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Aaron Rodgers second and goal from the one final move in motion.

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Aaron Rodgers first and ten from his own twenty He's eight of eight for sixty five yards back to pass asked Paul over the middle, dk Metcalf bought it on the run.

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Why they have a thirteen three lead.

Burden sixteen trailing by a pass over the metal tiptoff TJ Watt tipped it to an south and TG Watt has picked off Carson Wentz.

We're taken down in the thirty four yard line.

That is the eight interception of TJ.

Watts career.

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Gordon Addison the intended target, and the Pittsburgh Steelers are going to get the Minnesota Vikings their first lags outside of the United States of America.

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Thank you for joining us to kickoff nine to noon.

Not a lot of positives to take from Sunday's game in Dublin, Ireland.

Looking to turn that around with the Browns, Kegs and Eggs take two Tottenham Stadium eight thirty am, kickoff here six thirty am.

Pregame here and hoping the Vikings could head into the buy with a W and a winning record, maybe find some healthy bodies along the way.

Nordo in for PA.

You will hear a couple of PA check ins throughout the show today.

He had the opportunity to chat with team owner president Mark Wilf.

You'll hear that actually later this hour, and then wide receiver coach Keenan McCardell will be in the mix.

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How you doing, man, I'm doing well.

Yeah, I'm doing well.

You know, it's so disappointing.

I think the way the game just went in the approach and you'll get the stats and kind of tell us part of the story.

I mean, this this week is big.

I mean it's it's a big, big week.

I mean to be able to get a dub on the road, finish one to one in this trip, come back with the winning record, and like you said, get some healthy bodies at the end of the day, which is is you don't want to make an excuse for your for your team, but the reality is is they've been they've been going through it here this early part of the season, and to be able to get through this week and get a dub, get hopefully get a few bodies back, and then hopefully you can catch your strike because you know, if we look ahead for the schedule and getting it easier.

No, it's not.

We were I was talking with with Pa and Ben Lieber yesterday and just kind of the kind of the idea like the most important game in Kevin O'Connell's life.

Life is always just the next one, right, So yeah.

Welcome to football, man.

It's just it's always next and that's that's the best part about the loss.

We have next week, Yeah, there's another one and frankly, there's thirteen more of them in total, so lots of opportunities.

But with that said, would you be feeling the urgency that I feel as a fan where it's like, okay, things are negative one thousand percent, I don't know who half the guys are on the offensive line and what just happened against the Steelers.

That's a setback health of the young QB.

We're watching him while we're watching Carson try to do his thing.

And in the end, yes, it's early season, early October, but with the way things have gone, even at two and two, we feel in some ways blessed to be there.

There's extra urgency here, like we can't lose to the freaking Browns.

You would feel that as a player, Yeah, you one hundred percent feel that, And I think in some ways, because you're overseas, you almost have a little bit of a training Campbine because you're kind of all together, and you be all together, you know, at night and during the day, and you don't you're not going home and not seeing the family a lot.

For a lot of the attractions might actually be less in some capacities when you're traveling like this.

Even though it's a you're a national I think it's a good chance for them to come together and this is we are what we are.

We have who we have, and who's going to be healthy, who's going to be able to play this week?

You know, the defensive side of the balls got their fair share of stuff going on.

So there's a there's a sense of urgency in that building or in that room and in the hotel right now where they got to get something done and they know it.

And I think you gotta come out and you're gonna play A brown seam is going to absolutely fight you, and they need a win too.

And Stefanski's going to have those guys ready.

We know how good a football coach he is.

And regardless of the talent, you know, you have to go get a win.

Now you have a young quarterback coming in to be the starter for the first time.

We can't let him get going.

You want to see him, give him a bunch of different looks, needing it after him, make him make some mistakes.

Uh, it's a huge week.

And I think it's fair to say that this is this is it's not it's not if win or else.

But look at the division.

Look what we have in front of us.

This is a massive game, and we take it.

We got to take it that way.

And listen, these guys are pros.

You show up righty to play, and you show up and get yourself to get yourself ready to play, and then go out.

There and play well.

And if you don't, your best chance to is the next week to come back and say, hey, we got to write the ship.

And you know, just look at the staff, you look at the rushing yards given up, look at the time possession.

The fact we have to throw the ball of forty five forty six times tells you with out of story.

Rogers threw a twenty twenty two times, twenty three times.

That tells you the story of how the game went, very efficient and very efficient, getting first downs, big throws, gain well goes for what one hundred I mean, just that kind of tells you the story and again gain well in the two losses.

Is what has been the story, right, is our inability to have a Williams wall that's been able to hold up and you know, limit teams to rush yards.

Is there any part of that where because talking about it through this week, I mean, you see what you see on Sunday, the injuries.

Would you have taken that guy seriously sorry and so distracting?

No, I know, but.

Cam Newton on the big work.

You pointed at him because he's got the hat on, he's got the colored sunglasses.

He's Davison County guy of South Dakota.

He's got to be out there now.

Now you guys gave Cam Newton fits.

Yeah, but that's MVP caliber.

I mean one of the most difficult quarterbacks to bring down one of this the I mean the great athletes of the last twenty five where Cam Cammon league.

I'm just like, what is this?

But the thing that could that Cam couldn't overcome is the cold weather at TCF Bank Stadium now Hans Bank.

He came up here that day and he wanted no part of any of that cold energy.

I'm trying to think was it feeling and was it Everson that both had defensive tds that day as part of the blowout, right exactly.

I think that's the that's the that's the genesis of Detroit Lakes go crazy.

And he blocked it.

I think the Eland blocked it.

Said score.

Oh, I mean, that's come on.

So we do lots of and high fives in the locker room after that.

Uh with we've talked about Rogers a ton.

I mean, you you saw him a ton during your playing career.

Is there any element where you look back at Sunday and you're just thinking to yourself, Yeah, we got Rogers, I mean, and so you like you can say roster top to bottom, you feel like, and we saw the health situations that played out during the game.

We know they have DK, we know they have TJ.

Watt, et cetera.

But just in the end, you're just you're walking away.

You're like, he did it to us again.

Yeah, you know, he just he knows where to go with the football when he's playing well.

And when he was when he was flying high in Green Bay and had some good weapons on the outside, they would run so many simple concepts just to take what you are giving them.

Yeah, and he and when you have a quarterback that knows where the football is supposed to go against that coverage because he knows who's got leverage and he knows who's going to win.

It's almost predetermined that he knows, and.

That's why the balls out of his hands so fast, because he knows if you're sitting this type of his own coverage and you have this responsibility within that coverage because because of his intellect, he knows that route is going to be open when he hits his third step.

Okay, you're in man coverage, all right, what kind of leverage this guy playing?

Okay, this is the route I have against that leverage.

I know he's going to be open when he turned.

So having that ability, and again you can think back to our young quarterback and even what Carson's been able to do when he's come in at least put up some numbers and obviously look good in parts, and obviously the interception has hurt us.

But the reality is is when you know where to go with the football because you know what the defense is going to give you, you just you just take it and let your players make place.

And that's exactly what happened in this situation this weekend, and he you know, you throw the ball twenty plus times and you get a win on the road, a huge win.

Mike Tomas got that look in his eye, that the smile and smirk that I don't like, especially when you're playing against him.

But you know, he just they got it.

They got a little thing going right there last week and and I think that was the offensive people thought they could have.

We I just know why had it happened against us?

Yeah, back to before we got distracted.

I mean, look at Cam right now with the with the tie.

It's a vibe.

I don't know what's I can't even describe it.

See people are people are down on it.

I don't get it.

Cam had his ups and downs of his career and then his arm just stopped working.

I just kind of love Cam Newton.

I could never wear that.

It looks ridiculous.

You know, he's consistent, He's and he doesn't shy away from he doesn't he leans into it.

He's consistent.

It's not for me, but man does he does he own nothing?

I just want to know what he spends on clothes.

That's expensive.

Good Lord, that pension's got to be good, though, right, yeah, oh yeahs were really good and he made a couple of bucks first overall, et cetera.

Uh.

Where I was going though before we got distracted by Cam Newton is when you see a loss like you saw and the health situation, I mean just kind of balancing.

Okay, the talker is it's and it always goes this way.

Well, the GM and his horrible drafting and put us in a spot so so that was so so trying to take that which is and as I've said, like the listeners are going to focus on a lot of that and I'm in on it.

I'm in on it.

It's a valid talker where when you when you go to the well and free agency.

And I think he deserves a ton of praise given some of the guys that he picked up for the value that he picked him up on.

You know, one guy in particular who's off to it feels like a historic star would be Isaiah Rodgers.

Like nobody's shying away from from how important he's been to this defense so far.

But you mentioned not having that Williams wall in those two losses, the idea of okay, you know, we can spend all week ripping the GM, or we can also say, well, this is what we have.

That's like a January conversation.

Right now, we've got to figure out how to beat the Browns.

Do you see any in the advancement of pass rush through the middle with Hargrave and Allen?

Are you potentially giving up something in terms of what a Bullard and a Harrison Phillips provided in terms of the run stopping because then, as you mentioned it, Kenneth freaking gainwell should not have he was on the doorstep like ninety nine yards.

I think yeah, and then bejon Is Bajon and if he's not getting you on the ground, he's probably catching and running, etc.

Just an incredible player that he is, he has a right to have a good game.

But in the same sense, there has been that kind of that focal point of you know, again ripping the GM, but then also looking pragmatically at the defensive front and it's like, we're really pumped about this and they're healthy, they're healthy, But but to that end, have we given up something to gain something?

Yeah?

I think you know, you know, factor in Van Ginkle, facturing, cash Man, factoring these other things that are coming at you right But listen, We're good enough to win both the games we lost.

It's not a it's not a talent issue.

So we can look in place blame because that's what we do.

Right.

There's the problem with the NFL is you have six or seven days between games, so you got to fill some air, right, You got to have something to talk about, have them to complain about.

We could be five, four and oh right now when we find some of the things that some issues that discussion.

Why wouldn't we That's just part of the game that makes the NFL so great.

It's year round.

You're discussing all these things.

Was the roster looked like what's a GM?

But the reality is we're good enough talent wise to win both games.

Did we win them?

The wins games you lost, did we win them?

No?

We found ways to lose those games.

The guys that are in those spots that knows at three in the interior defense environment are good enough to make those plays, but they're not making them.

And the reality is is we have to get to a spot where those guys are No.

Again, everybody does a little something different, right.

The guys we trade away and got rid of would have certainly helped but what are we taking away from a pass rush?

Well, you know what does a room look like?

You can't count on what injuries you're gonna have.

That's just the NFL.

It's gonna it's gonna hit you us some way, somehow every year, very rarely you're gonna get a super healthy season, and it's it just hit us hard early.

And the reality, though, is it's still in front of us.

Yeah, So the ups and downs of the NFL season, the more you can just stay the same, the more you can just be the thermostat and just absolutely keep your temperature and say, hey, we're gonna keep charging ahead.

We have these ups and downs, we're gonna get healthier and we're gonna find a way to get back on pace.

And we got to get a win this weekend, and we got to treat it accordingly.

And we gotta go out and start fast the team.

The games that we've that we've lost, we got behind.

We just we start slow, we can't finish drives, we're not getting off the field.

And the other games we start fast, we make a play.

So your first fifteen as a coach offensively got to be sharp.

You gotta know what you gotta know what you're gonna get.

You gotta have an answer to all those problems.

And defensive we got to come out.

We can't make mistakes.

And for you know, I'm okay.

I'm okay with a team establishing the past game early, but I'm certainly okay with this with the team established a run game early.

Yeah, because when you get the.

Run game going early and all of a sudden, you have all sorts of issues to deal with.

I saw this.

I saw this stat and I think it's from Warren Sharp, not think I know it's from Warren Sharp, and I'm trying to scramble to get it now.

Well, but I can paraphrase it because I think I have it right.

The New Orleans Saints are zero and four, okay, new coach.

I mean they're trotting Spencer Rattler out there.

I mean that thinks you know that's something down in the Bayou.

Best of luck to them, Actually, no, no, they go.

I said that I hope they have a winless season.

No, no, that's correct.

I apologize.

I was trying to offer a bit of grace to them, but no, no thank you and no luck to the New Orleans Saints.

Fans were talking.

They have not played one offensive snap with the lead thus far in twenty and twenty five fast starters down there the second worst two snaps the Cleveland brown Wow, we can't.

They don't want us, They can't start fast.

This is and they grinded their way to a victory with the with the big field goal block and then the field goal by whatever his name is that the Browns kicker, who is a disaster.

Week one, they could have beaten Burrow.

They missed it.

They're one and three, two snaps all through four games in which they have had the advantage.

If I see Judkins get loose and suddenly they're up seven to nothing, he's done, he does.

I'm doing this appearance at Gray's Food Haul.

It's downtown, backside of Target Field on Sunday morning.

I'm gonna lose my freaking mind.

Yeah yeah, it's an eight am bloody Mary.

Probably tow some great duck in there.

Get yourself looped up and going well, and that takes the edge off.

I will encourage it for others.

I have to do fan line later, hopefully a victorious one.

It makes it makes fan line better.

Yeah, one or five wouldn't hurt.

Yeah, it makes fan.

Line better either way, the corn lose makes it better.

They can't start fast.

No, if the Browns have a lead in this game, that that is absolute red alert problem for our favorite football And because of how Stefanski wants to play the.

Game one thousand percent.

He wants to control the line of scrimmage, he wants to run the football, he wants to be able to run the clock, and he got they have a creature on the other side that we have to be mindful of that can absolutely wreck a football game.

And I think we have to be mindful of that as we drop back.

We want to you know, Garrett, listen, we want to we want to throw the ball under around twenty times.

It's been the it's been the sauce to winning the first two two wins of the season.

We want to make sure we can control more of the game than we've been controlling.

The game has been controlled by the team we've been playing almost in every game so far this season, and even the throwaway game with Isaiah Rodgers.

Bit like, what's real from that?

Because the reality is we got to too scoop and scorers.

Yeah, I don't know what's.

Real at this moment.

You don't know what you take from that, to be honest with you, because that's a game that's a little bit of a you know, you just don't know.

It's it's it's almost the it's almost throw it out.

But reality is, we got to show up and get ready to play.

And and I think the maturity of this football team would be tested this week.

I think the leadership of our football team would be tested this week.

I think we're going to know in the first quarter of what this week looks like.

No, I think you're right.

I don't mean to harp on the negative.

So you remember DK Metcalf's touchdown.

Yeah, and it's it's difficult you're watching TV copy.

I don't think you.

I mean, you certainly haven't been in the film room this week watching God Mac.

But but there I'm just curious.

So you have DK Metcalf in the slot.

Ron Johnson's telling me he runs a bang eight or whatnot.

But on that play, I see two things happening where Harrison Smith's too late to come down.

I see Eric Wilson chasing and just kind of the thing that has popped in my head over the course of this with all the health issues.

Man, we miss Cashman.

Like, I just feel like, I don't know if there's a position in the end, they just needed to tackle DK.

As difficult as that is.

I'm asking you, guys, compensated fairly high end athletes that you are, like, I need you to tackle better in some spots, if I may be as to ask, but I'm just like Cashman, I miss Blake and I'm excited.

I know Philly is the boogeyman around the bye week corner, but man, I need Blake back.

I need Van Ginkle back, you know.

And it's just I hate where we're We're sitting this early in the season where everything is how do we evaluate the QB, Well, I need X Y z O lineman in there.

How do I evaluate the defense, well I need I need Van Ginkle and Cashman.

You know, where this was stability.

You lost stability.

And you know, I think you know, the best of the best.

The best ability in the NFL is availability and showing up and being the guy.

Right.

So Cashman's best ability last year was he was a game changer, not only physically on the field, but a guy that you could just count on.

You know, He's gonna be where he's supposed to be, to make the player supposed to make, to make the tackle he's supposed to make.

You know, missed a few here there, of course, like anybody.

But the reality was players are going to make plays in this league.

Dk Metcalf is a creature.

Aaron Rodgers is going to be crazy.

He's going to throw the ball to the right spot.

And guys, you're gonna make plays.

It's the NFL.

All these teams are good.

The Browns are capable of beating us.

They have players to do it.

You have to show up and not just roll the help out and say we're going to get a win because on paper it looks like we're better than them.

So when dk Metcalf catches that ball, that's great.

It can't turn into a touchdown.

Now it has to be put on the ground and say, okay, now go get the next fifty yards.

It's easy for me to say, though, to put a I've missed a lot of tackles.

Be the sacrificial lamb and can you can you run in front of that semi truck real quick?

I don't want to, but I will.

And the thing is is like again, I missed a million tackles when I played.

But the reality is is like you just try to find a way to get that guy on the ground and live and live another down.

So take a better angle, get him down, run him out of bounce, whatever it is.

You're not too prideful to get dragged, are you?

No?

No, I mean the freeze.

One of the guys that could drag yet.

That guy that plays running back for the Ravens from Alabama.

Oh, Dereck Henry.

Yeah, maybe, Yeah, that guy I remember when he came as a rookie my last year.

He turned the corner again with the Titans.

That might have been the opening game, one of the first couple of games I can look.

He turned the corner and I simply said, what the h is that?

You just didn't have anybody you've ever seen before running downhill that you just want to run through your neck?

And yeah, you get drugged for five or six, you get up, you go play the next play necessarily how it goes.

He's well, first of all, what was your playing way?

Were you forty then?

I was probably two thirty thirty?

Yeah, thirty three years old is ready to getting either in the wheelchair?

So he's and it was.

It was the opening game.

You guys won that game.

I think with Sean Hill.

Eric Hendricks had a pick and I think the Neil maybe maybe you had a pick and Daniel had the defensive the fumble rumble, yep, Shawn Hill.

I think Darrin Shan Hill.

I'm pretty sure Derek Henry has fifteen pounds of muscle on you and maybe an inch and just better genetics.

He's faster, better looking.

I mean, he's still stronger and I'm and he's playing running back.

This isn't well, that's that's my point though.

It's it's not harping on Chad Greenway.

It's more it's uh, oh, no, get in line.

And there's several more like me, No but no.

But but is it?

How do you stop that?

That that's insane?

Like a four to four guys at his zenith.

I mean, he's getting older now and such, but still he's paying somebody a quarter million dollars to keep him in shape in the offseason.

He's running beating hills that he cut back on me.

The first time I saw him is he got his shoulder square coming downhill and I was rocking back.

So I was a gap, kind of beat to backside and then he cuts back.

I have that backside scrape, so I'm catching He's literally catching me on my heels, and I mean, it was an awful situation.

And you find yourself in those and you just survive those, and you simply go ankle grabbing, you go ankle bite, and you just try to get your head across his thighs and bring him down and try to live.

I mean, let me tell you this, though, you guys, did you did?

You did a pretty good job.

Remember DeMarco Murray?

Oh yeah, but but he only had three yards rushing that game.

You may have had two entail.

You may have had to find him.

He had two catches for forty one yards in that game.

I don't want to be in front of that cat.

Let's see.

Let's see what oh I did?

I was That was my first That was Eric Kendricks and Barr played Nickels.

So I didn't play many snaps that game because I was third.

That was kind of first second down.

Guy, I gotta tell you something.

Zero stats, I don't I don't think you registered to tackle in particular game.

Yeah, no, that sounds about right.

I think we played very little based defense.

Wow.

Okay, yeah, fumble recovery and the TD it was Kendricks and Hunter.

You got Sean Hill.

How'd Sean Hill do eighteen of thirty three?

Okay?

Very pedestrian eight yards on the ground.

Adrian, tough day for him.

You grind it out of victory at Nissan Stadium.

Uh, speaking at twenty sixteen.

Yep.

When you watch this and you just kind of doesn't it kind of feel like that?

So uh, Teddy goes down, it's awful for everybody.

It was like August thirtieth to thirty first.

Yep.

I remember Tuesday at the State Fair.

We're doing the NFC in great debate bit with with Wobble Wobble, Lavelli, Neil the Third and Dave Sinecon.

Everybody's feeling good.

Got the miskick behind us now like full speed ahead.

Adrian's gonna ro you did?

I did have that.

It was not out of my head yet.

There's bit or No that was not past that did did?

Did Walsh's lot?

Like was Walsh's locker out in like the tunnel or something like that?

I mean, poor kid, No, I know that's well Frankly, I just I hope everything's good with him.

He never really recovered from that.

He's in real estate now.

He is a great, smart guy.

Sweet.

I think he's on West Coast.

Oh, good for him, that's great, But the kick went the wrong way.

Fresh Life breathed into the squad.

Twenty sixteen, Teddy goes down Bradford.

You flip the first to Howie Roseman for Bradford.

Sean Hill gets you the w as we talked about.

Against the Titans.

You start out I think five and oher into the by.

He got Cheryls with the punt return against Houston.

What was it primetime against Odell Beckham Junior and the Giants and Xavier Roads fighting them and Odell fighting like a kicking net or something.

I mean, just everything's good, great memory.

You go into the bye.

But it was week two.

It was the opener at us Bank Stadium, and I still remember Trey Wayns gets the pick to seal the game.

Zimmers, I mean Zimmer, I mean at the combine would have been first or second in vertical, but you lose Matt Khalil to the mcl adrian as well as a matter of fact.

But then I and I just I had this pulled up the other day.

I'll run it through again.

Andre Smith, Matt Khalil, Rashad Hill, Jeremiah Searles, Jake Long rips his achilles at FedEx when you're trying to go and tie the game.

TJ.

Clemings, Alex Boone, Brandon Fusco, your favorite, Willie Beavers, Oh yeah, Zach Kieran, Joe Berger, Nick Easton, that's your all.

Those guys got meaningful offensive line snaps in twenty sixteen, and you guys battled.

There was talent there.

You were a playoff team the year before, looking to elevate yourself.

Bradford was fine, Yeah, Bradford was okay.

Yeah, it was eight and eight and Bears at home won the beat the Bears at home to go eight and eight.

That's right, I think.

So, yeah, my final game and well at least you walked off a way.

Yeah.

But this year, this Sunday, they're going to be putting their well different O line combination together for the fifth game of the season, and it just reminds me a bit of the optimism, talented group that just couldn't stay on the field.

Well, now you go look at the teams that are there, at the end NFC Title Game, Super Bowl, you look at the stability the offensive line the Chiefs run.

They've been on stability.

Pay guys, guys, stay healthy, guys.

You have to make it through the game.

You know, through the season.

You maybe have a guy who misses a game or two here or there.

You plug and play a guy for a couple of weeks and bring him back.

Stability at the offensive line and rhythm and momentum at the offensive line is a real thing.

The more continuity they have where they can play together and they're talking, and they're working on games, and they got stunts and they're and just that communication and you kind of get in the rhythm just like just like a quarterback in their receivers, just like anything somebody in the running game.

You can kind of get a couple carries, you get hit and all of a sudden, I could feel it.

The old line is double that, right, because their whole life is communication.

Their whole life is understanding what what's right in front of them and what they've seen on tape, and if they can communicate that to keep their guy upright.

And by the way, you're dealing with some beasts on the other side of the football, and then you add in the tight end, and you add in these running backs to protections and then you So it's such a momentum position that's not talked about enough.

And when you get that continuity, by the time you get the end of the season, man, you've done seen heard at all where you can just solve almost any problem.

And that's to me is if you don't have that, I mean, your quarterbacks are just you're guessing and that's a real problem.

Last thing for you them will pause and then you know what we're gonna We're gonna turn the page on this and we'll start talking about how we can beat up on Dylan Gabriel.

Guess what I'm excited about that Flores game.

Let's get them.

How did you handle that as a defender, because it's always next man up, like I get the mental machinations of I mean, again, it's week five.

It's not week fifteen here, So let's let's have perspective.

We believe in our team, we believe even the squad we want to believe, certainly, but at some point you're you're watching this merry go round on the offensive line, and over the course of a season, it just feels like the burden would build defensively, where the conversation through the first four weeks is our defense is put us in spots where we have the ability to go and win these games, even Week two against the Falcons, even Sunday against the against the Steelers.

But that burden has to build over the course of the year.

How do you shake that off?

Where in the end, it's just like I can control what I can control because you can tell yourself and then in the mirror, but there's got to be something that creeps in.

You know where I play college football, right, you played at a place where the defense matters a lot.

Yeah, I mean the mentality they have a kid that can grow now, Yeah, well yeah, that's what they say.

The mentality I came here with was the mentality of we're going to win with the defensive side of the ball and you don't care offense.

And also a mentality of and I learned this lesson in some ways the hard way as a young college athlete is there's always more you can do as an athlete, as a player, especially in this team game.

It's like, how many mistakes you make that you could have turned that game another direction.

A many times because you got off the field defensively, we could have gave the offense the ball again and gave another shot.

So I think, yes, you have that thought in the back of your mind, but we have You have so much of your own crap to deal with that you're just trying to deal with your in your own world and trying to do your job and last house and stones and figure out how.

Can I impact this game.

There's plenty of things on this defensive side of the ball that we can clean up to make this situation better offensively.

And if we know we have a group like the offensive line that's been hurt beat up, let's keep giving them the ball.

Let's keep giving them field position, let's win.

Let's get off the field on three and out.

Let's shorten the field.

You know, let's make this thing easier.

That's the mentality they have in that in that locker room, guarantee you because they have good leadership.

At the end of day, they have good leadership, good coaching, and that's what that's what's being preached.

I love that.

That's Jack Greenway in studio.

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This will be a short segment facing a rookie quarterback.

So with Stefanski.

You know Kevin Stefanski very well, of course, but you think about the type of offense he wants to run.

We're gonna see a lot of Quinn Shawn Judkins on Sunday at Tottenham eight thirty am kickoff.

But this Dylan Gabriel cat, he's a south Paw, so much like the Southern hemisphere, the water goes to the opposite direction, the skin in the all will be different.

It's how do you catch it?

I don't know how you catch it.

It's not my job.

That's up to Justin Jefferson.

That's why he makes the big bucks or what?

Or I guess in this case I should say from a Brown's perspective, Isaiah Bond, I think there's a Jamari Thrash.

Don't ask me a Jerry Judy.

You're oh Jerry Judy, k now you know.

I don't know one of them.

There's this rookie, Harold fannin junior.

Basically he's like the h back, he's the the blocking tight end.

He's a football player.

He's a football player.

But but but what do you think about facing what?

What?

What makes you lick your chops when you're thinking about facing a rookie.

He's a little bit different because there may be some designed runs and such, you can create their own headaches.

But just kind of thinking about beating up on a rookie and getting a w in England, Yeah.

The biggest thing is you got to get into third down.

You got to get into third down as many times as you can and make him make decisions in that in that situation when he knows he can potentially get pressure, he knows him to get man coverage.

Make him a decision maker.

And when you do that, you have a good chance to win against a rookie.

As the scene, all these looks and is thinking too fast and trying to play too fast, and you know undersized guy from my from I remember from him in college the final Yeah, when you're rushing hands up, I mean the whole bit.

I mean, you got to you got to change your whole approach.

Now.

The negative is is they have they have free headspace that we don't really know what they're going to do.

And I think you got to mean you have to overprepare in the run game because we know where to get smashed with run.

Like how much our po stuff were going to get from college game?

Like how much keeper?

You know, how much are they willing to keep.

My guess is that Stefanski is going to do anything possible to win this game, which means he's going to the quarterback is in play on a run game for sure.

Absolutely.

And the other thing you have to think about.

I met this team last year actually on in Vegas randomly.

I was with her there with my daughter in Vegas.

The Browns played the Raiders and I got a chance to come to their walk through.

And Kevin's a good football coach, great coach, and they respect him and they play hard for him.

And a team in the NFL that has talent, no matter what that talent level is, is capable of coming out and getting that getting getting to giving us an absolute handful if we don't come out and take care of business.

So expect a very, very prepared and good Browns team that is going to try to beat you at the line of scrimmage from snap one to the end of the game and control the game.

Can we go toe to toe with them and improve on the two losses we've had, which has been in the last scrimmage.

This might be the lowest.

I mean, I'm hoping our squad figure I mean trying to run Mason against that front.

As good as the Browns are against the run, it's going to take a serious level commitment from the head coach and the ability maybe throughout the week, knowing who's hurt on the offensive line, if you've been able to put some good reps in from a cohesion standpoint, you just imagine, you know, certainly knowing who you're going to work with is better than losing some guy midstream.

That appears quite obvious, but this might be the lowings.

I mean, Flora's defense weeping, nashing of teeth, can't stop the run, team loses games.

We get that.

Flora's defense teams are two for twenty six on third down and six or longer well through four.

That's the story right there.

I mean that that's just just put Dylan Gabriel on a third and nine.

Yeah, no freaking chance.

I mean three things every week we would talk about is make a team one dimensional, make him throw the football, stop the run, create turnovers, and get him the third downs.

I mean that is that is defensive football in the NFL.

And got to win the third downs more than you lose them.

And I think when you put this rookie on that spot you're gonna get you're gonna feel really good about yourself.

The one the one positive from throwing the ball whatever too many times he threw last week is we got ten receptions out of the kid eighteen.

We got a little bit of continuity between him and Wentz.

We got a little unstop, we got a half particular, we got a little bit of vibe going.

I liked that because we had you know, he hadn't he hadn't had a rhythm game.

He hadn't had a game where like, Okay, I'm gonna get a bunch of touches, a bunch of chances.

And again, it was the situation of the game brought us back.

But I like that because now that that that does lead into the next week.

There's momentum there from a quarterback and receiver standpoint where all of a sudden, like Carson's going to start to trust yep, jj is gonna start to trust him to make the throw.

And Jordan Addison Welcome back, Jordan, Welcome back Jordan, And what a huge welcome back.

So you're gonna you're gonna force us to probably be to throw the football more than we want to because of how they play defense over there.

You gotta trust your quarterback to go make place.

You know, decision making is gonna be important.

Trusting you guys are gonna make a play and be important, and we have guys who make place.

You gotta have a DK.

Metcalf bit where all a sudden JJ go goes and makes a play for your football team.

You go to go flip this game on his head.

We just can't lose to the Browns.

No, I mean that's they don't.

They don't play with the lead, they don't score, they do nothing fast.

They got this cool running back and they got an elite defense.

We just can't lose to the freaking Browns.

And I mean going to the bye week three and two, we lick our wounds.

We get a couple of guys back Cashman after the bye.

I think we might have CJ this weekend.

How about the bounce?

CJ Man back in the mix, gazing.

We're getting healthier.

I don't know what's up with Van Jinkle's neck.

I'm starting to feel good about this now.

I'm starting to I'm starting to I'm starting to change my face on this thing.

Let's go biggest time of possession.

Yeah, that's that.

It's been a problem for this football team all year.

It's going to be an issue this weekend.

If that's what that's what Stefanski wants to do.

Is own the football and get off the field.

Get off the field.

Get him a third down huge, first down is huge this week on, get him a second, longs, get him into third down situation.

So it's gonna be it's gonna be easy.

You know, early kegs and eggs, Great Ducks and eggs, Great Ducks all good.

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Yeah, Gray duck man, You know it's always buzzing over at Great Duck.

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We are going to be at the Shackape Bowl down to Shakap, Minnesota for the game.

Watch, so you'll will see mister Greenway down there eight thirty with some fun little shenandigans we got going on.

So if you're down in Shockapy area, or you want to make a drive, you know Shock maybe maybe maybe you stayed all night at Mystic, you want to come over.

It's close, you know, come uch the game with us.

Absolutely, thanks for hanging out you bet, thanks for having me.

That's Chad Greenway, thanks to Gray Duck at Chad Greenway five to two via X.

You'll hear Pa chat with Mark Wilf next nine to noon.

Other fans welcome back.

Nine to noon.

It's Nordowen for Pa, but Pa doing some workover in London and the first to two conversations you're going to hear from the nine to noon host in advance of Sunday's Vikings Browns affair at Tottenham six thirty am pregame.

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That's right here on your home for Vikings Football the Fan.

But part of two conversations that he had one with Keena McCardell, Vikings Wide Receivers coach.

You'll hear that next hour.

But here he is with the owner and president of the squad, Mark Wilf.

Hey, welcome back to London and we're happy to be joined by Minnesota Vikings co owner and team president of Mark Wilf.

In advance of the Vikings and Browns from Tottenham Hotspur this weekend.

Welcome back to London.

It's quite the familiar destination these days.

It really starts to feel like the home away from home.

No, Dublin was one thing, but now we're kind of in a familiar place.

So we're ready for Sunday.

How did the end of the equation, you know, it was historical first regular season NFL game in Dublin into the equation.

Outside of the result, how did the whole trip work out?

Well, all the logistics are operations, folks.

Our entire staff did an amazing job and everything worked out smoothly.

Of course, not the results we wanted.

But you know one thing about coach O'Connell, he's got them refocused, reshifted, and I feel real good about the energy coming into this game.

Mark, Why do you think the NFL likes you guys, the Minnesota Vikings traveling abroad so frequently.

Well, first of all, we do have a great fan base, and second, we're very supportive of the league the international efforts.

So you know, when they spoke to us about playing two row games overseas and supporting it, we're all for it.

We're doing marketing in London, We're doing what we can to promote the game.

But We've always had a great fan base in Europe and it shows and I know in Tottenham on Sunday we're going to have it as well.

So all that combined, I think the league has come to us.

So saying all that, we got to get the win on Sunday, what are the benefits to the team, Well, I mean the benefits it's twofold.

You know, from a football standpoint, these are both road games, so you know you do take away a little bit of the home field, although Dublin did feel a little.

Pittsburgh e to us.

But I know this weekend we're gonna have a lot of Minnesota there, so that'll be good.

And on the business side, again, we have a lot of corporate sponsors, we have a lot of people that love the Vikings, with a big fan fest this weekend in London.

We have a Viking bar that's being set up down by the London Bridge.

So there's a lot of energy and excitement about the Minnesota Vikings and our brand and what.

It can bring to the business community as well.

And you mentioned the worldly nature of Minnesota Vikings fans and it causes me to hearken to twenty thirteen when you beat Pittsburgh at Wembley, and you know, like the night before the game there was music.

I can't remember the name of the band, but your brother was there for sure, and you could just kind of tell wow.

I mean, like, how does the appeal of the Minnesota Vikings reach so far?

There's so many Vikings fans in Europe.

Well, all of our history.

I mean this goes back twenty thirty years.

I think we were playing preseason games in Scandinavia and all.

The rest, and you know, the Minnesota Vikings that we have such a rich history.

So we have fans all over the world.

And when you see that purple and goal over here, it's re energizing.

I think the players feel it as well, and we're going to feel it this Sunday.

And you know, I probably shouldn't mention names here because when I mentioned a few names, I'm going to leave some out because of just everything from an operational standpoint that has gone into this unprecedented back back journey.

Chad Lundein, Paul Martin, malam Burgess, Chuck Peterson operations.

Then you get into Mike Parson and his staff, you get into Tyler and his staff.

There's so much that goes in to the back to back nature, and it seems like it's just gone swimmingly.

I mean, thank you for.

Mentioning all those names, because they are all superstars, and I know Coach feels it as well.

I just spoke to them about it.

I mean, the things that run so smoothly makes the culture as good as it is in white players and staff want to be around it, and I think that's going to bode well for our long term franchise future.

And that's how you win championships.

You have all parts working smoothly, including the guys you mentioned as as co owner and president.

I mean that really legitimately has to make you proud, and I talk about it nine to noon on the radio too.

Where culture can be such a trite and overused term this day and age, but for somebody like me and somebody like you, we've been around a couple of decades.

You know, we know what bad culture looks like.

You know what authentic culture looks like like it is now and that's really hard to attain absolutely, and it's something you know.

You can pour resources into something, but you need the right people.

And between Quasi and Coach and robres Andsking, all the people you just mentioned, and Andrew Miller, everybody pulling together, and you feel it when you're overseas.

It really takes a lot to pull all this together, and when you have the injuries we've had and every club goes through it, but you have the recovery setup and the systems we have.

So we're proud of it all and we're hoping for winning formulas here and last one or two here with Mark Wilf team president, you know, you.

Take the boss hat off and put on the fan hat where you want the team to win every single game.

Do do you have to sometimes like take a step back and recognize, Wow, look at all these injuries.

We've had to use two quarterbacks, but we still have thirteen left.

You know, the fan in you, how does it handle it?

Well, I'm taking the coaches Q on this.

You know you can say but and if all day long, but we've got to go out and Sunday and do what we've got to do.

And I know he's going to have them ready and you know you got to get it done.

The NFL is a week by week deal, and again we do have the roster to get it done.

And I'm proud of how the guys are fighting through and playing last one.

The Vikings will head into Sunday's game with their twelfth offensive line combination.

Then they that's just the season.

Then they get the bye after this.

Out of that at home against Philadelphia, now Sunday against Cleveland.

Well, their head coach is Kevin Stefanski, somebody who was with you at decade and a half.

You guys gave him a big chance with Childress in two thousand and six, the very early years of your ownership tenure.

I know you're very fond of him.

He's quite good at what he does.

Absolutely, you know Kevin.

I mean, he's been with us since the beginning and we were very happy, and we knew day one that one day he was going to be an NFL head coach.

He's that smart, he's got that great personality to work with everybody.

So it'll be a a strange experience see him on the other sideline.

We'll give him a little hug and wish him well, but you know, we got to win on Sunday.

But he's an amazing person.

Yeah, Battle of the Kevin's coming up Sunday.

We'll be pulling for hours.

With all due respect, Kevin O'Connell, thank you very much, Mark, thank you, Pa.

Mark Wilf, team president and co owner of the Minnesota Vikings.

Mark Wilf with Pa from London.

And yes, of course we all love Kevin Stefanski, but you know what, we're going to beat Kevin Stefanski's team on Sunday with Christian Darisaw, Joe Huber, Blake, Brandell, Will Fries and Justin's school and we'll continue that conversation in terms of the Vikings and what it's all gonna look like Sunday at Tottenham with Alec Lewis of the Athletic.

He joins from London.

Next second hour ahead, it's nine to noon on the