Gopher Football Weekly w/ PJ Fleck 10-14-25

Gopher Football Weekly w/ PJ Fleck 10-14-25

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Welcome to Gopher Football Weekly with p J. Fleck on
the Gopher Sports Network from Learfield with the.

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Speaker 5 (01:00):
Another edition of Gopher Football Weekly with PJ.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Fleck.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
The Minnesota Golden Gophers are four and two overall, two
and one of the Big Ten. A big win on
homecoming this past Saturday, and then a Friday night primetime
under the Lights game upcoming with the twenty fifth rank
Nebraska Cornhusker. So an exciting time here on the U
of M campus, and that's where we find ourselves for
this week's edition of the Show. Back to the Tipsy
Steering High Pines next week. Justin Guard is always great

(01:25):
to see you.

Speaker 6 (01:25):
Great to be here, Great to be here halfway through
the season. I can't believe it. Time flycheames in. How
do ime fly? How does the head coach PJ. Fleckfield
one game at a time? Yeah, No, I'm not sure
if it's flying by, that's for sure. You know when
you're gonna in it.

Speaker 7 (01:39):
And I don't know if it's flying by, even though
I can't tell you what day it is.

Speaker 6 (01:42):
Yeah, no, we don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:43):
Yeah, it's it's it feels like Tuesday, but it's really
a Wednesday for you guys.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Know, I'm just going to say it's game week.

Speaker 5 (01:49):
Yeah, because we know it's a Friday kickoff. And it
has been one of those weird schedules, lots of night games,
a West Coast trip, a Thursday game, one Friday game
this week, another Friday game later on, you play at
a base field later on. I mean there's a lot
of curveballs to keep the baseball heckular very nice. But
how do you manage that schedule? I know you probably
started looking at it in July in terms of all

(02:10):
the different scenarios that it presents.

Speaker 7 (02:13):
Yeah, Garrett turn Off, our GM does a really good
job looking at all these things in the offseason, whether
it's travel, working with our operations team and his team,
or just looking at the weekly schedules of what's to come.
You really don't know when you play and for a
little bit later on when they actually make the schedules
and what days you're going to play. But you know,
coming from the Mid American Conference, I mean I was
involved in maction, You'd play out four day weeks, nine

(02:36):
day weeks, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays. You're dealing with class, You're
dealing with buses, you're dealing with seven hour bus road
trips and getting guys back for class, and you've kind
of done it all. So I'm not saying that we've
used all of that, because I think every team is
a little bit different. You're making those decisions based on
the health and well being of all your players.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
You're making it based.

Speaker 7 (02:56):
On schedules of schools in their class schedules, but you're
also making the schedule based on the exact team that
you have and what's best for them. How healthy are we,
what do we need to do to make this a
week really payoff come Friday night? And this is no different.
I mean, every week is completely a little is different
from the other. Doesn't mean they can't be similar to

(03:16):
what you've done in the past, but you're making it
for this particular team.

Speaker 5 (03:19):
And we'll talk about Purdue and that nice win on Saturday,
But just a quick follow with the Friday game. I
know national there is always concerned, well, that's a high
school football Friday night, and you're taking that away. But
in Minnesota this week, the nice thing is there is
no high school football Friday, so you'll get center spotlight
and really nodding fringe on the high.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
School prep scene. That was the whole point. Yeah, that
was perfect. It worked out really well.

Speaker 7 (03:42):
But yeah, I mean, I think you know, Fridays have
always been in our minds surprise school football just in
general the way we're all raised in Saturday College and
Sunday NFL. But you look at every day of the week.
Once we start getting towards November. I mean there's football
on on Tuesdays. You got Major League Baseball playoffs right now,
every night, you got basketball starting up with the NBA
and college back. So I think with the TV contracts

(04:03):
and that's all changed. I mean, our traditionalist of way
we look at it is Friday, high school, Saturday, college
and NFL Sunday. But I think in the reality, it's
any time that the TV can get you on there. Yeah,
and you can get exposure for the conference in the
school you do it. And I really like these Friday setups,
I really do. I think it helps you on the
back end for the next week. You got to kind

(04:23):
of sacrifice the week going into it. But when you
look at that schedule, everybody's got something to sacrifice somehow,
some way. When you have an eighteen team schedule that
you're going coast to coast.

Speaker 5 (04:31):
With and everybody Friday night that's a college football fan
is going to be watching the Golden Golfers and the
corn Huskers.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
How fun is that? Yeah? That's perfect. We love that.

Speaker 6 (04:38):
Going back to Saturday, did you learn about your team
and how they came back or did it kind of
confirm what you already thought or things that you already
knew about.

Speaker 7 (04:46):
I think it verified and confirmed the type of people
they are, the courageous comeback and never.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
You're never out of it.

Speaker 7 (04:53):
The resolve and the resiliency that we've seen the entire year.
And you know you've asked me the whole year. I
mean I've told you I really like the football team
because they're fun to coach, They're resilient, they like to
get better, they grow, they're connected. You know, it's really
hard to find I think a really connected football team
in twenty twenty five. That doesn't promise you to win,
but it gives you a really good chance when things.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Don't go your way to respond.

Speaker 7 (05:16):
It's not just doesn't give you the best chance to
win when you come off a really tough loss.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
And Ohio State was tough.

Speaker 7 (05:23):
I mean we got beat and then you have to
get them back and get them to respond.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
One.

Speaker 7 (05:28):
That's a coaching responsibility too, that's a player responsibility. And there's
a lot of people who can't recover over a really
hard loss, and you see that throughout the entire country.

Speaker 8 (05:36):
That is not.

Speaker 7 (05:38):
Natural, and so you have to find a way to
get everybody to buy into that and from a player
standpoint and a coaching standpoint, and it's very difficult. I'm
not saying we have the magic sauce to do that,
but I'd like to think we have the best chance
to do it. And then you're still dealing with eighteen
to twenty two year olds. And you know, I think
our guys have responded very well, coming off the win

(05:58):
at Rutgers, going to a hoiule day, coming back responding
with Purdue, you know, coming off the lost of Cal,
going into Rutgers, going into a bye week. Actually, you
never know when you have that much time. So again,
this is the team's exactly what we thought we would
we would be character wise, but it's nice to verify
that when you have real game experience to prove that.

Speaker 5 (06:20):
And you made for the second time in your last
two home games, both these home games, what I would
call winning plays.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Right when it came crunch time, you had guys that
made winning plays.

Speaker 5 (06:30):
And how encouraging and how rewarding is that to see
guys you're coaching be good in clutch time.

Speaker 7 (06:37):
Yeah, I think that was the difference in the game,
is that our best players made huge plays and huge
moments we talked about you have to have attention to
detail within the fundamentals. That's where we have to get
better at the most. Then you're going to plug it
into the scheme that you have as coaches. We got
to get better at that as we keep going forward.
We have six games of data, really four power forward
games of data of what our teams were good at
and what we aren't good at. Now two of the

(06:58):
games we've been down so early, so quickly that it
changed the way we called the game offensively and defensively
to get us back in the game. So we've got
six games of data. Excuse me, we know where we
need to be. We feel really good about the second
half of the schedule of how we have to adapt that.
But you got the attention to detail, you plug it
into the scheme. But then the biggest part is can

(07:19):
you do it under the pressure of the situation? Can
you do it in the game? Can you do it
when it counts the most? Can you do it when
it's the highest pressure situation? And I thought our players
showed they could do that over the last few weeks,
and I thought they showed that this past week. And
if it wasn't for those big plays by those big
players and those big moments we win and won the game.
And then if you attach that to the four to
one turnover battle, that's how we won the game. You
look at the stat sheet, you pull the turnovers out

(07:41):
of there, right, we were really we weren't penalized a lot.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
They were penalized nine times.

Speaker 7 (07:47):
We were penalized three, which is how we're going to
have to win these close games. But if you take
the ball away from there, you kind of look at
it to statue it, p dou must have won that game.
But then when you throw in the playmaker's part and
you throw in the penalty p east.

Speaker 1 (08:00):
And the ball, hey, you know, that's how you win games.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
As you look at that, when as you mentioned, I think,
is you know, a couple hundred yards difference.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
They had eight more first down.

Speaker 5 (08:09):
One of the stats that popped out, they were five
trips to the red zone. You were two, but you
had two touchdowns on the two trips. They had two
touchdowns and five trips and an interception and some other things,
and that results in a win. Then when you get
a pick six mixed.

Speaker 7 (08:22):
In there, you go, I think that's the biggest the
difference in the game right there. So it's not just
the pick six, it's Kerry Brown's interception which takes points
off the board. We're good when we're taking the ball
away when we can, we can maximize our opportunities. On offense,
we have, you know, a freshman quarterback, We've got one
of our best receivers as a freshman. They got a
freshman up front, and these guys are developing. Some of

(08:45):
our best playmakers are really young and they're coming into
their own. They're not a finished product, and they've got
to keep getting better. But we've got to get them
better at the things we got to get better at
now and make sure that they improve and so they
can go out there and make the plays that maybe
we're not making at times.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
You know, we've got to be better.

Speaker 7 (09:01):
In the contested catches piece, and we got to be
better in the wide receiver position, and that that falls
on me. But it's the attention to detail that allow
you to get open, that allow you to go make
the play within the technique and fundamentals that your coach
to do to make that explosive play and be the
playmaker you can do or can be and maximize your
opportunity and your percentages of making those plays.

Speaker 6 (09:19):
A lot of individual plays to talk about. One we
probably haven't spent enough time on as Drake's scramble on
the fourth and two.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
I think coming out of a time in a running quarterback.

Speaker 6 (09:27):
That's what I was going to say. Give me your
inner monologue, is that whole play is going on and
he's got to make this guy miss and get to
the corner.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
I don't know if it was a monologue. It was
just holding my breath. Yeah, you know. Heather asked me
a question. The other We were watching some show.

Speaker 7 (09:41):
We don't watch much TV, but there's this like a
Special Forces show, And the reason I watch is because.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Deckers on it. Eric Eric, Eric Decker and his wife, and.

Speaker 7 (09:53):
So they're on the Special forceing and they kind of go.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
In this and kind of hold their breath.

Speaker 7 (09:57):
They strap them in this like airplane and submurdered underwater
and you got to hold it for thirty twenty seconds
and then undo your buckle and go out the right door.
So they're training you in these like Navy seals and
Army rangers trying thing. Anyway, I'm getting off on a
side note, because you definitely asked me. It was more
about like holding my breath right, you know, and had
to ask me, how long can you hold your breath?

Speaker 1 (10:16):
I'm like, that's a great question. What is she trying
to get? As as long as you need to know,
just you want me, like you want me to hold
my breath?

Speaker 7 (10:21):
Pass out, But I have no idea how long you
hold my breath. But those are the hold your breath
plays that you're like, and they're.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Like, oh, go a great job, great job, great job.
So your hurt almost skips a beat. You hold your breath.

Speaker 7 (10:32):
But when he's he's not a running quarterback as we
all know, but when he starts to move and he
must see something if he's going to go take it.
And I think he does have very good vision of
feel of the pocket for a young player and knows
when he can go extend to play and when he can't.

Speaker 5 (10:49):
That that was not a designed run, but it was
an option out of the play That.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Was not a design run.

Speaker 7 (10:54):
As much as we'd like to take credit for that,
that was not a design run. That was a play
action pass that they did a really good job recovering.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
But I thought he was going to come out the
front side.

Speaker 7 (11:02):
If you look at the play, I mean, his eyes
are naturally on the right side, and there's a there's
a huge hole on the right side. Though he was
going to come out the right side, that was probably
the easier way. He went on the other side, and
there's a defender standing there. And we actually stopped it
in our team meeting the other day and I said,
all right, A, we get the first down, b we
get tackled for a four yard loss. See something catastrophic happens.

(11:24):
I said, if I stopped the picture right here, what
do you think happens? And of course they're all laughing,
you know, and I said, but the common person, by
looking at this still photo would say B or C.
They wouldn't have thought the first down. And he makes
a quick move and freezes the defenders I mean the ball,
and and then you know he was out of there

(11:45):
faster than than than he is.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
It looked really, really natural.

Speaker 7 (11:49):
And if we can get that big body moving here
and there, and you know he can have confidence taking
what the defense gives.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Them, he can he can make that part of his game,
that's for sure.

Speaker 5 (11:57):
You mentioned Carrie Brown's interception, and we probably underestimate just
how good of a play to dive flat out like
Byron Bucksman would be flying for a ball in the
gap in center field or right center field, and one
not to knock it down just to make it an
incomplete but to get possession of that thing. That's that's
an unbelievably athletic play.

Speaker 7 (12:17):
I don't know if you watch the MLB playoffs, and
again I get bits and pieces of things, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
I have something on the.

Speaker 7 (12:23):
Background and at night Vladimir Guerrero Junior, he dove for
home plate or slid at home plate. The other day
here's a huge man jumping, diving, hit in his stomach
and it looks like a second baseman doing it, and
you really have a lot of appreciation for the athletes
that they are.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Kerry Brown, same way everybody.

Speaker 7 (12:44):
Talks about car Coy's interception, which rightfully so, the way
it was caught, with type of ball that was thrown.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
What we needed to steal each week.

Speaker 7 (12:53):
Or going into that week was we're gonna have to
take some of those RPOs and pick it off or
knock it down. And to make the play he did
was outstanding. But carry Brown's interception. I mean that gets
it doesn't get lost because people remember it. But that's
it points off the board.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yep.

Speaker 7 (13:06):
And that was just as critical of putting points on
the board as Coy's interception was. But what a play
by Kerrie. And Kerry is a very instinctual player. He
can play every position in the secondary. Very selfless, quiet
young man that just loves to play football and works
his tail end off. So it's nice to see guys
get the reward for all their hard work like Kerry.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
Well, we'll have more on that.

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of the. Season marcaby threw it and it was just
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time For brown to close the gap.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
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Speaker 1 (19:41):
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pick might have been.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
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Speaker 3 (19:54):
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Speaker 1 (19:57):
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Speaker 2 (19:58):
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Speaker 1 (20:06):
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call you you, Know heather said that the other? Day
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Speaker 7 (20:18):
Tidbits you, KNOW i get to hear your voice almost every, day,
right BUT i don't get to hear you call the.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Game And heather said that the other.

Speaker 7 (20:25):
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color commentary guy you?

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Know you got that complimented our show the other day
with who was? It The Ohio state people came.

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you got a.

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said that he's so.

Speaker 1 (20:49):
Good.

Speaker 5 (20:50):
Man, well either have that or You it's an easy, job,
though when those kind of plays get made and it's.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Fun and, uh that was fun to to.

Speaker 5 (20:57):
Call and all three of those. PLAYS i mentioned in
The Highlight live that The nestor pick reminded me Of.
Rutgers you guys were down fourteen. Nothing then you make
a nice drive and, score and Then Carrie brown gets the,
interception and you score, again and it goes from fourteen
to nothing to fourteen, fourteen and then you're down ten.
Nothing you get a nice, drive get a, Touchdown nestor
gets the, interception you kick a field, goal and it's

(21:17):
ten ten in no, time like LIKE i think The
rutgers game those. Were those touchdowns were like a minute,
apart and then you do it again in the second.
Half it's seven seven seconds. Apart, yeah you know second
part fourteen. Points you guys are like basketball.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
SHOW i were in. Spurts why is everybody so? Worried
you got?

Speaker 7 (21:34):
IT i mean it if you said but if you
said that and it is, true and why is everybody? Worrying,
Yeah i'm gonna think about. It that wasn't worried.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
Something, listen those are things that are happening this. Year
it all. Works how it's. Working how it's.

Speaker 6 (21:47):
Working you've got the, acceleratzy you've got the accelerated in
the middle and finished strong.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Down yeah.

Speaker 6 (21:52):
Geez the starting fast we're working, on is that?

Speaker 1 (21:55):
Fair? Yeah we did it.

Speaker 7 (21:56):
Earlier we did start fast Against Northwestern, State.

Speaker 5 (21:58):
LIKE i was as fast AS i, mean you had
your starting quarterback out in about four.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
Minutes, yeah and nine plays in we were. Done but the.

Speaker 7 (22:05):
Starters so, again it's college. FOOTBALL i, mean you look
at you. KNOW i, mean we watched last night's game
was on in the, background And detroit had a tough
time moving.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
The ball and scoring. Points and football is.

Speaker 7 (22:16):
Hard garrett always tells me it's a zero sum, game
and that's his that's his number one.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Quote back to, ME a zero sum. Game and somebody
has to, win somebody.

Speaker 7 (22:23):
Has to, lose somebody has to move the, ball somebody
has to stop the.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
Ball it is what it.

Speaker 7 (22:27):
Is i'm just that's Why i'm really proud of our
players finding a way to, win having to resolve in the, courage, tenacity,
connection belief to go do. It and it's a fun
it's a fun team to. Coach And i'm really proud
of them for, THAT i have.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
A question relating to.

Speaker 5 (22:45):
That it is one hundred, percent particularly you, know at this,
level it's a it's a, zero you know zero some
game you win or lose right at the end of the,
day and that's what ultimately you're judged. ON i saw
a tweet From Kurt warner over the weekend and coaching's.
Coaching he was talking about coaching his kids in high
school and that a big challenge for him was trying
not to coach on the result of the play or

(23:06):
the result of the, game and more on the, process
like did the quarterback read it? Right did he you,
know maybe he threw in the right. Spot it was
intercepted because a kid just made a great play in
a game like this where you even mentioned really at
the start of the, show if you look at the stat,
sheet you know it's a hard game to. Win so
how do you handle that where the end result is
exactly what you? Want you want to, Win but there

(23:27):
were some, areas, CERTAINLY i, think where you improve. On
so is that a challenge to reward the kids but
also make sure that you know you judge him not
just based on the result of the.

Speaker 1 (23:37):
Win.

Speaker 7 (23:38):
Yeah two things On, sunday you can't tell whether we
won or. Lost we coach specifically on how the game played, Out,
right what are we good? At what aren't we good?
At what does the film? Say we completely take the
result out of. It there are days we win and
you walk in here and it is, like we didn't
deserve to. Win that that is really. Bad that's just bad.

(23:58):
Defense that's not good off that's just good, offense and
that's bad, defense vice. Versa and so you're truly peeling
back the onion and not letting the result affect the
improvement of the incremental spots that you have to keep
getting better. At and that's why we talk about the
attention to. Detail you plug it into the scheme and

(24:19):
then you have to be able to do that under
the pressure of the.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Situation and if you peel back that.

Speaker 7 (24:23):
Onion it all starts with the attention to detail within the.
Fundamental if we don't get better at the fundamentals and,
techniques it doesn't matter what scheme we, have but our
attention to detail tell us within the, fundamental tell us
what the scheme can be and what we can cannot,
do and then can we do that under the pressure
of the situation is the result from the, game whether
we can or cannot make that, Play so you can't

(24:43):
tell On, sunday.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
You, KNOW i thought it was really.

Speaker 7 (24:45):
Interesting you, know my fifteen year old plays baseball And
Josh donaldson used to be our neighbor who used to
play for The Minnesota twins and The Toronto.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Blue, jays and he was An All.

Speaker 7 (24:55):
Star AND i remember THAT i asked, HIM, i do
you have any advice for my kid away from, like you,
know covering up the umpire's feet with dirt and home
plate and kicked out on the home run Team. CONSTANTLY
i still talked To josh to this, day but it
was so far because we play in the front yard
mysell we hit a home run and do What josh,
did AND i was, like, whoa. Whoao he's our neighbor

(25:16):
and he's watching them ON. Tv HE'S i have a
way too much of an.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Influence one and The White.

Speaker 5 (25:20):
Sox he hits the home run and then gets kicked
out as he's touching home plate.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
By the time he got. Home, yeah that that's not the.

Speaker 7 (25:30):
Point the point is, Is josh, said the best ADVICE
i can give him is that baseball is. Design there
are nine people on that field to make sure that
you don't get a. Hit and ALL i focused on
WHEN i was hitting my best was putting a good
bat to the ball and making really good.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Contact and IF i was trying to hit the ball
to the opposite, field DID i do?

Speaker 7 (25:51):
That he goes if they made a great, catch they
made a great. Catch if he made a great, pitch
AND i had a really.

Speaker 1 (25:56):
Good at, bat fouled a bunch, off, battled but hey
he got me. On that got me on.

Speaker 7 (26:00):
That but ALL i did was try to make great,
contact AND i could go over. Thirty but IF i
hit that ball contact for thirty, TIMES i didn't look
at it as. FAILING i looked at it and didn't
look at as a. FAILURE i looked at his. Failing
Where i'm going to keep. GROWING i just have to
stay consistent BECAUSE i am putting good bat to the
ball and it's a really good at. Bat there's TIMES
i got struck. OUT i but there were thirteen pitches

(26:20):
THAT i got off the pitcher and that was a
really good at. Bat SO i think when you're talking
about three hundred to put you in The hall Of
fame three out of.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
Ten it was great advice THAT i could give my
Son carter about.

Speaker 7 (26:31):
Baseball that actually is the same way we're doing it
at a football, level just doing it with way more
players on the field and a way different. Game but
you're doing that type of, mentality the focusing on the
process of growing and getting better from the result that's
actually on the, film that is the data to respond.

Speaker 6 (26:49):
From what other great role models do you have for your.
Kids i'm trying to think on the. Fly who else
they have posters of in their?

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Room you know WHAT i.

Speaker 6 (26:57):
Mean, yeah we talked after the, GAME. Pja you talked
about you got to find a way to get the
running game. Going you obviously didn't run the ball like
you wanted to On saturday and really went away from,
it you know after maybe the first carry the third
quarter says you've looked at. That what have the issues
and challenges been?

Speaker 1 (27:10):
There, WELL i think you hit it right on the.

Speaker 7 (27:11):
HEAD i mean we've been able to get away from
it faster than maybe we wanted.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
To in terms of the game.

Speaker 7 (27:15):
Plan you, know we always want to be, balanced but
the way that we talk about balance is do you
do and can you do what it takes to win
that particular football game based on the data that you.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Have when you're down fourteen.

Speaker 7 (27:27):
Enough and pretty quick, offensively, defensive special, teams you're assuming, That,
yeah you want it to, change but this is the
kind of game it's going to.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Be you have to alter what you're going to.

Speaker 7 (27:36):
Do AND i think we've been forced into that a
few Times Ohio. STATE i thought we had some good,
balance but we threw the. Ball we were throwing the
ball to run the. Ball we had really good balance
to that next, thing you know over now twenty one to,
three and that changes. Too so it's one of those
things that you, know we want to be who we,
are but we're also not afraid to do what it's

(27:57):
going to take to win the football. Game and our
guys has showed they could do. That and we have
some other strengths on our team too that maybe we
haven't had in the.

Speaker 5 (28:04):
Past you mentioned the injuries in the defensive. Backfield bengo,
McMillan i guess is his, nickname and he had he
had an impact in the. Game he had been kind
of YOUR i would, say what Reserve nickel getting some
time in and all of a sudden with. Injuries, hey
go play, cornerback and he was pretty darn good in

(28:25):
the game when he got what you, said thirty.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
REPS i, think, yeah he.

Speaker 7 (28:28):
Got thirty plus reps at, corner played. Nickel he can play,
Safety he's very. Versatile this is the depth that we
talked about we were going to have to have in that,
secondary and we all have it, everywhere but we definitely
have it there and unfortunately we've been banged up back,
there so he's had to step. In selfless, player great,
teammate courageous.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Kid played a lot of, football whether it.

Speaker 7 (28:50):
WAS tcu or, here done a lot of really good,
things and stepped in him made a huge play in
a huge moment and cover zero to really not end the,
game but put his position that gave us the best
chance to win that game that almost ran out the.

Speaker 6 (29:04):
Clock, yeah and he knows that the ball is probably going, there,
RIGHT i, mean if that's the, Situation and we talked
a little bit about it after the, game but the
decision to basically just heat him up and say we're
coming at you after this time, out take us through
kind of how that whole decision making gets.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
Made, well we felt there.

Speaker 7 (29:20):
Were it was a, yeah have a quick, Decision but
we felt like the way the game had gone from
the seven yard line and, in we felt like if
we Allow brown to be back there and just pick us,
apart the way that they've run the, football the way
that he, scrambled and the way that their wideouts could
catch it and create, space we felt like we were
to sall on our. Heels if they were going to beat,

(29:41):
Us we're going to force him to beat. Us and
the ball was going to come out of his. Hand
so when you, don't you have an option of running the, football,
right you have the option of him running the, football
and then you have an option of him throwing the.

Speaker 1 (29:50):
Football when we heated him, up it was the.

Speaker 7 (29:52):
Ball we knew the ball was going to come, out
and we needed to cover those four people and cover
him really tightly and make a play on the. Ball
but we knew the ball would come, out and that
was the decision to play cover zero and get that
to force their hand into something that they're good.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
At but we knew what would be.

Speaker 7 (30:09):
Coming we didn't know what, route but we knew that
would be, coming and our guys made a great.

Speaker 5 (30:12):
Play, yeah HE i mean that's just tell you coach it,
right get the inside hand up and not.

Speaker 1 (30:16):
Coaching, yeah height, coaching nothing to, it nothing to.

Speaker 5 (30:20):
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Speaker 6 (31:33):
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Speaker 6 (31:36):
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Speaker 1 (31:37):
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Speaker 6 (31:38):
It you've got, it, Block we've got it for.

Speaker 5 (31:39):
Sure let's talk about The Nebraska cornhuskers. Here we got
a couple of segments left. Guards he gets to stay
for the. Show that's the one benefit of the on campus.
Deal he's already found his parking. Spot you, know Lovely.
Nebraska they are now ranked twenty fifth in the country
five and.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
One what can you tell us about the Corn?

Speaker 7 (31:59):
Huskers, yeah you, know somebody asked me a question, today
are they finding? THEMSELVES i said THAT i think they found.
Themselves you, know they're really really, Good they're really, deep
they're really. Athletic, defensively they throw a lot at, you different,
fronts different.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
Blitzes the're blitzing about the half the. Time but they have.

Speaker 7 (32:14):
Athletes, everywhere really, long good look in athletes, man and
they play really really, hard tackling very, well AND i
think that's a that's a tribute to their coaching. Staff
on the offensive side the, BALL i Think rayil is
playing at the highest level he's played at AND i
think he's becoming a really really good, passer not that
he wasn't. BEFORE i think he's he's throwing the. Ball
some people look at him as like a dual.

Speaker 1 (32:35):
Threat but he.

Speaker 7 (32:36):
Is but he's throwing the ball for seventy five percent
completion percentage plus and he's making really decisive decisions and
the ball, placement the ball shape is better than it's ever.
Been and that that not that it was poor. Before
it was very. Good and he's just he's just sharpening
his arrow because it's getting better and. Better and then
he knows he's running when he has to. Run he's

(32:58):
not just running to be a. Runner he's running when
he has to, run and he's being very efficient with.
It SO i think everything starts with. HIM i got
a really big offensive line who's really. Physical they got
really physical backs who play, well and they've got three.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
RECEIVERS i think that can really go. GO i mean go,
go and they.

Speaker 7 (33:13):
Are they're Helping rala, too BECAUSE i mean they're throwing
short passes and they're taking them a long.

Speaker 1 (33:18):
WAYS i mean they're very explosive on.

Speaker 7 (33:20):
Offense one of the best offenses statistically in the country.
Too so they're a ranked team coming in On friday,
night and then rightfully. So and we've got a great
challenge and a great opportunity ahead of.

Speaker 6 (33:29):
Us Matt ruhle and you pretty, tight, RIGHT I, mean
he seems like a good. DUDE i know we're supposed
to hate, everybody but he seems like a pretty solid.

Speaker 7 (33:36):
Guy he's a wonderful. Person he's an incredible human. Being
he's really really intelligent and a lot of fun to be.
AROUND i think, sometimes you, know people look at us
as coaches and they see us on game, day but you,
know our wives get together and they know they know
each other. Well we're at so many different events together
as head coaches and families or wives at. Least and
AND i Know heather And julie have known each other

(33:57):
for a while AND i got a chance to be.
It you, Know Keny chesney concert along with coach ruled
this past summer at The sphere In, vegas which was,
cool and Coach mullen who was AT, unlv and it
was just it was really. Amazing got a chance to
meet Mister kenny, himself which was really. Cool so it
was it was really just a special time to be
kind of you, know, uh let your hair. DOWN i

(34:18):
don't have any, hair but, uh it was just it's
cool to see people outside of their their coaching responsibilities
because we're all going through a lot of the same
different things and have a lot of the same challenges
and same opportunities and have.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
A lot of.

Speaker 7 (34:29):
Fun but when you're off the, field we see each
other in so many, events so it's good to see
people as.

Speaker 1 (34:33):
People but he's a great, dude, man he really.

Speaker 7 (34:35):
Is and, uh you, know we kind of he talked
a little bit in the summer about maybe getting together
and and doing a breast cancer awareness, game AND i
know breast cancer has affected his life and his, family
uh to its, core and same with our own family
and our, friends AND i think everybody's been affected by
breast cancer, somehow. Someway and that's just the type of
guy he, is you, know he sees the global picture

(34:57):
of college athletics and our platform as, coaches and and
so this game is going to be about that. Too
so our team's, involved his team's, involved our coaches are.
Involved and just shows the type of person he is
that he can see the global picture and of what
life's really about.

Speaker 6 (35:11):
To are you a guy that sings the lyrics to
the songs that you?

Speaker 5 (35:13):
Know of a?

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Concert is coach?

Speaker 6 (35:15):
Rule one of those guys like or do you guys
just let the perform or? Perform that's the follow.

Speaker 7 (35:19):
Up when you're in this, SPHERE i don't think. One
it's you don't even look at the stage Right you're
you're you're immersed in this experience that is really. Unbelievable
and it's so loud in there THAT i think even
if you are singing does.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
Matter it doesn't.

Speaker 7 (35:33):
MATTER i think we all think we're a rock star
where we're at a concert or a country music, star.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
And we all have good. VOICES i can't say that
we weren't singing some, songs that's for. Sure So Kitty
chess and everybody Knows Kenny, chess.

Speaker 6 (35:44):
The, Garrett, yeah you get a. Couple everybody knows a
few he's one of those.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
Guys garrett knows the ONES i play over and, over
so he knows it once in a while on. Repeat
SO i have a follow up as well on.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
That so how does?

Speaker 5 (35:55):
That how do you organize? That or Does matt rule
TEXT PG i can say, HEY i got some, tickets
or do you say, HEY i got? Tickets or Does
Dan mullen Say i'm In vegas you guys want to come?

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Out how does that get? Organized we went down.

Speaker 7 (36:08):
There we actually have those during camp, season so you're
kind of all over these places for camp. Season so
we own to you and lv's camp And Coach mullen
allowed us to come in there because we've had a
lot of success on, that you, know The southwest and
get Some california, kids J hollow the camp short and
how to get some kids that come over to That
vegas camp and and it's easier for them and sometimes
they come all the way To. Minnesota so getting ourselves

(36:29):
at different places is. Critical and so we were there
and it was kind of a little bit. Impromptu it
was more of Like Coach, MULLEN, i, hey what are
you doing? Nothing you, know going to go to The jesney.

Speaker 1 (36:38):
Councer are you?

Speaker 7 (36:39):
Serious, yeah, Okay rules is going to be in town.
Too boom boom boom.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Nexting you, Know mullen is like the greatest orchestrator of.
Fun he. Is he's an orchestrator of fun, man he really.
Is so he can connect a lot of people really.

Speaker 7 (36:49):
Quick and within a few hours we had some tickets
and got a chance to meet him, too which was
he was incredibly.

Speaker 5 (36:55):
Gracious so Did mullen organize the meeting or did You
did you just Text kenny and, say, hey we're coming.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
DOWN i didn't text N Coach mullen knows, him knows him.

Speaker 7 (37:04):
RIGHT i think he worked out there At UNO's facility
when he was actually there their. Friends so, NO i,
MEAN i JUST i got the you, know the manager
you know Of Kenny chesney and got all the things
from from, him and and then you, know, NO i
did not have That Coach mullen's, Number Coach rules. Number
other than, THAT i was just showing up for a good.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Time that's. It that sounds like they're not were fired. Up,
yeah that sounds like a very Good it was.

Speaker 5 (37:27):
Great it Was it's uh ironic that you would you
know that these coaches would be In vegas for camps
that they'd set up camps In, vegas and THE pj.

Speaker 6 (37:35):
Would, go that's crazy. Crazy Bishop Gorman High. School love it,
there he's you gotta you gotta go where you find the.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Play, yeah it just.

Speaker 6 (37:42):
Happens it's one of your. Favorite you. Know there's never
a camp In. Winnipeg you, know oh, there probably there might.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
Be, yeah that's. True if you were To, winnipeg probably.

Speaker 6 (37:54):
Cover band Of.

Speaker 5 (37:55):
Winnipeg, yeah he was wearing The canadian tuxedo up, there for.

Speaker 7 (37:59):
Sure the great thing is there's always something anywhere you. Go,
Yeah AND i think that's the fun part about recruiting
and travel and going places is that you can find
something somewhere if you want to do. That like if
you have a free night or a free few, hours
you can find something to.

Speaker 1 (38:15):
Do that's for sure for.

Speaker 6 (38:16):
Sure all, right let's take your In.

Speaker 5 (38:17):
Winnipeg even In, winnipeg no doubt about. It all, right
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and P. J. Fleck you mentioned the quarterback has played.
Well it is pretty unique how much he does resemble

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not just the, number but. Mahomes isn't it the way he, walks,
runs if you notice one it.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
Is it's. UNBELIEVABLE i don't know what else to. Say,
yeah he.

Speaker 5 (41:29):
Does he's just like like like if he went out On,
halloween you think it was, him.

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Arm angles manurism walks his helmet, off the way he scrambles.

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if you look like, him wouldn't you play? IT i,
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compared to Like Phil. Mickelson So i'm taking handsome. Guys,
sure Great, Cavs pault McCoy. Unbelieve, yeah BUT i get
a Young Phil. Collins do you really? INTERESTING i got
that at a restaurant.

Speaker 1 (42:05):
Drum Like phil cos not at.

Speaker 5 (42:07):
All speaking of, which how oh you didn't get to see, it,
obviously but how about the The yeah he didn't talk
to the, team and yeah he didn't know it Was
you missed, It but it was pretty. Cool Chad smith
with The Red Hot Chili peppers jamming with The pride
Of minnesota marching band at halftime of that, game which
back to the, game two hundred plus players lining that

(42:30):
tunnel area and then out on the field near.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
Kickoff how cool was? That that was.

Speaker 7 (42:35):
Tremendous that just says a lot about how far our
programs come and connecting the past to the present and
then obviously into the future with. Recruiting but just so
proud of our alumni for coming. BACK i mean over
two hundred people coming. BACK i mean first year we did,
that we had close to forty and now lining that
tunnel and then the homecomings about the special moments and
memories of coming back and reliving your experience and then

(42:56):
hopefully have an amazing experience while you're. There and the,
Team TAM's job is to go win that football game
and Chat smith coming. Back and he talked to our
team On friday before we got on the bus and
head to the HOTEL a cool customers and it's so.
Great he was awesome and what a rock? Star, yeah
literally right, Literally and it's so cool because we look
at this generation, like, oh they don't know who The

(43:17):
Red Hot Chili peppers are when we kind of picked
them to study as the band of the week knowing
That Chad smith was going to be there On, friday
and they kind of fit us of what we were
talking about that. Week and H, OLIVER i, MEAN i
can't tell you how many players are so fired up
that we Picked Red Hot Chili peppers and listening to
all that music all, week they're singing, it they know.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
It it's like it's timeless. Music it's a timeless.

Speaker 7 (43:38):
Band and, uh maybe not The Grateful Dead, garrett you
know he's a big. Fan but you talk About chad
coming back and being willing to do. THAT i, mean
just so gracious that he spent time with. Us he
brought his whole fanny over. There they hadn't miked up
the drum set out. There it sounded, awesome they really did.

Speaker 5 (43:53):
They, yeah it's on, video all of the, video and
it's hard to get the great, quality but you can
hear the.

Speaker 1 (43:58):
Drums you'll have. To i'm sure you have plenty of
time at some point this week to sit down and
watch the. Concert but it was.

Speaker 6 (44:04):
Good you also got to spend a little time around
the nineteen sixty, guys WHICH i thought that was, awesome,
right just to have those. GUYS i, mean Anytime Bobby bell's,
back everybody knows, it, RIGHT i, mean he's probably like
the gopher of all. Gophers but you spent some time with,
THEM i think before the game as, well or the
day before talking to them and just kind of visiting with.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
Them what was that?

Speaker 12 (44:23):
Like?

Speaker 7 (44:23):
YEAH i spent time with them On friday as, well
and just getting around. Them and, Shoot Bobby bell looks
like he's still could. Play everybody like he's got plays
left in. Him he, does and you talk about how
much they all love being A. Gopher and what was
so fun was they knew about our. Team they knew
about the players on the, Team they knew About, koy
they knew About Carry, brown they knew About Drake. Lindsay

(44:44):
and that was awesome because they're not just back because
of what they, did they're back to support the players
on that field. Today and that's what's really cool of
connecting the pass to the. Present what just a historic
team that, was the legends that came from that, team
but also just having them back having to mix with

(45:04):
our players was really really.

Speaker 5 (45:06):
Special and so you, figure you, know those guys played
on the nineteen sixty national title, team so they're roughly
what eighty, two eighty, three eighty forty five years. Old
and then you've got guys like Arianta, ursii who on
the other side is just a little kid playing in
THE nfl as a, starter And Max rosmer.

Speaker 1 (45:23):
Local, right they're at the game as. Well how cool is?

Speaker 8 (45:26):
That?

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Right and that's what that's what homecomings all.

Speaker 7 (45:28):
About And arionte could be anywhere in the, world right
is bye week starting for the tight era The texans
and coming over here and spending time with our, players
and he got a game ball at the end of
the at the Wind nothing better than present a former
player with a game ball for representing all the. Alum
we would have given it at The, broser but he's
here all the. Time he already got, one you, know
he was you, know he's always expected that. Ball you,

(45:49):
know he's always right there by the head.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
Coach so he's. Ready he's, ready but we gave it
To arionte to represent the.

Speaker 6 (45:54):
PLAYERS i think it shows the mental acumen Of, brosmer
which we all know is that he's you, know on The.
Viking he's made a fifty three is basically a snap, away,
right he had to take a snap In. London BUT
i feel like he's like an assistant quarterbacks coach too
for you guys while he's also doing it and he's
grabbing water for the other. Alum it's like buying. Rounds
basically had all the Cups like he's buying. Rounds he's, like,
yeah we're. Good but that's got to be cool. THAT i,

(46:16):
mean he's got his own career right, now but he's,
invested like In drake, specifically but all you, guys.

Speaker 7 (46:21):
YEAH i think that's what's so fun about living in
a pro market and living in a pro city mixed
with a big ten college city as, well you, KNOW
i mean The vikings, play you, know two miles across
the river. Here their staff's really close to our. Staff
we know a lot of their. Players players are really
gracious to. Us And max is just the ultimate, gopher
even though he only spent one year, here the lessons

(46:43):
he learned, here what he. Applies he feels like this
is his alma mater as well As New hampshire and
comes back to support our team constantly and brings a
lot of knowledge. Too he's like talking to a, coach,
right so that the conversations you have with him about
culture about how Maybe KOs did, This chaos did, that
but also THE x and no piece that you, know
he brings it Into greg and what they're talking. About

(47:04):
and he loves to be a solution driven guy and find,
solution so he also wants to know what we're, doing
but also be there as, friends you, KNOW i, mean
he's his family is very close to, Us heather AND
i and our, family and but just to have them,
back to have that presence of connection between somebody's future
and their, hope dream and aspiration and connected that into

(47:24):
with our culture and program that if you DO, X
y AND z here you have a very bright. Future
AND i think that's that's great For drake to see as.

Speaker 6 (47:30):
Well you can tell he knows boundaries. LOOKS i swear
there's times where he wants to just be right in
the little quarterback thing in the.

Speaker 1 (47:35):
Middle it's, like, no you can't do, That, max you
got you.

Speaker 6 (47:37):
Gotta go down it because he's kind of walking And i'm,
like he wants to. Stop he wants to stop and
talk To drake right, Now but you can't do.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
That you got to keep. Moving you got to keep.
Going so that's.

Speaker 6 (47:45):
Good he knows his, place but he doesn't overstep and.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
Just can't help.

Speaker 7 (47:48):
Himself, yeah he is A i mean he is a very,
charismatic very, involved and very intelligent person slash. Quarterback and
anytime you have somebody that competitve and you put him
in in a competitive, environment you put a coach on
the sideline of a high school.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
TEAM i want to be out there.

Speaker 7 (48:06):
TOO i mean half the Time i'm standing on the
field in the back making sure i can see If
i'm what Play i'm going to call Right like you
want to be involved in that, way and that's that
competitive nature in them and that's what makes him such
a great.

Speaker 5 (48:18):
Player, well very. Good It's friday night, football speaking of high.
School it'll be just like high school, football, right a
Big friday night, here seven, o'clock the kick, off we
can consession. Stand might not be dollar hot, dogs.

Speaker 6 (48:28):
Well but it's still.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
Good it's all.

Speaker 5 (48:31):
Good and we will chat with you On friday night
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