December 2, 2025 • 40 mins
Common Man Progrum HOUR 1 --Toys for Tots -- Vikings– Rodgers
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A head, common man, common man, don't show pep do
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
We can't be a scar approach will fail. It's time
for common man, common man, common man, charge the housewives
like going, can what you shoot?
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Where we play?
Speaker 4 (00:23):
That's nonsense.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I'd get to day duty.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Man. It's time for common man.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Oh boy, 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.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Of the best.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Now, if we demand more and more for producing less
and less while they have not nations and courage and
inspire and indeed require hard work and maximum effort. If
we deify the common man while they encourage and reward
the uncommon ones on the end result of such a
lopsided brace as that is too obvious to require elaborations like.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Second and five thunder from the Little Giants thirty four
Jimmy calling out the signals, takes the snap at the
toss right to deuce, and deuce is getting to the
second level.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Stiff arms, one defender, spins around another. Somebody drives to.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Grab his flag, but he can't because Deuce is wrapped
it around the scrap.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Defensive backs running.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Out of the way and Deuce he is gone.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Touchdowns thunder and Deuce hits his chest. Price Head points
to the sky and he scores his four touchdown of
the season. Jimmy drops back of Boyd's the Russ looking
over the middle.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
It's Deuce and it's caught a diving patch. It didn't
look like he needed to dive for it.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
But Deus intentionally slowed down in order to make the
acrobatic p roic catch. I haven't seen that move since
a certain dand Corman textually slowed down in Little le
Rappicks baseball tryouts like fatherlike Sun, and them's a thunder.
First down, Little Giants ball third and eight deep in
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their own territory, and the thunder showing wins.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Jimmy takes the snapsos Head. Deuz crapped his flag. It's
a sack. The Little Giants will have to punt first.
He's a sure handed, precise route running tight end.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Now he's a Peers pass rushing rock.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Up Gibraltar defensive end. Is there anything heat Deuce can't do?
And now he's going to return the punt that the
little giants will have to do. This can is amazing.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
For the first time all day, the thunder forced the
punt fourteen fifteen and Deuce takes the long snapping on
the duke snapped it.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
He snapped it to the up man.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
It's Robbie, and Robbie looks surprised.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
He hasn't seen the football all day. And Robbie's flag
is snatched one pussy. Thinking now there's a man.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
There's a man with a backwards beret running out on
the field while talking on the phone. He's yelling at
Deuce and I can't and yes, Deuce, did you snail back?
You're insane because he tried to snap into the up man.
The thunder give up the ball deepen their own territory.
Not sure what this was.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Thinking there, well, don young man, he's the clown from Brown,
He's the forest in the north.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
This is the common man.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Dan Cole.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Green's good afternoon.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
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Speaker 2 (03:28):
Here in yours, please please refrain from applause. Non't go ahead,
come on, I don't get it very often. Whoy what
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what it's your password for tom Fooleringe's called huggery. I
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look at you like a dog that hears a sound.
I'm not sure where it's coming, and they're gonna, why
are you saying that? But go ahead and say it.
Ak akadak dac dacka ac password for tom foolery and skullduggery.
I'm a radio dinosaur. Shields could be my labria tarpet.
We don't know. Maybe the place would just collapse here
and suddenly they'll have to find my skeletal remains in
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the rubble that is Shields, and probably my cold dead,
fossilized lips. From the microphone. We're doing a show. We
don't need you here. Now, let's hear it for Chad Abbott,
program director kfa n Remember the only show he cares
about is the Power Trip Morning Show. How many people
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like the Power Trip Morning Show? Clap your hands, Wow, wow,
it's kind of good. Yeah, very tipid. So most of
you have grown up and don't want to relive eighth
grade every morning? Right?
Speaker 5 (04:49):
How many people like the Common Maan program? Clap your hands?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
How about the Paul Allen Project? Oh and how.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
About Bumper to Bumper with Big Ticket and JG.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You know, they did a radio survey many years ago
where they would ask people.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
They would find out maybe.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
One of you participated and it they'll call you at
your house and go when JH line to participate in
a radio station survey? And you go, yeah, why not?
So they ask you, what's your P one Now that's
inside radio lingo for preference number one, your favorite station?
And if you would say KFA N, they would ask
you a series of questions about KFAN. And the only
question I cared about was when they would say, how
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do you feel about the following programs? And then they
would ask you you would have a multiple choice. You
would have love, like, dislike or hate. So the results
came back one year, they would do it yearly. Right,
results came back and it was six percent of the
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people hated the Power Trip Morning Show. How many are
in that six percent? Five percent hated the Paul Allen Project,
seven percent hated bumper to bumper. Get this, twenty seven
percent of those surveyed hated the common Man Program. That's
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more than all three of the other shows combined. I
took notice. Oh yeah, I said, okay, you've sent a message,
just loud and clear. So I put my nose to
the grindstone, my rigamortous laden lips to the noyman BCM
one O four.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
And when that next survey came out.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Fifty four percent of those surveyed hated.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
The common Mans.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Ah ak akadak and dak dak and ak to you too, Hey,
thanks for coming on out to Shields Hope. You brought
a toy. For the first fifty people that drop off
a toy here during the common Man Program, you'll get
one of our unreal beanies.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
They're really cool. Do we have an example of one?
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Can?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Are you wearing this year's version of that last year's
that's last year's version, but it's really cool. Oh you've
got this year's version. Oh okay, so you build that
so they have different colors? Cool? Yeah, Oh, they're really nice.
I have one read I don't know if I brought
mine with me, but this is another different unreal hat.
But they're really cool and it's just a token of
our appreciation for helping you out, for helping out. Toys
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for Tots presented by the Minnesota Vikings, the United States
Marine Corps Shields and all of us here at the fan.
And it's interesting how things have changed for me over
the years. The very first Toys for Tots, I didn't
participate because you're either four kids and against stadiums, or
you're for you're against kids and four stadiums. If you remember,
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before they built the stadium, that's what a Minneapoli City
council member said. If you are for the stadium, you
must be against kids, and if you are four kids,
you're against the stadium. So I wanted a stadium now.
I wanted them to build it in art in hills,
build it in art and hills, but they didn't. But
I was four stams.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
I was completely against kids, even the two I had.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
As a matter of fact, did you know my wife
and I recently told our kids we don't want children,
but it was too late. We already had them, so
we've got two kids. So I was against kids in
four stadiums. Then I changed my mind. I was four
kids and against stadiums. Then I changed my mind again.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
I was four.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Kids and four stadiums, and now I'm against both. I
think they should take all kids, round them up and
put them inside the stadium and just leave them there.
That goes for you kids right there too. No, I'm
just kidding, and we love you. Thanks for coming by.
He seems to be like, what is this all about.
He's waiting for the biking. Yeah, he's just waiting for
the Biking to come. We think we have a couple
of Viking players coming. We don't know. It's all subject
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to change. We've been told it's cash and cash out.
Blake Cashman, even Prairie native probably links a couple of
blocks from here. Yeah, so he's expected and then Isaiah
Rodgers defensive back. They are expected guests when they come.
I'm not sure, maybe ten of bs time frames, but
we're expecting them to come by here a little bit
later and talking about the Bikings football. Hey, thanks for honking.
(09:01):
If you're by people honking their horn, thank you very much.
If you're in the neighborhood and you want to just
give us a little two to the horn when you
can do that. Casmine's mom honky. It could have very
well been yeah, the house, or maybe it's uh, maybe
it's the Insane Asylum, honking the horn saying we're ready
for you.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Uh. You know what the difficult part is in the past,
when we've had Viking players, the season's been going well.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Sure like last year, had we lost.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
A game by the time Toys for Tots came around,
maybe one or two. I mean, we were on a roll.
Now it's like, hey, so how was it going. You're
four and eight, one in five over your last six games,
and I just it's awkward. It is awkward, and I'm
not gonna do, you know, because you know, I know
what the answers are going to be. Ah, we all
still love each other. We're giving it everything we got.
And I'm not saying they don't love each other, not
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giving everything, but it's got to be a little difficult.
On the drive to the stadium the Sunday playing the Commanders,
we just can't get anything going and you're just looking
at the calendar saying, I really want the season to end.
I I believe that's human nature, is it not? Or
do we not believe that? Do we think that these
guys want to give it everything they got every game
and can't wait to suit it up on something.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
When you shoot a forty eight on the front nine,
I don't want to You're not excited about the back
That's exactly yeah, and so I think that you might
not be have the complete focus you need. Yeah, that's
necessary for that back.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Then, So if you're expecting me to try to dig
deep into their psyche and their soul and find out
what they're relief, ain't going to get that here. I'm
just probably gonna ask cashman, what do you know? What? What?
What kind of toys did he like when he was
a kid for Christmas or something like that, And if
anybody can think of any good questions that are non
football related, just write him on a piece of paper
and hand them up to me, because I just I'm
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not going to do that. Well, season's been really tough, you.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Know, I mean, I'll we'll do it.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
This is the obligatory question you have to do, right, Hey,
season has been going very well. How do you feel?
And then after that, we just want to move on
with the rest of our lives and talk a little
addis and a little adapt with the emphasis on the
last that's what we're kind of looking for here today
at Shields. What this show has a reputation and has
for years of the listenership really digging down deep and
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being generous during the Toys for Tot's campaign. So if
you are within the sound of my voice, that means
you could even be up at Fargo for crying out
now that by the time you get here, the store
might be closed, but you can just leave it out front.
But we would love you to drop by Shields today
and bring an unwrapped toy for girls and boys also
has been we mentioned this every year.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
There are teenagers that could use something as well.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
So if you find something else like a watch or
something or something that a teenager might alike a little
bit better than you know, a what's that little block
with all the colors out them and you try to
get all the color Rubik's Cube? Right? You know, I
just don't think that you know, you're gonna want a
Rubies cube? So or what are they called lego sets?
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I don't think a teenager wants a Lego set. So
if you they might, well they might, yeah, but if
you if you if you can find anything for a
teenage boy, or girl that's cool too, or anything for
a toy. And by the way, you don't have to
go anywhere else because they've got plenty of things to
buy here right at Shields, so you can find something
for kids. Look at there's snowboards back there, snowboards man,
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and there's everything here. So if you find something, bring
it up, put it in the Toys for Tot's bin,
and we'd appreciate that. Let's take our first break of
the program. By the way, as you can see, all
the seats are full and there are hundreds, hundreds, hundreds
of people. Are you eating your lunch? Oh? I was drinking? Okay,
because we don't eat lunch on the air on the show.
(12:33):
Somehow other shows do it. We don't do that here.
I've got my lunch with me today too. No microwave
oven though, So because so many people want to sit
and watch the show, we're limiting everybody to one segment.
So if you just orderly get up in the movie,
because you can just see the hundreds hundred of people
that want to sit down and watch the show. So sorry,
(12:54):
but we're limited to one per customers. Let's take a break.
We'll come back. We're broadcasting live from Shields and eating Prairie.
The Toys for Tots brought to you by the Minnesota Vikings,
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Speaker 2 (13:49):
Back to Shields. It's our Toys for Toss Drive. It's
an annual thing. We've been all over town to town,
up and down the dial. We did our very first one.
I think it was at Gallions, so anybody remember Galleons.
Galleons is now Dix, but Galleons, and we did our
very first ever Toories for toat show from the Galleons
on four ninety four and thirty five, which did you
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know is the busiest corridor in the state of Minnesota,
so it was a great spot to be. Then we
went from there to all of America and the huge rotunda,
and they loved us, and then they said, maybe we
don't like them quite as much as we thought we did.
So then they put us in was that the Sears rotunda.
Then they moved us from Sears to the other side
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and put us in that one, and then finally they
just said, look, it's been a nice run, but it's
time to move on. So then we went over to
Fleet Farm. What did they say at Fleet Farm? Overs
theer's slogan?
Speaker 6 (14:44):
I love it, we love it. You're coming out with
a cold, aren't you. I don't know if it's cold.
I feel fine and just my voice is gone. Yeah,
I think it was from coaching eight hockey games this weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Probably I'm still moving away. You're fine, I feel great.
You look good too. That there's nothing wrong? Is I
just talk? And we went to this business and now
our home away from home here is Shields. Rosen practically
lives here. No wait, that's Kowalski's He practically lives at Kowalski's,
So legendary one is going to be here a little
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before two o'clock. How many people can't wait to see
the legendary Mark Rose and in person? Clap your hands.
Did you know that he is stronger at seventy three
than he was at forty five, That's what he actually said,
Stronger at seventy three than he was at forty five.
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He's lying to himself, you know, you get to that age. Look,
and I'm approaching that as well. I'm about to be
sixty seven late this month, and you start saying to yourself, well,
I'm a lot closer to the end of the end
than I am at the beginning of the end. And
then you start going, am I at the beginning of
the end of the end, or I'm at the middle
of the beginning of the end of the end, or
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I'm at the end of the beginning of the end
of the And then you know how long those end
of the ends are. And so he's trying to convince
himself he's stronger and he's not. He's just not. No,
he's not. And that's okay, because I still think he's
going to live a long life. I think he's gonna
get he's seventy three. I think he'll get to seventy five,
seventy six. I think he could get to his mid nineties.
I think he's got that in his jeans. I think
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my life goals to look like him when I'm that age. Well,
I think, yeah, well, then you got to start seeing
the fitness game. That's what you have to do. Start
right now, knows he starts to see the fitness King
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we hope. What is it with the purple? Hey, we
can talk about the quarterback situation. Sounds like we're back
to JJ McCarthy. Yeah, that sounds like we are. There's
all sorts of Viking jerseys here, plenty McCarthy. What's for
if you want them on clearance? On clearance right now?
And Van Ginkel and Jefferson Jones and Addison Hawkinson and Jefferson,
But the uniform you want most of all? What's Who's
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the undrafted free agent? We drafted a couple of years
Max brosburg i'van paced the undrafted free agent had a
very good first year. And if you ever see him,
he seems not to be playing as much. He's on
the bench a lot more now he's on the bench
a lot more. Well, I mean there.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Wasn't a lot of bright spots against Seattle, but Eric Wilson,
who basically has put Ivan pace on the bench.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah, it was kind of one of the few guys
that flashed.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
He's had a good season, Dallas Turner and Dallas Turner
as well because he.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Was catching I don't know if he was catching so
much heat as the front office was for drafting. Remember
they they moved, didn't we trade a couple of picks
yet to fifteen? And then you know we always and
this happens in every town. I'm sure every city where
they have a draftic in the first round that doesn't
pan out to where you thought they were supposed to
first round draft picks, right They're supposed to be there.
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There's supposed to be impact players right away. Well, let's
face a Dallas Turner hasn't been an impact player. So
then you always look at who was selected after him,
and the name that always comes up is Shared Verse
for the Rams, who's been just terrific And yeah, he's
really good.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
So but it's nice to see Turner playing a little
bit better.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
He he had a couple of did he have two
strip Sacks. I think he had two. He forced two fumbles.
One of them was recovered by the Purple. I think
it was the first turnover, and since uh nineteen twelve,
it was our very first turnover. It's been that long.
And then there was another one that I think they
got that Seattle recovered. There were still you know, so
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the kids playing better.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
So yeah, those are the good signs because.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
And I've been having this debate with people, I think,
now when the season isn't going the way you wanted to,
and let's face, I have some stark numbers. Did I
bring these up yesterday or did I just find these today?
I think we talked about it yesterday. Where the Packers have,
like I hate even saying the word Packers, I know
it's sacrilegious, but they have eighteen players that the team
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drafted and twelve of them are starting or something. And
the Lions are on the same boat, and so are
the Bears. And then you look at the Vikings and
it's like they've got only a handful of players selected
in the last three or four years. And of course
the guy that is catching most of the heat forward
is Quaisiadopho Mensa. The general manager, and that could be
rightly so. But I've reached out to a few football people.
I know, guys that used to play the game, and
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I've asked them. I've said, because it's a debate that
I don't know if any of us can really get
our wrap our head around. I just don't believe that
a general manager just goes up to a head coach
and goes, here's who I'm drafting or here's who I
drafted for you. I think they you know, and we
hear it from this organization all the time on it's
a collaboration. It's a collaboration.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
So my guess is they sit and talk about things.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
So people want Quaysy's head right, he's got to go
all the None of the draft picks have panned out
except maybe I guess Turner is starting on the kicker.
The kicker worked out draft and Addison, and Addison's been
he can't catch the ball lately. He's quality. But so
those are the guys and the other ones. You know,
you think, but even Jordan's not a no, he's not
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a game breaker, no no, but he's still you would think,
well that was okay draft pick. You know, he's playing.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
And Dothan Jackson at least this year seems confident.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
But I just think it's too simple. Everybody's looking for
the easy answer. Well, it's got to be the general anags.
Let's get rid of him and and and like, for instance,
I asked one of my football friends who played football
professionally and told me that, Well, like on the McCarthy things,
certainly that's that's that's not Cam just saying I'm gonna
draft JJ McCarthy and here he is. That's the conversation
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with the head coach. That's not And you know, it's
maybe some of the it's more it sounds like for
for free agents, where we need to I need the coaches,
we need to help on the interior or the offensive
and defensive lines, Go get them, Tiger, and then your
general manager will go out, take a look at the
free agent list, negotiate with agents and such like that,
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and then they will find a guy. So I think
sometimes in the free agent market there are there are
decisions that are made by the general manager that solely
on him. But when it comes to those draftics, especially
first round, trust me, it's not just the general manager.
And that's like that at at any team in the league.
So but they find themselves in a little bit of
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a total system film configure. I guess is what I'm
trying to say. Let's do this. Let's let's take another break.
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Speaker 8 (23:12):
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Speaker 2 (23:37):
The course of Brett Lake Moore. Let's hear it for him.
He's back at studio. He was flawless on that delivery
Tenabee objects of the mirror close and to appear. Oh no, no,
not that anything with that. He did a really really
good job. He's toiling behind the scenes. We appreciate that
on the common man, Dan Cole, He's tend to be.
We're here at Shields for the annual Toys for Tot's Drive,
brought you by the Minnesota Vikings, the United States Marine Corps,
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Unreal Apparel, and all of us here at the fan
excited and delighted to be joined by Biking's defensive back
Isaiah Rodgers.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Isaiah, thanks for coming back. We do appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Thank you for having me appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Yeah, now, they a big round of applause.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
The first thing we have to establish right away is
I'm not your normal media guy. That's you know, kind
of out of shape, slow, doesn't understand the game. I
played football both sides of the ball. I was a
fierce pass rushing rocket Gibraltar runs, stopping defensive lineman and
a precise route running sure him had pass catching tight end.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
So I played the game, so I understand twenty two wide.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
No, you sound like an athlete, man, Well I.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Was, of course. That was back when I was in fourth, fifth,
and sixth grade. It was a long time ago with that,
I played football. How long you've been playing football since? What?
You're how old? Twenty seven? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (24:45):
I'm twenty seven. I've been playing since I was three.
Three three, yeah, Floyd, you can start playing a flag?
Speaker 7 (24:51):
What three?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (24:52):
Soccer everything at three years?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Why are you just crawling after each other?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Or are you actually running?
Speaker 9 (24:56):
They just let us run whichever way and just clapped
for us, and it had us all feel.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Like we were the best on the field.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
So sort of like heard soccer they called it. You
know when your kids first start soccer, they just all
follow the ball.
Speaker 9 (25:07):
There's thirty kids free for all out there. You didn't
even know who was on teams. They just wear all
on T shirts most of the time.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Were you elite at three? Are you a little bit
of a late bloomer?
Speaker 7 (25:16):
I'm still blooming, still blooming.
Speaker 9 (25:18):
Yeah, I was. I was bad. I was horrible.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Did you play other sports too?
Speaker 9 (25:22):
I was more of a baseball player growing up in track,
but football was more like a family sport, so I
stuck to that.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Yeah, well I was worked out for you. I think
baseball center field.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
No, I played picture in short stuff, Okay, I haven't.
I never played outfield, which is crazy. We can run,
Yeah back then I couldn't. Oh, okay, Yeah. I didn't
get fast until like college or what happened.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
I don't know. I was just slow, So I wasn't
very blooming.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I wasn't very good at baseball. I used to play
right field, foul territory. That's really put me going on
the field. So it's a whole nother thing in itself.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
You Mass, right, Yeah?
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Yeah, how'd you end up in?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
You? Mass? Was scholarship offer? You offer? Or did you
just want to go there? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (26:01):
It was a offer. I just wanted to get away
from Florida.
Speaker 9 (26:03):
I wanted to experience a different like a weather, everything's different,
and you Mass is one of those teams that, like
one of those schools that stood out for me.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
So I just wanted to just get away.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
And go to you go to college play ball? Were
you pretty convinced I may get drafted in the NFL?
Or were you? I don't know who knows whatever.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Nah.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
Not my freshman year, I was.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
I left college at one hundred and thirty five pounds,
so I had no chance. Yeah, But I think my
sophomore year when I started like really locking in and understanding,
I had a chance after making a few plays against
some of the top schools and then I was like,
all right, cool, let me let me lock in.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yeah, and then got drafted by the cult coach.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Yeah, six round twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Did they were there other teams? I mean, how does
that eat process even work? Did they go to the combine?
Were you at the combine? Did they just watch your
game and car and say, hey, we kind of like
you want to shit and chat with you and find
out what you're like and.
Speaker 9 (26:52):
Go through a few drill My year was different because
it was COVID, so we had everything on Zoom, So
I had to sit up in my living room and
backpedal and drills and stuff for coaches on zoom, study
plays through Zoom, so I never got to travel to
the facilities. How the kids are now or back then.
But it was a lot different. But throughout the draft process,
it's weird because teams call you throughout second round, third round,
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and you think you're getting drafted, but they're just calling
the check in on you, seeing how you are being
ready for if you become undrafted, they try to come
grab you. So it's just a lot of phone calls calling.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
So as it was getting fourth round, fifth round, getting
into the shit, were you thinking, man, maybe it ain't
gonna happen for me. Well, were you pretty convinced at
that point somebody would grab you.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
I knew I was going to get in somewhere. I
didn't think I was going to get drafted. Once like
the fourth and fifth went by, I was like, all right, cool,
So I kind of just stopped watching it, but my
family was still there. Everybody was still watching it. And
then I got a call that I thought was the call,
but that was fourth round, but it was just a
check in. And at that point I kind of just like,
I don't really care anymore if like just hurry up
and get it over right.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Colch, Eagles and Vikings kind of like radio town to town,
up and down the dial. What happens in the you know,
like the Colts you played there? How did jet up
with the Eagles?
Speaker 9 (28:05):
You know? Yeah, I was, I was there three years,
made a stupid young guy decision. I was gambling helping
out a lot of people back then. Long story, but
got suspended for a year. It took a year off,
and well the Eagles signed me like two months later.
So I was signed with the Eagles while I was suspended,
and they just basically just kept me like uplifted or
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whateverver you.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
Want to put it.
Speaker 9 (28:29):
So I just kind of just stayed working out, stayed
on the NFL type schedule, came back with them last year,
and then went into free agency and you know, ended
up here.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
You played for him last year.
Speaker 9 (28:39):
Yeah, I played for him last ye where's your ring?
It's a little stash stashed up, but I haven't I
haven't looked at it in a while.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah, but that's cool because you know a lot of guys,
you know, obviously played for a career for money and
for a ring, and to get one at early in
your career is kind of nice to get that out
of the way.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
I got it out the way.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah. Yeah, I feel like if I'm a home here
in Minnesota, like I actually do.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
I like being in different sceneries than Florida.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
Being from Florida to the hot climbing and there's a
lot of things to do. I think in Minnesota's perfect
for me and for my family, and it's like really
like nothing too much to do with the weather and everything.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
So I actually love it here big.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
This season just hasn't gone the way the team is
wanted offensive even defensively, you couldn't stop the runn early.
Defense playing better now, having trouble to the quarterback if you're
not scoring any points, could shut out. Uh, difficult to
go to the complex every day with a positive attitude
or not.
Speaker 9 (29:32):
Now, I won't to say it's difficult. I think end
of the day, win, lose, draw, whatever, we all still
have a job to do. Like, you got to look
you gotta look past those games. Those games do hurt,
especially when we just have this weekend. But you understand,
like once you get on the plane and you get
back home, you gotta reset, You go back to your families,
reset and get ready to come in and watch it
next week. So we just got to focus on on
the commanders right now.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
I'm guessing for you specifically too. Right just from listening
to you, it sounds like there's always been a little
bit of uncertainty in your future, right, Like you're small
out of high school, you weren't. Yeah, right, you're drafted lates,
which you always have to keep working for your spot,
right Like, and to find yourself in this role, I
have to imagine, like you're you're you're still playing for
your future.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Right Like.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
I think you're pretty you're satisfied with your season and
how it's going. But I'm guessing just that mentality is
probably different with you than maybe some others.
Speaker 9 (30:20):
Yeah, Like, like you mentioned, I've I done had the
doubts of all the doubts from coaches, from teammates, thinking
I wouldn't be the guy to go to the lead,
and I kind of more so just switched over a
new leaf into my life and more so instead of
trying to prove all the doubters wrong, you know, I
just kind of approve a lot of people who believe me.
I like to prove those people right. So I kind
of just focused on the positivity of my life.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
That's good attitude. Yeah, trying the people that don't believe
in you and just make the people.
Speaker 9 (30:44):
Yeah, it's all about of people who believe me. That's
the only thing that matters right now.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yeah, I think believed in you.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
Yeah, Yeah, that's my guy. That's my guy.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
To be honest with you, like as a Vikings fan,
like when you signed on day one or Fridgy, I
think most of us were like, who is this guy?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Right?
Speaker 6 (30:57):
And we weren't expecting when that sign that you'd be
like the starting cornerback, like there was more moves to come.
They clearly saw something new and believed in you, and
I think you've kind of proven them right as the
season's gone along.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
I'm just just trying to keep going and just trying
to continue to stack the days and I just want
to go out there and make more plays and you know,
make the state of Minnesota, you know, proud and and
you know kind of don't look back and say, oh,
that was one of those signs where I cool, he's gone.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
You know.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
So I want to be that guy that just continue
to keep going to be here for a long time.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Our guests here at Shields as I say, Rogers defensive
back for the Minnesota Vikings. Where or toys for tents drive?
So you've played for three different defensive coordinators and right colts,
Eagles and Vikings. How did they different? We are getting
too specific, I mean do they all have different approaches?
Is it all kind of the same with just tweaks
or does is every guy? Is every system? Like? Are
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those three systems significantly different from one another?
Speaker 9 (31:49):
With the Coast, I had three years two different defensive coordinators,
so that was difficult in itself, And then with my
rookie year being COVID, we were home a lot learning
throughout the through zoom, so it was a lot difficult,
not actually in the building learning hands on. But I
probably have four defensive coordinators I've been leading. Everyone's different.
Everyone has different mindset, different philosophies on why you're going
to do it this way, and a lot of a
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lot of teams in the league have the same terms,
but it's a whole different analogy. So you got to
throw away what you learn for the past three years
and come into a new system and have to just
adapt to it.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
B Flow likes to say he is he has approached
your defense is being aggressive without being reckless. That the
best way to describe it.
Speaker 9 (32:26):
Yeah, he's one of those type of guys and just
not really he's real focused on not looking at the scoreboard,
whether we're up thirty three zero, whether we're down thirty
two zero. He don't look at the scoreboard. He just
likes to keep applying pressure and keep going.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
I was gonna say, is that challenging mentally psychologically? A
game like last game right where you defense is balling
out because they're playing great and the offense just isn't.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Really giving you much to turn the ball over?
Speaker 6 (32:51):
Is that hard in the middle of the game to
feel like you're you're side of the balls constantly like
going uphill here, and how do you like, how do
you maintain that focus and competitiveness. Well, that's occurring when
you're not getting help from the other side of the ball.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
I think that's the best part of football.
Speaker 9 (33:04):
Would have been a competitive sports, complimentary football, like we
need the offense, they need us, we need special teams.
So in the end we see their defense and making
those type of plays, so we aren't going out there
like offense isn't doing this, they're not doing that, Like
we're like, all right, cool, they did this, now let's
go do it. Let's do it too. We could be
better than them. So really it turns to the defense
versus defense type of game. So that's more about mindsets,
just trying to be better than.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Them defense played.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I know it was twenty six points. Now six of
it was what was the pick six? That's a really
good Seattle offense. Donald's got them Homme in there playing
really well. You guys. Donald had pedestrian numbers. He's been
talked about as possible MVP candidate this year. Yeah, he
completed maybe a little over fifty percent of it and
only a couple hundred yards. No, you know, you had
no interception, no touchdowns. What did you do against Seattle
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that other teams weren't able to do that?
Speaker 7 (33:55):
Shout out to Flores.
Speaker 9 (33:56):
That's Flora's mindset, and just all the guys on the
field just buying in, trusting the process and knowing we
left a lot of players out there, like, yeah, we
had the sacks by Dallas Turner and the fumbles and
things like that, but you know, we just don't want
those one to turn those into touchdowns as well.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
So we just got to keep stacking days and keep going.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
I apologize it to not watch the All eleven. So
I don't know how many times are you lined up
with Jackson Smith and Jigbuf Did you get to see
him at all? Because he clearly is the best season
of all the receivers, and you guys shut him down
pretty good.
Speaker 9 (34:25):
I was, I was lined up a lot of a lot,
but it was more like running place. I think a
few times I had a different routes, but you had
Eric Wilson and Blake Cashman getting to the backfield Dallas Turner,
so Sam didn't have the chance to throw it to him.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Yeah. Uh so now you're you're four and eight, have
to run the table even then, you know, with the
NFC stack this year, yeah, I think right now they
the last playoff team and it's still like what nine
and eight and three, eight and four?
Speaker 7 (34:54):
Yeah, I think everyone's over like six.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, so it's tough. So it's just like you say,
you know, taking a game at a time and such
like that. Are you looking at personal goals as well
then too, because like tan to be asked you earlier,
it's like you know, you're you're, you're you're playing for
career too.
Speaker 7 (35:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (35:11):
No, I think at the end of the day, is
still a team sport. I think we all, like I say,
we all still have a job at end of the day.
So if you go out there like all right, this
is our record, this is their record, it doesn't really
matter another day. If you feel like that, you go
out there and just don't do what you need to do,
you probably won't be here next year and any that
goes to your career. So I think you just got
to lock in and focusing on completing the team tests.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
All right, very controversial question.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
Is cornerback the most challenging position in all of sports?
Speaker 7 (35:37):
All of sports? No?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
No, what's more challenging? I don't know.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
Probably like a goalie is hard.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Yeah, you're like goalies, You're sitting like a little four
foot radius the whole time. You gotta run backwards against
the best athletes in the world.
Speaker 9 (35:53):
Yeah, I think it's the hardest, probably the hardest position
in football, But it's sports all the sports that I
don't know, that's kind of hard because it's a lot
of sports out there with a lot of conflicts to
it that that as football players, we probably don't think
is that hard to do just by looking, but when
you actually get out there and try, it's definitely hard.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
All right.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I got another position question. How often are you no
flag is thrown and you know you've you've been a
past interference that happened a lot.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
That's crazy this sound.
Speaker 9 (36:22):
I only had like three flags in my career, so
I don't get a lot of flags. I really don't
want flags. I don't want to be like let the
team down things like that. But I haven't had any
this year, you know, so amazing. Yeah, I'm not the
guy that like, if I get a flag, I'm like,
that wasn't me. So like you kind of know when
you do it, sometimes you just got to take it.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
But yeah, wait, because to me, that would be the
most frustrating part of that position is because I'm sure
because they'll show the replay on you know, I'm sitting
on the college watching on TV. Pass interference is called.
They show four different angles and go, that wasn't passing interference.
You got the guys on it, you know, on the TV,
the former players going that wasn't p I don't what
they're doing that. I think it's a player. You're like, well,
wait a minute. When it does happen to your teammates
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or anybody else, it's got to be frustrated when you
know it wasn't. Especially some of these calls changed the
entire outcome of the game.
Speaker 9 (37:09):
I think that's the scary part. But end of the day,
we kind of understand that defensive player. It's the offensive world.
And I think, like you know, fans watch the game
for the offense. That's where the points are getting, you know,
produced as that's where the money is. So you know
they're going to try to give leeway to the offense.
So we kind of know the defensive players like they're
going to lean towards the offense.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah, who do you think is uh other thing? Guys
in your team? Who do you think the best wide
out is in Pro football? Now? I go.
Speaker 9 (37:39):
Pooka Nicour or Jackson? Really yeah, Jackson over Seattle. His
numbers are showing it. But like you say, other than
guys on our team, you know, I still think Jets
and the A J. Browns are those type of guys.
But as of now, like I like Pooka and DeVante Adams.
Speaker 6 (37:52):
What's good about Puka because you know, obviously he was
slept on in the draft.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
You can go very high.
Speaker 9 (37:57):
I played it a few times, very physical. He's actually
been you know, people think and and he's just strong
and he.
Speaker 7 (38:03):
Could sell anywere oute.
Speaker 9 (38:04):
He can make it like he's blocking and he has
he has a quarterback over there who trusts him to
have a great you know, collective over there as an
oc everything all over there. So I think, basically pok
this whole entire scheme, like he's just he's a pretty
good in s game.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Here's the guy. I want to ask you about it.
I saw an interesting statistic here and I saved it.
Let me grab it here real quick, ten of me,
you tap dance first, find this.
Speaker 6 (38:25):
Well, he waits for that question. I was just gonna
ask you. When you were signed, part of your skill
set that we thought was, hey, this guy's can return puns,
return kicks for us, and you're really having doing that,
which is a compliment to you. Because you're so valuable
as a cornerback, they don't want to put you in
that position. But do you miss out being a part
of the return game. He still occasionally say hey, let
me let me get out there. Yeah, I definitely, I
definitely do miss it. I end up watching it a
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lot when I see a Miles Price go back there.
But you know, just watching the young guy, I was
in his shoes before being that rookie. You know that
was like your job and a roll on the team.
But it's definitely something I do missed.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
So I was born in Detroit, so I'm a Lions fan,
also Vikings fan because I lived most of my life,
so I follow the lines pretty closely. I saw this,
this piece talking about wide receivers. This I found this
this morning on a CBS sports piece. It says, according
to CBS Sports Research, the Lions ranked number one in
yards per play with Saint Brown on the field since
he began his NFL career in twenty twenty one, and
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their number twenty five when he's not on the field.
To me, that's an astonishing statistic. I'll read that against us,
they ranked number one in yards per play when he's
on the field since he started his career in twenty
twenty one. He's number twenty and their number twenty five
with him off the field. Detroit alson ranks number two
in offensive efficiency was Sam Brown in the field number
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sixteen When he's on the sideline, his five hundred and
five receptions ranked second all time in a player's first
five seasons. So, you know, we talk about the Mosses,
we talk about you know, you know, Jets and Ready, so,
but Saint Brown seems to have quite the impact. You
played against them, how.
Speaker 9 (39:58):
Good is he He's similar to the Puka conversation, Like in
that scheme, he's going to get the ball, like we knew,
go into the game. They're gonna you know, he's averaging
probably ten targets a game. Those is those games that
you gotta go into the game. No, he's gonna They're
going to find a way to get him the ball.
Like you said, the stats proven to hisself. So I
think it's like that with you pay him thirty plus
million dollars with the issue you're throwing the ball as well.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
So yeah, good luck the rest of the season. Thank you, Yeah,
and thanks for joining us. We appreciate it. Thank youty.
Nice to talk to you. Let's here at for Isaiah Rodgers,
defensive back for the Minnesota Vikings. They play Washington this
week and must take a break. We'll come back with more.
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don't need you here. Now, let's hear it for Chad Abbott,
program director kfa n Remember the only show he cares
about is the Power Trip Morning Show. How many people
(04:36):
like the Power Trip Morning Show? Clap your hands, Wow, wow,
it's kind of good. Yeah, very tipid. So most of
you have grown up and don't want to relive eighth
grade every morning? Right?
Speaker 5 (04:49):
How many people like the Common Maan program? Clap your hands?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
How about the Paul Allen Project? Oh and how.
Speaker 5 (05:00):
About Bumper to Bumper with Big Ticket and JG.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
You know, they did a radio survey many years ago
where they would ask people.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
They would find out maybe.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
One of you participated and it they'll call you at
your house and go when JH line to participate in
a radio station survey? And you go, yeah, why not?
So they ask you, what's your P one Now that's
inside radio lingo for preference number one, your favorite station?
And if you would say KFA N, they would ask
you a series of questions about KFAN. And the only
question I cared about was when they would say, how
(05:33):
do you feel about the following programs? And then they
would ask you you would have a multiple choice. You
would have love, like, dislike or hate. So the results
came back one year, they would do it yearly. Right,
results came back and it was six percent of the
(05:54):
people hated the Power Trip Morning Show. How many are
in that six percent? Five percent hated the Paul Allen Project,
seven percent hated bumper to bumper. Get this, twenty seven
percent of those surveyed hated the common Man Program. That's
(06:16):
more than all three of the other shows combined. I
took notice. Oh yeah, I said, okay, you've sent a message,
just loud and clear. So I put my nose to
the grindstone, my rigamortous laden lips to the noyman BCM
one O four.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
And when that next survey came out.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
Fifty four percent of those surveyed hated.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
The common Mans.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Ah ak akadak and dak dak and ak to you too, Hey,
thanks for coming on out to Shields Hope. You brought
a toy. For the first fifty people that drop off
a toy here during the common Man Program, you'll get
one of our unreal beanies.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
They're really cool. Do we have an example of one?
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Can?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Are you wearing this year's version of that last year's
that's last year's version, but it's really cool. Oh you've
got this year's version. Oh okay, so you build that
so they have different colors? Cool? Yeah, Oh, they're really nice.
I have one read I don't know if I brought
mine with me, but this is another different unreal hat.
But they're really cool and it's just a token of
our appreciation for helping you out, for helping out. Toys
(07:19):
for Tots presented by the Minnesota Vikings, the United States
Marine Corps Shields and all of us here at the fan.
And it's interesting how things have changed for me over
the years. The very first Toys for Tots, I didn't
participate because you're either four kids and against stadiums, or
you're for you're against kids and four stadiums. If you remember,
(07:41):
before they built the stadium, that's what a Minneapoli City
council member said. If you are for the stadium, you
must be against kids, and if you are four kids,
you're against the stadium. So I wanted a stadium now.
I wanted them to build it in art in hills,
build it in art and hills, but they didn't. But
I was four stams.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
I was completely against kids, even the two I had.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
As a matter of fact, did you know my wife
and I recently told our kids we don't want children,
but it was too late. We already had them, so
we've got two kids. So I was against kids in
four stadiums. Then I changed my mind. I was four
kids and against stadiums. Then I changed my mind again.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
I was four.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Kids and four stadiums, and now I'm against both. I
think they should take all kids, round them up and
put them inside the stadium and just leave them there.
That goes for you kids right there too. No, I'm
just kidding, and we love you. Thanks for coming by.
He seems to be like, what is this all about.
He's waiting for the biking. Yeah, he's just waiting for
the Biking to come. We think we have a couple
of Viking players coming. We don't know. It's all subject
(08:39):
to change. We've been told it's cash and cash out.
Blake Cashman, even Prairie native probably links a couple of
blocks from here. Yeah, so he's expected and then Isaiah
Rodgers defensive back. They are expected guests when they come.
I'm not sure, maybe ten of bs time frames, but
we're expecting them to come by here a little bit
later and talking about the Bikings football. Hey, thanks for honking.
(09:01):
If you're by people honking their horn, thank you very much.
If you're in the neighborhood and you want to just
give us a little two to the horn when you
can do that. Casmine's mom honky. It could have very
well been yeah, the house, or maybe it's uh, maybe
it's the Insane Asylum, honking the horn saying we're ready
for you.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Uh. You know what the difficult part is in the past,
when we've had Viking players, the season's been going well.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Sure like last year, had we lost.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
A game by the time Toys for Tots came around,
maybe one or two. I mean, we were on a roll.
Now it's like, hey, so how was it going. You're
four and eight, one in five over your last six games,
and I just it's awkward. It is awkward, and I'm
not gonna do, you know, because you know, I know
what the answers are going to be. Ah, we all
still love each other. We're giving it everything we got.
And I'm not saying they don't love each other, not
(09:48):
giving everything, but it's got to be a little difficult.
On the drive to the stadium the Sunday playing the Commanders,
we just can't get anything going and you're just looking
at the calendar saying, I really want the season to end.
I I believe that's human nature, is it not? Or
do we not believe that? Do we think that these
guys want to give it everything they got every game
and can't wait to suit it up on something.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
When you shoot a forty eight on the front nine,
I don't want to You're not excited about the back
That's exactly yeah, and so I think that you might
not be have the complete focus you need. Yeah, that's
necessary for that back.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Then, So if you're expecting me to try to dig
deep into their psyche and their soul and find out
what they're relief, ain't going to get that here. I'm
just probably gonna ask cashman, what do you know? What? What?
What kind of toys did he like when he was
a kid for Christmas or something like that, And if
anybody can think of any good questions that are non
football related, just write him on a piece of paper
and hand them up to me, because I just I'm
(10:38):
not going to do that. Well, season's been really tough, you.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Know, I mean, I'll we'll do it.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
This is the obligatory question you have to do, right, Hey,
season has been going very well. How do you feel?
And then after that, we just want to move on
with the rest of our lives and talk a little
addis and a little adapt with the emphasis on the
last that's what we're kind of looking for here today
at Shields. What this show has a reputation and has
for years of the listenership really digging down deep and
(11:06):
being generous during the Toys for Tot's campaign. So if
you are within the sound of my voice, that means
you could even be up at Fargo for crying out
now that by the time you get here, the store
might be closed, but you can just leave it out front.
But we would love you to drop by Shields today
and bring an unwrapped toy for girls and boys also
has been we mentioned this every year.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
There are teenagers that could use something as well.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
So if you find something else like a watch or
something or something that a teenager might alike a little
bit better than you know, a what's that little block
with all the colors out them and you try to
get all the color Rubik's Cube? Right? You know, I
just don't think that you know, you're gonna want a
Rubies cube? So or what are they called lego sets?
(11:50):
I don't think a teenager wants a Lego set. So
if you they might, well they might, yeah, but if
you if you if you can find anything for a
teenage boy, or girl that's cool too, or anything for
a toy. And by the way, you don't have to
go anywhere else because they've got plenty of things to
buy here right at Shields, so you can find something
for kids. Look at there's snowboards back there, snowboards man,
(12:12):
and there's everything here. So if you find something, bring
it up, put it in the Toys for Tot's bin,
and we'd appreciate that. Let's take our first break of
the program. By the way, as you can see, all
the seats are full and there are hundreds, hundreds, hundreds
of people. Are you eating your lunch? Oh? I was drinking? Okay,
because we don't eat lunch on the air on the show.
(12:33):
Somehow other shows do it. We don't do that here.
I've got my lunch with me today too. No microwave
oven though, So because so many people want to sit
and watch the show, we're limiting everybody to one segment.
So if you just orderly get up in the movie,
because you can just see the hundreds hundred of people
that want to sit down and watch the show. So sorry,
(12:54):
but we're limited to one per customers. Let's take a break.
We'll come back. We're broadcasting live from Shields and eating Prairie.
The Toys for Tots brought to you by the Minnesota Vikings,
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Speaker 2 (13:49):
Back to Shields. It's our Toys for Toss Drive. It's
an annual thing. We've been all over town to town,
up and down the dial. We did our very first one.
I think it was at Gallions, so anybody remember Galleons.
Galleons is now Dix, but Galleons, and we did our
very first ever Toories for toat show from the Galleons
on four ninety four and thirty five, which did you
(14:10):
know is the busiest corridor in the state of Minnesota,
so it was a great spot to be. Then we
went from there to all of America and the huge rotunda,
and they loved us, and then they said, maybe we
don't like them quite as much as we thought we did.
So then they put us in was that the Sears rotunda.
Then they moved us from Sears to the other side
(14:30):
and put us in that one, and then finally they
just said, look, it's been a nice run, but it's
time to move on. So then we went over to
Fleet Farm. What did they say at Fleet Farm? Overs
theer's slogan?
Speaker 6 (14:44):
I love it, we love it. You're coming out with
a cold, aren't you. I don't know if it's cold.
I feel fine and just my voice is gone. Yeah,
I think it was from coaching eight hockey games this weekend.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Probably I'm still moving away. You're fine, I feel great.
You look good too. That there's nothing wrong? Is I
just talk? And we went to this business and now
our home away from home here is Shields. Rosen practically
lives here. No wait, that's Kowalski's He practically lives at Kowalski's,
So legendary one is going to be here a little
(15:17):
before two o'clock. How many people can't wait to see
the legendary Mark Rose and in person? Clap your hands.
Did you know that he is stronger at seventy three
than he was at forty five, That's what he actually said,
Stronger at seventy three than he was at forty five.
(15:38):
He's lying to himself, you know, you get to that age. Look,
and I'm approaching that as well. I'm about to be
sixty seven late this month, and you start saying to yourself, well,
I'm a lot closer to the end of the end
than I am at the beginning of the end. And
then you start going, am I at the beginning of
the end of the end, or I'm at the middle
of the beginning of the end of the end, or
(15:58):
I'm at the end of the beginning of the end
of the And then you know how long those end
of the ends are. And so he's trying to convince
himself he's stronger and he's not. He's just not. No,
he's not. And that's okay, because I still think he's
going to live a long life. I think he's gonna
get he's seventy three. I think he'll get to seventy five,
seventy six. I think he could get to his mid nineties.
I think he's got that in his jeans. I think
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my life goals to look like him when I'm that age. Well,
I think, yeah, well, then you got to start seeing
the fitness game. That's what you have to do. Start
right now, knows he starts to see the fitness King
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we hope. What is it with the purple? Hey, we
can talk about the quarterback situation. Sounds like we're back
to JJ McCarthy. Yeah, that sounds like we are. There's
all sorts of Viking jerseys here, plenty McCarthy. What's for
if you want them on clearance? On clearance right now?
And Van Ginkel and Jefferson Jones and Addison Hawkinson and Jefferson,
But the uniform you want most of all? What's Who's
(18:19):
the undrafted free agent? We drafted a couple of years
Max brosburg i'van paced the undrafted free agent had a
very good first year. And if you ever see him,
he seems not to be playing as much. He's on
the bench a lot more now he's on the bench
a lot more. Well, I mean there.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
Wasn't a lot of bright spots against Seattle, but Eric Wilson,
who basically has put Ivan pace on the bench.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Yeah, it was kind of one of the few guys
that flashed.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
He's had a good season, Dallas Turner and Dallas Turner
as well because he.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Was catching I don't know if he was catching so
much heat as the front office was for drafting. Remember
they they moved, didn't we trade a couple of picks
yet to fifteen? And then you know we always and
this happens in every town. I'm sure every city where
they have a draftic in the first round that doesn't
pan out to where you thought they were supposed to
first round draft picks, right They're supposed to be there.
(19:13):
There's supposed to be impact players right away. Well, let's
face a Dallas Turner hasn't been an impact player. So
then you always look at who was selected after him,
and the name that always comes up is Shared Verse
for the Rams, who's been just terrific And yeah, he's
really good.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
So but it's nice to see Turner playing a little
bit better.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
He he had a couple of did he have two
strip Sacks. I think he had two. He forced two fumbles.
One of them was recovered by the Purple. I think
it was the first turnover, and since uh nineteen twelve,
it was our very first turnover. It's been that long.
And then there was another one that I think they
got that Seattle recovered. There were still you know, so
(19:53):
the kids playing better.
Speaker 5 (19:54):
So yeah, those are the good signs because.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
And I've been having this debate with people, I think,
now when the season isn't going the way you wanted to,
and let's face, I have some stark numbers. Did I
bring these up yesterday or did I just find these today?
I think we talked about it yesterday. Where the Packers have,
like I hate even saying the word Packers, I know
it's sacrilegious, but they have eighteen players that the team
(20:18):
drafted and twelve of them are starting or something. And
the Lions are on the same boat, and so are
the Bears. And then you look at the Vikings and
it's like they've got only a handful of players selected
in the last three or four years. And of course
the guy that is catching most of the heat forward
is Quaisiadopho Mensa. The general manager, and that could be
rightly so. But I've reached out to a few football people.
I know, guys that used to play the game, and
(20:41):
I've asked them. I've said, because it's a debate that
I don't know if any of us can really get
our wrap our head around. I just don't believe that
a general manager just goes up to a head coach
and goes, here's who I'm drafting or here's who I
drafted for you. I think they you know, and we
hear it from this organization all the time on it's
a collaboration. It's a collaboration.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
So my guess is they sit and talk about things.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
So people want Quaysy's head right, he's got to go
all the None of the draft picks have panned out
except maybe I guess Turner is starting on the kicker.
The kicker worked out draft and Addison, and Addison's been
he can't catch the ball lately. He's quality. But so
those are the guys and the other ones. You know,
you think, but even Jordan's not a no, he's not
(21:25):
a game breaker, no no, but he's still you would think,
well that was okay draft pick. You know, he's playing.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
And Dothan Jackson at least this year seems confident.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
But I just think it's too simple. Everybody's looking for
the easy answer. Well, it's got to be the general anags.
Let's get rid of him and and and like, for instance,
I asked one of my football friends who played football
professionally and told me that, Well, like on the McCarthy things,
certainly that's that's that's not Cam just saying I'm gonna
draft JJ McCarthy and here he is. That's the conversation
(21:59):
with the head coach. That's not And you know, it's
maybe some of the it's more it sounds like for
for free agents, where we need to I need the coaches,
we need to help on the interior or the offensive
and defensive lines, Go get them, Tiger, and then your
general manager will go out, take a look at the
free agent list, negotiate with agents and such like that,
(22:21):
and then they will find a guy. So I think
sometimes in the free agent market there are there are
decisions that are made by the general manager that solely
on him. But when it comes to those draftics, especially
first round, trust me, it's not just the general manager.
And that's like that at at any team in the league.
So but they find themselves in a little bit of
(22:41):
a total system film configure. I guess is what I'm
trying to say. Let's do this. Let's let's take another break.
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Speaker 8 (23:12):
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Speaker 2 (23:37):
The course of Brett Lake Moore. Let's hear it for him.
He's back at studio. He was flawless on that delivery
Tenabee objects of the mirror close and to appear. Oh no, no,
not that anything with that. He did a really really
good job. He's toiling behind the scenes. We appreciate that
on the common man, Dan Cole, He's tend to be.
We're here at Shields for the annual Toys for Tot's Drive,
brought you by the Minnesota Vikings, the United States Marine Corps,
(24:00):
Unreal Apparel, and all of us here at the fan
excited and delighted to be joined by Biking's defensive back
Isaiah Rodgers.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
Isaiah, thanks for coming back. We do appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (24:09):
Thank you for having me appreciate you.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
Yeah, now, they a big round of applause.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
The first thing we have to establish right away is
I'm not your normal media guy. That's you know, kind
of out of shape, slow, doesn't understand the game. I
played football both sides of the ball. I was a
fierce pass rushing rocket Gibraltar runs, stopping defensive lineman and
a precise route running sure him had pass catching tight end.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
So I played the game, so I understand twenty two wide.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
No, you sound like an athlete, man, Well I.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Was, of course. That was back when I was in fourth, fifth,
and sixth grade. It was a long time ago with that,
I played football. How long you've been playing football since? What?
You're how old? Twenty seven? Yeah?
Speaker 9 (24:45):
I'm twenty seven. I've been playing since I was three.
Three three, yeah, Floyd, you can start playing a flag?
Speaker 7 (24:51):
What three?
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (24:52):
Soccer everything at three years?
Speaker 5 (24:53):
Why are you just crawling after each other?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Or are you actually running?
Speaker 9 (24:56):
They just let us run whichever way and just clapped
for us, and it had us all feel.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Like we were the best on the field.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
So sort of like heard soccer they called it. You
know when your kids first start soccer, they just all
follow the ball.
Speaker 9 (25:07):
There's thirty kids free for all out there. You didn't
even know who was on teams. They just wear all
on T shirts most of the time.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Were you elite at three? Are you a little bit
of a late bloomer?
Speaker 7 (25:16):
I'm still blooming, still blooming.
Speaker 9 (25:18):
Yeah, I was. I was bad. I was horrible.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Did you play other sports too?
Speaker 9 (25:22):
I was more of a baseball player growing up in track,
but football was more like a family sport, so I
stuck to that.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Yeah, well I was worked out for you. I think
baseball center field.
Speaker 9 (25:32):
No, I played picture in short stuff, Okay, I haven't.
I never played outfield, which is crazy. We can run,
Yeah back then I couldn't. Oh, okay, Yeah. I didn't
get fast until like college or what happened.
Speaker 7 (25:42):
I don't know. I was just slow, So I wasn't
very blooming.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I wasn't very good at baseball. I used to play
right field, foul territory. That's really put me going on
the field. So it's a whole nother thing in itself.
Speaker 7 (25:54):
You Mass, right, Yeah?
Speaker 5 (25:56):
Yeah, how'd you end up in?
Speaker 2 (25:57):
You? Mass? Was scholarship offer? You offer? Or did you
just want to go there? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (26:01):
It was a offer. I just wanted to get away
from Florida.
Speaker 9 (26:03):
I wanted to experience a different like a weather, everything's different,
and you Mass is one of those teams that, like
one of those schools that stood out for me.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
So I just wanted to just get away.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
And go to you go to college play ball? Were
you pretty convinced I may get drafted in the NFL?
Or were you? I don't know who knows whatever.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Nah.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
Not my freshman year, I was.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
I left college at one hundred and thirty five pounds,
so I had no chance. Yeah, But I think my
sophomore year when I started like really locking in and understanding,
I had a chance after making a few plays against
some of the top schools and then I was like,
all right, cool, let me let me lock in.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Yeah, and then got drafted by the cult coach.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
Yeah, six round twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Did they were there other teams? I mean, how does
that eat process even work? Did they go to the combine?
Were you at the combine? Did they just watch your
game and car and say, hey, we kind of like
you want to shit and chat with you and find
out what you're like and.
Speaker 9 (26:52):
Go through a few drill My year was different because
it was COVID, so we had everything on Zoom, So
I had to sit up in my living room and
backpedal and drills and stuff for coaches on zoom, study
plays through Zoom, so I never got to travel to
the facilities. How the kids are now or back then.
But it was a lot different. But throughout the draft process,
it's weird because teams call you throughout second round, third round,
(27:14):
and you think you're getting drafted, but they're just calling
the check in on you, seeing how you are being
ready for if you become undrafted, they try to come
grab you. So it's just a lot of phone calls calling.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
So as it was getting fourth round, fifth round, getting
into the shit, were you thinking, man, maybe it ain't
gonna happen for me. Well, were you pretty convinced at
that point somebody would grab you.
Speaker 9 (27:33):
I knew I was going to get in somewhere. I
didn't think I was going to get drafted. Once like
the fourth and fifth went by, I was like, all right, cool,
So I kind of just stopped watching it, but my
family was still there. Everybody was still watching it. And
then I got a call that I thought was the call,
but that was fourth round, but it was just a
check in. And at that point I kind of just like,
I don't really care anymore if like just hurry up
and get it over right.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Colch, Eagles and Vikings kind of like radio town to town,
up and down the dial. What happens in the you know,
like the Colts you played there? How did jet up
with the Eagles?
Speaker 9 (28:05):
You know? Yeah, I was, I was there three years,
made a stupid young guy decision. I was gambling helping
out a lot of people back then. Long story, but
got suspended for a year. It took a year off,
and well the Eagles signed me like two months later.
So I was signed with the Eagles while I was suspended,
and they just basically just kept me like uplifted or
(28:27):
whateverver you.
Speaker 7 (28:28):
Want to put it.
Speaker 9 (28:29):
So I just kind of just stayed working out, stayed
on the NFL type schedule, came back with them last year,
and then went into free agency and you know, ended
up here.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
You played for him last year.
Speaker 9 (28:39):
Yeah, I played for him last ye where's your ring?
It's a little stash stashed up, but I haven't I
haven't looked at it in a while.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
Yeah, but that's cool because you know a lot of guys,
you know, obviously played for a career for money and
for a ring, and to get one at early in
your career is kind of nice to get that out
of the way.
Speaker 6 (28:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (28:57):
I got it out the way.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah. Yeah, I feel like if I'm a home here
in Minnesota, like I actually do.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
I like being in different sceneries than Florida.
Speaker 9 (29:05):
Being from Florida to the hot climbing and there's a
lot of things to do. I think in Minnesota's perfect
for me and for my family, and it's like really
like nothing too much to do with the weather and everything.
Speaker 7 (29:14):
So I actually love it here big.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
This season just hasn't gone the way the team is
wanted offensive even defensively, you couldn't stop the runn early.
Defense playing better now, having trouble to the quarterback if you're
not scoring any points, could shut out. Uh, difficult to
go to the complex every day with a positive attitude
or not.
Speaker 9 (29:32):
Now, I won't to say it's difficult. I think end
of the day, win, lose, draw, whatever, we all still
have a job to do. Like, you got to look
you gotta look past those games. Those games do hurt,
especially when we just have this weekend. But you understand,
like once you get on the plane and you get
back home, you gotta reset, You go back to your families,
reset and get ready to come in and watch it
next week. So we just got to focus on on
the commanders right now.
Speaker 6 (29:52):
I'm guessing for you specifically too. Right just from listening
to you, it sounds like there's always been a little
bit of uncertainty in your future, right, Like you're small
out of high school, you weren't. Yeah, right, you're drafted lates,
which you always have to keep working for your spot,
right Like, and to find yourself in this role, I
have to imagine, like you're you're you're still playing for
your future.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Right Like.
Speaker 6 (30:13):
I think you're pretty you're satisfied with your season and
how it's going. But I'm guessing just that mentality is
probably different with you than maybe some others.
Speaker 9 (30:20):
Yeah, Like, like you mentioned, I've I done had the
doubts of all the doubts from coaches, from teammates, thinking
I wouldn't be the guy to go to the lead,
and I kind of more so just switched over a
new leaf into my life and more so instead of
trying to prove all the doubters wrong, you know, I
just kind of approve a lot of people who believe me.
I like to prove those people right. So I kind
of just focused on the positivity of my life.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
That's good attitude. Yeah, trying the people that don't believe
in you and just make the people.
Speaker 9 (30:44):
Yeah, it's all about of people who believe me. That's
the only thing that matters right now.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Yeah, I think believed in you.
Speaker 7 (30:49):
Yeah, Yeah, that's my guy. That's my guy.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (30:52):
To be honest with you, like as a Vikings fan,
like when you signed on day one or Fridgy, I
think most of us were like, who is this guy?
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Right?
Speaker 6 (30:57):
And we weren't expecting when that sign that you'd be
like the starting cornerback, like there was more moves to come.
They clearly saw something new and believed in you, and
I think you've kind of proven them right as the
season's gone along.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
I'm just just trying to keep going and just trying
to continue to stack the days and I just want
to go out there and make more plays and you know,
make the state of Minnesota, you know, proud and and
you know kind of don't look back and say, oh,
that was one of those signs where I cool, he's gone.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
You know.
Speaker 7 (31:20):
So I want to be that guy that just continue
to keep going to be here for a long time.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Our guests here at Shields as I say, Rogers defensive
back for the Minnesota Vikings. Where or toys for tents drive?
So you've played for three different defensive coordinators and right colts,
Eagles and Vikings. How did they different? We are getting
too specific, I mean do they all have different approaches?
Is it all kind of the same with just tweaks
or does is every guy? Is every system? Like? Are
(31:44):
those three systems significantly different from one another?
Speaker 9 (31:49):
With the Coast, I had three years two different defensive coordinators,
so that was difficult in itself, And then with my
rookie year being COVID, we were home a lot learning
throughout the through zoom, so it was a lot difficult,
not actually in the building learning hands on. But I
probably have four defensive coordinators I've been leading. Everyone's different.
Everyone has different mindset, different philosophies on why you're going
to do it this way, and a lot of a
(32:10):
lot of teams in the league have the same terms,
but it's a whole different analogy. So you got to
throw away what you learn for the past three years
and come into a new system and have to just
adapt to it.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
B Flow likes to say he is he has approached
your defense is being aggressive without being reckless. That the
best way to describe it.
Speaker 9 (32:26):
Yeah, he's one of those type of guys and just
not really he's real focused on not looking at the scoreboard,
whether we're up thirty three zero, whether we're down thirty
two zero. He don't look at the scoreboard. He just
likes to keep applying pressure and keep going.
Speaker 6 (32:39):
I was gonna say, is that challenging mentally psychologically? A
game like last game right where you defense is balling
out because they're playing great and the offense just isn't.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Really giving you much to turn the ball over?
Speaker 6 (32:51):
Is that hard in the middle of the game to
feel like you're you're side of the balls constantly like
going uphill here, and how do you like, how do
you maintain that focus and competitiveness. Well, that's occurring when
you're not getting help from the other side of the ball.
Speaker 7 (33:03):
I think that's the best part of football.
Speaker 9 (33:04):
Would have been a competitive sports, complimentary football, like we
need the offense, they need us, we need special teams.
So in the end we see their defense and making
those type of plays, so we aren't going out there
like offense isn't doing this, they're not doing that, Like
we're like, all right, cool, they did this, now let's
go do it. Let's do it too. We could be
better than them. So really it turns to the defense
versus defense type of game. So that's more about mindsets,
just trying to be better than.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
Them defense played.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
I know it was twenty six points. Now six of
it was what was the pick six? That's a really
good Seattle offense. Donald's got them Homme in there playing
really well. You guys. Donald had pedestrian numbers. He's been
talked about as possible MVP candidate this year. Yeah, he
completed maybe a little over fifty percent of it and
only a couple hundred yards. No, you know, you had
no interception, no touchdowns. What did you do against Seattle
(33:52):
that other teams weren't able to do that?
Speaker 7 (33:55):
Shout out to Flores.
Speaker 9 (33:56):
That's Flora's mindset, and just all the guys on the
field just buying in, trusting the process and knowing we
left a lot of players out there, like, yeah, we
had the sacks by Dallas Turner and the fumbles and
things like that, but you know, we just don't want
those one to turn those into touchdowns as well.
Speaker 7 (34:09):
So we just got to keep stacking days and keep going.
Speaker 6 (34:11):
I apologize it to not watch the All eleven. So
I don't know how many times are you lined up
with Jackson Smith and Jigbuf Did you get to see
him at all? Because he clearly is the best season
of all the receivers, and you guys shut him down
pretty good.
Speaker 9 (34:25):
I was, I was lined up a lot of a lot,
but it was more like running place. I think a
few times I had a different routes, but you had
Eric Wilson and Blake Cashman getting to the backfield Dallas Turner,
so Sam didn't have the chance to throw it to him.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Yeah. Uh so now you're you're four and eight, have
to run the table even then, you know, with the
NFC stack this year, yeah, I think right now they
the last playoff team and it's still like what nine
and eight and three, eight and four?
Speaker 7 (34:54):
Yeah, I think everyone's over like six.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, so it's tough. So it's just like you say,
you know, taking a game at a time and such
like that. Are you looking at personal goals as well
then too, because like tan to be asked you earlier,
it's like you know, you're you're, you're you're playing for
career too.
Speaker 7 (35:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (35:11):
No, I think at the end of the day, is
still a team sport. I think we all, like I say,
we all still have a job at end of the day.
So if you go out there like all right, this
is our record, this is their record, it doesn't really
matter another day. If you feel like that, you go
out there and just don't do what you need to do,
you probably won't be here next year and any that
goes to your career. So I think you just got
to lock in and focusing on completing the team tests.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
All right, very controversial question.
Speaker 6 (35:33):
Is cornerback the most challenging position in all of sports?
Speaker 7 (35:37):
All of sports? No?
Speaker 2 (35:41):
No, what's more challenging? I don't know.
Speaker 7 (35:44):
Probably like a goalie is hard.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Yeah, you're like goalies, You're sitting like a little four
foot radius the whole time. You gotta run backwards against
the best athletes in the world.
Speaker 9 (35:53):
Yeah, I think it's the hardest, probably the hardest position
in football, But it's sports all the sports that I
don't know, that's kind of hard because it's a lot
of sports out there with a lot of conflicts to
it that that as football players, we probably don't think
is that hard to do just by looking, but when
you actually get out there and try, it's definitely hard.
Speaker 8 (36:09):
All right.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
I got another position question. How often are you no
flag is thrown and you know you've you've been a
past interference that happened a lot.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
That's crazy this sound.
Speaker 9 (36:22):
I only had like three flags in my career, so
I don't get a lot of flags. I really don't
want flags. I don't want to be like let the
team down things like that. But I haven't had any
this year, you know, so amazing. Yeah, I'm not the
guy that like, if I get a flag, I'm like,
that wasn't me. So like you kind of know when
you do it, sometimes you just got to take it.
Speaker 2 (36:40):
But yeah, wait, because to me, that would be the
most frustrating part of that position is because I'm sure
because they'll show the replay on you know, I'm sitting
on the college watching on TV. Pass interference is called.
They show four different angles and go, that wasn't passing interference.
You got the guys on it, you know, on the TV,
the former players going that wasn't p I don't what
they're doing that. I think it's a player. You're like, well,
wait a minute. When it does happen to your teammates
(37:03):
or anybody else, it's got to be frustrated when you
know it wasn't. Especially some of these calls changed the
entire outcome of the game.
Speaker 9 (37:09):
I think that's the scary part. But end of the day,
we kind of understand that defensive player. It's the offensive world.
And I think, like you know, fans watch the game
for the offense. That's where the points are getting, you know,
produced as that's where the money is. So you know
they're going to try to give leeway to the offense.
So we kind of know the defensive players like they're
going to lean towards the offense.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah, who do you think is uh other thing? Guys
in your team? Who do you think the best wide
out is in Pro football? Now? I go.
Speaker 9 (37:39):
Pooka Nicour or Jackson? Really yeah, Jackson over Seattle. His
numbers are showing it. But like you say, other than
guys on our team, you know, I still think Jets
and the A J. Browns are those type of guys.
But as of now, like I like Pooka and DeVante Adams.
Speaker 6 (37:52):
What's good about Puka because you know, obviously he was
slept on in the draft.
Speaker 2 (37:55):
You can go very high.
Speaker 9 (37:57):
I played it a few times, very physical. He's actually
been you know, people think and and he's just strong
and he.
Speaker 7 (38:03):
Could sell anywere oute.
Speaker 9 (38:04):
He can make it like he's blocking and he has
he has a quarterback over there who trusts him to
have a great you know, collective over there as an
oc everything all over there. So I think, basically pok
this whole entire scheme, like he's just he's a pretty
good in s game.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
Here's the guy. I want to ask you about it.
I saw an interesting statistic here and I saved it.
Let me grab it here real quick, ten of me,
you tap dance first, find this.
Speaker 6 (38:25):
Well, he waits for that question. I was just gonna
ask you. When you were signed, part of your skill
set that we thought was, hey, this guy's can return puns,
return kicks for us, and you're really having doing that,
which is a compliment to you. Because you're so valuable
as a cornerback, they don't want to put you in
that position. But do you miss out being a part
of the return game. He still occasionally say hey, let
me let me get out there. Yeah, I definitely, I
definitely do miss it. I end up watching it a
(38:46):
lot when I see a Miles Price go back there.
But you know, just watching the young guy, I was
in his shoes before being that rookie. You know that
was like your job and a roll on the team.
But it's definitely something I do missed.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
So I was born in Detroit, so I'm a Lions fan,
also Vikings fan because I lived most of my life,
so I follow the lines pretty closely. I saw this,
this piece talking about wide receivers. This I found this
this morning on a CBS sports piece. It says, according
to CBS Sports Research, the Lions ranked number one in
yards per play with Saint Brown on the field since
he began his NFL career in twenty twenty one, and
(39:18):
their number twenty five when he's not on the field.
To me, that's an astonishing statistic. I'll read that against us,
they ranked number one in yards per play when he's
on the field since he started his career in twenty
twenty one. He's number twenty and their number twenty five
with him off the field. Detroit alson ranks number two
in offensive efficiency was Sam Brown in the field number
(39:38):
sixteen When he's on the sideline, his five hundred and
five receptions ranked second all time in a player's first
five seasons. So, you know, we talk about the Mosses,
we talk about you know, you know, Jets and Ready, so,
but Saint Brown seems to have quite the impact. You
played against them, how.
Speaker 9 (39:58):
Good is he He's similar to the Puka conversation, Like in
that scheme, he's going to get the ball, like we knew,
go into the game. They're gonna you know, he's averaging
probably ten targets a game. Those is those games that
you gotta go into the game. No, he's gonna They're
going to find a way to get him the ball.
Like you said, the stats proven to hisself. So I
think it's like that with you pay him thirty plus
million dollars with the issue you're throwing the ball as well.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
So yeah, good luck the rest of the season. Thank you, Yeah,
and thanks for joining us. We appreciate it. Thank youty.
Nice to talk to you. Let's here at for Isaiah Rodgers,
defensive back for the Minnesota Vikings. They play Washington this
week and must take a break. We'll come back with more.
We're broadcasting live from Shields. It's our Toys for Toss Drive,
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