.
And then they went back to the sideline, put a
lot of people in the box, stopped the run, and

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they played man coverage from there on out, and we
just didn't. We weren't able to create enough separation and
give Drake enough time. So you got to give them
a lot of credit. I wanted to go back through
the film. I said this earlier this week. I want
to go back through the film and be like, Oh,
we played by crap. We stunk. It was really awful.
We beat ourselves. We really didn't. We had two penalties,
that's it. We did not turn the ball over. We

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only gave up one sack. But at the end of
the day, I mean, they're a really good football team.
And that's one of the best football teams that I've
ever seen in thirteen years being a head football coach.
And I always give credit where credits due, and I'm
not exaggerating.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
When I say that.

Speaker 5 (02:35):
I said that about Michigan that year that when Michigan
beat US with Jim Harboughs.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
I was the best team that we faced. They won
the national championship.

Speaker 5 (02:40):
And this is the defending national championship champion, so you
got to give them.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
A lot of credit. But I thought our guys.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
Played incredibly hard all the way through sixty minutes and
just wasn't our night.

Speaker 4 (02:50):
What did they look like in person as opposed to
when you watch on the film kind of mirror those
two for us?

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, I mean they're.

Speaker 5 (03:00):
They have all the length in the world, the strength
to size, the depth. You know, they're two three deep
at every position. There is no holes to their offense,
defense or special teams there there there isn't there's no flaws,
right because in this world you can just you can
go out and recruit and and and nil and and
portal and buy a player in that spot. And they're

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really good at doing what they do. Uh just look
at their their right tackle. He used to be our
right tackle and he's he's a tremendous football player and
did a great job on our guys. So but they
they were as good as advertised in person.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
You know.

Speaker 5 (03:36):
We we said we're going to be bold, we were
going to be aggressive, and I thought we were.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
You know, we took the.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
Lead, then got to stop and unfortunately had a punt
on the on the third drive. On the second drive
and then the third drive they scored. So it's unfortunate
that the score got to where the score was. But
when you look at the film, you wouldn't necessarily think
that except for a few explosive plays. But they're able
to dissect you pretty quickly. And when we did go
man coverage, they ran by us and had to throw

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the ball down the field, So we knew that was
going to happen. We had a limit as much as
it happened, but unfortunately they were able to score almost
at will.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
Yeah, and we mentioned the talent that they have. I mean,
there's guys who are going to be first round pick,
second round picks. Like when you look at the film,
almost everybody at some point, I know, when they decided
to move on off that roster of starters is going
to be an NFL draft pick. And those receivers are
certainly first round picks. I mean, Tait has a world
class speed and you know, and and that doesn't mention Smith,

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who might be the best in the country, probably is
the best receiver in the country.

Speaker 5 (04:35):
Yeah, there's maybe the first pick overall in the draft,
and maybe a top fifteen pick at wide out.

Speaker 1 (04:39):
So and then they also have.

Speaker 5 (04:41):
A tight end that's a high draft pick, and all
their offensive linemen could be high picks. And they're very
old and experienced, and they're they're really talented. They got
a lot of really good players at the quarterback played
really really well, but we didn't do a lot to
disrupt them. We couldn't get enough pressure on them. Whether
we blitzed, and that was a whole deal. We couldn't
get to them with four and then if we did blitz,
then we were going to leave holes and gaps in theverage,
and if we they did pick it up, they were

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going to be able to get some shots.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
So, you know, I guys played incredibly hard. I'm really
proud of them.

Speaker 5 (05:06):
There are no moral victories at all, nor is am
I saying this with moral victory. But you got to
look at the positives in that performance when you get
beat forty two to three, And like I said, I
thought they just beat us, you know, pound for pound
better than us on that particular day.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
And they didn't make any mistakes.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
I told you we had two title these zero turnovers,
one sack, but they played almost perfect, you know.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
And if we were going to wait for.

Speaker 5 (05:29):
Ohio State to make all these mistakes, and they're the
number one team in the country for a reason and
the defending national champions, and we were going to have
to play and play really, really well get some takeaways
which we didn't get, and it was going to have
to go our way.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
That way from a standpoint, early you mentioned that they
you guys had the nice success. I think Drake was
seven for seven on that drive, and then they did
some different things. They went man all that stuff, and
then the passing game kind of I think you threw
thirteen passes in the first quarter, six in the second,
and then just four in the third and only three
in the set in the in the last quarter.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Take me through how how that.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
All unfolds as the game is what it is and
the scoreboard is what it is, and your philosophy on
trying to get through half two and the passing game
going away.

Speaker 5 (06:12):
We only had three the ball three minutes in the
third quarter, right, So that's one drive and that's basically
sums it up, right, And if we don't execute that,
you're in a punting situation and they just continue to
march the ball down the field. So you know, you
look at it and it's always three different things when
you don't win.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
It is is it the personnel?

Speaker 3 (06:32):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (06:32):
Is it? Is it the coaching? Or is it the scheme?

Speaker 5 (06:35):
And you look at all three of those things and
you want to be able to pull all that off.
But there are some times I told our team in
the locker room, and you know, I wasn't very happy.
I hate losing, and we're going in there to win
the football game. There is we're at a point that's
where I want our players mind. But sometimes you get
in a fight and you get beat up, and you
got to respond to that fight.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
That's what football's about.

Speaker 5 (06:55):
I mean, there is a violent sport and sometimes you're
on the short end of that fight. And and we were,
and our guys are going to respond this week. And
I feel very confident about that. Had a really good
day of practice today. They came in with the intentionality
of getting way better on Sunday, which I appreciate, and
they had great humility in doing it, and I thought
they represented us in a first class fashion. So besides

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the loss, there's a lot of great things to pull
from that.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yeah, I wanted to talk about Sunday because we've talked
about Sundays on this show for a long time. When
you say, you know it didn't go, you know how
anybody wanted it to go on Saturday, But you don't
want them coming in, you know, defeated by it or
beaten by it, because you do have to move on, right,
You've got another handful of games through the rest of
the season. So how what was your approach Sunday, Maybe
after you went back and watched the film and watched
it and everything.

Speaker 1 (07:38):
Yeah, I mean Sunday.

Speaker 5 (07:38):
You can't tell whether we win or lose when you
come in on Sunday because I never wanted to be
result oriented in terms of the teaching, education and response.
Whether you win or lose, Sunday is about growth, period.
So when you came in on Sunday, it was very
natural for our players to come in. I think guys
were disappointed, you know, and you want them disappointed when
you care and you put so much work in it.

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Some game, somebody's got to win, somebody's got to lose.
You pour a ton of effort in but so did Ohio State.
And just because you put an effort doesn't mean that
you're gonna win. It doesn't mean you're gonna play well.
Doesn't mean you're not going to play well. But on
Sundays or for the growth and the response, and I
thought our guys did a tremendous job coming in with
the intentionality of growth and UH and getting better, and
I thought they definitely did that.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
You mentioned this yesterday during your news conference in regard
to Darius Taylor.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
He got back in some game action, which certainly was
good to see.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
Uh, sounds like he was on a bit of a
pitch count, depending on, you know, how the game unfolded.
And I'm sure how he felt and what the doctors thought.
Much of that is out of the coaches control. So
talk us through what that was like Saturday and just
monitoring when and how often he could play. And two
and I know you don't talk a lot about the
health of the players, but how how is he looking
for the approaching week?

Speaker 1 (08:45):
He looks really good, you know.

Speaker 5 (08:46):
I mean, our medical staff handles whether he will play
or not on Saturday. I don't have I only have
some I don't have any control of that. The doctors
and the and the training staff does.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
But he was on a pitch count. It was going
to be.

Speaker 5 (08:58):
It wasn't going to be, Hey, here's how he plays.
It's a workload, and it's a number that is based
on the catapult of what he's ready for. And so
we knew we wouldn't have him for the full game
and the full entirety, but we were going to use
him as much as we possibly could, especially we were
going to space it out depending on how the game
went and you know, being down fourteen to three pretty quick,
we had we had to use a lot of that

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workload in the first half. So but I'm really thankful
that he got a chance to get out there and
some game experience coming off of that injury. Medical staff
has done a really good job of him.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
So trending upwards, yeah, any I thought he'd look pretty
good against a a you know, a team that just
doesn't give up many rushing yards.

Speaker 5 (09:34):
Now, they're really stout, they're really good athletic long but
I think he's he's coming back in a in a
in a progressive way, in a positive way. He's got
a great mindset. He works his tail end off, works
in the training room. They're really really talented. And you know,
again they're giving up four and a half points a game.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
They've allowed two touchdowns two in five games. It's incredible
to me.

Speaker 5 (09:54):
I mean, it's until you experience it, right, It's like,
I think we're even I told Gary we scored three
on the open drive, and you know, we were joking
around because he was like, man, I thought, definitely we're.

Speaker 1 (10:03):
Going to get more than ten.

Speaker 5 (10:05):
You know, like you're starting to think that maybe we'll
be the first team to score double digits on him,
you know. And but that's kind of how it works.
And they do a lot of different stuff that they
never played the same front back to back, and they're
mixing up coverages, putting in different types of man and
cover two and going.

Speaker 1 (10:20):
In and out of it.

Speaker 5 (10:21):
They got a nickel playing on the line of scrimmage
and all of a sudden ball snap he's run to
the half of the field, playing deep half.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
You can do that.

Speaker 5 (10:28):
When you have that type of personnel as well. And
they're very good, very skilled, and they're very disciplined. To
do as much as they do and still be disciplined,
it's a credit to them and the coaching staff.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
One quick follow up to on Darius just in general terms,
and I don't know what his percent will be when
he is one hundred percent, How does that change what
you guys want to do? And I know you have
good depth at running back and you like the other
guys too, but he is he is pretty special running back.

Speaker 5 (10:53):
I mean, your best players are your best players, you know,
and nothing can take that away from being your best player.
You can have depth, you can have solid players, you
can have guys that are going to do really well.
But there's a reason Darius Taylor's Darius Taylor. We don't
have five Darius Taylor's. There's some schools that do. We
have one Darius Taylor. And if our best player on
offense isn't in there, of course that affects you. It's

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up to us to find creative ways to get the
ball to different people and to be really smart with
the football and efficient. But he is somebody who can
change a game by touching the football, and that's what
the NFL is all about, with playmakers, and that's what
really good college football teams abrout. And when they have
great playmakers, it makes things a lot easier. So of
course he's missed guys who've done a great job stepping
into those roles and really stepping in and stepping up

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and doing a really good job. But he's a phenomenal
football player and whenever we get him back, we'll be
thankful to have them.

Speaker 6 (11:44):
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Fleck.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Great crowd here as always, finishing touches on Ohio State,
then homecoming and a lot to talk about with Purdue
six forty. As we mentioned, the kickoff will take here
at four thirty.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
Let's talk about the offensive line. You shifted a few
guys up front and then had some in game subs
as well.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
And I know you're mixing and matching and trying to
find the right combo.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Can you take us through that a little bit?

Speaker 5 (18:36):
Yeah, I think that you know, when you look at
what we've done offensively and going into that game plan
and what their defensive line looked like in the front seven,
we felt like we had to shuffle some things up
just to give us the best advantage to protect Drake,
and I thought Coach Callahan and Coach Harbo did a
really good job of that based on their personnel. Was
it like matching personnel, But we wanted to make sure
that our edges were really secure because I think Greg

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Johnson is as we continue to move, he's a really
good player. He can play tackle. If we ever get
in a pinch, he can go to the tackle. I
thought it was a great opportunity to move in to
left tackle, take Nathan to right tackle, and shuffle around
just the guards, and I thought that we were able
to get what we want out of it. We're going
to continue to have those guys keep battling and fighting
and competing because I think we've got three other guys

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besides the four guys that are solid, that can continue
to compete and can continue to raise the level of
our offensive line play. So you know, in a perfect world,
you'd love to be able to have five guys, but
we don't live in a perfect world. So we got
seven guys, but what is the right combination? And it
might be week to week as we keep looking at that,
but you know we put a lot of attention into it,

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that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
What have the challenge has been short yardage for you?

Speaker 10 (19:43):
This year?

Speaker 1 (19:43):
We talked about it.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
I think at halftime of the Rutgers gamehere we had
the third and one, end of up the fourth and one,
didn't get it? You obviously had the fourth and one here.
It's good to go for it, right you're down fourteen
to three. You want to pick up that yard Every
coach always says we got to get fourth and one
if we go for what have the challenge has been
for you?

Speaker 7 (19:58):
There?

Speaker 5 (19:59):
We haven't got those are those are the challenges. We
haven't got a few of them. And you're never going
to be perfect. I mean that's why it's a little
bit of a gamble and a risk. But I'm going
to be bold and aggressive in those situations. I feel
like we should be able to execute a fourth and one.
I think getting whenever he comes back in a healthy
Darius back could help, you know.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
I mean look at the fourth and one. I mean
they did a good job.

Speaker 5 (20:21):
Of getting some knock back right off the shelf, but
there is no shelf, and so Darius did all he
could to run his feet and get way to get
the yard, but we weren't able to do it, and
Rutgers we weren't able to get it. So our guys
have identified it, they know it. Part of changing is
knowing what you're not executing and why you're not executing it.
So it's just the fundamental technique and going to get
the hard yards. So it's a combination of O line,

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tight ends, running backs, and then schematically, we've got to
find some other ways to be able to get some
short yardage stuff as we keep moving forward, which we
will so but you know me, I like to put
the ball down, be really aggressive and go get a yard.
And that's what football's about and that's our mentality. So
if we're able to do it, we'll do it. If
we're not able to do it, we have to find
a different way of doing it, because I don't want

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to change that belief system.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
We hear this often in short yardage too, and I
just ask, I don't have any thoughts either way on it.
You've I think lined up under center maybe more this
year than you have in the past. Some of those
short yardage situations so have not been under center, They've
been just out of the you know, the pistol or
the gun or whatever you want to call it.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
What's a philosophy on that?

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Because you hear some people say, well, you know, now
you're getting the ball deep in the backfield on short yardage,
why don't you just get your six foot four inch
guy quarterback and get him under center and push in
what you guys did some of that last year?

Speaker 1 (21:33):
So how do you look at just strategically.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
From a fourth down and short or third down and short,
How what's the best way to get that yard?

Speaker 5 (21:40):
Well, if it was, if it was easy, every fourth
down in the National Football League and college football be converted,
it would be converted. There'd be there'd be one hundred
percent conversion rates on fourth down, everybody'd be ten of
ten on third down, and it'd be just lovely.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
And last year, you guys are like ten or twelve
or something, I know, crazy.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
Pushing it because we did it last year doesn't mean
we're going to be good at it, you know what
I mean?

Speaker 1 (21:59):
This year?

Speaker 5 (21:59):
So every team's a little bit different. I thought that,
you know, I thought Max has played a ton. He
was pretty good at the quarterbacks. See he got better
at that. We'll get better at that when we continue
to develop draking it. But those are those are things
you have to get better at by doing it. I
remember UFC, we did it a lot just to get
the yard and then they said that we weren't in,
and then they said we were in.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
So that was your That was your you right in
that ress face, saying you loved him. I did love him,
and that was exactly what I said. And it was
so funny.

Speaker 5 (22:28):
If you guys remember that USC game and everybody thought
I was yelling at the official.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
In fact, I was giving him a compliment.

Speaker 5 (22:33):
I said, I love you right, because I was so
excited about the call.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
You might have mixed one word in there, yeah blank
you know.

Speaker 5 (22:39):
But when you go back, heathers a few once.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
Yeah that's the italianator. Yeah, I've learned that all from her.

Speaker 5 (22:46):
But we had the official and know him very well,
known for years. We had the official here in one
of the previous games and he came up to me
and he's like, you remember me.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
I said, of course, I remember you.

Speaker 5 (22:59):
You know he's like, hey, just you know, for Christmas,
my wife got the picture of you screaming at me
and framed it and wrapped it. I'm like, I didn't
know what to say, thank you or like you.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
Well is part of a meme, and most people think
you're you're mad at the guy right when they see
that meme, they think PJ flag nine nine.

Speaker 5 (23:18):
Everybody thought I was just giving him the business right
where I was actually complimenting him, and h it's just
somewhat ironic that for Christmas, that's the gift.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
That's a beautiful gift. So I'm making an impact.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
You're you're you're a contributor to to just to everything.
Everyone's rolling the boat now right, Well, no doubt about it.
He gave us some calls. He did not, Uh, let's
talk about guards anything left on Ohio State.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
No, Well, you know who I want to talk about everybody, Well,
you know how I want to.

Speaker 1 (23:51):
Talk about it is your punter in all honesty and
Tom Weston. There you go. Yes, not just because his
family's here.

Speaker 5 (23:56):
Tom Weston's mother is here twenty two his girlfriends here
as well, Our fabulous punter, thank you for allowing him
to come to America. And welcome to America. It's great
to have you here.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
That is a good point. This is what Minnesota is
like all year round. Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 4 (24:15):
They look freezing, Yeah, swet shirts on the hold.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
The boy the ball was bouncing off his foot.

Speaker 5 (24:20):
He's he's incredibly talented, and we were just having a
quick conversation over there. I mean, we've got a lovely
family and support. He's he's a gracious kid. He's very empathetic.
The kids love him. He's he's he's really really intelligent,
and he's fun to be around. He's got a great personality.
But you know, he's a really good punter. And the
one thing we were talking about is, you know, my

(24:42):
job has been able to teach him football because it's
one thing to punt, but there's so many situations that
are involved in punting and the punt team, and it's
been really exciting to teach him the game. Sometimes I
stand back, I can't believe I just had to teach
him that, right, that's the last You don't really want
to be teaching that in the middle of the season,
But like you got to keep educating and sometimes you forget,
like he didn't grow up playing football.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
I mean it was Australian rules, Australian.

Speaker 5 (25:04):
Rules rugby and all the other things that you play
over there, and some cricket. So it's great you got
cricket and you got Australian rules and rugby, and then
you got baseball here in football, it's got to be
very confusing for everybody.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
But he's done a great job.

Speaker 5 (25:18):
He's been a very not a pleasant surprise, but we
needed him to come through and be a huge impact
on our season and our team and he has been.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
And flipping the field.

Speaker 4 (25:27):
Underrated, right, I mean underrated plus is that's nothing to
sneeze at.

Speaker 5 (25:32):
Yeah, And you know what he's he's so coachable and
it's so funny because I grabbed him at one of
the punts he had. I think it was oh no,
it was Rutgers and they they brought a shallow and
you know, they only had the returner at thirty five
yards were protecting against the fake and then they'd run
him back and I was like, hey, I got something
for you. He's like, what, I go punt farther. He
kind of looked at me. I'm like, what great coaching

(25:53):
advice on it?

Speaker 14 (25:54):
Far?

Speaker 5 (25:54):
See the see their returners up close. I just want
you to drive it over his head. He looks at
me like, yeah, that's a really good coaching point. And
then the next time he bombs it over the head,
I'm like, I'm a really good coach.

Speaker 1 (26:04):
You know, unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (26:05):
What great. It's like coaches when they say catch the ball. Yeah,
that is not coaching. That's identifying. That's identifying something wrong.
Just like I identified the ball being short. I was like,
punt it farther. Yeah, I mean I just punted off
your foot farther.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Go, no doubt.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
And I remember it because they were They were like
even thirty yards on a couple of those punts. You know,
it was bizarre. Yeah, I thought the same thing. And
Crawford's still around. Is he helping?

Speaker 1 (26:30):
I see him at practice some and on fast Friday
and you know some of that stuff.

Speaker 5 (26:35):
He comes by the office here and there, you know,
visits with our players and it comes by here and there.
So I think the players really enjoy him being around,
just like a lot of our former players do. They
come by, want to be around the team, want to
be around, you know, hanging out with our guys in
the building, use the facilities, I think that's really really important.
So you know, he's such a special guy too, so
I just you know, I love having the Australians around.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yes, for sure, for sure, it's great, no doubt.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
I don't know if he's allowed to go back home
right now. I think he's trying to get a visa
or something like that to go work.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
So he's stuck here. Well, I know if he's stuck.

Speaker 5 (27:05):
Here, but I think he's working on being able to
get a job here, which is which is which is
always challenging with when you're international.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 3 (27:12):
All right, Well that gives us a good segue for
after the break. We'll invite you all to stick around
because we'll talk about some more of the former players.
And you've got more than two hundred coming back for
this weekend. It's homecoming. We'll preview Purdue. Lots to talk about,
so stay with us. It's Go for Football Weekly with PJ.
Fleck from Learfield.

Speaker 1 (27:32):
Well, we did welcome back Mike Grim along with Justin Garden,
the head coach.

Speaker 10 (27:37):
PJ.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
Fleck.

Speaker 3 (27:38):
It's the Go for Football Weekly show every week noon
until one live here on many of these go For
Radio network station, some era later, So if you're listening
to this later, thank you.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
We got a few things. We had Bill McCreevy Junior
up here.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
Good to see him in the house, and he was
trying to get us to come to his next band's performance,
which happens to be the night of the Nebraska game.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
So I think we're probably out.

Speaker 4 (28:00):
I think there's another fan playing that night. His name
is Paul McCartney. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, and the Prime
Are you opening for McCartney, Yeah, he's he's.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
The opening act. Got okay?

Speaker 3 (28:09):
And Jim Jim Brewton. He's been coming to shows for
as long as you can remember. It's his birthday today,
so let's get him all right, Jim a round of
applause as well. You've probably read many of his books
over the years and a long time goal for of course,
so lots to talk about.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Homecoming is always important.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
You always talk about the football team's role in homecoming
is to win the football game on Saturday, right, and.

Speaker 5 (28:33):
Win the football game. Yeah, that's that's our main job.
I always talk about. It's not to decorate the gym
or bring the streamers or spike the punch like we're.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
Not, we're not.

Speaker 5 (28:42):
That's not our job. Our jobs to win the game.
So our guys are working really hard. They had a
great practice today, got a really good mindset and the
response mentality playing a really good Purdue football team. Do
not look at their record because they've they've lost to
truly three ranked teams when you look at it, and
they're really talented on offense, score a lot of points,
aggressive style defense, and a specialists are playing at a
high level. So we've got our work cut out for us,

(29:05):
that's for sure. And just really thankful for all the
people coming back from homecoming this week. Really excited to
see everyone. A lot of former players coming back to
so look forward a great atmosphere at Huntington Bank Stadium.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
The importance of former players, you got over two hundred.
I know you kind of started some of this. They're
going to be lining the tunnel and just that engagement you've.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Always talked about. I think your term is something along the.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
Lines of bridging the future in the past and make
it the present or something like that.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
You say it much more eloquently that you nailed it. Yeah,
pretty close. You just confused me.

Speaker 4 (29:36):
Yeah, I don't know, bridging the past something like that.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yes, I see that in the endoor. So that's the
banner that hangs right back. Yeah, to row the bone.
I want you to put that up.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
I want you to have a bang or something, a
banner that says something like that.

Speaker 5 (29:46):
Now, we do want to be the bridge that connects
the pass to the future.

Speaker 1 (29:49):
And you know we're in the present right now.

Speaker 5 (29:50):
And these guys get to represent Minnesota and Golden Gophers
no matter when you played, no matter where you played,
no matter what position you played, all types of alum,
whether you played Where's or not. We get to represent
you on a national stage for homecoming this week. And
our players are very honored to do that. And don't
take that lightly and take it very seriously. So you
got over two hundred players coming back, which you know

(30:11):
when we first got there, we did the same thing
and we had forty players, and now we have over
two hundred from all different generations and different decades and
very excited to have those guys back on campus and
be around our football program.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
Well, for people that are coming to the game, like
Grimmer said, they're going to be in the tunnel. And
then that's about the time I go down as well,
and you might get a fifteen yard penalty for delay
a game, because those guys keep the yearbooks open and
they're like loitering in the ends though they're all there
taking pictures and so for people watching, like you'll see
all of them in the tunnel obviously, but they hang
out down there, and you know, I had to yell
at a couple.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Ron Johnson, of course he's loitering, but he take it
actually selfies just off exactly. He's not with any other
team mates, just Ron.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
But I do think that's cool though it's like, all right, guys,
it's time to go.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
This was awesome, but now we got to go play
a game.

Speaker 4 (30:58):
But it's cool to just see all those guys down
there really not wanting to leave because they're having a
fun time.

Speaker 5 (31:03):
You know what's great about it is we've got a
lot of guys coming back that are playing in the
NFL right now that did play in the NFL. But
it's the guys that didn't play in the NFL, you know,
the guys that are owning their own business right now,
are working in a marketing job or a sales job,
or their teachers or their educators, or they're in med
school going to be a surgeon like, it's so cool
to get those guys back, and it's fun to watch
them grow up. A lot of them have a family

(31:24):
now they have wife and kids, and you remember them
when they were whatever number they were right, and then
now you start to watch them live their entire life
and see how they've grown as a man. And I
think that's that's always really special for a coach because
we get paid to win, but I do the job
because I love to teach and educate.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
That's why I do the job.

Speaker 5 (31:43):
And it's so fun to watch a lot of your
players come back who are really like your sons. You
come back and you're really really proud of them, and
it's fun to be around those guys.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
And I know you stay in touch with all kinds
of your former players, but you have to worry about.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
The football game.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
So behind the scenes, how many people are working on
make sure all these guys are in the right spot
at the right time and get tickets and passes and
whatever else they need. It isn't as simple as snapping
your fingers.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
I would guess no, not at all.

Speaker 5 (32:08):
Whether it's our operation staff, our recruiting staff, our general manager,
Garrett Turnoff Chandler Bunny. Our whole support staff is involved
in that. So we also have recruits on the field,
and we have recruits.

Speaker 1 (32:19):
That we're meeting with prior to the game.

Speaker 5 (32:20):
So it's all hands on deck, I promise, and a
lot of people doing a lot of hard work to
make that all run really smoothly for.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
All of you. Anything else on homecoming grim, No, I'll
move along.

Speaker 4 (32:30):
I actually want to move back because we talked about
to Ohio State.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
After the first try.

Speaker 4 (32:36):
No, we talked about the Darius Taylor pitch count, and
it's kind of like a new phenomenon.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
I feel like because the.

Speaker 4 (32:41):
Vikings just did this with Christian dearosof people were watching
on Sunday and all of a sudden, Darisaw is not
playing and everyone's like, what's going on.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Nope, it was planned.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
We were gonna he had a lot of snaps last week.
Now we're going to take it easy. Is that a
new phenomenon? I think I thought it used to be like,
you're good enough to play, You're going to go in
there and play. But it seems like there's a lot
more science behind I guess load management, lack of a
better term.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
I think you hit it right on the head.

Speaker 5 (33:02):
I mean, we have way more science and data and
medical information than we've ever had, whether that's with AI
or whether that's with the technology that we have or
the medical technology. So when you have the information, you're
going to respond to that information, because if not, it's
just useless knowledge. If you're not using it to make
it better and make it good and to take care

(33:23):
of those players, then it's pointless. So we have all
that stuff to take care of our players, get them
back on the field healthier, faster, maybe a little slower
if the data says that. But I think that everybody's
got a lot more data and a lot more technology
to keep track of all that so you can make
the best educated decisions moving forward. That is the health

(33:44):
of all of our players, and that's the number one thing,
is the health, safety and well being of our players mentally, physically,
and emotionally.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
So we have way more data. We need to respond
to that data.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
And I think you see that in the NFL, You
see that in college football an awful lot.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
So isn't as simple as you mentioned the word work
load on the Catapult system that when it's a certain
number for a certain player, hey, they might be more
susceptible to re injuring or injurying or something like that,
or kind of take us through how those numbers. I
know you're not the one collating the data, but you
get the info. So how does that work where let's
just say with deris off, for example, it's like, well,
we're going to give them a couple series off, or

(34:18):
Darius has a certain number before, we're probably.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
Going to pull back.

Speaker 5 (34:22):
Yeah, I mean I get told I needed in layman's terms, Yeah,
I needed somebody to explain the data and information to me,
like how many plays? Like, give me a number, right,
because if not, they're like, hey, it's at a three
fifty to four to fifty load. And I'm like, okay, yeah,
I have no idea what that means. Right, you get
paid to tell me what that means, right, because I've
got to adjust it into football terms of how long

(34:42):
you can play them. We felt like we'd get two
quarters out of Darius. So however that looked, we're talking
probably you know, six to eight plays per quarter. So
when you look at it, you know, fifteen sixteen plays.
Maybe that's kind of what we thought it would be
on average, and so that's kind of what we felt
like we could we could have with his load. I

(35:02):
don't know what the Vikings philosophy is. But then you're
also listening to the player, you're listening to the medical staff.
You look up on the scoreboard and you know, once
it was twenty eight to three and thirty five to three,
it was like, all right, well, I'm glad we pulled
them because I would probably would have pulled them by
now anyway. But it's you know, it's one of those
things you got to listen to the science and data
or why do you have it?

Speaker 3 (35:22):
And Guargie and you both mentioned the catapult system. Some
probably know what that is, but it is it's pretty unique.
We see it at practice. Do you guys wear it
in the game too? They wear it in the game.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
Yes, just explain a little what that is.

Speaker 5 (35:33):
Yeah, I mean it is a and I don't want
this word to get out, but it's a glorified medical
tracking device in practice, right, and you could wear this
thing twenty four to seven and it gives you all
types of data, whether it was sleep or how hard
you're working, or you know, your your beats per minute
all these other things, right, And give you all this
health safety and medical information, but we keep a monitoring

(35:56):
practice to monitor their workloads, their top speeds, workloads versus
game workloads in practice, and then we measure all of
that and have running data throughout the entire year every
time they're doing something with physical activity to know what
to give them and when to pull back. And that's
about as good as I can explain it. I mean,
it's a glorified tracking device. It keeps track of everything

(36:18):
that they do medically throughout the practice, and I think
that gives you information to respond to when you're making
practice plans, when you're adjusting certain things for training, camp
or the season. We have also data that comes out
that says, hey, this guy's at risk and getting hurt,
that he could be what we call in the red
where the workload is getting really high, which then you

(36:39):
have to respond to how many reps he's going to
get the next day in practice, or maybe he had
a lot of big workload in the game and you
look at Sunday and you're going to hold him out
of Sunday because the workload's so high. Every single player
on our football team gets evaluated that way, and that's
how you can create and do everything you can as
a coach to keep people healthy and on the field
as long as possible.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
Well, as you mentioned, there's a bit of a trend
there with with different players, both college and NFL. Another
trend and it's not, you know, a trend that's just exploding,
but you see it every now and then.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
We saw it this weekend.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
I know, last week on this show when we were
on campus, we talked about your rule of not you know,
reaching the football toward the end zone. This week in
the NFL we see a guy again slow up at
about the eight or nine yard line and at about
the two inch line.

Speaker 1 (37:26):
Thinking he's in the end zone.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
Why, I don't know, it's right in front of him,
and he loses the ball and it goes out of
the end zone. And you know, one of the weird things.
One of the first things I thought of is I
wonder if PJ. Fleck has a drill to show his
guys how to make sure you're in the end zone
before you do anything like that.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
So you talked to your team about some of that
stuff that happens. And I don't know, you've known me,
you've known me nine years. H what do you think.
I think you probably have talked to your team about that.

Speaker 5 (37:49):
So we have a rule that you've got to run
through the goal line, through the back line. If you're
not being tackled in the end zone, you got to
run all the way. You'll see our players run all
the way out of the back of the end zone
with the ball.

Speaker 1 (37:59):
That helps you avoid it, yes.

Speaker 5 (38:04):
Because if they're two yards short, at least they're eight
yards deep in the end zone and we evaluate all
of that. You even saw, you know, Trevor Lawrence last
night reaching the ball over on a quarterback sneak that.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
Cost him a touchdown, you know.

Speaker 5 (38:14):
And there's so many that we showed that play that
you're talking about from the Cardinals this morning. Yeah, And
so there's so many games that are lost before they
can even be won. And most games are lost, not one,
and most games that are won are lost less than
the other team lost it.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
So we're teaching our players how to go win games.

Speaker 5 (38:33):
And it's very difficult to do that because you've got
to be incredibly disciplined, and you have to value the
ball and maybe you have to do with things a
little bit different than other people.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
But that's why when we do.

Speaker 5 (38:41):
Reach the ball, everybody sees a touchdown, everybody's cheering, and
I'm furious. I am just furious because I know what
could have been. As a head coach, you're always looking
at worst case scenario and then you're almost working always backwards.
And that's how your life gets screwed up when you're
a coach, because you're always looking worst case scenario. You
go from being the most positive guy in the room
being a head coach. Now you're like mister negativity always.

(39:01):
You know, because you're always looking at worst case scenarios.
You got to respond to that. So I think that
that is that is an issue, and I think a
lot of people want to celebrate before they can get
across the line, and we want our guys celebrating together,
not individually. So it's unfortunate because it happens all the
time towered to the NFL.

Speaker 1 (39:19):
It happens every single week.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
And with you and I think people know this by now,
We've talked about it many times. You your guys will
never give up the ball unless it's to the referee
or I can practice. Managers will come and grab it
and you move on to the next play and that's
true with touchdowns. I've noticed as well, like I can't
imagine a go for.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
Doing that, but you just you still have to, you know,
pound it in their head.

Speaker 9 (39:42):
Right.

Speaker 5 (39:42):
Well, yeah, I mean the whole saying about the balls.
The ball's a program in our in our culture. So
if you're not emphasizing that and showing those things in practice,
and you're not doing something drastic to get that point across,
then it's just another quote, another saying.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Right, So, ball is the program. Our players take.

Speaker 5 (39:57):
The ball from the chin position and hand the ball
to a manager and practice. We stopped practice last week
because somebody tossed the ball literally for me to George.
They just tossed the ball and that's it. We stopped practice.
And you would have thought that somebody did something horrifically wrong,
like horrifically wrong. But you can't compromise that. Teams that

(40:17):
compromise lose. You cannot compromise with yourself, nor can you
compromise against the culture of what we're all teaching, including myself.
So when you start to compromise, you start to fade
and things start getting to be a little laxadaisical. You
can't create that as a CEO or as a head
football coach or a business leader, Like, you can't create
that it's okay, it's okay this time.

Speaker 1 (40:38):
It is or it isn't.

Speaker 5 (40:39):
And once it isn't, then you start to lose all
the things that you've created over the years.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
So it's really important to us.

Speaker 5 (40:45):
And then when you see us in the game, our guys,
you know, are handing the ball the official and it
just again it goes back to the.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
Ball as a program. How important that really is. I
feel like the officials don't appreciate that as much as
they should. They sure not.

Speaker 4 (40:56):
I should be giving a call it because you watch
other guys balld are flying all over the place, they
have to turn around pick it up. You're guys throwing
it at him. Yeah, it's just right in the pocket
every time.

Speaker 1 (41:04):
Do you I have not gotten one? Thank you.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
I was wondering if is the ref ever come over
like usually that's what an umpire and then the side
or whatever. We appreciate it, guy, that's awesome. Yeah, it's
easy for us. Make sorry we missed the hold. Yeah yeah, sorry,
we picked up the flash. Sorry sorry sorry. Jamison Gears
was being molested and they didn't call a penalty on it,
or they did call a penalty and then the other
guy talked him out of it.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
You know, I take responsibility for sending us down this bro,
the guy with the back turned.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
Yeah, the guy that had no angle whatsoever, exactly.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (41:32):
I didn't understand that one at all. I was not anyway.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Just hand him the ball back better next time.

Speaker 5 (41:38):
Yeah, we must not be doing it enough, you know.
Maybe maybe that's it. No, I've never I've never heard of,
thank you. I wonder why.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
Yeah, that's interesting. All right, I'm gonna tell him that
this week. Though. You guys don't appreciate us hand and
use football enough. Absolutely saves them so much, so many steps.
It really does. I'm going to actually use that.

Speaker 3 (41:56):
Yeah, absolutely, Guardie. Do you have to go find your
parking spot?

Speaker 1 (41:59):
I do?

Speaker 3 (41:59):
All right. Well, it's been fun having you here for
time for I'm sure it's been a black We've got
our fourth quarter coming up to stay with us. Let's
go for Football Weekly with PJ. Fleck Fromlear Field.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
Care Crew.

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Speaker 6 (42:39):
The game against Rutgers on September twenty seventh recognized the
thirteenth annual Celebrate agg and Food Day at Huntington Banks Stadium.
Both the game broadcast and the presentation inside the stadium
celebrated the tireless efforts in the agriculture industry.

Speaker 1 (42:52):
Go for fans. We can all be.

Speaker 6 (42:53):
Proud of the continued efforts, results and the talented people
that work in these industries to provide a sustainable food
supply with so many changing variables. The Gophers would like
to thank the presenting sponsors of this event. CCHS, I'm
Peer Financial, Undeniably, Dare.

Speaker 1 (43:06):
And Bex.

Speaker 14 (43:10):
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Seasonal, aromatic, juicy veggies.

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Speaker 1 (43:34):
You want to make a veggie lover happy, Shop cub
for produce and shop happy.

Speaker 15 (43:40):
Visit the University of Minnesota Bookstore, your destination for the
area's largest selection of U of M and Golden Gopher apparel,
gifts and novelties for fans of all ages, from the
latest styles to timeless favorites. It's your one stop shop
for all things Gophers. And when you shop here, you're
giving that because every purchase directly supports the Universe City

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of Minnesota.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
Stop by our campus location.

Speaker 15 (44:02):
Or shop anytime online at bookstores dot umn dot edu.

Speaker 1 (44:07):
Go Gophers in hy Pines.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
We want to invite you to visit the University of
Minnesota Bookstore for the area's largest selection of U of
M Gopher and Gopher apparel that is, and gifts and
novelties for fans of all ages, from the latest styles
to timeless favorites. It's your one stop shop, and every
purchase directly supports the University of Minnesota. Shop in store
on campus or online at bookstores dot umn dot edu.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
We just gave away two.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
Twenty five dollars gift cards from the bookstore, one of
the benefits of being here in person for the show.
A couple of other quick notes, some house cleaning, aam as.
We want to thank Dan robotham Our on site engineer
Michael Tackett is our producer, Paul Rovnak and Gopher Sports Communications,
and Garrett Chernoff and Chandler Bunning from Gopher Football. And
one quick note homecoming this weekend. The football game starts
at six point forty. We'll take here at four point thirty.

(44:53):
Don't forget the Gopher Garden Party. That's the pregame fan
fest at Huntingdon Bank Stadium sponsored by Huntingdon b Located
on Oak.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
Street outside the stadium.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
Gopher Garden opens three hours before every home game, including
this one. Catch the gop football pregame show, enjoy the
Minnesota marching band and experience all the excitement. One other note,
Nico Medved's team will have a maroon and gold scrimmage
at Williams Arena leading up to the game, So if
you're in the tailgate lots early at two thirty at
Williams Arena, Nico's team will have a little intrasquad scrimmage

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so you can get a sneak peak.

Speaker 5 (45:26):
Hey there just text to Nico. Yeah, Texas with Nico
just a second ago. So he's he's in the neighborhood. Yeah,
you guys heard our new neighbors. Yeah, neighbors. And then
you know they have Big Ten media day. I think tomorrow, right, Yeah,
they're off to Chicago.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
I think a Thursday is the is maybe the day
for that, and and that's kind of fun. Come out,
do some tailgating, go watch some basketball at two thirty.
Players will be signing autographs after and then across the
street to the football stadium for Gopher football and homecoming.

Speaker 1 (45:54):
Exciting time too.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
It's a it's a way for you all to get
to know that new roster, and I know they're very
excited about it. So I think we've covered everything on that.
Let's also chat a little bit. You hit on Purdue
about the fact that they have, you know, their three
losses or all the teams that have been or are
currently ranked in the Big Ten. That's not that uncommon
that you play a bunch of good teams. They come

(46:16):
in at two and three last week. You know, you
watch that game against Illinois, they fumbled the punt deep
in their own territory. They had a fourth down deep
in their own territory, and so Illinois had the benefit
of a couple of short fields. So what do you
see from the Boilermakers.

Speaker 5 (46:31):
Well, first of all, they're really well coach. Coach Odom
does a tremendous job. Been a head coach numerous places
and had success anywhere he's been. I got a lot
of respect for him, got a chance to be around
him in the offseason, and tons of respect for him.
He's a defensive minded coach. Defense just plays incredibly aggressive offense.
It all runs through their quarterback, Number sixteen, the Brown Kid,

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and he produces everywhere. I mean, he can beat you
with his feet, hit his arm, he throws on the
run really well. For their tailback, he's been around the league.
You'll know when you see him. He's been around the
league for a long time. He's got over thirty five
hundred yards. You'd be glad when he graduates. I sure
will be so hard to bring down.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
And he's a really gifted tailback.

Speaker 5 (47:11):
I think he's one of the best tailbacks in the
Big Ten when you evaluate what he does, the contact balance,
the broken tackles, the type of game he has It
kind of reminds you of a little Darius taylor Field
because he does so much in the past game in
the run game, they got four really explosive receivers. You know,
they run the ball really well, and defensively they're they're aggressive.
So we're gonna have to play our best game of
the year that we've played up to this point. But

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I know our guys are up for the challenge. But
it's going to be in a really exciting game, that's
for sure, and really really good opponent.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
Any good insight from Drew Bibber who was with that program.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
For a while.

Speaker 5 (47:43):
They've got so much turnover over there, so not really no,
I mean, but we're excited for Drew and.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
He had a nice game last week. He did he's
getting better for a weeks ago, Yeah, he's getting better
by the week.

Speaker 5 (47:52):
His role continues to get bigger and bigger, and just
excited for him to have that opportunity.

Speaker 1 (47:56):
Well, very good. He is your head coach.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
Give him a round of applauses he gets ready for
homecoming this Saturday. Has mentioned it's a six point forty
kickoff and a four to thirty pregame. And one final
reminder you can get your Chick fil A App ready.
During this week's Go for Football, one lucky fan will
attempt a field goal and the Kicking for Chicken Challenge
Regardless of the kick, all Gopher fans win. Open your
Chick fil A App next Monday to resume your free item.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
That's it. We appreciate everyone for coming.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
Good to see a good crowd and this has been
Go for Football Weekly with PJ.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
Fleck from lear Field