November 13, 2025 • 44 mins
Common Man Hour 1 --Better on 3rd Down --Peek at the Purple --McCarthy Excuses --Jersey Numbers
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Okay, 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
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work and maximum effort. If we deify the common man
while they encourage and reward the uncommon ones, well, the
and result of such a lopsided raceist that is too
obvious to require elaboration.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I mean, it's like hello in Chicago's a tough guy town.
When the Vikings and the Bears play, it's it's a
street fight. If you're gonna get ready for a street fight,
you better start getting ready down There's sometimes when you practice,
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you'll set up chairs when you're right, chairs with s
gone right too deep and it looks like a.
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purple side.
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he's all out, let's go.
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Speaker 2 (02:22):
I'm gonna say something.
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Contition.
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I've seen enough by a cousin's Paul. Put him on ice, so.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Have no chance.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
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Speaker 5 (02:56):
Ladies and gentlemen, we're seeing what a sufist cad offensive
game plan looks like.
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Speaker 2 (03:16):
Number one is the common man Dan Cole number one.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Now that might not last for very long, and it
was just for one week, but.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
That's what we do. It appears to be more of
a trend than a mirage.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Well, yeah, I'm comfortable with where I've been, where I'm going,
where I'm at and uh, you know, there was a
time I think you were just along for the ride,
but not anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
You're driving force on.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
This radio station. I'm on this radio program. I appreciate
all your efforts.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
On on our behalf.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I'm the only one I think that that, you know,
when we do those liners in the Vikings games that
I mentioned, Yeah, Common in Tennabe, I mentioned your name.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
You're I'm about to get really emotional here. Thanks for
being who you are. Wally, Gee, Wally, There's.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
One more thing I request then, and I appreciate that
you do mention me, and that's making me feel more
part of the show. You know, in the the wall
over by a studio c or the KFAM press box.
I got all the fan personnel, they got all the
personalities the entire radio station. None of the producers are
never on there. You know, I hadn't even thought about it. Common,
It's just Barrero, it's just Paul Allen.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Even Rosen has a picture you are there, He's Rosen's
on there. You've got to be kidding them personality. So
have you ever noticed a lot of those pictures are outdated.
We have pairings that.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
No longer exist, and there's empty space now, yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
There's there'll be a picture of two people that were
doing a show at a radio station ere one time,
and those two people no longer doing a show together.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
It's kind of crazy that way, and you know there
are there are those.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I'm already getting the text messages from the Brad Shawn
Bryant Kafan text line are you going to spind the
Wheel of Topic?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I aired today?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
I was in contact with Superintendent Guy Too over at
Lagger's Ross and I said, it doesn't look like nine
o'clock is going to work today.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Goes well, it looks pretty frosty. He didn't say no.
So then I called over there to see what.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Time I could go out tomorrow and Peg answered the
phone and she said, Peg, it will come back to you,
and she said, oh no, there's going on. So she said,
they're going out right now. I could have played this morning,
but I didn't think I could. It was I misjudged it.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
It was it was.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
It was so I know that there are people out
there right now that are going to feel that their
day is not fulfilled because they don't get to hear
the Wheel of Topic today.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
But we'll be there tomorrow, We'll we'll.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Be we'll be back out of tomorrow and I'm playing
Saturday as well. I think that probably will be it.
I mean, there was there was some consideration of taking
tomorrow off sixty five.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Degrees tomorrow to the middle of November.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
But then you start thinking to yourself, I played two
hundred and twenty five rounds of golf this year. Do
I really need to take a day off to squeeze
in one more round of golf?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And I decided no, I.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Said, I needed to be here for the listeners partaking
it on in a Friday with a big game coming up,
Bear's Vikings, you know what else? Here's you know, I
don't get an opportunity to listen to the radio much,
and but I here are some of the things I'm missing.
This is what I missed today on the Paul Allen Project.
Apparently I checked my email when I got here at
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the radio station. Listeners said Ben Lieber was on with
with PA, and you know what he told PA, we
need to stay out of third and eights and get
more third and threes.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And I thought, why didn't I think of that?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Way?
Speaker 5 (06:47):
You can get insight like that except from Ben Lieber
or Mark Rosen, Because my guess is Rosen will come
in today and say, you know what the Vikings really
if he says what the Vikings need to do is
stay out.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Of third and long third and eighths and do third
and threes. Will know that he was.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Stealing another of liebers takes. But that's what liber came
up with. I would have never thought of that. That
was always one of my biggest pet peeves in the past.
You'd always hear like analysis of the Vikings. You know,
the Vikings need to do better on third down? What
does that mean?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Right like that?
Speaker 6 (07:18):
It gives no analysis as to how you become better
at third down. You're just saying you have to get
better at third down. And part of being good on
third down is you need to be good on first
and second town. If you put yourself in a third thirteen,
you're not gonna go that third day. I know, I
know this is mind long stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I got to give you one of these. Where is it?
Where's brilliant? Its brilliant? Brilliant might be the one that
I lost. Well, you'd also lost Delicious. I had to
put Delicious back. I think I lost brilliant too, because
I remember looking at your page, Evie, you had two
of something. Yeah, I had two where you have the two.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
I had to, but they don't have to because you
put jokers Delicious put Delicious on there.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
We can get Halloween out of there. Well, because we
replaced that's all folks. Yeah, you want me to put
it on the Halloween. Yeah, because we need to have
brilliant there. Well that's wrong, sorry, that was brilliant TENN
and B.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
We have to do better on first and second because
if you do better on first and second down, then
you won't have third night.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And then my question would be, well, how do you
do better on third? I would say, what do you
do differently?
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Well, I would say, uh, block, open up some holes
and hopefully you're running back and hit him and gain
some yardage, get some chunk yards so you have shorter
downs or have your quarterback complete some passes. That would
be the way to do it. Easier said than done, though,
but we'll see how that that works out. I'm also
going to ask Rosan again. So so far we've established
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he would not trade at for Wembin Yama in a
million years, he would not trade and for chet Holmgren.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I'm gonna throw out another.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Nate today and see if he would make a trade,
because there was another There were a couple of scintillating
performances last night in the in the in the did
you I watched.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
You know, I'm not paying a schoost attention to the
NBA as it once did.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Now, the.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
The Warriors were brilliant last night after after getting after
getting run rough shot. Uh what is it? Thunder the
thunder ran rough shot over him the other night, right,
And that's where Butler said, well, you know, we just
got to try to play. If you're not trying on defense,
you can't play defense. They played wemb Yama last night.
(09:31):
There's a there's a clip of wemban Yama and they lost,
by the way. The Gold State Warriors won and Steph
went off for fifty five?
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Was that right?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Did I see that right?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Did he go off for fifty five close to that
or maybe it was forty five? And he had five
assists and five five boards too. He was just spectacular.
But they show a clip where they're trying to get
around wemban Yama and he just so Steph tries to
move around him and you know, dribble through the lights.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
He can't get pasted him, so he has to go
back out. They passed. Then women they get the ball
to somebody women Yama.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Is he again he's still early in his career. Things
can change in a hurry. But wow, he just changes
everything in a basketball court.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Everything.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
He gets a triple double print near every night, and
he at seven five, he protects the rim, and he
runs the floor like a point guard.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And he's still growing. And he's still growing. That's exactly right.
He's still getting bigger.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
So but we'll bounce head off Rose And also today
spread swing Deuce will join us via phone, So the
spread Swing's coming up at UH one. Mark Rosen will
join us at two o'clock. UH.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
The Thursday night or.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Might be one of the worst games ever in the
history profile it's Dolphins and who Dolphins Commanders? Oh, it's
Jess Patriots. Which one is Commander's Dolphins. That Commander's Dolphins.
Sunday morning, Oh, that's Sunday morning. Must be across the
pond somewhere.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
No one will get up to watch that. Well, then.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
People that have devon chen on their fantasy football maybe
other than that.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Other than that, I guess that's that would probably be it.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
I've got some other Viking insights for it tenemy, and
not just that. The Vikings need to do better. They
need to have third and threes more than third.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Nates I do like that.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
I'm going to use that today with Rosen unless he
beats me to it, because he was probably listening earlier
today with Lieber.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
And on the defense, they want to force more third
nates than third and threes. That's my defensive analysis for
at the game brilliant.
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She writes Fish Repaftory west Side. She's one of the
Viking writers talking about JJ McCarthy and the soon to
be Big Game World champion Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
And start number just start number five for our young quarterback.
I believe this has start. He's either five or six right.
He starts to Chicago Atlanta and then Detroit, Baltimore.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Okay, so this is start number five, and there was
a quote and we had it on the radio because
it was from the head coach of the soon to
be Big Game World champion Minnesota Vikings, Kevin O'Connell, during
his midweek news conference we're in talking about McCarthy and
his his progression as a quarterback. He says, sometimes when
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a guy's making his third or fourth or fifth start
now this week, it's a lot to ask in the
midst of games, especially how they've kind of played out,
but that.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Doesn't change the fact that we're in the business.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Of trying to go want to know this week And
then Emily says, this is what O'Connell said amid a
longer answer, much longer as we know, longer answer about
patients was starting a new young quarterback because you do
need to be patient. He says, there's been a lot
of encouraging things to go along with things we can
improve on.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
He knows that we know that.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
And then it says this week is won when the
Vikings could start to really make that consistency happen and
with McCarthy, and one of the reasons they feel that
way is because now they're McCarthy is playing a team
for the second time, and not just the second time,
you know, you know, like he played it played against
some last season, is a second time this season because
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we played Bears Lions, Packers twice. So he played the
Bears game, struggled the first three quarters, was exceptional in
quarter number four, and the Vikings won the game. So
I think they feel like as a matter of fact,
Aaron Jones, running back of the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Says.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Matchup matchups with division rivals always come with a sense
of familiarity that could be advantageous.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Of course that goes the other way too, But I
think the Vikings are looking at this as this is
a the last thing she won. The last things she
writes is it's.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
A pivotal point in the season, and a pivotal point
for McCarthy, who's well aware of the importance of consistency.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
He knows that and this game can go back.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
They watch film of week one, they see the things
that worked, what didn't work, bear tendencies, watch other film
of their most recent games, and then maybe that will
help him along. So I think the I think the
the quarterback himself and I I I think the team
as a whole is hoping to see some some progress
here this week. I can tell you one way they
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could make some progress to stay out of third and
logs and make sure that you you know you're you're, you're,
you're on.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Third and shorts.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
If you have third and three, it's a lot easier,
not only on a young quarterback, but even on a
young inexperienced quarterback, but a but a sage old veteran. Right,
the further the ball has to travel for a first time,
the better it is for the offense.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
You can use that.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
I think another key is when you get into the
red zone, escort touchdowns instead of field goals.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
That's another that would that would be the Can I
give you some nine to noon esque positivity?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Potentially, JJ McCarthy, Yes, we'd like to Game number one
against the Bears, Okay, he was healthy, had a brilliant
fourth quarter, they won the game. Game two against Atlanta,
he struggled mightily, but we also found out in that
game that he played like a good chunk of that
game with the bum ankle. So bad game not healthy.
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He comes back from the injury. He's healthy. Against Detroit,
played a pretty good game against the Lions, did he not?
Game four against Baltimore did not play well, but we
find out he hit his hand on a helmet at
some point. So the two worst of the four games
he's played, he was injured in the game. His two
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healthiest games now the Chicago game. He was not brilliant
the whole time. But it's also first ever NFL start.
So there's me trying to give some excuses for JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Well, here, let me let me throw a wet blanket
on that wet blanket Wednesday on a throw in the
towel Thursday, he's still hurt because they said the hand
I think there was another.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Quote in that same story. Uh, give me a second.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
If the hand is still hurt comes Sunday. I mean,
out of all the injuries, your quarterback is going to
play for that one. Seems like that's going to have
an effect on your ability to throw the ball. So
maybe Brozemer should.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Be playing, it, says somewhere here.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
McCarthy was a limited participant in practice Wednesday, wearing a
bandage on his right throwing hand after hitting it on
the lineman's helmet against the Ravens.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I know I saw the quote somewhere. I think McCarthy
said something to the effect of it's probably going to
be there for a while too.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
He's going to play with it like that, So in
other words, it's going to be a slow healing thing
that's going to be swelled up.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I know I saw that in one of the stories.
I guess wasn't in that one. So we'll see if that,
you know, if that is indeed uh an issue in
the game. But yeah, I think.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
I think O'Connell. You know, what he said here in
that quote is he says, hold on, can you give
me the thank you?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah, here, I like he said.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Coach Kevin O'Connell said, it's not expected would affect McCarthy's
prep the injury very much at all an assessment of
the quarterback read it, though, we did say he's going
to be.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Feeling it the rest of the way. So it is
the throwing hand, so that doesn't that doesn't really bode well.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
But what the coach said, and we looked at this quote,
he says, sometimes when a guy's making his third or
fourth or fifth start now this week, it's a lot
to ask in the midst of games, especially how they've
kind of played out, but that doesn't change the fact that.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
We're in the business of trying to get to one
to zero this week. In other words, it's.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
It's it's not the most ideal situation to be in
because you are a team that is trying to win
games and contend and get yourself back into the NFC
North race.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
And try to qualify for the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Yet you're doing it while you're spoon feeding a young
quarterback that's learning as he goes. There was quotes from
last week, I think, or immediately following the game from
McCarthy where he was talking about, yeah, I learned something
here that I didn't know before, and and so as
he's learning as he goes that when you're when.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
It's it's it's.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Difficult to excel and that consistency that they're looking for,
it's it's difficult to be considered when you have your vector.
He knows this is this is like you know, I'm
gonna this is sort of like on the same vein
as stay at a third and long and have third
and short. The more experience your quarterback has, the better way.
I talked the other day about I watched the Dan Campbell.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Midday.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
They all do a Wednesday press conference and they were
asking about golf.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
He says, this is the best you've seen golf play.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
He goes, golf gets better every day and he sees
everything he's played so long now there's nothing that he
hasn't seen before he goes. We gave him a game plan,
he glanced that and he's out there running in the
first practice. Is because those veteran quarterbacks are so comfortable
with being out there right They they they they just
it's it's just second nature to them what they do
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out there on the field, and that's going to be
the So the Vikings are in that that place where
you're probably now you're hoping he learns quickly and gets
consistent quickly. But my guess against the Bears will probably
see what we've seen so far. We'll see some nice
moments from McCarthy, but we'll also see some moments that'll
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make you kind of want to cringe a little bit, right,
But that's the way it is when you're breaking in
a young kid. Game time is twelve noon. You'll hear
it on this radio station, or coverage begins at ten o'clock.
We'll pause.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
And come back.
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From the two to one eight Bradshaw Ruyant KVN text
on it says, can you please reload yesterday's show? About
half of it's missing from the podcast. Oh iHeartRadio app.
I would just suggest listen to the rest of this
show because you'll hear pretty much the same thing today
as you would have yes yesterday. We don't change it
up too often. Here's something else I want to add
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to to meat. You know how you can really avoid
having third and long or even third and short. Pick
up first downs on either first or second down. Don't
even go to third. I never thought about that. Yeah,
don't even just just gain so many large chunks of
yardage that you don't need to even get to a
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third well the entire game, never have any third and whatever.
Just a first and ten and get twelve yards, then
have a then on the next one get eight yards
and have a second and two and then gain a
first down there and never get the third down.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
I will also say, so it was Leeber who said
you'd rather have third and threes than third and eight. Yes,
you know how many third and ones and third and
twos The Vikings had less game that they just bungled
and they never ran the ball, and they're throwing receptions,
But it's all gonna change because Kaos is a quarterback whisper.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
He's gonna get the JJ McCarthy this week. Well a
McCarthy is now he's played the bear.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
So they're going to study the film and they're going
to know exactly what They're gonna know exactly.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
What to do.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Someone else, a couple of others before we move on
to another topic that I found on a website that
I'm not sure if you're familiar with.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
You, It says, how long do we have to wait
for mccarth? Did you get up to speed? It's football.
He's been playing his whole life.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
He had all of last year to watch him get
immersed in the offense, and he still can't figure out
pre snap cadence. That's sort of kind of what I've
been saying a little bit here. As we go along,
you know, everybody learns and develops at a different speed.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I've always thought it's just it's throwing.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Run and tackling, passing, blocking, kicking, you know, the whole thing.
But it's probably a bit more complex than that. And
you do have to give him some time and we'll
see how that ghost you're familiar I don't know if
you are. Have you ever heard of the athletic The
what athletic? I have a prescription to it. It's an
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It covers gosh, you name the sport, they cover it,
the four men's majors, the women's majors, auto racing, golf, everything,
it's all their soccer from across the pond, you name it.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
They cover it.
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Writers from all over the entry, many based right here
in Minneapolis, and Saint Paul writing about the local teams here.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
They also on this story. It has an editor's note.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
This story is part of Peak, the athletics desk covering leadership,
personal development, and performance.
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Speaker 5 (26:24):
Here's the headline of the story, Tenna be can a
jersey number give a player a psychological edge? Now, if
you remember last year four, who was our running back
that changed number four?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
And he said everything was different?
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Dalvin Cook said, I'm changing at number four and everything's
going to be different.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Well, wasn't it any different? Matter fan of anything?
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Dalvin regressed and he was toward He's not in the
league anymore. Now right, he can't be I don't think
is he. Do you know Dalvin Cook is in the
league anymore? So the change number didn't really work for Delvin.
He thought it was going to electrify his career.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I think it was this training camp.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Laster's training camper Alec Lewis said, players look faster.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
That's that's it's part of this story. Are you familiar
with somebody named bear Bachmeyer. No, bear Bachmeyer is a
true freshman starting quarterback.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
For b YU.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
He's had a very good year. It says, you're familiar
with Bobby Boucher. It was a character in an Adam
samde Bobby Is that what is? I've never watched missed
a great Yeah, I missed it. A bad break for me.
I'm sure Bouche is what it is. Phenomenal, tackling, phenomenal.
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So apparently.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Bear bach.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Went to an Adam Sandlers show and brought him a jersey.
You know that the character wore in the movie to
get it autographed. Right, This Bochmeyer character believes in the
jersey thing, it says. Traditionally, quarterbacks and Football of War
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numbers one through nineteen, a system initially designed to help
officials identify the most important player on the field. In
the NFL, quarterbacks are still required to wear a number
in that range, but in college there are no such restrictions,
and so Bachmeyers opted for something a bit different. Number
forty seven is his number, a jersey number long reserve
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for fullbacks and middle linebackers. Of the one hundred and
sixty three FBS quarterbacks who have played one hundred and
fifty snaps this season, Bachmeyer is the only one to
wear a number above nineteen. I think somebody had to
do the research for that to find out. Of the
one hundred and sixty three FBS quarterbacks who have played
one herd fifty steps of the season, he's the only
one to wear a number above nineteen.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
He's got some good numbers. Tenn Toby.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
He's been a revelation for undefeated BYU this season? Or
did they finally lose? I saved the story from a
day or two they finally lost? I thought they lost,
but anyway, six two to twenty five, he's been efficient.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Throwing for six to Texas Tech. Twenty nine to seven,
he's been.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Efficient throwing for sixteen hundred ninety three yards along with
eleven tuddies and three ins. It's when he tucks the
ball into his elbow and takes off because he runs
with a football well, and it says he feels the most,
like forty seven. He says, when I put that on,
it's a reminder of family and trying to make them proud.
I'm playing quarterback and having that uniqueness. It is the
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epitome of toughness. It's a fine line, but it makes
me want to run somebody over. I think it brings
me back to the that primitive nature, almost like an
alter eagle thing, kind of nine with like nine hands.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Because the deal is his dad wanted him to wear
a different number. That's where the story goes. But here's
what it says.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
A UCLA study found that smaller jersey numbers led people
to perceive players as slimmer. ESPN's Kevin Seffert talked to
NFL receivers who wore jersey numbers in the single digits
and teens. Many said they felt faster in a smaller number.
Jersey numbers can be integral to a player's identity. Veteran
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athletes on new teams have paid tens of thousands of
dollars to reclaim a number occupied by one of their teammates.
Former NFL running back Chris Thompson put it this way
when talking to The Washington Post. I'm all about you
look good, you feel good, you feel good, you play good.
I'm all about that. I know it ain't all about that,
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but that's what I'm believing in my mind. And then
the next paragraph is a question could a player find
a psychological age caliber small and worry a number that
signifies something to them. Doctor Chris Stanovich is a sports
psychologist tend to Be who has worked with youth, collegiate,
and pro athletes.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Here's what he says.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
As humans, we really like having control of our lives,
control of our surroundings, and part of that control is
controlling your own identity.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
As an athlete. You think that's who I am.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
I am that number and the number for many athletes
provides comfort and confidence.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Every little edge helps.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
It might not be a big deal to six or
seven year olds to use this, I would just say
six seven excels. But in high school, college and pros,
if you can get a jump about feeling good with
your own identity with this number on your back, wouldn't
you do it?
Speaker 2 (31:55):
My gosh? And I guess I don't know if you're.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Familiar with a song by by Joe South, but it's
oh the games people play now every night and every
day now, And I guess with with with John Lennon
did a song called Mine Games. If you are convinced
in your head that it will work, I guess there's
something to it. I but you know, for every guy
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that thinks the uniform number is going to change how
he performs, and maybe he does perform better with it,
there's the Dalvin Cooks of the world, because if you remember,
Dalvin changed numbers and said he was going to be
better because of it, and he wasn't any better, you know.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I mean, it's like.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
It's I guess I could even take this to let's
let's talk about McCarthy again. You know his alter ego
is nine. Now. I suppose if he was number six,
his alter ego would be six, right, So I guess
it's any way you can try to gain an edge.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
And if you think it's by the jersey number you wear,
well there's that. I'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
The only experience I've had with the jersey number this
was back at Coon Rapids Junior High School.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
I think I've told you this before.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
When I played Coon Rapis Athletic Association football fourth, fifth
and sixth grade, I played both sides of the ball.
I was a fierce pass rushing rock at Gibraltar, run
stopping defensive lineman and a precise route running, sure headed
pass catching tight end when I got to Junior High
and the reason I played on the line and played
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tight end was I think they still do this. I'm
not sure if this still does, but in grade school football,
they separated by weight class. Right, seventy five pounds or less,
you played lightweights. Over seventy five pounds you played heavyweights.
I was like seventy four seventy five pounds. I was
on the high end of the lightweights. So of course
I'm one of the bigger kids on the lightweight So
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I'm playing offensive line and tight end and a little
our defensive line. Tight end and some offensive line. When
I got into that, I did that for three years, four,
fifth and sixth grade. When I got to junior high,
they throw that out the window. Seventy five year old
kids play with two hundred pound kids. Doesn't matter what
your weight is well. So then when I went for tryouts,
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they asked what position I plan and go, I'm a
fairs pass, rashing rackets around the run, stopping defense alignment, precisely,
not anymore. You're not You're not big enough, not gonna work.
You're going to be defensive back. I had no training
in defensive back, and I was I was.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Overwhelmed. I was overwhelmed. H I looked a lot like
some of the Well put it this way. When I
was a defensive back, I looked like a chair. That's
what I look like. You know how they use chairs
when they're practicing zones and stuff. I was a chair.
You weren't used to backpedaling. I wasn't used. That's exactly right.
And so I also learned. And I've talked about this
before too.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
I was smart enough to figure out, well, now I'm
basically nothing but a tackling dummy and a blocking sled
for the for the starters, right, they need to practice
against somebody. So I'm getting all beat up, and I
got smart and I said I'm out, I'm done. I'm
retiring from football after seventh grade. You you probably won't
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find the surprise. And I was very popular with my
my my fellow teammates and my fellow students, and they
so badly wanted me to be part of the team.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
They wanted me to be manager guy. You know, the manager,
the guy.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
The dorky looking guy with the you know, with with
the stats, yeah, and you know, carrying the models, carrying
the little little toolbox with with with with with with
with with the tape in it.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Well I was humbled by it, which is which is
which is hard to do, And so I said, okay,
I'll do that. I'll hang out with you guys. So
I was manager in eighth grade. When it came time
to pass out the uniforms, I got the first choice.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Which one do you think? I took number one?
Speaker 5 (35:59):
All the numbers were there, one, two, all the way
through whatever, ninety nine, whatever it was. And so I
did select a number because I felt like, by gosh.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
I'm number one. I turned into Delvin Cook. It didn't
help at all. I was number one. So, in other words,
I had the choice.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Of my number and I wanted I thought it was
cool to be the number one, you know, beat number one,
think big and be.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Big, and it it didn't work for me. It doesn't
mean it doesn't work for somebody else.
Speaker 6 (36:27):
Well, I was gonna say, like, let's take this a
step further to people with longer last names feel slower
than people with shorter last names because it doesn't take
it as much space on the jersey. And Tom Brady's
one of the greatest of all time, just only five
letters in that last name.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Well, Simmon Woods Richardson. Have you ever seen his name
in the back of his jersey? It said Woods Richardson.
It starts from his elbow.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
It's like a rainbow. Yeah, and it goes all the
way up and down to the other elbow.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Yeah. I you know, I am.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Feel like too many words have been written on this topic. Yeah, well,
but I I it's do you believe in any of it?
I mean, I guess you know.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
I've told the tale about mind over matter, doing a lucinogenics,
getting inside of a inside of a of a asana
and not sweating because I convinced myself I wasn't hot.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Now it was because of a whole multicolor galaxy of.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Represent our descrivers and laughers. But the mind is a
powerful thing. You can convince yourself. So if you wear
a number like I think I've asked you before when
you played hockey, did you have a number that you
wanted to have and requested and wore most of.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
The time or not?
Speaker 6 (37:46):
I mean it's changed every year. Oh okay, but I
landed on number twenty, okay in high school and you
liked number twenty? Was there any reordy just that was
the one they gave you and you just said it.
Thinklosopher was growing up playing you hockey, you were only
going to get like one through seventeen. You never had
choices past seventeen. So once you got to high school
a sudden the amount of jerseys you could choose from increased.
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And I guess I just like even numbers better than
nod numbers. And I was a left handed defenceman at
the time. My Crawley was one of my favorite players.
He was a defenseman for the Gophers. Our game is
very comparable. Yeah, with a lot of people looked at
me and thought, man, that's my Crawley out there. I thought, yeah,
he was number twenty for the Gophers. So that's why
you chose twenty. Yeah, do you feel you played better
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wearing number twenty? I can't even see the number on
my jersey, say it's behind me.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
So yeah, so again I you know, but this kid
for by you basically says the reason I play at
the level I play at because I'm wearing well so
his is the wider number.
Speaker 6 (38:49):
Yes, So it is the argument there that the other
the opposing team thinks he looks slower and then he
just runs right past them.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
Well, I think when he runs the ball he feels
like he's a bruiser, because that's what he said here.
He said, when I put that on as a reminder
of family and trying to make them proud, I'm playing
quarterback and having that uniqueness is the epitome of toughness
because that's supposed to be Forty seven is like a
linebacker number, right, so it makes him tough.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Here's what it said about his old man. It says.
Speaker 5 (39:24):
Bear didn't choose forty seven himself. It was selected by
his father. Michael. Bear was five playing linebacker and running
back for the Rancho Panthers growing up in Marietta, California.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Michael, his dad, a former officer in the United States.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
Marine Corps, chose the number for Bear because he felt
and represented toughness.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
I think he's overthinking another.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
Growing up, Michael always admired fullbacks and linebackers. Back then,
stars of those positions weren't allowed to wear the numbers
from one through nineteen like quarterbacks. They were anywhere from
twenty to five five. But why precisely forty seven? Here's
a bear set. I'm not entirely sure my dad really
likes those thirties, forties and fifties numbers.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
He's stuck with it. He played quarterback growing up, but
he wanted me to be gritty and tough. Whatever works.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
The kids playing Division one football, and he's playing at
a pretty good level, and he's playing for a pretty
good team.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
But I don't know.
Speaker 6 (40:31):
I I've never looked at the number on my jersey
as I'm putting it on before a sporting him meant
to go, oh this is this is going to pump
me up? This number right here? Well, I'm motivated to play.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
What else has said in this story? And I could
look for but I don't need it.
Speaker 5 (40:50):
If it was one of the psychologists guys might have
been the same one and saying like if he said
he noticed that a class, he'll ask have a favorite number,
and almost everybody puts up.
Speaker 6 (41:02):
Their hand, like, do you have a favorite number? I mean,
twenty has turned into it just because that's the one
I had for the longest time. Mine was either thirteen
or fourteen, and now it's six seven. The mind's changed
over the years. It was thirteen, fourteen, then it was
six seven. I don't really have a favorite number.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
I think some people do. Dude, you have a favorite color.
Some people have a favorite color. You don't have a
favorite color, not necessarily, No, I don't think I I'm interesting.
Speaker 6 (41:30):
That's interest because they always say, like, your favorite color
has some sort of deep meaning as to what your
personality is like.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Well, then why I'm dark and brooding? So I do
like black? What about Honolulu blue? Is that favorite color?
Speaker 6 (41:43):
Well?
Speaker 2 (41:43):
You know, well silver, all right? Now, I like it
a lot. I didn't like it growing up during the sixties,
seventies and eighties. I did like hot. I did like it.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
I didn't like Honolulu blue because it represented losing honuhl
louse lose blue is really basically what it was. The
number twenty is a very special number, now, a very
special number. That's how many years Common and Ten have
been doing the show. Congrats on twenty years. If no
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one said that to you yet, I'm going to say
it to you now, So there you go. So anyways,
good luck to number forty seven with BYU. And they
do not allow anybody to wear any number. Well, it
says in the NFL they still won't. It's still zero
through nineteen.
Speaker 6 (42:31):
They've relaxed on some of the number later, right, like
wide receivers are wearing single digits and teens now.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Well, Jamiirs Gibbs were zero from kiddies, but yeah, they
used to.
Speaker 4 (42:41):
It used to be.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
It had to be. I think running backs had to
be like in the thirties. Full backs were in the forties.
Speaker 5 (42:49):
Right, linebackers were fifties, sixties then seventies were linemen. But
I think you can pretty much use any number you want,
which only makes sense, I guess.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
But here's one.
Speaker 5 (43:06):
Comments there a specific golf ball number that you prefer
to play. I know I've never though. Generally when you
buy a dozen golf balls, they are number one through four.
Generally you'll find some boxes five through eight.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
Right, you ever gad the.
Speaker 5 (43:21):
Custom ones and then you can have the custom ones,
you can you can order your own.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
I've never felt the need to do that personally.
Speaker 6 (43:28):
But I did it once because I think there was
like a special or so I had twenty on them. Yeah,
had twenty in the woods it's mine.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
Yes, there's probably plenty of those two.
Speaker 5 (43:40):
Yeah, well I had one time Dark Starred made golf
balls for me, they said, common man on him. I
want to check my mailbox one time, and one of
my golf balls was in the mailbox. So somebody found
my golf ball that I'd lost in the golf course
and knew where I lived in my mailbox. I'm still
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here to talk about it. So well, I mean you've
told him your addresses thirteen fourteen insane Lane.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Well, that is correct, you're absolutely true. Let's take a
break come back. So this is what we have left
you at five three four.
Speaker 5 (44:17):
After our top of the hour break, Roseen Induced join
us at one thirty for spread Swing, then Rose and
rounds off the rest of the show from two until three.
Speaker 6 (44:24):
But what you got for five three four ten could
a local star wave his no trade clause
Ahead, common man, common man, No show pep, no solid plan,
says the art.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
We can't tell secarit aproachal tilt. It's time of common man,
com man, common man, charge the houseworks that no one
can what you shoot? Where we play no nonsense on
deck to day to day man. It's type of common man.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Okay, Why should anybody aspire to be a common man?
An average man? Do you realize what it means to
be average? That means you're the best of the lousiest
and the lousiest of the best. Now, if we demand
more and more for producing less and less while they
have not, nations encourage and inspire and indeed require hard
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work and maximum effort. If we deify the common man
while they encourage and reward the uncommon ones, well, the
and result of such a lopsided raceist that is too
obvious to require elaboration.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I mean, it's like hello in Chicago's a tough guy town.
When the Vikings and the Bears play, it's it's a
street fight. If you're gonna get ready for a street fight,
you better start getting ready down There's sometimes when you practice,
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you'll set up chairs when you're right, chairs with s
gone right too deep and it looks like a.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Christ Nothing better appen, King, I think I think that
all that's lights rice rices that can in the rather
purple side.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Camn dancer, What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (02:09):
We can't start winning until we stop losing splation. When
he's all out, let's go.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Mag please O.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I'm gonna say something.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Contition.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
I've seen enough by a cousin's Paul. Put him on ice, so.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Have no chance.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Right? That gotcha? Right? That gotcha?
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Ladies and gentlemen, we're seeing what a sufist cad offensive
game plan looks like.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
You talk about.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
You don't know nothing.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
He's the clown from Brown, He's the fourth in the North.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Number one is the common man Dan Cole number one.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Now that might not last for very long, and it
was just for one week, but.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
That's what we do. It appears to be more of
a trend than a mirage.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Well, yeah, I'm comfortable with where I've been, where I'm going,
where I'm at and uh, you know, there was a
time I think you were just along for the ride,
but not anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
You're driving force on.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
This radio station. I'm on this radio program. I appreciate
all your efforts.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
On on our behalf.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
I'm the only one I think that that, you know,
when we do those liners in the Vikings games that
I mentioned, Yeah, Common in Tennabe, I mentioned your name.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
You're I'm about to get really emotional here. Thanks for
being who you are. Wally, Gee, Wally, There's.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
One more thing I request then, and I appreciate that
you do mention me, and that's making me feel more
part of the show. You know, in the the wall
over by a studio c or the KFAM press box.
I got all the fan personnel, they got all the
personalities the entire radio station. None of the producers are
never on there. You know, I hadn't even thought about it. Common,
It's just Barrero, it's just Paul Allen.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Even Rosen has a picture you are there, He's Rosen's
on there. You've got to be kidding them personality. So
have you ever noticed a lot of those pictures are outdated.
We have pairings that.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
No longer exist, and there's empty space now, yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
There's there'll be a picture of two people that were
doing a show at a radio station ere one time,
and those two people no longer doing a show together.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
It's kind of crazy that way, and you know there
are there are those.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
I'm already getting the text messages from the Brad Shawn
Bryant Kafan text line are you going to spind the
Wheel of Topic?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I aired today?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
I was in contact with Superintendent Guy Too over at
Lagger's Ross and I said, it doesn't look like nine
o'clock is going to work today.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Goes well, it looks pretty frosty. He didn't say no.
So then I called over there to see what.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
Time I could go out tomorrow and Peg answered the
phone and she said, Peg, it will come back to you,
and she said, oh no, there's going on. So she said,
they're going out right now. I could have played this morning,
but I didn't think I could. It was I misjudged it.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
It was it was.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
It was so I know that there are people out
there right now that are going to feel that their
day is not fulfilled because they don't get to hear
the Wheel of Topic today.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
But we'll be there tomorrow, We'll we'll.
Speaker 5 (05:50):
Be we'll be back out of tomorrow and I'm playing
Saturday as well. I think that probably will be it.
I mean, there was there was some consideration of taking
tomorrow off sixty five.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Degrees tomorrow to the middle of November.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
But then you start thinking to yourself, I played two
hundred and twenty five rounds of golf this year. Do
I really need to take a day off to squeeze
in one more round of golf?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
And I decided no, I.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Said, I needed to be here for the listeners partaking
it on in a Friday with a big game coming up,
Bear's Vikings, you know what else? Here's you know, I
don't get an opportunity to listen to the radio much,
and but I here are some of the things I'm missing.
This is what I missed today on the Paul Allen Project.
Apparently I checked my email when I got here at
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the radio station. Listeners said Ben Lieber was on with
with PA, and you know what he told PA, we
need to stay out of third and eights and get
more third and threes.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And I thought, why didn't I think of that?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Way?
Speaker 5 (06:47):
You can get insight like that except from Ben Lieber
or Mark Rosen, Because my guess is Rosen will come
in today and say, you know what the Vikings really
if he says what the Vikings need to do is
stay out.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Of third and long third and eighths and do third
and threes. Will know that he was.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Stealing another of liebers takes. But that's what liber came
up with. I would have never thought of that. That
was always one of my biggest pet peeves in the past.
You'd always hear like analysis of the Vikings. You know,
the Vikings need to do better on third down? What
does that mean?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Right like that?
Speaker 6 (07:18):
It gives no analysis as to how you become better
at third down. You're just saying you have to get
better at third down. And part of being good on
third down is you need to be good on first
and second town. If you put yourself in a third thirteen,
you're not gonna go that third day. I know, I
know this is mind long stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I got to give you one of these. Where is it?
Where's brilliant? Its brilliant? Brilliant might be the one that
I lost. Well, you'd also lost Delicious. I had to
put Delicious back. I think I lost brilliant too, because
I remember looking at your page, Evie, you had two
of something. Yeah, I had two where you have the two.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
I had to, but they don't have to because you
put jokers Delicious put Delicious on there.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
We can get Halloween out of there. Well, because we
replaced that's all folks. Yeah, you want me to put
it on the Halloween. Yeah, because we need to have
brilliant there. Well that's wrong, sorry, that was brilliant TENN
and B.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
We have to do better on first and second because
if you do better on first and second down, then
you won't have third night.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
And then my question would be, well, how do you
do better on third? I would say, what do you
do differently?
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Well, I would say, uh, block, open up some holes
and hopefully you're running back and hit him and gain
some yardage, get some chunk yards so you have shorter
downs or have your quarterback complete some passes. That would
be the way to do it. Easier said than done, though,
but we'll see how that that works out. I'm also
going to ask Rosan again. So so far we've established
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he would not trade at for Wembin Yama in a
million years, he would not trade and for chet Holmgren.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I'm gonna throw out another.
Speaker 5 (08:54):
Nate today and see if he would make a trade,
because there was another There were a couple of scintillating
performances last night in the in the in the did
you I watched.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
You know, I'm not paying a schoost attention to the
NBA as it once did.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Now, the.
Speaker 5 (09:10):
The Warriors were brilliant last night after after getting after
getting run rough shot. Uh what is it? Thunder the
thunder ran rough shot over him the other night, right,
And that's where Butler said, well, you know, we just
got to try to play. If you're not trying on defense,
you can't play defense. They played wemb Yama last night.
(09:31):
There's a there's a clip of wemban Yama and they lost,
by the way. The Gold State Warriors won and Steph
went off for fifty five?
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Was that right?
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Did I see that right?
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Did he go off for fifty five close to that
or maybe it was forty five? And he had five
assists and five five boards too. He was just spectacular.
But they show a clip where they're trying to get
around wemban Yama and he just so Steph tries to
move around him and you know, dribble through the lights.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
He can't get pasted him, so he has to go
back out. They passed. Then women they get the ball
to somebody women Yama.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Is he again he's still early in his career. Things
can change in a hurry. But wow, he just changes
everything in a basketball court.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Everything.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
He gets a triple double print near every night, and
he at seven five, he protects the rim, and he
runs the floor like a point guard.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
And he's still growing. And he's still growing. That's exactly right.
He's still getting bigger.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
So but we'll bounce head off Rose And also today
spread swing Deuce will join us via phone, So the
spread Swing's coming up at UH one. Mark Rosen will
join us at two o'clock. UH.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
The Thursday night or.
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Might be one of the worst games ever in the
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Jess Patriots. Which one is Commander's Dolphins. That Commander's Dolphins.
Sunday morning, Oh, that's Sunday morning. Must be across the
pond somewhere.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
No one will get up to watch that. Well, then.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
People that have devon chen on their fantasy football maybe
other than that.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Other than that, I guess that's that would probably be it.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
I've got some other Viking insights for it tenemy, and
not just that. The Vikings need to do better. They
need to have third and threes more than third.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Nates I do like that.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
I'm going to use that today with Rosen unless he
beats me to it, because he was probably listening earlier
today with Lieber.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
And on the defense, they want to force more third
nates than third and threes. That's my defensive analysis for
at the game brilliant.
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She writes Fish Repaftory west Side. She's one of the
Viking writers talking about JJ McCarthy and the soon to
be Big Game World champion Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
And start number just start number five for our young quarterback.
I believe this has start. He's either five or six right.
He starts to Chicago Atlanta and then Detroit, Baltimore.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Okay, so this is start number five, and there was
a quote and we had it on the radio because
it was from the head coach of the soon to
be Big Game World champion Minnesota Vikings, Kevin O'Connell, during
his midweek news conference we're in talking about McCarthy and
his his progression as a quarterback. He says, sometimes when
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a guy's making his third or fourth or fifth start
now this week, it's a lot to ask in the
midst of games, especially how they've kind of played out,
but that.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Doesn't change the fact that we're in the business.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Of trying to go want to know this week And
then Emily says, this is what O'Connell said amid a
longer answer, much longer as we know, longer answer about
patients was starting a new young quarterback because you do
need to be patient. He says, there's been a lot
of encouraging things to go along with things we can
improve on.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
He knows that we know that.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
And then it says this week is won when the
Vikings could start to really make that consistency happen and
with McCarthy, and one of the reasons they feel that
way is because now they're McCarthy is playing a team
for the second time, and not just the second time,
you know, you know, like he played it played against
some last season, is a second time this season because
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we played Bears Lions, Packers twice. So he played the
Bears game, struggled the first three quarters, was exceptional in
quarter number four, and the Vikings won the game. So
I think they feel like as a matter of fact,
Aaron Jones, running back of the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Says.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
Matchup matchups with division rivals always come with a sense
of familiarity that could be advantageous.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
Of course that goes the other way too, But I
think the Vikings are looking at this as this is
a the last thing she won. The last things she
writes is it's.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
A pivotal point in the season, and a pivotal point
for McCarthy, who's well aware of the importance of consistency.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
He knows that and this game can go back.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
They watch film of week one, they see the things
that worked, what didn't work, bear tendencies, watch other film
of their most recent games, and then maybe that will
help him along. So I think the I think the
the quarterback himself and I I I think the team
as a whole is hoping to see some some progress
here this week. I can tell you one way they
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could make some progress to stay out of third and
logs and make sure that you you know you're you're, you're,
you're on.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Third and shorts.
Speaker 5 (16:30):
If you have third and three, it's a lot easier,
not only on a young quarterback, but even on a
young inexperienced quarterback, but a but a sage old veteran. Right,
the further the ball has to travel for a first time,
the better it is for the offense.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
You can use that.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
I think another key is when you get into the
red zone, escort touchdowns instead of field goals.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
That's another that would that would be the Can I
give you some nine to noon esque positivity?
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Sure?
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Potentially, JJ McCarthy, Yes, we'd like to Game number one
against the Bears, Okay, he was healthy, had a brilliant
fourth quarter, they won the game. Game two against Atlanta,
he struggled mightily, but we also found out in that
game that he played like a good chunk of that
game with the bum ankle. So bad game not healthy.
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He comes back from the injury. He's healthy. Against Detroit,
played a pretty good game against the Lions, did he not?
Game four against Baltimore did not play well, but we
find out he hit his hand on a helmet at
some point. So the two worst of the four games
he's played, he was injured in the game. His two
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healthiest games now the Chicago game. He was not brilliant
the whole time. But it's also first ever NFL start.
So there's me trying to give some excuses for JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Well, here, let me let me throw a wet blanket
on that wet blanket Wednesday on a throw in the
towel Thursday, he's still hurt because they said the hand
I think there was another.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Quote in that same story. Uh, give me a second.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
If the hand is still hurt comes Sunday. I mean,
out of all the injuries, your quarterback is going to
play for that one. Seems like that's going to have
an effect on your ability to throw the ball. So
maybe Brozemer should.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Be playing, it, says somewhere here.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
McCarthy was a limited participant in practice Wednesday, wearing a
bandage on his right throwing hand after hitting it on
the lineman's helmet against the Ravens.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I know I saw the quote somewhere. I think McCarthy
said something to the effect of it's probably going to
be there for a while too.
Speaker 5 (18:46):
He's going to play with it like that, So in
other words, it's going to be a slow healing thing
that's going to be swelled up.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I know I saw that in one of the stories.
I guess wasn't in that one. So we'll see if that,
you know, if that is indeed uh an issue in
the game. But yeah, I think.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
I think O'Connell. You know, what he said here in
that quote is he says, hold on, can you give
me the thank you?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Yeah, here, I like he said.
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Coach Kevin O'Connell said, it's not expected would affect McCarthy's
prep the injury very much at all an assessment of
the quarterback read it, though, we did say he's going
to be.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Feeling it the rest of the way. So it is
the throwing hand, so that doesn't that doesn't really bode well.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
But what the coach said, and we looked at this quote,
he says, sometimes when a guy's making his third or
fourth or fifth start now this week, it's a lot
to ask in the midst of games, especially how they've
kind of played out, but that doesn't change the fact that.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
We're in the business of trying to get to one
to zero this week. In other words, it's.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
It's it's not the most ideal situation to be in
because you are a team that is trying to win
games and contend and get yourself back into the NFC
North race.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
And try to qualify for the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Yet you're doing it while you're spoon feeding a young
quarterback that's learning as he goes. There was quotes from
last week, I think, or immediately following the game from
McCarthy where he was talking about, yeah, I learned something
here that I didn't know before, and and so as
he's learning as he goes that when you're when.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
It's it's it's.
Speaker 5 (20:52):
Difficult to excel and that consistency that they're looking for,
it's it's difficult to be considered when you have your vector.
He knows this is this is like you know, I'm
gonna this is sort of like on the same vein
as stay at a third and long and have third
and short. The more experience your quarterback has, the better way.
I talked the other day about I watched the Dan Campbell.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Midday.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
They all do a Wednesday press conference and they were
asking about golf.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
He says, this is the best you've seen golf play.
Speaker 5 (21:21):
He goes, golf gets better every day and he sees
everything he's played so long now there's nothing that he
hasn't seen before he goes. We gave him a game plan,
he glanced that and he's out there running in the
first practice. Is because those veteran quarterbacks are so comfortable
with being out there right They they they they just
it's it's just second nature to them what they do
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out there on the field, and that's going to be
the So the Vikings are in that that place where
you're probably now you're hoping he learns quickly and gets
consistent quickly. But my guess against the Bears will probably
see what we've seen so far. We'll see some nice
moments from McCarthy, but we'll also see some moments that'll
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make you kind of want to cringe a little bit, right,
But that's the way it is when you're breaking in
a young kid. Game time is twelve noon. You'll hear
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Speaker 2 (22:25):
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Speaker 5 (23:28):
From the two to one eight Bradshaw Ruyant KVN text
on it says, can you please reload yesterday's show? About
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I would just suggest listen to the rest of this
show because you'll hear pretty much the same thing today
as you would have yes yesterday. We don't change it
up too often. Here's something else I want to add
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to to meat. You know how you can really avoid
having third and long or even third and short. Pick
up first downs on either first or second down. Don't
even go to third. I never thought about that. Yeah,
don't even just just gain so many large chunks of
yardage that you don't need to even get to a
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third well the entire game, never have any third and whatever.
Just a first and ten and get twelve yards, then
have a then on the next one get eight yards
and have a second and two and then gain a
first down there and never get the third down.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
I will also say, so it was Leeber who said
you'd rather have third and threes than third and eight. Yes,
you know how many third and ones and third and
twos The Vikings had less game that they just bungled
and they never ran the ball, and they're throwing receptions,
But it's all gonna change because Kaos is a quarterback whisper.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
He's gonna get the JJ McCarthy this week. Well a
McCarthy is now he's played the bear.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
So they're going to study the film and they're going
to know exactly what They're gonna know exactly.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
What to do.
Speaker 5 (24:48):
Someone else, a couple of others before we move on
to another topic that I found on a website that
I'm not sure if you're familiar with.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
You, It says, how long do we have to wait
for mccarth? Did you get up to speed? It's football.
He's been playing his whole life.
Speaker 5 (25:05):
He had all of last year to watch him get
immersed in the offense, and he still can't figure out
pre snap cadence. That's sort of kind of what I've
been saying a little bit here. As we go along,
you know, everybody learns and develops at a different speed.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
I've always thought it's just it's throwing.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Run and tackling, passing, blocking, kicking, you know, the whole thing.
But it's probably a bit more complex than that. And
you do have to give him some time and we'll
see how that ghost you're familiar I don't know if
you are. Have you ever heard of the athletic The
what athletic? I have a prescription to it. It's an
online sports page on sports, sports, your whole life to sports.
(25:43):
It covers gosh, you name the sport, they cover it,
the four men's majors, the women's majors, auto racing, golf, everything,
it's all their soccer from across the pond, you name it.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
They cover it.
Speaker 5 (25:58):
Writers from all over the entry, many based right here
in Minneapolis, and Saint Paul writing about the local teams here.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
They also on this story. It has an editor's note.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
This story is part of Peak, the athletics desk covering leadership,
personal development, and performance.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Through the lens of sport. Follow Peak here and then
you can click here.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
Here's the headline of the story, Tenna be can a
jersey number give a player a psychological edge? Now, if
you remember last year four, who was our running back
that changed number four?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
And he said everything was different?
Speaker 5 (26:37):
Dalvin Cook said, I'm changing at number four and everything's
going to be different.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Well, wasn't it any different? Matter fan of anything?
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Dalvin regressed and he was toward He's not in the
league anymore. Now right, he can't be I don't think
is he. Do you know Dalvin Cook is in the
league anymore? So the change number didn't really work for Delvin.
He thought it was going to electrify his career.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
I think it was this training camp.
Speaker 6 (27:00):
Laster's training camper Alec Lewis said, players look faster.
Speaker 5 (27:04):
That's that's it's part of this story. Are you familiar
with somebody named bear Bachmeyer. No, bear Bachmeyer is a
true freshman starting quarterback.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
For b YU.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
He's had a very good year. It says, you're familiar
with Bobby Boucher. It was a character in an Adam
samde Bobby Is that what is? I've never watched missed
a great Yeah, I missed it. A bad break for me.
I'm sure Bouche is what it is. Phenomenal, tackling, phenomenal.
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So apparently.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Bear bach.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Went to an Adam Sandlers show and brought him a jersey.
You know that the character wore in the movie to
get it autographed. Right, This Bochmeyer character believes in the
jersey thing, it says. Traditionally, quarterbacks and Football of War
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numbers one through nineteen, a system initially designed to help
officials identify the most important player on the field. In
the NFL, quarterbacks are still required to wear a number
in that range, but in college there are no such restrictions,
and so Bachmeyers opted for something a bit different. Number
forty seven is his number, a jersey number long reserve
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for fullbacks and middle linebackers. Of the one hundred and
sixty three FBS quarterbacks who have played one hundred and
fifty snaps this season, Bachmeyer is the only one to
wear a number above nineteen. I think somebody had to
do the research for that to find out. Of the
one hundred and sixty three FBS quarterbacks who have played
one herd fifty steps of the season, he's the only
one to wear a number above nineteen.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
He's got some good numbers. Tenn Toby.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
He's been a revelation for undefeated BYU this season? Or
did they finally lose? I saved the story from a
day or two they finally lost? I thought they lost,
but anyway, six two to twenty five, he's been efficient.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Throwing for six to Texas Tech. Twenty nine to seven,
he's been.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Efficient throwing for sixteen hundred ninety three yards along with
eleven tuddies and three ins. It's when he tucks the
ball into his elbow and takes off because he runs
with a football well, and it says he feels the most,
like forty seven. He says, when I put that on,
it's a reminder of family and trying to make them proud.
I'm playing quarterback and having that uniqueness. It is the
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epitome of toughness. It's a fine line, but it makes
me want to run somebody over. I think it brings
me back to the that primitive nature, almost like an
alter eagle thing, kind of nine with like nine hands.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Because the deal is his dad wanted him to wear
a different number. That's where the story goes. But here's
what it says.
Speaker 5 (30:16):
A UCLA study found that smaller jersey numbers led people
to perceive players as slimmer. ESPN's Kevin Seffert talked to
NFL receivers who wore jersey numbers in the single digits
and teens. Many said they felt faster in a smaller number.
Jersey numbers can be integral to a player's identity. Veteran
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athletes on new teams have paid tens of thousands of
dollars to reclaim a number occupied by one of their teammates.
Former NFL running back Chris Thompson put it this way
when talking to The Washington Post. I'm all about you
look good, you feel good, you feel good, you play good.
I'm all about that. I know it ain't all about that,
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but that's what I'm believing in my mind. And then
the next paragraph is a question could a player find
a psychological age caliber small and worry a number that
signifies something to them. Doctor Chris Stanovich is a sports
psychologist tend to Be who has worked with youth, collegiate,
and pro athletes.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Here's what he says.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
As humans, we really like having control of our lives,
control of our surroundings, and part of that control is
controlling your own identity.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
As an athlete. You think that's who I am.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
I am that number and the number for many athletes
provides comfort and confidence.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Every little edge helps.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
It might not be a big deal to six or
seven year olds to use this, I would just say
six seven excels. But in high school, college and pros,
if you can get a jump about feeling good with
your own identity with this number on your back, wouldn't
you do it?
Speaker 2 (31:55):
My gosh? And I guess I don't know if you're.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
Familiar with a song by by Joe South, but it's
oh the games people play now every night and every
day now, And I guess with with with John Lennon
did a song called Mine Games. If you are convinced
in your head that it will work, I guess there's
something to it. I but you know, for every guy
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that thinks the uniform number is going to change how
he performs, and maybe he does perform better with it,
there's the Dalvin Cooks of the world, because if you remember,
Dalvin changed numbers and said he was going to be
better because of it, and he wasn't any better, you know.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I mean, it's like.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
It's I guess I could even take this to let's
let's talk about McCarthy again. You know his alter ego
is nine. Now. I suppose if he was number six,
his alter ego would be six, right, So I guess
it's any way you can try to gain an edge.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
And if you think it's by the jersey number you wear,
well there's that. I'll tell you.
Speaker 5 (33:06):
The only experience I've had with the jersey number this
was back at Coon Rapids Junior High School.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
I think I've told you this before.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
When I played Coon Rapis Athletic Association football fourth, fifth
and sixth grade, I played both sides of the ball.
I was a fierce pass rushing rock at Gibraltar, run
stopping defensive lineman and a precise route running, sure headed
pass catching tight end when I got to Junior High
and the reason I played on the line and played
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tight end was I think they still do this. I'm
not sure if this still does, but in grade school football,
they separated by weight class. Right, seventy five pounds or less,
you played lightweights. Over seventy five pounds you played heavyweights.
I was like seventy four seventy five pounds. I was
on the high end of the lightweights. So of course
I'm one of the bigger kids on the lightweight So
(33:55):
I'm playing offensive line and tight end and a little
our defensive line. Tight end and some offensive line. When
I got into that, I did that for three years, four,
fifth and sixth grade. When I got to junior high,
they throw that out the window. Seventy five year old
kids play with two hundred pound kids. Doesn't matter what
your weight is well. So then when I went for tryouts,
(34:16):
they asked what position I plan and go, I'm a
fairs pass, rashing rackets around the run, stopping defense alignment, precisely,
not anymore. You're not You're not big enough, not gonna work.
You're going to be defensive back. I had no training
in defensive back, and I was I was.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Overwhelmed. I was overwhelmed. H I looked a lot like
some of the Well put it this way. When I
was a defensive back, I looked like a chair. That's
what I look like. You know how they use chairs
when they're practicing zones and stuff. I was a chair.
You weren't used to backpedaling. I wasn't used. That's exactly right.
And so I also learned. And I've talked about this
before too.
Speaker 5 (34:55):
I was smart enough to figure out, well, now I'm
basically nothing but a tackling dummy and a blocking sled
for the for the starters, right, they need to practice
against somebody. So I'm getting all beat up, and I
got smart and I said I'm out, I'm done. I'm
retiring from football after seventh grade. You you probably won't
(35:18):
find the surprise. And I was very popular with my
my my fellow teammates and my fellow students, and they
so badly wanted me to be part of the team.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
They wanted me to be manager guy. You know, the manager,
the guy.
Speaker 5 (35:29):
The dorky looking guy with the you know, with with
the stats, yeah, and you know, carrying the models, carrying
the little little toolbox with with with with with with
with with the tape in it.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Well I was humbled by it, which is which is
which is hard to do, And so I said, okay,
I'll do that. I'll hang out with you guys. So
I was manager in eighth grade. When it came time
to pass out the uniforms, I got the first choice.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Which one do you think? I took number one?
Speaker 5 (35:59):
All the numbers were there, one, two, all the way
through whatever, ninety nine, whatever it was. And so I
did select a number because I felt like, by gosh.
Speaker 2 (36:07):
I'm number one. I turned into Delvin Cook. It didn't
help at all. I was number one. So, in other words,
I had the choice.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Of my number and I wanted I thought it was
cool to be the number one, you know, beat number one,
think big and be.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
Big, and it it didn't work for me. It doesn't
mean it doesn't work for somebody else.
Speaker 6 (36:27):
Well, I was gonna say, like, let's take this a
step further to people with longer last names feel slower
than people with shorter last names because it doesn't take
it as much space on the jersey. And Tom Brady's
one of the greatest of all time, just only five
letters in that last name.
Speaker 5 (36:46):
Well, Simmon Woods Richardson. Have you ever seen his name
in the back of his jersey? It said Woods Richardson.
It starts from his elbow.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
It's like a rainbow. Yeah, and it goes all the
way up and down to the other elbow.
Speaker 4 (37:00):
Yeah. I you know, I am.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Feel like too many words have been written on this topic. Yeah, well,
but I I it's do you believe in any of it?
I mean, I guess you know.
Speaker 5 (37:15):
I've told the tale about mind over matter, doing a lucinogenics,
getting inside of a inside of a of a asana
and not sweating because I convinced myself I wasn't hot.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Now it was because of a whole multicolor galaxy of.
Speaker 5 (37:30):
Represent our descrivers and laughers. But the mind is a
powerful thing. You can convince yourself. So if you wear
a number like I think I've asked you before when
you played hockey, did you have a number that you
wanted to have and requested and wore most of.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
The time or not?
Speaker 6 (37:46):
I mean it's changed every year. Oh okay, but I
landed on number twenty, okay in high school and you
liked number twenty? Was there any reordy just that was
the one they gave you and you just said it.
Thinklosopher was growing up playing you hockey, you were only
going to get like one through seventeen. You never had
choices past seventeen. So once you got to high school
a sudden the amount of jerseys you could choose from increased.
(38:08):
And I guess I just like even numbers better than
nod numbers. And I was a left handed defenceman at
the time. My Crawley was one of my favorite players.
He was a defenseman for the Gophers. Our game is
very comparable. Yeah, with a lot of people looked at
me and thought, man, that's my Crawley out there. I thought, yeah,
he was number twenty for the Gophers. So that's why
you chose twenty. Yeah, do you feel you played better
(38:31):
wearing number twenty? I can't even see the number on
my jersey, say it's behind me.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
So yeah, so again I you know, but this kid
for by you basically says the reason I play at
the level I play at because I'm wearing well so
his is the wider number.
Speaker 6 (38:49):
Yes, So it is the argument there that the other
the opposing team thinks he looks slower and then he
just runs right past them.
Speaker 5 (38:55):
Well, I think when he runs the ball he feels
like he's a bruiser, because that's what he said here.
He said, when I put that on as a reminder
of family and trying to make them proud, I'm playing
quarterback and having that uniqueness is the epitome of toughness
because that's supposed to be Forty seven is like a
linebacker number, right, so it makes him tough.
Speaker 2 (39:18):
Here's what it said about his old man. It says.
Speaker 5 (39:24):
Bear didn't choose forty seven himself. It was selected by
his father. Michael. Bear was five playing linebacker and running
back for the Rancho Panthers growing up in Marietta, California.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Michael, his dad, a former officer in the United States.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
Marine Corps, chose the number for Bear because he felt
and represented toughness.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
I think he's overthinking another.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
Growing up, Michael always admired fullbacks and linebackers. Back then,
stars of those positions weren't allowed to wear the numbers
from one through nineteen like quarterbacks. They were anywhere from
twenty to five five. But why precisely forty seven? Here's
a bear set. I'm not entirely sure my dad really
likes those thirties, forties and fifties numbers.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
He's stuck with it. He played quarterback growing up, but
he wanted me to be gritty and tough. Whatever works.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
The kids playing Division one football, and he's playing at
a pretty good level, and he's playing for a pretty
good team.
Speaker 4 (40:25):
But I don't know.
Speaker 6 (40:31):
I I've never looked at the number on my jersey
as I'm putting it on before a sporting him meant
to go, oh this is this is going to pump
me up? This number right here? Well, I'm motivated to play.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
What else has said in this story? And I could
look for but I don't need it.
Speaker 5 (40:50):
If it was one of the psychologists guys might have
been the same one and saying like if he said
he noticed that a class, he'll ask have a favorite number,
and almost everybody puts up.
Speaker 6 (41:02):
Their hand, like, do you have a favorite number? I mean,
twenty has turned into it just because that's the one
I had for the longest time. Mine was either thirteen
or fourteen, and now it's six seven. The mind's changed
over the years. It was thirteen, fourteen, then it was
six seven. I don't really have a favorite number.
Speaker 5 (41:22):
I think some people do. Dude, you have a favorite color.
Some people have a favorite color. You don't have a
favorite color, not necessarily, No, I don't think I I'm interesting.
Speaker 6 (41:30):
That's interest because they always say, like, your favorite color
has some sort of deep meaning as to what your
personality is like.
Speaker 2 (41:36):
Well, then why I'm dark and brooding? So I do
like black? What about Honolulu blue? Is that favorite color?
Speaker 6 (41:43):
Well?
Speaker 2 (41:43):
You know, well silver, all right? Now, I like it
a lot. I didn't like it growing up during the sixties,
seventies and eighties. I did like hot. I did like it.
Speaker 5 (41:51):
I didn't like Honolulu blue because it represented losing honuhl
louse lose blue is really basically what it was. The
number twenty is a very special number, now, a very
special number. That's how many years Common and Ten have
been doing the show. Congrats on twenty years. If no
(42:12):
one said that to you yet, I'm going to say
it to you now, So there you go. So anyways,
good luck to number forty seven with BYU. And they
do not allow anybody to wear any number. Well, it
says in the NFL they still won't. It's still zero
through nineteen.
Speaker 6 (42:31):
They've relaxed on some of the number later, right, like
wide receivers are wearing single digits and teens now.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Well, Jamiirs Gibbs were zero from kiddies, but yeah, they
used to.
Speaker 4 (42:41):
It used to be.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
It had to be. I think running backs had to
be like in the thirties. Full backs were in the forties.
Speaker 5 (42:49):
Right, linebackers were fifties, sixties then seventies were linemen. But
I think you can pretty much use any number you want,
which only makes sense, I guess.
Speaker 2 (43:00):
But here's one.
Speaker 5 (43:06):
Comments there a specific golf ball number that you prefer
to play. I know I've never though. Generally when you
buy a dozen golf balls, they are number one through four.
Generally you'll find some boxes five through eight.
Speaker 2 (43:20):
Right, you ever gad the.
Speaker 5 (43:21):
Custom ones and then you can have the custom ones,
you can you can order your own.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
I've never felt the need to do that personally.
Speaker 6 (43:28):
But I did it once because I think there was
like a special or so I had twenty on them. Yeah,
had twenty in the woods it's mine.
Speaker 2 (43:38):
Yes, there's probably plenty of those two.
Speaker 5 (43:40):
Yeah, well I had one time Dark Starred made golf
balls for me, they said, common man on him. I
want to check my mailbox one time, and one of
my golf balls was in the mailbox. So somebody found
my golf ball that I'd lost in the golf course
and knew where I lived in my mailbox. I'm still
(44:04):
here to talk about it. So well, I mean you've
told him your addresses thirteen fourteen insane Lane.
Speaker 2 (44:07):
Well, that is correct, you're absolutely true. Let's take a
break come back. So this is what we have left
you at five three four.
Speaker 5 (44:17):
After our top of the hour break, Roseen Induced join
us at one thirty for spread Swing, then Rose and
rounds off the rest of the show from two until three.
Speaker 6 (44:24):
But what you got for five three four ten could
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