Gopher Football Weekly w/ PJ Fleck 10-21-25

Gopher Football Weekly w/ PJ Fleck 10-21-25

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Speaker 3 (00:25):
Welcome to Gopher Football Weekly with PJ. Fleck on the
Gophers Sports Network from Learfield.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
The tag of the five toxdown Big.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
Six got for Football Weekly with PJ.

Speaker 5 (00:38):
Fleck.

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(01:00):
voice of the Gophers, Mike Griham.

Speaker 6 (01:03):
Hey, we're off and running on a Tuesday edition of
Gopher Football Weekly. It is a gem packed tipsy steer
and high pines all the way to the back window.
We are full parking spots. We're at a premium a
guy with scalping tickets outside to get in. It was
unbelievable here, and that's what happens when you dominate the
Nebraska Cornhuskers, as the Gophers did on Friday.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Night twenty four to six. The final. I have Mike
rim along with Justin Guard.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
Hello, j G.

Speaker 7 (01:31):
I had to park at Rosedale and take the shuttle
over here. It's a nice little shuttle. Yeah, it's off
to leave a little earlier today to get back to
the shuttle.

Speaker 6 (01:37):
Are you done talking trash online to the Nabaska Cornhusker fans?

Speaker 7 (01:41):
Not particularly? Hell, you've enjoyed it. Yeah, I've enjoyed it. Yeah,
I haven't acted like we've been there before. Unfortunately, the
team has a twenty four hour rule. The sideline reporter
does not.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
He can.

Speaker 6 (01:51):
I don't have to think about Isola. Yeah, no doubt
they see what you created their coach with that big win.
Guards he's an animal now.

Speaker 5 (01:57):
He really is. Yeah, he's tough to con that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
Well, I want to win.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
That was a huge win for us. Is it's want
to know you know me?

Speaker 8 (02:05):
We kind of just working these one game championship seasons,
but it was a great win for us. You know,
beating a ranked team in Hunting to Bank Stadium again
is always really really exciting and so exciting for our
fan base, our supporters, and obviously our players.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
So, uh, staff worked really hard.

Speaker 8 (02:21):
I mean that was a short week, so about twenty
five hours a day. They were in the office, and
a lot of them didn't go home, didn't really see
their families much, and completely dedicate themselves put to get
best game plan together to put our players in position
have success. I thought the players played tremendous. They played
incredibly hard, did the small things at a very very
high level, and I think it showed for four quarters
of football, not just one quarter or two quarters, but

(02:42):
four quarters of football.

Speaker 6 (02:43):
And as you always say, there's no guarantees of anything.
But when you and I chatted after practice on Friday,
I could the way, you know, there's coach speak and
then there's like I can tell when you're serious about stuff.
And you said you really liked the game plan. What
was it about the week that you just had. It
seemed me you had a feeling that you thought you
guys were going to play pretty good football.

Speaker 8 (03:03):
Yeah, I watching the film and then game plan in
all week. I felt like if we could establish our
run game and we could get to it really early
and be consistent, we could have really good balance.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
And again balance, you know how I am.

Speaker 8 (03:13):
Balance is more do you can you do what it
takes to win, whether it's run or pass. But I
felt like we could have a really good mix if
we got into some rhythms. We were going to have
to be able to score and score early. So it
wasn't a game like twenty one to three Ohio State
or fourteen nothing Rutgers or ten nothing Perdue. I mean,
he looked at some of our games in the Big
Ten and we've been down really early and it's changed

(03:34):
our game plan really quickly. So we knew we had
to be able to jump on that. We felt like
we had a really good feel for what they were
going to do. They mix it up a lot, but
we got some tendencies which kind of helped us, which
which made it a little more vanilla then maybe it
was going to be because of the film study and
well the dedication that our players had into the game plan.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
So felt really good about it.

Speaker 8 (03:55):
We had a really healthy football team and I think
that was really really critical position that we weren't really
healthy at was corner, and I thought some guys stepped
up and had a really big game at that position
as well.

Speaker 5 (04:05):
So it was a really good game for us, a
really good end.

Speaker 8 (04:08):
Of the game as well, watching our fans, you know,
run onto the field and nothing gets better than that.

Speaker 5 (04:13):
That that never gets old.

Speaker 7 (04:15):
A lot was made after the game by you and
a couple of your players about I think the Tuesday
tackling circuit period I was maybe a little longer than usual.
You do that every day, but it was a little
longer that particular day. Take us inside that a little bit.
What went into the decision to say we got to
do this a little bit longer today, and then how
did all that go?

Speaker 8 (04:31):
Well, there really wasn't a decision until we started it.
So there was a time this is this takes you.
I'll tell you quick story of like what this felt like.
And I worked for Greg Gianow at Wreckers and there
was one time that he runed to talk about like
stopping the run and we have this middle drill, right,
so we're in middle drill.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
And Jeff Haffley at the time he was a corner.

Speaker 8 (04:48):
He was a dB coach and I was a wide
receiver coach at records, and we're over there kind of
doing like one on one releases and everything, and they're
over there doing middle drill and the offensive line, defensive line.

Speaker 5 (04:57):
Linebackers and everybody.

Speaker 8 (04:58):
You know, it's some run type, it's real and usually
it lasts like five minutes. We're like, all right, we're
kind of doing one on ones and releases, and next thing,
you know what to ten minutes.

Speaker 5 (05:06):
And then I went to twenty minutes.

Speaker 8 (05:07):
And Coach Hafley and I, who's the defensive coordinator for
the Packers, Now we're looking at us. You're like, what
do we do? We're just going to keep doing what's
on the script. Literally, it went for about an hour
and fifteen hour and twenty minutes of middle drill. That
was all coach did. And we were down there just
doing one on one releases for an hour and fifteen
twenty minutes.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
But the point got across.

Speaker 8 (05:25):
Now we did not do it for an hour and
twenty minutes, but it was the emphasis of Okay, this
usually takes three to four minutes. We go through this
pretty quick.

Speaker 5 (05:34):
And I just kind of.

Speaker 8 (05:35):
Stood there and just watched, and everybody's waiting to rotate,
and I'm like, we're not rotating. So it wasn't my
plan thing. Okay, it wasn't something I told the staff
I was going to do.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
It was just I'm going to do it to prove
the point.

Speaker 8 (05:46):
That's something that you kind of hold as a hitting
football coach that you're you're you're making a point now
tackling convention. Don't think like we're just putting our players
in harm. This is tackling on pads like big launch
pads and like high jump pads, and you know they're
they're this isn't hitting each other, it's hitting bags. But
if you're doing your tackling convention, so you're you're biting
the ball, you know, head on tackle, you're working on that,

(06:07):
you're working on the wrapping roll from the side, you're
working on the sweet the ankle from behind. So you're
working on all these tackling drills and then you rotate.
Instead of rotating every one to two minutes, we just
rotated every ten minutes.

Speaker 7 (06:18):
So was there a point where they realized what you
were doing? Like you watch her take us through, because
you obviously realized that when coach Ciano did it.

Speaker 8 (06:25):
Yeah, I mean, anything you do that's off the norm.
These players understand started out. Yeah yeah, it's it's like
one degree change of temperature and they know it, you know.
So they're sitting there looking at you, but the offense
is waiting to start group and install, so the.

Speaker 5 (06:38):
Offense is all on that side.

Speaker 8 (06:39):
I just kept telling them just keep just keep warming up,
keep warming up.

Speaker 6 (06:42):
Coach Callahan and Coach Kaylor were like.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
You and the halfley probably in that thing.

Speaker 8 (06:46):
They were, but Coach Callahan's always begging for more individual time,
like with his players, so like he loved it. That
was Coach Callahan would prefer that every single day if
we just gave him thirty to forty minutes just to
be with the old line.

Speaker 6 (06:58):
And maybe that helped too, right because they got individual
work and they were blown opened some big holes.

Speaker 8 (07:03):
I mean, I'm not going to start that rumor because
then all of a sudden, we're going to think we're
going to have to do that every single time, and
then it loses its effect, you know. But I thought
the guys handled it really well, and it was again,
it's not a punishment, there's nothing negative about it. Just
you get what you emphasize and we have to emphasize
the small things here, and so we're going to emphasize
the small things to do to have it done successfully,
simple and simply successful. And I thought they did a

(07:25):
really good job of understanding the point of the week,
and we tackled way better.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
Two of our mistackles that we had.

Speaker 8 (07:30):
We still had like thirteen miss tackles total for a game,
I think it was somewhere around there, but.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
Two of.

Speaker 5 (07:37):
A lot of those came in two plays.

Speaker 8 (07:39):
One of them was one of the running back kind
of going all over the place, and then was Railo
going all over the place. But besides those two plays,
I thought we tackled really well. Yeah, And I think
that was part of guards.

Speaker 6 (07:48):
He was probably headed that way in terms of the
importance of tackling because JG in the pregame was bringing
up the idea that their receivers were like, what was
it a thousand yards.

Speaker 4 (07:56):
After the catch?

Speaker 7 (07:56):
Thousand yards after the catch the rail it was sixteen
hundred yards for this, He's in a thousand of them
where after the receivers caught it.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
Yeah, so that was throw it right, Yeah, a bunch
of screens.

Speaker 8 (08:05):
They throw a bunch of footballs on slants and let
They have really good wideouts who are really really athletic
and fast, so they do everything they can to game
plan them in space.

Speaker 5 (08:13):
So once they get the.

Speaker 8 (08:14):
Ball, they have some space, they breaks some tackles, they run.

Speaker 5 (08:16):
Away from people.

Speaker 8 (08:17):
When you watch the film leading up to our game,
I mean, they might be some of the most explosive
wide receivers and then one of the most explosive offenses
in the entire Big Ten. And you know, I was
really proud of our defense for not allowing a touchdown
that was really really big.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (08:29):
One of the receivers went back to back weeks with
I think it was a fifty plus yard screen pass
touchdown and then a sixty yard or Michigan against Michigan
State and then against Maryland was at Turner or Hunter
I think maybe the number thirteen for them, and pretty
much you held those guys in check, even like there
was probably underrated. Bowden has to come in for a
couple of plays, right, because McMillan gets done. They throw

(08:51):
at him twice, and one he makes a great open
field tackle and two he's in pretty good coverage on
a long pass play because I'm sure they're looking like, Okay,
here comes this guy that hasn't played much, let's attack him.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
And he answered the bell.

Speaker 8 (09:04):
Yeah, I mean, we need guys to step up at
that position. That's why we brought jb in. And you know,
we got some guys banged up at that position. And
I thought guys have really answered the bell. And in
terms of one coverage, because we're gonna talk about our
sacks at some point, how many sacks we have, but
that all stops top.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
That starts top down.

Speaker 8 (09:20):
You have to have a leak coverage on the back
end for that to even happen, because they're really good
at getting the ball out, really good quarterbacks scrambling, creating
the second play. But I thought our corners and safeties
did a really good job from the top down. Of again,
you're not perfect. You know, they missed a thrower too,
but that happens in coverage. But I thought for the
most part, our guys covered really well, and then they
tackled really well. I mean, so Kwan Bryant was our

(09:41):
leading tackler and he's a corner, so you could tell
they did everything they could to funnel their run game
towards our edges, which meaning that the corners are going
to have to be in there, be physical and make
the play. And I thought jb had some really good tackles.
Chante had some nice tackles, obviously he's a Kwan. Bryan,
our corner had some really nice tackles and led our team.
So I was really with the next right step in

(10:02):
our development.

Speaker 7 (10:03):
I want to talk about the sacks now you mentioned it.
A lot of guys had a lot of sacks right nine.
It's the record going back to nineteen seventy seven. What
was different from week to week because you were around
the Purdue quarterback a lot, just weren't able to bring
him down. Against Nebraska, you were around him a lot
and were able to bring him down.

Speaker 9 (10:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (10:20):
I think that the whole point of the week was
to condense the pocket somehow, some way, you know.

Speaker 5 (10:24):
I mean, Rail is so good at finding just.

Speaker 8 (10:26):
A little hole and then escaping out of the pocket,
running and running on the run and throwing.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
He's so athletic. You saw what he did.

Speaker 8 (10:32):
I mean he threw the ball to his left hand,
everybody and threw it very accurately as he just got
we grabbed his right arm, just threw it with his
left arm. I mean, I couldn't throw the ball hit
George right now if I threw it in.

Speaker 5 (10:43):
My left hand. He's so athletic.

Speaker 8 (10:46):
So we had to do a really good job of
kind of boa constricting that offensive line.

Speaker 5 (10:50):
They did a really good job on the edges.

Speaker 8 (10:51):
We didn't rush past the level of the quarterback. We
condensed the pocket, we shrunked the running lanes, and I
thought we did a really good job of getting to him.
And I know he felt us because there were times
that we were kind of close to him and you
could see him move and disrupted the entire timing of
the play down the field and got his eyes more
on our guys than keeping him down the field.

Speaker 5 (11:10):
And that was the whole point.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
Yeah, nine sacks.

Speaker 6 (11:13):
As JG mentioned, they came in averaging forty one points
a game, and they didn't score a touchdown. You held
him to a couple of field goals, So tip of
the cap, Danny Collins. I know you talked about him
yesterday and your news briefing about you know, you know
what he's meant and how big of a game plan
he put together.

Speaker 8 (11:31):
Yeah, I mean, it's all about development of the players
and the coaches. You know, Danny Cowns is a really
young guy. He's been around this system for thirteen years.
He's learned from a lot of different co coordinators, and
people always say, like, what's he likes. He's kind of
a combination of ROSSI and head of the Men, kind
of put together. And I think that nobody really knows
what I mean when I say that, but schematically I
do in terms of the attention to detail, the fundamentals,

(11:54):
the technique, the ability to put pressure on the quarterback, stop.

Speaker 5 (11:57):
The run, and the way we do it.

Speaker 8 (11:59):
They all have their own unique flavor, but it's still
similar to the same system that we've always had.

Speaker 5 (12:05):
They just get to put their fingerprint on it.

Speaker 8 (12:06):
But Danny's such a hard worker and he's so committed,
and I know he's really young, but this guy's a
limit for his career because he works so hard at
his job and his craft, and the players love him.
He's so good in front of the room and he's
so good coaching those safeties, and he's really developed, and
I think one of the best coaches I've ever had,
not just a coordinator.

Speaker 5 (12:24):
I'm talking just as a position coach as well.

Speaker 8 (12:27):
Just watching from where he was and seeing this complete
growth in thirteen years from really a student coach to
a defensive coordinator in the Big Ten is really impressive.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
Yeah, no doubt about it. All Right, let's take our
first break.

Speaker 6 (12:37):
We'll hear more about the sacks quite literally here coming up,
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Speaker 4 (18:31):
Action and now it's a broken play and a sack.

Speaker 6 (18:34):
You had no one to throw to Anthony Smith and
for Minnesota, that's their first sack since.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
The Rutgers game. To throw Royola twenty of time.

Speaker 6 (18:42):
Novel pocket collapses and Kevin Eastern drags him down back
at the fifteen yard line and they will force a
field goal attempt.

Speaker 4 (18:50):
Second sack of the night for the Golden Golphers to
throw is Roola. He's hit hand.

Speaker 5 (18:55):
Sacks Carter Men's the first man there.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
Then he got some help his fellow teammates. Looking left.
Now comes off that Reid, hit and sacked by Man's
He dragging down his second sack.

Speaker 6 (19:08):
Tonight back at the eighteen and Minnesota has sacked the
Braska four times straight drop. Pressure comes from the left
side and Anthony Smith lands the.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
Sack all the way back at the eleven yard line.
Royola wants to throw all the blitz comes.

Speaker 6 (19:22):
Pressure comes, stepping out of the pocket, hit and sacked
back in Minnesota's territory.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
The loss of eleven Jackson Howard third down in five
to of eight are the Huskers. Here's the blitz and
he's hit.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
It drops back at the clown Kingsbury, crush the running
back and then crush the quarterback.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
Seven sacks.

Speaker 6 (19:45):
Blitz comes, Pressure comes, dropped him Jackson Howard. In fact,
he almost took a knee. I don't even know if
Howard hit it. He just hurtled right there. Hits a
sack back to the thirty six, hits fourth.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
And a mile.

Speaker 6 (19:59):
Here's Royola again to see if they can get a
sack on it. Pressure comes hit how.

Speaker 10 (20:02):
There it is.

Speaker 6 (20:04):
It's a sack. Smith and Mix met him Malwatchie crunch
there is a nine all nine secks. We went a
little long on the AVR remo. You did actually all
all nine sacks school record, and most of the reason
I did is his guards.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
He loves listening to the radio announcer. So I do.
I mean, I could take a great I could.

Speaker 7 (20:29):
Take a cheap shot at you, but I'm not going to.
And I have the benefit of listening live. And I
don't think I told you this in person, but I
did tweet this out. You were on fire on Friday, Grimmer,
and I get.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
I it's a good game.

Speaker 7 (20:40):
I get to listen live and sometimes I'll take my
headphones off and just kind of hear the crowd, like
it's not as fun without you in the in my ear.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
I don't know, so you did.

Speaker 7 (20:48):
I could be a mean person, but I'm gonna be
vulnerable and be.

Speaker 4 (20:51):
Nice that you're you're you're a great person. You were
outstanding on Friday. Well that was fun. Nice backs.

Speaker 6 (20:55):
It's it's a it's pretty fund we'll call nine sacks.
So yeah, I thought, let's put all together. It's a
little long on the AVR remix to So now on
to segment three. Ye no, I'm just kidding. But you
know what a night. Was there something in the game
plan that you thought you could do. You mentioned compress
the pocket, but your guys were in the backfield really

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consistently almost every pass.

Speaker 5 (21:18):
It was based on your call.

Speaker 8 (21:19):
You just said that was the first sack since we
had at Rutgers or something like that. You opposite jink stuff. Yeah,
the good way. So we keep doing that. Yeah, I will,
I will keep doing that. I mean no, I thought
we just played harder, we played faster, we cleaned up
our fundamentals and techniques. We blitzed about the same as
we blitz but I thought it was really good. Now,
if you want to see what our I remember I

(21:42):
told you I excuse me. I have this little clip right,
this little cut up that says for my funeral. I've
told you about that before, and there's all these little
clips of like so when people are at my funeral,
if anybody anybody comes, then maybe they won't, but if
they do, they'll be able to watch, like my favorite plays,
whether it's games or practices, that show our plays how
in their heart. If you ever watch the play that

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that Matt Kingsbury comes out of blitz runs over the
tailback and then makes the sack on Dylan Rail. That's violence, like,
that's Gopher football one oh one, playing defense.

Speaker 5 (22:12):
Like that's the expectation.

Speaker 8 (22:13):
That's one of the best defensive plays I've seen anybody
make because it was just pure violence, pure how pure speed,
reckless energy, and and then it not only blows up
the running back, he makes up makes the play and
brings Raela down on a square tackle.

Speaker 5 (22:29):
That that's really really impressive.

Speaker 8 (22:30):
So I think that showed exactly what type of game
it was for us. And if I could pick one
play to demonstrate that, it would be that play.

Speaker 4 (22:38):
Yeah, it was. It was impressive. And I've added that
to my funeral mix too. Yeah.

Speaker 17 (22:42):
Good.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
Not only football player.

Speaker 8 (22:44):
I have a lot of tennis matches, a lot of
Andre AGAs on there.

Speaker 5 (22:47):
That's right.

Speaker 7 (22:48):
There's Agacy at the US Open, and there's Matt Kingsbury
blowing up there you go Nebraska.

Speaker 6 (22:52):
And then there's home video from Mike Guard on justin
Guard's championship match.

Speaker 7 (22:55):
But he said to say, I saw Kingsbury as we
were waiting, you know, kind of to do the postgame thing,
and I'd kind of looked at him, you know how
you do and you're like, dude, he's like violence, that's
all he said, and you just kept walking. But good
for him, right, I mean we've talked about him for years,
you talked about the steps that he's made from a
couple of years ago. And to have a moment like that,
I mean, that's one that's going to be on his
funeral real too, you would imagine, right.

Speaker 8 (23:16):
Well, I'll tell you, like, he's at Richard sophomore, but
it's taken him two years and a half to really
get to this stand this point. Now you just let
him loose. You know, his family, his dad played big
ten football Perdue, He's got big ten blood in his body.
And he came to us as a developmental player, a
developmental linebacker, and we knew that he'd have to develop
in the weight room and really take time in the

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linebacker stuff. And he's playing at a really high level
right now. And the great issue we have right now
is we got five linebackers, six linebackers that are all
really good, and we could rotate them, we could put
them at different positions. We can have a lot of
creativity and versatility and different packages on defense. And you
saw that with Kingsbury you've seen that with Wolverine Mason Carrier.
They call him the Wolverine for every reason why you'd

(23:57):
think he's Wolverine.

Speaker 5 (23:59):
He kind of looks like Jackman.

Speaker 8 (24:01):
Yeah, oh wow, yeah, yeah, lucky guy. I'm not sure
if that's why they're call him over. I think he
looks like Hugh Jackman. I'm sitting there thinking they don't
even know who Hugh Jackman is, but they call him
the Wolverine. So, but you have these a lot of
these young linebackers, and you look at like Ethan Stendel
coming up in Nate Cleveland and these kind of guys
that are really young, the Emanuel Carlos. We've got really
good linebackers in the program right now. And I think
when you got Mariano sorry Maren coaching those guys. I

(24:23):
mean they always say like you can tell who the
coach is by how they play. Yeah, it's exactly right
with Mariano and those linebackers. They play exactly like Mariano.
They're just better. And you think, back, Mariano.

Speaker 5 (24:34):
I can say that I coach, Yeah you can.

Speaker 4 (24:36):
You can say that you're paying him a nice wage.

Speaker 8 (24:38):
Yeah, he's a coaching now. He cares about your career.
Nobody cares about your career. I was talking close to
your book. Yeah, yeah, close of your book.

Speaker 9 (24:44):
Son.

Speaker 6 (24:45):
You think back, you know, I thought, remembering back, I
thought he had his breakout game against Nebraska, Mariano way
back down there. Remember he had twenty was it twenty
tackles I think or nineteen tackles, something like that, and
then from that point on he was, you know, pretty
dominant in the middle linebackers. So Nebraska, you know, maybe
it brings out the best in him, but you know,
you're right. You got Girlock, you got Williams, you got Baranowski,
you got I'm gonna forget you mentioned Carmo. Who am

(25:06):
I missing in there? It's a good group and you're
rotating in. Girlock had a blitz that he didn't land it,
but it curled him the quarterback, right into another guy
to land a sack.

Speaker 5 (25:15):
Yeah, it was good funneling. Call that funneling.

Speaker 8 (25:18):
You want to funnel to somebody else, whether you're set
in the edge, whether you're blitzing, you want to make
sure that you can condense the pocket, funnel it to
somebody else.

Speaker 5 (25:23):
If you can't make the.

Speaker 8 (25:24):
Play, if you can make the play, make the play
if not funneled somebody else, and I thought they'd a
really good job of that.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
Let's talk about the offense now for a little bit.

Speaker 6 (25:31):
Darius Taylor really got the thing going on the seventy
one yard run down to the one yard line. I
thought that changed the tone of the whole stadium. And
from that point on, you guys controlled the football game.
Not that you weren't in control before, but that really
seemed to liven things up, as you guess it would.
And then once this was one of those patented games,
I think, once you guys grabbed a hold of the game,

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you just controlled the line of scrimmage, and those, I
know are special games in your heart when you can
impose your will.

Speaker 8 (25:59):
You're exactly right. I mean, that's go for football. That's
our brand of football. That's where we take the most
pride in. I think that's when we're at our best
when we are doing that. And I think I give
a lot of credit to our players. They worked extremely
hard throughout the week. I mean, their their commitment level
was insane to the process. And we said that we're
gonna have to do two things way better. Are fundamentals
and techniques. We're gonna have to go through the roof.

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And football is a game of inches, I mean it
really is. It's a game of fundamentals and techniques. So
we use the analogy of free throws. So all week
we studied the free throw. You know, the felling drill.
Remember that you had to stand against the wall. And
they were like, I have asked them if they knew
what that drill was. They're like, yeah, I have no
idea what that drills. We've never done that before. Coach,
I'm like, where is the technique of fundamentals and basketball development?

Speaker 6 (26:41):
Right?

Speaker 8 (26:42):
You know, I probably watched a YouTube video of how
to do it these days, you know, But we studied
the free throw and Steph Curry and ninety one percent
are higher because of his fundamentals and technique. And if
you wanted to improve, you just got to do it better.
It's the simplest form of basketball. You're not you can
be distracted or you can truly focus. Man distracted is
man defeated. The free throw really shows what type of

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person you really are, and I thought our guys really
kind of answered that bell. That's why you see the
basketball hoop in the videos and the basketball as we
dive into the crowd. And that's why, because we studied
free throws the entire week and FT was for free
throws fundamentals and technique.

Speaker 5 (27:19):
And then fun times when.

Speaker 8 (27:21):
You beat Nebraskets, fun times.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
No doubt.

Speaker 6 (27:24):
And then you get a big crowd at a restaurant
for your coaches show the following Tuesday, for sure, right,
ninety eight yard drive in a ninety yard drive. The
ninety eight yard drive, I think it was the longest
by yardage for your team period since twenty two and
I think by time it was like the second or
third longest drive in stadium history for the golfers.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
So that pretty well set the tone too.

Speaker 5 (27:48):
It really did.

Speaker 8 (27:48):
I mean, they do tremendous job by their punter pinning
us down inside the two. And you know, you work
on situational football all the time, and you know, when
you look at the football field, you break it up.
You know, a lot of people know about the red
zone and then they think that's it. There's there's a
red zone, there's a tight red zone, there's a goal line.
In short yardage. You know, there's the alumni zone, which
is in the middle where all you want us to
throw big passes right in the middle of where the
block am everybody's got a good view. We call that

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the alumni zone. There's a gray zone, there's a blue zone,
and then you have backed up and coming out backed
up is four yard lining in, just like we were
on the minus two, and then coming out is from
the five to the twelve. And there's a series of
plays that you run and you got to be really
good at them. So the first goal of backed up
is get out of backed up. And our first run
got us out of backed up.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
When we picked the.

Speaker 8 (28:32):
Number one play of the game as coaches, what changed
the game, it was Darius Taylor's four yard run on
the two yard line. It got us out of backed
up and it got us going. And then you get
to coming out. What the first goal coming out is
get out of coming out simple, and then you can
get into all the other zones. So our guys stayed
really true to the discipline of how we run situational football,

(28:53):
how we cut up the field, and I thought they
executed that really well. And then as we went I mean,
we're running, run and running, and then we throw the
ball to mechy the top, and I thought it was
a really good release, really good route, great ball, perfect location,
and a great catch and and that got.

Speaker 5 (29:06):
Us moving for sure.

Speaker 6 (29:06):
Yeah, and a what a play interesting you know, irony
in that getting out of backed up. If you watch
that play, Darius was really running backwards by the tay
he kind of got spun and then he just backpedaled
but forward downfield to gain that extra yards. I think
some guys, you get spun like that, you might take
the tackle. But he literally was back pedaling forward to
get extra yards.

Speaker 8 (29:26):
There's one thing I think Darius Taylor has gotten a
lot better at, and that's that's getting the hard too,
the hard one, the hard three, the yards that aren't there.
A lot of times some backs will always try to
bounce everything to go get a big long run when
nothing's there.

Speaker 5 (29:40):
Well, really elite backs when nothing's there.

Speaker 8 (29:42):
Remember, defenses get paid too, and they're on scholarship, and
the NFL has good defenses, And can you go get
you know, two yards and there's nothing there and there
is a wall, can you go get six feet?

Speaker 5 (29:52):
You know? Can you move that pile six feet?

Speaker 8 (29:54):
And I think he's gotten way better at that over
the years of learning how to be this elite tailback
and part of that is going to get.

Speaker 5 (30:00):
The hard too.

Speaker 6 (30:01):
Yeah, talk real quick before we take the break about
the throw and the catch. Brockington catching Lindsay's throw just
dropped it. I think Darryl said, they call that drop
it in the bucket.

Speaker 5 (30:10):
It was perfect.

Speaker 8 (30:11):
The kid is so accurate. I mean, he plays at
such a high level for such a youngster. He really
is a special human being.

Speaker 5 (30:18):
Everybody.

Speaker 8 (30:18):
We have a really good quarterback, really special kid. And yeah,
you absolutely you know, it was a great call by Greg.
I mean they're they're putting, you know, seven, eight, nine
guys down in the box and they're doing everything they
can to stop the run.

Speaker 5 (30:31):
And it's one on one coverage.

Speaker 8 (30:32):
And we liked our matchup with with Lamechy Brockington.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
And it was a straight call. There wasn't any check.

Speaker 8 (30:37):
It was a straight call, nine to two go, and
and it was a really good throw, really good release,
and everything starts at the release for a receiver, and
Lamechy does a great job creating space, great vertical release,
good vertical step, good meat grinder did a great job
with his hands and eyes, doing it late and keeping
his feet inbound. So defendered. Really didn't have a chance
based on the technique. Again, the fundamentals and the technique
ran in the route, kept his shoulder square. It was

(30:59):
really really nice to see all that come together and
what a great pitch and catch.

Speaker 6 (31:03):
All right, very good. We will take a break. We'll
keep talking about the big win. We'll look ahead to Saturday.
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Speaker 4 (31:40):
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Speaker 6 (31:40):
It's Go for Football Weekly with Pjfleck. We're here on
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just flies by, and we'll be back here with a
couple of players early in the month of November, so
the little house keeping there. I'm back to Minnesota beating Nebraska.
In that win, you mentioned the crowd, the crowd getting
out onto the field guards. He was able to avoid it.
You were able to avoid it a little bit in
terms of, you know, trying to stay out of traffic.

(32:23):
But it is kind of fun, right the students, what
the heck? If they want to rush the field, let
them rush the field and enjoy themselves as a college
football fan.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
That's what it's about. I mean, it's a ranked team.

Speaker 8 (32:34):
I mean, I don't blame them, right, I mean, did
anybody watch the BYU Utah game?

Speaker 11 (32:40):
Late?

Speaker 8 (32:40):
Okay, that's pretty late. Everybody's like, now we're in bed. Yeah,
we were tired, but BYU was higher ranked than Utah,
and BYU beat Utah at home to a less ranked
team in store in the field. No, I mean, I
mean provo. Entire provo was on the field. That's what
the college experience is all prout. When you're playing a
ranked team at home, when you beat them, I think

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that's kind of like just.

Speaker 5 (33:03):
Standard operation there.

Speaker 8 (33:05):
And I love it because every single person there got a.

Speaker 5 (33:09):
Moment memory to go storm the field.

Speaker 8 (33:10):
I mean, our student body goes to class, they have
a job, you know, they're in a fraternity or sorority.
I mean, they don't get the experience our football players
get on a daily basis. So when they come support
us and they make that environment like that, absolutely, I
mean absolutely, that's warranted, and that's what college football and
college athletics is all about. I mean, I'm just glad
the Big Ten doesn't have a rule because I would

(33:31):
have a real hard time supportant not doing it because
we're getting fined. Yeah, I'd have a real hard time.
And you talked after.

Speaker 6 (33:38):
The game about never taking wins for granted, and I've
talked even on podcasts with some of your players about it,
and it because I watch I know how much work
you guys put into it, both coaches and players, and
just to just to say, well, we got our job
done and that's it.

Speaker 4 (33:54):
With all that work.

Speaker 6 (33:55):
I mean, it'd be like Guargie working all year at
the radio station getting big ratings, gets the big bonus
in that sit back and enjoy that bonus.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
Right, I'm sorry, what yeah, anyway, but you got to
enjoy it. Don't take it for granted.

Speaker 8 (34:07):
R Yeah, you have to enjoy those things. When you
come in our locker room. It doesn't matter who we beat.
It is a celebration. And I made a promise to myself.
This is thirteen years ago. Around this time, I was
one nine as a head football coach, youngest head coach
in the country, thirty two years old. Couldn't buy a win.
It's a very different phrase now. I used to be

(34:29):
very frowned upon. But we couldn't. We weren't very good.
I wasn't very good coach, Like, we just weren't very good.
And I made a vow that if we ever win ever,
I mean, whatever your religions are, I prayed and said,
you know, like, have we ever win, like, I'll never
take it for granted, and then we won. Not to
say that's because I prayed, but that's what I was praying.

(34:51):
For like, I'll never take it for granted. We won
one game that we want one and eleven. You would
have never known against UMass in Foxborough Stadium with about
seven people in stands, you would have no idea that
we just didn't win the super Bowl, like the way
we celebrated that one win at Western.

Speaker 5 (35:06):
Michigan our first year.

Speaker 8 (35:07):
One win, that's it, And I think every this is
my opinion. I think every coach should go through a
year like that because once you go through a year
like that, you're never going to have a bad experience
in a locker room because you're gonna never take it
for granted.

Speaker 5 (35:19):
It's really hard to win, really hard to win. Look
at the teams around the country.

Speaker 8 (35:22):
It is hard to win, and it's even harder to
win on a high level.

Speaker 5 (35:26):
And when we do, you got to create that moment memory.

Speaker 8 (35:29):
So when you win, that's the job one and oh
And if we get to one and oh, we'll handle
all the things about what we didn't like on Sunday,
whether we win or lose, that's for Sunday Saturday for
the team and the boys, man like, we're going to
celebrate that thing. For the coaches, the job is to
be one and oh and if we get there, heck yeah,
we're going to celebrate it. We're going to make a
true cut in it. And we're never going to take

(35:52):
that for granted ever.

Speaker 4 (35:53):
Ever.

Speaker 6 (35:54):
And in this case, you mentioned the wins are for Saturday.
In this case it was Friday. Now you get Saturday
off during the season, in a bye week where there's
nothing going on. How good of a feeling is it
to get the hay in the barn so to speak,
on Friday night and then just to kick back and
watch everybody else worry about things on Saturday.

Speaker 8 (36:10):
There's nothing like it. And everybody's like, well, what did
you do with your day off? I said, well, heether
or not, watch football.

Speaker 5 (36:17):
That's what you do. That's when you're a football family.
That is what you do.

Speaker 8 (36:20):
And it's so fun because when your wife loves to
watch football like you do, I mean, you have your
best friend already and you get to watch the game
and watch everybody else stress out for the for the
you know, three and a half hours on game day
and watch the game sequentially. Heather and I went on
a bunch of walks. I mean, man, it was really exciting.
Imagine we're getting older, that's for sure. What do you

(36:42):
like doing? We like going on walks, love walks. Yeah,
go ahead, go ahead.

Speaker 7 (36:49):
The former San Diego State radio sideline reporter Kevin O'Connell
was at the game on Friday night, which I thought
was cool. People don't know he did my job for
San Diego State. He went on and actually furthered his career.
Ope for you, Yeah, I'm still here fifteen years from now.

Speaker 5 (37:05):
You got a future kid.

Speaker 7 (37:06):
Yeah, he took a few different steps on his journey.
But that's pretty cool to have the Vikings head coach
standing on the sideline in a by the way, an
old Goldie hoodie. That yes, it's the coolest old Goldie.
That's pretty cool to have him. And then of course Bros.
Murk because he's at like every game, it seems like
just hanging out on the field, you know, watching ball.
And I can confirm Chaos appreciated that. Drake lindsay to

(37:26):
Lamechy Brockington touchdown.

Speaker 5 (37:28):
As well, Yeah he did.

Speaker 8 (37:29):
Kevin's become a really good friend. This is what I
love about Minnesota. Is what I love about Minneapolis. I
love the relationship the Vikings are allowing us as Gophers
to have with them, because I think the NFL team
really dictates that whether they're allowing that to happen or not.
Kevin has been tremendously gracious to us and our staff,
very open to us from the minute he walked in here.

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Then him and I have just built a really good
relationship that goes.

Speaker 5 (37:55):
Even beyond football.

Speaker 8 (37:56):
And I have a ton of respect for him, the
type of coach he is, the staff he has, how
he does it, and who he does it with, And
it's so cool to have him come support us. I
didn't ask him to be there, He did that on
his own, shot me a text, Hey mind if I
come to the game. And the biggest thing we had
to deal was like where do you want to be?
You know, like you want to be up in the suites?
Do you want to be on the field? Like where
do you want to be? That was like the hardest

(38:16):
question we had to figure out. But knowing Kevin, like
I know Kevin, you wants to be in the action.
He wants to be down on the field, as you
can tell, that's where he does his best work. But
you know, having Brozemer there too, it's just really special
and there's not a lot of teams in the country
that have what we have, that have a relationship with
the NFL team like we have in our Big Ten
team and our university team, And I think that's really
healthy for the city. We have a lot of the

(38:38):
same fans, and I think that's really really important that
the head football coach of the National Football League team
in the city and in the state Minnesota Vikings did
not go to the University of Minnesota but supports us
and our.

Speaker 5 (38:49):
Players and our staff.

Speaker 8 (38:50):
That is really really unique, and I think he's just
a tremendous, tremendous leader in this community and in the state,
even beyond football.

Speaker 6 (38:58):
Yeah, And it looked like he was having fun there
at one point I saw I rewatched the TV broadcast
last night, and I don't know they were he was
looking at the review, you know, the Oh he was
in the game.

Speaker 4 (39:08):
I mean he was in. Yeah, it was great.

Speaker 7 (39:10):
There was a fourth and one, I think on your
forty eight and he's like, is that ours are?

Speaker 4 (39:13):
There is forty eight?

Speaker 13 (39:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (39:14):
You got a punt? He's like, you got a kick it?
Like he was locked in.

Speaker 7 (39:17):
I had one year on Graham one ear POC for
a while because I mean an NFL head coaches, they're
talking to Brosman.

Speaker 4 (39:21):
I'm gonna listen.

Speaker 7 (39:22):
Yeah, right, he got an opportunity to learn a few things,
so it was awesome. Yeah, but he was locked in.

Speaker 6 (39:26):
And even back to what you talked about, I remember, look,
Roseman obviously put down great tape.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
I mean, he was going to make the NFL one
way or the other.

Speaker 6 (39:33):
But I think they both talked about the fact that
it all started at Pro Day where they've had this long,
extended conversation, right, like was that last year the year before, Well.

Speaker 8 (39:42):
Think about it, because koc saw saw Brosemer throw the
year he got here before, he played for every day
he grew for our Pro Day. So Kevin got a
chance to come out, coach Acconna, a chance to come
out like he always does it our Pro Day, and
got a chance to see Max a year you know, right,
like truly removed from New Hampshire and they the year
before he actually played for us, he got a chance

(40:02):
to see him throw. So he actually got two Pro
Days to watch Max perform. And I think that that
probably helped, you know, And I'm just really thankful that
Max is around and Max is here and you know,
just working really hard, and you know, obviously in the NFL,
just got to wait for your opportunity to come and
then when it does, you got to take advantage of it.
Whenever that is, you don't get to dictate that. You
just get to dictate how hard you work. And it

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must have been really unique having that football coach and
his you know, backup slash third string quarterbacks standing next
to each other on the sideline watching a Gopher game.
I can't imagine the conversations back and forth, you know,
or like koc.

Speaker 5 (40:35):
When you're on the field.

Speaker 8 (40:36):
That's as close as you get to the NFL, right,
and you got to feel like you want to like
call the place.

Speaker 5 (40:42):
What you don't know is he called every play. You
guys just don't know.

Speaker 4 (40:44):
That's great.

Speaker 8 (40:45):
He had his own earpiece that was really tiny in
his ear He was talking to Drake the whole time.

Speaker 5 (40:49):
You ever watch he touches his cheek.

Speaker 8 (40:50):
That's the signal, you know, just start just kidding, just kidding, everybody,
just kidding.

Speaker 5 (40:55):
He did not, but it was really cool to have
him down there.

Speaker 4 (40:59):
I got nothing else, Ao, No, I don't.

Speaker 7 (41:01):
I did have one more, but I was going to
take a cheap shot about Brian Flores calling for the
you know, the nine sacks, but I didn't. I just
went right by it. Well and then I went back
to it, and now it's talking yeah there.

Speaker 4 (41:11):
Yeah, now it's terrible.

Speaker 5 (41:12):
Good.

Speaker 6 (41:12):
Well, would you like to go find a good sparking
parking spot on Camp I would.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
It's time got over over to the mall. I gotta
get back to Rosedale.

Speaker 6 (41:17):
Yah, very good. All right, sounds good. Guardie's off. We
got one segment left. We'll talk about the Floyd of Rosedale.

Speaker 4 (41:23):
And the big battle coming up Saturday in Iowa City.

Speaker 6 (41:26):
That's all straight ahead. It's Go for Football Weekly with PJ.
Fleck from dear Field.

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Speaker 21 (43:33):
How good you.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
Forget it out, bring it up, Welcome back. It's Go
for a Football Weekly with PJ. Fleck.

Speaker 6 (43:41):
It's our final segment here. We're at the Tipsy Steer
in High Fines again. Quick reminder next week we're on campus,
so on the radio but not in person. We want
to thank Dan Robotham on site engineer, Michael Tackett has
been our producer today, Paul Rovnack from Gopher Communications, and
Garrett Turnoff and Chandler Bunning from Gopher Football for making
this all happen. And thanks to the great wait staff
here at the Tipsy Steer in High Pines. Crowded room

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here today and they did a great job. Let's give
them a round of applause as well.

Speaker 4 (44:11):
All right, it's bacon week. Floyda Rosedale on the line.

Speaker 6 (44:15):
You talked a little bit yesterday about the challenges that
this Iowah Hawkeye team bring and you think about it
both teams five and two, both teams three and one,
border rival Floyda Rosedale on the line two thirty National TV.
It's going to be a fun Saturdays.

Speaker 5 (44:31):
It's all about I mean, that's Big ten ball.

Speaker 8 (44:34):
That's traditional Big Ten football, one hundred and nineteenth meeting
between the two teams, and just very very grateful to
be a part of it for our ninth year. It
really is a special robbery and our guys had a
really good day of practice today. They've been fully committed
to it, and I know Iowa was the same way,
and they're really really talented. It's kind of just plug
and play. And I mean that in the most respectful way.

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I know there are rivals, but it's hard to ignore
the success they've had, especially with Kirk and being twenty
seven years and becoming the all time winning his Big
Ten coach in the history of the Big Ten.

Speaker 5 (45:04):
I mean, that's what an accomplishment, right.

Speaker 8 (45:06):
The consistency and the cultural sustainability and success.

Speaker 5 (45:09):
I mean that is I don't think you'll ever see
it again.

Speaker 8 (45:12):
I don't think you'll ever see that again in college athletics,
in college football. I think that is that'll never happen again,
and it's a credit to him.

Speaker 6 (45:20):
You think back to he's twenty seven years as the
head coach.

Speaker 4 (45:25):
He was there for eight years as an assistant.

Speaker 6 (45:28):
He started in Iowa City as the offensive line coach
in nineteen eighty one, forty four years.

Speaker 5 (45:33):
So definitely has his house paid off?

Speaker 6 (45:34):
Yeah, yeah, I think he's probably onto a different house.

Speaker 4 (45:37):
And there was a stop. There was a stop in between.

Speaker 6 (45:39):
He coached at Maine and he was with the Browns
for a minute and the Ravens I think.

Speaker 4 (45:43):
But anyway, the point.

Speaker 6 (45:44):
Is you talk about cultural sustainability, if there's any program
that has it, you think about Kirk Ferrence started in
Iowa City as an assistant in nineteen eighty one.

Speaker 4 (45:53):
I think that's about the year you were born.

Speaker 5 (45:56):
It was.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
Nineteen eighty so we was yeah, you were one.

Speaker 6 (46:02):
But that's that's I mean, that's that's a long time
and that's that's part of.

Speaker 4 (46:06):
What the key to their deal is.

Speaker 6 (46:08):
You say, it's a there's a way about Iowa goes
about its business and they know the type of player
they need and can recruit and develop, and they've had
some success.

Speaker 8 (46:16):
They've had a ton of success, and it's impressive to
watch they're really talented. You know, obviously they're going to
run the football, but they've added a different element with
their quarterback.

Speaker 5 (46:24):
Now he's a runner as well, so he.

Speaker 8 (46:26):
Can throw it like a quarterback, but he's really like
a tailback with his legs. I mean, he's pretty thick kid,
big kid, and you know, they've always been really good
at running the football by handing it all, but now
you throw him in the element and he start to
watch their games, they're having a lot of success because
he's breaking sixty seventy yard runs left and right.

Speaker 5 (46:41):
So it's not only just the running backs.

Speaker 8 (46:43):
You got to deal what you got to do with
him defensively, it's it's just the same in a good way.

Speaker 5 (46:48):
I mean, that's that's what I mean. That's the same.
I mean, that's what they do.

Speaker 8 (46:51):
And they all look like the guys last year and
the year before that and the year before that, but
they're just different faces. They play really solid defense, They
force you into making illegitimate throws and force turnovers, and they're.

Speaker 5 (47:05):
Really really good.

Speaker 8 (47:06):
So we have a lot of respect for them and
what they do and how they do it, but we
got to find a way to play our best football
better than we did last week.

Speaker 5 (47:13):
To be one to know in Kinnick.

Speaker 6 (47:15):
I remember, well, yesterday you mentioned that it's a hard
place to play, and maybe in your time you recalled
the two thousand and six game that you were the
GA at Ohio State you went in there. I looked
up nineteen ninety nine Northern Illinois played at Kinnick Stadium,
and you.

Speaker 4 (47:29):
Know what that was.

Speaker 6 (47:30):
I think Kirk Ferance's first year, that was his only win.
Speaking of winning one game and now you're welling them, yeah,
I started, Yeah, you should you should tell him.

Speaker 4 (47:37):
He always right. You had two catches in that game
for seventeen yards.

Speaker 6 (47:41):
I also noticed that that's a heck of a game
about the game.

Speaker 4 (47:43):
Two catches seventeen yards.

Speaker 8 (47:45):
It shows the speed, you know, yeah, really the style
of my game. You know, two catches for about eighty
or about eight and a half yards per catch, a heck.

Speaker 6 (47:54):
Of a stats. That's a good run. That's a good
run right there. And I looked at the box score.
This small their special teams coach LeVar Woods, I think
scored a defensive touchdown in that game as well. So
there's a lot of connections there was that your first
experience at Kinnick and part of what that opinion has
been formed on it was.

Speaker 5 (48:13):
And then you know, I just I don't know.

Speaker 8 (48:15):
There's always been an attachment to Iowa with where I've been,
I mean, Western Michigan University, and I don't want to
bring that one up. That one was very good. That
was not another good experience at Kinnick. I think we
got beat by sixty. Oh yeah, yeah, see life's pretty good.

Speaker 4 (48:29):
Yeah yeah, beautiful.

Speaker 6 (48:31):
Well, hey, you got the last time you played there,
you got the wins. Let's have a repeat performance on Saturday.

Speaker 5 (48:36):
You got it all right, the most skuy Bogo Gophers.
We'll see y'all in Iowa City.

Speaker 6 (48:39):
There he is the head coach of the Golden Gophers.

Speaker 4 (48:41):
Again.

Speaker 6 (48:41):
Thanks to everyone for listening to thirty the kickoff We'll
take here at twelve thirty on Saturday.

Speaker 4 (48:47):
This has been Gopher Football Weekly with PJ. Fleck from lear.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
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Speaker 19 (49:11):
Common man, common man, no show, pe solid plan, say,
we can't be scared.

Speaker 5 (49:18):
Approach will fail.

Speaker 3 (49:20):
Tuning.

Speaker 10 (49:21):
It's time for common man, com man, common man, charlege
the housewives like no one can what shoot?

Speaker 5 (49:30):
Where we play dons?

Speaker 4 (49:32):
Nonsense, I'm back to day to day man. It's time
for common man.

Speaker 22 (49:41):
Why should anybody aspire to be a common man? An
average man? Do you realize what it means to be average?
That means you're the best of the lousiest and the
lousiest of the best. Now, if we demand more and
more for producing lesson less while the have not nations
and courage and inspire and indeed require hard work and
maximum effort, If we deify the common man while they

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encourage and reward the uncommon ones, well, the end result
of such a lopsided race as that is too obvious
to require elaboration.

Speaker 5 (50:43):
You've got to be kidding me.

Speaker 23 (50:48):
Just keep badly, They just keep battling, They keep badly, Okay, Yeah.

Speaker 21 (51:09):
Rosie, very funny, very funny.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
Who is it is?

Speaker 2 (51:42):
Vivaldi?

Speaker 10 (51:43):
He?

Speaker 3 (51:43):
Who is John?

Speaker 4 (51:44):
It is rachmaninof I know nothing nothing. I'm kind of
asking he can stick it up your butt, all.

Speaker 17 (51:58):
What up?

Speaker 3 (52:15):
You don't know nothing.

Speaker 12 (52:20):
He's the clown from Brown, He's the fourth in the North.

Speaker 5 (52:27):
This is the common man.

Speaker 22 (52:29):
Dan Cole.

Speaker 24 (52:32):
Turn on my Mike, unprepared, I'm turn unapologetic, unapologetic, That's
what we are. The Grum begins in five, actually three
five sounds like more than four.

Speaker 4 (52:42):
Two to one.

Speaker 24 (52:42):
Great is good afternoon, and act acadak and Dak dack
acting here in yours. I'm the common man, Dan Cole,
Radio dinosaur, lebre of tarpet, cold ded rigamortis Leyden or
at least fossilized here until two truncated version head coach,
soon to be Big Game World Champion Minnesota Vikings about
one fifteen or so. The legendary Mark Rosen will join
us at about two o'clock. Quarterback controversy continues to swirl

(53:03):
the wild Finally get off to They call it get
off the Schneid. I hope I didn't say something I'm
not supposed to. Maybe that's politically incorrect nowadays. They beat
the New York Rangers. The World the World Series is
all said. It's the soon to be World Series champion
LA Dodgers taking on the Toronto Blue Jays. I wonder
if Rosen for Toronto like he did Edmonton, because he
likes Canadian teams, golphers others receiving votes. Minnesota Timberwolves begin

(53:29):
their season tomorrow night against Portland. With all those topics
to get to, I'm not sure where to begin, So
let's spin the wheel of top.

Speaker 13 (53:39):
Yeah, well it comes up on common days golf, in
which I don't have to get world because it doesn't
have to day off and commons golf. I did play
Why the game is played outdoors?

Speaker 5 (53:50):
I played in today.

Speaker 24 (53:52):
I played in a I wouldn't call it a steady rain.
It didn't start to rain until the back now, which
was really the front nine, because I played the front
nine twice. Two where'd we play presspect at Wedgewood and Woodbury?

Speaker 5 (54:03):
Where'd you hit it on one?

Speaker 13 (54:04):
Right up the god second shot, I hit a seven
iron onto the green.

Speaker 5 (54:09):
Then what I two potted?

Speaker 6 (54:10):
Four?

Speaker 13 (54:11):
Not par? Incredible? You know what I did?

Speaker 24 (54:13):
Actually, I played the front twice and I got identical
scores in the ball. Each shot went almost exactly where
they did on the first time around. I went par bogie, bogie, bogie,
par par bogie par the only oh no, on seven
the second time. Now you're familiar with Prusswick, right, Yeah,

(54:35):
so I again for the second time today, I pushed
my t shot over to the right where the maintenance
building is.

Speaker 13 (54:41):
This time I got all there.

Speaker 24 (54:43):
This time, I got all the way down to where
the little grassy swale is. And I occasionally tried this,
and I decided to There's a little a little alley
between out of bounds right and trees left where you
can just hit a straight shot all the way down
the right side, so that you you avoid all the
trees on the left, and then you've got to look

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at the green, even though you might have trees in
front of you. I hit a perfect six iron down
that uh uh, down that little alley there and flip
the wedge up to about two feet and made the
putt for povert. Then I doubled nine, but it was okay.
I'm I'm I'm in the process of rebuilding my swing.

Speaker 13 (55:22):
I think I've told you that before.

Speaker 24 (55:23):
I'm now instead of doing a sway turn, I'm doing
strictly a turn.

Speaker 13 (55:27):
It's a work in progress.

Speaker 24 (55:30):
But when I do hit the ball, well, it goes farther,
it goes straight, or sometimes I even draw it. So
it's the first day of the rest of my life.
So I was very excited about it. And season is
about to come to a close. I think tennabee. I mean,
it's possible we could play into early November, mid November, November,
even late November. Sometimes we play into December.

Speaker 13 (55:53):
We We'll just have to wait and see if that
is the case.

Speaker 24 (55:58):
I wanted to uh direct your attention and let me
see if I can find it, because I had it
right on the top of mine.

Speaker 13 (56:06):
You might want to hit the music.

Speaker 24 (56:11):
I thought I had it on the top of my
prep paty, which wasn't very thick today to me, and
I'm very disappointed in you. It was basically a complaint, okay,
a complaint against the program director, and I guess in

(56:37):
indirectly well, a complaint against you as well.

Speaker 5 (56:42):
Complaining the program director by airing the ten fifth serial.

Speaker 13 (56:44):
Well, yeah, I.

Speaker 24 (56:46):
Guess is basically what they what they actually said. This
was sent to Chad Abbott, and oftentimes Chad Abbott will
get emails from listeners, generally their complaints very rarely do
do does He received compliments in regards to the grum but.

Speaker 6 (57:04):
This game.

Speaker 13 (57:09):
From I don't know who, right, I'll just think his
name out.

Speaker 24 (57:11):
His name is Joe and he writes wow off of
a bye week and commons where thought Vikings were your fans,
number one listeners. Great management decision. So he thought on
Thursday and Friday, I should have been here with the
Vikings coming off of bye weekings. Nobody's more insightful and

(57:31):
plugged into the Vikings than I am. Right, and you
know I took it as a compliment and a complaint.
You know that he would like to have had me there.
But I did respond to him like I always do
when I said, it's faith, family, fair ways.

Speaker 13 (57:49):
Frequency, and football in that order.

Speaker 24 (57:52):
So baby brother Peter, who I created from my loins,
my my youngest boy, he goes to the Ohio State
University and he came back for fall break and I
wanted to spend time with my son Ah, and so
that's where the faith family, and then he likes to golf.

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So we combined family and fairways is what we did.

Speaker 13 (58:15):
And so I appreciate that he wanted me