The fan. Love the farming insight, Chad, but can we get a
shout out to the ethanol producers out there saving the planet one kernel at a
time. Majority of the corn in Minnesota does go to feed, but a
large portion does go to ethanol. Actually, over a third of the crop
in the United States goes to ethanol. So a little fun fact for all
those listeners out there. Hey, Noordo Pa the best to ever do it,
just out of here picking corn and the snow and the mud. Got
a lot to do yet. It's trying to get it done before my first
child is born next month. I can't wait to see what Jared Hall can
do. I think he's going to surprise a lot of people. School Baby
hashtag, Bake Radio, a couple of talkbacks, Raptor talkbacks, the free
iHeartRadio app with Minnesota Viking's Monday Night football tickets at Stake, and you were
kippet seen with some of the feast at Dwelling Roofs. Yeah. I don't
think you've heard the first part of the first talkback, but it's the corn
it aids with ethanol and ethanol It's like it does sound like a complete world
saver and to a certain extent. I would imagine you know that there are
a lot of positive things that come out of it, but I never would
have known that you either. So no, So we had an ethanol talk
talk back, and we also had somebody busting through the busting through the fields
of the combnor the tractor because there's a child on the way and they want
to get it done before all that. And and that guy's excited about Jared
Hall. And one of the things we love about sports I do anyway,
Paul, is the ongoing optimism that we have for the unknown, right,
And you know, I think the vast majority of people feel like Jared Hall's
got a chance to be effective in the he might be great. There's a
lot of optimism when you don't know. I think most people default to positivity.
And there's chure we brought in. I think Josh Dobbs is likely to
be the starter for a lot of the games the rest of the season,
but maybe not about that, but we'll say no. And that's part of
the entry it is. Yeah, it's part of it's part of what makes
it all fun, right. Yeah, It's like it's like in the early
days of fanball, dot Com and the swift alacrity leaden emergence of Ryan Cardinal.
Where you know, Ryan was languishing on the Fantasy football practice squad.
What was his single biggest duty securing the jerseys of skill players that would be
drafted in your draft and giving them away when like, yeah, you know,
I'll take I don't know, I'll take Eddie George. And then hey,
well yeah, you get Eddie George with the eighteenth pick, and here's
the Eddie George jersey. Yes, And and a lot of people within the
Fanball offices al Plymouth Wade dowted Ryan very early in his run. There,
like dal Jarren Hall, we kept him down. He was an intern.
We kept him at the intern level. Well, what happened was, from
what I understand, it's very controversial to and I don't want to divulge my
source, but nevertheless, you know, much like an offensive minded head coach
or a play caller having choice Kirk Cousins related plays, well, those plays
may not necessarily be exactly what Jaren Hall needs early early in his run.
That's just like the fact that with fanball dot Com and Fantasy Football Weekly,
you guys only let Ryan Cardinal focus on like Draft round seven and beyond Well,
so that that was that was that was a lot of it, and
don't that was pulling the playbook back, which is the right thing, but
it frustrated him so much that he had to go to another team known as
the Minnesota Vikings and work for the Vikings Entertainment Network ever since. Yeah,
I mean we you know, we had him taking out garbage, He cleaned
out our crock pot. You know, you know, we gave stuff,
commasure it to. He's still shar and maybe do ye metaphorically that's right,
But eventually, you know, talent prevails. Yeah, that was the case
with Ryan Cardinal. Maybe that's going to be the case here with Jaron Hall.
Well, the the CEE, Like, if you're going to look back
at plays and and I'm not going to go back to BYU because it's i
mean, you're playing, uh specifically in that conference. You're playing teams that
may have one decent pass rusher that has a fifteen percent chance to get to
the NFL if they go nickel three fifths of the dbs or you know,
a couple of lower case ls and there's one capital L that they're going to
find every single play. Algiers, by the way, played with Jaron Hall
at Brigham Young University. Oh, I didn't remember that. I know that
Joe yesterday. But so therefore, you know, the the cougar related stuff.
I mean, that's you know, for for the general manager and those
working with him, and of course quarterbacks coach O c and head coach,
they looked at all that that that led to drafting Jaron Hall. That that
for me at this stage of the equation, it's not part of it's not
part of the mix. So then you go to preseason, all right,
well, but by design, O'Connell is displaying the vanilla of all vanilla ever
to vanilla. I shared the story yesterday with Ben Leeber. I think I
told him before. It's we had a guy going motion at Seattle in the
first preseason game, Jalen Rager, and I think the only reason he did
it he made a mistake, so he was supposed to move, so like
there was no motion, little play action. You don't have the offensive lineman,
you know, pulling in elaborate exotic fashion or anything. Then they got
to the third preseason game against Atlanta and Kevin unfurled a couple of bootlegs with
him, and they looked really, really fluid and smooth. So then we
get to the green Bay game and it was unbelievably predictable that they were going
to run. Jaren Hall's first playing Green Bay had nine in the box and
now I'm looking at the play clock as I watch it back, and I'm
like, well, this suckers down to eleven. So Jared, I mean,
you know, I mean, what type of consternation was was the young
man having at that moment but wondering should I change? And he either just
was afraid to that there or didn't know what do you know exactly? Can't
you can't take right? So we run right into a nine man front TfL
on acres. Then he goes shotgun and they still It was just fascinating to
watch his watch it. If you get a chance the early stages of the
Jarren Hall plays, because they they then go shotgun and there's a play action
and nobody bites because nobody nobody was biting the vikings play action the entire game,
and that actually has talk ability moving forward because Green Bay drew away line
in the sand in that game with cousins in the game. Here's the deal
we we we either think you can't run or your head coach is not interested
in running. So every single time you do that little put the baby in
the cradle, bake it and throw down the field. Ain't nobody moving And
they didn't move, So teams are going to see that and that that really
I'm not telling you that could change a lot of things moving forward. So
nob bit and and you know he had a strip sack in the mix.
And you know, then you got a beefeater trying to run at him in
the end zone and he took kind of a kind of a he's circumnavigated did
like a little bit of a a little bit of a u like the top
of a moon or a halo, where he ran away farther into the end
zone. And O'Connell, because you look at where the players are, O'Connell
clearly gave him an out with Osborne on a comeback. So kJ runs down
twelve yards, comes back toom there it is all right, so completion,
that's only two yards. That's fine. We have a strip sack where he
held the ball a little too long in my estimation. But but somebody got
around Darisa on like inero point three seconds, So I mean, I'm not
sure he held the ball too long either. Dearis the Christian just got beat.
But then the one that really impressed me was again backed up by the
goal line and he's in the shotgun and kJ Osborne turns on Jai Air Alexander
and gets body positioned on him and is looking right at kJ. So you
get the safety to come over just a little. And Hall knew Hockinson's breaking
off a route middle of the field. So what's good here is he knows
the plays and he knows the secondary type reads on the plays. He was
chilling the pocket and the young man, from what I know of him,
is very chill and very relaxed and very smart. But he stayed poised,
had a swivel. He had a swivel that like Jordan Love and Justin Fields
can't seem to find between the couch cushions. Looked at kJ, looked at
kJ, looked at kJ, knowing what was going to happen. Middle swung
back hit Hockinson on the run, TJ breaks a tackle in the game's over.
That was it? So I mean it's it's I mean, that wasn't
over, so to speak. But that pretty much ends up it. That
was it? So that right there, So that's all we have with this
young man, and really just pulling off what is tangible and legit. I
see poise. I don't see feet jumping around, freaking out, ball being
held out, stuff like that. Just like he's calm. Yeah, well
he certainly had all the poison college when you go back when the Vikings drafted
him. We went back and looked at a lot of his a lot of
his tape from college. You can tell that he's a very comfortable pocket path.
Not even pocket pass are out of the pocket. He's just you can
see the leadership traits. He looks unflappable. And will that translate to the
NFL at a whole different level. Don't know maybe, But part of the
fun is finding out if you got a hidden gem here. The trade for
Dobbs was so cheap that I think it was like, well, nobody knows,
you know, Kevin O'Connell doesn't know for sure how this is going to
work out with Jaron Hall, Let's bring in Dobbs. We've got a backup
plan if we need it. We know what he can do. He's got
lots of NFL tape on him through whatever ten NFL starts, and then you
know, if it does or doesn't work out, with all we've got options.
And I I like the fact that we're give that immediately the team didn't
go, We're gonna try to get Josh Dobbs going in five days and trying
to installing offense for a guy who doesn't know anything about our offense. We
will go through the who, where, when, and why of Josh Dobbs
at about ten oh three when we return bikes bikes. It's the probably football
feast of Buffalo Wild Wings out