Gopher Football Weekly w/ PJ Fleck 10-28-25

Gopher Football Weekly w/ PJ Fleck 10-28-25

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Takes block.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
This to be two points.

Speaker 1 (00:03):
If he goes all the way, he's in this field,
nobody to pay. This will be two for Minnesota.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
Miller Moss with a handoff at another big game and
the ball pot.

Speaker 4 (00:13):
Flows and is still fumbling back there there it is
maybe picked up.

Speaker 5 (00:17):
Let's see who has a densoda.

Speaker 6 (00:19):
Welcome to Gopher Football Weekly with PJ. Fleck on the
Gopher Sports Network from Learfield.

Speaker 4 (00:25):
It's out of the five Toddstown Tag six.

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Speaker 2 (00:50):
There we go.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
No, here's the voice of the Gophers, Mike grim.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
Along with Justin Guard. We are off and Ronnie the
head coach. PJ.

Speaker 5 (01:01):
Fleck is with us as well, and it is Go
for Football Weekly with PJ Fleck. We're on campus today.
We'll be back at the restaurant next week. Next week's
a bye week. We'll have a couple of players for
the show next week out at the restaurant so on
campus and just down the hall in the conference room
from PJ. Fleck's office. And you know, it was a nice,

(01:21):
nice little walk here today and now it's onto Michigan State.
But we do need to talk a little bit about Isle,
you do. Yeah, why but you know, just a right tip.
I know you talked about it yesterday a little bit
early onslot from them. You talked about during the week
how hard it was to play in that stadium, and
they were clearly jacked up the crowd and blackout, and

(01:42):
before you knew it, it was it was.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
The game was on.

Speaker 7 (01:45):
Yeah, it wasn't like our guys were unprepared, not ready
for that environment. I mean, they were here. The problem is,
they score seven points. We get a chance to respond,
we miss a block, We throw a really good outpass,
we kind of lose our footing as we catch it
get back, you know, we kind of stumble, lose the yard,
and then you know, our next play we throw an incompletion,

(02:06):
they go down, get a field goal, We get the
ball back for the play of the game, pick six.
We're down seventeen to nothing. Before you can blink before
you can even you could even fight. I love how
hard our players played, but we didn't execute at a
high level, so bad execution. Love how hard we played,
but you play really hard at doing not so good things.

(02:28):
When you play in Kinnick Stadium and they play the
way they did, it's going to be a quick night.
And unfortunately that's the way it went down. It's not
what we accept, it's not what we think is okay,
thirty one nothing with nine to ten minutes to go
in the second quarter. That's not a formula for success.

(02:49):
So they also return to pump for a touchdown. So
we had a great practice today. Our guys would responded tremendously.
Nobody wanted that to happen like that at our players.
I hate this word embarrassed. I don't use embarrassed. I
think that takes away from the credit of a team
who just beat you, and beat you handedly rivalry or not.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
I hate that.

Speaker 7 (03:11):
I hate taking away from people's who work just as
hard as us, who earn a victory and then coaches
going there and say I'm embarrassed, like I hate when
people talk about that because I think that completely takes
away from their execution at a really high level.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
We didn't execute and if you.

Speaker 7 (03:29):
Don't start fast, you're going to be swimming uphill. And
we were swimming up hill from the start. I mean,
I're swimming up a waterfall. And unfortunately it happened. And
you know, Garrett I talked about this, did you lose
by one? Did you lose by you know, thirty eight?
Either way lost his stink And I don't know which

(03:50):
one's worse, but that was really really hard to swallow.
And no one felt worse than our players. It's hard
to have a rivalry game like that, and you know
they've they've obviously had the advantage in the win column
and our rivalry and we've had some some some teams
that we beat like that as well. It's just everybody's
got something, you know, and that happens to be us

(04:11):
right now. But we got a lot of things corrected.
And I love the mindset when they came in here, man,
I mean it was you never know, like you never know,
and you think like your culture strong and you think
you have this and you never know, and boy did
I was I proud of them with their response in
today's practice. I mean, maybe one of the better practices
we had, but they because they know why.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Sunday was all about why. So what was the why?

Speaker 4 (04:33):
Take us through the why? A little bit.

Speaker 7 (04:35):
Played really hard, executed at a very poor level. When
you don't start fast, you throw a pick six, you
return it, punt for a touchdown, but you don't even
have there's not even almost time to respond. It was
almost like a I hate this word too, but like
a shell shock, like I grew up on.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
The teenage minon newtant Ninja Turtle.

Speaker 7 (04:56):
Like arcade game and somebody kind of gets you and
to be a shell shocked, you know, and the turtles
would you know, have no power.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
It happened so fast.

Speaker 7 (05:08):
That we couldn't even get into anything right, And that's
a credit to them, because we had a possession, we
went three and out. They got a possession, went down
and got a field goal. We had another possession in
the fourth play game pick six, seventeen to nothing and
you know as well as I do, you're down seventeen
to nothing at Kinnick and then throw two more interceptions.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
I mean, as a I know I've been doing this
a long time.

Speaker 7 (05:33):
That's that's how you that's how you lose a game
in Kinnick. And I'm not taking away that they didn't
win the game. We lost the game though, like we
did everything you possibly could do to go wrong.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
Loved how hard we played.

Speaker 7 (05:47):
When you lose a turtle better three nothing at Kinnick,
you're not gonna win.

Speaker 8 (05:49):
So how hard is it when you just mentioned it?
You go through the whole week, You've got your practices.
Last week, you had the line working twenty five hours,
you know, a day to get things ready, and then
that quickly you know there's going to have to be
a lot of stuff go right because so much has
gone wrong. Like how tough is that to stay in
the moment and make sure you got you get the
fight that you want the rest of the game.

Speaker 7 (06:09):
Well, I think that's cultural, you know, And I think
that's about you know, every play is its own end.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Excuse me.

Speaker 7 (06:15):
Entity You go one and oh on every play. You
go one to oh on every game or zero to one,
and our guys are trained that way. And that was
the one thing I thought in the second half, I
thought we played played better, but again it was it
was it was out of control at that point when
you're playing that team. I haven't seen many teams come
back from a thirty one point deficit against Iowa. And
I'm not saying they could have quit. They could have

(06:36):
folded up the tent. We talked in a halftime. I
don't care what the score is. Our season will be
judged on how we come out and play in the
second half. How, Maybe not the execution, but the how.
And I thought they answered that bell, and that's.

Speaker 8 (06:50):
All you can do at that point, right, that's all
you can do. You can't control the first fifteen minutes.
That's done, that's over.

Speaker 7 (06:55):
It happens in high school, happens at college, happens in
the NFL. And I think it says a lot about
your team of how they respond to that and whether
they can come back and win or not.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
That was that was a new point at that point.

Speaker 7 (07:07):
What I'm talking about is the actual effort, the drive,
the willingness to go out there and fight and compete
and swarm around the ball. And I was really proud
of them for that. But it's it's a very helpless
feeling that That was my question.

Speaker 5 (07:22):
And you don't want to be in games like that,
but you know it's going to happen at some point,
when when you're as a head coach walking the sideline.
I know you'd like to take notes and you know,
collect your thoughts. What is it like you just gritting
your teeth or you just like, let's get this thing done.
What is the emotion of a head coach when you
have to, you know, kind of rumble through something that
happened like that.

Speaker 7 (07:40):
I don't think it's ever Let's hurry up and get
this thing done, or we would have ran the ball
starting the second half. It just made it as short
as possible and say hey, let's make this score look different.
We came out, we're going to put things together to
go come back and win, and that's what I love
about our team. And unfortunately, when you do that, we
turn the ball over again and they scored off of that.

(08:02):
So I could have set there say okay, let's just
you know, fold up the tents. Let's make this not
as a blowout as we possibly can make it. But
we fight, man, and just wasn't our night at all
in any phase, offense, defense or special teams. And that's
my responsibility, It's all of our responsibilities. I mean, love,
I love you know, I'm a head coach that will

(08:25):
I love standing up saying.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
That's on me, because it is on me.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
It's all on me.

Speaker 7 (08:29):
But what's on me has to get fixed from everybody.
And that's my job to get every single person, coach, player,
support staff to get better.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
That's my job.

Speaker 7 (08:42):
Because we didn't get better from Nebraska to Iowa in
the way we handled the game. I don't even know
if we got better because I didn't have enough time
to see if we did get better because we were
in four plays, we were down seventeen to nothing. But
you to give them credit, and that's why they have
built something that I don't think you'll ever see again

(09:05):
in college athletics. And there's a reason I think, you know,
I give a lot of credit to Kirk as you know.
I mean, it is a on our end, at least
my end, it's a respected rivalry because it is something
that I don't think anybody.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Will ever see again.

Speaker 7 (09:22):
But when he talks, he talks about why would I stop.
I'm having way too much fun after twenty seven years
of building it, and I'm not saying it runs itself.
Because to keep that up there has to be an
enormous challenge to all of them.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
But they have an identity.

Speaker 7 (09:39):
They have a way they play and when they get
you in the way that they want you to play,
they got you. And I knew this, Drake and I
had multiple conversations. And you can coach and teach as
much as you want. It's a little different in Kinnick.
We haven't won there since nineteen ninety nine except for
two years ago. Like I'm just telling, it's a little different,

(10:02):
got it.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
It's just a little different, guys, We got it.

Speaker 7 (10:05):
But there are a lot of players that we play
because of our developmental program that are young, those maybe
their first time playing in Kinnick. It creates it's it's
been the think back to it. Was it twenty ten
Michigan States is a twentys that Michigan State goes into
Kinnick undefeated and gets beat like thirty seven cent like
run out of the stadium.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
That was the year they won the Big Ten championship.

Speaker 7 (10:29):
It's like the Bermuda Triangle, you know, And at least
for me, and maybe it's not for other people, but
and that's something that every head coach has. You look
at every head coach. There's whether it's a kryptonite, whether
it's a you know, I'm just doing as much as
I possibly can to explain it to you. I mean,

(10:49):
but it can't be something that gets in people's heads.
And it's not in our heads. We take one game
a championship season. But when you do have a young
quarterback and you're explaining to him throughout a week what
that's like and then you get in it, I think
sometimes you got to learn from the failing. We all
have to learn from the failing of going in there
and not playing at our best from the start. If

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you don't put a drive together to match that score, it's.

Speaker 5 (11:13):
Gonna be a long afternoon. And what's the follow up
with Drake?

Speaker 4 (11:16):
Then after?

Speaker 2 (11:17):
What'd you learn?

Speaker 4 (11:18):
And what do you say?

Speaker 7 (11:19):
Lard said exactly that, Hey, I heard you, but wow,
you know that was that was just a little bit
different of an experience, and you know, I won't let
that happen again.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
You know, he takes accountability for it's not his fault.
I mean, he gets everybody's fault.

Speaker 7 (11:33):
I mean from we had a pumper turve for a touchdown,
I mean our defense gave up you know, three quick scores.
I mean, holy cal and it's everybody's accountability. But when
you're at the quarterback, you want to say, like, how
could I have been the reason we won? And if
I wasn't the reason we won, why was I part
of the reason? And be very honest and transparent with that.
I think he's done a great job of responding to that.

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Lindsay to throw does over the middle and that is
caught by Kenrick Glennier out near midfield and a nice
pick up there of just under twenty here's Gronowski. He
wants to throw and now it feels pressure and sacked
the first sack of the day for the Golden Gophers.
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point five sacks. And that's all the way back to
the twenty seven yard line. There they were the AVR
Remix highlights from Saturday's game in Iowa City with the
setback the Gophers five and three, three and two. A
lot of games still will be played all the We're
eight weeks in. It's there are eight games in the season.
Feels like me, it's flying by. I think a couple
of weeks ago you told me I was crazy. You

(18:24):
think it's it's it's a, it's a.

Speaker 7 (18:27):
It's felt like all of eight weeks everyone, every single
minute of those Yes, it just happens that way.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
And I haven't had many seams. I'm like, man, that
flew by.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
Uh.

Speaker 7 (18:38):
But you know, I don't know what's what's worse. This
is for you for credit, for you the head coach
on the sideline in the second half, or the play
by play guy that has to you know, you're keeping
everybody entertained through voice as well. So first of all,
I appreciate you I have. First of all, I have
no idea you might have just bashed me the whole time.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
I'm not sure I would never Let's roll the clip.
We don't need we don't need to roll anything.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Let's go to that what he actually did.

Speaker 4 (19:03):
We don't need to do that.

Speaker 7 (19:04):
But I pretty cool, Like even what you said with Kingsbury,
like there's there's a bright spot like there.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
The thing is, when you peel.

Speaker 7 (19:11):
Back the edit on that game, there are there are
so many things that you just throw out like yeah,
but there's so also some things that nobody wants to
hear this, but there are some really good things that
happened that are covered up by all the mud, filth
kunk and unfortunately that's that's how it went, and that's
that's not acceptable whatsoever inside these this program. And you

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got to give them credit though they they played really,
really well.

Speaker 9 (19:37):
Do you?

Speaker 5 (19:38):
I know you were asked us yesterday the it's five
and zero at home owing three on the road. I
know the schedule dictates some of that. Those are three
hard places to play, do you? And I know you
study a whole bunch of stuff you put into what
do we want to do on a road trip? So
how much do you talk about what do we got
to do to get started quick on the road? And
I know it's not a road game this week, but
you've got a couple coming up with some unique circumstances

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a baseball field and a Friday night game in your
last two road games.

Speaker 7 (20:04):
Everything deserves its own attention, right and you give it
the credit that it deserves. But I don't think you
overdo it one way or another. It's not like, oh man,
we got to play on the road and oh yeah,
we're back at home. It is all about we'll play
in a parking lot, we'll play wherever they tell us
to play. We'll play whatever time they want us to play,
because it's our job to get them ready. And the
way we're prepared is similar, it's not exactly the same.

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You're changing it each week based on where you're headed.

Speaker 2 (20:29):
What is it going to sound like? I thought we
did a really good job preparing them inside the endoor.

Speaker 7 (20:34):
I just never got a chance to really kind of
see if that preparation really paid off because it was
out of hands so quick, and that's part of it.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
You can't ignore that.

Speaker 7 (20:43):
When you get attacked like that so quickly, and you
get shell shocked like that and you're down that quickly,
you know, it says a lot about your team, the
character moving forward from that point on. And I thought
they did a great job leading and great job playing
and worked their butts off, and that gave that that
there's a lot of hope coming from that game, even

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though that one was already out of hand.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
And apologized all of our fans.

Speaker 7 (21:07):
I mean, that's that's not what we want. That's not
the product you want on the field. But every coach
has gone through there, you know, and fortunately I've seen
it in a lot of different areas.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
I've seen it.

Speaker 7 (21:17):
Against when I was at Western Michigan against the Hawkeys,
and I remember Kirk Ferrens meet me at midfield after
that game and said, looked at me and tilted his
head and said, been there and.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Shook my hand. And this one he came. He shook
my hand and he was like, it's one of those days.

Speaker 9 (21:34):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
He's so right.

Speaker 7 (21:37):
He couldn't he doesn't have to say a word to me.
He didn't just shake my hand and walk by. He's
like one of those days.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
You took the words right out of my mouth, Like.

Speaker 4 (21:46):
Yeah, can you go do my press conference?

Speaker 2 (21:48):
You know, that was really nice.

Speaker 7 (21:48):
Would you mind talking just the Haryan Burns and Randy
and talking Andy Greider for me?

Speaker 2 (21:54):
That'd be great.

Speaker 8 (21:55):
Yeah, he did say that, and driving home in his
radio post game, he said, you never see that coming, right,
because why would you. You can't show up and expect
that all that stuff's going to go You se either
way exactly.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
Like almost truly either way.

Speaker 7 (22:07):
You know, when you're looking at the rivalry game and
even on offense, when it goes your way, like I
didn't you know, you're you're you're seeing how things play out.
I mean Maryland last year, exaid, well, I saw that coming.
You don't really see. You prepare your team and then
however the game unfolde. You prepare them for every situation
so they can respond to that, and then sometimes like
that game happens. And he's a very wise coach. He's

(22:29):
been around a long time, and his words to me
weren't some coach cliche.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
You know, I'm just.

Speaker 7 (22:34):
Gonna say this, a good games, stay healthy, you know.
I mean everybody says that, you know what I mean, like, look, yah,
good luck, Hey, all the best of the future, go
get them, you know, but this was more like, hey,
you know, uh, you know, it happens like and he's right,
and the unfortunately that happened to us, and that's no
excuse whatsoever there.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
I mean, it was. It was as bad as it
could have got.

Speaker 8 (22:56):
So you've said a couple of interesting things in our
postgame interviews this year, like a cow where you've talked
about you know, maybe I overthought it with the sleep
and all these things that we were doing.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
I think this week you.

Speaker 8 (23:04):
Said, did you put too much stuff in that I
put too much stuff in? Was it too complicated?

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Things like that?

Speaker 8 (23:10):
How do you balance the emotion of the moment when
you're trying to think of all of it. You obviously
had a bus ride to think and then you know,
Saturday night Sunday morning to try to figure out, you know,
the reflection part of it in terms of getting the
team ready.

Speaker 4 (23:21):
Did I do too much? Did I not do enough?

Speaker 8 (23:23):
Am I just not thinking clearly in the moment because
it just happened? How do you balance all of it
as you move forward to try to get ready for
the rest of it.

Speaker 7 (23:29):
Yeah, part of that is the postgame press conference is
maybe one of the most reactionary, maybe uneducated, maybe some
inconsistency in what you say, because you haven't watched the film.
You're going based on how you felt it from the sideline.
You're looking the iPads, you're you're adjusting, you're constantly moving.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
It's always the next play, so you have a really
good feel of it.

Speaker 7 (23:51):
But a lot of times it's not as one hundred
percent accurate as you might be thought it was. It's
never as good as it was, and it's never as
bad as it was. And I know a lot of
people I just said that, No, it was as bad
as we was, there were still some really good things that.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
Happened that I think, just it happened so fast that
I couldn't.

Speaker 7 (24:09):
Even evaluate how we were going to be able to
perform within the game plan. And again that responsibility falls
on me because we have to start faster.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
It wasn't excuse me, It wasn't too much. We didn't
have it.

Speaker 7 (24:23):
We played so hard but executed at such a poor
level and made some really bad decisions that we touched
the stove. And when you do that, you don't even
really get a great evaluation of how that could game
could have played out. When you're down thirty one to
nothing after the first quarter, I mean that is a
tough sled right there against the team that is not
like a normal teams come back against them and think

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you're going to go score forty five points in the
second half. I don't know if anybody's ever done that
so versut them, especially there. But I think the reflection
piece on the bus ride back, the film on the
way back, then the next day, film over and over
and over, it wasn't too much you question yourself. I
mean the first person that you question is yourself. How

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could I have prepared them better?

Speaker 2 (25:07):
What could I have done? Is there something that I
didn't cover that I didn't do right? And look, as
a head coach, you've also got to say, Okay, I
did that. Maybe I didn't do that as much as
I should have.

Speaker 4 (25:17):
Nope, I did that.

Speaker 7 (25:18):
I couldn't have done that anymore at an exhausting level.
But we're still dealing with eighteen to twenty two year
old young people and you can have that, but they're
also going to not be perfect as well, and they're
going to have to learn the hard way or the
easy way, and sometimes you got to learn the hard
way by going through it yourself. And that's why we're there.
We're not there to sit there and say, hey, guys,

(25:39):
this has nothing to do with you. It's all me
and it's all the coaches. Because we're in the whole
thing together. Every single person inside this organization has to
take accountability for what happened. I will take the most accountability,
one hundred percent. But if you have a really good
team and a really culture, a good culture, everybody wants.

Speaker 2 (25:55):
To take accountability for that.

Speaker 7 (25:56):
And when you came in around Sunday, everybody he did,
I mean everybody did, and that's what you want to see.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
And I thought today's.

Speaker 7 (26:06):
Practice was as good, if not the best practice.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
We've had of the fall.

Speaker 7 (26:11):
And I give them credit because that's that's really hard
to do, pick people off the ground after a game.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
Like that, because that could go a lot of different ways.

Speaker 5 (26:18):
And you want to see your guys get up off
the mat. So you like that today in terms of
what you got from them.

Speaker 7 (26:25):
Yeah, because those all player are driven, you know. I mean,
we can come in and set the tone. This is
what we're gonna do. This is unacceptable. This is why
we watched the film. But then as coaches, right, bad
teams nobody's leading. Average teams. Coaches have to like lead
the whole time, and then elite teams players lead. We're
kind of in the mix between that elite and coach period, right,
because there's sometimes we have to because we do have

(26:47):
a lot of young players at key positions, we have
to like infuse that leadership more than ever. And then
there's some positions you got to step back and let
them do it. So every position has its own feel
to it. But I think our coaches had a really
good balance of that yesterday and Monday with tons of
guys in the building constantly. And again, we're not a
reactionary program where you panic. This isn't about that. This

(27:10):
is about we're zero and one in Iowa. Whether we
won by one point or got blown out, everybody was
going to be disappointed if we didn't.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
Win that game.

Speaker 7 (27:17):
And I've never had anybody say we're not disappointed in
twenty nineteen because we were close.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
That was just as devastating as this.

Speaker 7 (27:25):
So when you lose, everybody puts so much into it.
At every school, every NFL team, all week, we all
do close to the same things for preparation. And when
you put that in there and you don't get what
you what we strive for, that hurts and it hurts everybody.
That's why you see the hurt because it's the time invested.
It's not just the result, it's the time invested that

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you see that. Now you start back over at zero.

Speaker 5 (27:50):
And on the flip side, that's why you enjoy the
wins and body surf and do all.

Speaker 7 (27:53):
That stuff right absolutely, because it's really hard to win.
It's so hard, and never take winning for granted whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
I'm not built that way. So Yeah.

Speaker 7 (28:05):
When we win, we're going to embrace that moment to
accomplish the one and oh goal. When we don't, we're hurt.
You know, you're devastated. You got a five hour bus
ride to think about it the whole way back. But
that's where you grow the most. That is where I
think some coaches are at their best, and I think

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that's where some coaches are at their worst.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
And I think we're really good at it.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
And to respond, all right, we'll take a break, we'll
come back.

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here the following week. As well leading into that Friday

(29:10):
Oregon game. So that is the schedule for the next
couple of weeks.

Speaker 4 (29:14):
On campus. Today we will preview Halloween.

Speaker 5 (29:17):
Yes, it's mister Fleck's one of his favorite times a year,
so we'll talk about that. This is Gopher Football Weekly
with PJ. Fleck Fromlearfield. Go for Football, Welcome back, Go
for Football Weekly with PJ.

Speaker 4 (29:35):
Fleck.

Speaker 5 (29:35):
We're on campus today Minnesota and Michigan State at.

Speaker 4 (29:38):
Two thirty kickoff on Saturday.

Speaker 5 (29:40):
JG will take air along with all of us at
twelve thirty in Gopher fans, don't miss out on the
Gopher Garden, the pregame fan fest. It's presented by Huntington Bank.
Located on Oak Street outside the stadium. Gopher Garden opens
three hours before every home game, of course, including this weekend.
Catch the Gopher Football Tailgate radio show. Enjoy the pride
of Minnesota, mark bands, pregame concert, and experience all the

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excitement leading up to kickoff and guardsy. Oftentimes we'll have
special interview guests and other folks up.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
On the stage. And what face painting and bags? Well,
I'm not doing any face painting.

Speaker 5 (30:14):
No, there's a lot and I don't even know if
there is anymore, but there's a lot of stuff.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
You should come out.

Speaker 8 (30:19):
It's a hell of a time it is. It's a
great vibe. It's very fat. It's a good vibe.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Right now.

Speaker 5 (30:24):
You walk into this football building and there's a goblins
and monsters and skeletons and chains hanging all over. It's
a it is that time of year. And I know
you guys, you always dressed up as Jim McMahon. We've
seen that picture floating around when you were a young
kid in the Chicago suburbs, the tough Chicago or the
headband and what was he?

Speaker 4 (30:45):
Number nine?

Speaker 2 (30:45):
Right?

Speaker 7 (30:46):
Number nine, number nine QBQV Absolutely.

Speaker 8 (30:49):
And I know, I know you appreciate your wife circulating
that photo to every TV network in the last eight
years to make sure that that gets in there. That's
a tradition like any other. And I know you're very
pleased that that photo saw the light of day. Sure,
am the one that.

Speaker 7 (31:02):
Has me wearing when I'm a kid that Wisconsin Badger
T shirt. For some reason, you're the red one that
circulates too, which that one got a lot of traction
just because my family used to vacation at Saint Germaine, Wisconsin.
And uh, that one gets a lot of traction, that's
for sure. So you know, I never know how it
comes back to haunt you.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
How your life?

Speaker 4 (31:21):
Well you play?

Speaker 5 (31:22):
I mean, you don't at least have a tattoo of
your alma mater like one big ten coach does of
a rival school. Right, No, I definitely don't have that.
That's always fun too. You've got to figure out how
to cover that thing up when you're coaching down the
down the road and I think it's all it's all good,
it's all good. If we can't laugh about it, why not, right, you've.

Speaker 4 (31:40):
Got philosophial thank you, yes, thank you.

Speaker 5 (31:43):
That's why I am impartying my yeah, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
Write all that down, please do.

Speaker 5 (31:48):
Please do. When when you're fifty five years old like
I am today, Happy happy birthday for me. Yeah, yeah,
you know what you know, that's old. I'm getting old now.
You're not what I found.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
I told guards you this.

Speaker 5 (31:59):
What I found is when you to this age and
you start messing up, you can just say getting old
and people say, yeah, you're right, and then you're you're
kind of it's okay.

Speaker 7 (32:08):
So what you're saying is like for Saturday, I said, hey,
sorry about that, everybody.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
I'm just getting old.

Speaker 4 (32:14):
Forty three yet four, Yeah you could.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
I don't know if I don't think forty four is
a cut off on that one though, like dog years. Yeah,
that's true, that's true. That that that's true. You get
to put through the ri say that.

Speaker 7 (32:29):
Though Kirk Ferris has been doing this twenty seven years
as a head coach.

Speaker 4 (32:33):
I mean, yeah, he's a tough week to say that.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Yeah, it's a really tough week. I'll get a tough week.

Speaker 7 (32:40):
I always think about, Okay, how could somebody say, like
what is he talking about? Because he can compare that,
and of course with Kirk Farens that wouldn't make a
lot of sense.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
And still a young puff.

Speaker 5 (32:48):
You've got everyone dressing up right on Thursday and the
kids coming in Hope Kids as the annual Halloween trick
or treat time.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Yeah, one of my favorite events. This is huge.

Speaker 7 (32:57):
You know, Nurice Wilson helps put this on and ton
over one hundred plus Hope kids come in and you know,
we decorate our entire facility and kind of a hunted mansion.
We got all types of games, all of our players
dress up. A lot of our coaches kids come here
because I mean it's unique because Friday's Halloween, right, so
we're in the hotel on Friday, so we've got to

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kind of balance that with our own families. So yeah,
I think it's really really good for our program. It's
one of the best events to watch those kids really
smile and have a great time. And I think Nourie
Wilson goes all out, that's for sure, and makes this
place really have that Halloween feel.

Speaker 9 (33:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (33:34):
I said that it's your favorite holiday, but really it's Nourice, right,
He's it's his favorite holiday.

Speaker 7 (33:39):
I think, right, Yeah, it's my least favorite holiday. It's
Nurice's favorite favorite holiday.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Yes, well, what's wrong with Halloween? You know, I don't
have my kids all the time.

Speaker 7 (33:49):
Yeah, right, right, And you're working during football season and
I usually don't get them for Halloween, so you know, yeah,
and I'm not really there at times to pass out
candy and that you're coaching, and sometimes I am sometimes
I can be, and you know, you just never know
what's coming.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
To that door.

Speaker 8 (34:07):
Yeah, that's the thing in Minneapolis, in a big city.
And you've talked about this we have a lot of transplants, right.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
Like, oh, it absolutely just in our neighborhood.

Speaker 8 (34:16):
Kirk Farence is not worried about a Gopher fan showing
up at his door wherever he lives, right, I'm guessing
Luke Fickel not a lot of Gopher fans pulling through
Madison or Middleton or wherever he lives in Minneapolis. Crapshoot
all these great Fortune five hundred companies. There's some people,
which is funny in a way because I know you've
had a lot of fun with that, but it's not
always ideal.

Speaker 7 (34:35):
On Halloween, Yeah, there's been people who dress up as
Heather and I and that's always good. They'll they'll do
you know, the lady will have the sleeve and tattoos
and you know, her dark hair and and you know,
and some guys.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
I've had one kid show up and I told you this,
he goes.

Speaker 7 (34:53):
You need to run more slants, And I was like,
his dad's like twenty feet from him, and you can
see you. After the kids said it, Dad's like, yes,
he did, his son.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
And then you know, I mean he.

Speaker 7 (35:05):
Got coal and then yeah, exactly, he walked we got
a pencil.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
Yeah, a kid got a pencil, tooth brush.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
Well, see we've got the at the full side stuff.
We got multiple stuff.

Speaker 7 (35:14):
And then depending on if somebody says happy Halloween, go gophers,
row the boat, skuy Mico Gophers, Happy Halloween.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
Trick or treat, you get the full You go to
the garage and grab a car. And if you say
all that this is this is fair, it's not equal.

Speaker 7 (35:28):
Yeah, right, you come up and don't say anything and
stick your bag out there. You're getting a pencil, yeah,
you know, maybe a pro tractor.

Speaker 4 (35:33):
What if a kid comes up wearing.

Speaker 5 (35:35):
A you know, a Nebraska uniform or or an Iowa
uniform or something, what.

Speaker 4 (35:40):
Do they get?

Speaker 2 (35:42):
And I usually let Heather handle though.

Speaker 4 (35:44):
If they get corn, yeah it's right, give him a
cap of corn.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Right that cat.

Speaker 7 (35:49):
I can't imagine what, Harry, what's coming to the door
this year? So it'll be great.

Speaker 5 (35:53):
But you have had someone dressed as you show up
at your door for canning.

Speaker 7 (35:56):
Oh, multiple every year, that's all. It's not just one,
it's multiple. One year we had it was great. Well, uh,
there was a there was a kid that was Paul
christ the kid who was Jim Harbaugh, and then there
was a kid who was me. Ye, dads were all
behind there, you know. The dad don't come up with
the kids. That's for the most part, but you could
just see him back there. And then the same thing.

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Dad's in the back, Hey, ask him about this? Yeah,
and then the kids kind of like the kids looking
at me, like, first of all, I could care less
who this guy is, right, you know, dad cares uh.

Speaker 5 (36:26):
You know, but you always like to go into Halloween
after a win, you.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
Know, and this one, you know.

Speaker 7 (36:31):
So yeah, I'm not even sure if I want, probably
won't even be there.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
So that's Friday night before the.

Speaker 5 (36:37):
Game, right, I'll be I'll be with the players, Yeah, exactly.
All right, let's take another brother after that? Oh no,
you go talk, go ahead. Well, no, I had a
question that's not related to anything.

Speaker 8 (36:47):
But I'm just interested in the head coaching perspective of
things because I don't know if you saw it, because
you're you're locked in here. But Carson Wentz his season's done.
He's got to have shoulder surgery. And now the reports
are coming out that he he played like two and
a half games with a pretty debilitating injury. And the
line is always, you know, the trainers, and you always
talking about the medical staff. Gives me the information, but

(37:09):
I'm curious what the line is with player conversations with
medical staff in terms of having to protect players from
themselves or can he hurt it anymore?

Speaker 4 (37:18):
You know, I'm getting at a little.

Speaker 8 (37:20):
Bit because the second guest right now, and I'm not
asking you the second guest koc is, nor would I write,
but how do you Because Carson Wentz wants to play
right if he says, I'm I'm out here, I'm playing the.

Speaker 5 (37:31):
Doctor, yes, and the doctor the eyeball might say, goy,
this kid's getting killed.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
Well, we're watching Thursday and going this is rough.

Speaker 8 (37:37):
And now he's got season ending surgery and he was
obviously dealing with something really painful. So how do you
handle You've never had to handle something like that, I
don't think, But just take me through how you handle
those things with all the moving parts that are in there.

Speaker 7 (37:50):
Well, I can only speak based on my experiences one
as a football player right in college and pro, and
then two coaching in the NFL, and then three being
a head football coach at the MAC and then the
Big Ten. And the great thing about how we at
least do it. Here is I don't have any say
whether a kid plays or not. You know, that is
all Mike sipneyak our entire medical staff and and and

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I love that piece.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
We have amazing doctors who will.

Speaker 7 (38:14):
Do everything they possibly can, high and low to protect
our student athletes. And I love that piece because there
were a lot of times I probably wish as a
player somebody would have stepped in for me, but I
was too bone headed. I think as a football player
you always want to play. I think there's a threshold
of what's hurt, what's injured. There's a balance of what
can I play through? What can't I play through. There's

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also the factor of there's certain players who can play
through more than other players. There's a there's a threshold
based on who you are. And I think that has
to be handled with the medical staff with white gloves
that it always is. But you start to get people's
personalities of who can who can't. What are they saying
when they really can, what are they saying when they

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really can't, what's the medical report say. I think that's
one of the hard things to dictate, is because it
is a violent game.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
This isn't something hey I just I got.

Speaker 7 (39:06):
A bruise on my knee. There are things that am
I hurt? Am I injured? What's the difference? Something that
could be an injured for one guy could be just
hurt for another guy. You watch certain positions play through
a torn acl, well, so why not you couldn't play
through a torn acl.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Maybe you can do that as an offensive line.

Speaker 7 (39:24):
Maybe every case is completely different, and I think that's
what makes it unique, if every person needs to be
handled completely different. So I can't speak on actually what's
going on with the Viking piece. I would or would I,
but I can only speak on what we see every day.
We talk about the injury report every day. I get

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a personal meeting with our medical staff. Our staff gets
a meeting together with our medical staff. And you have
to listen to the player too, because the player has
a say in this as well, but the doctors have a.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
Say in it well as well.

Speaker 7 (39:59):
So it goes to this a little bit of a formula,
and then you make a decision and then end game.
That's all depending on how you know. You're not sitting there.
You know you're looking at the player. You're seeing how
he responds, You're seeing how he gets up, you're asking
him on the sideline.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
The doctors are taking care of that. They go into
the tent.

Speaker 5 (40:16):
You know.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
That's why I don't go into tent.

Speaker 7 (40:18):
That's not my business, somebody else's business.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
I'm not the doctor. I got an eighteen on the act.
I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 7 (40:25):
What's wrong with these guys, but I do trust our
medical staff. I think there's a fine line. Because it
is a violent sport. Each kid can play through more
than less hurt injured. There's a big difference. So I
don't know if I answered your question. I just think
that there is this there's a global, global approach, and
every case is handled completely different.

Speaker 2 (40:45):
But I can't tell you how many.

Speaker 7 (40:46):
Times I was hit on the field and it hurts
so bad and I get back to the side it's
still hurt.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
But then I could I could play through that. I
could get through that.

Speaker 7 (40:55):
And then there are certain times like there's nothing I
could do about it, there's no way I can I
can play. So I think there's that balance to that
that goes in from the trainers to the medical team
and then the player. I think there's a balance to
all three of those things.

Speaker 5 (41:06):
You've got you say daily meetings enter just even as
if it's an email to say, here's the list of
what's no email?

Speaker 2 (41:12):
I face to face.

Speaker 7 (41:14):
I have a personal meeting every day with Mike Sipniak,
our trainer, who talks to me in my office just
about with Garrett turn off our GM about hey, here's
what the report looks like in the morning, and then
we do another one in the afternoon, and then I
usually grab him before he leaves because it can change
throughout the day. It changes pre practice, it changes during practice,
it changes after practice. And that way I can get

(41:36):
a feel and make decisions game plan wise, a guy's
going to be there or not. What are the percentages
guy's gonna be ready on game day? What are the
percentage he goes in game day and we probably won't
have him after the first second quarter. Those are all
the things you talk about because it affects your game plan.
And that's where you know Darius was a little banged
up going into the game, dealing with a certain thing

(41:59):
that happened. Been kind of a jog through and during
the week and winning the game and game plans for
Darius thought he was gonna make it comes out one play.
Things change pretty quickly, right, and you've got to be
able to respond and bob and weave with all.

Speaker 5 (42:16):
That is that then not specific to the injury. But
then does Mike just come up to you in the
game and say, hey, coach, he's he's done.

Speaker 7 (42:24):
If you ever watched Mike sit, they act during the game,
which I do by yeah, that's part of my job.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
I think I was told a long time ago.

Speaker 7 (42:30):
Timing is everything the problem with during in game, There's really.

Speaker 5 (42:34):
Never every good time to say, hey, maybe your best
player's done for the day.

Speaker 7 (42:38):
Yeah, because when maybe the offense is off and he's
dealing with an injury. With an offensive player, I'm on
the defensive side working with the defense to stop the offense,
and and then it goes to special teams, and so
I'm constantly on somebody's line working with them whoever's on
that side of the ball. I just don't stand there.
Sometimes you think you're just standing there doing nothing. You're

(43:00):
constantly working back and forth and to the other side.
And Sip will always I always feel Sip and you'll
see me. Sometimes they just start working my way away
from Sip.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
I see him coming.

Speaker 7 (43:09):
I'm working my way because I don't know if I
want the news, you don't want to hear it. But
sometimes I'm in the middle of talking to these it's
like I get to tap on the shoulder, coach, sip,
give me thirty seconds, like what like the clock's running,
like we're right, is a four minute or two minute?

Speaker 2 (43:22):
Like it'll give me one second.

Speaker 7 (43:23):
But he's so good at We've worked so well together
over the years, and he's so good he can deliver
that information. Then I've got to get it delivered from
there because once he gives it to me, then it's
got to go to special teams offense or defense. We
got to work that pep chart. It's got to be
done in a quick timely manner.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
Is he hurt? Is he down? Is he out for
the game? Down? Is different than out for the game? Down?

Speaker 7 (43:45):
Hey he's back, Okay, Hey, I'm taking him in the
locker room early. Do you want us to take him
in now or do you want us to wait?

Speaker 14 (43:52):
Like?

Speaker 2 (43:53):
Those are the things that on top of.

Speaker 7 (43:55):
The offensive, especially since you're getting that information as a
head coach.

Speaker 5 (43:58):
Yeah, and then adjusting however, however it happens to be
the adjustment.

Speaker 7 (44:03):
Yeah, And that's the chaotic part about it, that's that
you somewhat enjoy.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
As a head coach.

Speaker 5 (44:07):
So yeah, all right, let's take our final break. We'll
come back, we will preview the Spartans. They are coming
to town for two thirty kids.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
We don't have to talk about the Iowa game anymore.

Speaker 4 (44:18):
No, no more. Yeah, the second half yet, I don't
remember what.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Happened in the second half. To be, I have no
idea those first nine plays.

Speaker 7 (44:29):
I'm sorry to laugh about it, but truly I don't
want anybody on this broadcast thinking like I take that lightly,
like that is that was. That was a really, really
hard fifty four hours and I'm just thankful we got
to Tuesday and our guys came out and did exactly how.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
We had to respond.

Speaker 7 (44:46):
And I truly apologize to our fans because they're the
ones that you're you're fighting for because they support you
so much and you want them to be proud to
go for football and I completely failed, uh at that job.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
So apologize to everybody.

Speaker 7 (45:01):
I do not take it lightly, but anybody who knows
my personality is to not just just a wallow in
yourself pity, find results, find a way to respond, find
a way to move on and find some type of
positive from it that you can grab and find a
way to be want to know the next week and
really respond in a positive way.

Speaker 4 (45:18):
No doubt about them.

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Bunning our last remaining moments here with the head coach Pjfleck.
Two thirty kickoff Michigan State and Minnesota. What's the scat
and report on the Michigan State Spartans.

Speaker 7 (48:00):
Yeah, you can't look at the record, that's for sure.
This team's really really deep on defense. Corners play really
really well, lock you down and press coverage Joe Rossy
type defense, and they're gonna keep things in front of you.
They're gonna give you a lot of different looks. They're
gonna play relentlessly. They've also on offense and the quarterbacks.
They're probably gonna play both quarterbacks, which we understand and
know and have to have a plan for both really

(48:21):
good tailbacks. You know, they're they're tough and they're physical,
they fly off the ball. They got one of the
best receivers in the entire country, if not one of
the best in the Big Ten. And they score points
on everybody, So I mean it's a Big ten. I mean,
anytime you play somebody, you should throw every record out
because it doesn't necessarily matter. I know there's maybe one
or two that are in maybe a different league right

(48:42):
now that are playing at that type of level, but
everybody else, I mean, we got to play our best football.
We've got to be able to establish how we play,
and we got to play weight better.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
Than did last week.

Speaker 5 (48:53):
All right, home game, it was a great scout on
report and that's all the time. We have what beautiful
all time in Gopher Football Weekly with PJ. Fleck from
their field