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Thanks for having us on the show. Hey coach. Thank you so much for joining us. I mentioned it a little bit ago that moment with Casey O'Brien was very I mean it was riveting the video piece that College GameDay did this past weekend was incredible when I saw it happen live. It was awesome. A lot of people say PJ Fleck is just a lot of hype a lot of talk. Nothing is really genuine and to see you crying on the sidelines with a player of yours that you gave an incredible opportunity to I think showcase that you were this really genuinely A passionate great head coach for the Minnesota Gophers. What happened in that entire lead up there? Did you know that was going to happen to Casey know that was going to happen and did you know that the world was going to be touch as much as it was? Well, it's a very touching story. And if that story doesn't touch you, I don't think you're human being ha ha and so for Casey the renew that would possibly happen. We traveled in the Rutgers. We thought it happened earlier in the year. And when we had Nebraska here, we had an opportunity to possibly make it happen and then the kickoff return got flipped and the fumble got overturned so it wasn't meant to be there but doing it at Rutgers was really special moment for our players really special moment for Casey, you know his whole life. He's been told he won't he can't he Shouldn't he wouldn't we're not going to allow you to in terms of playing college football and all this young man has done is defy every odd possible whether it's beating cancer four times, whether it's being told he would never play football. Nobody can ever take away that he played Big Ten college football away from him. And I think that's something that's really important. And he's one of the most special human beings I've ever met in my entire life and for the people who obviously don't think whatever however they feel about me. I mean, that's how they feel. They probably don't know me very well. Well, so I really don't worry about what people think of me if they don't know me, but Katie O'Brien is the the ultimate go for and he's what were the boats all about Coach when I say this, I mean this I didn't know much about you before we went into your facility and then the way we were treated by everybody of your staff was just first class. It's obviously a matter of big reason why you're skyrocketing in this coaching profession in a reason why you've gotten a Gophers to turn around so quickly you've motivated an entire. State an organization there to get things going with Casey O'Brien by the way, great hold I mean that was a good hold. He turned that thing and everything. I mean, I think that should not go unnoticed their Minnesota. Yeah, you would definitely notice that right. I mean, yes somebody who could actually appreciate that you would and the second hold was even better because that one was on the ground and he had to give me a bill to find a way to make the Holden. That's the one you hold your breath on because as a parent as well, I have four kids of my own and you know, it's hard when you know that he tried can't be hit and he got that thing down in the last thing I wanted him to do was yell fire. That would not have made me feel very good. Would it made my heart drop but he's a great athlete he was able to get it down. That's amazing the Minnesota Gophers also an amazing not only story of an amazing team right now. Undefeated got Penn State traveling to Minnesota. I saw you chatting about having gone to college game day visit to campus which After experiencing one college game day. Brookings South Dakota, absolutely electric. What is the team's mindset going into the game against a Nittany Lions who are also very very very good. This is going to be an incredible Big Ten matchup. Yeah. First of all, you didn't delete job last week. I got a chance to even watching. I appreciate you picking the Gophers you didn't spend much time on it, which I appreciate I wasn't allowed to yelled at me for talking the like the time before that so I just had to get a row the boat in there Skye you Mama? Yeah. Listen, I that meant a lot to our program that we really appreciate that and your gear Was top notch man. I mean there's a few you win the gear of Gameday lifetime. But so you but you know Penn State's was the best teams in the country their top five for a reason and when you watch them on film they have weapons everywhere quarterbacks plan and it's incredibly high level is a dual threat guy and then they also have one of the best receivers in college football who does everything he's kind of like Rondell Moorish but maybe even faster and they do a lot of things with him. So that's their version of him. They have great running backs or offensive lines tremendous or tight ends are very talented. They've got three receivers. You can really go and really run and then their defense they play 22 guys, they rotate in and out and they don't miss a beat. They have depth. They've been there a long time they've been able to create depth and recruited a high-level to it's a tremendous challenge for us and we know that but we love that. It's a TCF Bank Stadium. We love that we have them at home and we love that Edge front of our home crowd. How the hell did you get this team to turn around so fast, ion it whenever we were in there. R we got a chance to kind of see the boys come together and I think some people left the program behind their own part because they didn't want to buy into what you were selling. But you and everybody that we talked to their said we got a good group of guys coming in. We got to we got our guys in here in to turn around. There's no way you could have thought it was going to happen this fast. I mean in that building it was very cool to feel like everybody was living in this is rowing the boat in the same direction. It really felt that way is that kind of the reason why it's turned around so quickly or what has been the The Magic Bullet here. Well, I don't know if there's any magic formula or any magic bullet programs either make a turn or they don't coaches either probably find a way to get extended or win a lot of games or they get fired. Right? I mean, that's it either happens or it doesn't the one thing that we have is incredible people. Our staff is absolutely Elite and I mean everybody from Garrett chernoff our GM or operations are recruiting department our support staff are recruiting assistant coaches we have incredible. People and then our players are incredible people and we have 85 players above a 3.0 GPA right now, they get they get demanded to do what they do in the classroom. Just as much as they do on the field and vice versa. They have over 1100 community service hours since January we challenge them to be Champions. And if that's what they really wanted they were going to have an enormous off season ahead of them and they took it head-on. It was a very difficult difficult offseason for them not in terms of like brutally hard. It was just challenging that Every day you had to find a way to be better today than you were yesterday and that's hard for human beings. It's fighting human nature every day and it's getting the right fit here. I am not for everybody and I am not going to apologize for being not for everybody. I don't want to be for everybody. I am going to be me. I am going to be the best version of myself and the best coach in the best husband the best father as well as I want our players to be the same thing and our staff to be the same way and I'm not going to be for everybody and I think Kitt one thing with me it happens very quickly if I'm for you perfect if I'm not for you, you know very quickly and that's okay and I think that's what happened faster than maybe if some coaches try to be somebody that they're not and they massage things here and there and next thing you know, you have people who don't fit in your 3 4 and then you're still struggling. So I think that's that's what we've done. That's how we've done it for 7 years. We are who we are and we're just very proud and thankful and very humbled to be at the University of Minnesota. Man, what a speech about life. You just gave they're not just coaching. I mean that was an incredible. Some people just aren't going to like you. That's just the way it goes. That's for everybody. Not just a head coach of Minnesota. But in life, that's just the way it goes. And by the way more humans are going to like you then not like you that's just the way it is. Keep it moving. Let's not worry about anything else. All right, I want to ask you about the word elite because when we are in your building if something was called an elite it was massive. It's like hey, this is a lie. You told me my performance on College GameDay was Ali I got so excited. Because I know how big of a word that is for your program. What is Elite? Why are you guys Elite? And why is that the most important word in the dictionary for Minnesota Gophers back? First of all, it's a lifestyle, right? And it's a standard and my wife will Heather always tells me what's the hardest part about being the standard is your the standard and you're always the standard right? And so the Navy Seals call themselves Elite. It's a special part of the Navy right? It's the elite of the elite. It's a group. That's just different now we Define elite as a necktie mentality. Prefontaine face and Farmers Alliance, I know that doesn't make any sense to all of you. But an Exon is an organism that can flow through water without the water current dictating this Behavior. So a great white shark is a nekton at always attacks and it's never full it never satisfied. So whether that's academically athletically socially spiritually it's never satisfied Navy Seals can fight on land water and air they are never satisfied and they're the elite of the elite. So we want them to have this always attack Never full minute. Polity in then their whole life as a husband as a father one day as a student athlete as a representation of the University of Minnesota, then the Prefontaine basis just we want them to do things urgently. There's no procrastination in this program 0 whatever you can do tomorrow find a way to do it today, right? Don't put it off till tomorrow. No matter what and that's what we talk to our players about and then the last part of the farmers Alliance and that's about trust my farm is right next to your farm. Your farm is just as important to my as mine because the court the seeds of corner on top. And the wind will dictate what are our crop is like so you have to take care of each other and you have to love each other and you have to be very selfless. So that's what Elite is does. I know it's a big definition. It sounds like all these fancy slogans and words and oh my gosh, he's just a slogan guy. It's simple. It's just finding a way to be better today than you were yesterday and fighting human nature coach. You just made me want to nekton through a wall gun. Is that every day right there? Is that type of energy from you and just incredible motivational speech. I mean literally it is 1015 right now. I'm not running on a lot of sleep but this fall schedule and I was ready to flip my table right there out of nowhere. Is this every day? Is that what you mean by every day? The team is being asked to get better every day. You have to show up with energy because every day you can either get better or worse. Yeah because of the human species were lazy, you know, we want we're like water the path of least resistance, you know, we want to be comfortable. You know where we want to just sit back and watch television, but our mind is the most powerful tool we have and it's fighting that every single day and I'm a former sixth grade social studies teacher so I can get creative really quickly. That's what I'm trained in and to teach, you know, Thirty sixth graders ancient Rome 30 different ways and people always ask me. Are you always like this and I looked right back at them and I tell him like what you like. Are you always like this you don't even know what they're talking about because I've been this way my entire life I have Of energy. I have passion. I've always had a love for life. There's been good things at my life really bad things that happen in my life. I know I have a purpose and a platform and I'm going to use it to the best of my ability but I am who I am and like I said before I want our players to be who they are and they don't have to match my personality, but they do have to match the burning desire inside my heart my soul my spirit to be the best I can possibly be and if you match me that we'll get to know each other really well and will fit. If you do not match me that way you'll never get me you'll never understand me and we'll never fit so you can be like Daniel pilate doesn't talk much. His personality is opposite of mine, but his internal drive to be the greatest player of person. He can be matches mine and that's why we fit so well coach My God, I need if you are a coach right now which by the way, you're a very very good one you've turned around programs. That's what you do. It's incredible to do in a very hard field to have success like you have had but you know, you could probably go on a speaking circuit in the offseason and just rack. I don't need a rack in cash if you wanted to Heather says I talk too much. Well coach I can't. Thank you enough. Joining us here. I feel like the people who don't get you or probably the same people that don't get a lot of good things in life to hell with them and to hell with anybody if they don't come to the Minnesota Gophers College GameDay experience. Not late. Okay. This is news that just broke this morning. I have to ask about you guys voided a night game for the Minnesota Penn State game. Is that accurate or is that just a rumor? No, we did not void that game. No at all that said it's completely 100% inaccurate. Okay good. I the way the Big Ten work. It's both teams have to be able to agree on night games and you have to be able to match it up with television, but that is a hundred percent inaccurate University of Minnesota. Golden. Gophers. Did not turn down a night gate. Okay. Hey coach. I'm happy. You said that I'm happy. We give you a platform say that and I can't thank you enough for coming on here motivating the hell out of me this morning, and I can't wait to watch a Minnesota Gophers continue to succeed your hospitality to me, and the boys was next level and thanks for joining us coach likewise. Anytime guys wrote about Sky Mago go for. Thank you. Delete convo PJ for like okay. Hey, man. Hey, I was about to go right the man. That was amazing. I may or may not have indulge in some vitamins right before we get to those in a little bit of a different headspace and listen to him talk. I just thought about being in a locker room. Listen to him start to go and just being like okay man. Let's do it. Then. He's like a drill sergeant though. Yeah, right the drill sergeant has to be like the part whenever he's like the standard when you're the standard that's like a dress or we had a friend who went to our high school hilarious individual. He became a drill sergeant for the Marines. Yeah and Our friends got talk to him like three years after he was doing I think he's still doing it like eight years later by the way, or nine years later, maybe 10 years of that and they're like, what's the worst thing about? He's like I have to be the perfect Marine, right? So he has to be the perfect Marine. He came all gone. He can't eat he can't laugh. He can't do anything in front of these humans. He's just a complete perfect Marine in front of them and he has to be angry. That's probably what PJ Flex feels like he has to be because he is the standard he comes in with a bad mood or has a negative feeling like his players going to be like Oh, okay. That's what it's like that's like what being a Good leader is by the way is doing people who say do as I say not as I do the ones that do as I do as I do it are the better leader. Does that mean that's that's the difference right? Like beyond the X's and O's whatever like he's not the he's demanding Excellence. He's demonstrating it. Oh, you know what? I mean? So his players want to emulate it. Hey, we gotta get this morning. As I do as I do it. Yeah, it's another one glad we cleared up that night game thing to yeah, because I was a real romance. People are like, okay. This guy's asking for game day to come but is saying we can't have a night game people are really saying that in the TV World we're saying that the Gophers voided as like, I'm happy. I'm happy. I asked I thought it was going to kind of ruffle some feathers because I thought he was going to be like, well we had to do it because of a noise violation of ever been said was just scared so he thinks no no, I'm not saying that I'm saying certain head coach at but they might be scared to play at night. Yeah, it sounds like you just said that I would never say anything bad about PJ Fleck against the called at Penn State. I would say many bad things about absolutely magical stuff there. Let me tell you about something that's really coming to my life that has changed it immensely. Company's name is shyness T and they've created these things called hammocks and I'm not talking about the Herring such a layette Orleans at the beach or on vacation or in your backyard or in the middle of your living room. If you're a 22 year old kid that buys a house that shouldn't buy a house. 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What do you think of this Pittsburgh Steeler team? What do you think about the AFC? And why do you think they're only why are you think the Colts are only favored by one against the Pittsburgh Steelers this weekend probably because of Mason Rudolph and the coast they been playing pretty good offense and defense two wives. Yes, I think Andrew Luck retired pretty much everybody kind of threw him under the bus wondering what was going to go on but as you can see they got to run a game. Going and that's you know, pretty much for the most part. That's what you need in the NFL. It's like that saying friend, you know, just look at the Patriots when they need to they run. So everybody's everybody gets it what I mean by everybody even office coordinators. They just get so in all on trying to pass the ball have a good stats by the end of the day man to make the playoffs to keep your guys healthy to keep your defense off the team you got to be able to run the ball and that's what the customer doing. They've been able to run the ball and they be able to run the ball to expect Really also they playing good defense. They try to get back to the old school early 2000 midseason when when they had Masters in the rest of those guys, they're friendly so I like what I'm seeing out of the coast, but at the same time with the Pittsburgh Steelers is just it's a whole new ball game. It's a whole new chemistry Pee Mak just don't know you got Mason Rudolph Juju is slowly but surely finding out that it's harder to be Batman then Robin. Yeah, you still you still got a a young group at the running back position and Connor and Company a tight end and McDonald whatever he's healthy. He's hell you still have some of the young receivers. So the core is new the nucleus is new, but at the same time you can just tell what Mason Rudolph brings to the table. He's just a different kind of energy. Okay, so I think the culture going to win by maybe 30, but that's neither here nor there. I'm a big-time fan of them. And I think their team is going to bounce back after a bad showing. Against the Denver Broncos. Let's move forward San Francisco 49ers that defense is wanting them games. You have to absolutely love that. I saw Brian Clark type in it up friend of yours teammate of yours. I would assume as a defensive player in the NFL you absolutely love what the San Francisco 49ers have been able to accomplish. He's he's not an even a coach, but you can just tell they're playing with his personality and mess GM John Lynch. Okay, anybody understand what they've been doing how they've been drafted for the Three years. They've been drafting a lot of defensive guys how round defensive guys so when you have defensive tackles defensive ends, and you see with Nick Nick bolster is doing with the linebackers you go get phrases from the linebackers and you go get Richard Sherman and your DC plays. What's your kind of personality he coaches with your personality. You can just tell when John Lynch became a GM what exactly exactly what he wanted to do and he wanted to have a kick-ass defense and that's what a doing right now. Do you think that's enough to win it? All a good defense? Oh 100% we did it. You know we did it for about four years Richard Sherman that company when they had the legion of boom. They did it for a couple of years, but would that what that defense you have to have a running game and that's what they have like San Fran have a nice me running game. I don't know. What world coach Shanahan is there right now, but man, he's in the damn Matrix. You know just schematically calling up place. He's taking it to a whole nother level far as like running the ball and how he getting Guys open to run the ball from zones. The man's is it's a beautiful thing to watch special as a defensive player because you just sitting on the sidelines with a clock is running and also I mean they had Emmanuel Sanders who still got a lot left in the tank. I mean did you play with the manual man fish? It is picture we had Mike Wallace Emmanuel Sanders Antonio Brown Antonio Brown wasn't really even started yet. So it was Mike wildest Santonio Holmes and eating man. You were saying this after we got better Santonio Holmes. We should call them boys the Bugatti boys between Mike Wallace your money was saying this and Antonio Brown. So yeah, we had a squatter receivers and and practice that had to be a nightmare. For you got no, not really. Yeah. No, you know, we always always up for the challenge Pee Mak you just knew you had to bring your A game every time you stepped on that field with them three boys. Okay, another team that is very much from The Matrix. There's a guy named Neo who plays quarterback up there for the New England Patriots lot of talk about him leaving after this year a lot of talk of him becoming a charger possibly maybe a dolphin maybe testing free agency for the first time. Are the Patriots defeatable this year that defense is better than I've ever seen it before for New England. The defense is winning them games at this point. And you know, Tom and Josh McDaniels can get a Spore anytime they need it whenever they need it. They'll be able to get it is that Patriots team beatable? Yeah, they are. How are you? I mean Tom is Tom like you can't discredit time what he's doing. I mean basically he's playing with three receivers right now who played quarterback in college ain't nobody doing that but Tom Brady and making them look well and if you want to put in a conversation between element we're going to keep talking about the Hall of Fame of what he's been doing in the playoffs. So only time for get three receivers who played quarterback in college and make them stand out as he was in the NFL only. Out all the time, but at the same time I got to do is look at the school when they play the Buffalo Bills to the Buffalo Bills really didn't have a good office at a time. I think Joshua Allen got hurt but the defense placed out against Tom Brady and company. So if you just look at the record, I don't know. If you got your guys your stat guys that can pull it up just look at the record the wins and losses put a defense Bill going against. I don't think they other than Buffalo anybody would have winning record now, so David David, Last time okay teams in the defense. You cannot go you cannot come and Coach Belichick is in charge of that defense. So now you really see how much of a mastermind he is. But at the same time and I want to see when they get into the meat of the schedule when they play good authors with a defense going to do but I can't discredit what they're doing. They plan likes. All right now, especially Gilmore that corner back using Tom wants to leave because everybody talks about how smart Belichick is you think he wants to build his own legacy or do you think he's this is all just Fluff you think is all fake. Yeah, Matt thing is full of more time Nokia the top care what anybody said, you know, what time does care I like the reason why is because he still plays with that chip on his shoulder from being a six round draft pick. In my mind, that's my opinion. So but him caring about what other people are saying about him leaving and why he should leave and the brains of Coach Belichick by the end of the day Tom Brady still got to make that Agra pass by the end of the day Tom Brady still got to make that accurate check by the end of the day Tom Brady still got to drive his team down to the field so you can say what you want to say about better check, but you can't discredit with Tom Brady does and what he does in the clutch. Okay, what's up? We got like two minutes left and I want people to Listen to believe in Steelers podcast with Ike Taylor talking into a microphone. It's going to be incredible. I can't wait to listen to it. Every time you talk. I enjoy it. Also another guy every time he talks the world stops Baker Mayfield your thoughts on them rather quickly. He just walked out how about this has a reporter ever wrote something terrible about you and then been a foot and a half away from your face the next day and night basically egging you on to get mad. You gotta know better. See ya at the time the reporters reporters new if you go write something bad about Troy James Harrison Ryan Clark James farrior, if you wrote anything bad your ass least out the locker room. Somebody wrote something about James about Depot James Harrison. We boycotted that reporter. We wouldn't we wouldn't even look at him like nobody nobody in the locker room. Hold on though. This is the interesting thing this guy that got Baker Mayfield to walk out of the press conference yesterday has been bashing Baker for two years publicly and now he's a foot and a half away from him and everybody's like Bankers acting like a child. I'm like, you know how hard it would be not to just want to slap a guy who's been bashing you publicly for two years and then he's trying to poke the bear with you. I don't think anybody ever thinks about The Human Side. Two things because he gets paid. Well, he's living a dream. So he should be able to suppress his personal emotions from not wanting to slap somebody. I mean it's a very interesting situation and nobody thinks about man. It's a thin line right? See they want us to be they want us to be and I don't know if I'm gonna say this, right they want us to be anxious but to play this game the mentality you have to have it got to be devilish. A gun you got a not care. You got to have some prior you gotta you gotta have that. I wish your mother would ya tell me something. That's that's just your mentality, you know, this piggyback playing in the league like you got to have that chip on the show you so chip on your shoulder. So when somebody I've been poking like you've been saying somebody been poking at you for the past couple of years when I see you, it's home. You you lucky so I'm looking at it like this from Baker Mayfield standpoint, man, you lucky I love because if I were to stay and I probably would have put my hands on. Yeah, so honestly, I know me better than you. I know myself better than anybody else. So you know what let me going on leave man. Y'all gonna say what y'all want to say cuz I've been knowing this guy not finally get a foot and a half away from him, but I couldn't two-time Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steeler Legend like Taylor believed in Steelers podcast is available every Tuesday on all streaming services. Like I appreciate the hell out of you man. Have an incredible happy exactly. Thank you, bro. Cheers put invite. Hey, no problem. Come back soon way up. 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Hey that's on me. I should have put a little repeat on that thing. Hey, Kyle. Thank you so much for joining us man. Okay, so your team right now everybody talk going into the year. Okay. Tom Brady's back Bill Belichick's back. The Super Bowl is on Groundhog Day. It just feels like we're signing back into this but what has happened here the first half of the season Is your defense has dominated the show? I mean, it is really stolen everything and why is that if you had to guess what has changed from last year to this year you guys lose Gronk and somehow you get better the defense has been dominant in games what has happened over there what has happened? Well, I mean, I think it's a lot of different things. I think the biggest thing is the same group most of the same group from that Super Bowl on the defense has back. We didn't really we lost Trey flowers and that's about it. We get we gained more people. We gained a lot of depth. We wrote, you know, you have guys that in the secondary we have probably everyone in the secondaries a starter at places. We feel like every linebacker we have is a starter at other places and upfront everyone can start and it's really really impressive on the depth we have but then we're just playing on a string everybody's tied together. Everybody knows their role and I think that's a big thing. When every year you try to find your role on whatever team you're on but this team we already knew each other's role before the season even started. So now we're just trying to maintain and keep it keeping it going. It's stupid to watch. I it is that it's dumb to watch because you have the greatest quarterback of all time with the greatest coach of all time. And right now the people that are stealing the show is your side of the ball. It's been awesome to watch you with a little study by the way, look very uh, yeah. Hello. Yeah. I have one pulled back to because he tripped over my shoelace which is weak, but we'll get it. We'll get another one. We got a lot. We had a lot of games left. We got a lot of football and a lot of snaps left and I'm excited. You know, we're playing pretty good and everyone typing them hyping this up for once because over the years that I've been here everyone hates on the defense we suck and all this and now we're actually getting Some love, but we're like keep that same energy. You have it every year. I've been here and for us we're just excited to get on the field because we've been grinding for this for a while the the same core that they've had and I'm excited to be a part of it. I mean to go out there and you know, you're going to score a touchdown or try to score a touchdown each and every game that's our goal and it's crazy one is half. It happens and you get in the end zone. Zone it feels like whoever gets in the endzone feels like you scored. Oh, I like that. Yeah, you guys did a group photo you do the group photo. Nah, you don't need to do that. It's the most Patriots answer I've ever heard in my entire life. Yeah, we we don't we don't need to do all that. I mean other teams that's their thing, you know, we like to you know, just keep it calm and we're going to be right back. So that is incredible bill bill. That gets his 300th win third coach in history to do so you crazy bro. That is how does he at? 67? I think he's turning 68 soon. How does he still maintain the competitive level that is the competitive drive all that. I don't understand it. I'm always like seeing bro your service that you're like you see he still has the same energy. Like he's dirty man. Like I don't I didn't know him when he was 30. Obviously. He definitely acts like it here. His energy each and every day is so consistent. Like it's never too high. It's never too low. It's always right here and I respect that because you know what the standard is each and every day, you know what Bill you're getting getting each and every day and that standards high as shit, but you gotta you gotta you gotta jump for it Colin just got to FCC fines for know that word. Yeah, Kyle. Believable going to get a kick off the are you heard Bill Cosby would be like what whenever we get to see do your job in those inside looks at it the next level think it is it the most in-depth football knowledge. You've ever been around. Yeah. That's so good. You brought that up. Yes. I mean the level of IQ. Let me give you a quick example. We're I won't tell you what team were playing, but it was before the Playoffs a year ago and he brought like Five Guys in the room before the game even started and he pick something up on film and he pulls the plays up in the big screen. He's like, look, here's a key if if he does this with his hand and his foot You know what? It's a run if he does this with, you know, whose finger motion, you know, it's a pass and you're like what and then you get on the field and you're like, yo, he's right, you know, and those type of things like he's on his IQ level is out of this world and to be in a meeting and then to like go back and forth with them you I you You're my God kind of smart to his knowledge of the game and just learning from him each and every day is incredible. I mean, he's taking stuff that he's learned from every place. And you know, we we were doing stuff that the Giants were doing a couple of games ago back back when he coached the Giants in it. You're just like you watch some like LT and some of those linebackers in your life man. I'm trying to be like them and then when you're able to do some of the things skiing wise they're doing it is sick. So we just got to keep that going what an incredible advantage to have just a mastermind in there. I mean granted you through the people that hate the Patriots very, well. He cheated to do this until you have like it sounds like you just outsmarted everybody. Yeah, that's it. Sounds like it is I think anybody who's ever been in the locker room and has ever played at a competitive level at higher levels. Like, you know, that's just outsmarting humans. Wood. Well, here's another example because you're for the brand as you always say that we're talking Kyle. Yeah, how about that that part in this play with the penalties. Did you repeat that last with the clock? Ah, there you go. That's his that's the elite bro. Why other people are like boot like well, what is he doing? He's over there on the sideline smirking, by the way, is that normal? Okay, because we only see from the outside only see him. I'm on Sundays. And then we see these press conferences which are legendary the greatest press conferences in history smiling when he gave us mark. It was breaking news there like Bill Belichick is enjoying life. Yeah, is that ladies like behind closed doors? What is he like behind closed doors? Yeah. I mean, he's definitely laughing a lot more and joking but you know, he gives you a little bull if you're definitely going to get cussed out, but that's okay because you know, if you make some good plays and you know, how to crack a joke. You'll get a smile from so he keeps it light and you know, it's fun because you know you when people ask you about them, you're like you people have no idea who this man is and it's pretty funny. No clue as it is a really good dry sense of humor, too. I mean, it's actually funnier than you think then a Terry told me that I would think he's a funny guy. That's what vanity of interest that would think. He's a funny guy. I'm like, oh, yeah. I bet you if you did a pull of the guys in the In the locker room right now in New England, they would say he's definitely is funnier than you think. I couldn't even fathom it. Just being the best coach of all time being hilarious in trolling people on a very like it's roles people. Oh, yeah, he chose people real good too. Yeah, the Press. I mean those press conferences are like musty television at this point. It's the best internet around whenever he let somebody know that he is not got time for that dumb question. And most of the reporters are tripping in there. Like is he going to say something like if he gonna get Is your handwriting like raise your hand for a question? You're like, oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. It's like you're that kid in school, you know afraid to ask the teacher a question exactly. That's awesome. Do you have something? So what's a message when you're up 20 for nothing and he's got the the defense held on the sidelines. What is that? Yeah, it is. There's a lot of messages. It's more like if you let him come back y'all are going to run more on Monday. I can respect that. Yeah, we're doing okay, but just know what Monday's, you know just re talking about what the goals were before. Game and to keep holding a man don't give them an inch because you don't want to give them life that they're still in the game. You just want he always wants to he's very very detailed. So you you always want you to put your foot on the gas never let up. You never get comfortable and never get satisfied and I think those are what those talks are for more not necessarily always scheme when sometimes they are but it's more you know, Go get everybody focused on the task at hand. It's still early and we still gotta go. Okay, so they talk about how the Patriots you guys. Sorry for doing that but how you guys shift your game plan week-to-week how we each it is a brand-new season. What does that mean? Like you guys are just have the capability to shift from a Tampa to team two or three four to a 4-3 team. You have the ability to do all that. Yeah, and you know, everyone talks about having Stars, you know, Are you a bunch of stacks or a bunch of tackles? And you know, we pride ourselves on being able to adjust better and better than anyone else in the business and if you watch I mean, I don't mean to bring it up, but prime example is the Super Bowl when we switch basically our whole defense in the game and we went more strictly took a cover for and people, you know, there are confused. That's Why they never understood the entire game, you know, we thought they would adjust a little bit they never did but we changed our defense 28:3 happens when that happens exactly. And so we're able to do that and the high-level elite football players that we have. I believe we have some of the highest IQ players and when you're able to get a group that You can put them in this coverage this week and then I can throw out an entire different coverage a different front a different scheme each and every week. You can't have a team that can pinpoint. Oh, they're going to run this, you know, they're going to run a 4-3 and that's it. You know, that's the system. You never know what you're going to get and I think it's impressive. Okay, so I've been in that locker room halftime, right and I've heard some defensive coordinators be like we're getting beat by this. We're getting beat by this but The halftime of the Super Bowl Matt Patricia and was my Patricia there. Yeah mapping. No be flow beef. Okay. Sorry be flow that's on me be flow. I would like to let mr. Be flown O Brien Flores that that is on me. Hi, I'm going to call him beef Live Forever by the way, coach be flow gotten the refs ass last night. I'll I know I would like I've been there before. Okay. So yeah, I got ya. Yeah, you're right. So beyond so be flow and Belichick come in in that meat. Come in at halftime locker room and they go. Listen. This is what we're doing and everybody just has to like kind of have that attention where they're like, all right, we were doing this now. We're going strictly to a cover for and there's no like Panic there's no nothing. There's like this is what we can do because I've been in locker rooms where the defense Corners yelling at somebody and you want something to have the complete opposite effect where it's like Hey listen didn't work out. Well, there were down twenty five we're going to do some things were going strictly to a cover for and everybody in the locker room was like, yep. Let's do it. That's a me. It isn't. Necessary work like that because we practice everything. So it's more like we're able to mix it up and then see what works and we're able to stick with that goddamn know we have our identity now. I'm not going to I'm not going to tell people because we got to let people figure it he figured out, but if you ever do want to just tell everybody what your identity is, no, please come back and just just let it all out, baby. Years there. Yeah, perfect. Perfect. Perfect. But like I was saying just to being able to always adjust and you know, like you're saying if we need to run cover for we can run cover for but then if we need to throw in a cover 0 we're able to throw a cover 0 and then let's come back with the cover to and people are like and then you do put the disguise of two safeties that have been NFL for a decade. I mean facts are back there like okay and don't discover to is a car You Know cover 0 like what we doing say hi. Okay, there's two safeties back there and three people rush in you know, you know, I mean, so that's the same ghost. That's exactly really good. That's exactly what he meant by seeing ghosts. That's exactly what he meant. I believe you said that I do I do think it's messed up that they say yes that he said that because I will bad I'd probably be pissed. If someone did that to me steel is often said nobody could be mic'd up last night. They said no, we're not doing it because I'm Michael Rood. Yeah miked up is a real problem on the sidelines for people that don't know if you're miked up and you walk up to somebody you don't tell them that you're miked up your terrible person. It is not something that yeah, you're a bad person for sure. You might get jumped. But the fact that they let that out was insane to me. I mean they buried him they Jacksonville Jaguars mascot were a ghost costume the entire this last weekend. He's going to have that forever. Well, I saw one of the corners there. I hope you seeing ghosts because I need some pics. Hey Kyle, that's a compliment to your defense though. I can't thank you enough for coming. I think you're even going to be able to make the Patriots likable to some people that are listening that hate the Patriots. It's just I know like yourself. So I appreciate it, bro. I'm for the brand. If I was a part IV for the brand to I'd like this one's going these ladies and gentlemen to time two-time Super Bowl champ All-American. Kyle Van Noy, thank you. Hey, you were awesome man. You were absolutely awesome. Thank you. Ppreciate it. Same to you man. Good luck. Appreciate. It doesn't need it now to happen and it did. You hear that they're never going to lose. Thanks for rocking with us this week Zito's awake Foxy's editing. Ties back there just eager to put this entire show together here. It is 12:50 a.m. Central Time 150 Eastern Standard Time. And this beautiful Friday November 1st. Nick Morado is sprawled out on a couch living his best life. And every single week whatever we're wrapping things up. 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On today’s show, Pat and the guys record pieces of the episode on the plane on their way back from Waco, Texas. The show is highlighted by three incredible interviews from this past week. First, Minnesota Head Football Coach PJ Fleck joins the program to talk about his undefeated Golden Gophers team, his relationship with holder Casey O’Brien and how his story has inspired him and the rest of the team. Coach Fleck also addresses the people who think his coaching style is phony or fake, all while giving one of the most incredible inspirational speeches you will ever hear and will have you eager to run through a brick wall. He also clears up the rumors that Minnesota didn’t agree to play a night game in next week’s tilt against Penn State, and talks about what it means to be ELITE in the Minnesota Gophers program (3:22-19:19). Next, 2x Super Bowl Champion and former Pittsburgh Steelers legend, Ike Taylor joins the show. Ike and Pat chat about everything currently going on in the NFL, who Ike likes moving forward as we get closer to the playoffs, why he doesn’t think Tom Brady is going anywhere this offseason, the mentality it takes to be a great football player, and why that sometimes doesn’t mesh with other people’s expectations, and what he makes of the Baker Mayfield/beat writer drama and whether or not he or his teammates had any situations like that while he was in Pittsburgh (22:29-33:34). Lastly, 2x Super Bowl Champion, and current linebacker for the New England Patriots, Kyle Van Noy joins the show for an incredible interview. He and Pat discuss what it’s like playing for the Patriots, how many people will never understand Bill Belichick’s sense of humor, the controversy surrounding Sam Darnold saying he was seeing ghosts against the Patriots, what makes their defense so special, and what Bill Belichick’s message is when they huddle together on the sidelines during games (35:23-51:45). It’s a fun one. Come and laugh with us, cheers. 