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Joe
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Pat
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Joe
He gave one didn't.
Shelby
Yes.
Joe
Ollie.
Pat
Joe, all these NFL teams have developed a habit of. For instance, the Bears coach took his shirt off yesterday.
Shelby
Ben Johnson.
Pat
Ben Johnson. Didn't they play Friday whenever they. Okay, Friday. Yeah, he took his shirt off afterwards. And we show. They showed that video. But it, you know, and Kevin, we've had several of Kevin's videos on. Posted proudly on Twitter. But it seems like they don't post it after humiliating defeat.
Shelby
Like getting shut out on the road.
Pat
Getting shut out. First time since 07 and only. What, only the third or fourth in history, right?
Shelby
Something like that.
Pat
Yeah.
Joe
Yeah, I think until the kid threw that stupid.
Pat
Well, they were.
Joe
Flung it away on 4th and 1 until he flung it away. If he hadn't done that, I do think it would have been a different game.
Pat
Well, defensively that would have tied the.
Joe
Game with a field goal.
Pat
Defensively, Seattle wasn't doing anything.
Joe
And defensively I mean wonderful.
Pat
Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying that Seattle wasn't doing. Sam wasn't doing much. Offensively they were rushing him. But then that would just look like panic. I think that looked like when you went to your kids 9 year old football game and he just threw it someplace. But why don't we. Joe, we're fourth and one. We've been running the ball fairly well, right. Why don't you just hand it off to somebody? Why do. Why do you have to roll out this inexperienced quarterback so But I would say that in his wildest imagination, o' Connell never dreamt that his young. Well, not that young.
Shelby
25 year old rookie.
Pat
25 year old rookie would decide to whip a sidearm underarm.
Shelby
You know, I'm no quarterback expert.
Pat
Yeah.
Shelby
But I don't think it's a good idea to run away from the line of scrimmage.
Joe
And even then, if he had just laid down and held onto the ball, they still were in field goal.
Shelby
Right. But it was fourth down.
Joe
So what?
Shelby
Seattle was fourth down.
Joe
That's right. That's right. That's right.
Pat
But they got the ball on the five then. Yeah, you don't care. But he threw it right to the guy. The guy.
Joe
Look at this. And it was one of these deals.
Pat
Yeah. Oh, yeah. After that, Max. Now, the last time the Vikings got shut out, it was 2007 in Green Bay. Brooks Bollinger, who ended up being. Wasn't he the Cretan football coach?
Joe
For a time? Yes.
Pat
Was the quarterback, but he passed for like 150 yards or something. And his quarterback rating was in the 50s. Max was 32.
Shelby
That was pretty bad.
Joe
I got a question for you.
Pat
And followed by 34. I wonder if any NFL team, and if somebody got to find this in the history of quarterback ratings when they started doing them, has gone 3432. That's pretty bad.
Joe
Here's what I would have done.
Pat
Yeah.
Joe
Because we're all playing that game.
Pat
Yes.
Joe
At what point do you think o' Connell knew they weren't going to win the game? Serious question. Maybe on that play.
Pat
No, no. I mean, that only made it 10. Right.
Joe
Here's what I would have done. The kid's in there for his chance. This is his audition. I would have had every play been a pass play.
Pat
Sure.
Joe
Every play.
Pat
Just start throwing it.
Joe
Let's see what you can do.
Shelby
Okay.
Joe
And if you're going four and out, you're three and out anyway. Time after time after time. Go three and out on passes. Yes. There were four or five, six, maybe 13 or 14 interceptions. But beyond that, I, I would have, I would have, I would have said just throw it.
Pat
Yeah, well, throw. Keep throwing to JJ So till he catches one. Get him eight catches so he doesn't have to go over there and pout for not ever getting the.
Joe
I feel for the, for Jefferson. Well, he, I think he's trying to still be an adult about it. Well, he's trying, but he's, he's losing the battle.
Pat
You know, when you look back at his hall of fame statistics that says two catches for four yards in this game, you're saying. Yeah, you know, I mean, here's a guy that was on a pace that nobody had ever had that slowed down considerably this year.
Joe
Cousins was Johnny United.
Pat
Yes.
Joe
For Jefferson.
Pat
Oh, he's come in and hasn't won a game yet for Atlanta, right?
Shelby
No, they. In fact, they lost. Didn't they lose a close one yesterday to the Jets?
Pat
Yeah, they lost it in Mighty Jets.
Joe
Who won that game?
Shelby
Denver in overtime.
Pat
You know how they won this one? They've won ten in a row.
Shelby
They're ten and two, I think, aren't they?
Pat
Ten and two, nine in a row, I think. And they've pulled about just out of thin air yesterday. They let him. They give up a touchdown and then Washington goes for two and doesn't make it. So with it on the last play.
Shelby
Of the game and the guy was open, the Washington running back, I knew.
Pat
Somebody knocked it down.
Joe
Yeah, I. The reason I asked that is I saw the end and I couldn't take it any longer because it was one of those games where the refs were interfering every play. Oh, yeah, it drove me. Seriously, I said, this is it. I'm reading. Goodbye. I can't take it.
Pat
I have reached this conclusion. You know basketball, we get 100 whistles a game. I'll admit that it drives you a little crazy, but I've decided the NFL officials interrupt a contest more than.
Joe
They not only interrupt it, they can control who wins it.
Pat
Yes. And they. They invent things.
Joe
They invent past interference calls.
Pat
Yeah, it's. It's terrible.
Joe
They invent movement on the line and.
Pat
Then you might get the crew in. That'll call seven penalties the whole game after, you know, hockey or somebody can come and he never referees a game where there's fewer than 25 flags. But once, then the playoffs start and they've got.
Shelby
Then they let them murder each other.
Joe
What power have they achieved? And how have the referees managed this autonomy from the league that they're getting away with this? They're not unionized, are they? No. They make what, 3, 500 bucks a game?
Pat
Oh, God, they make thousands.
Joe
But whatever. Ever.
Pat
But the flinch is what gets me. The guy that. Yeah, the guy that kind of readjusting his back when he's. He's supposed to be a 320 pound motionless human being. Well, listen, they're breathing.
Joe
Yes.
Pat
You know, they have to breathe. These are big men.
Joe
I can't take it. I turned it off.
Pat
Yeah.
Joe
And I mean, that's A game where the NFL should think the customers will really stick by this one. They haul with you. It was getting dreadful. Ridiculous. I couldn't take it. So I'm sure they missed me.
Shelby
Did we know that the Adam Thielen was going to be out the door here?
Pat
I guess they must have. His agent must have been looking around and some desperate team that's got a chance to be in the playoffs might want a fourth receiver or something because.
Shelby
Wasn'T the whole reason when he wanted to finish it here and whatever else, wasn't that the whole reason?
Pat
But he's. There's something going on because he. He wants to look for another opportunity where he can play some.
Joe
Well, nobody was. He wasn't being thrown to.
Shelby
That's true.
Pat
Well, he didn't get. He didn't dress yesterday.
Shelby
Right. Oh, was he inactive? I guess. I didn't even notice.
Pat
Inactive yesterday?
Shelby
Oh, I couldn't tell because there was not much going on in the offensive.
Joe
Side of the ball thing. They didn't draft that Bo Nix, huh?
Pat
Yeah, but Joe the Turkey chairman awarded O' Connell and McCarthy Co winners.
Joe
I saw that.
Pat
Well, any doubt he might have had as he was driving in today from River Falls, where I was. I listened to the 10 or 12 minutes of the. O'. Connell. He can babble with the best of them.
Shelby
Oh, yeah.
Pat
Well, he's trying to explain poorly executed plays without blaming the executors. You know, trying to protect everybody while saying, well, I gotta take responsibility for that. But, you know. Yeah.
Joe
Pat, do you look at the schedule? I don't. They can't. I don't think they can beat the Giants.
Pat
But here's the deal. You don't want. You want it.
Shelby
No, we got you. Might as well rack up the losses, baby.
Pat
Lose the last five now, come on, let's go.
Shelby
Let's get a top five pick.
Pat
4 and 13. Let's go. Plus, Quasi is going to take the. They're going to. They're going to fire.
Joe
He's done. He's got to be. There was a great stat, I think it was St. Paul paper, that the Vikings have the fewest players of the last couple drafts in their lineup.
Pat
Yeah.
Joe
Than any team.
Pat
Yeah.
Joe
That's really telling.
Pat
Yeah. And that's what's going to get. That's what they're going to use to fire Quasi. Yeah. But one reason is they traded the whole draft away. Two years. Not this year, but last year. Right.
Shelby
For Hawkinson.
Pat
And. And who was the other guy? I mean, they had fewer choices. No, but they Went wrong. I mean, they.
Joe
Who do they draft?
Pat
They took. Who drafted Lewis? Sin.
Shelby
That was. That was Kwesi's first round pick.
Pat
And the guy. He's gone. Is he even in the league?
Shelby
I don't even think he's in the league anymore.
Pat
But the guy.
Shelby
But he did have a significant leg injury.
Pat
But the guy they didn't draft. Oh, Hamilton is Kyle Hamilton, who's like the best safety in football.
Joe
So who do they draft? They need help at offensive line and.
Pat
They still need a quarterback.
Shelby
Yeah, they need help.
Pat
Well, they spent a ton of money on the offensive line and those guys haven't played. You know when it's. When you're looking and you're saying, this wily veteran I'm gonna bring in here as my center. He's doing fine. Except he gets a concussion about every three games. That's who. Maybe we should know. Kelly.
Joe
Kelly.
Pat
I knew he was an Irishman. Ryan Kelly. Ryan Kelly. And he's had two more here. But you know, you know what? You're a center, you got your head down there kind of low and you got a 300 pound guy next to you, you know, gonna lean on you here shortly. And you've had concussion history. I'm staying away from him.
Shelby
What was the. What was the line? I'm trying to find if we have that sound bite, the quasi line that made you go nuts when he used. Basically he's telling us that. This is a fine way of telling us nothing's going on. I can't remember what. What was the word he used? That.
Pat
Oh, yeah, I.
Shelby
It was something. I can't remember what it was.
Pat
I can't remember.
Joe
I got.
Pat
That was early on.
Shelby
No, it was tactful decisions or something like that. What was that? It was early on in his run.
Pat
Oh, well, the thing that's become intentional.
Shelby
There we go. That's what it was.
Pat
Intentional decision making. Now we're real. Now we've stopped using it. Intended to be used. And we use it now as a noun. Intentional.
Joe
Do all teams essentially have the same payroll?
Pat
Yeah, you can.
Joe
It's not like they're paying as much as the 10 and 2 Denver.
Pat
They're right at the cap. Yeah, but I gotta make a confession. I never listened to Paul Allen on K Fan. Unless the Vikings are coming off an embarrassing defeat. Then I do, because I want to see what excuses.
Joe
That's fun when it's listening to the wine line too.
Pat
Yeah, yeah, I miss wine line. But last week it was. He was trying to keep everybody happy. Well, this Week. Apparently the Wilfs were not in Seattle. They did not fly out for the game. And he does. He does. He writes something for the Vikings website or something for the K fan website.
Shelby
I don't know.
Pat
He writes. Apparently he writes this.
Joe
Who are we talking about?
Pat
Paul Allen? Well, apparently he wrote what he thought was something humorous and also pointing out that the owners weren't even there. So he was. Rather than making his usual excuses, he was kind of chiding them. I guess to some degree somebody killed it.
Shelby
Really?
Pat
Yeah, either. Either the K fan because they don't want the Vikings to be mad at him or. Or the Vikings. But it. He was complaining that he wrote it in an hour and a half on the plane, on the flight back and it never got in. Somebody killed it. So. So twitch kind of spoiled my fun because I like it better when he's making excuses for them.
Shelby
Yeah, the excuse making is always better content.
Pat
For sure.
Shelby
Yeah.
Joe
So what possible excuse could you.
Pat
I don't know. I don't think they've told us that JJ cleared concussion protocol yet because that would look too suspicious if it was the day.
Shelby
Time to get it back in there.
Joe
Who else do they have besides bros?
Pat
Well, they have just brought in Desmond Ritter.
Shelby
But backup yesterday was the guy that used to be with the Rams, Wofford or something.
Pat
But they brought. They brought in Desmond, signed him for the weekend. So he'll probably be the starter next.
Joe
What do you think this does for Max's short lived career?
Pat
You know, Max is apparently an extremely bright individual who was considering medical school.
Joe
Well, okay.
Pat
And I think he ought to try that.
Shelby
Was he good pre snap?
Pat
Oh, there was a quote on that. Yes, yes, I saw that quote. Hold on now he's gonna get all wound up. Where did I see that quote? I think it was in the star trombone. I'm not sure that all his. All that stuff was pretty damn good. Let me see that paper, would you please? I gotta see if I can find it.
Shelby
The pre snap.
Pat
I gotta see if you can find it. This is too good to be true. Thanks for reminding me.
Shelby
No problem. That's what I'm here for. Your guy. As Pat looks for that Joe. Aaron Rodgers did not have a good game yesterday for the Pittsburgh Steelers. 19 plays Pittsburgh had without a single yard. Wow, 19 plays that had no yards.
Joe
Isn't he playing with a busted wrist?
Shelby
No, it's. Yeah, I think it's a finger or something. But yes.
Joe
Not in his throwing hand.
Shelby
His non throwing hand. Yeah, he looks beat up too. He's an old 42 years old or whatever the heck he is. 41.
Pat
Where is it? Where is it?
Joe
This is last year.
Shelby
Yeah. You want me to find it online, Pat?
Pat
No, no, I think I'll have to find it. I'll have to look at it to see it. Where was it? I'll have it. Next time I talk to you, I'll have it.
Shelby
All right.
Pat
But it was. It was. Yeah. He looked really, really commanded. Noddle and stuff like that. Work our before the action starts. We have no quarterback problem whatsoever.
Joe
No Joe.
Pat
Nothing.
Joe
It's the post snap that gets you, right?
Pat
Yes. I said I gotta find that quote. Why did I do that? I was.
Shelby
You were probably driving. Were you driving? And that's when you heard it?
Pat
No, no, I didn't hear it. I read it. Oh, okay. I read it some damn place. So, anyway, can we get a quick.
Shelby
Pause and then we can resume?
Pat
Yeah.
Shelby
Is there a question to ask you?
Pat
Sure. Throw a little. Throw a little. Honor. Honor in the way of the Gophers for that. Oh, for sure. Great victory over the worst Wisconsin team of our lifetimes.
Shelby
All right. You want to give PJ a little credit?
Joe
Who did he get to the ax before? Anybody?
Pat
Yeah. Well, I'm sure he was trying to.
Shelby
You had to be happy with the weather.
Joe
That was fun. Yeah. That was a legit snow game you had.
Shelby
You had a few of those this.
Joe
Weekend, only that was really the only good. Well, Northwestern, Illinois were in and out of it.
Shelby
Okay.
Joe
And then never got to it. Never got to Michigan.
Shelby
Well, that's true. Didn't it snow a little bit in that game Saturday?
Joe
Not enough for me to pay attention. But the go for game, that was fun. That was a good one.
Shelby
Yeah.
Joe
Mm.
Pat
Where? Where?
Shelby
But PJ did jump into the locker room with the axe.
Pat
Oh, with the ax?
Shelby
Yes.
Joe
Did he play or surf?
Shelby
Yes.
Pat
Oh, God. With the ax.
Joe
Aren't they ever tempted to just maybe drop them?
Pat
Where? Where? Where? I got to get this one. I had to have this one in there.
Joe
What are you talking about? Are you still looking for pre snap?
Pat
No. Here it is. Here it is. Here it is. By the way.
Joe
I don't know what you're looking for.
Pat
I can tell you what I'm looking for as soon as I find it.
Joe
Well, right.
Shelby
He's pre snapping it.
Joe
He commands that phone pretty well.
Pat
Gophers finished 5 and 4 in a three way tie for seventh in the big 18. Five teams they defeated were 9 and 31. In other conference games, Gophers were outscored 244 of 10676 in conference play include non conference. The seven teams the Gophers defeated were 28 and 56.
Joe
Oh my God.
Pat
So where.
Joe
Where are they going to end up?
Shelby
That's where I was going.
Pat
Oh, well, supposedly not Detroit.
Shelby
Oh, we're not going to go to the game above Sports bowl in Detroit.
Pat
It could be the pinstripe again.
Joe
Okay.
Pat
Or maybe even somebody mentioned apparently Las Vegas now has two or three balls and they could end up on out there. So. Okay, that's what I read.
Joe
But from the big 18.
Pat
Nine make up nine, 12.
Joe
12 make a bowl.
Pat
12 will make a bowl.
Joe
That's just. That is just horrible.
Pat
12 will make a bowl game because they're. 12 of them are. The big standard now in football is they're bowl eligible. Which means they won half their games. But this encounts those two or three dogs they play before they go into the conference.
Shelby
Including one team where it was 66 to nothing.
Pat
Northwestern State ended up 1 and 11. I looked them up, but they were last year they were 0 and 12. And the year before they were what? They had a 20 some game losing streak when they played us until they beat Alcorn State.
Shelby
Okay.
Pat
Which was their only win of the year. Yes.
Joe
When did the country decide to have the chambers of commerce around the country?
Pat
I don't know.
Joe
Must have decided, let's get in on this somehow.
Pat
What good does your Boca Raton, Florida? No one's good. You know, Boca Raton, Florida people ain't in on go to the beach. They do that. And now we're going to have the, you know, the whatever. The bowl. The Duke's Mayo bowl or some damn thing down there or the one last year was in Charlotte. Right. The Duke's Mayo Bowl.
Joe
And that's a brand of mayonnaise.
Pat
Not a bad one. A little tang. I've never had a good tang. I like a good man, but that's what he had mayonnaise dumped.
Joe
Oh, he loved it.
Pat
Oh God. You know why?
Joe
Please, somebody dump the mayonnaise.
Pat
It cast attention on him, which is what. What really counts.
Shelby
So how about you sell that though, fellas? We're going to go to Detroit on December 27th.
Pat
I'm disappointed because I think had they go to gone to Detroit because it's got a new title.
Shelby
Yep, it's the.
Pat
They could.
Shelby
It's the startup something Game Above Sports Bowl.
Pat
It's the game Above Sports Bowl. Can you see Brigitte, can you see Murray coming into the locker room and said come on Boys, we're going to the game above Sports Bowl.
Joe
Oh, how about Lane Kiffin?
Pat
How about that?
Joe
Going to lsu.
Pat
Yeah.
Joe
They won't let him coach the last game at Ole Miss, which is for the. All the marbles, isn't it?
Pat
Well, they're gonna.
Shelby
They'll be in the first round.
Pat
They didn't make the SEC title game. Somehow Alabama got in there.
Joe
I think they got the neatest uniform colors.
Shelby
Oh, Ole Miss.
Joe
Love Ole Miss.
Shelby
Well, I. I don't.
Joe
What are they? The. What are. What's their team name?
Shelby
The Rebels.
Joe
The Rebels.
Pat
One thing about Lane, though, he never leaves when people are happy. They all hate it when he leaves. Because last. When he was in Tennessee, he just got up and flew out to Southern Cal.
Joe
One year.
Pat
He was leaving. One year. What.
Joe
Why can't he hold a job?
Pat
Well, he's, you know. He. What?
Joe
Bleep him?
Pat
Forget that. You get. He ended up. He was such a pariah there for a while. He ended up at Florida Atlantic for a year.
Shelby
Well, Saban, when he was Saban's offensive coordinator, remember, he fired him right before the national championship game.
Pat
Right.
Shelby
Because he said, you sniffing around another job, I don't want him here.
Pat
Yeah, right. Yeah.
Shelby
That's when he got the Florida Atlantic.
Joe
Does Ole Miss have to pay him?
Shelby
No, because he's getting bought out by lsu.
Pat
Yeah, he's probably got a. LSU has.
Joe
To pay Ole Miss his contract.
Pat
He probably has a $20 million buyout if he leaves, or 10 million. And then, like Fleck, if he leaves, has a. I don't know how much.
Shelby
I don't know either.
Pat
Million buck buyout. But if you hire him, you usually pay the buyout.
Shelby
Mike Fratelloni brought his daughter down there on a recruiting. Or not a recruiting, but a campus visit because she's going to go to school there. She decided. He said, I can't imagine anybody that set foot on this campus would want to go anywhere else.
Pat
Oh, yeah.
Shelby
He said, it's. There's great hospitality.
Pat
Every gal's in a sorority, too. And getting into the sorority Ferraris is like.
Joe
I've been. I've been very familiar with that. That works. I have a member of the family who's in one.
Pat
Oh, in the South.
Joe
Oh, yeah. And I've seen the photographs, which I shouldn't.
Shelby
Keep that away from me.
Joe
I don't think I should be.
Pat
Glasses. But the, you know, that is.
Joe
It is a bigger deal that I can. I don't even understand.
Pat
No Ole Miss. And it's number one. Ole Miss is the Number one sorority school in the country is Ole Miss.
Joe
In that town, Oxford and I guess a great bookstore there.
Pat
And then it's big rival. Starkville is like going to Fulda. It's. Starkville is not as nice as Faribault.
Joe
What is Ole Miss? Is it the University of Mississippi?
Pat
Mississippi. But Ole Miss, they were. They've sang poems and songs and old mess.
Joe
But they got the neat colors and it's kind of a turquoise or something.
Pat
A lot of down football too. But Archie, you know, Archie went there and Archie was, you know, was then LSU though he's making nine at Ole Miss. They got to be paying him 12.
Shelby
It was 12. Seven year deal. 12 a year.
Pat
12 a year. But he just a happy feet guy too. He just wants to be somewhere else all the time. Bloomington Jefferson dad Monty was coaching with the Vikings when. When.
Shelby
When he was in high school.
Pat
High school?
Joe
Really? Yeah.
Pat
Bloomington Jefferson, that's what he played for. He'd be a great guy to cover. His quotes are fantastic and. But he's just a little crazy. Yeah, he can coach, but Southern Cali, really. They ended up. He got fired. Southern Cal at the airport. Well, it's the middle of his second year.
Shelby
Oh, that's right. Yeah, you're right.
Pat
Middle of his second year. They hated him out there for some reason.
Shelby
And Davis fired him after a game on the road when he was the Raiders head coach.
Pat
Was that Al or is that the kid?
Shelby
No, it was Al. I'm almost positive.
Pat
Yeah.
Joe
So he was also an NFL coach?
Shelby
He was the youngest. I think he was only 31 when he got the job.
Pat
And then he. He died. He might have. He got fired in his second year.
Shelby
Something like that.
Pat
Yeah.
Joe
Well, he's well traveled.
Pat
I'll say.
Shelby
And well compensated.
Joe
Yeah.
Pat
And you know, I'm. I'm an old LSU fan.
Joe
Yeah.
Pat
From listening to him on the radio. Clear channel radio back in the.
Joe
Is that Johnny?
Pat
No, no Johnny.
Joe
Who's there? Who would be one of their famous.
Pat
Billy Cannon.
Joe
Billy Cannon.
Pat
Billy Cannon. Yeah. 1958 Heisman Trophy or 59 Heisman Trophy winner. Billy. Ken. He ended up with some kind of a financial thing. I don't think he did jail time, but he was. He might have done a little jail time. Of course, the tropper, a good football player. He'd wave him, tell him he doesn't have to serve his time.
Shelby
Speaking of crazy football coaches, have you guys seen the season concluding press conference from Bill Belichick over the weekend?
Joe
I did not.
Shelby
They went 4 and 8 at North Carolina.
Pat
Yeah.
Shelby
And let's just say Bill really did not want to answer a lot of questions. So the one guy goes, coach, how would you assess your first season in the ncaa? Season just ended.
Pat
Okay, Coach.
Shelby
Well, the season just ended like five minutes ago.
Joe
Your house is on fire.
Shelby
Catch fire all the time.
Pat
He has no intention of being back in North Carolina. But I told you, our intern, Shelby. Oh, yeah, Shelby was in the. Would have been in the audience. She's a beat person for the rally. I gotta. I think I'll call her today and say out press conference call. You get a one on one with Bill at the end of the year there.
Joe
When is it?
Pat
I saw him at the end of the Duke game and he was. They were just. They were like tied and all of a sudden they're two touchdowns behind and Duke's dancing and they got two or three 15 yarders in a row for hitting guys. And yeah, they lost completely. And he's just on the sidelines and when's my next check? You know, it's unbelievable.
Joe
When's Jordan going to do whatever she intends to do? I mean, she's got a game plan here. Doesn't she only steal 100 million from her or something? I mean, there's no reason she's there other than the money. What. What is. When will that happen, I wonder?
Pat
I don't know.
Shelby
She was in a adult cheerleading competition a couple weeks ago.
Joe
I think that would have been fun.
Shelby
And Bill was in attendance. And I'm not joking you. And it looked as though grandpa was there and he wanted to be anywhere else than at that adult cheerleading competition.
Pat
Does Pete Carroll have a young girl, too? Somebody told me.
Shelby
Oh, I don't know.
Pat
I don't know.
Shelby
That maybe wouldn't surprise me.
Pat
I don't want to put that out.
Shelby
Okay.
Pat
Because he's always a good. I liked him. I liked him a lot.
Joe
Well, he's in Vegas, so that really wouldn't be too hard.
Pat
No, I'm just not sure that he's.
Shelby
Let me look that up.
Pat
There might still be a Mrs. Carroll. I'm not sure.
Joe
Well, you know, the other weird thing about Belichick is. You ever see the wife? The real wife?
Pat
No.
Joe
She's very attractive woman.
Pat
Is it? Is it? They've been split a long time.
Joe
I guess so. I don't know.
Shelby
Pete has been married to Glenna since 1976.
Pat
Okay, Pete, I'm sorry. Don't sue me. It was not him.
Joe
That doesn't say. They're living in the same house, you know.
Pat
Well, that Pete's gonna get fired, right? Oh, probably.
Shelby
Either that or he'll probably just.
Joe
You know that Davis that runs that the Raiders mark, He's an odd looking guy.
Shelby
Yes, he is.
Joe
He's an odd looking guy.
Shelby
Yeah.
Pat
I think the football brains and the general street smarts and I'll take their dal had escaped him.
Joe
He reminds me of the guy that Al Pacino had to send out in the fishing boy. What was his name?
Pat
Fredo. Fredo here, a fat fre, thick freight.
Joe
Fredo is just kind of running along there. You come to Vegas, they'll take care of you.
Pat
I just had a whole suspicion when he said told Fredo to go fishing.
Joe
I knew something bad was gonna happen, gonna work.
Pat
Well, he felt bad about having to kill.
Joe
I did. He did. He caused him some grief.
Pat
Yes, it was. Which one was that? Was that one when Fredo gets drowned?
Joe
I think that was two.
Pat
Two was fantastic.
Joe
Two is when they shifted out west.
Pat
And then three was terrible.
Joe
Yeah, I didn't. Three was nothing.
Pat
They drowned. To blame the pulp for that one.
Shelby
I think that's who you might have been thinking of in terms of the girlfriend since Pete Carroll coaches the Raiders. Mark has a young, attractive girlfriend. That's what I think you were thinking.
Pat
That's who I was thinking. Yeah.
Joe
He's a.
Pat
What do you think? You know, what do you think? What do you think that lump's girlfriend would be if Al hadn't let him inherit 800 million or whatever it was?
Shelby
I think it'd be a different situation entirely.
Pat
He'd be down. He'd be next door at the gas station trying to.
Joe
Okay, how about your hockey club for a bit of bright news?
Pat
Man, they had a hell of a November. Yes, they did.
Joe
They did lose in a shootout to the.
Shelby
The saber.
Joe
The lowly saber.
Pat
I say, you know, I was kind. I like Sarah, our hockey rider. But maybe the headline doesn't reflect it, but it says to surge in the standings. Wild need consistency. They won nine in a row before they lost the shootout.
Joe
They had the most consistent November. You can have a half.
Pat
Yes. They never lost. Although the Russia. The Russian. What's wrong with him and shootouts. He's like all for 15 or something.
Joe
He was the other Russian. That really is a disappointment. The veteran they had. He won a cup with the.
Pat
The blues.
Shelby
Tara Cinco.
Pat
Oh, well, yeah, he's done.
Shelby
But isn't he almost 40? He's gonna be old.
Pat
No, no, no, no.
Shelby
34. Oh, I thought he was older than that.
Joe
I think he was a shootout shooter. And I don't think he baldies a.
Pat
Son of a gun.
Joe
Yeah, so is that. Who's the other kid? Number seven, the defenseman played for the U. Oh, yeah.
Pat
Fantastic.
Joe
Great.
Pat
Bob Boscow's number one regret in life. We're going to overtime against Quinnipiac. The face off. And Favors standing next to him on the bench. 10 seconds later. 10 seconds, was it?
Shelby
10 exactly.
Pat
National champions. The other guys, you gotta hear, best defenseman in the country. You might want to have him out there. I don't know.
Joe
Maybe you're right. It's not even an. I don't know. That's right.
Pat
He is good, though, isn't he?
Joe
Yeah. And Boldy, you know, he. He was. I don't know if he was considered a long shot, but he was just this kid who showed up from. Wasn't it BC and all of a sudden he's a player.
Pat
He played Mankato in the semis, right? Boldy, Boston Cow.
Shelby
Oh, yeah.
Joe
Yep.
Pat
And man. And Hastings. Mankato went out there and kicked the crap out of him physically and beat him. And Baldy didn't want any part of it. He was, you know, he was protecting his pro career or something. But boy, he's a. He's a big, strong kid, man. He's good. He's good. I haven't gotten over there enough. It's. Here's the problem. They have a parking system where if you're with the media, you could at least get in the ramp, right? Well, they got a new parking app that you got. You got a Inguno or something like that? You got it. You can only get in if you put your license plate in Inguno and then you go show that to them. I don't do Inguno. I can't do that. I didn't know him either.
Joe
What the hell is.
Pat
He said. They keep saying they can set it up for me, so I tried to have. Nah, nah. I don't know.
Shelby
Do you have to have that same parking set up for the paper?
Joe
No, there's no building. There's no paper to go to.
Pat
Well, I heard a rumor that, you know, first of all, my contract's up for.
Joe
At least you had one.
Pat
I'll be like you, except I won't be working, I won't be writing.
Joe
But.
Pat
But I won't have a contract either. But what do you mean?
Joe
You're right here. Are you making an announcement here?
Pat
No, I haven't heard anything. My contracts. But what I heard was when we go to the Des Moines Printing Press.
Joe
Yeah.
Pat
Now you Write. Why do you have to have your column in Thursdays? Thursday. Well, this is sports.
Joe
Right?
Pat
This is sports. And we're often writing off of activities. That's right. They play games that happen afternoon. You know, on a Saturday afternoon. We write about activity. That's right.
Joe
Things that are happening now.
Pat
Happening. I saw something that. If you're. That for now, they want the sports columnists Sunday columns done on Thursday.
Joe
Join the club.
Pat
Yeah, but what.
Joe
I take that back. I take it back. I have until Friday, noon.
Pat
Okay, that ain't bad. But that shall not stand. Or I. You know, I'm out. I don't care. I'm not.
Joe
Come on over. First of all, it's not like you need an office.
Pat
No, no.
Joe
Right.
Pat
First of all, come on. What happens if you write a thing about.
Joe
And I bought some Jimmy Carter's okay?
Pat
Jimmy, he got nothing against you, you know, what the hell, you know, we.
Joe
Didn'T have gas, but that was.
Pat
He didn't like the Saudis and they didn't like him. Instead of being a buddy of the guy that dismembered somebody.
Joe
You know what I. You know what? I got that.
Pat
You did. You know, you. How could you bring that up? He said he doesn't like the Chubby. He doesn't like the Chubby. Ap.
Joe
I got a sheet of stamps you'd covet. I still got most of a sheet left of Hank Aaron.
Pat
Oh, yeah?
Joe
Did you ever get those?
Shelby
No.
Pat
Hey. Hey. By the way, I haven't seen it yet, but Tony's son wrote a child's book about Tony.
Shelby
Really?
Pat
Yeah.
Shelby
How old is his son?
Pat
He's 30 maybe. Okay, 35.
Shelby
Oh, that's cool.
Pat
But he just checked child's book. I haven't. I haven't seen the dang thing, but I. You know, Tony's 86 now.
Joe
See that?
Pat
Yeah.
Shelby
Yeah.
Pat
What? Oh, time to go.
Joe
But they. We've given them more than enough.
Pat
Oh, goodness.
Joe
We didn't even do the Timberwolves. You have something you want to say?
Shelby
Nah.
Pat
Remember? Nah. Nah. Alexander Walker. We couldn't afford them. Well, a. There are three guys that. Seven, eight, nine. You know, the Dillingham, Clark and Shannon. None of them can shoot. Shannon can drive, but he can't shoot. Jay Clark can't shoot. Dillingham maybe can't play, but he can't shoot. Right. Well, now, last night, 44 minutes, 34 points.
Joe
Wow.
Pat
Six out of 11 threes for Atlanta, which, by the way, without Trey Young is winning. Yeah, so they're good. And we should have figured out A way to keep. Nah, I think or replace Anthony been.
Joe
Getting some bad press. Not bad press, but he's not being glorified as he has.
Pat
He played pretty good the last two nights, but. Yeah, he was. Yeah, well, they had three of the worst losses of all time.
Shelby
That Phoenix loss was pretty bad.
Pat
Phoenix loss. When he. Then he bricks two free throws. I had a new suggestion for Chick fil a though. You know, Chick Fil a has the deal in the arenas. They can only do it once, but if opposing player in the fourth quarter misses two straight free throws, you get a free Chick Fil A. Oh, there you go. When Rudy is shooting the free throws, they should only have to. They should have a half price for you. If he misses to you, they'll go bankrupt. To get a half price Chick Fil a, we can't. We can't make you buy a whole. Get a whole free.
Joe
One whole Chick Fil a sandwich.
Pat
Yeah.
Joe
If a guy misses two free.
Shelby
Well, that's what Pat's suggesting.
Pat
You know what? Somebody told me and I have to confirm this, but since it's Monday night sports talk.
Joe
Yeah.
Pat
Relative of my wife's family, you know, side of the family.
Joe
Is that where you were? On the East Coast?
Pat
No, because we were there. But then Sunday, Chaz, my brother in law, Chaz had a big family thing. So there were like 40 people yesterday. Yeah, was that way back yesterday. But there's a guy there, a bachelor, successful downtown bachelor, 40 years old, long time season ticket holder, like the second row of the. Of the stadium. Nice guy, goes with his buddies, you know, and he was paying 200 a game. They're now charging 800 a game. Wow, what a. Rod and Lori have jacked up the price of something fierce down there.
Joe
Is this guy paying the freight? No, he got out.
Pat
I think he says he still has him in his name, but he doesn't go to many games.
Shelby
Well, honestly though, I wonder if that has a lot to do with property tax increase and whatnot.
Pat
Well, not $600 worth.
Shelby
Well, true. I wonder how much the. Just the cost of doing business in the city has to do with that.
Joe
The city's running out of people that could pay 800 a.
Shelby
I don't doubt that for a second.
Joe
This isn't the guy that used to sit there with the folded up program.
Pat
Oh, no. God no. This guy's a responsible human being. But no, he's. But that's what he. Wow.
Joe
I remember that you told me that your Thanksgiving dinner out east was going to be catered. No but that they were going to cook one. So the house smelled like a turkey.
Pat
Well, that was before but Stephen, who is my wife's sisters. The married is. Is the wife of her daughter.
Shelby
Our.
Pat
Our niece. He's a what? He's the husband of our niece Stephen. He is also the chef for the Wizards. The. Oh yeah, yeah. He's the chef for the Washington basket. The in house chef. He cooks for the players.
Joe
Yeah.
Pat
Cooks for the women's team. Cooks for the G League team.
Joe
What about the Caps?
Pat
No, he's not the same owners aren't there. So. So he came over the day before and put.
Joe
Oh, here we go.
Pat
The feast together.
Joe
That it was good.
Pat
You know what they. What we used to call dressing. A lot of people call.
Joe
I call it dressing. Was it good?
Pat
Killer. Yeah, killer.
Joe
I could eat. I could live off that.
Pat
And he. Then he had some veggies that were even so good that I ate them. And I usually don't eat veggies like to avoid. And the turkey was. It was fabulous.
Joe
Moist.
Pat
Oh yes, it was great. Everything was great. The feel. But the only thing, the only problem was the three year old comes.
Joe
That his kid?
Pat
Yes, that's his. That's his oldest. She's. She runs the whole operation. 17 is 15 adults there. She runs the whole show. It's unbelievable.
Joe
Were you trying to watch a football game or.
Pat
Yeah. And then Peppa the Pig was on.
Joe
I don't like that. I see every Pepper the Pig episode ever.
Pat
But we discuss. We discuss things with her.
Joe
Yeah.
Pat
Kind of try to convince her to change her mind and then she ends up getting her way anyway. Yeah, pretty much. And guess what? She now comes from that generation. Now she's only three, so that might. Maybe she'll grow into it. But you can't tease her.
Joe
Oh really?
Pat
Like her mother. When her mother was three, I teased the hell out of her.
Shelby
Right.
Pat
Yeah. I mean you can't. You can't tease this.
Joe
You got to be able to tease them.
Pat
You gotta. Yeah. What fun.
Shelby
Half the fun of having them around.
Pat
Yes. Why do you have nieces and nephews and grandkids if you can't?
Joe
I get these daily emails called Nature. They're one minute and they're just nifty photography of maybe a. A mountain goat in the French Alps. And the camera's on and you can hear the wind howling. And I got a deal with the. The five year old that she can't go on an iPad until she watches three natures. They're only one minute each.
Pat
Yeah.
Joe
And it's just pulling teeth to get her to watch the natures because she thinks it's boring.
Pat
I gotta tell you though, yesterday at this thing Chaz had, there was all his family members. There are five young girls, maybe the oldest is 12 and maybe down to about six. Right. And they're all his grandkids. And they were over in the corner plotting something, practicing a tune. And then they came out and the five of them would sing a ditty and then include an observation that rhymed about, you know. And then I saw Bob, who used to be a slob or something like that, that kind of thing. They did the whole thing. It was fantastic. I went over there and said, who's the, you know, who's the conductor? Who's the conductor and who's the rhyme? This 12 year old girl was just brilliant.
Joe
Now who she belong to?
Pat
She belongs to Joe, one of the. Okay, Joe. That Joe's struggling along as a Harvard Business School graduate with four kids.
Joe
Wow. Well, you know what Mel Jas was.
Pat
The kids go to that slum. Blake. He's got a good job. He's got a good job.
Joe
I'm done.
Pat
All right.
Shelby
Will you sell us the car before you go?
Pat
Here's the good news, folks. We gave you so much show today that a couple of times later this.
Shelby
You know, we might not be feeling it.
Pat
Might not be feeling it when I get my new knee. Jim Paul and Brett Paul's Valley group of GM dealers. You want to bring the. You want to bring the family home a new vehicle for Christmas? This is the place to go. Straight down Cedar Avenue, 147th Street. Buick SUVs all over the lot and all over the inventory. You can pick them out. You can get low interest rates, high factory rebates, and you got financial people out there that will make it happen for you. These Buick SUVs are tremendous. And such was telling us about the GM, the one that he saw the other day out there, the suv, the Acadia.
Shelby
Right. Wasn't the Acadia.
Pat
Acadia, something like that. So all kinds of right now get a little snow this winter. You can't beat having an SUV to drive through it. And they'll make the deal for you. Jim Paul's Valley Group of GM dealers, straight out Cedar Avenue in Apple Valley at 147th Street.
Date: December 2, 2025
Host: Joe Soucheray, with Pat, Shelby
Produced by: Gamut Podcast Network
In this MNST episode, the Garage Logic crew dives into the aftermath of the Minnesota Vikings’ latest loss, dissecting Max Brosmer’s disastrous outing at quarterback and exploring the ripple effects on the team’s future. The hosts also detour into broader topics such as NFL officiating woes, Vikings’ draft and management decisions, college football bowl games, and Minnesota sports teams’ ups and downs—all laced with their trademark wit, sarcasm, and skepticism.
Full of barbed humor, nostalgia, and sports cynicism, the episode channels classic Garage Logic energy as the hosts riff on Minnesota sports’ persistent woes, the oddities of modern pro and college football, and the lighter side of life in Gumption County. No game, coach, or front office is spared.
For listeners who missed the show:
You’ll get a thorough look at the Vikings’ (and Gophers’) quarterback troubles, a roast of the current management, plenty of riffing on the culture of football and Minnesota sports, and lots of laughs at the absurdities of sports media and the everyday. Definitely an episode filled with the show’s signature blend of grumpiness, banter, and heart.
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