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  Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings fans, welcome back to the Purple People Leaders Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: He's Aaron, I'm Chris, and we're here to break down
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  Speaker 1: a blowout the Vikings completely just throttle Cincinnati. Aaron was
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  Speaker 1: right for the blowout, but this thing was just over
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  Speaker 1: before it started. It felt like, you know, we we
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  Speaker 1: we do get some some folks back. Welcome back, dearrisaw,
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back, Harrison Smith, Van Ginkel. Glad to have you backfellas,
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  Speaker 1: and we got some more coming obviously with Addison and whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: You know, good good performance at QB, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: all sorts of shit was happening around him. Positively, Rogers
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  Speaker 1: went off, Yeah, so we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: take a victory lap. You know, you don't give these
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  Speaker 1: time of type of blowouts when you got Max coming
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  Speaker 1: in the game. You know, it's a blowout when you're
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  Speaker 1: backups in so and it's not obviously due to injuries.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, they're definitely gonna talk that through. And then
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  Speaker 1: got a big game against Ruggers and must win. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to have a winning season, you gotta win
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  Speaker 1: this one. So we're gonna break it all down in
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  Speaker 1: I co host Aaron Man. You called for a blowout,
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  Speaker 1: an old boy. Did we get a blowout? I think
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  Speaker 1: the largest victory since a certain fifteen to one season
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  Speaker 1: regular season.
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  Speaker 2: I did call for a blowout, but I called for
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  Speaker 2: Wentz being the best quarterback on the planet Sunday, and
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  Speaker 2: that necessarily didn't happen. But the defense showed up, made
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  Speaker 2: big plays, and you put forty eight on Cincinnati, who
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  Speaker 2: looked out of swords without Burrow. But also you know
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  Speaker 2: US Bank Stadium noon. Yeah, probably undefeated Noone on a
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  Speaker 2: Sunday at US Bank Stadium. It's when you get to
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  Speaker 2: seven fifteen, when you get to seven thirty, that's when
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  Speaker 2: start to have problems. But no, it's good to see
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  Speaker 2: a blowout. Good to see the Vikings win, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and the offense be proficient and move the chains and work,
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  Speaker 2: and the defense just ball hocking and stripping and doing
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of stuff, you know, brings up a lot
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  Speaker 2: of talk. Chris and I we talked a little bit
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  Speaker 2: before we hit record about you know, the next what
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  Speaker 2: six games and what it looks like and we you know,
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  Speaker 2: it depends on the path, is what we kind of
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  Speaker 2: came up with, right Chris. It was like, you're built
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  Speaker 2: to win now, And I put a question mark at
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  Speaker 2: the end of that, because it doesn't seem like you
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  Speaker 2: can have McCarthy and win now with the Vets and
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  Speaker 2: the free agency that you picked up and sell that
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  Speaker 2: to them. But then again, Wentz has played one game
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  Speaker 2: he like you said, he didn't you know, like the
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  Speaker 2: world on fire, but he seemed to run to drive
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  Speaker 2: the ship fairly well. So if he continues to do that,
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  Speaker 2: and I think we'll probably wait until we get back
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  Speaker 2: from Europe just to kind of assess where Wentz is
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  Speaker 2: at and then maybe have the discussion going into a
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  Speaker 2: Philly game about what do you do with McCarthy and
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  Speaker 2: so on. But it is an interesting thing to start
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  Speaker 2: thinking about, guys, because you you have two more weeks
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  Speaker 2: of Wentz pretty much for sure. I think O'Connell was
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  Speaker 2: pretty clear on JJ not being back until at least
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  Speaker 2: because they were gonna put him on IR but he
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  Speaker 2: wasn't that hurt. So you got to think three games.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the next two, and then you got Philly
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  Speaker 2: at home, and then you got San Diego on the road.
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  Speaker 2: I believe the Lions after that, and you do have
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  Speaker 2: that buy and you do have the buye. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's tough. It's a really tough talker, and we'll probably
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  Speaker 2: either revisit it later, but you gotta think about Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you want JJ back because you want to gain experience,
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  Speaker 2: but if you're in the win now mode and Wentz
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  Speaker 2: can continue to play as good or better as he
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  Speaker 2: did on Sunday, it could be a hard sell to
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  Speaker 2: the Vets to bring JJ back, especially for that four
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  Speaker 2: game stretch, which is one of the major stretches of
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  Speaker 2: the season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you gotta think, like, how you're doing
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  Speaker 1: that part kind of will let us see how real
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  Speaker 1: we are, especially if in fact the starting center comes
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  Speaker 1: back and and you know, with Darris ib back and everything,
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  Speaker 1: it is interesting. You know, we're definitely not on the Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're done with them. Clearly he's not ready, he's a bust.
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  Speaker 1: Let's trade him. But we're also not on You know,
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  Speaker 1: the thing is, when push comes to shove, he didn't
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  Speaker 1: win the job from anybody. He didn't get in last
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  Speaker 1: year and outplayed Donald or something. I mean he couldn't obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, he didn't win the job. This isn't
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  Speaker 1: college football. He didn't. It wasn't neck and neck in
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  Speaker 1: the spring and he looked better, and you know, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't really win a job. I mean, it was already
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  Speaker 1: his job. And even once he didn't come at the
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  Speaker 1: start of camp, right, we got him during camp. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, it is kind of interesting. We are in
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  Speaker 1: win mode right now in the next few years. If
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  Speaker 1: you look at the you know how much we spent
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  Speaker 1: and the length of some of these contracts. It is
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  Speaker 1: when now, So do you put JJ in in that
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  Speaker 1: four game stretch? Maybe if we see the line improve
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  Speaker 1: more and more over these next two games, it'll give
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  Speaker 1: you a little bit more confidence to do it. But
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  Speaker 1: we do have to remember beyond draft capital where we
• 8:00
  Speaker 1: was talking to my buddy AJ yesterday and he said
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  Speaker 1: draft capital, like that's that's how he won the job,
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  Speaker 1: because we got to get a look at him, and
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  Speaker 1: it would, I mean, talk about a hell of a
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  Speaker 1: test those four games. But also if the line's still
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  Speaker 1: a little shaky, which you know, we did have nine hits.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that's all on the on the line
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  Speaker 1: once held the ball a little bit at times, but
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  Speaker 1: maybe stepped up when he shouldn't or whatever. But he
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  Speaker 1: still got hit a lot. So and we're used to
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  Speaker 1: that around here. Our quarterback's getting hit. But yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: do you when we're saying, well, let's not have him
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  Speaker 1: during those four games, maybe just speculating. It's not like
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  Speaker 1: we're giving them up, giving up on him. It's just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, like the confidence thing. If he's getting hit
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  Speaker 1: double digits all those games, almost that's you never know,
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  Speaker 1: you never know. So I think it's worth, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: to revisit it. We're more in between, you know, but
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  Speaker 1: we can't. We got our Remember, he didn't win the
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  Speaker 1: job because of his play on the field. He just didn't.
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  Speaker 1: And he doesn't have a lot of experience. He's got
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  Speaker 1: a handful of possessions a year ago in preseason, mind you,
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  Speaker 1: and then literally one possession going into this year, so
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  Speaker 1: he you know, he has eight quarters of live NFL
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  Speaker 1: they count type stuff. Now, of course it counts in
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  Speaker 1: the preseason because that's where he got hurt, right, But
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  Speaker 1: it's worth talking about. It's not worth freaking out about
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  Speaker 1: and having to make a decision or whatever. But just
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  Speaker 1: kind of you know, started the game with a nice
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  Speaker 1: little return. It was nice, like I said, to have
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  Speaker 1: Darsaw and thank Ginkle and Harrison Smith and all three
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  Speaker 1: of those guys made their presence felt very very early.
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  Speaker 1: We got JJ act of early. Oliver got a touchdown,
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  Speaker 1: you know, definitely causing a lot pressure on the quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: making them get rid of it. Harrison Smith comes off
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  Speaker 1: coverage with the tip, Rogers breaks a tackle, scores, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just a bunch of pressure.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't crazy about that third and twelve run that
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  Speaker 1: they got the first down. I was like, really, dude,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, Chase I think got another first down.
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  Speaker 1: But then it was holding I think, and it made
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  Speaker 1: it third and seventeen. We forced a punt. You saw,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, JJ getting active early, and then there
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  Speaker 1: was a TJ. Hockinson sighting, you know, so that was cool.
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  Speaker 1: There was that illegal use of the shoulder helmet or
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  Speaker 1: the helmet, but I felt like it was more shoulder
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  Speaker 1: than helmet. I don't like that call. That's an NFL call.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not crazy about that. We had probably too many
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  Speaker 1: false start if you break, you know, if you're breaking
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  Speaker 1: down the game, we didn't play all that clean on
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  Speaker 1: offense per se. But you know, you can't say enough
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  Speaker 1: about Rogers and it was just you know, the kicker
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  Speaker 1: hitting the sixty two yarder. It was just a fun
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  Speaker 1: game to see that play out. Obviously we're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: go possession by possession, but when you're up thirty four
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  Speaker 1: to three and a half, this thing's well. I shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: say over because we know that Colts game from a
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  Speaker 1: futures back, but it's just everything was just swinging our
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  Speaker 1: way here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got out of hand, you know, pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Like you mentioned, you know, Oliver gets the touchdown. Offensively,
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  Speaker 2: you're moving the ball, which was good, and that has
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  Speaker 2: a lot to do with the Jordan Mason, Like this
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  Speaker 2: guy's a revelation. And if it's not Rogers, obviously who's
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  Speaker 2: the player of this game. I think Mason's the second
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  Speaker 2: on that one. Just big runs, timely runs and then
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  Speaker 2: KOs callin run plays too is huge. You got to
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  Speaker 2: kind of get into that, into that system of running
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  Speaker 2: the ball. You know, we're old school, get off my lawn, guys,
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  Speaker 2: but you got to run the football, or at least
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  Speaker 2: the threat of running the football. And we've been talking
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  Speaker 2: about that for a long time. And I don't care
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  Speaker 2: how you know, pass happy the NFL gets. The fundamentals
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  Speaker 2: are going to remain the same. And obviously having darrisawback
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  Speaker 2: made a huge, huge difference in the run game and
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  Speaker 2: the pass game. Yes, but a lot of Mason's big
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  Speaker 2: runs were behind him and the rookie, so that side
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  Speaker 2: of the line seems to be where you want to run,
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  Speaker 2: and they did a good job of it. And Mason
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  Speaker 2: just you know, he's not a lot of bullshit. He
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  Speaker 2: just gets his head down, gets to the hole or
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  Speaker 2: bounces outside. Very very simple, good running. Didn't really miss
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Jones too much. I think in the passing game
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  Speaker 2: we probably did a little bit, but maybe that forced
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  Speaker 2: KOs to things up a little bit. And uh, I
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  Speaker 2: mean he did run that trick play, which you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that's ever worked. He's running like two
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  Speaker 2: or three times since he's been here.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna work here someday, at some.
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  Speaker 2: Point, yeah, it's got him, you know, his favorite little trick,
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  Speaker 2: play to run.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, it looks so good on Thursdays though.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, right, I thought that. You know, they some of
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  Speaker 2: the penalties, like you said, the false starts, but that's
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  Speaker 2: new offensive line, new offensive lineman. Yep, you know you
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  Speaker 2: kind of have to take some of those. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think they were egregious. The Yakuda penalty, was it a penalty?
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  Speaker 2: I mean technically at ahead at the other head, but
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  Speaker 2: I don't think he led with the head right nonetheless
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  Speaker 2: shoulder in. Yeah, and then Rogers had a great path
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  Speaker 2: breakup on chasing the end zone. That's why it was
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  Speaker 2: seventeen to three. You're getting pressure, you're getting sacks, you're
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  Speaker 2: forcing penalties. I thought, you know, had you taking away
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  Speaker 2: the defensive touchdown because I think we're just one at
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  Speaker 2: that point in the first half, or did he get
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  Speaker 2: that second one in the first half? You might have, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he did in the first thirty four to three. But
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  Speaker 2: I mean just it's almost like you said on your couch,
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  Speaker 2: kind of dumbfounded, like really this is happening? Yeah, right,
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  Speaker 2: those turnovers and forcing turnovers and you know, scoop and
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  Speaker 2: score pick six sacks. Is it real? This defense was
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  Speaker 2: outstanding and I feel like, you know, you get Harrison back,
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  Speaker 2: you're still fairly healthy over there. You need cash man.
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  Speaker 2: But I thought Wilson played well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he's made place it's building to be.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you shut down the run, which was huge
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  Speaker 2: because against the Falcons, you just you can't have that.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a different back to so let's put that
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  Speaker 2: in the equation. Bijon is different back than anybody Cincinnati had,
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  Speaker 2: uh or a lot of teams are gonna have. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, shutting down the run is it's easy to say,
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  Speaker 2: but if you're looking at John Robinson it might not be.
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  Speaker 1: That that easy.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, defense played outstanding. And then what do you
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  Speaker 2: say about being up thirty four to three to half, Chris,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, rarely does that happen. Rarely do we score
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  Speaker 2: thirty in an entire game. And we're three and a
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  Speaker 2: half now. The only lingering thought, and like you mentioned, was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we came back from a deficit like that,
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  Speaker 2: so it's possible. We're all aware that that is possible.
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  Speaker 2: And after all, absolutely, and then the kicker hits a
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  Speaker 2: sixty two yarder, Uh, you know, big hitter this kid, well, yeah,
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: tell you you know you can hit sixty two yarders indoors.
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  Speaker 2: I think he had a fifty two outdoor. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: just you know, that was nice to see. We'll leave
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  Speaker 2: it at that hit. The third quarter, defense forces three
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  Speaker 2: and out punts. Offense comes out. Mason gets an nineteen
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  Speaker 2: yard run. He's starting off those drives with these big runs.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's really nice. Naylor gets a catch, Jefferson gets
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  Speaker 2: a catch, little Xavier Scott action. Chris, Yes, nice run,
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  Speaker 2: and then Hockinson gets a couple of catches and Mason
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  Speaker 2: punges in for a touchdown. Yeah, and then it's forty
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  Speaker 2: one to three. Get interception by Mattelis, and then the
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  Speaker 2: game's done. At this point, you're at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the third. Offense comes out, Mason gets twenty four to
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  Speaker 2: kick off the drive. Naylor gets a catch, Hockinson gets
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  Speaker 2: a touchdown, forty eight to three. Going into the fourth,
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  Speaker 2: they kept mentioning they had darrisaw on a pitch count Chris,
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  Speaker 2: but I saw he popped out for a little bit
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  Speaker 2: and then he came back in. And then the Scrubs
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  Speaker 2: came in for the fourth quarter, and even they, you know,
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  Speaker 2: played pretty well, and it wasn't you know, you don't
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  Speaker 2: have enough scrubs to do a full scrub team. But
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  Speaker 2: I thought that they held up pretty well to Austin
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  Speaker 2: Keys with a sack, MacAuthor got a PI penalty. Brozmer,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think he completed a pass. He wasn't
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  Speaker 2: anything outstanding, but uh yeah. I mean it's one of
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  Speaker 2: those games where you wish would be in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: but unfortunately it's week three this season.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: The kickers on the sidelines gunga the lunga. Yeah, like
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: in cam Akers, welcome back buddy. Why don't we just
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: sign him for an extra year and just keep him?
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, knock on wood. Obviously we know why. I
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: don't even want to mention it. Yeah, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of nice to go fourteen, to know
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: in that third quarter, you know, to come out and
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  Speaker 1: be like, hey, this thing ain't over. We're gonna put
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  Speaker 1: it over. Like you said about Mason, he hits the
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  Speaker 1: hole really fast. Doesn't doing that fancy, but he's always
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  Speaker 1: like falling forward. He's in his prime. It's a big
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  Speaker 1: dude with some speed. So I really like that. So
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  Speaker 1: he played good. I thought Pace set the pace on defense.
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  Speaker 1: He was all over the place. THEO Jackson looked pretty
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  Speaker 1: damn good as well, as you know, like you're saying, Rogers,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good call to force fumbles a scool a
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  Speaker 1: force fumble scoop in score. But that was that was
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  Speaker 1: a good call as far as that that PBu that
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  Speaker 1: was he was right there. This kid's fitting in the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Flora system. And it's it's some of the you know,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: you just gotta trust Flores. You know, you're like, Okay,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: this guy's been around a little bit, and yeah, I've
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: seen him playing all that, but yeah, it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: definitely definitely looks like he's legit. As you mentioned that
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: kicker looks legit. The offensive line played pretty good overall,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: very good at times. Still, you know, still some leaks
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. Serviceable, maybe a little above serviceable at times.
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  Speaker 2: Wents.
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  Speaker 1: He get the ball out quick, that's for sure. For
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  Speaker 1: the most part. Anyway, he held it a couple of times,
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  Speaker 1: but or you know, started kind of climbing up the
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  Speaker 1: pocket before maybe he needed to. But you know, he
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  Speaker 1: was just solid and very decisive in his decision making.
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  Speaker 1: So and that's what we need to do. And you
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: know to have that many turnovers. Yeah, paced twelve tackles,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: got three hits on the QB. You know, we were
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: able to get nine hits. I actually looked at it wrong.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: We only had five hits on wents, so but we
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: had nine hits on the QB. You know, tackles for loss,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: seven of them five PBUs. You know, we played great Grenard.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: They were trying to hold him. It didn't matter. It
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: was it was good man. Redmand kind of bounced back
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: like we it just looked really good. It was. It was.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: It was a very good game. Like you said, we
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: just it's just nice to have that type of game.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: It's crazy, like somewhere in the fourth quarter you're like
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: paying attention to your phone. You'll oh yea, yeah, yeah,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: it's right the games, you know, like it's that much
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: of a blowout you kind of look at how people
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: are responding and whatnot to it. So, yeah, it was
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: a great game. And there's not like a ton to
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: break down, you know what I mean. So when you
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: get that in the bank like that, that is huge.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: We'll keep an eye on this JJ stuff. You know,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: before we hit record, like Daron was saying, we kind
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: of mentioned this where we're just kind of thinking it through.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: You know, it's obviously a you know, if we go
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: and win the next two games and all of a sudden,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: people are like, well, dude, you know, Wentz has been there,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: done that, and we've had a track record of guys
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: that have had maybe a good season, and he bounced
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: around a lot. You know, if you've seen a lot
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: in your career, go to our bad you tend to
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: do pretty good in this system with koc And it's
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: just an experience factor too, and and and JJ McCarthy
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: just doesn't have the experience. It doesn't mean, you know,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: we want to trade him, so everybody call him down there.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: He may come back and we'll see, but it will
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: be interesting to see how we do on our UK
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: residence back to back games, Schootland first or Dublin, Well,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: same thing kind of. No, I shouldn't say that because
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: it's not it's not even close. And I should know
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: that being a UK fight fan. And I also know
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Ireland and Northern Ireland are much different than not the same,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: and I respect that. But Dublin, you know, we're facing
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: our our old friend Rogers, and Rogers would light us
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: up for a game, and we tend to do pretty
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: good against them, even when we had like mediocre offenses.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: We get enough pressure on them. And clearly he's fastest prime,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: but the dude Bill knows the game, still has the arm.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: You know, he may not do the Brett Favre stuff
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: as much where you're like, dude, just get him on
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: the ground and then right when you have his legs,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: he'll dump it off to somebody and it's the first down.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: He may not have that, but he's a stud. Addison back,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: that'll help feeling. I got a little question mark is
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: feeling getting open and then when he's open, it seems
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: like he's not securing the ball that much. But this
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: will help having Addison back in the fold, just a
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: deep threat and you know he you know when it
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: was just when JJ got hurt and it was Cousins
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: and then I think it was Hall and then Dobbs
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: and you know it was one of those. But you
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: can target the guy, you know, it's he's like, if
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: they leave one on one, you gotta target him. So
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: if we can keep that TJ thing going as well,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I think that'll help feeling in the middle of the field.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: And we were also talking before we hit record that
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: you know, it does drop down another level of who's
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: going to be guarding him. You know, they got to
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: put a pretty high level dude on Addison too. So
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: heading in this matchup though we are two and a
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: half point favorites. You know, it's funny. I looked at
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: the line after we got our ass whooped or not,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't say that. I shouldn't say we didn't get
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: our ass whip, but offensively, we got our ass whopped
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: last ye, last last week. And I looked at it
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: before I looked at the Steelers matchup, and we were
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: three and some places had us three and a half
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: underdogs and someone had his highest four and a half underdog. Right,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: But now all of a sudden, our favorites one game later,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: you know, with all those points, so we're two and
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: a half point favorites. The over under is forty one,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: so they're thinking this is gonna be a grinded out
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: type game. You know what, what says you about our
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: our first first part of this two week trip over
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: in the Dublin on the on the euro Residency where
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: we're we're doing two semesters over there this year we're
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: we're gonna get our doctrine or something like that. Rhodes Scholars.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: Well, it's Rogers, right, Rogers against Rogers this time. Yeah,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I mean he's always tricky and you don't know, even
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: against the Jets, I didn't think he played terribly. You know,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: he threw that pick to to the gank, but other
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: than that, I thought they played well. When he was
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: with the Jets. I think that was in Europe as
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: well last year, so we meet him again in Europe.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm more concerned about Steeler pass rush. Every
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: year they have one. Obviously, Flores was with them just
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: prior to joining us, so they have a general idea
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: of what Brian likes to do. Obviously, Rogers has seen everything,
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: so it's not like, you know, he'll figure out quickly
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: what Flora's is up to. And now he's got t
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: K Metcalf to get the ball too. Has also been
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: a thorn on our side throughout time. The running game
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: is a stealer running game, pretty simple, and it's you know,
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: I think his I don't remember the running backs name
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: they go to. It's Warren. I think I think it's
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Warren's good back. And you know, obviously we don't have
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Cashman back, so it's back to Wilson again to lead
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: the charge. Wilson in pace to Phil Holes and stop
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: the running game. You're gonna have to stop the running
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: game because you don't want Rogers, you know, just free
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: free throwing out there on second down. So because I
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: you know, I thought Rogers are Rogers, had a good game,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: a little different hill, you know, Jake Browning and then
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, and like you said, he's seen everything under
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: the sun. So I'm trying to remember a matchup besides
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: last year Flores against Rogers, and I think that's the
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: only one that I can remember being kind of relevant here.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: You know, I thought the forty one, the Miami.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: One with Green Bay.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the forty one seems low to me, because you know, WinCE.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: I thought he played steady. I thought he's played professional.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: I thought he was a real like calming presence after
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: all the you know stuff that was going on. But
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: I don't see him, you know, three hundred and three
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: touchdowns either. So I don't want him to limit turning
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: the ball over. If you can not throw any picks,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: make smart plays, throw the ball away when you have
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: the opportunity. You're not moving like he used to, Carson,
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: so you know, deal with that. I think he tried
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: to do some of that and Cincinnati and lost eight
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: seven eight yards on a sack, right yeah, yeah, So
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: you're gonna have to be smart. And then just you know, again, Mason,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: in the running game is if you can keep Rogers
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: off the field and all this stuff becomes kind of mute,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: so so you can run the ball, convert their down,
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: move the chains. I think is gonna be the game plan.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: And I think kind of the game plan just going
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: forward pretty much, JJ or I mean, all three quarterbacks
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: whoever's in the game, gonna need a running game. And
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: I would say some more than others, but not really,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: they're all gonna need it. I mean, Carson, like I said,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: is not gonna throw like Rogers and JJ, you know,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: lack of experience, the same with brosmer So, and if
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: you get down to Ritter, it's gonna be the same thing.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: So obviously get the running game going, kind of grind
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: it out, eat the clock. I like, boy, it's a
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: tough one because I think these are pretty evenly matched
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: teams and evenly matched parts of the season and all
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: this stuff. Obviously it's a neutral site, so I'll just
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: side with the home team here outside with the Vikings.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: I say we win by touchdown, so I'll go twenty eight,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: twenty eight to twenty one something like that. Throw a
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: field goal in there somewhere. But I don't think it'll
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: be any blow out by any stretch of the imagination,
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: unless it's a Steeler blowout, and then you know that's
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: that'll be a whole nother talker. But yeah, I like
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: the Vikings in this one on the road at a
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: neutral site in Dublin, week one of the European residency.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and and like you said, like we've done like
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: we do travel well there, so it probably will fill
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: like a home game. But then again, you know, pitt
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: they got some you know, Pittsburgh's got some crazy fan
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: base too, so they'll probably be over there a lot,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: a little shorter flight as well, so maybe it'll be
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: more even this year. But when we have been in
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: there in the past, it feels like a home game,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: but it is it is nice now that we're here
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: that it actually does count, I guess right as a
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: as a road game rather than being on the you
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: know road they do seem like they're they're pretty close
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: in offense twenty seven to twenty four or only three games,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: so some of these stats can be a little skewed. Neither,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: you know, neither teams lighten the world up passing. As
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: far as yardage, they're only averaging sixty three yards per
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: game on the on the ground. At the same time,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: they're giving up one hundred and thirty nine. Now because
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: of two weeks ago, we're we're also giving up one
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: hundred and thirty right. So to your point, you know,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: the rushing, it's got it. We gotta do that and
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: contain it. But when you look at the passing yards,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: the Vikes to two forty six on defense, so and
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: they're given up close to twenty six points a game. Now,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: it's only three games, so we don't want to lose
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: track of that. But here's where it gets really interesting.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: The Vikings have five sacks in the fourth quarter. They
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: lead the league. So let's hope we do that late
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: in the game if it's tight. But two major things
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: when it comes to Steelers, they lead the league with
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: yards after the catch. So tackling, Yes, tackling, I know
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: it sounds basic, but we saw, you know, pretty good
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: tackling the first two out of three games. With that one,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: we didn't just in general, so yards after the catch
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: we have to Okay, you get the pickup, cool, but
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: we don't want to add twelve more yards. And then
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: when we get in the red zone, and this also
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: goes to the point we're talking about, Rogers still has
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: it to an extent a new way. The Steelers have
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: six passing touchdowns in the red zone so far. You know,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: that's the most in the league. So if you get
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: inside that, you know we're a bend that don't break. Well,
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: these dudes have been breaking, folks. Donald, I think had
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: a pretty good game. He did it. I didn't actually
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: see it. I saw one of the picks. I didn't
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: see the other one. But you know, statistically, I didn't
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: see the full game or nothing like that. I saw
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: some of the highlights or whatever. He did throw two picks,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: but he had two touchdowns, put up some yards or whatever.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: But I'm kind of with you there. My scores, I
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: have two of them. Either twenty four to sixteen or
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: twenty seven to twenty is what I was kind of
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: looking at. But either way, like you said, a touchdown.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: You know, touchdown wins. So yeah, I think they'll I
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: think they'll win the win the game. They should anyway.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: But you know, yards after the catch, man, like big deal,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: who cares they're gonna catch? You know, our Rogers is
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: gonna get yards, dude, you know, like we just can't
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: give up the big plays.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: And and you know, hopefully now that we've had three
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: games worth of you know, tackling and get the rust
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: off and get your body used.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: To it, because let's face it, you just don't do
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: a bunch of tackling. You just don't, you know. So
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: if you know, you do once you get going, but
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: you just don't play people in the in the the
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: preseason anymore basically.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: So I think this will be a good litmus test
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: to Chris about yes, hard Greaves and Alan if you
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: can get pressure with four because you don't want to
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: be blitzing too much on Rogers, and you can get
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: pressure with the four, you know, and you can You've
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: got some edge guys. Now you've got the Gang and
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Grenard and Turners kind of making himself known. And then yeah,
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: the Keys had a sack, so he might be worth
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: playing a little bit. So yeah, I mean, you've got
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: some guys that can get pressure. Now you just in
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: the interior. Can they hold it down? Get interior pressure
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: and not blitz Rogers as much would probably be a
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: better idea because you know he'll pick you apart. And
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: remember Stafford last year just replaced the blitzer, replaced the
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: blitzer field the whole way, and Rogers will do the
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: same thing if you let him do it. So I
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: think it'll be a good test to see, you know,
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: where we are as a as a defensive line and
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: pass rush as far as.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: That's concerned, yep, and sticking to the run, and that
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: will see where we're at there and we'll see if
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: when UH can play that serviceable at times make enough
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: plays through the air and it could be a dump off,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: you know, nothing wrong with that. Whatever, just keep the
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: chains going. And you know they they haven't looked great
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: on defense, u per se, but you can always look
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: to that one game where yardage wise we look pretty shitty,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: but we did, you know, we kept stopping them and
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: until the bitter end when they finally scored. You know
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: a lot of that all that pretty much. You know,
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: obviously it's tough to bring down We know that, but
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: you know that the offense was just so so so bad.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: So you're right. It is a really good test. Welcome
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: back Addison. And it does sound like hart Grove is
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: gonna play. But it's Monday. It could be more sore
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: than we think. You know, you never know, but it's
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: sounds like he's gonna play based off of what Kaoc
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: was saying. But you never know, you know, you never know.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: But I don't want to force them back. But it
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: just sounds like a bump, some bruises and like, you know,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: some tenderness. All right. So the Minnesota Gophers versus Rutgers,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: we know each other very very well. Whether it's PJ
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: playing for the coach that the head coach. We know
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: on the defense. In offensive side, they have former coaches.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Last year they got the buy. This year we got
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: the buy, so we got an extra week to prep.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Rutgers made the Iowa offense look revolutionary. No really, they
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: were throwing the ball deep and all this. It was crazy.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: So they're they're giving up a buck fifty one on
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: the ground, giving up twenty four points a game. But
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: good old Ethan, who you know the Greek rifle like
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: at the end of his red shirt freshman year, when
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Morgan was kind of in and out of the lineup,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: he got a lot of playing time. And I remember
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: that Badgers game where it looked like, Okay, this kid's
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: this kid's gonna be something. Man. I like what I see.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: But you know, the offensive coordinator was here and with
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Flack for quite a while. Then he went to Penn State,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: which I get he's from the East anyway, but he actually,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: you know, Rutgers is his home basically, so he went there.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: He's been there two years. And I gave give credit,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: like he was recruited to play in a system like this.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Our system is more pro oriented now. So he wasn't
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: good in that he missed so many throws, But then again,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: you put him in a system he's not good at,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: so we can't just blame the kid and that's it.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: So he's thrived last year. He was very good this year. Man,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: he is. It's pretty damn great, to be honest with you.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: He's played really, really good. So he's gonna he'll miss
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: some throws, you know, he'll he'll throw it into the
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: dirt really fast, or maybe it'll be just a dump off.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: But he wants to show his arm. He'll do some
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: of that. But our secondary, like it did against Cal,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: is going to get tested because they love to throw
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: the thing deep too, but they can run and we
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: know he's a good, big, big kid too, you know,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: so this is a test in their defense. Man. Like
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: I said that Iowa game, like, the thing is like,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: we have to be able to move the chains, run
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: the ball. We won't know if Darius Taylor's back, because
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: you know the big ten two hours before you'll get
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: if it's questionable, doubtful, out whatever, that's when you get it.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: I don't anticipate him being back, but he you know,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: if you look at it, you know he We did
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: get a buy in there. You know, we had Cal
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: that a bye, so you know he is removed quite
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: sometime from that game too. But it's tough to say.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: But femi oh igible Ogibo, that kid, that retro freshman.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: He was running hard. So I think we'll be okay there.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: But we have to run the ball and keep that
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: potent offense that really wasn't too potent last year. But
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: we don't have the same defense, right so it's gonna
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: be interesting. But they're on the road this year. But
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: at home, dude, they have I mean they have twelve
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: over twelve. I think it's like twelve hundred yards passing
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: like they're real. They have a bunch of receiving first downs.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: It's they're a legit offense. They're averaging forty basically forty
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: two points a game, and Iowa was known to be
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: a steady defender. Miami Ohio a pretty good MAC team.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Ohio just in general is too. And so that was
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: a really close game, thirty four to thirty one. So
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: that's where we're gonna be at right there. That thirty
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: four to thirty one. That that I think low twenties,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: high thirties, or I should say low thirties, high twenties.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: So yeah, man, it just comes down the long story short,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: you know, like do we wanna do we want to
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: have seven eight wins? There's nine games left? Can we
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: go five and four? Can we go six and three?
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Or where we go? You know, four and five or worse.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: We are a five and a half point favorite, and
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: fifty one and a half is the over under.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: That fifty one seems pretty accurate. I think, yeah, look
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: sure on calac Manus and I think, you know, what
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: scares me a little bit, like you mentioned, is their
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: offensive success against Iowa, who generally has a pretty staunch defense,
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: And unless they're in a down yere and we don't
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: know it yet, that means they can put up points
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: against a really good defense. Our defense, I wouldn't say
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: is really good. I'd say we're average, maybe slightly above average.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: You know, Cal kind of exposed the secondary, but you
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: know it's not like Cal put up thirty on us.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: You know, they put up what twenty seven so close.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: And we spoon fed one of the touchdowns.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Yep, So you know, so we'll call it twenty one.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: And you know, obviously there's some familiarity with players and coaches,
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: but on our end, we've got new coordinators that are
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: not familiar with these old ones, and so maybe that's
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: not as important as it was last year. But it's
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: a big game for us. You know, they beat us
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: last year. We're at home. Like you said, as far
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: as the swing of the season, you're not gonna get
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: many Rutgers to play. You're gonna be playing Ohio State.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: You've got to deal with Washington and some other teams
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: where you can't just be like winnable games you have
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: to win, I guess, is my point, if you want
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: to have a successful season. The Cow loss kind of
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: hurt there because that was another winnable game that you
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: want to you know, make Hay when you can, and
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: you know, if you drop these two, it's just not
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: you know, you're making it much more difficult for yourself
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: to win eight games or what have you. Ruckers, you know, Ethan,
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: you know, I guess I differ from you. I didn't
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: really see a lot of success from me. You look
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: like another iteration of Morgan to me at the time.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: And I didn't catch the highlights against Iowa, but I will.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Last year he had a really good year.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah I realized that. But if he's really lighting it
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: up now, he's improved from last year, you know, that
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: could be a situation because I don't know about our
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: defensive backs. They you know, obviously they've got an extra
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: week too, you know, game plan against this squad, and
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: I just don't know, like Ruckers is changing on a
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: year to year basis as far as like improving and
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: recruiting and all that stuff. So it's hard to see
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: where they're at. But you know, if they pass us
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: Chris as far as maybe record and just quality of roster,
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: and that's another big thing that you're gonna want to,
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: you know, look at and if you beat us two
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: years in a row, it's kind of hard to say
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: that you haven't passed us, right, And that's where I'd
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: be a little more concerned than anything else. But as
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: far as the game goes, I think it's a must
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: win if you have to. If you have a must
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: win this season, this is a big one. I mean
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: it's not like, you know, a rivalry game in the
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: sense that it's a trophy game, but you know, considering
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: the relationships between the staffs and players, Yeah, this is
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: is a rivalry game here. Yeah, I like, you know,
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go the opposite way. I'm
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: gonna go. Rutgers wins AH by three, probably both in
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: the twenties, a hard fought game. I think turnovers will
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: be the difference whichever, something that Minnesota hasn't forced much of, right,
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: And you know, generally flex teams don't turn the bottle
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: a whole lot, but no brain farts like the Parish
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: had last last game. Protect the ball. If you can
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: run it, run it and obviously stop the run and
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: pressure Calik Mannus. If you could do that, I think
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: you got a good chance to win. But unfortunately, I
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: don't think they're gonna do it. I think they're gonna
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: lose to Rutgers by three. And let's hope I'm wrong
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: about that. I'd love to be wrong and be on
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: the show next week talking about how wrong I was.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: But I think Rutgers wins this one, and.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say we win it. And it may be
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: and I say this a lot, even if it's the
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: last second field though, you know, just winning it. Just
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: win the game somehow, I think they will. He usually
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: bounces back pretty good from you know, losses PJ Flack
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: and also you know, having the bye week and whatnot.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: But for the record, I already have a plus six
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: and a half in on Rutgers, so I am anticipating,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: like you mentioned, a very tight game.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: And yeah, I don't know, man, it's just it's it's
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: you hate to like chalk it up to this game,
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: and man, but it really does point to how you're
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: gonna do because you know, we have some tough games
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: coming up.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: I mentioned it again at Ohio State at Oregon at Iowa,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: no matter what form of Iowa is at Iowa is
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: just not a gummea, you know, or not even there's
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: really not too many guineas. But but yeah, I'm gonna
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: say they win. I think they can ball control even
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: if they don't have tailor that that youngster's looking good.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: So I think we'll be able to. And I'm thinking that,
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: you know, Jalen Smith is probably gonna catch three or
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: four balls, and I'll say anywhere from like like maybe
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: fifty yards, seventy five yards something like that, just because
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: there's there. He's not good. Now, I'm not like you said,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not saying ours is per se. But
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: that's the whole moving the chains, you know, eight to
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: twelve plays type stuff. And if you need that, we
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: can give you that a lot of times. So and
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: I just like the way Femi, this red shirt freshman man,
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: he he he just keeps plugging away and he's hard
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: to take down, especially for how young he is. And
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: he and I know he missed the spring. I was
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: listening to the press conference today. I kind of forgot
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: about that he missed the spring. So you know, he's
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: he looked damn good in the in that last game
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: when we had to go to him. Hopefully Cam Davis
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: can look pretty good too, and you know, these receivers
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: got to catch the ball to it. We believe in
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: this young quarterback. But you know PJ said this a
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: while ago, like, dude, everyone around him has to up
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: their game, and you know so. But the secondary, funny enough,
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: especially the safeties, which if you look at the top
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: three of them, they have a lot of experience and
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: they're one of the better ones in the country. But
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: they gotta start playing like it. And that means, you know,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: don't get beat on a double move, don't try to
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: do too much, you know, and that about wraps it up.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Hopefully we can we can double dip, you know, hopefully
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: we can double dip. And it's not a it's not
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: back to back losses for us, but yeah, hopefully hopefully
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: we get it done. Man.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, both teams kind of an improve it situation here,
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: like who are you identity type of thing. Obviously young
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: in both seasons and we want to kind of know
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: what we can hang our hat on.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: For the season.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: But yeah, Vikings in Dublin Gophers at home against Rutgers
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: we'll talk to you next week.