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Vikings Analysis, Sir Picasso's Insights, and Future Strategies Against Dallas · Scene Projects Sports Network

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  Welcome to the pregame show.
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  Welcome in Vikings fans, the Vikings uncensored.
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  I am your host Bubba Starts.
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  Coach Cody will be with us a little bit later.
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  The man is a working man.
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  But my good friend Big B decided to join the show tonight.
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  Appreciate you, brother.
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  Welcome to the show.
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  Hey.
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  I'm glad they got the invite again.
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  So, you know, hey.
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  We can talk a little positivity this week with Viking football.
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  I mean, it was a weird week all around, I think, for week 15.
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  Oh my goodness.
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  So I had the opportunity to jump on the Purple Daily podcast with the Vikings vent line.
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  And when they let
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  you job. Back
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  Back Thank
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  you.
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  Thank you.
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  So when they let you back stage in the StreamYard, you just see the comments as they
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  see them.
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  Mhmm.
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  And it was wild, man.
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  I had to say something about it.
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  It's just back and forth.
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  They're talking smack on the guest backstage.
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  It was great, man.
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  It was a good time.
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  You know what?
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  It was so nice just to watch the team play well, and everybody's gonna talk.
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  Oh, it's a bad team.
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  Washington sucks.
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  Who cares, man?
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  Like, the Vikings went out.
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  They did their job for the first time in a month and a half or more.
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  Right?
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  They showed up.
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  They looked good.
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  JJ played well.
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  The running game got going.
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  I think KOC called a good game.
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  Like, there was so many positive things to take away, and yet there was so much hate from the
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  fan base.
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  It's just like, you guys don't you guys don't deserve to win, some of you.
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  Well, the thing is is, you know, watching you guys do the pregame and, of course, I was
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  chatting along while I was at work.
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  It almost sounded like KLC and everybody was listening to you guys' show reading my comments
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  because they I mean, KLC came out after the game and said, yeah.
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  We had to stick it to him right away.
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  We won the coin toss.
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  We took the ball.
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  We wanted to knock him out right away.
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  You know?
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  And that's what they did.
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  I mean, you know and I comment that I was gonna watch the offensive line.
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  Offensive line played great.
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  Gave JJ some time, gave some openings to the running game.
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  Now going into Dallas, let's keep it going.
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  Let's get Jefferson.
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  I mean, that's that's the missing point right now is now we need to find a way to get
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  Jefferson involved.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, let's hey.
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  Hey.
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  There must be food on the table somewhere.
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  Coach just showed up.
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  Uh-oh.
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  Get our cohost, coach Cody Home Doll.
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  Cody, what'd you think of the game on Sunday, brother?
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  Finally.
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  Not not even just a w.
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  Not even just a, you know, a touchdown instead of a field goal, but we got a shutout.
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  I mean, that's gotta be something right there.
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  Going from being shutout to, putting out a shutout, like, man, I'm I'm happy.
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  You know?
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  Also, it's not bad that we could win that game and have it not affect our draft, position.
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  I don't know if you guys covered that.
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  If you did, my bad.
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  No.
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  I I just got here, Cody.
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  I just got back, so we were just opening it up.
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  And most of our comments have been on the comments from Vikings fans.
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  And, I mean and I said it on the the Purple Daily Vikings vent line when I was on there.
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  Like, I don't think it's right to root for your team to lose.
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  I think you can be like, it softens the blow maybe.
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  If you're like, oh, alright.
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  We get a little bit better pick.
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  But you're in this range, like, five to 12, who kinda who gives a shit?
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  Right?
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  Like Mhmm.
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  That that range doesn't matter.
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  If you were, like, between the fifth and the first, then you're kinda like, why didn't you
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  lose that game?
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  But you're out of quarterback range regardless at this point.
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  Right?
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  You're out of that top tier quarterbacks, which is not gonna be a good quarterback year anyway.
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  So it it really doesn't matter.
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  Do you maybe miss out on a Jeremiah Love?
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  This team is probably not gonna take a running back anyway, so it doesn't make a difference.
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  What matters, though, is your young quarterback's development, and I think we saw a
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  step in the right direction.
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  Mhmm.
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  Absolutely.
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  Night and day difference.
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  You know?
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  I think he, he being JJ McCarthy kinda took a step back, you know, was humbled, greatly and,
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  you know, just went out there and instead of trying to do all these, fancy plays or, you
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  know, just trying to wow us or anything like that, He just played within himself, and, you
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  know, the results were complete night and day.
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  I'll take that a 100%.
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  Yeah, B.
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  And, I mean, the kid's got a rocket of an arm.
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  The way he can sling it from the opposite hash on those deep outs, I mean, that's a 45 yard
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  throw that he is putting on a rope.
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  Right?
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  So the arm talent obviously is there.
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  I think, you know, when you get a kid like this that I think he's got good instincts.
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  But when you make a kid like that think about, oh, where are my feet?
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  Oh, he's counting his steps.
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  Always think.
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  Like, he's thinking that's the half second or more that he was taking on some of these, you
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  know, as they're clocking him.
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  Right?
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  I think they said his release was two and a half seconds average this week.
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  That's the ball's coming out quick.
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  And instead of me and I'm usually the one behind the team going, rip it.
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  Rip it.
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  Rip it.
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  He was actually throwing it when I was when it was coming out of my mouth the first time, not
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  the fourth time.
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  Right?
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  And it felt like he was seeing the field a little bit better.
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  Now does that happen more because you have a, you know, I don't wanna say inferior, but you
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  have a a not as good of a defense as some of them that you face.
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  Right?
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  There's a big difference, I think, in having watched the packers bears game.
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  There's a big difference between that Green Bay defense and the Washington redskins.
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  Right?
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  You don't have pressure in your face at two seconds, and I think that makes a big
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  difference.
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  But also when you're running the ball, now you have defensive linemen that are maybe thinking
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  a half a second about containment that are like, everything builds off the running game,
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  and that's what was nice to see this week.
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  I think more than anything was a commitment to running the football.
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  I do the first quarter was crazy.
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  Were there two possessions?
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  One possession for each team in the first quarter?
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  That was crazy.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, I mean, it didn't what did we do?
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  Like, a 14 play drive or something like that?
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  Yeah.
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  Well, think the first one was 12.
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  The first scoring drive was pretty long.
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  And then the one later in the game was a 19 play twelve minute drive or something.
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  Like, breaking records for holding the ball and running time off the clock.
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  Yeah.
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  So our first our first drive was seven plays, 61 yards, and then and then Washington went
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  down 15 plays for 83 yards, and then we got the ball back.
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  And then there was a 19 play, 98 yard for that second touchdown.
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  So And then we just switched it.
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  Then we did a couple punt or they did a couple punts.
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  We punted at the half.
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  So
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  Yeah.
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  It was wild compared to, like, the 14 possessions, it feels like in the first half
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  the last few weeks because we're getting the ball three and out, kicking it back to him.
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  Defense holds, and it's right back.
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  Well and even if, you know, Washington's defense isn't, you know, as good as the Packers
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  or the Bears, that's what we needed from our offense against the defense like that.
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  Just show us that you could do it.
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  You know?
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  That was a that was a get me right game.
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  You know what I'm saying?
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  And, you know, the just running the ball and taking time off that clock, giving that defense
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  some time to breathe.
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  You know?
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  It's a night it's a night and day difference when the defense has an extra set of downs.
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  You know?
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  It's crazy.
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  Absolutely crazy.
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  But, you know, it would I just that was a really, really nice game from JJ, you know,
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  with no turnovers.
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  That was huge too.
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  I wanted to see no turnovers.
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  Yeah.
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  You know, just seeing the growth.
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  That, you know, that cannon of a arm that he's got, you know, on the out routes from the
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  opposite hash like you had mentioned, that seem, that seem to Oliver for his first
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  touchdown.
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  Just a bullet had to be right there.
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  The only thing I wanna see from him now is just working on that ball placement.
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  That deep ball to Jefferson, I I tuned in just when you were saying get the ball to Jefferson.
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  That deep ball, I mean, yeah, Jefferson, okay.
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  Oh, boy.
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  You pushed off.
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  He's gotta be more accurate down down through.
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  Yeah.
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  That's gotta be on the outside and but I love the fact that he's taking that shot.
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  Well and that's a crazy thing to ask someone that didn't do a lot of that in college.
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  Like, it's a it's a different throw, Cody, and I know you're a defensive coach for the most
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  part.
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  But to kinda throw that ball more up, right, and to let it fall into your receiver rather
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  than trying to throw it in there on a line, I mean, that stuff takes time.
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  And and we touched on it a little bit last week, and over the course of it, it's like
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  after the MCL injury, I don't know how much time JJ had to work on the little things.
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  He was just getting his body back right last offseason.
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  So he didn't necessarily have this entire offseason to work on the nuances of the NFL
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  quarterback game.
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  And and that's why it was really sad to see so many fans just kinda, like, throw him to the
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  side.
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  No.
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  He's a bust.
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  He doesn't have it.
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  It's like, man, this kid is thrown, I think, less than a thousand passing attempts between
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  his college and NFL career.
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  So far, this is something I saw today.
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  It's like, man, let this because the arm talent and I think that's why you draft him tenth
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  overall.
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  It's the accuracy and those certain things are why he doesn't go higher, but you're willing to
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  risk that top 10 pick because of the cannon attached to his right shoulder.
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  Right?
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  And you're banking on, we can teach him to feather those throws, to layer that over a
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  linebacker and in front of a safety, and and to be able to kinda throw that ball up.
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  Great example of it is the way Jordan Love throws the ball in Green Bay.
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  If you watch that Sunday night game where he's just throwing it up there.
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  Right?
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  You throw it up there.
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  Let your receiver make a play on it.
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  Give them an opportunity to jump underneath of that ball, and and that comes with time.
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  Right?
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  Like, that comes with reps and being able to do that.
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  And and I think I think JJ can get there.
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  Right?
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  And and I don't I'm not giving up on him.
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  I think this team is obviously better.
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  If you're not I heard Judd throwing around, like, they might go after Matthew Stafford.
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  They might make a play on that.
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  And I'm just not about leveraging the future and spending a ton of money to maybe get a year
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  or two, if you're lucky, of that top tier older quarterback, right, or a Rogers or whatever
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  kind of retread.
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  I think you're better off just taking your time with this kid.
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  You go through some lumps maybe next year and then see what you got.
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  I I mean, I I that that's my take on it.
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  You let this kid develop a little bit over the offseason and see what you got there because I
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  think this team proved it that it's kinda built to run the ball.
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  Right?
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  Like, they looked good running that power game.
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  Yeah.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I mean I
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  mean, was obvious that JJ wasn't able to get any practice throwing that ball, trying to work
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  on the little things.
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  He he was just trying to get himself right.
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  There's no way that without any legs, you know, you can't throw that ball, especially with
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  touch.
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  But it's gonna take some time.
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  The only reason why everyone was so against him so quick and ready to, you you know, come at
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  them with a pitchfork is because of the high expectations that we had.
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  But now, you know, everybody's kinda been brought back down to earth and, you know, we
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  realize, hey, this is gonna be, you know, there's gonna be some ups and downs.
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  We gotta stick with them, though.
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  The running game, you know, it's amazing what happens when you run the ball.
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  Ain't that crazy?
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  You know, it's just night and day difference.
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  I mean, I'm looking at this.
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  Aaron Jones, 14 carries for 76 yards.
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  So right there, he's already above pace to hit that 20, carry 100 yard mark.
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  I mean, that that right there makes me happy that he got over 10 carries.
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  That he'll got over five.
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  You know?
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  Wearing the Kevin O'Connell costume on the side?
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  Like, who who was that play caller?
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  Right?
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  I didn't think he had it in him.
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  To be perfectly honest, I know we talked at length about it.
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  B, I don't know how you feel, but I I didn't think we were gonna see it from him.
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  I didn't think I was gonna see the commitment.
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  I've you know, like, you know, you gotta tie in the pregame, and I even commented.
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  It's just one of those things where you just don't know what team's coming out, and, you
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  know, you we stressed that it had to be the rug game.
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  I mean, Jordan Mason also had 11 carries.
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  And I think I saw somebody post on one of my Facebook pages groups that when the Vikings
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  give Mason 10 plus carries, they're, like, five and one or something like that or or something
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  ridiculous that they're this is like, you know, stats don't lie.
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  I mean, you know, they can, but, you know, we're built to run.
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  I mean, they should be running this ball all the time.
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  And, again, you know, it all depends on that offensive line and, you know, that group played
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  great this past week.
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  Yeah.
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  That offensive line, I mean, we see what we can do when they're healthy.
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  You know, we see just looking at the numbers from j
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  j
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  McCarthy, his passing, you know, 16 for 23, 163 yards.
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  I'm not even gonna lie.
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  I didn't even think he was gonna bust one twenty five.
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  And then for the three touchdowns, who had Josh Oliver getting two touchdowns on their bingo
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  card?
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  You know?
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  And that's what's wildest because the kid loved his tight end target.
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  Right?
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  I mean, he got Colston Loveland drafted in the first round because of it.
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  Right?
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  True.
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  You know, there so it was obvious and talked about it a lot that, like, we knew that about
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  the kid, but it was marrying the philosophy of the coach with what actually worked for the
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  team.
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  And I think we saw more development out of KOC as a head coach and a play caller in the last
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  two weeks than we have even out of your young quarterback.
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  I think JJ's proven that he can play this game.
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  If you're gonna ask him to throw 15 to twenty, twenty five times, he can accomplish those
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  goals.
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  If you're gonna ask the kid to drop back 45 times and you're gonna ask the line to drop
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  back 45 times.
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  Right?
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  And I think that's a big part of it too is that this line isn't built to play that kind of
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  offense either, especially when you're shuffling the deck every week.
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  You know?
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  Who's playing where?
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  You know?
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  Where's Blake Brandle gonna be this week?
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  Yeah.
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  It's hard to do.
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  Oh, we got another special guest tapping in too.
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  We're gonna bring in Sir Picasso, get his take.
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  He just had a cool day yesterday.
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  I'm gonna let him tell you all about it.
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  What is up, my brother, Marcus, aka Sir Picasso, aka Darth Viking, aka Painting Away,
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  the man of many names.
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  Let's go.
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  Man, that felt good.
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  Man, there's a few of let me tell you what feels good.
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  The last few days, it felt great.
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  How are you?
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  How are you guys doing?
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  Doing good.
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  We're all good.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  We, we got to go down and deliver, custom one of a kind, three deep portrait, to Jake Reed.
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  So you guys check out Jake Reed's page.
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  Make sure you follow.
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  There's so many, so many cool things coming.
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  These canvases are gonna be turned into t shirts, posters that you can get directly
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  signed from Jake Reed.
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  These are one of a kind type three deep comic book cover.
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  Right?
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  So not to mention it's all done with spray paint.
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  Like, it's it's so dope.
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  And then today, getting out of the phone with Paul Krausz, like, things are just like we're
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  you know?
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  And Ted, Ted Small.
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  So, you know, we got some we got some big things coming, guys.
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  This is gonna be dope.
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  Yeah.
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  I love when you step into a different circle.
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  Right?
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  Like, you start hanging out with a different caliber of person, and and then it starts
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  happening more and more.
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  And, eventually, that's just like that's your circle now.
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  Right?
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  You're you're out of the circle that's full of drama and BS, and you're into a circle that's
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  nothing but high level individuals that accomplished a lot in in the greatest game.
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  And it's pretty cool to see you.
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  Now I'm just experiencing it vicariously, you know, being friends and a big follower of you.
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  But, man, it's gotta be I mean, Aaron Jones last week and his family and this week with
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  Jake Reed and and everything you've been experiencing.
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  It's just and that's all from your art.
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  Right?
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  And you being a really awesome human being.
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  Right?
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  I mean, that yeah.
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  Look at that, baby.
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  Yeah.
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  That's dope.
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  My spray paint?
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  100% rattle cans.
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  Wow.
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  So I tell people, if you if you have a picture of it, I can paint it.
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  Wow.
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  I can take I can take you to my room.
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  I think I got a little bit of laundry on the bed, so I'll try not to Well, we're we're we're
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  getting ready to go to Dallas on Thursday, so we got a lot of, like, stuff getting ready for
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  for that aspect.
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  Well, I'm definitely gonna follow you because I I love when people I I'm not an artist.
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  I can't draw a stick figure.
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  So Well, like I said,
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  I I go by sir Picasso.
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  My dad used to say he would draw a broken leg on a stick person.
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  Yeah.
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  Here's a Justin Jefferson in a Picasso format.
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  It's all spray painted on canvas.
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  God.
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  That looks like the stained glass, though.
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  Well, that's crazy.
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  Kinda look like yeah.
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  And then we dude, I got like I said, I can paint anything.
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  We got tigers.
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  I got incredible help.
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  On screen.
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  I'm a throw up.
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  So this is the one that he did.
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  They auctioned off with Aaron Jones.
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  Aaron Jones, Showtime.
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  God.
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  I would have never guessed that was painted by I mean, that just looks so lifelike.
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  Yeah.
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  Appreciate that.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  You're you're ridiculous, man.
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  This was in every way.
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  Kind of a fan favorite.
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  Oh, there you go.
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  Nuts.
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  But yeah.
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  But I was sitting there, and I had two people literally at the tailgate lot that just started
• 22:25
  following me.
• 22:26
  And they're like, oh my god.
• 22:27
  The Ninja Turtles.
• 22:28
  I'm like, bro, I got them for sale right now.
• 22:30
  Yeah.
• 22:31
  Because I need
• 22:31
  to I need to get this inventory out of my way so I can hang up some of the other stuff that I
• 22:36
  you know, I know that you've seen this one last we talked about this the last time.
• 22:39
  Uh-huh.
• 22:40
  It's a two foot by three foot Jordan Edison.
• 22:42
  This is the biggest autograph he's ever done over 12 inches.
• 22:46
  Might be the only autograph he signed in this season.
• 22:49
  No.
• 22:49
  That's alright.
• 22:50
  That's what I said.
• 22:50
  It's a one of a kind.
• 22:52
  Man, I really was hoping he'd get the ball a little bit more.
• 22:55
  Yeah.
• 22:56
  Yeah.
• 22:56
  It would have increased the value of that painting.
• 22:58
  He's also gonna catch the ball too.
• 23:00
  Oh, man.
• 23:01
  I understand.
• 23:03
  Ugh.
• 23:03
  If we got any boxing fans, this is a one of a kind, and Mike Tyson owns the other one.
• 23:08
  Man, you know what?
• 23:09
  Marcus, this we're gonna run a show one day where we just live auction this stuff off for
• 23:14
  charity.
• 23:15
  We're gonna fair enough
• 23:16
  to do
• 23:16
  that.
• 23:16
  After the season's over, we'll we'll just go live until it's all gone.
• 23:21
  And thought of it, like, just kinda, like, well, not auctioning up, but, like, you do
• 23:25
  razzes.
• 23:25
  So you do, okay.
• 23:26
  For this one, we're gonna do 10 spots at $40 apiece or $10 apiece.
• 23:30
  And
• 23:30
  Yeah.
• 23:31
  You already know.
• 23:32
  Win them way cheap.
• 23:33
  Hell yeah.
• 23:34
  Yeah.
• 23:34
  You already know, man.
• 23:35
  That'd be cool.
• 23:36
  100 cool.
• 23:37
  So awesome, man.
• 23:39
  So awesome.
• 23:40
  That's why I that's why I had to do this show.
• 23:42
  I had the vision for this show when we came up to the whiteout game last year, and we saw
• 23:48
  everybody.
• 23:48
  It was really our first time meeting the VWO.
• 23:51
  We've been to a couple of games, but we went to the tailgate beforehand, got to meet a lot of
• 23:55
  people, you know, got to meet you and Shelley, your beautiful wife, Lady Persia, and to really
• 24:02
  hear what y'all were about.
• 24:04
  Right?
• 24:04
  And it was all about using this you know, being part of the show for one to bring something
• 24:10
  extra for the fans, but then using that platform to do good in the world.
• 24:15
  Right?
• 24:15
  Whether it's donating money to charity or showing up at this or that event And now to see
• 24:21
  how that's just been amplified over the last twelve months, man, it's been absolutely
• 24:26
  incredible to watch, and I'm glad that we get to come together weekly and do this.
• 24:30
  I know you're live on your page all the time anyway, so this is nothing new to you.
• 24:33
  But, yeah, it's nice to see it working and to be able to see where it goes from here is gonna
• 24:38
  be a blessing, man, for sure.
• 24:40
  Everything everything has been great down to, like, you know, like you said, with the
• 24:43
  charities.
• 24:44
  So as super fans, and I do dress up as Darth Vader, Darth Viking.
• 24:49
  So this is, stickers that I hand out to kids.
• 24:52
  And, basically, if you get a picture with me at the game, then I give you a sticker.
• 24:56
  You know?
• 24:57
  But we actually turned into these stickers and things are just fun for us into charitable
• 25:02
  causes.
• 25:03
  So, like, that we run quick plug.
• 25:05
  A good buddy of mine, his son is 24 years old.
• 25:09
  He's had three brain surgeries already.
• 25:11
  They just had to take the swelling out because he had an infection.
• 25:15
  And so they he was in the hospital for, like, the last month.
• 25:17
  He's not doing too hot.
• 25:19
  But the whole sub, he's he did get a speech back now.
• 25:22
  So I was doing so we got a bulk of stickers, and we do $5 a sticker.
• 25:27
  You know what I mean?
• 25:28
  And then I I literally I went out and I bought all these personal thank you cards, and I
• 25:32
  handwrite a a personal message in every single one when I when I ship out your stickers.
• 25:38
  Because it you know, when you do things like this for even people you don't even know, bro,
• 25:42
  like, you do to you as you know, what's $5?
• 25:44
  You get a cool little sticker.
• 25:46
  Right?
• 25:47
  But your $5, his $5, his $5, your $5, that stuff all adds up, and it makes a world of
• 25:52
  difference to a family who's in trouble and especially witness the season, you know, of
• 25:58
  giving.
• 25:58
  You know what mean?
• 25:59
  Like, just being there for other people, being a good human being, helping people out.
• 26:03
  Like you said, it's a it's not even about the whole, like you know, everybody's gonna have
• 26:07
  some drama.
• 26:07
  Right?
• 26:08
  But one of my close buddies, Eric, he's, like, in New Jersey, sir, club crazy.
• 26:12
  He he said a couple years back, he goes, bro, he goes, show me your friends.
• 26:16
  I'll show you your future.
• 26:18
  So, like, when you really put into perspective, like, if all you guys they and it's not that
• 26:24
  against drinking and having fun.
• 26:26
  I know a lot of people like to do that.
• 26:27
  But listen.
• 26:27
  If that's all I'm doing on the weekends, bro, like, I'm not progressing.
• 26:31
  I'm not bettering myself.
• 26:32
  I'm not you know what I mean?
• 26:34
  And since I've actually took a step back and we really started focusing on, my art as a
• 26:40
  business as opposed to something I love to do.
• 26:44
  You know, they say if you love to do, you never work a day in your life, but it's still work.
• 26:48
  It's just it's fun work.
• 26:51
  Whether I'm an artist, whether you work construction, whether you do a podcast, bro,
• 26:55
  like, it's all work.
• 26:57
  But it's just whether or not you love to do it.
• 27:00
  Mhmm.
• 27:01
  And that's all and now we're able to do like I said, we're able to do it to help other people.
• 27:05
  I I auction a lot of canvases off throughout the year.
• 27:08
  I probably donate maybe 20.
• 27:10
  If I had to guess, I'd say around 20 canvases a year.
• 27:14
  So
• 27:15
  Right.
• 27:15
  I mean, that's that's an easy 10 k in value, probably upwards of 20 at the end of the day.
• 27:24
  Depends on the canvas for sure.
• 27:25
  Yeah.
• 27:26
  Right.
• 27:26
  Yeah.
• 27:27
  I mean, the sum of one one could go for 20.
• 27:29
  You never know when you get into these auctions, especially for charity.
• 27:33
  But
• 27:33
  Well, we just wrapped up one offer, Nick Lavery.
• 27:36
  Yeah.
• 27:36
  Nick Lavery is a United States Army Ranger.
• 27:42
  He's actually the only serviceman in US history to complete tactical and technical special
• 27:52
  forces training with an above the knee amputee.
• 27:56
  So I painted a portrait of him.
• 27:58
  We went down, and we did this event with pillars of valor.
• 28:00
  It was the first time I got to meet Zach.
• 28:03
  Zach introduced me to him.
• 28:05
  This was supposed to be a gift for him.
• 28:07
  We donated a Nazri painting.
• 28:09
  My Nazri painting went for, like, $6,700 or something.
• 28:12
  Uh-oh.
• 28:13
  Then they said, let's donate that one.
• 28:15
  So they talked to Nick.
• 28:16
  Nick's like, yeah.
• 28:17
  I'll sign it.
• 28:17
  And, Marcus, if you'll do one for me later as a gift, and I'm like, 100%.
• 28:22
  So they raffled his, $4,500, bro.
• 28:26
  But that painting was sick.
• 28:28
  So you have to check out my page.
• 28:29
  It's on there.
• 28:30
  It's one of the, is he obviously, he he's the guy with one leg standing next to a Humvee.
• 28:36
  But such an incredible human being too.
• 28:39
  Like, just sitting there talking with him and, like, he's one of those people.
• 28:45
  Like, you feel like when you were on the way home, you're like, alright.
• 28:48
  I gotta do seventeen hours at the gym.
• 28:50
  Right?
• 28:50
  No more carbs.
• 28:52
  Right?
• 28:53
  No nothing.
• 28:53
  We gotta do this.
• 28:54
  Well, I'm not I'm not doing nothing while I'm driving, bro.
• 28:56
  Let me you know, like, you start you just wanna be better when you talk.
• 29:00
  You know what I mean?
• 29:00
  You have those people that just motivate you to to no end.
• 29:04
  And, yeah, he's a he's an incredible person.
• 29:08
  So and he's also, like, he he's to make matters worse, I'll show you this picture of him, bro.
• 29:13
  He, he's six foot five, and he's from fucking Boston.
• 29:17
  Right?
• 29:18
  So so so when when he looks at you, y'all already felt like I'm getting yelled at.
• 29:23
  He's like, woah.
• 29:25
  You do this with spray paint, though?
• 29:28
  I don't even know anymore.
• 29:30
  You know what I mean?
• 29:30
  Like but, no, he's freaking I'll give you guys a sneak peek.
• 29:35
  This is a portrait of him and his wife, and his wife is also a special forces.
• 29:41
  So wow.
• 29:42
  Yeah.
• 29:43
  That's a real power couple.
• 29:45
  Yeah.
• 29:45
  No kidding.
• 29:46
  So right now, this is I gotta come back in here because in my paint room, video cut out just a
• 29:53
  second because as soon
• 29:57
  Red IQ.
• 29:58
  Yeah.
• 29:59
  That's that's the vault.
• 30:01
  Is that pretty clear?
• 30:02
  Oh, that's yeah.
• 30:03
  That looks awesome, So,
• 30:06
  obviously, once I spray the like, the separation from the legs, the sock.
• 30:13
  Those shoes.
• 30:15
  Yeah.
• 30:16
  Oh, his boots aren't even done, bro.
• 30:17
  I'm gonna fight I'm gonna knock them
• 30:19
  talking about hers.
• 30:21
  The detail.
• 30:22
  Hey.
• 30:22
  Look.
• 30:22
  And the purge matches.
• 30:24
  Can you see that?
• 30:25
  The detail in the purge?
• 30:26
  That that looks so like a old, like, you know, 70 photo when you like, your grandparents.
• 30:34
  You know?
• 30:34
  Yeah.
• 30:34
  So when I when I if you send me a couple's picture, I love doing them in black and white.
• 30:39
  I love the way it looks.
• 30:40
  It doesn't gives it that antique look.
• 30:43
  It's a custom portrait, man.
• 30:44
  This is a one of a kind thing you're gonna have forever.
• 30:47
  You'll be able to pass this down to generations.
• 30:50
  You know what I mean?
• 30:51
  So is that the one, Marcus, that he got instead of the one with him next to the Humvee after
• 30:56
  you raffled that one off?
• 30:58
  Correct.
• 30:58
  Yeah.
• 30:59
  That's awesome.
• 31:00
  Yeah.
• 31:00
  So that this one probably means even more to him now anyway.
• 31:04
  So cool.
• 31:07
  It always cuts there we go.
• 31:10
  You're back.
• 31:11
  You're good.
• 31:13
  You're good.
• 31:13
  Well, you brought up pillars of valor, as it's scrolling on the bottom there.
• 31:18
  They're a new sponsor of the show.
• 31:20
  I wanted to yeah, man.
• 31:22
  Well, I got a chance to talk to Zach after seeing you guys together and, you know, wanted
• 31:27
  to do more to help their organization.
• 31:29
  And I was like, look, bro.
• 31:30
  I love coffee.
• 31:31
  You send me some coffee.
• 31:32
  I'll I'll make you some ads and and run them on the shows and and do something.
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  So we're gonna roll one of those, and we're gonna come back and talk some more ball.
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  Hell, yeah.
• 32:17
  So if you guys
• 32:19
  What's up?
• 32:19
  This is this is one of the things I got.
• 32:21
  So when I went down and met with, Aaron Jones, I had him sign a calendar because nobody has
• 32:28
  this in the whole world.
• 32:30
  But I told him flat out.
• 32:31
  I'm like, look.
• 32:32
  Can you sign these two calendars for me?
• 32:34
  I'm gonna raise money for, veterans.
• 32:37
  I don't go get autographs for me, man.
• 32:39
  When I get something signed, I wanna be able to, like, put it out to some people.
• 32:43
  So, literally, there is only one Aaron Jones autograph, and then I got pictures with
• 32:48
  Hockinson signing this huge across the bottom, bro.
• 32:53
  It's a $150.
• 32:55
  100% of our proceeds for the calendars go directly to Pillars of Valor.
• 33:00
  Like I said, obviously, you know, I go by Sir Picasso, but during the games oh, I don't wanna
• 33:06
  show.
• 33:06
  There we go.
• 33:07
  I do dress up as Vader.
• 33:09
  You could see how shiny the the gloss, the paper.
• 33:11
  This is such amazing quality.
• 33:14
  We could see your whole house.
• 33:16
  You can.
• 33:16
  Yeah.
• 33:16
  It's a reflection.
• 33:17
  Look at that.
• 33:20
  But that's just it, bro.
• 33:21
  We did these calendars, and literally the next day after she's we had this picture, we're
• 33:24
  like, alright.
• 33:25
  Put it in production.
• 33:26
  I said, send me that picture.
• 33:27
  She sent me the picture.
• 33:28
  She said, what do you need for us?
• 33:29
  Because I have these stickers too.
• 33:31
  So I'm, like, instantly, like, let's jump on it.
• 33:34
  You know?
• 33:34
  Strike while the iron is hot.
• 33:36
  Yeah.
• 33:36
  No.
• 33:37
  They came out great, man.
• 33:38
  Loved it.
• 33:39
  We got
• 33:39
  the men of the North calendars and the women of the North.
• 33:42
  I like how it's a little bit of a battle between you and Shelley who's selling more and
• 33:46
  putting it out there.
• 33:47
  We gotta get Shelley on.
• 33:48
  She probably works Tuesday night, so that's why we can't ever get her on the show to to pop in
• 33:53
  with the women's calendar.
• 33:54
  But, we're gonna make a point to see
• 33:56
  why it's over there.
• 33:58
  But yeah.
• 33:58
  No.
• 33:59
  The women's calendar too, like, with what she does is women of the north.
• 34:02
  Her calendars are going to support three local families here in here in Saint Cloud,
• 34:06
  Minnesota.
• 34:08
  All three with different stories, all ranging from, an adult and another middle aged adult
• 34:19
  and then a child all dealing with cancer and in a bad situation.
• 34:22
  And like I said, again, in this time where, you know, Christmas and it's just so much it's
• 34:27
  difficult, man.
• 34:28
  It's hard to put in words, like, to see people's you know, everybody struggles with
• 34:33
  something.
• 34:34
  You know what I mean?
• 34:35
  And so if you like, I always tell people, man, if I can make you smile, then I'm my day's
• 34:39
  complete.
• 34:40
  So just try to be that person for somebody else.
• 34:44
  And if you can't help somebody, you can.
• 34:47
  Sharing some of these posts even if you can't afford a $30 calendar or a $5 sticker, share
• 34:55
  the love.
• 34:55
  Like, if you hit on fucking sorry for cussing.
• 34:59
  Just share the link.
• 34:59
  Censored, bro.
• 35:00
  You're good.
• 35:00
  It's uncensored.
• 35:02
  I know.
• 35:02
  I say it anyway just because I try not to be I don't wanna come off disrespectful to people
• 35:06
  and because I I do like, I don't live like a righteous lives up, but, I mean, I'm I try to
• 35:12
  be pleasant to people.
• 35:13
  And so, like, cussing just I don't know.
• 35:16
  It slips out sometimes.
• 35:18
  No.
• 35:18
  And you talked about putting smiles on people's faces, and you guys do that.
• 35:22
  I mean, you just being dressed up.
• 35:24
  I mean, my wife doesn't go up and take pictures with anybody, and that was one where she's
• 35:28
  like, I'm getting a picture with them at the game.
• 35:30
  Right?
• 35:30
  Especially in the white I mean, the Whiteout game's an experience all on its own.
• 35:35
  I love that outfit, bro.
• 35:37
  Man, dude, it's so it's so fire.
• 35:39
  And I don't even think I don't we're not gonna make it on Christmas, I don't think.
• 35:43
  No.
• 35:44
  And that's kinda screwed up that they did the Whiteout game on Christmas this year.
• 35:47
  That's I think that's a flaw.
• 35:48
  But Yeah.
• 35:49
  Oh, well.
• 35:49
  That's upsetting offense.
• 35:51
  Number of them, the Vikings have made this year from the front office to the field.
• 35:56
  You guys were at the game this year.
• 35:58
  I I know you've been raffling off a lot of your tickets this year, but you actually guys, had a
• 36:03
  pair of tickets given to you.
• 36:04
  What was the vibe like inside of the stadium?
• 36:06
  I heard it was kinda quiet compared to what a, you know, a game would be if there was, you
• 36:11
  know, a little more on the line.
• 36:13
  100%.
• 36:14
  At first, it was just like, you know, everybody, I guess, you could tell that they
• 36:17
  were just taking it in, and they weren't, like, pumped.
• 36:20
  Typically, it's like, we're gonna win this game and excitement level's crazy.
• 36:26
  I think and then right around the middle of the first quarter, they showed a picture of KOC on
• 36:33
  the Jumbotron saying we need the fans to get loud, and I don't think it got quiet after
• 36:38
  that.
• 36:39
  Like, Anthony Barr, who obviously came out and blew the Gjallarhorn.
• 36:44
  And then, again, it was probably right around the halfway through the first quarter.
• 36:48
  They brought him out on the end zone, and they were just, you know, doing intermission.
• 36:53
  He was talking about Harrison Smith.
• 36:56
  And shout out to Harrison Smith on that interception, bro.
• 36:59
  Like, I swear to I had the beeline to where I'm sitting.
• 37:04
  As soon as he threw the ball, I'm already standing up.
• 37:07
  Like, I saw him.
• 37:07
  I'm going, he's right there.
• 37:09
  He's right there.
• 37:09
  And it looked like he threw it right to him.
• 37:11
  Right?
• 37:12
  You know?
• 37:13
  And then my my Shelly's look she's like she took her a second to get up.
• 37:16
  So I turned around.
• 37:17
  I go to high five her, and she's like, you knocked me down.
• 37:21
  I said, what?
• 37:22
  When I stood up, she apparently was trying to stand up as well, but I'm bigger.
• 37:26
  So no, man.
• 37:30
  It it was incredible, and it was just it was a fun game to watch.
• 37:35
  Like, you get those games where you're you know, it's all one-sided, but I feel like
• 37:38
  that's what we needed specifically as fans.
• 37:42
  Right?
• 37:42
  Regardless of how you feel if the season's over, if you you know, we're not gonna make the
• 37:47
  playoffs.
• 37:48
  Who cares?
• 37:48
  You think we deserve it?
• 37:50
  Okay.
• 37:51
  So you make the playoffs.
• 37:52
  Which team shows up?
• 37:54
  The team against the commanders or the team against the ravens?
• 37:57
  Mhmm.
• 37:58
  You know what I mean?
• 37:59
  Like was
• 37:59
  not that ravens game, man.
• 38:01
  The nine false start penalties at home and yeah.
• 38:05
  I mean well and we haven't really touched on a lot of ball tonight, but I I feel like and
• 38:10
  there was quite a bit of talk of it this week from other commentators too.
• 38:13
  But, like, if you showed up with this game plan that you ran against the commanders, you might
• 38:17
  win an extra two, three games this year.
• 38:20
  Right?
• 38:21
  And that's why I was kinda talking before you came on, Marcus, that I I feel like we saw more
• 38:26
  development out of KOC this week than even we did out of the young quarterback.
• 38:30
  Like, the young quarterback's done this before.
• 38:33
  KOCs never called a game plan.
• 38:35
  Never.
• 38:36
  That featured 25 plus rushing attempts and just stayed committed to jumbo packages.
• 38:42
  And, I mean, three three touchdowns from tight ends, whose team is this?
• 38:47
  Right.
• 38:47
  Right.
• 38:48
  And and I like you said, man, I I love that the ball got passed around.
• 38:53
  Yeah.
• 38:54
  McCartney, that's exactly what he plays like.
• 38:56
  So that to me, like, this was the kid everybody's given up on and everybody's like
• 39:00
  this.
• 39:00
  And I go, listen.
• 39:01
  If you get them in the first round, keep them.
• 39:03
  I don't care if we keep them for five years.
• 39:05
  You paid for it.
• 39:06
  Get what you get your money's worth.
• 39:08
  Right?
• 39:09
  I if we lose the rest of the games, I would still be proud that you stuck it out and you
• 39:14
  let this kid learn because we all mess up in our jobs.
• 39:17
  At some point, you've messed up, and that's the only way you're gonna get better at it.
• 39:23
  Right?
• 39:23
  And you
• 39:23
  can't just let somebody sit in and let somebody take over and then throw him back in and think
• 39:28
  he's just gonna be hot shit again.
• 39:30
  Right.
• 39:30
  Well and Jaden Daniels is maybe, like, your one outlier that gets taken high and then performs
• 39:37
  at a high level that rookie season.
• 39:40
  Right?
• 39:40
  And it was really unfortunate.
• 39:42
  Him fast.
• 39:43
  Go out of the go out of the yeah.
• 39:45
  Well and and you had also an offensive coordinator in Washington last year that built
• 39:50
  the offense around the talent that he had.
• 39:53
  What a freaking concept.
• 39:55
  Right?
• 39:55
  Right.
• 39:57
  It it was kinda it was tough to watch him go down on that elbow.
• 40:02
  You don't wanna see anybody get hurt.
• 40:04
  And then Zach Kurtz is, man, that was that was naughty.
• 40:08
  I had a conversation with I had a conversation with Ward, yesterday, and so I just I just
• 40:16
  kinda reached out to him.
• 40:17
  You know, there's a few players that I know personally where we can have these
• 40:20
  conversations and just a just a message and be like, you know, hey, bro.
• 40:25
  It happens.
• 40:26
  And from where I was at, it looked like a clean hit.
• 40:29
  I hope you don't get fined.
• 40:31
  Right.
• 40:31
  Well and and I think I mean, Zach Ertz is, six six six and, like, he's a huge dude.
• 40:37
  Yeah.
• 40:37
  And and I feel like Ward's probably, like, my size or your size, Marcus.
• 40:41
  Right?
• 40:41
  Where he's,
• 40:41
  like feet tall.
• 40:42
  Yep.
• 40:42
  Do.
• 40:43
  And he's giving him 50 pounds.
• 40:45
  You're yeah.
• 40:45
  Exactly, man.
• 40:46
  You're just trying to take the guy down.
• 40:47
  Okay.
• 40:48
  But here's the here's the deal.
• 40:49
  When you put so many when you put so many restrictions on a DBAC on how I can tackle you.
• 40:56
  Right?
• 40:56
  Just like when I come at the quarterback, are you telling me I got you wrapped up?
• 41:00
  And as we fall to the ground, I gotta let you go because I can't dive?
• 41:04
  I can't drop my body on you?
• 41:05
  And I can't land on you.
• 41:07
  Yeah.
• 41:07
  You know what I mean?
• 41:08
  Like, when when you're jumping in the air for a ball as a defender, because I played corner and
• 41:13
  safety, my my goal is to hit your midsection and make you lose your breath, drop everything.
• 41:19
  Right?
• 41:20
  Because I don't you don't aim for the head.
• 41:22
  So but like you said, Earth is not little.
• 41:25
  So he's going up for the ball, bro.
• 41:28
  Like, in real life, when he hit, it looked like his whole body just ricocheted and flung
• 41:32
  around.
• 41:33
  Like, it was it was I didn't even notice his knee go backwards because that's how fast it
• 41:37
  happened, but you just you see his whole body.
• 41:40
  Like I said, it looked like he got him in the waist, you know, from where we were at, but,
• 41:45
  obviously, you know, you watched the replays.
• 41:46
  He hit right in the thigh.
• 41:47
  But aren't they supposed to tackle your legs?
• 41:51
  Well and and that's tough too because, like like I said, he's given up at least 50 pounds
• 41:57
  to Zach Erds.
• 41:58
  And if you try to go in with a shoulder or something, you're probably gonna get hurt
• 42:03
  yourself.
• 42:04
  Like Well,
• 42:04
  that or you're gonna end up on a, you got Moss or some kind of clip on ESPN, though.
• 42:10
  Getting trucked.
• 42:11
  So Trucking.
• 42:12
  Yeah.
• 42:13
  Cody, and I I know you have extensive experience as a defensive backs coach.
• 42:17
  What do you coach your players on?
• 42:20
  And and, Marcus, you could probably chime in too being a a defensive back yourself, from way
• 42:25
  back when.
• 42:26
  Like, coach, how do you how are you coaching that?
• 42:29
  You know?
• 42:29
  How are you training somebody who's coming where you're playing in a zone like that?
• 42:33
  The ball's coming out.
• 42:35
  You're you're right on the guy.
• 42:36
  Right?
• 42:36
  You're not gonna make a play on the ball necessarily because it's probably three feet
• 42:40
  over your head as this guy's catching it, but you have to make a play on the man.
• 42:44
  Like, where are you teaching them to hit?
• 42:47
  Well, I mean, it it's not just DBs, but, you know, just tackling in general.
• 42:52
  Low man wins.
• 42:54
  Low man always wins.
• 42:55
  You wrap those legs up, bro.
• 42:57
  You know?
• 42:57
  And and like you said, if you're not gonna be able to make a play on the ball, you had better
• 43:01
  secure that tackle, especially as
• 43:03
  a team At
• 43:03
  least slow them down and let your inside guy come get them.
• 43:06
  You know what I mean?
• 43:07
  Yes.
• 43:07
  Because, you know, because if you're the that DB safety, you could be that last dude.
• 43:13
  So you had better, like you said, wrap them up and hope, and wait for your your teammates to
• 43:19
  come or just get them down, you know, at any means possible, except for the head, like you
• 43:24
  said.
• 43:26
  No headhunters here.
• 43:27
  Let's play it like, man.
• 43:28
  Board couldn't reach Zach Ertz's head anyway.
• 43:31
  Exactly.
• 43:32
  Well and and and, you know, the speed of the game, it's insane.
• 43:37
  Instinct just took over.
• 43:39
  Instinct just took over right there.
• 43:41
  No.
• 43:41
  And I I heard a of
• 43:42
  guys come out and say, you know, dirty hit and, obviously, all of the everyone else in the
• 43:47
  NFL's gonna call it dirty because it, you know, wasn't their player.
• 43:51
  And but I didn't see it that way in real time.
• 43:55
  You know, it's unfortunate.
• 43:56
  You know, that guy's career is probably over.
• 43:58
  I mean, it was over probably anyway.
• 44:00
  He was at the he was.
• 44:01
  This was his last year.
• 44:02
  Not that it makes any difference because you you know, even with these players and you as
• 44:07
  human beings, we don't want them to get hurt.
• 44:09
  That's why no matter what team you're on, when you get up, you walk off the field, or even
• 44:14
  when they cart you off the field, that entire stadium should be cheering.
• 44:17
  You should be
• 44:18
  Yeah.
• 44:18
  You know, sending well wishes type things.
• 44:20
  And
• 44:22
  Did you guys see that Ward left the stadium before, they did their press conferences in the
• 44:29
  in the locker room and went right to the hospital for Urge because they shook him up
• 44:33
  that time?
• 44:34
  Yep.
• 44:35
  Man.
• 44:36
  No.
• 44:36
  Like, I listen.
• 44:37
  I could I Bubba, I'll show you the message, but, yeah, he he was just like, like I said, I
• 44:43
  when I reach out to them, I just hope that I like I said, I hope you didn't get fine.
• 44:46
  It looked like a clean hit.
• 44:48
  He said flat out, he goes, I just, you know, I I don't wish for anybody to get hurt.
• 44:52
  Like, that's you know, is what it is.
• 44:55
  Right.
• 44:55
  And and I know that Ertz is a real stand up guy too.
• 44:58
  It's not like these guys don't know each other.
• 45:00
  You know?
• 45:00
  Like, they're they're all I think for the most part, you'd probably 90% of them are friends
• 45:06
  off of the field.
• 45:07
  You know what I mean?
• 45:08
  Bro, they're all in the same union.
• 45:09
  Right?
• 45:10
  Yeah.
• 45:10
  Yeah.
• 45:11
  These are your coworkers at the end of the day.
• 45:13
  Right?
• 45:13
  Like I
• 45:13
  I I don't know if, fans don't know this or not, but, you know, there's a it's a union.
• 45:19
  They it's so hard.
• 45:20
  They they all work.
• 45:21
  They are together, and they do talk a lot.
• 45:23
  That's why even as a fan, I'll be the first one to admit, why are you smiling and joking on the
• 45:28
  sidelines?
• 45:28
  We're losing.
• 45:29
  Get out there and play the damn game.
• 45:30
  Right?
• 45:31
  Right.
• 45:31
  Right.
• 45:32
  But it's different for them.
• 45:35
  No.
• 45:36
  And a lot of them spend their summers, you know, training with each other in the off
• 45:40
  season.
• 45:41
  Yeah.
• 45:41
  I know most of the players in the Vikings don't live here.
• 45:44
  Yeah.
• 45:44
  No.
• 45:46
  Well, you guys
• 45:46
  do a lot of them went through college together.
• 45:49
  They see these guys grow up.
• 45:51
  I mean, back to high school, some of these players.
• 45:53
  I mean, just because they're on different teams doesn't mean they're enemies now.
• 45:56
  I mean
• 45:57
  That's why that's why you see those jersey swaps.
• 45:59
  It's like, ain't seen you since college or since you know?
• 46:01
  Yeah.
• 46:03
  No.
• 46:03
  And, you know, coming from a a coach, you know, and with you know, and a player, you can
• 46:08
  probably speak to this as well.
• 46:10
  But, you know, seeing a seeing a player go down, whether he be on your team or not, Right.
• 46:18
  You know, it just it's close to home because you're like, man, like, I put it like, he put
• 46:25
  in them, the all those hours during the offseason, the preseason, the two a days, the
• 46:31
  training camp, all that.
• 46:32
  He put up with all the film and just, the time being away from the family and, you know, to
• 46:38
  put in that work and not be able to finish out the season or see it through, like, that
• 46:44
  You said it right there too because, like, those players, they don't understand that you
• 46:49
  know?
• 46:49
  Or the players understand that when you're injured, you're not making full time play
• 46:55
  money.
• 46:56
  Right.
• 46:57
  K?
• 46:57
  So now and also being a being a player when you sit in when somebody's hurt, your cleats are on
• 47:03
  that same turf.
• 47:04
  This that could be you laying right there.
• 47:06
  Mhmm.
• 47:06
  Mhmm.
• 47:07
  So, like, they know that a, that could be you.
• 47:10
  B, now if he's out for the season, that just affected his money for the rest of the year.
• 47:15
  Mhmm.
• 47:16
  And then c, and more importantly, now his family, the rehabilitation, like, they think
• 47:20
  about all these things that run through your mind.
• 47:22
  And as fans, unfortunately, you're selfish.
• 47:24
  You're like, oh, alright.
• 47:26
  Well, next week.
• 47:27
  You know?
• 47:27
  Like, no, man.
• 47:28
  These people, this is this is their life too.
• 47:32
  No.
• 47:32
  And I think that's that's something that you we're gonna continue to bring a a different
• 47:38
  element with this show and that perspective because you have those relationships with some
• 47:44
  of these players.
• 47:44
  And Cody's, background as a coach and as a player and and someone who's, you know, working
• 47:51
  right alongside these young men and going through the struggles with them.
• 47:55
  And, we we hope to see coach Cody in the purple and gold one day, out on that field.
• 48:01
  I love that.
• 48:02
  Cody, you did a AI video of you out there, and you kinda got the dream it to believe it.
• 48:06
  And I loved it.
• 48:07
  I could see that all of sudden.
• 48:09
  Now we just gotta paint it.
• 48:11
  Let's paint it.
• 48:11
  Let's paint it on canvas.
• 48:13
  We'll put it into the into the universe.
• 48:16
  Yep.
• 48:17
  Absolutely.
• 48:18
  You know?
• 48:18
  And that's, you know, and that's what I like to do.
• 48:20
  You know?
• 48:22
  You know, have a goal, speak it, you know, get it out there.
• 48:26
  And then Write it down.
• 48:28
  Yep.
• 48:29
  Three times a day.
• 48:31
  And then, you know, just keep keep that that goal, you know, being seen somewhere.
• 48:39
  You know, I planted a seed somewhere.
• 48:41
  You know, I got a lot of University of Minnesota gopher, you know, coaches and players
• 48:50
  that I talked to and, you know, just planting that seed, you know.
• 48:55
  Someone someone's gonna pick up on it.
• 48:58
  It might not be with the Vikings right away, but, you know, when I get to the NFL, it's not
• 49:04
  if, but when.
• 49:06
  I'll be ready.
• 49:07
  Yeah.
• 49:07
  I'll be ready.
• 49:08
  Yeah.
• 49:08
  We'll call you home eventually.
• 49:10
  Arena football legends so can coach Cody.
• 49:14
  There you go.
• 49:15
  Hey, Bubba.
• 49:16
  So, like I said, I was just on the phone earlier with, Ted Smoltz, and we're gonna be
• 49:21
  doing something with, Paul Krausz.
• 49:23
  So when I get that all worked out and everything, I'm a let them know that when it
• 49:26
  comes time to promote, there's only one channel.
• 49:29
  He's gotta come out and come live on his stream, and we'll bring Paul Cross on here.
• 49:33
  And
• 49:34
  Man, that would be awesome.
• 49:35
  I I appreciate that, brother.
• 49:36
  I know we'd love it.
• 49:38
  I know Big B would come back for that one too.
• 49:40
  Oh, man.
• 49:41
  We'll provide you sit out of it.
• 49:43
  We'll get a whole bunch of people.
• 49:44
  We'll get ready for some q and a's.
• 49:46
  Yes.
• 49:47
  And like I said, he could sit there, and, Paul does have his garage similar to how, Bud Grant
• 49:54
  did his annual garage sale, how, you know, you can go to, you know, like, who else is there?
• 50:00
  Like, you know, Tommy and Emerson usually at the tailgate a lot.
• 50:03
  They're just they're they're out there trying to promote themselves, and they're accessible.
• 50:09
  So you can get something one of a kind from some of these, like, historical figures in the
• 50:14
  Minnesota Viking.
• 50:15
  Like, Paul Cross, I who you are, he's the best safety.
• 50:18
  Probably only just pat just underneath Harrison Smith, and that's only because Harry's been you
• 50:24
  know?
• 50:26
  But I can't name a do you name a safety better than Paul Cross and the Vikings?
• 50:33
  Not really.
• 50:34
  I mean, the closest would no.
• 50:36
  I don't even wanna put Corey Chavis would maybe.
• 50:39
  You know?
• 50:40
  Like Chavis
• 50:41
  would probably be the only other one I could think of.
• 50:45
  You know, I'm not gonna put
• 50:47
  Right.
• 50:48
  That's what I mean.
• 50:49
  You have some of these players that have such a following.
• 50:52
  So for them to do 500 posters, even if they did them for $50, bro, you'd make a killing.
• 50:59
  Yeah.
• 51:00
  Max.
• 51:02
  Yeah.
• 51:03
  Oh, man.
• 51:04
  It's a it's a much different vibe around the team this week, isn't it?
• 51:09
  100%.
• 51:11
  100%.
• 51:12
  We were despondent last week.
• 51:14
  No answers.
• 51:16
  I think the coach you know, KOC came out, said a lot of the right things last week, but until
• 51:21
  you saw it, I don't think anybody was buying it.
• 51:24
  Even now, it's still like, you gotta show up and do it again.
• 51:28
  Sunday night football, you have to come out and just, like, don't come back out and do the
• 51:35
  we're gonna drop back 50 times again.
• 51:37
  Right?
• 51:37
  Like, do you have to run the ball 25, 30 times?
• 51:40
  Probably not.
• 51:41
  It's gonna be a different game plan, but I just wanna see that same commitment to the running
• 51:45
  game.
• 51:45
  See, and I want them to do the exact same plays that they did this last week.
• 51:49
  Right.
• 51:50
  Same thing.
• 51:50
  No.
• 51:51
  The exact same game plan.
• 51:52
  That's for the commanders.
• 51:53
  This is the cowboys.
• 51:55
  I don't care.
• 51:55
  They're playing the same kind of football.
• 51:58
  I mean, they are.
• 51:59
  They're just Dallas is I don't think I think Dallas plays the exact same style that,
• 52:03
  commanders do.
• 52:04
  I think that worked.
• 52:06
  Dallas is probably looking for us to switch some things up, and I'm saying, let's just
• 52:10
  ground and pound and pass the ball like we fuck like we did.
• 52:13
  Yep.
• 52:16
  Yeah.
• 52:17
  Makes You ever play me in Madden?
• 52:19
  I play I'm like, what is that?
• 52:20
  What is the, remember the titans?
• 52:22
  He what does he say?
• 52:23
  It's like Novocaine.
• 52:24
  Six plays.
• 52:24
  Give it time.
• 52:25
  It'll work.
• 52:26
  Oh, yeah.
• 52:27
  I do six I do six or seven plays.
• 52:29
  That's it.
• 52:30
  My defense, I'm on three styles, and good luck against me.
• 52:35
  It's a simple game.
• 52:36
  Right, coach?
• 52:37
  It's a simple game.
• 52:39
  It's all about execution at the end of the day.
• 52:43
  No.
• 52:43
  It really isn't.
• 52:44
  You know?
• 52:46
  We we have seen a little bit of growth from KOC.
• 52:49
  I'm just wondering, you know, are we gonna continue to see that, or is he gonna go back to
• 52:55
  his old ways?
• 52:56
  You know, we're going up against Dallas, and I don't wanna get too far into it because, we
• 53:03
  have that pregame show coming up on Sunday here, Sunday night.
• 53:07
  Well, a Sunday night edition.
• 53:09
  But, you know, even Dallas is no slouch.
• 53:15
  You know, should be better than this.
• 53:19
  I thought they'd be not only a playoff team, but running deep, but we're we're gonna have
• 53:25
  this is a this is gonna be a test.
• 53:27
  That's all I'm gonna say.
• 53:28
  They're keep our safeties in corners on their toes because Dak can sling that damn ball.
• 53:33
  You know, and Pickens is out for blood this year.
• 53:37
  Yeah.
• 53:38
  I think it comes down to pressure.
• 53:39
  Can you can you pressure the quarterback like you did this week?
• 53:44
  And I think what was nice is that you started to see that exotic b flow defense this week
• 53:50
  again.
• 53:51
  Well, you can't do that when your defense has been out there for fifty, sixty plays.
• 53:57
  Right?
• 53:57
  Like, I I think that's the the biggest difference that we saw is that the defense is
• 54:03
  better when the offense can stay on the field and sustain drives and run time off the clock
• 54:09
  and keep it going.
• 54:10
  It gives you the because if you're a half step slow on those blitzes, you're getting gashed.
• 54:16
  Right?
• 54:16
  Van Ginkle ain't jumping those routes when he's sucking air because they've been out on the
• 54:22
  field for most of the game.
• 54:23
  So I I think there's there's a lot to be learned from the way they played ball this last
• 54:29
  week, and you you just you just hope it continues.
• 54:34
  And, you know, do we have to win out for it to be everything?
• 54:39
  No.
• 54:39
  But I I think you have to be you have to show
• 54:42
  you should want to.
• 54:43
  If you're capable.
• 54:44
  Yeah.
• 54:44
  I hell yeah.
• 54:45
  Oh, yeah.
• 54:46
  Yep.
• 54:47
  But not only that,
• 54:48
  I think so, like, going back to what you said with, defense and, it gives the offense so much
• 54:54
  confidence when I know that this is third and eight that I can trust my receivers to go for
• 55:01
  this big pass.
• 55:02
  Because even if you wanna go forward on fourth down, I know that my defense is holding them
• 55:07
  out.
• 55:07
  So when you have that confidence knowing that your defense has your back, yeah, I I believe
• 55:14
  it makes you play so much better on offense.
• 55:16
  Like, you know what
• 55:17
  I mean?
• 55:18
  Yeah.
• 55:19
  Well and it was very important that we came out, and I said this in the pregame show that
• 55:24
  we came out and punched them in the mouth.
• 55:26
  You know, it took that momentum.
• 55:28
  I understand.
• 55:29
  You know?
• 55:29
  But not only punched them in the mouth, but we're like, hey.
• 55:32
  We're gonna score, but you're gonna be sucking wind by the time we're done scoring here.
• 55:37
  And we keep doing back and do it again.
• 55:39
  Yeah.
• 55:39
  You know?
• 55:40
  And and that's we have to keep that mentality of, hey.
• 55:45
  You know?
• 55:45
  I'm gonna start stomping on your throat, and you're not gonna be able to get a breath in.
• 55:50
  You know?
• 55:51
  That was huge.
• 55:52
  Yeah.
• 55:53
  We we can we have the receivers to trust and be able to throw up them balls.
• 55:59
  Like, you know, when you got Jay, Justin Jefferson, it's it's not a fifty fifty ball.
• 56:05
  It's like a eighty twenty one, or eighty twenty.
• 56:08
  Okay.
• 56:08
  So explain to me why those 20 are the easiest balls.
• 56:11
  Like, don't be sitting there before the game, one hand and like this with two fingers.
• 56:17
  I know.
• 56:17
  And then they get a ball right in the numbers and you dropped it because, bro, like, I guess
• 56:21
  I know.
• 56:21
  I know.
• 56:22
  Well and Well, and that one catch changes.
• 56:25
  It JJ's over 200 yards with four touchdowns now.
• 56:29
  Yeah.
• 56:30
  JJ's got, you know, fifty, sixty yards, and it's just, like, it's totally different talking
• 56:35
  points.
• 56:36
  And no reason we should have Justin Jefferson getting four yards in a game, period.
• 56:41
  That's We don't worry.
• 56:43
  Last week.
• 56:44
  Yeah.
• 56:44
  And,
• 56:45
  you know, and McCarthy's, favorite target seems to be Addison,
• 56:50
  in certain
• 56:51
  you know?
• 56:52
  But,
• 56:53
  I
• 56:53
  mean, he could have had maybe five touchdowns if he would have gotten that one to Jefferson
• 56:58
  and Addison cut can catch a ball.
• 57:01
  Like, come on, man.
• 57:02
  Help him out.
• 57:03
  Right.
• 57:03
  You know, this is basically considered McCarthy's rookie year.
• 57:10
  And, I mean, not bad for what he's got to deal with in the position that he's been put in with
• 57:18
  the throwing 40 plus times.
• 57:20
  That's why I wasn't mad.
• 57:22
  Like, people are like, oh, McCarthy has asked me through a few times or so.
• 57:25
  He's a rookie.
• 57:27
  Right.
• 57:27
  And then you got Max, who's a rookie.
• 57:30
  I'm going, guys,
• 57:31
  just Uncrowded.
• 57:33
  Yeah.
• 57:34
  Right.
• 57:34
  I mean, he he's not
• 57:35
  pulling a Jameis Winston five plus years in the league still.
• 57:38
  Okay.
• 57:39
  Coach, let me ask you then.
• 57:41
  What what do you think their mindset is?
• 57:44
  Because in my mind, when you have Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, you got Bam Geek or
• 57:55
  not Ginkgo.
• 57:56
  TJ Hawkinson.
• 57:58
  You got Oliver.
• 57:59
  Right?
• 57:59
  You have all these weapons.
• 58:03
  Why don't quick slants work?
• 58:07
  Why don't we do them?
• 58:09
  Like, we don't do them like you know?
• 58:11
  I feel like a quick slant is, like, the biggest kill in the world because if I can get a cross
• 58:15
  pattern, even if I get my tight end to move, you just took three of those defenders out of
• 58:20
  that area, and he's wide open every time.
• 58:22
  Man, look at the play that Christian Watson had on that Sunday night game.
• 58:27
  They they saw the blitz come in.
• 58:29
  He checks to it.
• 58:30
  They give a little hand signal.
• 58:32
  He I mean, it looked like Madden.
• 58:33
  It looked like a Madden play.
• 58:34
  He broke Right.
• 58:35
  He was gone.
• 58:36
  He was gone.
• 58:37
  He could've shaved his face while walking in.
• 58:40
  Yeah.
• 58:40
  Hopefully I get it.
• 58:41
  Play at time.
• 58:43
  He he
• 58:43
  He could've shaved Bee's head while he was running down the field.
• 58:47
  He's struggling with those type of throws, though.
• 58:50
  They're always getting batted down.
• 58:52
  But, yeah, see, that's where I feel McCartney has a he he needs to understand the difference
• 58:57
  between get him the ball and getting him the ball.
• 59:00
  Not every single one needs to be 50 miles an hour or whatever.
• 59:05
  Exactly.
• 59:05
  And that's what I tell my friends sometimes when we watch and they go, oh, it was an easy
• 59:09
  pass.
• 59:10
  Yeah.
• 59:10
  But this isn't me and you playing catch, bro.
• 59:12
  They throw they throw the ball, like, 25, 30 miles an hour.
• 59:15
  Right.
• 59:16
  You'll catch that football.
• 59:17
  Yeah.
• 59:17
  And I think it has to I think it has to deal also with the the fact that, you know, it's
• 59:23
  been such a carousel, with the offensive line.
• 59:28
  You know, just not having that time, having that chemistry, and then you got him trying to
• 59:33
  throw that that slant, and these balls are getting batted down.
• 59:38
  That doesn't really build enough you know, that doesn't build confidence with the coach to
• 59:42
  wanna call that play.
• 59:44
  Definitely, it doesn't build any confidence for JJ to wanna make that throw.
• 59:49
  You know?
• 59:49
  And I think I Jetta Jetta's got lit up on a slant last year, and I think that may play into
• 59:57
  KOCs.
• 59:58
  Like, I don't think it's in his playbook really anyway.
• 1:00:01
  I think he ran it one time.
• 1:00:03
  His dude got lit the fuck up.
• 1:00:05
  Like Well, and on
• 1:00:06
  that plate,
• 1:00:07
  you know,
• 1:00:07
  he just threw it out.
• 1:00:09
  But what was cool, I love the little screen pass in, I think it was that first not that
• 1:00:16
  first drive.
• 1:00:17
  It that they ran to Jefferson.
• 1:00:20
  Right?
• 1:00:21
  Where it wasn't a screen, but it was it was different.
• 1:00:25
  He me, like, they came you said, is that the play you're talking about?
• 1:00:29
  Yeah.
• 1:00:29
  Where, I mean, they all kinda cleared out.
• 1:00:31
  You sent everybody down, and he kinda stayed back, and it became like a downfield score.
• 1:00:35
  I thought that was a cool play design.
• 1:00:37
  I would like to see more of that to get to get Jefferson the ball.
• 1:00:42
  Like, we gotta do something different.
• 1:00:43
  The the deep ins that you ran before that worked when you had time and and you had, you
• 1:00:49
  know, a veteran back there that could see that, because there's so much anticipation into those
• 1:00:54
  throws, especially in a zone.
• 1:00:55
  And I think you're seeing a lot more three deep.
• 1:00:58
  You're not seeing a lot of too high safety anymore from this team.
• 1:01:01
  You're seeing a lot of three deep, which kinda takes away that middle part of the field.
• 1:01:06
  And especially for a young quarterback that's in his head right now that doesn't wanna throw
• 1:01:10
  the interceptions, he's not seeing that yet.
• 1:01:13
  Right?
• 1:01:14
  So you gotta find other ways to get your playmakers the ball.
• 1:01:16
  And I thought that one little wrinkle, I thought that was a cool play.
• 1:01:20
  Now you can't obviously do that four or five times a game.
• 1:01:24
  And this game, you didn't need to, but I would like to see KOC.
• 1:01:27
  Like, don't the bubble screen, that isn't JJ's game.
• 1:01:30
  Right?
• 1:01:30
  Like, those easy swing passes and stuff.
• 1:01:33
  Like, that's not it.
• 1:01:34
  You gotta find a way to marry the philosophy of what you want to do on offense to the arm
• 1:01:40
  talent that you have.
• 1:01:41
  Right?
• 1:01:41
  And finding a way to do that.
• 1:01:43
  And and I thought that one play was an interesting we hadn't seen that yet.
• 1:01:48
  And I I mean, picked up a huge third down with it too, so it it was cool.
• 1:01:52
  I think that's why they do that wide receiver screen to JJ because McCarthy has that fast
• 1:01:58
  release.
• 1:01:58
  Like, he's you know, when I'm sitting there and I go, why we're seeing why receiver screen?
• 1:02:03
  To me, doesn't make sense.
• 1:02:05
  Right?
• 1:02:06
  Because then you already got your defense, so now I have to at least beat you.
• 1:02:09
  You don't have the other wide like, Jordan Addison's not gonna go block for Jefferson.
• 1:02:16
  Right?
• 1:02:16
  Like, you don't have another receiver out there that can get out there and block on the
• 1:02:21
  perimeter.
• 1:02:22
  And and, unfortunately, that's why I don't think Jordan Addison is a wide receiver too
• 1:02:25
  because he doesn't have that part to his game.
• 1:02:28
  I think he's a really strong three on a championship team, a and lot of Vikings fans
• 1:02:32
  don't like it when I say that, but do you wanna be do you wanna just, like, put the purple
• 1:02:37
  colored glasses on all the time, or you wanna look at your roster as compared to a top tier
• 1:02:42
  team and look at it that way.
• 1:02:45
  And if you're gonna have a wide receiver too, you need somebody that can get out there, be
• 1:02:49
  physical on the edge, and and open your your wide receiver one up.
• 1:02:54
  And, unfortunately, I don't feel like we have that on this team right now.
• 1:02:57
  Well and that might just be and then and I don't wanna, like, talk to his character.
• 1:03:02
  But for Jordan, like, that just might be his personal mentality right now.
• 1:03:09
  He if he came into this, if he came into playing football with, like, a Jerry Rice or a
• 1:03:15
  Chris Carter work ethic.
• 1:03:17
  Right?
• 1:03:17
  Because Chris Carter was I mean, for a lack of better term, he wasn't really shit in
• 1:03:21
  Philadelphia.
• 1:03:22
  No.
• 1:03:23
  Right?
• 1:03:25
  But, obviously, he was going through some things, and he, you know, he openly talks
• 1:03:29
  about.
• 1:03:29
  And I've told Chris personally that that was that was what brought me to the Vikings when I
• 1:03:36
  saw how he overcame.
• 1:03:38
  Right?
• 1:03:39
  You put your nose down, and you're like, alright.
• 1:03:41
  This is that was that's who I was.
• 1:03:43
  Mhmm.
• 1:03:43
  So now if Addison has that work ethic, he definitely has potential to be a solid, strong
• 1:03:51
  number two.
• 1:03:52
  Like, he's fast.
• 1:03:53
  He does have good hands, although you're absolutely right.
• 1:03:55
  He's not showing us.
• 1:03:57
  Right?
• 1:03:58
  But I don't know what maybe something's in his head.
• 1:04:01
  You know, my game's off.
• 1:04:04
  But I don't know.
• 1:04:05
  I I think there's I have so much, so much hope for him.
• 1:04:10
  So that that I think that's why when you said, like, Viking fans get upset is because I mean,
• 1:04:15
  obviously, we want all of our receivers to be Justin Jefferson.
• 1:04:19
  Right?
• 1:04:20
  Woah.
• 1:04:21
  But at the same time, you know, I keep seeing these press conferences where Justin Jefferson
• 1:04:26
  says that he's had a conversation with him.
• 1:04:28
  He's had a conversation with him.
• 1:04:29
  Okay.
• 1:04:30
  Well, if it don't work, I mean, you gotta talk.
• 1:04:32
  You know?
• 1:04:33
  Yeah.
• 1:04:33
  And, unfortunately, like, for the front office is that Addison has totally tanked his value
• 1:04:39
  between the off field stuff, right, the suspension, and then the the situation they had
• 1:04:45
  when they were overseas, him not being I don't I don't you just kinda, like, disappeared and
• 1:04:49
  his phone wasn't charged and, come on.
• 1:04:51
  Yeah.
• 1:04:51
  You got lost.
• 1:04:52
  Yeah, man.
• 1:04:53
  Like, just I I just I man, you are a professional, and this is your job.
• 1:04:58
  You make a lot of money to go out here and perform and to be part of that team and to do
• 1:05:02
  all the little things.
• 1:05:04
  And, man, I got the I
• 1:05:05
  gotta remember he's a kid.
• 1:05:08
  Right.
• 1:05:08
  Right.
• 1:05:08
  A young man
• 1:05:09
  as well.
• 1:05:09
  He's no.
• 1:05:10
  He's no.
• 1:05:11
  They're kids, bro.
• 1:05:12
  Like, when they come out of college, bro, you, I don't care if you're 19 years old.
• 1:05:16
  You ain't a grown ass man, bro.
• 1:05:18
  That's true.
• 1:05:18
  That's true.
• 1:05:19
  But Right.
• 1:05:19
  You know, that's So
• 1:05:20
  So the whole not charging your phone, that's a that's a kid thing to do, bro.
• 1:05:23
  That's just not you know, I was I'm gonna go out anywhere I've never been before without
• 1:05:27
  navigation.
• 1:05:28
  Right.
• 1:05:28
  That's ridiculous.
• 1:05:30
  I I just
• 1:05:31
  Or without a partner or a buddy?
• 1:05:33
  With a Jefferson, I think, yeah.
• 1:05:35
  Okay.
• 1:05:36
  You might have talked to him, but why don't you do more than talking to him?
• 1:05:40
  Why don't you take
• 1:05:42
  him aside and show him how
• 1:05:44
  to be a pro, you know, show him how to act.
• 1:05:48
  Jefferson hasn't had one, you know, knock on wood, hasn't had anything, any problems, You
• 1:05:54
  know, he he doesn't you know, he might be frustrated beyond belief right now, because of
• 1:05:59
  how his season's going, but he's not showing it.
• 1:06:01
  He's still being a pro, and I wish that some of that would rub off on Addison.
• 1:06:07
  You know, if he ever wants to be as a successful wide receiver too, he's gonna have
• 1:06:12
  to learn how to run block or block in general.
• 1:06:15
  And, you know, with Justin Jefferson, know, having so much attention from the defenses and
• 1:06:24
  you're getting this many, you know, this much look from McCarthy, you gotta take advantage of
• 1:06:31
  it.
• 1:06:31
  Especially with the off the field issues.
• 1:06:34
  You still you gotta perform into at least offset the the bad shit.
• 1:06:40
  You know?
• 1:06:41
  Right.
• 1:06:42
  Well, the thing is too is, I mean, there's only a phone call away, and you can probably get
• 1:06:47
  Chris Carter to sit down with him and tell him what it's like to be in the league and, you
• 1:06:51
  know, be that superstar if he's not listening to Jefferson.
• 1:06:54
  You know?
• 1:06:54
  Well, Shelley Shelley just told Jake Reed that he needs to go in the locker room.
• 1:06:59
  She told him on she's like, listen.
• 1:07:01
  We need to
• 1:07:01
  have Nice.
• 1:07:02
  Because Shelly will mom you.
• 1:07:04
  I don't care who you are.
• 1:07:05
  You could be older than or whoever.
• 1:07:07
  She moms you.
• 1:07:08
  So she's like so Jake was there shaking hands, getting ready to leave, and she goes, listen.
• 1:07:13
  These players need you to go in there and talk to
• 1:07:15
  them.
• 1:07:15
  Yep.
• 1:07:16
  You need to go in there and tell them, like, you know, stop doing this, this, and this, you
• 1:07:22
  know, and do this and, like, focus.
• 1:07:24
  And I'm just like, oh, okay.
• 1:07:26
  Let's go stop yelling at the receiver.
• 1:07:28
  Let's leave.
• 1:07:30
  Y'all keep talking.
• 1:07:31
  So I got the opportunity to interview.
• 1:07:34
  I was working a PGA tour event, and Ronde Barber and Chris Carter were part of a
• 1:07:40
  celebrity game.
• 1:07:41
  So I got to interview these guys for, like, forty five minutes at the press conference.
• 1:07:46
  You guys talk amongst yourselves.
• 1:07:47
  I'm gonna pull myself off the screen.
• 1:07:48
  I'm gonna see if I can dig that video up because he shared a really cool story about one
• 1:07:52
  of his coaches early on because he thought he was gonna be a basketball player.
• 1:07:56
  Right?
• 1:07:56
  Like, he was he was a basketball player in college, and a coach came to him that was
• 1:08:01
  actually had connections to South Dakota.
• 1:08:03
  So he shared this really cool story.
• 1:08:05
  I'm gonna see if I can dig the video up.
• 1:08:06
  You guys keep talking ball, and I'll be right back.
• 1:08:11
  Yeah.
• 1:08:12
  They what'd you guys think of Max?
• 1:08:17
  Brosmer?
• 1:08:18
  Yeah.
• 1:08:19
  I think he was, I think the Vikings organization should have publicly come out and
• 1:08:25
  apologize to him, and specifically Kevin O'Connell.
• 1:08:29
  I think they set him up to fail right from the start.
• 1:08:35
  Hey.
• 1:08:35
  I'm just gonna go back and say it.
• 1:08:38
  Like, when you have a rookie quarterback undrafted, you know, played one year,
• 1:08:46
  basically, you know, at the big 10 level.
• 1:08:52
  You gotta help them out.
• 1:08:53
  You gotta help them out.
• 1:08:55
  You you you go and take them points, going for them that fourth down, that first one that led
• 1:09:00
  to the big six.
• 1:09:01
  I'm I'm still pissed off about it.
• 1:09:04
  No.
• 1:09:04
  Because I don't I
• 1:09:05
  don't give a fuck who you are.
• 1:09:06
  Sorry for cursing.
• 1:09:07
  I don't care who you are.
• 1:09:08
  There is no reason to throw that ball.
• 1:09:11
  Yep.
• 1:09:11
  You are taught in peewee football
• 1:09:13
  if you
• 1:09:14
  were being rushed, you throw the ball to the sidelines.
• 1:09:17
  Well, that's and that's the thing is, you know, you you play peewee football, little league
• 1:09:23
  baseball, or stuff like that.
• 1:09:24
  You get to the majors.
• 1:09:25
  The game You get the fundamentals.
• 1:09:27
  You take you take that sack.
• 1:09:29
  You throw it to the sideline.
• 1:09:30
  You don't look at a third call strike right down the middle.
• 1:09:33
  I that's not that frustrates me.
• 1:09:35
  When I when I saw him going down and I saw him do this flip, I'm just like, well, that is
• 1:09:40
  going to the house.
• 1:09:41
  Man.
• 1:09:43
  Yeah.
• 1:09:43
  It's more But I've
• 1:09:45
  got some
• 1:09:46
  I would like to see them play against this offensive line that played this past week to
• 1:09:50
  see what he could do.
• 1:09:51
  I mean, I I saw times where it looked like, okay.
• 1:09:54
  He could get it if he gets some time, get some steps in there.
• 1:09:57
  Yeah.
• 1:09:57
  I know there's times that he he looked lost.
• 1:10:00
  I mean,
• 1:10:01
  it was horrible.
• 1:10:01
  You gotta think it's overwhelming.
• 1:10:03
  Right?
• 1:10:04
  I was just gonna say he wasn't ready for the spotlight.
• 1:10:07
  He wasn't ready just to be out there really taking meaningful snaps.
• 1:10:14
  Nope.
• 1:10:15
  I think he would have been better suited getting more, you know, garbage time just to
• 1:10:21
  get that feel of, you know, everything.
• 1:10:23
  Dude, I have so many fan like, because I get so anytime anything Vikings happens, I get random
• 1:10:29
  messages.
• 1:10:30
  You know?
• 1:10:31
  Like, just because I have tattoos and I dress up, I'm I'm an expert, and they they wanna know
• 1:10:35
  what I know from the team or whatever.
• 1:10:37
  I don't get it.
• 1:10:39
  But at the same time, bro, you get people that'll be like, well, I mean, he should be
• 1:10:45
  better.
• 1:10:45
  Right?
• 1:10:46
  We need to draft a guy because nobody's coming out like Patrick Mahomes.
• 1:10:49
  I'm like, dude, Patrick, you forget.
• 1:10:52
  Patrick Mahomes came into a winning team already.
• 1:10:55
  Alex Smith had already had this they had a amazing offensive line.
• 1:11:00
  Mhmm.
• 1:11:01
  Amazing.
• 1:11:02
  And then you got Mahomes who has the time.
• 1:11:04
  So, yeah, obviously, he has time to throw, so his confidence has got huge.
• 1:11:09
  And now he he's Superman.
• 1:11:11
  Things he can do whatever whatever on the field.
• 1:11:14
  But you got guys like the I don't know.
• 1:11:16
  People just think Mahomes is like he earned it.
• 1:11:18
  You know what I mean?
• 1:11:19
  And he I mean, he's a phenomenal quarterback.
• 1:11:22
  But to come into an already set offensive line, offense ready, and, like, just I don't know.
• 1:11:29
  There you you can't really compare the two.
• 1:11:31
  No.
• 1:11:31
  You can't.
• 1:11:32
  And that's
• 1:11:32
  the whole thing.
• 1:11:33
  It's it's where the quarterback's gonna draft.
• 1:11:35
  That's why when it comes to the draft, and everybody's like, oh, this guy's a canvas
• 1:11:39
  player, canvas player, canvas player.
• 1:11:40
  This guy's a franchise.
• 1:11:41
  It's just like, look where he's going.
• 1:11:44
  I mean, you know, they said that about Caleb.
• 1:11:47
  Yeah.
• 1:11:47
  Caleb looked a little bit better.
• 1:11:48
  They said that about Ward this year.
• 1:11:51
  They've said that about, you know, Jamarcus Russell and a lot
• 1:11:54
  of other the greatest college quarterback, like, the quarterback to come out of college
• 1:11:58
  ever.
• 1:11:58
  Mhmm.
• 1:11:59
  Yep.
• 1:11:59
  How'd he do in the pros?
• 1:12:01
  Exactly.
• 1:12:02
  Exactly.
• 1:12:03
  You know you know, look at I mean, Brady, when did he get drafted?
• 1:12:07
  Sixth round?
• 1:12:08
  Almost '7.
• 1:12:09
  Yeah.
• 1:12:10
  You know?
• 1:12:10
  Sixth.
• 1:12:10
  Yeah.
• 1:12:11
  And and we got to see what happened to him due to an injury.
• 1:12:14
  You know?
• 1:12:15
  I mean, this this I mean, Brock Purdy, last pick of the draft a few years ago, yeah, he's
• 1:12:20
  average.
• 1:12:21
  He struggled the first couple years, though.
• 1:12:23
  Yeah.
• 1:12:23
  You know?
• 1:12:24
  Look at Johnny Menzel.
• 1:12:25
  They said Johnny Menzel was gonna be the next Joe Montana.
• 1:12:28
  Yep.
• 1:12:29
  You know?
• 1:12:29
  But Purdy Purdy
• 1:12:31
  had a good offensive line as well, though.
• 1:12:33
  Trent Williams there?
• 1:12:35
  Yeah.
• 1:12:35
  You know?
• 1:12:36
  Like, it's that offensive line.
• 1:12:38
  Like, you know, JJ, yeah, he has the weapons, but if he doesn't have time to get it to the
• 1:12:44
  weapons, it's just not it's a recipe for failure.
• 1:12:48
  Exactly.
• 1:12:49
  I mean, that's what Madden always said is that you gotta give these guys time.
• 1:12:52
  You gotta win the line of scrimmage and
• 1:12:54
  Right.
• 1:12:55
  You know,
• 1:12:55
  and you're gonna win the game.
• 1:12:56
  I mean, you know, I'm I'm with, you know, you on you know, we gotta stick with JJ.
• 1:13:01
  I mean, we drafted him tenth.
• 1:13:03
  We can't give up on him after this year or next year.
• 1:13:06
  You know, we gotta stick with him.
• 1:13:08
  Gotta build that office line.
• 1:13:09
  Yes.
• 1:13:10
  You know, Jefferson's time window to win a Super Bowl is probably gonna diminish every
• 1:13:15
  year, but, you know, it it could take just a couple people on that offensive line to change
• 1:13:19
  it around.
• 1:13:20
  But it also might not.
• 1:13:22
  I mean, if he can stay healthy and then you know?
• 1:13:25
  Well
• 1:13:26
  The wide receiver is one of those positions where as long as he, you know, as long as he's
• 1:13:30
  healthy, they can do it for, seven years.
• 1:13:33
  Is Speedy the wide receiver three?
• 1:13:37
  The what?
• 1:13:38
  Is, Naylor that wide receiver three?
• 1:13:41
  Can he be it?
• 1:13:42
  Yeah.
• 1:13:42
  He can be that.
• 1:13:43
  I I like Naylor, bro.
• 1:13:46
  Oh, here we go.
• 1:13:49
  Man, I I think if Addison keeps fucking around, Naylor's gonna be that that guy, and they're
• 1:13:54
  gonna go find well, I think they need to go find a bigger body number.
• 1:13:57
  They they need to find someone that can do a little bit of what of
• 1:14:03
  what Is that is that Steelers wide receiver available?
• 1:14:06
  That one that's, like, six eight?
• 1:14:09
  Is he need to be something like that, but it definitely needs to be somebody that's in that
• 1:14:13
  six three, six four range.
• 1:14:15
  Right?
• 1:14:15
  Somebody that can still go up and get it, that can take some pressure, that can block on the
• 1:14:20
  edge.
• 1:14:20
  I think that's important.
• 1:14:21
  So I
• 1:14:21
  figured we have Rondell Moore.
• 1:14:25
  Well, right.
• 1:14:26
  And I don't even know who else is on on the roster.
• 1:14:28
  Right?
• 1:14:28
  We got guys that are bare with it.
• 1:14:30
  Ty Fellman has seen the field.
• 1:14:31
  Has he seen the field at all?
• 1:14:33
  Yeah.
• 1:14:33
  He's got a good cast.
• 1:14:34
  A couple passes yes, Sunday.
• 1:14:36
  Yep.
• 1:14:37
  Perfect.
• 1:14:38
  So, yeah, you're starting to get this.
• 1:14:39
  So this was a really cool event, man.
• 1:14:41
  I I don't even know the these silly podcasts, man.
• 1:14:44
  I've gotten me into some pretty cool stuff this last year.
• 1:14:46
  So this press conference is with Ronde Barber, Chris Carter, hall of famers in their own right
• 1:14:52
  in football.
• 1:14:54
  And then Cernick Faldo on the right there was the world number one golfer for ninety two
• 1:14:58
  weeks in a row in the World Golf Hall of Fame.
• 1:15:01
  I forget the other guy's the host of it.
• 1:15:03
  He was a really good golfer, masters champion.
• 1:15:07
  We're not gonna hear it on this, but there was a funny my wife's favorite moment of this
• 1:15:11
  presser is when I referred to the open, the British Open, the open as one of the other
• 1:15:18
  majors.
• 1:15:19
  So Nick Faldo had a good surname.
• 1:15:21
  Faldo had a good ribbing with me.
• 1:15:23
  But, so the question is coming from, my wife loved that.
• 1:15:27
  Right?
• 1:15:27
  They're like, they're laughing at you.
• 1:15:28
  I was like, I don't even think that they're hall of famers, man.
• 1:15:31
  So what?
• 1:15:32
  The guy's a knight.
• 1:15:33
  The guy's a literal knight.
• 1:15:34
  He could say whatever he wants to.
• 1:15:37
  But, so the question I think that we're gonna hear is talking about Chris' old coach.
• 1:15:42
  I hope the audio comes through okay on this too.
• 1:15:45
  But, yeah, this is me at a press conference with Chris Carter and Ronday Barber.
• 1:15:51
  Yeah.
• 1:15:51
  There's nothing like it.
• 1:15:52
  When you win, you go back to the hotel and, you know, you go, I gotta get a plane here one
• 1:15:57
  morning and go someplace and do something else.
• 1:15:59
  Alright?
• 1:16:00
  Sometimes there isn't that joy.
• 1:16:03
  You know, there's probably more twenty years later when you sit back
• 1:16:38
  this guy.
• 1:16:40
  These people Steve Bliss, this guy who works with Sanford Health and a lot of different
• 1:16:47
  reasons.
• 1:16:48
  I met him when I was 17 years old visiting Ohio State.
• 1:16:52
  And he is an avid weightlifter, Olympic weightlifter.
• 1:16:57
  And at that time, I was a basketball player.
• 1:17:00
  So I would used to tell coach, coach Bliss, I can't lift on my shoulders because it's gonna
• 1:17:04
  mess up my jump shot.
• 1:17:06
  He's like, son, you're going to the NFL.
• 1:17:09
  So when I originally went to Ohio State, he and some of the other coaches, they had alluded to
• 1:17:16
  later on that they they let me kind of believe that they were gonna let me play two sports
• 1:17:22
  there when I signed up and play basketball.
• 1:17:24
  At that time, my brother was in the NBA and I had, at that time, three other brothers playing
• 1:17:28
  division one basketball.
• 1:17:30
  So we go through my freshman year, freshman all day 10, freshman all American, and then for the
• 1:17:37
  first time in Rose Bowl history, I win the MVP of the Rose Bowl as on the losing team.
• 1:17:43
  Had nine catches for a 170 something yards, broke Don Hudson's long time record at the Rose
• 1:17:48
  Bowl.
• 1:17:49
  After the game, me, Earl Bruce, and coach Bliss met in the locker room and because I was
• 1:17:55
  supposed to fly back the next day and join the basketball team.
• 1:17:58
  And they came up with this plan and he told me in the locker room at the Rose Bowl, if you
• 1:18:04
  lift weights with me two times during winter conditioning, during the winter semester,
• 1:18:10
  you'll be the first all American wide receiver in the history of Ohio State.
• 1:18:16
  But we need you not to play basketball.
• 1:18:18
  We need you to give up basketball.
• 1:18:20
  And at that time, you know, sitting in the locker room, just got the MVP, like, my head
• 1:18:26
  spinning.
• 1:18:26
  And I really believe at that time I'm a better basketball player.
• 1:18:30
  So coach Bliss was part of the coaching staff that really got me turned around as far as
• 1:18:35
  Olympic weight lifting.
• 1:18:36
  I mean, I immediately went from, like, a hundred and seventy nine pounds to, like, a
• 1:18:39
  hundred ninety eight pounds.
• 1:18:41
  And he was one of the real people in my life, foundationally, that gave me a work ethic and
• 1:18:49
  let me understand about weight lifting and how it would transition into football.
• 1:18:53
  And he projected me in places that I couldn't I couldn't see myself.
• 1:18:57
  So coach Melissa is unbelievable.
• 1:18:59
  The people here in South Dakota, North Dakota have access to him.
• 1:19:02
  Like, you have one of the best in sports right here in your backyard.
• 1:19:07
  Utilize him because he has stories like that.
• 1:19:10
  Right?
• 1:19:11
  Yes.
• 1:19:12
  He affected me in a way.
• 1:19:13
  I wouldn't have an all of a sudden career and ideology if I hadn't met people like coach
• 1:19:18
  Bliss.
• 1:19:19
  So make sure you tell him, you know, respect.
• 1:19:59
  Awesome, man.
• 1:20:00
  I I think you start to see, you know, it's as young men that they find that work ethic.
• 1:20:07
  And like we were kind of alluding to with an Addison is like, where's that mentorship?
• 1:20:13
  Right?
• 1:20:13
  Like, if you're not gonna listen to and maybe him and Jedis are are too close in age, right,
• 1:20:18
  where he's not, you know, having somebody with that, you know, that you're willing to give
• 1:20:23
  that authority to.
• 1:20:25
  Right?
• 1:20:25
  That you're willing to say, you know what?
• 1:20:27
  This this man is smarter than me and knows better, and I'm gonna take that advice.
• 1:20:32
  And, you know, I we want this team to do well.
• 1:20:36
  I think this team is better with a Jordan Addison on it, but, you know, you cost your
• 1:20:41
  game you cost your team three games of you on the field.
• 1:20:44
  I have a major problem with that.
• 1:20:48
  Mhmm.
• 1:20:48
  You know, I a championship team doesn't have players like that on it.
• 1:20:53
  And I think that's kinda been where I've been alluding to is that you obviously if you're
• 1:20:58
  gonna if you're gonna be selfish and you're gonna go do some off the field shit that you
• 1:21:03
  know is gonna cost you and cost your team, then you don't have that work ethic that's needed to
• 1:21:09
  be a champion.
• 1:21:10
  Right.
• 1:21:10
  Right?
• 1:21:11
  And Right.
• 1:21:11
  You may be a successful NFL player, and you may play some good ball, but you're never gonna
• 1:21:17
  achieve that next level.
• 1:21:19
  And, we kinda talked about it with, when, you know, Marcus was here too.
• 1:21:24
  He's like, show me what would that quote.
• 1:21:27
  Right?
• 1:21:27
  Like, show me your friends, and I'll show you your future.
• 1:21:30
  Mhmm.
• 1:21:31
  And and you have to wonder, you know, what what is that friend.
• 1:21:35
  Right?
• 1:21:35
  What is that friend?
• 1:21:36
  What is those people around him?
• 1:21:38
  Who who's the people that are that are influencing his life?
• 1:21:41
  And, you know, man, I really took that, what Marcus said tonight, to heart too because, you
• 1:21:46
  know, I I'm coming to a different point in my own life as a broadcaster, a podcaster,
• 1:21:51
  whatever.
• 1:21:51
  And I see people like Cody around me that I know your grind, and I know your story.
• 1:21:57
  I know your backstory and where you've come from and where you're going.
• 1:22:00
  And a lot of in the music world, you'll see a lot of people that, you know, think you can
• 1:22:06
  party and work and do the both things.
• 1:22:10
  Right?
• 1:22:10
  And that's that's not the case.
• 1:22:13
  You know?
• 1:22:13
  That's just not the case at all.
• 1:22:15
  And you have to wonder, you know, where you have to think about where you wanna be and how
• 1:22:19
  bad you want this.
• 1:22:21
  And for me, man, I I've I've taken a massive pay cut.
• 1:22:25
  Like, I could I could go to the factory and go make, you know, $50,000 a year.
• 1:22:30
  Took a massive pay cut taking that away from my family to to commit myself to this.
• 1:22:36
  Right?
• 1:22:36
  And if that means twelve to sixteen hour days in front of a damn camera, right, going live
• 1:22:43
  three, four times a day and committing to that, then so be it.
• 1:22:47
  But it ain't gonna be you know?
• 1:22:50
  You know, I've had a license.
• 1:22:51
  I could smoke weed if I wanted to, but I'm not as good on camera if I'm doing those things.
• 1:22:55
  Right?
• 1:22:56
  And I know that.
• 1:22:58
  And I I know that I'm not as good at this job if I'm impairing myself in any way.
• 1:23:04
  And it's definitely been a, you know, kinda looking at myself in the mirror and going, what
• 1:23:09
  do you want?
• 1:23:10
  Like, what do you want?
• 1:23:11
  Do you wanna be someone who, you know, half asses their way through life and can live a
• 1:23:19
  comfortable life?
• 1:23:20
  Right?
• 1:23:21
  Like, I wasn't uncomfortable.
• 1:23:22
  50 k a year was plenty of money in our South Dakota town.
• 1:23:25
  My wife makes okay money.
• 1:23:27
  Right?
• 1:23:28
  I could live that, or did I want more for myself and for my family?
• 1:23:32
  And Right.
• 1:23:33
  And committing to that, sleeping in my truck.
• 1:23:36
  You know?
• 1:23:37
  And I Cody, I know you relate to that.
• 1:23:39
  Right?
• 1:23:39
  You know, living in the back of that, were you willing to commit to that to go after what you
• 1:23:45
  wanted?
• 1:23:45
  And, you know, we ain't sleeping in our vehicles anymore.
• 1:23:50
  And if you are, you can call us because we would love to help you.
• 1:23:55
  Especially if you're out there putting in the work.
• 1:23:58
  Right?
• 1:23:58
  And, you know, I I want I want people to see us putting in the work.
• 1:24:03
  And that's why I'm live here and doing this show and doing the pregame show and doing you
• 1:24:09
  know, now I'm live five days a week in the afternoons
• 1:24:12
  Yes, sir.
• 1:24:13
  For a music show too, right, and showing up every morning and going live.
• 1:24:17
  So you see me because I want you to see the growth.
• 1:24:19
  I want you to participate in the story.
• 1:24:22
  I want you to see it day by day, and and I don't have to write it down.
• 1:24:26
  Right?
• 1:24:26
  I'm here.
• 1:24:27
  I'm saying it to you.
• 1:24:29
  Right?
• 1:24:29
  I'm putting it on tape, and I think that you are the product of that tape.
• 1:24:33
  And from this team now, and why we say that we we want to win out.
• 1:24:38
  Right?
• 1:24:39
  Like, because you are who you put on tape.
• 1:24:41
  And this team next year is gonna be a reflection of the end of this year's team.
• 1:24:47
  You're gonna have a lot of the same guys back.
• 1:24:49
  Yeah.
• 1:24:49
  There's gonna be some new faces.
• 1:24:51
  But if new faces are coming in and they're looking at a team that rolled over the last
• 1:24:56
  five games of the season because they weren't in the playoffs, you're gonna get that same
• 1:25:00
  kind of player that comes in there and say, oh, this is how this team behaves.
• 1:25:04
  I And don't think you can do that.
• 1:25:05
  I think you have to go out and prove it in these last four games.
• 1:25:09
  I want that Green Bay game to have consequences at the end of the year.
• 1:25:13
  Right?
• 1:25:13
  Like, I want that to be our fucking Super Bowl to where we go out and and maybe affect their
• 1:25:19
  draft seating.
• 1:25:19
  I want them to want it.
• 1:25:21
  I don't want it I don't want their seed to be locked up at the end of the year so that they
• 1:25:24
  got something to play for.
• 1:25:25
  I don't wanna go out win that fucking football game.
• 1:25:28
  Right?
• 1:25:28
  Right.
• 1:25:28
  And
• 1:25:29
  that's what I would
• 1:25:29
  like win it just to the
• 1:25:32
  the the I mean, they got things locked up and, you know, Packer fans and the Packer team's
• 1:25:37
  gonna wanna win it just because it's a division game against Minnesota.
• 1:25:40
  I mean so
• 1:25:41
  that game wouldn't mean something
• 1:25:43
  implications or, you know, them and the bears are kind of neck and neck to the end of the
• 1:25:48
  season.
• 1:25:48
  That I want that game to meet as much as Green Bay as it does to us and not just because of
• 1:25:54
  division.
• 1:25:54
  I want it to have consequences for them if they lose because that's something that we can then
• 1:25:59
  hang our hat on at the end of the year.
• 1:26:01
  And, you know, you got to what what's our life?
• 1:26:05
  We got Dow I mean, Dallas is a good football team.
• 1:26:07
  If you can go out and play well and beat a good, Dallas team that maybe don't have the
• 1:26:11
  record that I think a lot of us expected them to, there's a lot of things that you could
• 1:26:15
  still hang your hat on to finish this season out to look back on through the course of the
• 1:26:21
  offseason and say, hey.
• 1:26:22
  It might not have gone our way.
• 1:26:24
  The record might not have been what we wanted to be, but we grew.
• 1:26:29
  And I think I heard a little bit of that from KOC in his postgame locker room speech.
• 1:26:34
  I was hearing once again things that and and KOC is a big reason why I defected from that
• 1:26:41
  bears team over and started rooting for this Vikings team because I saw something in the
• 1:26:48
  coach and in the team that I was attracted to.
• 1:26:52
  Right?
• 1:26:52
  And not just tired of my wife talking shit to me all the time.
• 1:26:57
  I mean,
• 1:26:58
  the thing I took for the game I mean, you know, I I text Cody a couple times.
• 1:27:02
  That first drive at a that first drive for the defense, you know, they stopped him, gave him a
• 1:27:09
  c.
• 1:27:09
  They came back, marched down.
• 1:27:12
  You know, overall, I think the game itself was like an a minus, b plus, but I wanna see what
• 1:27:18
  happens against the Cowboys.
• 1:27:19
  I wanna see what happens.
• 1:27:20
  I want I want consistency now, these last four games, to keep that an a.
• 1:27:24
  Right now, I would say if I wrote it down, I would say the game was an incomplete grade
• 1:27:28
  because I wanna see what goes forward on that game, you know, the game calling and stuff like
• 1:27:34
  that.
• 1:27:34
  Yeah.
• 1:27:34
  Dallas is a good team.
• 1:27:35
  We definitely gotta show up against these good teams.
• 1:27:38
  I mean, we did against Detroit.
• 1:27:40
  You know, nobody thought we beat Detroit in Detroit, and we did.
• 1:27:44
  We went out there.
• 1:27:45
  You know, we need we need that consistency to go.
• 1:27:48
  I mean, we're gonna turn over the ball.
• 1:27:50
  I don't I don't see us not turning over the ball anymore.
• 1:27:52
  I mean so turnovers are gonna happen, but we need that game plan to go out there again, do
• 1:27:57
  it again.
• 1:27:58
  We need to get JJ involved in the game because, I mean, he's sitting at, what, 300 yards for
• 1:28:03
  the year?
• 1:28:04
  I mean, that's that's not JJ.
• 1:28:06
  That's a third string receiver.
• 1:28:07
  You know, we need JJ to get into
• 1:28:10
  He's gotta get a thousand, man.
• 1:28:11
  We gotta get him to a thousand, and I think you well, you have to find a way to marry now.
• 1:28:17
  Okay.
• 1:28:18
  The team does well in these jumbo sets, in this 13 or 12 personnel instead of the 11, right,
• 1:28:25
  where you're one tight end, one running back with the three wide receivers.
• 1:28:29
  Can you go out there, throw some different looks, get JJ his touches within this kind of
• 1:28:36
  new look offense?
• 1:28:37
  Right?
• 1:28:38
  Like, where do they come from?
• 1:28:39
  And this is KOC's gotta show a certain amount of development.
• 1:28:43
  Because I think what happened this year that a lot of people aren't giving a lot of credence
• 1:28:47
  to because there's been so many other things, injuries and quarterback play and everything
• 1:28:52
  else is that this league will figure you out.
• 1:28:55
  Defensive coordinators make a lot of money on the other side of the ball too.
• 1:28:59
  Right?
• 1:28:59
  And I think they kind of have seen enough of KOC in his system over the course of the last
• 1:29:04
  three, four years to know that, hey.
• 1:29:07
  This is what the guy likes to do.
• 1:29:09
  These are the things that he's put on tape.
• 1:29:11
  Right?
• 1:29:12
  Can can KOC make adjustments?
• 1:29:14
  Now he did over a week, and I'm with you, B.
• 1:29:16
  And to me, I'm not really given any grades until the end of the season.
• 1:29:20
  Like No.
• 1:29:21
  Yeah.
• 1:29:21
  Exactly.
• 1:29:22
  Five games now kind of stack into themselves to a little mini season.
• 1:29:27
  Like, let's let's judge let's judge it by the rest of this season.
• 1:29:31
  What's happened has happened.
• 1:29:32
  And now what do you have?
• 1:29:34
  You have this condensed look at what this team could be moving forward.
• 1:29:38
  Yeah.
• 1:29:38
  I look at I look at this game as yeah.
• 1:29:40
  I I'm not gonna give it a grade.
• 1:29:41
  I'll give it incomplete.
• 1:29:43
  But, you know, in the back of my mind, yeah, I think it was a a minus b.
• 1:29:47
  But if the rest of these games go back to where they're playing like they did the other games
• 1:29:52
  with JJ, then this game means nothing.
• 1:29:54
  I mean, this the way they perform meant nothing.
• 1:29:57
  So I'm just next four games, I'm looking for consistency out of everybody.
• 1:30:01
  I mean, it it has to be consistency, and and Jefferson has to get involved.
• 1:30:06
  I mean, that's the next step.
• 1:30:08
  Yeah.
• 1:30:09
  I you know, just to piggyback off that, you know, there's this team that we have right now,
• 1:30:17
  you know, take into account, the salary cap situation.
• 1:30:22
  There's not gonna be very many, additions other than through the draft unless we get, extremely
• 1:30:30
  creative.
• 1:30:32
  And I don't see that happening.
• 1:30:33
  So this team is basic minus a few faces, basically gonna be the one we're rolling with
• 1:30:39
  next year.
• 1:30:40
  So it's extremely important that we get that chemistry going, that we get some sort of
• 1:30:45
  momentum going in, some sort of belief, some sort of, hey.
• 1:30:50
  Not only are we winning games, but we're doing it this way, running the ball.
• 1:30:54
  Hey.
• 1:30:54
  We can actually hit Jefferson for more than 15 yards a game.
• 1:30:58
  You know?
• 1:30:58
  We're keeping him happy as well.
• 1:31:01
  Offensive line staying healthy.
• 1:31:03
  Just bring it all together if the most part, at least for the end of the year.
• 1:31:11
  Dallas is good is no slouch.
• 1:31:13
  Their defense is gonna be their defensive line and the way they run their defense, is gonna be
• 1:31:20
  extremely difficult, and it's gonna challenge our offensive line.
• 1:31:23
  They run a lot of five down linemen, so that makes it one on ones all across the board.
• 1:31:30
  If we have one, person not doing their job or not healthy and we have a backup there, that
• 1:31:37
  just points out our weak spot right there.
• 1:31:40
  Just having those linemen do one on one.
• 1:31:43
  And then you send a linebacker in there.
• 1:31:46
  This is gonna be a tough one.
• 1:31:48
  No.
• 1:31:49
  And I think that the style of defense that they play almost warrants that you play that jumbo
• 1:31:55
  package.
• 1:31:56
  Right?
• 1:31:56
  That you're getting more Josh Oliver out there, that you're getting, you know, the other tight
• 1:32:01
  ends involved, and you're showing some you're showing that you can push people around.
• 1:32:07
  And I think you have that pedigree on the offensive line.
• 1:32:11
  I I don't think every I don't think any offensive lineman wants to drop back 50 times a
• 1:32:15
  game.
• 1:32:16
  Right?
• 1:32:16
  Like, it just doesn't you wanna go out there and pancake somebody and put them on their ass
• 1:32:21
  and to run over somebody to go out and take out a cornerback when you get a chance running out
• 1:32:27
  on the edge.
• 1:32:28
  And, like, that's that's what you wanna do.
• 1:32:30
  That's what makes you feel good, not dropping back and having somebody maul you play after
• 1:32:34
  play after play.
• 1:32:36
  And it it you can do both.
• 1:32:39
  And I think that we saw a little bit of that this week.
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  You gotta be able to wear out those defensive linemen too.
• 1:32:45
  I mean, what?
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  You got Kenny Clark out there in the middle of that defense.
• 1:32:50
  The man's a problem, and this Minnesota team should be very familiar with him and how much
• 1:32:55
  of a problem he can be.
• 1:32:57
  Yeah.
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  So get out there.
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  Run this guy over a few times.
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  Get his fat ass jogging up and down the field.
• 1:33:04
  Right?
• 1:33:04
  You know?
• 1:33:05
  And that and that affects those big guys.
• 1:33:07
  Right?
• 1:33:07
  A couple of those those eight, ten, fifteen, twenty yard runs, and these defensive linemen
• 1:33:13
  are having a jog up and down that field, man.
• 1:33:15
  You want them to be gassed.
• 1:33:16
  You want them throwing their arm up and coming out of the game.
• 1:33:19
  And that changes the whole look of a team, and I hope that, I hope we see more of it.
• 1:33:25
  And like you said, B is like consistency.
• 1:33:27
  Can we come out?
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  And does it look exactly like it did against the commanders?
• 1:33:31
  I hope so, but it could look a little bit different with JJ getting the ball, maybe
• 1:33:36
  Addison touching the ball, catching the ball, and it looks a little bit better.
• 1:33:41
  There there's a way to bring it all together.
• 1:33:43
  I know that, you know, KOC probably threw up in his mouth a couple of times calling 25 run
• 1:33:47
  plays.
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  No doubt.
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  But, you know, you won, and you won in decisive fashion.
• 1:33:53
  Yeah.
• 1:33:54
  Right?
• 1:33:54
  Like, that like, at some point, he's gotta put the ego and the pride away too and to say, hey.
• 1:34:01
  This is how my football team wins games.
• 1:34:03
  I have to be that play caller to deliver on that.
• 1:34:06
  Well, and it's it's like, we got three we had over 300 yards of offense.
• 1:34:13
  You know?
• 1:34:14
  And if it's just, if if that comes from something so simple as just running the ball a
• 1:34:21
  little bit more Mhmm.
• 1:34:23
  You know, I mean, penalties.
• 1:34:25
  We only had three penalties for 24 yards compared to the previous weeks, the turnovers
• 1:34:32
  and some, our red zone, four for four, like, the whole game all the way around when, you
• 1:34:38
  know, that was what we needed.
• 1:34:40
  That those are the stats we should have had at the very least against a team like Washington.
• 1:34:45
  Well and I think too is the defensive side, you stopped him on fourth down.
• 1:34:51
  Offensive side, you got that third down on a on a third or you got that first down on a third
• 1:34:56
  down.
• 1:34:58
  And also going forward, we we need to find out our identity of our, you know, leader on
• 1:35:03
  defense because Smith is gonna retire.
• 1:35:05
  So who's gonna be the one to step up and and fill those shoes?
• 1:35:08
  But, well, this game showed me a lot and, you know, I mean, when the that first drive, I'm
• 1:35:14
  almost like, oh, Washington's gonna score on this one.
• 1:35:17
  Next thing I know, we got the ball on the two, and we're heading the other way for another
• 1:35:20
  touchdown.
• 1:35:20
  So, you know, they they showed that they can make stops when needed.
• 1:35:26
  Alright.
• 1:35:27
  We got one segment we need to get to before I let you guys go.
• 1:35:31
  Coach, we got the good, the bad, and the ugly.
• 1:35:34
  The goater, the eelier, and the odor.
• 1:35:39
  That's gonna take me a while to get used to.
• 1:35:41
  I'm telling you that right now.
• 1:35:43
  Yeah.
• 1:35:44
  The good
• 1:35:45
  We can each take one if you want to.
• 1:35:47
  We can each take one.
• 1:35:48
  It's all good.
• 1:35:49
  Yeah.
• 1:35:50
  I'll I'll I'll go ahead and I'll take the good.
• 1:35:53
  The good, I mean, we we came out and we scored a touchdown.
• 1:35:58
  First touchdown scored in how how long?
• 1:36:02
  Like, 19 quarters, it felt like.
• 1:36:04
  Yeah.
• 1:36:04
  A month and a half.
• 1:36:06
  Yeah.
• 1:36:07
  So that was good.
• 1:36:09
  Just having, like I said, 300 yards of offense, that's a step in the right direction.
• 1:36:16
  The you know, the winning the turnover battle, that was gonna be huge.
• 1:36:20
  Van Ginkle, I don't know how you do it.
• 1:36:22
  It's just that one play, but you just seem to make it every week, and I'm totally fine with
• 1:36:27
  it.
• 1:36:27
  You can keep that up.
• 1:36:29
  McCarthy's showing growth.
• 1:36:32
  You know, now we just gotta work on the consistency, work on the touch on the ball.
• 1:36:37
  And before you know it, I feel like that chemistry between him him and JJ, it's just a
• 1:36:43
  matter of time.
• 1:36:45
  B, you go ahead and take the bad.
• 1:36:48
  Man, bad.
• 1:36:51
  God.
• 1:36:52
  There's there's really nothing.
• 1:36:53
  I mean, bad is, you know, definitely gotta get JJ involved.
• 1:36:57
  He's been, you know, couple of games where he's just had two receptions for 10 yards ish.
• 1:37:03
  I mean, he's definitely gotta get into the game.
• 1:37:08
  Definitely, on defense, he just I I think the bad that first drive, I think, was bad until
• 1:37:14
  they made that stop.
• 1:37:15
  I mean, we're you know, me as a Viking fan watching them go down, it's like, oh, we scored
• 1:37:20
  now.
• 1:37:20
  They're gonna go down and score.
• 1:37:21
  It's just like and then they stopped them.
• 1:37:23
  So but I I don't know there really wasn't much bad.
• 1:37:27
  Maybe, you know, as sir Picasso said, the the stadium didn't get rocking until after that
• 1:37:37
  first drive or maybe the first stop.
• 1:37:38
  So, you know, maybe some of the back came from the mojo of the fans.
• 1:37:43
  So that's all I got.
• 1:37:45
  That
• 1:37:46
  leaves me with the ugly that's fitting.
• 1:37:49
  It's gotta be it's gotta be that ward hit on Earth's.
• 1:37:54
  I mean, nobody wants to see that.
• 1:37:56
  And, you know, the kid feels bad about it.
• 1:37:59
  I don't I don't think it's be a dirty play.
• 1:38:02
  I I even heard some Vikings fans on the Vikings vent line that were coming out and saying it
• 1:38:07
  was dirty, and he's doing it.
• 1:38:09
  I mean
• 1:38:09
  It's not gonna be here.
• 1:38:11
  It's on him.
• 1:38:12
  Yeah.
• 1:38:12
  I think I don't think he thought he was gonna jump for it.
• 1:38:15
  I think that hit was gonna come in and hit him mid thigh.
• 1:38:18
  He jumps up in the air.
• 1:38:20
  It clips I mean, you're talking about a six inches.
• 1:38:22
  Right?
• 1:38:23
  Like, six inches would be in the middle of a guy's thigh.
• 1:38:25
  Well, maybe, like, a foot on Zach.
• 1:38:27
  He got fined.
• 1:38:28
  Massive human being.
• 1:38:29
  Wait.
• 1:38:30
  He did get fined for that?
• 1:38:31
  He did.
• 1:38:32
  Yeah.
• 1:38:33
  I don't know.
• 1:38:33
  How much was it, b?
• 1:38:35
  200 and dollars?
• 1:38:39
  Was it wasn't much.
• 1:38:40
  He said he wasn't gonna fight it either.
• 1:38:43
  Let's see here.
• 1:38:45
  No.
• 1:38:46
  And and you think that that's a
• 1:38:48
  lot of respect for
• 1:38:49
  guys.
• 1:38:50
  You know?
• 1:38:50
  It's a deterrent to the league to say, hey.
• 1:38:53
  If you if you clip low, we're gonna ding you for something.
• 1:38:58
  Yeah.
• 1:39:02
  Let's see.
• 1:39:07
  Oh, that's not the right guy.
• 1:39:13
  Yeah.
• 1:39:14
  And yeah.
• 1:39:14
  I'm looking.
• 1:39:15
  I can't find the exact price.
• 1:39:18
  Just said that he was fined.
• 1:39:20
  Yeah.
• 1:39:20
  Yeah.
• 1:39:21
  So it probably wasn't very much.
• 1:39:23
  Yeah.
• 1:39:23
  If it's it's just $5, right, that's a little portion of his game check.
• 1:39:30
  You don't and the fact that I didn't see the story, and I appreciate you sharing that, B,
• 1:39:35
  that he left the stadium and went straight to the hospital to check on him.
• 1:39:39
  I mean, that's a that's a class act.
• 1:39:41
  That's very important to know.
• 1:39:42
  Yeah.
• 1:39:44
  Yeah.
• 1:39:44
  And that's something that most fans aren't gonna see.
• 1:39:47
  They they don't wanna see it.
• 1:39:48
  Some people don't.
• 1:39:49
  You know?
• 1:39:50
  And it is what it is.
• 1:39:51
  I mean, I'm guilty of it too.
• 1:39:54
  I got I got caught by one of those, fan sites when I saw someone talking smack about,
• 1:40:00
  Addison, said he got, you know, fined and suspended again, and I jumped on it because I
• 1:40:04
  wanted to.
• 1:40:05
  Like, I don't I I don't like selfish players.
• 1:40:08
  Right?
• 1:40:09
  And, that's a bigger I got a big problem with that I'm feeling right now too.
• 1:40:13
  I'm not from Minnesota, so I can give a fuck if the dude's from Minnesota and played for the
• 1:40:17
  team.
• 1:40:17
  The fact that your people went out and asked for the trade or asked to be released, and then
• 1:40:23
  you go to the Steelers and one of your first quotes after the game after you caught one pass
• 1:40:27
  or I got my love of the game back.
• 1:40:29
  Man, fuck you.
• 1:40:30
  Man, that's then that's real feel on that, man.
• 1:40:33
  I don't give them.
• 1:40:34
  You you whatever, dude.
• 1:40:36
  What?
• 1:40:37
  I don't care.
• 1:40:37
  Don't come back and retire a Viking.
• 1:40:39
  Don't say that crap and then come out with some quote, I found my love of the game again.
• 1:40:44
  Right.
• 1:40:45
  When when you dropped 18% of the passes that were thrown your way, dude, get back.
• 1:40:51
  Yeah.
• 1:40:52
  I got
• 1:40:52
  I mean, there's a
• 1:40:53
  lot of wasn't
• 1:40:54
  a real big Vikings fan while he was here, so maybe that affects it too.
• 1:40:58
  But he wasn't being a team guy when he wanted all the money to go play somewhere else.
• 1:41:04
  Right?
• 1:41:04
  Like, you weren't being a team guy before, and, like, you only like this team and play off the
• 1:41:10
  team guy thing when it benefits you.
• 1:41:13
  So that doesn't feel like a team guy to me anyway.
• 1:41:17
  Yeah.
• 1:41:17
  No.
• 1:41:18
  It it it was something that, you know, I mean, a lot of people are saying pretty much the same
• 1:41:23
  thing.
• 1:41:23
  You know, you wanted to release.
• 1:41:24
  You you know, claim that you wanna go find a team that can get you to that next step, being
• 1:41:30
  that it's your last year.
• 1:41:31
  And then you start with Pittsburgh and say that you fell in love with the game and yeah.
• 1:41:36
  I mean, yeah, you can kick rocks.
• 1:41:39
  Yeah.
• 1:41:40
  Hang on.
• 1:41:40
  Don't retire a stealer for all we care.
• 1:41:43
  Yeah.
• 1:41:44
  No.
• 1:41:44
  That piss me
• 1:41:45
  off too.
• 1:41:46
  He's both 9999% of the tick he's gonna retire a Viking, and we're all
• 1:41:51
  living in novelty game.
• 1:41:53
  Minnesota nice.
• 1:41:55
  Yeah.
• 1:41:55
  Well and I got a little bit of a problem with that coming in from, you know, on the outside
• 1:42:01
  looking in.
• 1:42:01
  I don't live in Minnesota, so I we're a South Dakota full of assholes, man.
• 1:42:05
  It's hard living out here.
• 1:42:07
  We can't afford to be nice all the time.
• 1:42:10
  So, we're realists.
• 1:42:12
  Right?
• 1:42:13
  And we're we're about community and about really being about the team.
• 1:42:17
  And, Cody, I know you can speak a lot to this because you've been part of championship teams.
• 1:42:22
  You ain't got no room for people like that.
• 1:42:23
  Like, that's a cancer inside of the locker room.
• 1:42:26
  And if you're having those thoughts in your head, which you know it, like, that's affecting
• 1:42:31
  the whole team.
• 1:42:32
  Right?
• 1:42:32
  You don't think people know that you you asked the front office to be let go and these thing
• 1:42:38
  like, no, man.
• 1:42:39
  You ain't got no room for that stuff.
• 1:42:41
  Not on a championship squad, and that's why I hope that they I hope they find themselves this
• 1:42:46
  offseason.
• 1:42:47
  I hope these last few games show the measure of the people that want to be here moving forward
• 1:42:53
  because you do have a lot of these pieces that are back.
• 1:42:56
  I thought it was really cool to see, you know, Hargrave and Allen get game balls and to see
• 1:43:01
  them really playing.
• 1:43:02
  It feels like they're kinda finding their footing in the city.
• 1:43:05
  I think that's a hard thing that a lot of people don't, like adjusting to a new team to
• 1:43:09
  come over with a big price tag and expectations on and then to kind of underperform in that
• 1:43:15
  that, you know, we don't give a lot of credence.
• 1:43:18
  As fans, it it's definitely what have you done for me lately?
• 1:43:22
  All we see is a salary and your performance on the field.
• 1:43:25
  You're not getting a lot of credit.
• 1:43:27
  JJ McCarthy's personal life, coming back from an injury, getting married, having a baby,
• 1:43:32
  like, the all the things.
• 1:43:34
  Right?
• 1:43:34
  Yeah.
• 1:43:35
  Hold on.
• 1:43:35
  Hold on.
• 1:43:35
  Hold on.
• 1:43:36
  Back in, like
• 1:43:38
  I I gotta speak on that get giving out the game balls.
• 1:43:42
  You're not gonna give it one to Oliver?
• 1:43:44
  Two catches, two touchdowns, you're not gonna give him one?
• 1:43:47
  Trash.
• 1:43:48
  Yeah.
• 1:43:49
  Trash.
• 1:43:49
  No.
• 1:43:51
  I fellas.
• 1:43:52
  I I hate to do this, but I gotta get going.
• 1:43:55
  I gotta go start plowing.
• 1:43:56
  I gotta know I'll be plowing all night.
• 1:43:58
  So
• 1:43:59
  Alright.
• 1:44:00
  I will I
• 1:44:00
  wish the rest of this team had the work ethic you do, coach.
• 1:44:04
  Amen.
• 1:44:05
  He's well done.
• 1:44:07
  Yep.
• 1:44:08
  You'll be
• 1:44:08
  good out on the road, man.
• 1:44:09
  I appreciate you tapping in.
• 1:44:11
  That's coach Cody Homedahl.
• 1:44:13
  I think I'm gonna go get some sleep too, b.
• 1:44:15
  Thanks for being part of the show, man.
• 1:44:17
  This is really great sharing it with you.
• 1:44:19
  You make sure you go follow sir Picasso.
• 1:44:21
  I I No.
• 1:44:22
  I did already.
• 1:44:22
  I did I did.
• 1:44:23
  I did.
• 1:44:25
  Yeah.
• 1:44:26
  You all.
• 1:44:27
  Yep.
• 1:44:27
  We got a late one.
• 1:44:29
  Coach, are you working Sunday night too?
• 1:44:33
  Yeah.
• 1:44:34
  But it ain't no thing.
• 1:44:35
  I'll figure it out.
• 1:44:36
  I'll make it happen.
• 1:44:37
  For that, so I can definitely jump on two per game if you do.
• 1:44:40
  Appreciate it.
• 1:44:41
  Long as coach gets me his keys, we can talk about it, man.
• 1:44:44
  Boy, and I I can hop on.
• 1:44:46
  I might just have to dip on out every once in a while.
• 1:44:49
  We'll make it work.
• 1:44:50
  We will make it work indeed.
• 1:44:52
  We always do.
• 1:44:53
  For for coach Cody, for big b, I'm Bubba Starts.
• 1:44:57
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• 1:44:58
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• 1:45:01
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• 1:45:02
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• 1:45:07
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• 1:45:08
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• 1:45:09
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• 1:45:13
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